Archive for the ‘Crime’ Category

Patent news

Someone called Mark S. Price has filed a patent (pdf) application in the USA for an anti-suicide bomber device. Here’s the suggested warning notice:

WARNING
DETONATION OF EXPOSIVE IS GREATLY DISCOURAGED
PORCINE CONTENTS- PORK
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the frangible glass amulet
affixed to this Shield contains a significant quantity of pig’s blood in a
liquid state. It has been [...]

Tomlinson and police misconduct

I don’t share the outrage at the decision not to prosecute the police officer who killed Ian Tomlinson. Henry Porter says:
The public needs to see justice done. Instead the DPP’s decision sends a message that the police are immune from prosecution
The police didn’t need the DPP to send that message. They already knew. I’m not [...]

Aftercare

I’m not surprised that Jon Venables’s brain has got a bit mis-wired. Imprisoned at 10 years of age, to spend puberty and adolescence separated from the opposite sex, and with the knowledge and memory of his murder of a very small child forever in his consciousness.
Maybe he should have stayed behind bars for the rest [...]

Asphyxiation in Egypt

Has a strange effect. Leaves you with a smashed and broken face. Don’t click through if you are squeamish.
[Khaled Said] simply was sitting in a Cyber Cafe, when two policemen walked inside and demanded the ID’s of everyone who was sitting there. When he refused to give it to them, they grabbed him, [...]

Don’t give it to him

The man accused of the murders of at least three prostitutes in Bradford called himself the “crossbow cannibal” during a court appearance. It would be better if the media called him anything but the crossbow cannibal. This man seems to have developed an idea of himself as notorious serial killer and it would be unfortunate [...]