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Back in 1990, I spent the summer holidays (after my first year of university) in London trying to find work. A school friend knew a guy he played squash with, named Paul, who lived in a caretaker flat at the top of a small four-storey office building just off Trafalgar Square. He was prepared to (illegally) sub-let out some rooms for about forty quid a week - bloody good for London even back then.
So me, another school friend, Simon and a friend of his from his university, Bridget, moved in. Had a really great summer, didn't do a lot of work, just ran up a huge overdraft. But we all got along OK, even if Paul was a bit strange. More shy than anything we thought.
Eventually I left to go back to uni, but Simon and Bridget stayed there renting because they were going to college in London. Paul even started going out with Bridget.
Flash-forward to the present. Simon hears a news report:
. . . that guy in the photo is the guy we flat-shared with! Simon's been to the police and told them what he remembers about Paul. Most worrying , though, is the fact that he lost contact with Bridget a long time ago. . .
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Yeah. Simon was a bit vague on that issue, but I always thought I heard that they'd split up and she'd moved on. Maybe she didn't. At this stage I can't even remember her surname. . .
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Go to the police now: it's even possible that people are concerned for your safety.
Creepy though.
So....he chopped her up, stuck her in the fridge and them came back?!?
Not too bright.
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Well, presumably he left for whatever reason but intended to return and dispose of the body then. But as my friend 'said' (this was a conversation over MSNM, we're on opposite sides of the world remember), didn't he consider what people might think about what seems to have been an unannounced departure? As it remains, even after reading a lot more reports (it even made the CNN website) his movements aren't clear, nor is where their daughter was while all this was happening (although she's being looked after now).
I actually owed a week's rent when I moved, but he never mentioned it on the couple of occasions we met after that. I don't think I was in any danger!
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Say what you will about the criminal justice system in the States, but that guy would probably never see daylight again if it happened here.
What kind of judge could give such a....trivial sentence for that crime?!?
You'd get more time for imbezzlement!
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I suppose one could look on the bright side that if the stated reasons are fact, its likely that he hasn't killed anyone else.
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Well, a judge who's of the opinion that the crime is (second-degree) murder, not playing Doom on a corpse.
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Judging by the way my wife complaines when I get my laptop out after i get home, it might as well be addictive. What do you do when your hobby is also your job? Actually being alchol free in the IT industry here is quite a trick, although a commendable one. The number of times I've had to go back to fix something after a couple of pints down the pub...
Getting back on subject, this is really scary. Although abusive relationships where the man is the victim are a problem that is often ignored, some countries do have justifiable manslaugter as a charge. Although, I wonder if it was the wife who was abused and chopped him up she would have got the same sentence however?
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