“My wife died in a terrible way and I was not going to let her remains be thrown down the tip like garbage”, Mr Fred Boyle said. He stood accused of murdering Edwina, who, he claims, was shot in the head and strangled with one of his own ties as she slept in the marital bed next to him. “I didn’t do it,” Fred said, “It wasn’t me.” He admitted that he had put her body in a 44 gallon drum where it stayed for 23 years, and told people that she had run off with Ray, a truck driver. After finding her dead body in the bed, he “went into the kitchen and cried for hours. I didn’t know what to do. I thought, I am knackered now because I had an affair with a woman and no one would believe me.” The trial continues.

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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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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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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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