A book highly recommended for extreme feminists and the BBC's domestic violence team
who must outnumber all other BBC departments by 10 to 1 for the enormous amount of gender
hatred imposed on British Citizens by this public broadcast propaganda machine.
EVIL is NOT gender based
From the Florida roadside prostitute and first convicted serial killer Aileen Wuomos to the Empress poisoner of ancient Rome, this is the biggest collection of the world's most dangerous women newly revised and expanded, including: Rutn Snyder, the last woman in the US to go to the electric chair; the English multiple murderess who chopped up the bodies of children and scattered them from a plane; Rosemary West - unsuspecting dupe or cold-blooded killer, the mother who hired a killer to eliminate her daughter-in-law; Lizzie Borden - separating fact from fiction; Myra Hindley - Britain's most infamous murderess. * Revised and updated: includes a new section on Rosemary West *
First edition sold in excess of 7,000 copies *
Resurgence of interest in true crime cases
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DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HAS BECOME A HUGE FEMINIST INDUSTRY
GOLDDIGGERS AND THEIR LEGAL AID FUNDED LAWYERS HAVE BECOME MILLIONAIRES ON THE BACK OF
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ALLEGATIONS AND MEN ARE BEING FLEECED OUT OF TRILLIONS FROM THE FAMILY COURT
INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX. MORE WEALTH IS REDISTRIBUTED TO THE FREEMASON SCUM AND CRIMINALS
WHO CONTROL THE FAMILY LAW COURTS THAN ALL WARS PUT TOGETHER.
To say emotional abuse is as bad as violence insults every battered wife(or husband!!!!!)
A ridiculous situation develops were overstretched cops having to intervene in
what are basically private disagreements and rows.
People behave badly in relationships because we have human frailties. This is not an area in which the State should meddle; leave it to relationship counsellors and divorce lawyers. They already help people escape toxic relationships.
So why is the Government going down this road? Therein lies a story.
Over the past ten years, domestic violence has become a huge feminist industry.
Organisations such as the National Federation of Women’s Aid and Refuge have a vested interest in pushing this agenda.
This is girls-only empire building, and it is highly lucrative at that. Men are not allowed to be employed at these organisations. Boys over the age of 12 are not allowed into safe houses where their mothers are staying, which I think is scandalous. I am now, incidentally, persona non grata at Refuge, having fallen out with them over policies like those.
Who benefits from this industry? Refuge has an annual income of more than £10 million from both public and private donations. Cherie Booth is a patron. The heads of these organisations are on very generous salaries.
And they are on a feminist mission to demonise men — even those who never have and never will hit a woman.
This is female kitchen-sink politics, and it’s time we grew up. Meanwhile, the male politicians are jumping on the bandwagon because they think ‘women’s issues’ will win them the female vote.
Rubbish
David Cameron is desperate for women’s votes, but on this matter he has got it quite wrong. In fact, it is my belief that normal, down-to-earth women are appalled by this watering down of a very real crime into something entirely different.
Every woman I’ve spoken to about this issue has told me the plans are ‘absolute rubbish’.
Misjudged: David Cameron is desperate for women's votes, but on this matter he has got it quite wrong
Women want to see real crimes punished and vulnerable children protected. But if the law changes and the definition of domestic violence is watered down, the genuine victims of abuse will suffer because the authorities will have less time and energy to devote to helping them.
At the moment, there are 500 women’s refuges across Britain, and there is not a police force in the country that does not take domestic violence seriously. There is more work to be done to break the cycle of violence that occurs in some families. This is where our efforts should be focused.
Women like Sarah, who came to me for help in such a pitiful state in the summer, are rightly protected by Britain’s laws. To say that women whose husbands shout at them — not to mention stop them making phone calls — deserve the same degree of protection is nonsense. And it does women like Sarah, and the countless other victims of violence I have met, an awful disservice.
WOMAN USED ABUSE EXCUSE TO JUSTIFY MURDER STABBING KIND MAN 26 TIMES
Robert Brereton stabbed 26 times in a murderous frenzy
Woman murderer used excuse of past abuse to justify killing kind man stabbing him 26 times
Melanie Stevenson jailed for killing 'best friend'
A woman who experienced years of physical and sexual abuse has been jailed for almost six years for killing a man who had shown her only kindness.
Melanie Stevenson admitted the culpable homicide of 47-year-old Robert Brereton, who she stabbed 26 times at her home in Forfar in March.
Lord Kinclaven jailed Stevenson, 45, for five years and 10 months.
Passing sentence at the High Court in Edinburgh, the judge told her: "This is a tragedy for all concerned."
He said: "Tragically, you described him as your best friend ever.
"You described him as a kind and caring person and his relationship with you was a supportive one."
The court had heard that Stevenson admitted culpable homicide after psychiatrists agreed she was suffering from diminished responsibility at the time of the attack.
'Remembered nothing'
Mr Brereton, Stevenson's former boyfriend, had travelled to visit her at her home in Forfar.
The court was told that she remembered nothing of the night of the attack.
Advocate depute Jennifer Bain, prosecuting, said that following the stabbing, Stevenson leapt 15ft from the window of the flat, breaking her hip.
Mr Brereton's family criticised the sentence as they left court.
His niece, 19-year-old Sharon Burns, said: "I think it is scandalous that she has got away with it. Basically, she has got away with murder."
PENSIONER ACCUSED OF ATTACKING TANZANIAN BRIDE 25, JAILED (AND THE HOUSE?)
69 yr old pensioner accused of attacking 25 yr old Tanzanian bride ,despite claiming his innocence, jailed
A SCARBOROUGH pensioner and businessman who threatened to cut off the arm of his young bride of only seven months has been jailed.
William Porter, 69, was unanimously found guilty by a jury at York Crown Court of using a kitchen knife to attack his 25-year-old Tanzanian wife.
Porter, of Belgrave Crescent, who owns Tan Express, in Victoria Road, had denied a charge of assaulting Saada Mwiazimu occasioning actual bodily harm.
At a sentencing hearing at the court, Porter, who still maintains his innocence, was jailed for 15 months.
He previously told the court the allegations were “all lies” and that the injuries were self-inflicted.
Miss Mwiazimu told the court that following a meal out in June last year, the couple had settled down to watch a DVD before going to bed in their Scarborough flat.
The court heard that Porter’s lack of sexual prowess then caused an argument resulting in him kicking his wife out of bed and then slashing her with a 12-inch bladed knife.
The court was told she still bears the scars of the attack.
Porter, who moved his new bride into his top-floor flat, an address where his ex-wife also lived in the ground-floor flat, had told the jury that it was him who had been attacked and claimed that his new wife had bitten him on both hands.
He also said his partner had attacked him in their marital bed with a bedside lamp only weeks after setting up home.
He also told the court that he had been lonely after being on his own for four years, saying the incident had been a “set-up” to get Miss Mwiazimu into the country.
However, a dental expert told the court that he had examined the alleged injuries to Porter’s hands, but could not identify them as bites.
Passing sentence, Recorder William Lowe QC said that the offence was aggravated because it had been committed in a domestic setting where Miss Mwiazimu was entitled to have felt safe and that a knife was used.
WOMAN WHO BATTERED AND KILLED 81 YR OLD JAILED FOR 20 YEARS
THE HIGHLY SELECTIVE REPORTING BY THE BBC TO JUSTIFY THEIR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PROPAGANDA.
WHILE THE MAN HATING BBC CONCENTRATE ALL THEIR EFFORTS ON THE JO YEATES MURDER
THEY COMPLETELY IGNORE THIS MURDER BY A WOMAN OF AN ELDERLY PENSIONER
Karen Walsh has been convicted of murder, for killing 81-year-old Maire Rankin in her home on Christmas day 2008
A pharmacist who battered her 81-year-old next door neighbour with a crucifix in a drunken rage has been jailed for a minimum of 20 years.
Karen Walsh, 45, who had been drinking from a bottle of vodka, lashed out at Maire Rankin at her home in the early hours of Christmas Day 2008. She struck her in the face and left the defenceless grandmother with eight broken ribs on either side of her chest, Belfast crown court heard.
The judge, Mr Justice Hart, said Walsh did not intend to kill and had tried to resuscitate Rankin, who had been suffering with breathing difficulties. But then she sexually assaulted her to make it look as if an intruder had broken in.
Marks from the crucifix, which Rankin, a devout Catholic who had been too ill to attend Christmas Eve Mass, had been given as a wedding present, were found on her head and face.
