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There are 73 posts tagged: "crime & punishment"

Da-do-Ron-Ron
13 January 2022
Reading of the death of Ronnie Spector, I was expecting her ex-husband's criminal conviction to be dragged up. Not that it needed to be included in her obituary; after all, it had nothing to do with her. The couple had divorced three decades prior to Lana Clarkson's murder. (more…)
Girl boss?
13 December 2021
My daughters went to see House of Gucci today. (more…)
Just rephrase the question
10 December 2021
Jussie Smollett has been found guilty of lying to police, when he claimed to be the victim of a racist and homophobic assault in Chicago, almost three years ago. (more…)
Daddy's little princess, a chip off the old block
6 December 2021
Ghislaine Maxwell, darling daughter of the late publishing tycoon, Robert, is on trial for sex trafficking underage girls to Jeffrey Epstein. Daddy would be so proud. (more…)
Fleecing the flock
2 December 2021
In When Jesus is used to steal from his flock, Bernd Debusmann Jr discusses elder fraud, the scamming of trusting, elderly Christians by snake oil salesmen. It's a variant on affinity fraud, in which individuals are targeted, based on religious, ethnic, or professional associations. (more…)
The wheelchair heist
1 December 2021
A 61-year-old shoplifter was shot dead by a police officer in Tuscon on Monday. Like his weapon, Officer Ryan Remington has been fired. (more…)
Me, myself, I
30 November 2021
During his pre-trial hearing for participating in the US Capitol riot on 6 January, James Beeks claimed that the court had no jurisdiction over him because he had divine authority. I'm not sure whether he's claiming to be directly related to god, or just a messenger. Perhaps his stage role as Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar has gone to his head; although, from my limited knowledge of the Bible, playing Judas doesn't sound particularly divine. (more…)
Let's go...
20 November 2021
I've paid little attention to the Kyle Rittenhouse case. It's too mired in US politics, race relations, and gun law to be of even passing interest. Besides, polarising doesn't exacty float my boat. (more…)
No mobile while mobile
19 November 2021
Things are getting tougher for the UK's drivers. (more…)
Privacy is very important to F*c*book
19 November 2021
F*c*book has admonished the LAPD for breaching its T&C, by establishing fake profiles to surveil users suspected of criminal activity. (more…)
X, the unknown
18 November 2021
Two men convicted of Malcolm X's assassination in 1965 will have their convictions quashed. (more…)
Flowers power
17 November 2021
Following the arrest of Terence Kelly for the abduction of Cleo Smith, the Australian news network, Seven, published photos of Terrance Flowers as the suspect. They took the photos from his Facebook account, where he uses his mother's maiden name, which is also Kelly. (more…)
Butt, officers...
10 November 2021
After Darrell Meekcom mooned a speed camera in Kidderminster, Worcestershire, he was surprised to be arrested, and wrestled to the ground, by no less than six police officers. Meekom suffers from a plethora of disabling diseases, and uses a wheelchair. Most people would think that a single officer, or two since they like to go about in pairs, could've done the job well enough. (more…)
Spy way
20 October 2021
An investigation as to why a middle-class, suburban US couple turned to spying against their country, revealed that Mrs Diana Toebbe has purple hair. Not that this was the cause of their spying, I hasten to add. (more…)
Acid tongue
14 October 2021
Claudia Webbe, ex-Labour and currently independent MP for Leicester East, has been found guilty of harassing Michelle Merritt, between September 2018 and April 2020, with, among other things, threats of acid and sending naked photos of Merritt to her family. The basis for these attacks was a relationship that Merritt allegedly had with Webbe's partner, Lester Thomas. (more…)
Revealing
1 October 2021
According to the BBC's homepage headline, DNA evidence has revealed a French ex-police officer to be a rapist and murderer. Except, according to the actual article: (more…)
The running woman
30 September 2021
Not all Nazi war criminals give up easily. Instead of attending her trial for complicity in 11,000 murders, 96-year-old Irmgard Furchner did a runner from her nursing home. (more…)
The type of R. Kelly (part 2)*
28 September 2021
The jury's returned, and R. Kelly's goin' down! (more…)
Let the punishment fit the crime
24 September 2021
The Taliban have announced that extreme punishments, including execution and amputation, will resume in Afghanistan. Mullah Nooruddin Turabi, who has an infamously zealous history in the pursuit of justice, claimed that amputations were necessary for security. (more…)
Who pays the ferryman?
