‘New South Wales Labor MP Peter Breen has penned a sickening tribute to the killers of Janine Balding in which he talks about his realisation one night “under the stars” that he loved two of them. [..]
He declares the oldest of the three killers – “Shorty” Jamieson – to be innocent of the murder. Mr Breen calls “blue-eyed” Jamieson by his nickname Jamo. He bought him a television for his cell.
“Jamieson is gazing out the high-barred window behind me, his eyes reflecting blue sky,” Breen describes one jail meeting in his bizarre paperback, researched mainly in parliamentary time.
“I love Shorty Jamieson and I’m not afraid to say so.”‘
Update: Killer love remarks: MP resigns
‘A NSW upper house state MP who said he loved two of the killers of Janine Balding has resigned from the Labor Party, Premier Morris Iemma says.’
`It took five police officers, three hits with a Taser gun, leg straps and a spit bag to subdue a 5-foot tall, 105-pound woman who entered a Waukesha home and attacked a couple she didn’t know with a metal pooper scooper and scissors, authorities said.
Still kicking after being strapped and handcuffed, the woman was carried by police out of the home in a bag, and she looked “like a sack of potatoes,” the homeowner said.
Leisa K. Reed, 47, who told authorities she smoked crack cocaine before the incident, was charged Monday with two felonies [..]’
`Amar Shreiteh is charged with attempted murder and false imprisonment. Police say he was working at the store Monday morning when 14-year-old Jeremius Howard came in with his sister.
As the girl browsed for snacks, Howard played with a yo-yo.
After she paid for the items, Howard put down the toy and tried to leave the store. Police say Shreiteh demanded the boy pay for the yo-yo, but Howard told him it was already opened and he didn’t want it. Shreiteh then reportedly punched the boy.
Police say he pulled Howard behind the counter and stabbed him on the back of his arm with a butcher knife.’
`As the police officers took Hibbs, 19, into custody he allegedly insisted he was a troll and claimed the bridge as his own, reports state.
Several witnesses noted that Hibbs and companion Bradley Boville, 19, were confronting joggers and bikers attempting to cross the bridge, demanding a dollar. [..]
Boville told police he had taken a single tab of LSD, and Hibbs had taken two tabs. The two had rolled a big joint, he allegedly told police and found themselves without either a lighter or a dollar with which to buy a lighter and had subsequently begun asking people for money who were crossing the bridge.’
`Police in the Northern Dutch city of Groningen are investigating a man who rummages though rubbish bags in search of used tampons and sanitary towels.
The 40-year-old local man is particularly interested in tampons used by students and young women, a police spokesperson said on Tuesday.
The fetishist has been active for at least the last six months and has been regularly spotted searching through garbage outside student dorms. It is not known what he does with the items he collects.’
`A group of teens attacked a 15-year-old boy, removed his artificial leg and hit a friend who tried to come to his rescue, police said.
“It was just mean,” Burbank police Capt. Joe Ford said. [..]
Friends who were nearby tried to come to the 15-year-old’s aid, police said.
But one of the attackers wielded the prosthetic leg like a weapon and struck a 20-year-old Oak Lawn man in the head, police said.’
`Fifteen dollars can get you a lot at The University Center. You can shoot pool with a friend for three hours at the Side Pocket game room, or you can drop your pants and receive oral sex from a stranger in the bathroom. [..]
There is a “glory hole” drilled in the wall between the two stalls in the first floor men’s bathroom in The University Center. And it has been there for a while. “Glory holes” are fist-sized holes, through which people anonymously perform various sexual acts.
“I noticed it last September,” said a student, who asked to remain anonymous. The junior English major said that while he was using a urinal in the first floor men’s room, a man in the first stall slipped him a note, asking if he wanted oral sex. “I thought it was a joke, until I read the writings on the walls and saw the hole.”‘
`British motorist John Hopwood concocted a novel scheme to avoid payment when he was given a speeding fine — simply switch the road signs.
Hopwood, 44, had been snapped by a speed camera breaking the 30 miles per hour limit.
So he went to a 40 mph area, removed a red “40” warning sign, drove back to the 30 mph area, attached it to a lamp post and took a photo as “proof” that his offence of driving at 48 mph had not been so bad.
However, suspicion soon arose when other drivers started querying the sign.’
`An 89-year-old New Zealand woman on a mobility scooter fled the scene after twice running down and injuring a pedestrian, the victim alleged.
June Bridgman pleaded guilty in a South Island court this week to carelessly operating a vehicle causing injury, but denied it was a hit and run, The Dominion Post reported.
Bridgman plans to continue using the scooter. [..]
Ellison told the newspaper she lay in agony with broken bones on a street in the town of Picton after being hit twice as Bridgman fled “like a bat out of hell”.’
`A Romulus man whose wife mysteriously lost an arm early Sunday has been arrested and is expected to be arraigned today on several charges, including drunken driving causing serious injury, police said Wednesday.
