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Wednesday 22 December 2010

Accountant found naked in bed with Chinese mistress surrounded by cash - Telegraph

Reportage - 14:32
Accountant found naked in bed with Chinese mistress surrounded by cash - Telegraph: "Leslie Baleham, 64, was jailed for a year after raking in thousands after turning his home in Radford, Notts, into a den for sexual encounters.
Police counted more than 400 punters visiting the brothel during three months, which earned Baleham more than £57,000.
When investigators raided the brothel, they discovered the married accountant in bed with his Chinese madame Ping Ping Li with cash strewn across the bed sheets.
Nottingham Crown Court heard that Li, who had been having a relationship with Baleham, fled after he was arrested and has not been seen since.
The court was told that Baleham had been 'smitten' with his younger woman - who was the main player in running the brothel."

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Tuesday 21 December 2010

Crossbow cannibal jailed for 'wicked and monstrous' prostitute murders - Telegraph

Reportage - 15:06
Barnett 18028 RC-150 Crossbow PackageCrossbow cannibal jailed for 'wicked and monstrous' prostitute murders - Telegraph: "Stephen Griffiths pleaded guilty to murdering Suzanne Blamires, 36, by firing a crossbow bolt into her head when she tried to run away from him in May this year.
He also admitted murdering Shelley Armitage, 31, and Susan Rushworth, 43, but police believe he might also be responsible for three unsolved murders after he indicated in an interview that he had killed six women in total.
He claimed he had cooked and eaten parts of his first two victims, boiling one in a pot, and ate the third one raw.
He pleaded guilty to three counts of murder at Leeds Crown Court this morning. The judge, Mr Justice Openshaw, described Griffiths' crimes as 'wicked and monstrous' as he told him he would never be released.
Griffiths stood in the dock to enter his pleas surrounded by five security guards."

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BBC News - No police charges over barrister Mark Saunders' death

Reportage - 14:52
BBC News - No police charges over barrister Mark Saunders' death: "No police officers will be charged over the death of a barrister shot by police marksmen in west London, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has said.

An inquest jury ruled Scotland Yard firearms officers acted lawfully when they killed Mark Saunders, 32, during an armed siege at his Chelsea home.

The CPS said it would review the inquest proceedings to see if significant new evidence emerged."

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Thursday 16 December 2010

Met cracks trafficking and prostitution racket with swoop on Chelsea and Earl’s Court ‘brothels’ | News

Reportage - 23:16
Met cracks
Women and the Mafia: Female Roles in Organized Crime Structures (Studies of Organized Crime)trafficking and prostitution racket with swoop on Chelsea and Earl’s Court‘brothels’ News: "suspected gangland pimp with alleged links to Russian organised crime was being questioned today in connection with a human trafficking and high-class prostitution racket in London.
The Russian-born Israeli national allegedly ran a series of brothels in affluent areas of the capital.
Vice squad detectives swooped on the 40-year-old at his Chelsea home and rescued five women who are believed to have been trafficked to London and forced to work as prostitutes. The women were found in police raids on two alleged brothels in Chelsea and one in Earl's Court."

Thursday 9 December 2010

Shrien Dewani withdrew around £1,000 in cash in the days before his wife Anni’s murder, including £800 on the eve of the shooting.

Reportage - 06:25
Lawyers for the South African government also disclosed for the first time that Shrien Dewani withdrew around £1,000 in cash in the days before his wife Anni’s murder, including £800 on the eve of the shooting.
Mr Dewani, 30, from Bristol, is facing extradition to South Africa after being publicly accused of orchestrating the murder of his 28-year-old bride, which he denies.
He has been being held in prison in London while the South African government prepares an appeal against a magistrate’s decision to release him on bail for £250,000.

Prosecutors in South Africa have accused him of hiring a gang of three men to stage a carjacking in Cape Town on November 13 when they were on honeymoon.
Mrs Dewani, originally from Sweden, was shot dead after being abducted from a car as they drove through a crime-ridden township on the edge of the city after a night out.
Mr Dewani and their driver were both apparently forcibly removed from the car during a struggle.
But in a hearing in Cape Town on Tuesday, the driver Zola Tongo pleaded guilty to involvement in the killing and claimed that he and the two other had been hired by Mr Dewani for an agreed £1,400.
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Sensors used in the US to detect gunshots being discharged have been installed in areas of Birmingham

Reportage - 06:16
Sensors used in the US to detect gunshots being discharged have been installed in areas of Birmingham with a high number of firearms incidents.

It is the first time the Shotspotter Gunshot Location System - which can pick up gunshots within a 25m (82ft) radius - has been deployed in the UK.

West Midlands Police said the sensors had been placed high up on buildings in north-west areas of the city.

The £150,000 system records an audio clip and sends police a GPS location.

A police officer trained to listen to the clips then makes a judgement on what they have heard before deploying officers.

