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.
March 10, 2008 – 10:46 am
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 […]
February 12, 2008 – 8:11 am
TUESDAY 12th February 2008
After the party, Tarik Abdenebaoui wandered out into the minus forty Alberta chill dressed only in a light jacket and jeans. He was new to the country. Three days later they found the immigrant pizza restaurant worker’s body face down in the snow.
February 6, 2008 – 9:44 am
TUESDAY 5th February 2008
A few weeks after Gerald Mahoney and his girlfriend split up, the two were drinking beer in his parents’ garage when, for no clear reason, he poured petrol on her legs and set fire to her, burning her badly.
January 22, 2008 – 6:44 pm
TUESDAY, 22nd January 2008
By 14, Tracia Owen has moved 60 times, from children’s homes to carers, to her alcoholic parents and back again. She spends her last day selling her body for crack in Winnipeg, then beds down in a garage on a filthy mattress, next to a friend who wakes to find Tracia dangling […]