Walsh was convicted of murder by a jury earlier this month. She told police she left Rankin's home in Newry, Co Down, before the attack took place. But Mr Justice Hart said: "She inflicted a further degradation upon Mrs Rankin by removing her clothing and then sexually molesting her in order to make it look as is an intruder had broken in and attacked Mrs Rankin after the defendant had left."
He said Walsh, who sat stony-faced with her hands clasped, must serve a minimum of 20 years before she could be considered for release.
Walsh never explained why she attacked her neighbour, but the judge said the attack arose spontaneously.
The court had been told earlier by Liam McCollum QC, prosecuting, that Rankin upbraided Walsh for drinking and not being at home with her child. Walsh became angry and lost control of herself.
The judge said the long sentence was justified, adding that Rankin - an elderly, frail, defenceless and vulnerable woman - had been the victim of a sustained and brutal attack by a intelligent and otherwise responsible mother.
He said: "The exceptional vulnerability of Mrs Rankin and the deliberately degrading way in which she was treated after her death mean that the minimum term must be a severe one to reflect the gravity of this truly heinous crime."
Walsh ran a pharmacy business in Dublin but spent weekends in Newry with her husband and young son.
Outside the court Rankin's eldest daughter, Emily, a university lecturer, said Walsh deserved the 20 years in prison, adding: "She is a dangerous woman."
ANOTHER LIGHT SENTENCE BY JUDGE FOR MURDERING WIFE
Anthony Knox killed by his wife Suzanne
UNBELIEVABLE HOW JUDGES VIEW MURDERING WIVES AS OPPOSED TO MEN
Mother ran over and killed husband after row while their two young daughters sat in the back seat of the car
A mother who accidentally ran over and killed her husband after an argument has been spared jail.
Suzanne Knox's two young daughters were in the car with her when she drove into her husband Anthony as she tried to pull up beside the pavement where he was sitting.
He had gone to the local pub after the two had an argument and she had driven to find him.
Mr Knox, a lab technician for an offshore company, died in hospital from internal injuries three hours after the accident close to the Norman Warrior pub in Lowestoft, Suffolk.
His wife told police she had not intended to harm him and only realised she had hit him when she got out of the car.
A jury cleared her of causing death by dangerous driving by a majority verdict at Ipswich Crown Court last month, but she admitted a lesser charge of causing death by careless driving
She could have been jailed for up to five years, but she was yesterday shown mercy by judge Peter Thompson and given a nine-month sentence, suspended for two years.
Knox was also banned from driving for a year and ordered to do 100 hours' unpaid work and attend six sessions at a Women's Emotional Well Being programme.
Judge Thompson said: 'You plainly didn't intend to cause your husband harm'.
The judge described what happened on September 21 last year as 'a momentary misjudgement' and said he accepted that Knox had driven on the pavement at a speed of only 10mph.
He added: 'You caused the death of your own husband. You have two daughters with him who will one day have the job of understanding how their own mother killed their father.
'I accept your remorse at the scene and afterwards is genuine.'
Stephen Dyble, defending, said Knox had made 'a catastrophic error of judgement' when she pulled on to the pavement to talk to her husband.
He said she felt genuine remorse and was now suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.
The trial heard how Knox had suspected that her husband had gone to the Norman Warrior pub near their home in Lowestoft after they had argued when he returned from work.
She drove to the pub with her children two hours later and was told by the assistant manager that her husband had just left.
Knox then got back into her car and saw him sitting on a kerbside of a cul-de-sac opposite the pub.
She claimed she tried to pull over sharply on the pavement in front of him, but rammed into him, crushing him against a bush and a garden fence.
Passers-by saw her in a 'distressed' and 'hysterical' state as she dialled 999 after the collision.
Mr Knox underwent emergency surgery but was later pronounced dead.
A post-mortem examination revealed that he had died of compressive chest injuries, resulting in multiple rib fractures, causing significant internal bleeding and the collapse of his lungs.
Knox told police in interview that she had been having 'a difficult day' when she had been arguing with her husband and there had been 'some unpleasantness' between them.
Knox was given a breathalyser test, which proved negative, and was arrested. She told police at the scene that her husband had been hit due to a miscalculation or misjudgement by her.
DC Dennise Davey said Knox had become hysterical in the police station when she broke the news that her husband had died and kept asking, 'How could it happen?'
She said Knox asked how she was going to tell her children that she had killed their father, banged her head against the wall and was sick in a toilet.
Knox said after the trial: 'There are no winners really. I just want to go home and see my kids and give them lots of cuddles.
'My husband lost his life and me and my children have got to live with it. I have waited a year and I have not been through grief properly.
'I am glad that people can see what really happened and this wasn't how some people portrayed it to be. It wasn't just a person, it was my husband. What I have said all along is the truth.'
Knox said she was prepared to take her punishment. She added: 'I am living one day at a time.'
WOMAN KILLS SON AT GUN RANGE THEN KILLS HERSELF (from APRIL 2009) VIDEO
WOMAN JAILED FOR CRUCIFIX MURDER
An evil pharmacist who bludgeoned a defenceless pensioner with a crucifix in a violent and drunken attack has been jailed for life for murder.
Karen Walsh, 45, launched a sustained and frenzied attack on her elderly neighbour on Christmas Day 2008, pulling clumps of hair from her head and inflicting head injuries and broken ribs.
A crown of thorns left a distinctive bruise on her chin. She then sexually assaulted Maire Rankin, 81, before fleeing from the house next door to her own home in Newry, Co Down.
A jury at Belfast Crown Court found her guilty with a unanimous verdict after retiring for just under two hours at the end of the trial on Tuesday.
The victim's daughter Emily Rankin said: "She had the right to feel secure in her own home but because of her trusting nature and kindness, she was subjected to a frenzied assault and a horrific murder. She died alone - and frightened."
Mr Justice Anthony Hart warned Walsh she would serve a lengthy sentence.
"Whatever happened on that night, this was a brutal attack on an elderly and defenceless woman," he said.
Police Service of Northern Ireland Detective Inspector John Caldwell welcomed the verdict and paid tribute to the victim's family.
"They have lost Maire's company because of the terrible and depraved action of someone they trusted as a neighbour,'' he said. Maire Rankin was 81 years of age, she was highly respected. At that age she was one of the most vulnerable in our society. She desired to live in safety within the security of her own home.
"For the last three years Karen Walsh has told lies. Today the jury saw through the lies and convicted her of murder."
TRAGIC FATHER SLAMS JUSTICE SYSTEM AFTER MOTHER MURDERS HIS CHILDREN
THIS TREATMENT OF THE FATHER IS AN ALL TO COMMON OCCURRENCE FROM COPS WITH A PREJUDICE AGAINST
FATHERS AS ALWAYS THE PERPETRATOR THANKS TO RADICAL FEMINIST BRAINWASHING.
The father of two young children murdered by their mother following the breakdown of their relationship has slammed the criminal justice system claiming that he felt he was on trial.
Fiona Donnison, 45, was jailed for a minimum of 32 years after being handed two life sentences when jurors found her unanimously guilty of murdering three-year-old Harry and two-year-old Elise Donnison.
The former City worker went into Heathfield police station in East Sussex on the morning of January 27 last year and told officers she had killed her children.
After searching the area officers found the children's smothered bodies zipped up in two holdalls in the boot of her Nissan car which was parked nearby and around the corner from Meadowside, the former family home, Lewes Crown Court heard.
Prosecutors believe the reason it was parked there and not on the drive of the large detached house was because after killing the children she had planned also to kill their father, Paul Donnison, with evidence suggesting she had lain in wait for him armed with two kitchen knives.
Speaking outside the court following his former partner's sentencing, Mr Donnison, 48, said that in contrast to the way he was treated, he felt the defendant was treated with "kid gloves" and did not even have to give evidence herself.
He said: "I attended court as often as I was able to, but often felt that it was I that was on trial. Despite killing my children, she didn't even have the courage to take to the stand to explain herself.
"Despite admitting to the killings and being detained, she seemed to have more rights and considerations than I had. If I had not lived through this personally then I would not have believed the experience that I and my family have had to endure. It is the system itself. It is wrong, it is biased in favour of the criminal and it is clearly unfair."
