23 years ago, Edwina Boyle went missing and Virginia Gissara moved in with Fred Boyle the next day. She expected Edwina to return home any day and ‘knew there would be words’. She claimed in court that she had had a row with her husband and had nowhere else to go. Jane Dixon, defending, asked Virginia if she recalled a conversation with the Boyle’s over wether she was acquainted with Raymond Edmonds, alias ‘Mr Stinky’, who raped and murdered during the 1960’s to the mid 1980’s in the state of Victoria. Virginia said, “no,” she did not recall a conversation of that nature. Edwina’s body had been found in a barrell which Fred kept at the bottom of the garden. He denies murdering his wife.

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“What will we do for money”, Shakeel Ahmed’s aged father asked, as he wiped his eyes. “He was the only one earning in the family. I have another son who is unemployed and a daughter who is divorced with five children.” Shakeel’s parents are looking after him in hospital after he was recently underwent surgery to remove a kidney. Nothing so unusual, perhaps, except that this was without his consent. In India the supply is nowhere near the demand for kidneys, and the illegal trade is booming. Shakeel went to Delhi looking for work and was picked up by two men who offered him a construction job. “They drove me to a house far away. On the way they asked me some strange questions, like if I had any disease.” He was moved to another house with two other men and given an injection. “When I woke up,” he said, “I felt this terrible pain in my abdomen. They told me they had taken out my kidney. I thought I was going to die,” he said.

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Gordon Ramsay, our colourful celebrity British chef, had had enough. One of his employees, a young man who had come knocking and begging at his door for a chance to work with him, had been stealing his recipes and ideas. Gordon insisted he work stark naked but wrapped him in cling wrap as well. Gordon believes out of the nasty things he has ever done, and he’s done a few, this was probably the nastiest, “he sweated like a pig,” he is reported as saying. “I’d happily give out my recipes, but you still won’t cook a dish as well as me - the thing about this job is that it’s from the heart.”

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