MONDAY April 21st 2008
David Blaisdell, 64, in court on charges of stalking and violating a protective order, arrived drunk, adorned in a rhinstone studded Elvis costume and sunglasses. Three days in jail for contempt of court.
FRIDAY 21st March 2008
Over four months, the three teenagers, James Smith, Simon Panell and Thomas Furtack, stole over £22,000 from the State Cinema 6 where they worked by refunding tickets to imaginary customers at $10 a time.
SATURDAY 29th March 20th 2008
Impatient to install his satellite dish, Ronald Long of Deepwater, Missouri, thought he’d found a quicker way to punch a hole in his bedroom wall: a .22 handgun. Unfortunately his wife was in the garden outside. She was dead on arrival at the hospital.
TUESDAY 18th March 2008
For leaving her four-month-old baby in a shed for an hour and a half, Shonda Shelton has been sentenced for a year in jail.
MONDAY 17th March 2008
Benyan Clarke, a refuge from the war in Liberia, beat his stepson Alfred, sometimes with a belt, sometimes with slippers, sometimes with his fists. The two-year-old boy’s body had more than 100 bruises on it.
WEDNESDAY 12th March 2008
Desiring further Aryan Nation tattoos, neo-Nazi trucker Michael Myers was infuriated when tattooist neighbour Thomas Keith refused on grounds of their content. Enraged, Michael attempted to mow down Thomas in his truck.
TUESDAY 11th March 2008
Andrew Wilson smiled when he told his lawyers it was him who murdered the security guard at the Chicago Macdonald’s back in 82, knowing they couldn’t tell a soul. So far Alton Logan has served 26 years for the killing.
MONDAY 10th March 2008
If they power workers hadn’t had to switch off the electricity because of the truck crash, then the family wouldn’t have lit candles. And if the closet door hadn’t jammed against the door of Rainer Elklund’s bedroom when the smoke alarms started to sound, then he wouldn’t have died struggling to get out of his room, as the driver whose truck crash set off this sequence of events tried desperately to save him.
FRIDAY 7th March 2008
After taking his kids to the Little League game, Paul Humpfner came home crying. A colleague he met there had told him how his wife Jacqueline had slept with the man’s 30-year-old son. Upset though he was, Paul complains he never hit Jacqueline with the baseball bat, like she’s saying.
THURSDAY 6 March 2008
Poor Pastor Lee Graff is accused of a “crime against nature” by Virginia police after he approached a male officer posing as a prostitute in Park Road Park, just down the road from his church.