He spoke minutes after the judge, Mr Justice Nicol, revoked an order that had previously prevented the reporting of the fact prosecutors wanted Donnison also to be tried for the murder of her first child with Mr Donnison, a daughter named Mia who died of suspected cot death in April 2004, when aged nine months.
However in a hearing last December, it was decided there was not enough evidence to charge her.
A town's female deputy mayor has been arrested after an alleged attack on a man who suffered a broken jaw and smashed ribs and needed 27 stitches.
Liberal Democrat Judith Best, 51, attended a police station last Saturday and was arrested for actual bodily harm with conspiracy to commit grievous bodily harm.
The deputy mayor for Lambeth in south London was bailed until September.
Her son, Scott Richards, 31, is understood to have also been arrested on Sunday following a police chase.
Officers said they were still looking for others in connection with the incident.
Neil Potter, 41, from Streatham, south London, is alleged to have been assaulted in the town in the early hours of Friday.
Lambeth police attended the scene shortly after 3.20am and an ambulance took Mr Potter to a south London hospital, where he needed 27 stitches for his injuries.
He had an operation on his jaw the next day. His father, Steve Potter, said he would be forced to eat soft food for at least eight weeks, adding 'he is lucky to be alive'.
Police charged Mr Richards with grievous bodily harm. He remains in custody at a south London police station.
Officers said that Cllr Best, the Liberal Democrat councillor for Streatham Wells ward, was arrested for actual bodily harm with conspiracy to commit grievous bodily harm.
She will return to a south London police station in September.
Cllr Best is currently vice chairman of the young people's service scrutiny sub-committee and sits on the council's corporate parenting board.
A Lambeth police spokesman confirmed Mr Richards was arrested after a police chase, adding detectives were 'still looking for outstanding suspects'. Lambeth police's GBH unit is investigating.
A spokesman for Cllr Best said: 'Cllr Best denies the allegations against her. Cllr Best is a valued and highly esteemed public servant and does not condone criminal activity in any form.'
GOLDDIGGING MURDERER KILLED MAN WITH BASEBALL BAT AND BURIED HIM NAKED
Godalming cleaning woman 'killed companion for money'
Bill Williamson went missing days after moving home in early September.
A Surrey woman beat her 82-year-old companion over the head with a rounders bat before burying him naked in a shower curtain, a court heard.
Ann Browning, 54, of Miltons Crescent, Ockford Ridge, Godalming, is accused of murdering William Williamson last year in a trial at Guildford Crown Court.
She pleaded guilty to murder but disputes the prosecution's case that the killing was financially motivated.
The hearing is taking place to determine her motive for the murder.
Prosecuting, Richard Bendall said: "If the grave was even partially dug in advance, the prosecution would say that suggests a degree of planning."
The defence argues the pair were close platonic friends and she killed him in a fit of anger.
'Forged documents'
The court heard Browning hit retired postman Mr Williamson over the head seven times, before stripping him naked, binding his legs with a belt and putting him head-first into a grave she had dug in the back garden of their home.
Mr Bendall said that within days of his death Browning had transferred £140,000 of the money from the sale of his house into her personal account from their joint account.
He added Mr Williamson, who was "besotted" with Browning, had an estate of well over £250,000 and that he often gave her money.
"What the prosecution say is there is clear evidence of regular attempts to conceal Mr Williamson's death by both lies and forged documents," he said.
The case continues.
WOMAN KILLS HER BOYFRIEND WITH SPIKED STILETTO HEEL TO THE HEAD
A woman allegedly beat her boyfriend to death with the spiked heel of a stiletto shoe.
Thelma Carter, 46, struck her live-in boyfriend Robert Higdon, 58, with the shoe at their trailer park home in Augusta, Georgia, police said.
Authorities are unsure how many times Mr Higdon was hit with the shoe before he died.
Carter has been charged with murder.
A post-mortem examination is set to be carried out today at the Augusta Crime Lab.
Investigators believe Mr Higdon was killed sometime on Sunday evening after he and Carter rowed inside their home.
Richmond County sheriff's Captain Scott Peebles told the Augusta Chronicle that police found the body on Monday morning after Carter called them.
She told investigators she had returned home to find Mr Higdon dead.
Carter has been remanded in custody charged with one count of murder.
Jail records did not indicate whether she has an attorney in the case.
GRANDFATHER'S ATTEMPTED MURDER BY HIS OWN GRANDDAUGHTERS
A WARNING TO YOUNG MEN WHO MIGHT END UP MARRYING ONE OF THESE EVIL WICKED WITCHES.
NO COMMENT FROM THE SCUMBAG WOMENS AID WHEN THIS HAPPENS
Schoolgirl sisters aged 14 and 15 'scoured internet for 'easy' ways to kill grandfather, 89, and get their inheritance early'
Mother, brother and girlfriend 'all involved in operation'
Victim 'battered with bricks wrapped in plastic bags'
Afterwards, one of the attackers 'rang 999 to say man had slipped and fallen'
Two schoolgirls were part of a 'shocking' family plot to kill their own grandfather and steal his inheritance early, a court heard.
The sisters, aged 14 and 15, scoured the internet with their 48-year-old mother, 18-year-old brother and his 16-year-old girlfriend for 'the easiest way to kill an old person', it is alleged.
They are accused of hatching a number of plans and carrying out a savage attack on the 89-year-old dementia sufferer using bricks in plastic bags.
A jury was told it was the last in a catalogue of attempts to try to 'frighten to death' the pensioner, having already thrown bricks through his window late at night and cut the fuel line on his car in a bid to make it explode.
The elderly victim, who along with the rest of the family cannot be named for legal reasons, lived with his 87-year-old wife and was left with 11 areas of injury on his head and body but managed to survive the beating.
Jurors were shown appalling pictures of the blackened eyes plus cuts and bruising he suffered across his body.
He was subjected to the attack on November 15 last year after being lured out of his bungalow in a village near Winchester, Hants, believing the 48-year-old woman - his adopted daughter - had collapsed in the garden.
But as he stepped outside he was set upon by his grandson and then hit by his granddaughters who were 'armed with bricks' in plastic bags.
'This was the execution of an operation planned days in advance... the final act in a conspiracy to kill him'
The family involved cannot be named because of legal restrictions designed to protect the children accused in the case.
(If this had been a man alone would the legal mafia have used the excuse of protecting his children
not to NAME HIM?)
The jury at Winchester Crown Court was told by prosecutor Christopher Parker QC that the family plot had been concocted in October and November last year.
He said the man had given her adopted daughter lavish gifts, including a car, in the months leading up to the attack but that she was not prepared to wait for her inheritance.
Police analysis of computers seized from the family home in Eastleigh, Hants, revealed Google searches including '1,000 ways to die', 'how to kill someone' and 'ten easy ways to kill someone with no trace'.
There were further searches for 'can you kill someone with a punch?', 'dangerous drugs for the elderly', 'if you hit someone across the back of the head with a brick will they die or just get a bruise?' and 'easiest way to kill an old person'.
Others included: 'delayed symptoms of concussion', 'sugar in petrol tank', 'poisonous salts', 'suffocation symptoms', 'heart attack symptoms' and 'dying in your sleep'.
The court was told one of the first attempts to kill the grandad was on Guy Fawkes night when the pensioner and his 87-year-old wife suffered 'a fright' when they heard a bang on the bedroom window.
Mr Parker said: 'He was frightened and went outside and in the darkness he saw a figure, a man aged around 18 wearing a hat or hoodie.
'Whoever that was stood looking straight at him and then moved on.' After he went back inside, a brick was then thrown at the window, smashing a pane.
When police arrived they could smell petrol, but could not find the source.
A silent phone call was also made to the house while officers were there.
Mr Parker added: 'Someone that night tried but failed to frighten him to death.'
The court was told how days later, on November 10, the elderly man went to start his car in the garage but it wouldn't work so he called the AA.
'The man was lured out of bungalow believing that his adopted daughter had collapsed in the garden'
When they arrived they discovered the car had been sabotaged, the fuel line had been severed and a bolt placed over the battery compartment.
Mr Parker said: 'It appears to be an attempt, fortunately which failed, to cause an explosion when the car started.'
Jurors heard the bid to kill the grandad culminated on November 15 after the mother drove her daughters, son and his girlfriend to their grandparents' home.
Mr Parker added: 'We say the plan between them came to a head that night when the five of them went to the bungalow and battered him with bricks and possibly other weapons, in order to kill him.'
The mother lay on the ground outside while one of the children ran to get the elderly man.
