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.

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. 

“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!

Remember the little girl at Hawk’s Nest in NSW who died of starvation.  Her parents were charged with various things including murder.

Well, mum got convicted for her murder, and dad for manslaughter.  Sad, pathetic, evil swine and all that, but thats not really what I wanted to post about.

Its this interesting ad placement:

Mmmm, starving child, eat Subway!

A 58 year old man found lying naked on top of a 5 year old girl has claimed that he was just trying to keep her warm

The Supreme Court in Hobart heard today the man was hosting a family of five when the incident occurred on February 5 this year.  The 3 kids went to sleep in a tent in the back yard.  Mum became suspicious something was happening and went to investigate.  As she approached the tent they heard their daughter cry: "I want mummy."  They heard the offender reply: "Don’t worry about mummy, I will keep you warm."

They opened the tent flap and found him lying naked on top of the girl, whose pants and underpants had been removed. The offender had an erection.

An altercation followed, and the family upped camp and reported the matter to police. 

In sentencing the man to 9 months jail, the judge said to him:

"One disturbing aspect of this is that you don’t seem to acknowledge there is anything wrong with what you did,"

"Nobody else thinks like that and that’s why you’re going to jail today."

He was also ordered to have his name placed on the sex offenders register for 7 years after he is released.

I’m surprised he actually got off so lightly with the sentence he got.  I find it strange how judges talk tough then squib it on the sentencing.   I’d have thought something like this deserved at least a few years jail rather than months.

And notice how I’ve resisted the temptation to throw in a Tasmanian joke.