Brit Mark Dixie may have killed in Australia
February 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment
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BRITISH police have criticized their Australian counterparts for deporting a violent sex offender who went on to kill an 18-year-old woman.
Mark Dixie, 36, was yesterday jailed for life for the rape and stabbing murder of Sally Anne Bowman, but British police believe he is responsible for more deaths, including some in Australia.
Ms Bowman’s murder two years ago sparked outrage in the UK press and Dixie’s conviction yesterday dominated front pages. The Sun called for Dixie to be executed.
But Scotland Yard went a step further, blaming Australian police for taking “the easy option” and not prosecuting Dixie for a string of offences committed in the six years that he travelled the country before being deported in 1999.
Investigators singled out the NSW police for a lack of co-operation in their prosecution of Dixie, describing as “poor” the assistance provided.
Detective Superintendent Stuart Cundy said he had no doubt Dixie, who worked as a chef and was known by different aliases here, was responsible for unsolved assaults or even murders.
“I am sure Dixie killed someone while he was in Australia,” he said.
“The problem is pinning it down. There are a lot of people who go missing; there are a lot of travellers out there. The injuries Sally Anne sustained were so off the scale that I am convinced it was not his first killing.”
“The answer lies somewhere in Australia.”
Bride sues runaway groom
February 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment
The couple had nearly finished saying their vows when a woman appeared at the back of the church and shouted that the wedding should stop, the Philippine Star newspaper reported today.
The groom - who had been about to say “I do” - hesitated before walking to the woman and hugging her, and the pair fled in a taxi, the newspaper added.
The bride said she had suffered “irreparable damages” and had not slept well after the incident in December.
She is reportedly seeking 549,630 pesos in damages.
We woke up to scene of hatred, says penis slash wife
February 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment
A Woman whose ex-husband stabbed and mutilated her boyfriend before her has told of the final words the new lovers shared just before his death. “I said to him, ‘I’m so lucky to have you’ and he said ‘I am lucky to have you,” Marija Corbett told a Sydney court. “(Then) we woke up to the scene of hatred.” Mrs Corbett, whose former husband Gabor Ziha was convicted of murdering Barry Corbett earlier this week, yesterday read a victim impact statement to the Supreme Court. She said her new lover, who she met eight months earlier, was the best thing to happened to her: “I was offered victim’s compensation but I didn’t want it because no money can compensate me for the loss of Barry. “I had a future with Barry, I felt loved like never before and we were extremely happy. To love and be loved is the greatest wealth you can have, and that was taken away from me in an act of hatred.” Mrs Corbett was asleep in the Parramatta home she shared with Mr Corbett on August 1, 2006, when Ziha entered their house with a key he had stolen from his son. He stabbed Mr Corbett 30 times, before severing his penis and putting it in his former wife’s bedside drawer. Mrs Corbett - Marija changed her name from Ziha in honour of her late partner - said she had felt guilty for a long time at not having stayed with Mr Corbett at the moment of his death and for indirectly bringing about his death. “I only wanted to bring him happiness and love, and I brought death to him,” she said. “Words cannot describe the horror I felt when I saw Gabor’s angry and hateful face in the flash of light in my bedroom . . . the agony of seeing the man I loved being viciously attacked in front of my eyes while I was powerless to help.” Mrs Corbett fled the bedroom to get help and did not realise for some time that she too had been hurt in Ziha’s frenzied attack, suffering a wound to her leg. “The stabbing wound healed quickly, but it always hurts when I look at the scar on my leg because I know that it was inflicted on me out of hatred, and it reminds me of what that hateful man (Ziha) did to Barry.” Mrs Corbett paid tribute to her lover, saying he was the “loveliest” person she had ever met. “I knew him for only eight months but that was the happiest time of my life - he called me princess and made me feel like a princess. He would cook me wonderful dinners, buy me flowers, fix my computer, assemble my furniture, always try to please. “He never said a bad word about anybody.”
Earthquakes are caused by gays, says MP
February 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Shlomo Benizri of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish Shas Party said the only way to prevent the earthquakes was for parliament to stop liberalizing laws concerning homosexuals, AP reported.
“Why do earthquakes happen? One of the reasons is the things to which the Knesset (parliament) gives legitimacy, to sodomy,” Mr Benizri said.
Mr Benizri said earthquake damage could be avoided if the parliament stopped “passing legislation on how to encourage homosexual activity in the state of Israel, which anyway brings about earthquakes”.
Two earthquakes originating in Lebanon have shaken Israel in the past week. The first occurred two days after the Israeli attorney-general ruled that same-sex couples could adopt children.
In recent years, Israeli courts have ruled that the government must recognize sex-sex marriages performed abroad and grant gay couples inheritance rights.
Steve Wright found guilty of killing five prostitutes
February 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Forklift truck driver Steve Wright has been found guilty of murdering five prostitutes during one of the most intensive killing sprees in British criminal history.
Wright, 49, had asphyxiated the five drug-addicted women, leaving two of their bodies in a cruciform position with arms outstretched.
The corpses were found dumped at rural locations around the town of Ipswich within the space of just 10 days.
He will be sentenced at Ipswich Crown Court tomorrow.
Return of death penalty
The families of two of the women called for the return of the death penalty.
Speaking through a police liaison officer, one of them said: “These crimes deserve the ultimate punishment, and that can only mean one thing.
“The public must insist this government looks at returning the death penalty in cases such as this otherwise many more families will go through the same suffering that we have had to endure.”
Massive manhunt
The 2006 killings led to one of the country’s biggest ever manhunts and drew comparisons with infamous 19th century serial killer Jack the Ripper.
Wright, labelled the “Suffolk Strangler” by the media, had murdered the women while his 63-year-old partner Pamela was working night shifts.
Overnight after two days of deliberations, the jury of nine men and three women at the court found Wright guilty of murdering Gemma Adams, 25, Tania Nicol, 19, Anneli Alderton, 24, Paula Clennell, 24, and Annette Nicholls, 29.
Detective Chief Superintendent Stewart Gull of Suffolk Police later said the “appalling crimes left a community, a county and a nation in a state of profound shock”.
“They left Suffolk Constabulary facing the most daunting challenge in its history.”
Scientific evidence
The Crown Prosecution Service in Suffolk described the prosecution of Wright as one of the biggest cases it had handled, but said scientific evidence had proved he was responsible.
Prosecutors during the trial had said Wright could have killed his victims with an accomplice, although no one else has been charged.
Sex with dozens of prostitutes
The court had heard that in the three months before his December 19, 2006 arrest, Wright, the son of an RAF policeman, had sex with a dozen prostitutes, including the five he killed.
His DNA was found on the bodies of three of the victims while bloodstains from two of the women were found on his jacket at his home.
The odds of the DNA matches occurring by chance were one in a billion, experts testified.
The pattern of the killings was similar to those of his partner’s night shifts.
In one fortnight period when she was not working nights, prosecutors said the “prostitutes of Ipswich were not subjected to any campaign by a random psychopath”.
Police said after the case they were not aware of any evidence to link Wright with any other crimes.
