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.
WEDNESDAY 5th March 2008
Over two months, in the dead of night, someone has been cutting the tails and shaving the flanks of 25 horses Gail Sephton keeps on her farm near Laurencekirk. Exactly the same thing happened last year too.
TUESDAY 4th March 2008
When Steve McMillan stabbed Shanesha Stewart to death in her Bronx apartment, police concluded she’d been killed by a customer, enraged at the discovery that Shanesha was formerly a man. But it turns out that Steve was a neighbour who’d known her for years.
MONDAY March 3rd 2008
Two days after he left the offices of the Young Journalists League to buy notebooks and pens, they found Hisham Hamdan’s bullet-riddled body in a Baghdad marketplace.
Steve Larder is away at the Mullheim Zinefest.
News from Iraq
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FRIDAY February 29th 2008
When his ex-girlfriend told him to stop pestering her with text messages, Rustan Ang texted back her a photo of a naked woman, legs spread, with her face added, threatening to post it on the net. That’s when she went to the police.
THURSDAY February 28th 2008
Discovering she was dating the same man as Olga, a shocked Ria arranged to meet the other woman. Discussing their mutual boyfriend’s deception, Olga also mentioned the jewellery that had gone missing from her home. Ria checked her own and found items gone. As a result Johann Garber receives a three-year sentence for theft.
WEDNESDAY 27th February 2008
On Via Merlo, Palermo, bullets flew, killing Guiseppe and Gianpaolo Riina, two brothers on their way to work. In this same street ten years ago their father was also assasinated in a mafia feud.
TUESDAY 26th February 2008
Josephine Cesnick, 76, waited nine days before calling the ambulance. The burglar had said he’d kill her if she told anyone. In hospital, she died of head injuries.
TUESDAY 19th February 2008
For two years Desmone Bastian had waved her through his border post in exchange for liaisons in nearby hotels. But that night Bastian was working a different lane so Sandra Maas was caught at the US border with nearly 3,000 Oxycodone tablets hidden in her underwear.
MONDAY 18th February 2008
Melbourne barmaid Emily Craig served Matthew Papaluca a shot of Pine-O-Clean and coke, a drunken prank that ended with Matthew in hospital and Emily in court.