As he stepped outside he was 'set upon' by his grandson - who went on to steal £355 of his grandfather's pension from inside the house - and then his granddaughters began to hit him with bricks concealed in plastic bags.
Mr Parker described the five defendants plotting together to kill the pensioner 'in order to inherit his estate'.
He said it was the execution of 'an operation planned days in advance' and added: 'They wanted to make it look as though he had died as a result of an accidental fall.
'A final act in a conspiracy to kill him.' After the attack, one of the granddaughters made a 999 call, claiming her grandfather had slipped and fallen.
The five defendants all deny charges of conspiracy to murder and wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily.
The trial continues.
ROYAL'S KILLER AIDE AND HER OBSESSION WITH FRAUDSTER SHE CALLED 'HUSBAND'
Fergie's killer aide murderess Jane Andrews and her obsession with fraudster she called 'husband'
The former aide to the Duchess of York, serving a life sentence for killing her boyfriend, struck up an extraordinary relationship with the man while he was serving time for fraud in another jail.
For four years, she showered Mark Brown with gifts, letters and cards – even calling him ‘my husband’.
In one letter, she wrote: ‘To my special husband. I love you all the way to the moon and back. My darling gorgeous Mark. Happy anniversary. I love you so much. Forever your Jane XXX’
But he broke off contact, concerned about her fixation, and since then she has bombarded him with a series of bizarre phone messages.
Last month she left a ‘menacing’ message saying that prison chiefs had declared her a ‘danger’ to him after she repeatedly called him from behind bars.
In an extraordinary rant, which the Mail has heard, she accused Mr Brown of wrecking her life.
Andrews, 44, was jailed for life in 2001 for stabbing and battering her boyfriend Tom Cressman to death with a cricket bat at the house they shared in Fulham, west London.
The Mail can reveal that it was Mr Brown’s failure to visit her in November 2009 which prompted Andrews to abscond from jail. She was caught three days later.
She is eligible to apply for parole next year but her chances of succeeding are slim after she went on the run.
Andrews began writing to Mr Brown, a former serviceman, at Ford Open Prison in 2005, when he was serving a sentence for fraud. He had appeared in the prisoners’ newspaper Inside Time after winning a jail quiz.
They exchanged letters frequently and while he was still a prisoner, he obtained an order to visit her at Send prison in Surrey.
He insists there was only ever a friendship. ‘I was in a relationship at the time and was not looking for anything other than friendship with Jane.
Andrews and Tom Cressman on holiday days before she killed him
‘She was quite normal, well-spoken and completely different from the other prisoners such as [road rage murderess] Tracie Andrews, who was serving coffee at the drinks bar to visitors. She had been suffering a lot of bullying because of her perceived airs and graces.
‘When we first met, she was not lovey-dovey, it was only after several months that the tone changed. She always signed her letters "All my love, Jane". I would visit her once a month and she started opening up.
'We talked about her case. She said she couldn’t remember what happened, but she insisted that Tom Cressman was the aggressor. He said he physically and sexually demeaned her, just as she said in her trial.
‘She felt there had been an injustice. She said he had abused her in every way possible and made her feel worthless. She does not deny killing him, saying she can’t remember what happened.
‘It was difficult not to believe her, because she was so convincing. But in hindsight, she is simply in denial about what’s done.
‘She was even rude about her victim’s mother Barbara Cressman, calling her an “overbearing woman”. She had no pity for her ordeal.
‘Jane also had some choice words about Fergie, claiming she was very demanding and made her work hard.’
Andrews tried desperately to win her fellow prisoner’s affections with presents. On one birthday she gave him a £100 watch. There were also jumpers and T-shirts, mainly from Next.
He went on: ‘After my release from prison in 2007, I would see her once or twice a month. I suppose she was being more friendly because I was helping her out with her property in south London, doing maintenance and sorting out her bills etc.’
In 2008, Andrews authorised police to hand over to him some of her belongings which had been seized during the murder inquiry.
They included her Filofax, mobile phone, photos of her and Mr Cressman on holiday and letters to former boyfriends. ‘Basically she wanted me to have them for safe-keeping,’ he said.
Mr Brown described events surrounding Andrews’s 2009 prison escape. He said: ‘I was due to go to visit her in East Sutton but couldn’t go at the last minute because I was busy.
‘She was very unhappy about this and went on the run that night.
‘Two police officers came to see me in Hampshire and told me I was known to be an acquaintance of hers, that she had run away from prison and if she made contact with me, I had to ring them.
‘Later that day, an inspector and three police cars turned up and took me to a police station for three hours. They said they had information she was a danger to me and said I had to leave my property.
‘I refused but my partner and children moved out. Panic alarms were installed and officers were down the road patrolling most of the day. Thankfully she was caught early in the morning after three days. I was relieved. My partner was very relieved.
‘I never visited Jane again after that. It had been very shocking.
‘She contacted me a few months after she was found and told me she had no recollection of walking out of prison and didn’t know why she had done it.’
He decided to cut off all contact with Andrews six months ago as he became increasingly fed up with her behaviour.
Mr Brown urged the Parole Board to consider very carefully when she should be freed. ‘Before they release her, they have to have to be sure she won’t harm anyone again,’ he said.
To protect his family, Mr Brown requested that the Mail did not use his real surname in this interview.
A DANGER TO ALL MEN: 'BATTERED' WIFE JAILED FOR HORRIFIC ATTACK ON TWO MEN
WOMEN'S AID WERE NOT AVAILABLE AS EVER FOR COMMENT
A woman has been jailed after a frenzied attack on two men at a house party - leaving one with life-threatening brain injuries.
Deborah Slater, 49, snatched a mug and repeatedly battered Anthony Catterall around the head after she took offence to a comment he had made at the event in Burnley, Lancashire.
Leaving him slumped on the floor, she then turned the mug on laughing John Keefe and struck his head with a succession of blows, leaving his brain swollen and bleeding.
Afterwards she boasted to a friend: 'I've done both of them. I told them I would and they deserved it. They had it good style.'
Months earlier, unemployed Slater, from Burnley, had been shown leniency by a judge who handed her a suspended prison term after claiming she had stabbed her ex-boyfriend in self-defence after months of domestic abuse.
She claimed she had received regular beatings and had been choked to the point of passing out by Michael Fisher.
Sentencing, the judge Mr Recorder Nick Clarke, QC, told her: 'You have demonstrated a pattern of escalating violence and it's right to say you could have killed John Keefe.'
The court heard how after the horrific attacks on Catterall and Keefe, Slater marched into the kitchen to find a knife with which to stab the two men.
She only refrained when another woman stopped her.
Mr Clarke added: 'I have no doubt if somebody hadn't stopped you taking the knife from the kitchen, you would have done. You pose a significant risk of causing serious harm to members of the public.'
Keefe ended up bleeding from the nose, mouth and head. He had two black eyes, his brain was swollen and bleeding, and he developed three blood clots leaving him needing a life-saving operation.
Simon James, prosecuting, said Catterall had 14 stitches to his eye, six in his head and also suffered other gashes and bruises.
Keefe had surgery and was to tell police the pain of his injury made him feel as if his head was going to explode.
He had to have 52 stitches and has been left with a permanent scar which runs from his forehead, across the back of his head and to his ear.
Slater was arrested and questioned and said she drank heavily and it caused her to black out and have no memory.
At Burnley Crown Court, Slater admitted wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm, and wounding. She was given an indeterminate prison sentence to protect the public.
She must serve three and a half years before the parole board can consider if she is safe to be released.
Slater had first appeared before court in December last year after she stabbed then boyfriend Michael Fisher in the thigh during a row.
But she escaped with a 12-month jail-term suspended for 18 months and was ordered to complete 150 hours' unpaid work after claiming she had been abused by Fisher in the run-up to the attack.
WOMAN CHARGED WITH BITING OFF BOYFRIEND'S TESTICLES
A mother-of-four has appeared in court accused of biting off her boyfriend's testicles in a drunken attack.
Martin Douglas, 45, underwent emergency surgery to reattach his genitals after the alleged attack by Maria Topp.
Mr Douglas, a DJ, called 999 in excruciating pain and operators struggled to understand what he was saying.
Paramedics who attended his flat in Newcastle called police and Topp was arrested.
She has since appeared in court charged with GBH over the February 18 incident in which Mr Douglas was also injured in the arm, the Daily Mirror reported.