29 August 2021
Ancient Greeks placed a silver coin in the mouths of the dead as payment to the ferryman, Charon, for carrying their soul across the Styx to the underworld. (more…)
The type of R. Kelly*
22 August 2021
Something about the reporting of R. Kelly's trial for racketeering, sexual abuse and bribery struck me as strange. (more…)
Too close to call?
12 August 2021
Flordelis dos Santos de Souza has been expelled from Brazil's lower house of Congress, for allegedly plotting her husband's murder in 2019. (more…)
Time is running out
3 August 2021
And it's a race to the finish line! (more…)
Criminal mastermindless
5 June 2021
Okay, say you're drug dealers, and you have cocaine with a street value of £500,000 in your car. Would you drive down the hard shoulder of a motorway, even if there was heavy traffic on the road? I mean, what if you were to undertake a police patrol car? They might give chase in an attempt to pull you over. You'd have to be pretty stupid, right? (more…)
You can die, but you can't hide
2 June 2021
Writing for BBC Culture about the Tea Chest Tapes, a collection of lost music tapes belonging to the late British producer Joe Meek, Arwa Haider reflects on Meek's life and work. (more…)
The colour of law
26 May 2021
Police in Illinois confiscated an urn containing the ashes of two-year-old Ta'Naja Barnes—or Davis, I'm not sure which—after pulling her father over for traffic offences. They claimed that the urn tested postive in a field test for meth. (more…)
The truth about lying
7 April 2021
Writing for BBC Future, via Knowable Magazine, Jessica Seigel asks Can you tell when someone is lying? And, if I were to reply that I could, would you know whether or not I was lying? (more…)
Streetwalker me
25 March 2021
Following the disappearance of Sarah Everard, Dr Hannah Bowes, an Associate Professor in Criminal Law at Durham University, opines as to why women shouldn’t have to risk trading their freedom for safety. According to Bowes, Women need men to change their behaviour. Say what? (more…)
Curfew quarrel
25 March 2021
Following the abduction of Sarah Everard in south London, police officers working on the case in the area advised women not to go out alone and to be careful; which doesn't seem too unreasonable, since the perpetrator was still at large at the time. But Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb's response in the House of Lords upset a number of people, and was widely ridiculed: (more…)
Inside out
12 February 2021
Once again, I feel mean for nitpicking on BBC journalism. But when, on the same day, you claim to be the world's most trusted international news broadcaster, you've gotta get shit right. (more…)
One bad deed
18 January 2021
He was one of the most influential pop songwriters and producers of his, or any, generation; he invented the wall of sound; and he worked with some of the most iconic artists in pop music history. He was also convicted of second degree murder. (more…)
Party poopers
23 August 2020
As Birmingham is added to the UK government's yo-yo watch list, due to a spike in COVID-19 cases, police have disrupted more than seventy unlicensed social gatherings in one night. (more…)
Pas de chokehold, pas de mort
16 July 2020
Whereas in the US, the public protests when police are accused of racially-motivated excessive use of force, in France it's the police that protest. (more…)
Missing the point?
16 July 2020
The sending of a black teenager to juvenile detention for not doing her online schoolwork has led to the inevitable protests and calls for her release in Detroit, Michigan. One mother, Sheri Crawley, told local TV news I know if Grace was a 15-year-old white girl she would not be sitting in juvenile detention right now. (more…)
Closing the gender gap
16 July 2020
Another day, another hashtag movement. And this one concerns US police brutality. Just for a change. (more…)
Miserable pleaders
13 May 2019
Felicity Huffman has pleaded guilty to having her daughter's college entrance exam results falsified. (more…)
Buddy, can you spare a dime?
