Jessie Davis was 26 and pregnant with Bobby Cutts Juniors baby. Bobby is claiming that he didn’t mean to kill her by leaning on her throat with his elbow, and motivated by fear and anxiety, wrap her corpse in a duvet and take it to a nearby park. Her 2 1/2 yr old son, Blake, said to investigators, “mummy’s crying. Mommy broke the table. Mommy’s in the rug. Daddy’s mad.” For over a week, Bobby denied knowledge of the body. He is now found guilty of aggravated murder in the death of a nearly full term foetus, which carries the death penalty. He is also guilty of aggravated murder in the death of Jessie, abuse of a corpse, burglary and child endangering.

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How do you like your rat? Poached, fried, grilled or baked? Rat vendor, Sala Prompim, suggests the hip and the liver as the best cuts and sells up to 100 kg of rat meat on a good day. The meat sells for 150 baht a kilogram which is approxiamately $4.82. One customer believes it to be ‘better than chicken’. “It is tastier than other meats, nothing can compete with rat”, Sala is quoted as saying. Thongyu Roruchit agrees. “It all depends on what you like, but it is a normal meat like any other,” he said. The rats are drowned and skinned and are proving popular with Thailand’s roadside vendors.

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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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Tiffany Fraser, 26, has a novel method of discipline for her children. “Get into the oven”. Her 7 year old son was found wandering alone in a shopping centre with burns to his legs, arms and nose. The day care centre had also noticed the burns, which were not reported. The owner of the centre, Joelle Lherisson, 37, said that there was nothing wrong with the child. She has also been arrested for failing to report the abuse.

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In the first seven months of 2007, over 438,000 deaths in Brazil were attributed to dengue fever, like yellow fever, a mosquito carried disease. The Brazilian government has confirmed the death of a man suffering from yellow fever. He died in hospital as literally thousands of people queued up for vaccinations. 349 cases have been reported over the last 12 years, with 161 cases resulting in death. The government is certain that there is no risk of an impending epidemic.

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Pig farmer, Bob ‘Billie’ Pickton, ran a small drinking establishment in a seedy Vancouver neighbourhood with his buddy, where he was able to pick up people who were drug addicts or prostitutes. He would take them back to his pig farm where they would be slaughtered and fed to his pigs. He has been convicted of 6 murders with a further 20 pending. Bob is pleading not guilty but the circumstantial evidence is ‘overwhelming’, his barrister is quoted as saying.

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Lynn Ellingson walked in on Robert Pickton, the 58 year old Vancouver pig farmer, when he was covered in blood and had Georgina Papin hanging from a chain in the farm’s slaughterhouse. Parts of women’s bodies were discovered in the dustbin, the pig pen and buried in manure. The prosecutor argued that the evidence, though circumstantial, was more than enough to prove that Pickton was the murderer. Under Canadian law, a murder conviction leads to an automatic life sentence. He is charged with killing 26 women, picked up from a seedy Vancouver neighbourhood.

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Our controversial, ‘change the world’, chef, Jamie Oliver has done it again. This time he isn’t electrocuting school children, no matter how much he was tempted, its chickens. He is trying to show the world the horrors of the animal butchering industry and how it is no longer done by farmers who have raised them since they were babies, but rather it is now an unpleasant & uncaring industry. Oliver simply imitates the industry & shows how they are electrocuted and suffocated. He does this on his show and is quoted as saying, ‘if this stops just 5% of people from eating chickens killed this way, it has been worth it’.

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Surgeons in the Southern region ofKaohsiung in Taiwan have sewn an arm back onto a shocked vet. The vet had been administering an anesthetic to a crocodile, readying him for surgery, when the plot backfired. The vet is doing well and recovering nicely. The crocodile really is ‘armless. Move over, Steve, we’re coming in.

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