Stephen Humphrey, 39, was being held in the Monroe County Jail. His wife, 34-year-old Brenda Humphrey, arrived at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Superior Township missing her right arm.
Police searched for the limb and for a possible crime scene for days, but found neither.’
`The man who won “Survivor: Thailand” four years ago is charged with battery and cruelty to animals.
Officials say Brian Heidik shot a puppy with an arrow. [..]
An Atlanta TV station (WSB-TV) reports Heidik told the judge he thought the dog was a coyote that has been harassing his pets.
But a prosecutor says Heidik’s wife called authorities at about 3:00 Wednesday morning to say he’d shot a puppy “and planned to shoot another one.” ‘
`A man grabbed two cordless power saws off a subway station workbench and went on a rampage Thursday, swinging the saws at riders and slicing open a man’s chest before running away, police said.
The 64-year-old victim, whose name was not released, was hospitalized in critical but stable condition. Police were searching for the suspect, described by witnesses as a thin man in his 30s, who had earrings in both ears and was possibly carrying a teddy bear.’
`A Slovakian man has been charged with attempted murder after a pensioner was savaged by a cackling “cannibal” during a raid on his home. [..]
A police source said it was like a scene from the horror film The Silence of the Lambs, in which cannibal killer Hannibal Lecter wears a gruesome mask.
The source added: “There was blood on the walls and this guy was just laughing like a maniac.” [..]
“The old chap lived a peaceful life with his wife, then someone jumped through his window and bit off his thumb. It doesn’t bear thinking about.”’
`A Maplewood police officer was charged with several felonies for allegedly falsely imprisoning a man and threatening to beat him, only to let him go when the man called 911 on his cell phone from the back of a squad car.
Washington County Attorney Doug Johnson said Friday that his office had charged Officer Jason Patrick Marino, 31, with kidnapping, terroristic threats, misconduct and several other counts stemming from the incident on April 28, 2006.’
`The commander of the Utah Highway Patrol’s drunken driving unit has been cited for driving under the influence of alcohol after crashing his cruiser into a concrete barrier, authorities said Thursday.
Lt. Fred Swain veered off the shoulder of a highway in Draper early last Friday, overcorrected and hit the barrier that separates the lanes, Lt. Doug McCleve said.
Swain said he fell asleep at the wheel, but officers suspected he had been drinking, said Draper police Sgt. Scott Peck. Swain initially refused to submit to a breathalyzer test until two patrol captains talked to him, Peck said.’
`See, this is why mobs aren’t really a good idea. They’re just too quick to judge. For example, yesterday afternoon in East Flatbush a livery driver seemingly lost control of his vehicle and swerved into an 8-year-old riding a bike. When the hack finally stopped crashed his cab into a wall a “group of dozens of bystanders confronted and attacked him.”
And then it gets crazier.
The cabby, as he was being beaten, finally managed to explain his side of the story to his assailants. It wasn’t that he was a bad driver, he explained, no, it turns out he lost control of his car after “his passenger had struck him in the head with a metal bar” in an attempt to rob him. Upon hearing this news the crowd left the driver and “turned to his passenger, beat him, and tightened a belt around his neck.”‘
`The U.S. Army will investigate charges that American soldiers were involved in the killings of four Iraqi relatives, including a woman who had been raped, military officials said Friday. It’s the sixth current inquiry into the alleged slayings of Iraqi civilians by American troops.
Some of the five soldiers also allegedly burned the body of the woman they are accused of assaulting in the March incident, a U.S. military official told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the case.’
`On April 8, 2005, Buckalew went to a cemetery on the Washington highway in Morrisville and broke into an above-ground tomb, opened the lid of a casket and cut off the head of a corpse. He wrapped the head in plastic bags and took it home. He also stole eyeglasses and a bow tie from the corpse.
Buckalew told witnesses he intended to leave the severed head out and would then bleach it, according to the affidavit of Senior Patrolman Ryan Bjerke of the Morristown Police Department. He told witnesses he intended to turn the skull into a bong, which is a type of pipe used to smoke marijuana or other drugs.’
`The children’s doctor was sitting naked on an eastern suburbs letterbox masturbating, when the two women spotted him. [..]
Sanjay Warrier, 28, had been on a drunken night out with a group of doctors and returned to an address he had lived at two years before.
He said he remembers nothing of the incident. [..]
Magistrate Maloney dismissed the case.
“It’s an aberration, this offence, plain and simple. Nothing more, nothing less. He never intended to do what he did do.”
“Good luck” he said to Dr Warrier.’
‘Like an SOS flare, Lewis grabs her emergency phone list and starts calling.
“They’re coming,” she warns Eric Ogle a salesman at Vegas, a block down Magazine Street. Ogle, who was terrorized by the brazen crew two months earlier, alerts neighboring Winky’s where manager Kendra Bonga braces for the onslaught.
Soon every shop owner in the 2000 block of Magazine Street has been alerted.
Sarah Celino at Trashy Diva eyes the door, ready to flip the lock at the first sight of the ringleader’s pink jumpsuit and fluorescent red wig. [..]