27 March 2019
As if Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman's problems over the money-for-university-entrance scandal weren't enough, some money-grabbing pond life a concerned mother is suing them for her son not being accepted to university. (more…)
WASP: wealthy, Anglo-Saxon, pinhead
13 March 2019
As the money-for-university-places scandal gathers momentum, an affidavit filed by an FBI Special Agent states: (more…)
If you can't make it, fake it
12 March 2019
In the good old days, all you needed to go to university in the USofA was to be intelligent or good at sports. I never understood why they'd give places to students just because they were academically-inclined at the potential expense of a football jock, but there you go. (rolleyes) (more…)
Leaving Neverland
10 March 2019
In the wake of Leaving Neverland, a documentary describing, in depth, Michael Jackson's alleged paedophilia, the BBC's Cherry Wilson asks whether the late performer's legacy is now ruined. Personally, I think that happened while he was still alive. Off The Wall and Thriller are undisputedly classics that defined an era. Bad wasn't so much bad as meh!, and it was the last of his work that I bought. Everything after that was a downward spiral. (more…)
No shit, Byomkesh
2 July 2018
According to BBC News, eleven members of an Indian family were found dead in a house in Delhi. Ten of them were hanging from the ceiling and most were blindfolded, gagged, and with their hands tied behind their backs. Apparently, police have not ruled out murder. (more…)
The person who I feel most sorry for
9 October 2017
Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein is accused of multiple sexual assaults. It's a bit of a mess, really, isn't it? (more…)
May god go with you...but take back-up just in case
11 July 2017
William Rian Adams, a North Carolinian priest, pulled a gun on two people in a road rage incident. (more…)
Policemen talking bollocks
30 May 2017
It's a strange thing, but when policemen talk to the press they use a special bollocks language. (more…)
Lifespan
23 August 2013
Police in Belgium have recovered drugs and chemicals worth an estimated €1.3 billion in a raid on an illicit drugs factory. Eleven suspects, all aged 30 to 50, have been arrested (more…)
Placebo it is not
25 June 2013
Convicted child murderer, Ian Brady, is appealing against the diagnosis that he is mentally ill, which might in itself be proof of his mental illness. (more…)
Catch me if you can
18 June 2013
Suspected war criminal Laszlo Csatary, a Nazi policeman in 1944, has been charged by Hungarian prosecutors with torture and murder of Jewish prisoners. His trial is expected to start in three months. (more…)
Keep death off the roads: drive on the pavement!
8 November 2012
A driver in Cleveland, Ohio, who was caught avoiding a school bus by driving on the pavement, was handed down an unusual punishment by the judge. In addition to losing her licence for 30 days and paying a $250 fine, Shena Hardin will have to hold up a sign which states only an idiot would drive on the sidewalk to avoid a school bus. (more…)
Benny joins the justice league
29 October 2012
In the wake of allegations of sexual abuse of minors by Jimmy Savile and some of his entourage—or one of his entourages as it happens—the Catholic Church in England and Wales has written to the Holy See to ask whether the papal knighthood bestowed on Savile in 1990 can be revoked. But it appears that this might not be possible. (more…)
Jimmy Savile: nasty man
26 October 2012
Hmmm, curiouser and curiouser…in an earlier report from 5th October, the beauty contest winner who alleged that she was raped by Jimmy Savile apparently tells a different story of her encounter to The Daily Mail: (more…)
PS3 hacked. Again.
25 October 2012
Sony's PS3 has been hacked/cracked. Again. Is anyone keeping track? (more…)
Jimmy Savile: nasty man with nasty friends...allegedly
24 October 2012
Following revelations that the erstwhile Saint James was a predatory sex offender, a woman has come forward claiming that he raped her: (more…)
Now then, now then! Jimmy Savile done pervin', allegedly*
9 October 2012
It appears that the late Saint Jimmy Savile had a predilection for ladies of a certain age. And in his case, the age may have been lower than that of consent. (more…)
Mancunians are very naughty people
17 September 2012
It appears that Manchester is the UK capital of illegal downloading. And the UK as a whole is second in the world after the United States of Amerika. (more…)
Pas de merde, Sherlock
6 September 2012
Yet another instalment in my exploration of the crime fighter's rapier mind; this time from France. (more…)
No shit, Sherlock: We got braynz
29 August 2012
According to the BBC, after his assassination Leon Trotsky's brain proved unusually heavy. (more…)
No shit, Sherlock: Sherlock returns
17 August 2012
From the gruesome files, a woman's head has been found in a park in Mississauga, Ontario. The previous day, a severed human foot, with painted toenails, was also found. It's not yet confirmed that they belonged to the same body, but that appears to be the working hypothesis. (more…)
Do as we say, not as we do!