The victim was forced to spend several days in hospital recovering from his injuries.
A police spokesman: 'At around 4am on Friday, February 18, police were called to a report of an assault.
'Officers attended and arrested a 43-year-old woman on suspicion of assault.
A mother has admitted killing her three young children at their Edinburgh home.
Theresa Riggi, 47, pled guilty to a charge of culpable homicide on the grounds of diminished responsibility. She was originally charged with murder.
Her eight-year-old twins Austin and Gianluca and their five-year-old sister Cecilia were found dead at their flat in Slateford Road on 4 August 2010.
They were discovered with multiple stab wounds after a suspected gas explosion at the property.
Riggi, who appeared at the High Court in Edinburgh, denied a further charge of recklessly causing the explosion.
The family had moved to the city from Skene in Aberdeenshire following the break-up of her marriage to the children's father, Pasquale Riggi.
In August Mr Riggi, a Shell employee in Aberdeen, said of the tragedy: "It's been shocking. You are paralysed with grief.
"The hardest moment was when I first found out.
"Your life is all about your children. In one instant that's gone."
HEATHER MILLS LIED ABOUT PAUL'S 'DOMESTIC VIOLENCE'
THERE ARE MILLIONS OF WOMEN PROMPTED BY THEIR CROOKED LAWYERS, WHO MAKE BILLIONS ON LEGAL AID,
PERSUADED TO MAKE FALSE ALLEGATIONS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND CHILD ABUSE AGAINST EX-HUSBANDS AND EX-PARTNERS.
ONE OF THOSE LAWYERS COMMITTED SUICIDE WHEN CAUGHT MAKING 100'S OF FALSE ALLEGATIONS OF CHILD ABUSE
AGAINST EX-HUSBANDS MAKING MILLIONS OF POUNDS IN LEGAL AID IN THE PROCESS. THE MASS MEDIA
AID AND ABET THESE CLAIMS BY PROMOTING GOVERNMENT 'DOMESTIC VIOLENCE' CAMPAIGNS THAT SMEAR
MEN WHO SEPARATE, THAT CAN BE CLASSED AS A FORM OF 'HATE' THAT NO OTHER GROUP IN SOCIETY WOULD
TOLERATE. THE LAST BASTION OF BIGOTRY IS AGAINST HETEROSEXUAL MEN AND CREATES A CLIMATE OF FEAR
THAT PRODUCES MAJOR FINANCIAL REWARDS FOR THE MASONS EMBEDDED IN THE LEGAL SYSTEMS
WHO MAKE BILLIONS FROM THIS DIABOLICAL RACKET THANKS TO GOLD DIGGING LIARS LIKE MILLS.
"In Scotland's biggest-ever legal aid fraud, James Muir made false claims for public money in hundreds of child protection cases over seven years.
Mr Muir, who kept a low profile in the profession but was regarded as one of the country's most dedicated and experienced specialist child welfare lawyers, committed suicide after the police began investigating.
"
Heather Mills 'lied about abuse by Paul McCartney' according to lawsuit
Heather Mills has denied any knowledge of a fresh lawsuit filed in the U.S. claiming that she lied about the ‘‘abuse’ she suffered at the hands of Paul McCartney when they were married.
The former soft porn model is said to have made up allegations she was beaten up by the former Beatle during their troubled marriage.
Her claim that he was a drunk and abused drugs was also a lie, the lawsuit says.
Ms Mills was famously branded a fantasist by the High Court judge who presided over her divorce hearing.
Now these claims could also potentially open the door to perjury charges should it be proved that she lied during the case.
However, A spokesman for Mills said: ‘Parapluie Inc threatened to file a lawsuit against Heather Mills in 2008.
‘Their allegations were unsubstantiated, a lawsuit was never filed and the matter was subsequently dropped.
‘We are unaware of any new lawsuit nor any reason for one.’
Mills got divorced from McCartney in 2008 and was awarded a £24.3 million settlement, far short of the £125million she had been seeking.
During the court case papers filed by her lawyers made a series of lurid allegations against him including the claim he was a ‘vindictive’ man who once tried to choke her.
The 69-year-old was also said to have once stabbed Mills in the arm with a broken wine glass and drunk and used illegal drugs excessively.
In a lawsuit filed by her former PR company Parapluie, however, Mills is accused of making such claims up.
U.S. gossip website TMZ said she once told one of her publicists: ‘I could kill Paul, last night, he tried to choke me. The marriage is over’ even though it was not true.
The lawsuit also accuses her of failing to give all of the money she earned from appearing on the U.S. version of Dancing with the Stars to charity, despite promising to do so.
Parapluie claims she instead only gave away a percentage.
It also supposedly claims that Mills was offered a chance to appear on the U.S. version of ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ but would only accept it Donald Trump guaranteed she would win.
When he refused she did not appear on the show.
Parapluie is suing for unpaid fees totaling $168,000, a sum Mills could easily afford given her huge divorce settlement.
WOMEN'S AID NEVER AVAILABLE FOR COMMENT WHEN THESE WOMEN ARE CONVICTED
A jury has found Hazel Stewart guilty of the double murder of her husband and her former lover's wife.
Stewart, 48, from Coleraine, is to serve a life sentence for the murders of Trevor Buchanan and Lesley Howell in May 1991.
Her ex-lover, former dentist Colin Howell, is serving 21 years after he pleaded guilty to the killings.
The jury at Coleraine Crown Court took two and a half hours to find Stewart guilty after a 15-day trial.
She will return to court next Friday when she will learn the minimum jail term she must serve.
After the jury foreman delivered the verdict Lisa, Stewart's daughter wept uncontrollably, and said "It's not fair."
The bodies of Lesley Howell and Trevor Buchanan were discovered in a fume-filled car outside a house in Castlerock in May 1991.
At the time their deaths were seen as a double suicide prompted by the revelation that their spouses were having an affair.
WOMAN ACCUSED OF MURDERING BOY AND BURNING BODY SAYS 'I AM NOT A MONSTER'
Mona Nelson, the woman accused of murdering Texas boy Jonathan Foster, spoke for the first time since being arrest - proclaiming her innocence.
Nelson, 44, told reporters that she would never do anything to harm a child, and that she has five grandchildren of her own
'I'm not a monster... I love kids,' she told a local TV station from her prison cell.
Although Nelson is adamant that she would not harm any child, it is not a view shared by police, who believe the 12-year-old Foster may not be her only victim.
The boy was reported missing from his home on Christmas Eve, after his mother claims she received a strange call at her workplace from a gruff-sounding woman.
Jonathan's mother, Angela Davis, initially told police that he was with a babysitter. But she later admitted that he was home alone.
His burned body was discovered on Tuesday in a roadside ditch in Houston, not far from where he lived.
Nelson told to local KTRK TV that a member of Jonathan’s family gave her $20 to dump a plastic container on Christmas Eve.
She claimed she was drunk on vodka and didn’t know what was inside the container.
LIB DEM BATTERED WOMEN CAMPAIGNER BEATS UP TORY HUSBAND OVER ALLEGED AFFAIR
YOU COULD NOT MAKE THIS ONE UP. A RADICAL FEMINIST SUPPORTER OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IS
AN ABUSER HERSELF. THOSE WHO SCREAM ABOUT VIOLENCE ARE USUALLY THE BIGGEST PERPETRATORS OF VIOLENCE
JUST LIKE THE BRITISH STATE THUGS.ASK ERIN PIZZEY SHE SET UP THE FIRST WOMEN'S REFUGE IN LONDON
AND FOUND THE WOMEN SHE HELPED WERE MORE VIOLENT THAN THE HUSBAND'S THEY CLAIMED WERE VIOLENT.
A Liberal Democrat councillor who campaigns for battered women beat up her Conservative husband when their own coalition turned sour, a court heard.
Christine James, 51, suspected husband Ian was having an affair with former mayoress Alison Cocks.
After having a row with him, grandmother James followed her husband to Miss Cocks' home where she let herself in and started 'screaming like banshee'.
The mother-of-five called Mr James a 'b*****d' and rained down several blows on him before storming out.
Mr James, who owns a cafe, was left with red marks around the chin and throat from the attack.
The couple are both councillors for Weymouth and Portland Borough Council in Dorset.
Despite representing different parties, they had been happily married for 19 years until this summer when Mr James suddenly left the marital home in Weymouth.
