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Stewart Blackburn, 18, was having problems with his girlfriend.  In fact she was threatening to break up with him.  So he poured petrol over her and set her on fire, then held her bedroom door shut, cutting off any chance of escape.

Her final words to her father were: "I don’t want to die, Dad - I love you."  The prosecutor told the court:

"It is difficult to envisage more cruel or sadistic treatment of another human being,"

Too true!  Blackburn faces life imprisonment when he is sentenced next year for murdering 17 year old Jessica McCagh.  I’m thinking a Joan d’Arc style punishment is more fitting – tie him to a stake and light the bonfire.

A man in Bunbury, Western Australia was apparently having some sort of dispute with his ex-girlfriend – maybe he was not accepting of the “ex” status of their relationship.  So what does he do?  Enlists the help of his parents.  OK, fair enough, they presumably have more life experience and could well offer some useful advice and support to their son.  So far, so good.

Unfortunately, thats all the good in this story.  Son plus mum and dad went to the girlfriend’s house for a visit.  Jarrad Fitzpatrick was visiting the ex-girlfriend, apparently a childhood friend of his.  Seeing him there, they beat him to death.  According to police, he was attempting to leave when they attacked him.   They said he was punched and kicked numerous times by the family.

Kenneth John Smith, 20, and his parents Colin John Smith, 40, and Tanya Louise Smith, 38, appeared in court today charged with his murder.  Charming family aren’t they? 

Not only that, they have some pretty dodgy relatives and friends, judging by the way they behaved outside the court – abusing and threatening the media who were there to report on the matter.

….that causes extreme racism in young men around Cronulla, in Sydney.  The proud tradition of the 2005 race riots has been carried on by James Anthony Dean-Willcocks, who, after a drunken night out celebrating his 23rd birthday, came across a 67 year old Filipino man in the street at 5.30 on Saturday morning.  So he did what every young redneck does on meeting an Asian, beat him to death (allegedly of course).

Residents of Elouera Rd, Cronulla, told police of being woken about 5.30am on Saturday to a male yelling: "F–k off back to Japan."  According to one witness statement a man was heard to cry: "Help, help." One witness said he went out to his balcony and allegedly saw a man "fling the victim on to the footpath, pick up the victim, shake him and throw him to the ground."  The accused then allegedly punched him to the head and body up to 10 times. Another witness told police he saw the victim thrown on to the road, with Mr Dean-Willcocks seen "on top of the victim punching him".  One witness told police he yelled at Mr Dean-Willcocks to stop, asking what he was doing.  "Mate, he is Japanese and he deserves it," the accused allegedly answered. 

Stunned onlookers prevented Mr Dean-Willcocks leaving the scene until police arrived.  He has since told police he has "no recollection" of the incident and his last memory was "some time in the early hours of the morning" while he was at the Mercure Hotel in the Sydney CBD. He does not know how he got to Cronulla.

The answer to that last question is some sort of magnetic attraction – Cronulla being racism central just draws them as if by magic.  I have a feeling Dean-Willcocks may well have been there before, like in December 2005.

Michael Toney was convicted and sentenced to death in 1999 for his part in a car bombing which killed 3 people.

He maintained his innocence over the years and finally had his conviction overturned and was freed from jail on September 2 this year.

On Saturday he was killed in a car accident.

Bummer!

Violence at a school fete in Papua New Guinea left eight people dead and a severed head hanging from a power pole.  According to local media, an armed gang attacked villagers gathered at the fete in Kainantu district last Friday, and killed four people.  The gang’s leader interrupted a speech by a local magistrate, produced a gun and shot him dead.  Villagers retaliated by killing three of the gang members. One was beheaded and the head hung on a power pole.  Another was killed the next day.  The gang’s leader, Patrick Sira, is wanted by police over a string of murders, rapes and robberies – he escaped after the attack.

While I’ve never been to a fete that extreme, I still hate them.  Can’t see the point of buying other people’s shit and crap made by other people’s kids.

I’m always amused by stories of criminals getting harmed or killed in odd ways during their crimes, so this one appealed to me.

A student in Baltimore, USA, killed a burglar with a samurai sword after spotting the intruder in his garage.   He and his housemates asked the burglar to stop, but while they called police, the suspect lunged at the student,who retaliated by striking him with a samurai sword, severed his left hand and gave severe lacerations to the upper torso and neck.

The undergraduate medical student at Baltimore’s prestigious Johns Hopkins University was being questioned by police but he may not be charged if found to be acting in self-defence.  He had recently reported a burglary in which thieves reportedly took laptop computers and a Sony PlayStation.

The burglar, who was in his late 40s, had a history of burglaries and had just been released from prison on Saturday.  In my opinion, no great loss to the world – got what what deserved.