12 March 2012
There is a programme on Henan Legal Channel—one of the Chinese state-run TV channels—entitled Interviews Before Execution, in which Ding Yu interviews prisoners before they're executed. Contrary to being exploitative, the programme makers claim to find cases that will serve as a warning to others. Indeed, the programme calls for human nature to awaken and perceive the value of life. (more…)
Olympus!, Olympus!, Olympus!
7 March 2012
I have a warm feeling. And it's not because I've pissed myself. Honest. (more…)
Oh no! Poor Joe! He's got no morals
14 November 2011
One of the joys of international business travel is the opportunity to be in proximity to people who're sick. In this case, I contracted viral bronchitis on a flight to Washington, and thus I came to spend an evening at George Washington University Hospital's A&E. (more…)
SPAM: new serving suggestion
11 November 2011
That nice Mr/Mrs Chumbla in Nigeria has offered me, and I suspect all of you, their money for FREE. (more…)
Send me to jail, please*
8 November 2011
It appears that doing hard time in jail means something different in Mexico. A recent inspection of a jail in Acapulco revealed the presence of prostitutes, plasma TVs, marijuana, and fighting cocks, as well as female inmates living in the male section. (more…)
Essex girls in club fight shocka!
24 October 2011
I understand that in the UK you have a televisual entertainment entiled The Only Way Is Essex. I'm not sure that I want to know any more about this than I do already…chav TV, say no more! (more…)
You can take the actor out of TV
8 July 2011
…but you can't take TV out of the actor. (more…)
The salad days of a petty thief
21 September 2010
Hampshire police have released an e-fit of a casual thief wearing what appears to be a lettuce on his head. If caught, he's to be given a dressing down. (more…)
George Michael: 'im goin' down
15 September 2010
George Michael has been sentenced to eight weeks for driving under the influence of cannabis. Or, rather, crashing his car under the influence of cannabis. (more…)
May I have my job back? Pretty please?
23 August 2010
A former senior Filipino police inspector, Rolando Mendoza, has allegedly taken a bus full of hostages in Manila, in an attempt to regain the job that he lost in 2008 following allegations of robbery, extortion, and drug-related crimes. (more…)
Of superheroes and Sigmund
16 August 2010
While philosophers love superheroes, psychologists do not. They're concerned that modern superheroes are an inappropriate role model for boys. (more…)
Of superheroes and Socrates
12 August 2010
It may seem like a simple comic strip to most of us—the proportion with a life—but the tribulations of your everyday, common-or-garden superhero are a philosophical minefield. Even if you don't think of it that way. (more…)
Ungrateful little arsewipe!
4 June 2010
Following the shootings in Cumbria, the United Kindom's very own, finely-coiffured Prime Minister has visited the area to get his face in the news and pretend he cares show solidarity with the local populace. But some tosser has the temerity to complain to the BBC's reporter: One man told me he was angry that it has taken a shooting for the prime minister to visit the town. (more…)
File under 'Rocks, dumb as'
23 March 2010
A US couple boasted on TV about how much money they made by selling stolen goods. The evidence was used against them in a court of law and now they're doing time in ol' pokey. (more…)
No shit Sherlock
25 September 2009
Police investigating a woman's body found in a suitcase in a dried-up pond on Kent farmland are treating the death as suspicious. Because natural deaths so often end up with bodies in suitcases? (confused) (more…)
Sicko
24 August 2009
After former model Jasmine Fiore was murdered by her husband, he mutilated her to prevent recognition. Her body was later found in a suitcase near Los Angeles. It's tragic, really, so I feel bad for finding this funny. (more…)