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Déjà vu? Huw!

Here we go again! Another celebrity [remember my piece on Katie Price?] comes before the courts, magistrates court that is, charged with a serious crime, and is basically let off. Huw Edwards. That’s who we are talking about just now. That doyen of the great British Broadcasting Corporation who, whilst…

It’s All In The Game – Or Is It?

They think it’s all over – but it is now. “What is she on about?” I hear you ask. The Olympics, of course. What else? So, the Paris Olympics of 2024 departed the French shores like a bat out of hell. I’m thinking of Tom Cruise. Did you see him…

girl looking sad with hands against window

Silence is Not Golden – It’s Criminal!

I am absolutely horrified. I have just heard about a case of sexual abuse. Familial sexual abuse. This is bad. Really bad. But it’s worse than that. Much worse. Here’s the case. Andrea Skinner, a Canadian woman, now aged 58, was sexually abused by her stepfather, Gerald Fremlin, her mother’s…

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Don’t Sushi Me!

Just over a year ago, I took myself off to Aberystwyth Crime Festival. From the train station, I took a taxi up to my lodgings. As the kindly Welsh driver removed my luggage from the boot and placed it on the ground, with a nod and a wink he told…

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Dead Man Talking – Trash!

Let me say first off, I don’t agree with capital punishment. Well, in general, that is. The chances of even one innocent being executed are too great and no amount of pardon or money is going to resurrect the dead and return them to their loved ones. Whilst I say…

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Can’t Buy Me Love – Money That Is!

When will they ever learn? Lonely British women, that is. Yet again we hear a sorry tale that some women of a certain age have fallen for the charms of an online ‘lover’ whose only interest is to relieve them of their hard-earned or inherited dosh. These women don’t just…

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The Curious Case of the Eggs Throw-Down: Criminal or What?

Some years ago, while adjudicating on the magisterial bench, a case came before me which left me quite perplexed. The defendant was charged with some dubious breach of the peace offence. Top and bottom of this story: a man was going along his merry way, singing his merry little song,…

a man hiding a box of sweets under his jacket

Shoplifting as a Middle Class Sport…?

Can you Adam and Eve it? The middle-class shoplift for fun? What? They’ve given up the fun and frolics of Verbier and Saint Moritz? When was shoplifting ever fun? And when did it become a sport? It’s one thing if you are poor and in need and you walk out of a…

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Knives in Schools: When Will Lessons be Learned?

In November 2014, 16-year-old schoolboy William Cornick was sentenced to life imprisonment for killing his teacher, Ann Maguire in their Leeds Catholic school. He was sentenced to serve a minimum term of 20 years. William Cornick had a grudge against Mrs Maguire, and he had made it known that he…