Interesting choice of weapon though – just happening to have a samurai sword handy in the event of burglary?

Murder, that is!

In June last year a Cowra man murdered his wife and 2 grandchildren. He stabbed his wife and hit her on the back of the head with a hammer. When police interviewed him he described the hammer with pride, affectionately referring to it as ”Fred”. According to a report prepared by a psychiatrist, the man ”gave a gruesome account of first drowning the younger girl and then luring the boy to go to the toilet and hitting him over the back of the head with a hammer”.  He re-dressed his five-year-old granddaughter in her pyjamas and put her on the bed. He put the seven-year-old on the bunk next to his sister. He then drowned the family dog and put it under the children’s bed. He told police he was worried there would be no one left to look after it.  When his daughter, a police officer, arrived home from work, he tried to kill her with an axe. He told police he then planned to drive to Newcastle to kill his daughter’s estranged husband.

Less than a year earlier, his younger brother, in England, murdered his partner and 4 year old son.  James Conan, stabbed his partner Kirsty O’Connell in what the court heard was a ”hail of knife blows”. During the frenzied attack, Conan severed his 21-year-old girlfriend’s jugular vein. He then smoked a cigarette, played with their son Patrick, then took him to the bedroom, smothered him with a pillow and bathed him.  He then laid out his son in what the prosecutor said was a bizarre Viking-style ritual. He put a dagger next to the body, a torch in his hand and boots on his feet. He then surrounded the boy with toys ”arranged like treasures”.

Both brothers have been jailed for life for their crimes.  Their parents, had they still been alive, would have been so proud.  Or not.  When interviewed by police, Conan spoke of an appalling and unhappy childhood, in which the family moved from Ireland and eventually settled in a working-class area of Leeds. But his sister and two older brothers, including the Cowra murderer, spoke of an unremarkable childhood.

By the way, Conan wasn’t the younger brother’s real name – he changed his name to Conan, after his hero Conan the Barbarian. 

Police were busy in Victoria yesterday morning, 400 of them executing 19 search warrants in connection with a suspected terrorist plot.  Four men of Somali and Lebanese descent were arrested. A fifth man was already in custody over an unrelated matter.  They are alleged to have been planning an attack on Sydney’s Holsworthy army barracks.  The arrests were apparently the result of a 7 month long police investigation.

The men who appeared in court today were Abdirahman Ahmed, Yacqub Khayre, Nayef El Sayed and Wissam Mahmoud Fattal.  The fourth man, Saney Edow Aweys, was expected to appear later.  They have been charged with preparing for a terrorist attack. 

The raids were carried out because police believed a suicide attack was imminent.  They believed Abdirahman Ahmed, who returned from the war-torn country only three weeks ago might have secretly obtained a fatwa from a sheik in Somalia.  Two members of the group are believed to have travelled to Somalia to train with the militant extremist group Al-Shabaab, which the US believes has links with al-Qa’ida. But when other members of the group could not travel to Somalia, they turned their attention to carrying out an act of terror in Australia.  Police believe the group planned to launch a suicide assault on Holsworthy army base using automatic weapons. It is alleged they planned to kill as many soldiers as possible before they were themselves killed.

The men showed their lack of respect for our society in court.  Two of them refused to stand when asked by the magistrate – citing religious grounds, that they would not stand for anyone but God.   Others claimed to be too tired to answer questions.  Fattal, as he was being led from the court,  accused Australia of killing innocent people in Afghanistan and Iraq and said "you call us terrorists - I’ve never killed anyone in my life". He also said Palestinians were labelled as terrorists while Israelis forcedly took land from them.

What I don’t understand is why these dickheads want to live in Australia but still carry on like they are jihadist savages in the back blocks of Mogadishu.  If they want things here to be like Somalia, just fuck off and go live there.  Better still, get themselves over there and into some inter-factional warfare amongst the various jihadi militias – kill each other, not innocent people. 

It really pisses me off when people come to Australia and can’t leave behind their old hatreds in their old country.  Message to these people – you’re in a new country, leave your grudges behind.  If you want to continue them, fuck off back to your old country and fight away to your heart’s content, just don’t do it here.  In this case its Somali and Lebanese muslims wanting to carry on the fight against just about anyone who doesn’t want to revert back to their 7th century version of how the world should be run.  But the same argument applies to anyone, Arabs vs Jews, Serbs vs Croats, Protestants vs Catholics, Hutu vs Tutsi – I don’t care.  Do not bring your hatred towards each other here – leave it behind.

“Curry bashing” apparently is a form of amusement for some of the lowlife scum among the population.  It means going out looking for Indian people to beat up.