James, who has previously campaigned to keep open a refuge for battered women, suspected her husband was seeing Miss Cocks, the ex-partner of former mayor Tim Munro.
Elizabeth Valera, prosecuting, told magistrates in Weymouth: 'This is a matter of domestic violence.
Corrupt UK Coalition Government Home Office, Women's Minister Theresa May MP, will pay Police £28 Million £'s to Prosecute more innocent non violent male Partners.
SORRY BOYS. The same old Corrupt UK Government matriarchal feminism political rhetoric, aimed at protecting the UK's women aids movement, UK & EU leaders must protect this regime at all cost. Unfortunately this means that more innocent men's domestic family relationships are DOOMED to fail.
Yes that means more innocent Husbands and Fathers will be labelled as Domestic Abusers, and will be falsely accused by their lying wife' or girlfriends etc, and now will be targeted by the Police and falsely criminally labelled, and criminally prosecuted as a Violent Domestic Criminal Thugs, with a lifetime criminal record.
Don't worry innocent Men etc, this is nothing new, since 2005 the Domestic Violence Act came into UK law, just talking to your partner, is already a CRIME, as set out this disgusting immoral UK Law, just talking to your love one, is NOW classed as domestic violence.
This evil law has been implemented by the executive regime to fuel many different facets of its regime' political business hierarchy, the police are used by the UK Crown & its Corrupt UK/Govt Home Office, as their domestic nurse ass wipes, the police will be used be to fuel more police business and to spread the corrupt feminism policy throughout the UK, by its despotic tyrannical Govt. administration, will 100% fuel more Corrupt UK Courts Judiciary litigation business in both Criminal & Civil Family Law Courts divisions etc
How about that for reducing Coalition Govt. austerity measure, by squandering a further £28Million £'s of UK Taxpayers Money.
In a paper outlining the Government's plans to tackle domestic violence, the Home Secretary, Theresa May, will also announce plans today to allocate more than £28 million for specialist services to tackle violence against women and girls until 2015
A mother-of-three was today starting a ten-year jail term after she posed as a flower delivery driver and stabbed her love rival three times.
Sandra Cheatle, 52, stabbed Angela Archard in the stomach and chest with a large kitchen knife after turning up at her home in Shirrell Heath, near Fareham, Hants.
Jailing her for ten years on Thursday, Judge Richard Price said Cheatle's violent attack in April was not 'spontaneous' but 'pre-planned'.
Cheatle, who had been unable to cope with the break-up of her 25-year marriage to husband Ken, stabbed herself in the stomach after knifing 48-year-old Mrs Archard but both women survived after being taken to Queen Alexandra Hospital, in nearby Cosham.
A month before stabbing Mrs Archard, Cheatle had written offensive letters and warned her husband: 'I'm going to stab you and if I don't get you I will get her.'
On March 17 she drove her car at Mr Cheatle, 51, and hit him, and just five weeks later, posed as a flower delivery driver before stabbing Mrs Archard at the home she shares with her two teenage daughters.
WOMAN WHO ASSAULTED HER THREE ADOPTED KIDS FOR A DECADE JAILED
AS EVER WOMEN'S AID FAIL TO COMMENT ON ANOTHER EVIL BITCH. SHE WOULD LIKELY MAKE A
FORTUNE GETTING PAID BY THE STATE WHILE ABUSING ADOPTED CHILDREN. WERE THEY CONNECTED
WITH MASONRY AND WHO WE KNOW USE ADOPTION AS A WAY TO LINE THEIR POCKETS?
Wealthy company director's wife who assaulted her three adopted children for a decade is jailed for four years
She punched slapped and suffocated children.
Stamped on one while wearing stiletto heels.
Held their heads under ice-cold bathwater.
A leading scientist broke down as she was jailed for physically abusing her three adopted children for almost ten years.
Dr Jill Newcombe-Buley punched, slapped and suffocated the youngsters and even stamped on one while wearing stiletto heels, a court heard.
Newcombe-Buley also plunged the youngsters into ice-cold baths and smothered them during years of 'systematic' abuse.
One child was cut badly after being hit over the head with a dustbin.
The court heard how Newcome-Buley had given up her work as a chemist but failed to cope with life as a mother and housewife.
Her husband, company director Dr Nicholas Newcombe, admitted child neglect after he failed to report her to the authorities.
Prosecuting counsel John Wyn-Williams told how Ms Newcombe-Buley frequently used a pillow to suffocate the children when they would not go to sleep.
On other occasions she would hold their heads under water in an ice-cold bath.
Mr Wyn-Williams recounted 'a catalogue of systemic abuse' which lasted for ten years until it was uncovered in 2009.
He told Newcombe-Buley: 'You punched them, you kicked them and used stillettoes to stamp on them. It happened regularly.
'Child A suffered particular physical abuse. In one instance a bin was used to smash him on the head, which caused an inch-long gash in the crown.
'In another instance Child B was smothered until she blacked-out. When she came to she found Newcombe-Buley kneeling on the floor shaking.
'In March 2009 Child A approached police with the allegations. He retracted them at one stage, but came forward again in September 2009.'
The court heard that the couple were childless and both busy professionals but that the children had come into the care when they were both in their mid-thirties.
Newcombe-Buley, 45, from Prestbury, near Macclesfield, Cheshire, pleaded guilty to 15 charges of child cruelty at an earlier hearing and was sentenced at Liverpool Crown Court.
She sobbed as she was jailed for four years by Judge Stephen Clarke, who agreed to a request to lift reporting restrictions enabling the couple to be named.
Newcombe, 43, of Stockport, admitted three charges of child neglect. He was given a 12-month sentence, suspended for a year.
His defence barrister Joanna Rodikis said he had been aware of 'a small fraction' of the abuse and did not witness it.
The children, who cannot be named for legal reasons, are now with new carers.
The court heard the assaults and neglect happened at the former family home in Prestbury between 2001 and 2009.
Newcombe-Buley, a doctor of chemistry and high flyer in pharmaceutical research, became the 'main carer' while Newcombe worked for pharmaceuticals giant AstraZeneca.
The court heard the eldest child 'courageously' alerted the authorities. There is no suggestion the abuse was sexual.
Judge Clarke said: 'No children should be subjected to punching and slapping and believing they are to be suffocated.
'They were plunged into cold water, struggling to try to stay alive. This was extreme cruelty over an extended period of time.'
Detective Alison Broadbent wept as the court was told of the horrific abuse suffered by the three young children.
The officer worked closely with the youngsters for more than a year and helped bring their parents to justice.
Det Con Broadbent, of Cheshire Police's public protection team, was praised by the judge and will receive a public commendation.
The court heard how she helped the victims and attended strategy meetings so suitable new carers could be found. She also gathered evidence which led to both parents pleading guilty.
John Wyn Williams, prosecuting, told the court: 'Alison Broadbent has worked extremely hard on this case. She was extremely important. She knows now that the children are starting to develop and display some kind of happiness.'
Judge Stephen Clarke said he would sign an application for her public commendation.
Her boss, Supt Geraint Jones, said: 'Alison's work has been outstanding.'
Els or "Babs" Clottemans, 26, sat stony-faced last night as her guilty verdict was read out. She will be sentenced today for the murder of her married skydiving partner Els Van Doran, 37, in November 2006 after she became jealous that they were both having an affair with the same boyfriend, a fellow parachutist.
Parachuting with both women, their lover, Marcel or "Mars" Somers, 25, watched in horror as Mrs Van Doran, a mother with two children, crashed over two miles to her death into a garden in the Flemish Limburg town of Opglabbeek.
The three had taken off from the small aerodrome of Zwartberg on their regular Sunday skydiving trip. Unlike other jumps, when the trio would make a star formation before splitting up to open their chutes at 4,000 feet, Miss Clottemans hung back when leaving the aircraft.
She then watched from above as her friend Mrs Van Doren, an experienced skydiver with 2,000 jumps, struggled and failed to open both her main and reserve parachutes. The terrifying fall was captured on the victim's head-mounted video camera and footage of the jump, showing her frantic efforts to open her main and reserve parachutes provided key evidence for police.
Police investigators arrested Miss Clottemans after finding straps to her rival's parachute had been cut.
Detectives said Mr Somers had spent the Saturday night with Mrs Van Doran, throwing the younger woman, Miss Clottemans out of his room and forcing her to sleep on a mattress in the living room, where the other woman had left her parachute.