The system, funded by the Home Office through Birmingham Safer Partnerships, has an 85% accuracy rate, Ch Supt Chris McKeogh said.

It can tell if multiple shots were fired, or if they were fired from a stationary or moving location, the number of weapons used and in which order they were fired, according to the manufacturers.

The system has been introduced in more than 50 US cities since 1995.

"The sound waves a bullet produces has a particular signature, if you like, and that should be recognisable to our force control room officers that have been trained up to listen," Mr McKeogh said.DISCLAIMER:Text may be subject to copyright.This blog does not claim copyright to any such text. Copyright remains with the original copyright holder.

Wednesday 8 December 2010

Husband paid me to find hitman to kill his bride, claims taxi driver | UK news | The Guardian

Reportage - 14:22
Husband paid me to find hitman to kill his bride, claims taxi driver UK news The Guardian: "driver of the honeymoon couple whose vehicle was apparently carjacked in South Africa pleaded guilty yesterday to playing a part in killing Anni Hindocha, 28, and claimed that her husband, Shrien Dewani, a Bristol businessman, was the instigator of the murder.
In a confession read to the Western Cape high court, Zola Tongo, 31, who has become a state witness in the investigation into the murder on 13 November, claims Dewani paid him 1,000 rand (about £92) for staging a car jacking that would end in the murder of his wife in a township.
But South African police refused to comment yesterday on whether they have asked British police to arrest Dewani, 31, who runs a chain of nursing homes in the south-west of England.
In a statement, South Africa's police commissioner, Bheki Cele, said: 'We remain committed to ensuring that justice emerges triumphant in this matter. We will follow all prescripts of the law with due regard to local and international protocols.' A spokesman for the national prosecuting authority said it had not been asked to prepare an extradition request.
Tongo, who claims he had initially been offered 5,000 rand for organising the killing, was found guilty of kidnapping, robbery with aggravating circumstances, murder and obstructing justice. Judge John Hope sentenced him to 18 years in prison."

Dewani murder exploits SA crime situation - analyst

Reportage - 14:18
BusinessDay - Dewani murder exploits SA crime situation - analyst: "alleged organised murder of Swedish tourist Anni Dewani by her husband Shrien could be a blatant exploitation of South Africa’s crime rate, according to researcher Dr Johan Burger.
Burger, researcher at the Institute for Security Studies crime and justice programme, says the possible involvement of Dewani’s husband in her murder is not surprising due to the level of violent crime in the country.
'You could either use the horrible crime rate in South Africa as an excuse or hide behind the incompetence of our criminal justice system in order to cover your tracks,' he said.
Anni Dewani was found dead in Gugulethu in November, following an alleged hijacking.
In a bizarre turn of events, the man tasked with driving the couple around on the night, taxi driver Zola Tongo was on Tuesday sentenced to 18 years in prison for her murder.
British businessman Shrien Dewani apparently ordered the murder of his wife and paid Tongo R15000 according to allegations made by Western Cape director of public prosecutions Rodney de Kock in the Cape Town high Court.
'The deceased was murdered at the instance of her husband,' De Kock said in reading out a plea bargain agreement which saw Tongo plead guilty to murder.
Judge President John Hlophe is the presiding judge.
In terms of the agreement, Hlophe sentenced Zola Tongo, 31, to an effective 18 years jail.
Burger says the murder has done untold damage to South Africa’s international image and fight against crime.
'We already have a huge problem, now we have to deal with people trying to exploit the situation - it is not acceptable,' he said."

SA murder victim's husband arrested - Yahoo! News UK

Reportage - 09:12
SA murder victim's husband arrested - Yahoo! News UK: "Shrien Dewani, whose wife Anni was shot dead last month as they visited a township, was held on Tuesday night by Scotland Yard extradition officers after a request from the South African authorities.
It followed a court hearing in South Africa, during which taxi driver Zola Tongo said he was offered 15,000 rand (£1,300) by the 30-year-old businessman to kill his wife. The Dewani family dismissed the allegation as 'totally ludicrous'.
Mr Dewani, from Westbury-on-Trym in Bristol, handed himself in at a police station in the city, the Metropolitan Police said. He is due to appear at the City of Westminster Magistrates' Court."

Tuesday 7 December 2010

Honeymoon murder: Anni Dewani profile - Telegraph

Reportage - 13:32
A History of South Africa, Third EditionHoneymoon murder: Anni Dewani profile - Telegraph: "Anni Dewani had been married for a matter of days before she was murdered during her honeymoon in South Africa.
Her car was hijacked on November 13, 2010 as it took a detour through Gugulethu, one of the poorest townships of Cape Town.
Her husband Shrien Dewani, 30, was released by their attackers and his wife's body was found on the back seat of the abandoned car the following morning. She had been shot in the neck, chest and hand."

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