Or, if you’re John Caratozzolo, and you can’t find an Indian, a Chinese will do just fine.  Caratozzolo and his mates were out one night in January last year, when he suggested to them they go “curry bashing” because he needed a new mobile phone.  However they ran into  Dr Zhongjun Cao, who was on his way home from his job as a university lecturer.  The group attacked him without warning, assaulting him "for pleasure" without even asking for his phone. One of the group dropped Dr Cao on his head during the attack and as he lay badly injured.  Carotozzolo kicked the dying man in the head as a parting gift, laughing with his mates as he did it.

Soon afterwards, Caratozzolo and friends attacked another man, an Indian student and robbed him.  He didn’t die, but he was injured seriously enough to spend time in hospital and to require 2 weeks of sick leave from his job.

Caratozzolo pleaded guilty to murder and two counts of robbery.  The judge talked tough in sentencing him, but in the end gave him only 15 years, with a non-parole period of 10 years.  Way too lenient in my view – Carotozzola is 21 and will be back out in the community in his early 30’s.  It completely escapes me why scum such as him should be fortunate enough to see the outside of a prison cell before they are very old and infirm.  25 years should be the absolute minimum for a murder, especially when its random and completely unprovoked and done just for the hell of it.

A 16 year old was also charged in connection with Dr Cao’s murder.

Their families must be so proud of them!

A Melbourne man was angry that his wife didn’t make his lunch one day.  So he did what any reasonable person would, and went and bought some, right?  No, he poured petrol on the staircase and set fire to the house, with his wife and 2 daughters inside.  Fortunately they were able to flee through the flames and received only minor burns.

Rajah Theivendradas, 54, was sentenced to 4 years jail for his lunch tantrum. The court heard that he had been drinking heavily on the day before the fire and had an argument with his elder daughter about respect.  Victorian County Court Judge John Nixon said Theivendradas was out of control but not psychiatrically disturbed.

According to family, Australia’s favourite drug smuggler, Schapelle Corby, in jail in Bali is delusional, so traumatised by her time in jail that she has lost all touch with reality.  Her condition has so shocked her family they are begging the Australian Government to send a psychiatrist to Bali to assess Schapelle and try to bring her back home for medical care.

Her uncle said that when he visited Corby last month in a Bali hospital she sat on the floor for an hour and a half, saying nothing and holding a child’s toy. 

"At one stage she sat on the floor with my daughter’s stuffed frog that plays tunes and she was there holding it for 90 minutes without moving."

She would slip into delusional states in which she would think she could just walk out of custody.

"She thinks she can hop up and go, she’d just start to get ready. She’d change her clothes and say ‘let’s go’,"

Her uncle said Corby still maintained her innocence and lived in hope that new evidence would emerge.

"Every day she thinks the nightmare’s going to finish. Now she’s not thinking lucidly at all,"
"She will not admit guilt because she’s not guilty."

Personally I think her delusional state is nothing new.  I think she’s been that way since she loaded the marijuana into her bag, got busted at Denpasar airport, tried to bullshit her way out with farfetched claims as to how the drugs got there, magically tailored to her particular bag, but she had nothing to do with it, rather that it was some sort of conspiracy on the part of corrupt airport baggage handlers.  Never mind that no-one before her seems to have had the same thing happen, nor anyone since …. strange that!

Also looks like the Corby family must be feeling some sort of attention deficit disorder.  Haven’t been in the media lately so time to drum up some more publicity and enrol the support of high profile broadcaster Alan Jones (god knows why anyone listens to his rantings, but for some weird reason I can’t fathom he is popular).  Yep, whip up the publicity, try to win in the court of public opinion, hoping to gain enough bogan support to pressure the Australian government to pressure the Indonesian government into doing something for her, like send her back to Australia to serve out her sentence – where strangely I suspect all her mental health problems might just suddenly disappear.  Funny that ever since Schapelle got caught in Bali, her whole case has been based on getting sympathy for the pretty girl who can’t possibly be a nasty drug smuggler, and winning a PR battle.  Nothing like any actual evidence to clear her name has ever been presented.

Suck shit to this scumbag.  His name is Gregory McCalium.

His mistake.  Apart from being a thieving, almost certainly drug fucked loser?

He broke into the house of 71 year old Frank Corti, in Oxford, in the UK, armed with a knife.  Mr Corti said he was woken in the middle of the night by noises in his house and was confronted by the knife-wielding McCalium when he went to investigate. McCalium took a swipe at him with his knife, but Mr Corti ducked and threw two big right hooks at him, almost knocking him out.  Mr Corti was then able to make a citizen’s arrest on him, and hand him over to the police.

McCalium’s lawyer told the court his client “looked like a car accident”.  He didn’t get any sympathy from the judge, who sentenced him to 4 1/2 years jail.

His big mistake?  Not knowing his victim was a former boxer in the British army.