"I am really innocent. I can only repeat it," said Miss Clottemans. "From the beginning, I was found guilty for something horrible which I really did not commit."
FAIRFIELD, CA (KGO) -- There is disbelief in Fairfield after 3-year old twin girls were found dead in a burned out apartment building.
Fairfield police believes is a double murder/suicide attempt. A 28-year-old mother is suspected of fatally stabbing her 3-year-old twin daughters on Tuesday night, then herself and setting their apartment on fire.
Adrian Babas is one of the neighbors at the Summit at Paradise Valley apartment complex. He smelled smoke and tried to kick down the doors.
"We ran upstairs and tried to kick open the door, but it wouldn't budge by the time we got it open the heat was so intense," he said.
Firefighters found the young girls' bodies and their mother inside. Investigators say the children did not die from the fire, but rather from stab wounds.
"The doors were locked, the windows were locked. There is no way this could have been done from the outside," Police Investigations Commander Lt. Darrin Moody said.
The mother,Monica Christine McCarrick, was taken to John Muir hospital where she has undergone surgery. She is expected to survive.
Neighbors told ABC7 the family just recently moved in. Police say McCarrick relocated from out of state for a job. They would not provide much information about the father of the little girls, but say he was not at the residence. They say the mother is the only suspect.
Neighbors believe in retrospect there could have been signs of trouble. Gladys Ortega lives below the family and she says on Monday, the mother parked her white Nissan sideways in the carport, blocking three spaces for hours.
Ortega says the mom sat alone, the girls were not in the car and another neighbor said that on Tuesday morning the girls were seen in the parking lot crying. Now flowers and candles are being placed outside the building to honor their memories.
Fairfield police are working with the District Attorneys office to discover if and when charges might be filed against the McCarrick. She was rescued by firefighters and is expected to survive.
SHOCKING FOOTAGE OF FEMALE SYRIAN TEACHERS BEATING YOUNG PUPILS VIDEO
WOMEN'S AID AS EVER WERE NOT AVAILABLE FOR COMMENT
A baby boy was shaken to death by his childminder when she lost her temper because he would not feed properly, the Old Bailey heard.
Carmen Toscano Naranjo, 35, is alleged to have repeatedly harmed eight-month-old Dylan Salinas over a period of months until he was taken to King's College Hospital in south London, where he was found to have a severe head injury.
He survived a further seven weeks in intensive care but died from the injury in June 2007, the court heard. Naranjo, a mother of three from Camberwell, denies manslaughter and a further charge of cruelty in relation to a seven-year-old girl.
Prosecutor Edward Brown QC said Dylan's head injury was the result of “perhaps what was no more than a momentary loss of temper”, but he alleged it was “a deliberate assault”.
The injury was so severe that doctors who conducted the post-mortem examination concluded it was like those found in car crash victims, jurors heard. The court heard that in the months leading up to Dylan's admission to hospital, his mother Rebecca Salinas, 37, found scratches, bruises and pinch marks all over his body.
Mr Brown said Naranjo, who had the job of caring for Dylan on most weekdays while his mother worked, was “ill-treating him no doubt because she became cross and angry with him”.
Ms Salinas tried to find another childminder but was persuaded to give Naranjo a second chance, the court heard. She claimed Naranjo would “force feed” Dylan who would often fail to drink his milk and vomited regularly, though doctors could not identify any serious health problems.
“There was something of an anxiety in the defendant and exaggerated determination for children in her care to eat and feed well, as she saw it, and to finish their food,” Mr Brown said. “This may lie behind the loss of temper that caused her to assault Dylan.” Naranjo began to look after Dylan in October 2006 after offering to help his mother when they bumped into each other on a bus. The women had met several years before in their native Ecuador, jurors were told.
Ms Salinas would drop Dylan at Naranjo's flat each day at about 7.30am and collect him at 5.30pm. It is alleged that Dylan's mother saw Naranjo slap another child's head when she refused her food, and that the girl was later seen with a bruise on her face. Naranjo allegedly said she had “hit her for a reason”.
The trial continues.
FULLERTON, Calif. (KABC) -- A Laguna Nigel woman was sentenced Friday to five years in state prison for abandoning her newborn daughter in a dumpster.
Shawn Kelli Sepulveda, 41, was found guilty in July of attempted murder and child abuse.
The Orange County District Attorney's Office says Sepulveda tried to keep her pregnancy a secret from her husband because he is not the father. Her two other children were also kept in the dark.
Then, on August 16, 2008, Sepulveda gave birth to the baby girl in her Laguna Niguel apartment. Prosecutors say a few hours later, Sepulveda dumped the baby in a nearby dumpster.
Sepulveda's husband caught on and sent their daughter to look for the newborn. She found the child and the baby was taken into protective custody.
Prosecutors say Sepulveda admitted to police that she knew she could have placed the baby up for adoption or surrendered her to a fire station, under the state's safe surrender law.
The baby is in good health and living with Sepulveda's father, according to Deputy District Attorney Cyril Yu.
Authorities say a 35-year-old mother who attempted to kill her daughters last year by putting prescription drugs in their bottles has tried again, this time cutting one of the girls’ wrists.
Reggie Ann Peck, faces two second-degree felony child abuse charges and two second-degree felony charges for the surreptitious administration of a substance. She appeared in court Wednesday and waived her right to a preliminary hearing.
According to divorce court records from 1st District Court in Logan, Peck suffers from Bipolar Disorder, but, since October of last year, has received medication, counseling and extensive treatment at Bear River Mental Health.
On Aug. 28, Peck parked her car off the side of the road in South Weber and gave her daughters prescription drugs that knocked them out, according to charging documents filed in 2nd District Court Tuesday. She then allegedly cut one of their wrists.
The car wasn’t found until early morning Aug. 30, when someone called police to report seeing a strange car. Davis County Sheriff’s Deputies ran the plates and found the car belonged to Peck, who had been reported missing along with her two children.
When they couldn’t make contact with Peck, the deputies approached the car and found the doors were locked. They broke the back windows and found Peck, holding one of her children in one hand and a box cutter to her throat with the other. She begged deputies to shoot her, according to the documents.
As the officers tried to take the box cutter from her, they say she began to slice her throat. Her two children witnessed the suicide attempt.
Kevin Peck, the girls father, said Wednesday that both his daughters spent about six hours in the emergency room at McKay-Dee Hospital Center after it was discovered they were given prescription drugs. Both are now fine and living in Bountiful with Kevin Peck and his parents.
He said details were sketchy about what happened those two days, but it appears Reggie Peck took her daughters to Park City for a show and to see family, he said. Those family members didn’t call the police because, “there didn’t appear to be anything wrong” he said.
The mother and two girls then apparently got their car stuck on Sunday where police eventually found them. It appears other motorist may have stopped to see if they needed help, but Reggie Peck declined assistance. The girl apparently picked some flowers, “almost making a picnic out of it,” before police found them, Kevin Peck said.
During the weekend, he and other family members had been looking for them. Police called Peck about 9 a.m. Aug. 30.
“The first thing they wanted me to know was the kids were OK,” he said. “That was a relief.”
He said his wife’s family has been great and are just glad the kids are fine. Kevin Peck said he tells his daughters their mother is sick, but she loves them. “I don’t want them to have a bad image of her,” he said.
Reggie Peck had previously put prescription medication into her children’s bottles while living in Cache County in October 2009, said North Park Police Chief Kim Hawkes.
“The conclusion we drew was it was indeed her intention to do something like [kill the children],” Hawkes said. “We felt like she had ... second thoughts.” Police found a powder later identified as the antidepressant drug Trazadone in the bottom of the children’s bottles. The children did not ingest enough of the drug to cause any visible effects, Hawkes said.
She had previously attempted to kill herself, the attempt to kill her children came after a fight with her husband, according to a North Park police report.
In January, Reggie Peck entered a plea in abeyance through a 1st District mental health court to charges of surreptitious administering of certain substance, assault, and domestic violence in the presence of a child. The second two charges stem from the fight with her husband, Hawkes said.
The plea meant the charge would be wiped from her record if she complied with the terms of the plea.
Police in North Park informed the Division of Child and Family Services following the October arrest, Hawkes said, and a court-appointed guardian supervised her visits with her children after her arrest. Reggie Peck had “co-parenting time” with her children, which means the guardian, who is trained in symptoms of Bipolar Disorder, stayed with Reggie Peck at her home every night she had the children, divorce documents state. The guardian was at the Peck home during some days but Reggie Peck was not subject to “daytime supervision at all times,” divorce documents state.
