Joanne Adams, 35, couldn’t believe that it was Gavin who hit her husband twice with an axe after waiting in the store room for four hours. He had lost his job and blamed Mr Adams for his dismissal. Mrs Adams was quoted as saying, “When we found out it was Gavin who did it we couldn’t believe it. He always seemed such a quiet boy. He was the type that would blush when you said hello to him. Richard has nightmares and wakes me up at night punching the air in his sleep.” Mr Adams spent two days in hospital with head wounds.

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When Lynn Gibbs mother was 47 she took her own life. Lynn Gibbs tried to follow suit after first drowning her 16 year old, anorexic daughter in the bath. Lynn had also been anorexic at the age of 17 as well as suffering a bout of clinical depression. She has pleaded not guilty to murder by reason of insanity. The jury heard how she decided that it would be best for both of them to die when in a state of hopelessness. She remembers running the bath and pushing her daughter under the water before taking an overdose of anti-depressants and sleeping pills. Ciara’s body was found lying on the floor of the bathroom by her father and brother, and Lynn was found lying on the bedroom floor.

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Levi Bellfield is the first defence witness to be called in a two month trial in which he is accused of a series of vicious and deadly attacks on women in a 3 year period in South West London. He was asked how he felt about the charge against him in the attack on Anna Maria Rennie. He replied that he was ‘angry and upset’ as he was at a Chinese restaurant with his son on that day, celelbrating his son’s birthday. On the night that Marsha McDonnell was killed he was ‘pretty certain’ that he was watching an interview with Michael Jackson and Martin Bashir. His past convictions include a fine for ‘pinching another man’s girlfreinds bottom’ in a pub in Twickenham. He pointed out that this is the first time he has denied any allegations against himself, implying that he was a vicous but honest alleged murderer. He has worked in a number of jobs, including that of a wheelclamper, with such colourful characters as ‘Builder Bob’ and ‘Fat Brian’. He was asked if they were satisfactory employees and he replied, ‘absolutely not.’ He will continue to give evidence.

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Gwynedd are looking to cut costs somewhere and the decision looks like less ‘loos’ for visitors. The budget for these toilets comes to 900,000 pounds each year and by closing 24 of the 94 toilets, it will save a pretty penny. The downside, of course, is that tourists will have to travel miles for a pee. This is the birth place of Laurence of Arabia as well as being home to Mary Shelley for some years. Specifically targeted are the two toilets in the seaside village of Aberdaron on the Llyn Peninsula, where the wrong toilet has been earmarked, according to local resident, William Williams.”They want to close the one in the centre of the village and keep the one on the beach open. That’s fine in summer, but not in winter. There is no way a disabled person can get to that toilet in the winter with the sea crashing over the promenade.”

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A disgruntled actor is in front of an industrial tribunal in Birmingham claiming injury and insult from the animatronic suit he had to wear in the TV program, ‘In The Night Garden’. Isaac Blake, 28, a Cardiff boy played one of the Tombliboos in the show, which is made by Ragdoll Productions and based in
Warwickshire. He says that the suit covered him completely and he was dependent on cameras to see, when the cameras failed for several weeks he was unable to see anything. He claims that Ragdoll intimidated him and forced him to continue performing until he fell over and had to go to hospital. He also suffered a pelvic injury in a different incident when he was asked to bend over. He was sacked after being signed off work by doctors and feels it was an unfair dismissal. He also has stories of colleagues calling him a ‘bitch’ and a ‘faggot’, and being ignored when he put in a complaint. The tribunal continues.

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160 million Cervalet’s are eaten in Switzerland annually, but this year there are fears that the ‘dwindling stocks’of Brazilian cows’ intestines may run out by the summer when football fans descend for the Euro 2008 championship. Switzerland’s favourite sausage is made from beef, bacon and pork rind and wrapped in intestine. They can be eaten boiled, grilled or raw. The problem stems from the Brussels import rules and that Switzerland is not a member of the European Union. They are looking at alternative suppliers, such as Argentina, Urugauy, Paraguay and South Africa but they have a fondness for Brazilian intestines

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In November 2006, Detective Con Liam Walker was deployed in an internet chatroom as a 13 year old teenage girl code named ‘Rachel’. There he met and ‘chatted’ to Rob Wynn in a reportedly ‘highly sexual nature’. The accused stated that he wanted to meet her in Hull and rent a hotel room for the purposes of sex. He has initially denied chatting to children and using his webcam for sexual purposes. He has also denied having a sexual attraction to children, but has admitted to distributing and showing indecent images of children. The trial date is pending.

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In July 2006, a young man who had been drinking was involved in a fatal car crash which killed his four friends, Peter Leonard, Anita swift, Jonathan McDonald and Danica O’Rourke. Daniel McDonnell originally pleaded ‘not guilty’, but changed his mind as the trial began. A mere 3 months later, Daniel was caught speeding on the same stretch of road and offered the lame excuse that he was late for work. Sentencing is set for February 21 and Judge McFarland has warned Daniel that he is looking at ‘going to prison’. This has been further compounded when the Swift family were given the wrong body for burial. The coroner admitted that there had been an ‘initial misidentification’. The body of one of the teenage girls had to be exhumed.

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It has been 200 years since William Wilberforce was instrumental in abolishing the slave trade in the UK, and now Detective Sergeant, Jon Gross, has taken it upon himself to ‘uncover and disrupt’ the sex slave industry, including the role of Gatwick Airport in the cross-border trade. He is well aware that victims of sexual exploitation are one of the most difficult groups to identify because they will verbally say that they are ok, due to their fear of their abductors. Gross is training officers to look for particular signs when searching premises. “Does it look like the girls are potentially being locked in at night and held against their will? What are the amenities they’ve got there? All these types of things would raise the alarm.” He said. The Gatwick connection reveals such details as 2 young Lithuanian women were sold for 3.000 pounds each during a ’sex slave auction’ at a coffee house.

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