While I support the OWS protest movement and abhor the violent police response in some incidences, let’s keep a bit of perspective, shall we?
O.K. pepper spraying protestors isn’t ‘nice’ but it pales into insignificance when compared to what is happening to civilians in Syria !!!
P.S. Why am I not hearing Obama, Cameron, and Sarkozy pushing for international intervention to protect civilians in Syria? Are their lives less worthy of protecting than were the civilians in Libya?
It’s a worrying statistic – particularly if you are in a managerial position in the USA – 1 in 10 managers in the USA who died during 2010, were murdered
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, of the 4,547 workplace deaths of managers in 2010, 10% was a direct result of homicide.
If you’re a manager in the USA, seems you’d better start watching your back !!!
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So at long last, a judge has ruled that Shrien Dewani should be extradited to South Africa to face charges relating to the death of his wife Anni during their honeymoon in that country.
Now, unless Home Secretary, Theresa May, intervenes or Shrien’s defence team launch . . .
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Mziwamadoda Qwabe, one of the men accused by South African police of killing Anni Dewani has claimed her death was not meant to happen. What was intended was a simple carjack and robbery
Source . . . http://tinyurl.com/69dzwus
Truth or not – it is self-evidently in Qwabe’s interest to seek to minimise the severity of the crime he has committed – his statement will be welcome news to Max Clifford and Shrien Dewani’s defense team who are fighting his extradition to S.A. to face the charge of complicity in his wife’s death
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Rosaria Nicosia and her lover, Gaetano Biundo, have been arrested and charged with the murder of her ex-husband, Calogero Lo Coco.
It is alleged that they killed Calogero by suffocating him with a slab of butter, hoping it would melt in his mouth and there would be nothing then to incriminate them.
However, police became suspicious when an autopsy found oily traces in Calogero’s throat
Source . . . http://tinyurl.com/6858oqr
Shrien Dewani has been accused of complicity in the murder of his wife, Anni, by the driver who drove the taxi that fateful night.
There are grounds for believing this to be the case. However, a stumbling block for many is the credibility of the idea a man in Shrien’s position would approach a complete stranger (taxi driver) to arrange a murder on his behalf – running the risk that the driver might refuse and inform Anni (or the police) of his intent.
The taxi driver claimed he got the impression this was not the 1st time Shrien had planned a murder in South Africa.
Now a British Newspaper is reporting that the South African police are . . .
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nothing untoward ?
Hhmmm, not so eagle-eyed cops have been criticized by Mid-Kent and Medway coroner, Roger Sykes, at an inquest into the death of 68 yr old Antoine Denis who was found dead in his flat in Chatham, Kent
Police initially saw nothing suspicious in the manner of his death until the undertakers came to remove the body and asked about the 5” knife stuck in the corpse’s back. And the pool of blood on the bed
Read more here . . . http://tinyurl.com/252k7bq
Hhmm, probably wanted to avoid all the extra paperwork a murder calls for ?
I see that Ray Gosling is to be charged with wasting police time.
This relates to an interview that the journalist gave some time ago, in which he claimed to have killed an ex-lover of his who was in pain with terminal AIDS. At the time, plod arrested him on suspicion of murder, but have since changed their mind about the reliability of Gosling’s claims.
I don’t dispute that if Gosling’s claim was somewhat less than truthful, and that he had been attempting to spark debate, make a point, or even (such cynicism….) revive a flagging career, then he chose a damn-fool way to go about it, and probably has wasted plod’s time and public money; but….
….is there anyone better than the police themselves at wasting their own time?
Over at Delicacies today, Laura tells a tale of an everyday occurence that takes on a surreal quality as she and Joe witness (possibly) the deaths of two people.
A similar feeling of unreality crept over me as I watched this video clip of footage inside a police station, as a sex offender matter of factly tells the desk staff that he killed a teenage girl and wants to show them where the body is.
I watched the clip and struggled to convince myself that it was not an acted scene, as featured on a thousand TV police shows. But no… this really was Chapman himself, talking about what he did the night before. For real.
It puts things in context.
Apologies to anyone outside the UK if the clip won’t play for you.
It was the elk wot dun it, yer honour!
Relieved Swedish bloke Ingemar Westlund has been cleared of any connection with the death of his wife. Although bearing no physical similarity to the new suspect, he was originally held for 10 days, after his wife’s body was found in the woods near their home.
However, he was released as soon as a crack forensic team discovered vast quantities of elk dribble and elk hair on her body.
It’s a pity really, I think it would have been good to have an identity parade.
“Now then sir, take your time, and walk down the line a few times. If you see the culprit, place your hand on his shoulder…..or antler”
Elks, eh? They’re way too shifty if you ask me. Bastards, the lot of ‘em.
Bring in Sarah Palin and a helicopter, quick.