“They’re fearless,” said Ogle. “Once they see something they like they won’t stop until they have it. They don’t care, they’ll go to jail. It’s really gotten bad. You know it’s ridiculous when everyone on the block knows who they are.”‘
`Police said the robbers had pretended to be carabinieri, Italian police, to gain access to the laboratory, then asked two medics to accompany them to the room where the cocaine was stored, wrapped in individual parcels.
There, they tied up the medics with plastic tape, snatched the cocaine parcels and left the laboratory, police said. [..]’
`A man made a mockery of the justice system when he tried to get removed from a jury pool in a death penalty case by claiming he is a heroin addict and a killer, a judge said.
Benjamin Ratliffe, 21, of Columbus, was charged with contempt of court and obstruction of justice and ordered to spend a night jail.
Ratliffe filled out a questionnaire form for potential jurors and professed to having a “bad jonesin’ for heroin.” When asked if he had ever fired a weapon, he wrote, “Yes. I killed someone with it, of course. Right.”‘
`A periodic test that measures a man’s response to erotic images is “Orwellian” because it examines his mind, not just his body, and should not be used because it deprives him of more freedom than necessary, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.
In order to be released from prison, U.S. District Judge Dean Pregerson had ruled in 2001, Matthew Weber would have to subject himself to tests in which a pressure-sensitive electronic device is placed around the penis and the response to stimulating images is monitored, said his lawyer, Jonathan Libby. [..]
“A prisoner should not be compelled to stimulate himself sexually in order for the government to get a sense of his current proclivities,” Noonan wrote in his concurrence with Judge Marsha Berzon’s opinion. “There is a line at which the government must stop. Penile plethysmography testing crosses it.”‘
`A stalker hid under a woman’s bed for two days — just for the chance to be alone with her. How he got the keys to her house is the scariest part, and it’s a serious reminder of the need to be cautious before handing over your keys.
The disturbing video shows the convicted stalker carefully hiding his video camera on a desk in the victim’s bedroom. When he hears the woman and her boyfriend come in the apartment, he disappears under her bed. Carlo Castellanos-Feria remained there for two days until he was discovered by the victim’s boyfriend.’
`A Cuyahoga County, Ohio, judge threw out the charge against a man accused of raping a girl six years ago when the prosecutor in the case was 45 minutes late to trial.
Prosecutors have filed an appeal and said, if necessary, they will refile the charge against Norman Allen Craig, 22, of North Ridgeville, Ohio.
The mother of the now 16-year-old Rocky River girl said her daughter feels victimized by the judge’s decision.’
`Indigenous Affairs Minister Mal Brough wants a national investigative unit set up to probe for cases of abuse in indigenous communities.
“I believe we need to have a national investigative unit … that can actually look at these crimes … right across these remote communities,” Mr Brough told ABC radio.
His comments follow further revelations of abuse in indigenous communities.
ABC television program, Lateline, reported on Wednesday night that Aboriginal men in the central Australian town Mutitjulu were keeping girls as young as five as sex slaves, and trading sex for petrol to be sniffed.’
`Like something out of a David Lynch movie, except yummier and less confusing, the Nun Bun bandit has sent an additional clue to The Tennessean concerning the whereabouts of the world-famous AWOL pastry.
Following up to a letter and photo of the Nun Bun sent to the newspaper nearly a month ago, the second letter was received today, along with a photo showing the bun being shown off by two smiling young men.
The iconic cinnamon bun, notable for its resemblance to Mother Teresa, appears to still be in one piece and does not appear to have been damaged by its apparent kidnapping from the Bongo Java coffeeshop. [..]
Nashville police officials said they shelved the case after an investigation because of its “low solvability.”‘
‘A police pursuit ended when the suspect’s dog, not happy about being bounced around in the car, bit its owner on the face. [..]
“Deputies could see the dog in the passenger seat getting slammed into the window,” he said.
The dog, which is partly pit bull, “became so agitated that he bit his owner in the face,” Edwards said. “And this is what ended the chase.”
The bite removed part of Galanis’ nose, and he stopped.’
`A contractor late last week discovered two 50-pound “bricks” of marijuana wrapped in plastic bags inside a bathroom vanity he had purchased at a Home Depot store in Tewksbury, said Chief of Detectives Lt. Dennis Peterson.
The estimated street value of the marijuana is around $145,000, Peterson said.
Similar incidents have occurred in other parts of the state.
A plumber purchased a vanity in western Massachusetts on Monday in which he later found 3 kilograms of cocaine and around 40 pounds of marijuana, with a total estimated street value of $250,000, according to the Southwick Police Department.’
`A 28-year-old woman has been cited for lewdness for exposing herself inside a store. The woman was riding a motorized cart inside Lin’s Market Place on Thursday with her pants around her ankles and not wearing underwear.
Customers didn’t notice the woman until she would stand up from the cart and bend over to look at items on the shelf, exposing her buttocks.
The woman told police she arrived in Cedar City with a circus but was left behind.’