Kevin Peck, who is still going through divorce proceedings, said he wants his wife to get better but plans to fight to keep his kids safe from her.
“This is twice now,” he said. “There’s no way I could take the chance with allowing her to have another (custodial) right with my kids.”
VIRGINIA DEATH PENALTY FOR WOMAN WHO HAD HUSBAND AND SON MURDERED
'I want victim's daughter to know I love her and I'm sorry': Last words of Teresa Lewis as she is executed by state of Virginia amid international outcry
Victim's daughter: I believe in redemption - but I don't know if she will find it
Protesters outside prison as Lewis is killed by lethal injection
First woman executed in U.S. in five years - and in Virgina since 1912
The first woman to be executed in the U.S. in five years has been put to death in Virginia.
Teresa Lewis, 41, died by injection at 9.13pm local time last night.
She became the first woman executed in Virginia in nearly a century.
Lewis appeared fearful, her jaw clenched, as she was escorted into the death chamber at Grensville Correctional Center last night.
She glanced tensely around at 14 assembled corrections officials before being bound to a gurney with heavy leather straps.
Moments before she died, Lewis asked if her husband's daughter was near.
She had been convicted of enticing two men to kill her husband, Julian Clifton.
Kathy Clifton, Julian's daughter and Lewis' stepdaughter, was in an adjacent witness room blocked from the inmate's view by a two-way mirror.
'I want Kathy to know that I love her and I'm very sorry,' Lewis said.
Then, as the drugs flowed into her body, her feet bobbed but she otherwise remained motionless.
A guard lightly tapped her on the shoulder reassuringly as she slipped into death.
Her spiritual adviser, the Rev. Julie Perry, stood sobbing as she witnessed the execution, clutching a religious book.
Kathy Clifton, Julian's daughter and Lewis' stepdaughter, witnessed the execution. She said she believes in redemption - but is not sure if her step-mother will find it: 'I can't say one way or the other with her.'
Ms Clifton said she believes in redemption - but is not sure if her step-mother will find it.
'I can't say one way or the other with her,' she said.
Lewis was sentenced to die after she was convicted of arranging the killings of her husband and a stepson over a $250,000 insurance payment.
Lewis enticed two men through sex, cash and a promised cut in an insurance policy to shoot the sleeping men in October 2002.
Both gunmen were sentenced to life in prison, and one committed suicide in 2006.
The decision by the state to spare their lives but execute Lewis - who was borderline mentally disabled - caused an international outcry.
More than 7,300 appeals to stop the execution had been made to the governor in a state second only to Texas in the number of people it executes.
Her fate also had drawn appeals from the European Union, an indignant rebuke from Iran and the disgust of thousands of people.
But yesterday Lewis's lawyers admitted all her legal appeals had been exhausted.
Yesterday afternoon Lewis held a last meeting with her family, spiritual adviser and supporters.
Earlier she informed prison staff of details of her final meal: two chicken breasts, sweet peas with butter, a Dr. Pepper and either German cake or apple pie for dessert.
Lewis pleaded guilty in May 2003 to two counts of capital murder for hire in the slayings of her husband Julian Lewis and her stepson, Charles Lewis.
Lewis' fate was sealed earlier this week when the U.S. Supreme Court refused to block her execution.
The court's decision followed Virginia governor Bob McDonnell's refusal to reconsider a clemency request, which he rejected last Friday.
The grandmother, who has reportedly turned her life around in prison, told a TV station: ‘If I have to go home with Jesus... I know that’s going to be the best thing.’
Thousands of protesters, including the thriller writer John Grisham, claimed her death sentence should have been commuted to life imprisonment.
'A good and decent person is about to lose her life because of a system that is broken,' said lawyer James E. Rocap III, who represents Lewis.
He said he was referring to the decision by the Supreme Court and McDonnell's rejection of clemency.
Police officers gather around the scene of the crime. Lewis was sentenced to die after she was convicted of arranging the killings of her husband and a stepson over a $250,000 insurance payment
Rocap appealed for McDonnell to reconsider his decision to deny clemency to Lewis on Monday, claiming new evidence should spare her the death penalty.
Rocap argued that one of the gunmen later claimed he manipulated Lewis, who has a history of mental instability, 'to dupe her into believing he loved her so that he could achieve his own selfish goals.'
The gunmen, Matthew Shallenberger and Rodney Fuller, were sentenced to life terms. Shallenberger, whom Rocap names as the mastermind, committed suicide in prison in 2006.
'If she was not the mastermind - and it is now clear she was not - it is grossly unfair to impose the death sentence on her while Shallenberger and Fuller received life,' Rocap wrote to McDonnell.
McDonnell's legal counsel said the governor's decision would stand.
Based on a thorough review, 'The governor found no compelling reason to grant clemency and made a final decision,' J. Jasen Eige wrote to Rocap, who released the response on Tuesday.
Teresa Lewis and Julian Clifton Lewis Jr met in 2000 at a textile factory where they worked and later married.
In 2002, Julian's son Charles bought a $250,000 life insurance policy when he was called for active duty by the U.S. Army Reserve. He named his father as beneficiary.
Lewis offered herself and her 16-year-old daughter for sex to Shallenberger and Fuller. She stood by while they shot Lewis, 51, and his son, who was 25, in 2002.
She could not have collected the life insurance policy unless both had died.
Lewis rummaged through her husband's pockets for money while he lay dying and waited nearly an hour before calling paramedics.
Lewis allowed a judge to determine her sentence. Her attorneys believed she stood a better chance of getting a life prison term from the judge who had never sentenced anyone to death.
The last execution of a woman in the U.S. occurred in 2005 when Frances Newton died by injection in Texas.
In Virginia, the last woman executed was in 1912, when 17-year-old Virginia Christian died in the electric chair for suffocating her employer.
Thousands of advocates have appealed for clemency for Lewis, arguing she is a changed woman. Her execution also stirred interest because of her gender.
Out of more than 1,200 executions since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated capital punishment in 1976, only 11 women have been executed. Of the more than 3,200 inmates on death row nationwide, 53 are women.
Richard Dieter of the Death Penalty Information Center agreed that the death penalty is a human rights issue, but said the Iranian president is 'the wrong messenger.'
'The United States is, of course, interested in human rights abuses,' he said.
TEENAGE MAID WAS LAST WOMAN TO BE EXECUTED IN STATE OF VIRGINIA
The last woman to be executed in the state of Virginia was 17-year-old maid Virginia Christian in 1912.
She was convicted of murdering her employer, Ida Belote, 72, at her home in Hampton on March 18th that year.
Belote died from suffocation after Christian stuffed a towel down her throat during a violent fight.
It is believed Belote frequently mistreated Christian and had earlier hit Christian with a 'spittoon' after accusing her of stealing a locket and a skirt.
Christian was arrested shortly after Belote's body was found and confessed to the killing.
With a lynch mob looming in the background, the teenager was executed by electric chair in the state penitentiary in Richmond.
DEATH ROW APPEAL REJECTED OF FIRST FEMALE EXECUTION IN VIRGINIA SINCE 1912
Supreme Court rejects death row appeal to pave way for first female execution in Virginia since 1912
A grandmother convicted of a double murder is almost certain to become the first woman in nearly a century to be executed in the state of Virginia today after the U.S. Supreme Court yesterday refused to block the execution.
Teresa Lewis, 41, is scheduled to die by lethal injection for providing sex and money to two men to kill her husband and stepson in October 2002 so she could collect a $250,000 (£160,790) insurance payout.
The court's decision followed Virginia governor Bob McDonnell's refusal to reconsider a clemency request, which he rejected on Friday.
The refusal of both the Supreme Court and Virginian governor means Lewis is due to put to death at 9pm local time.
The grandmother, who has reportedly turned her life around in prison, told a TV station: ‘If I have to go home with Jesus... I know that’s going to be the best thing.’
Thousands of protesters, including the thriller writer John Grisham, claim her death sentence should be commuted to life imprisonment.
'A good and decent person is about to lose her life because of a system that is broken,' said lawyer James E. Rocap III, who represents Lewis.
He said he was referring to the decision by the Supreme Court and McDonnell's rejection of clemency.
Rocap appealed for McDonnell to reconsider his decision to deny clemency to Lewis on Monday, claiming new evidence should spare her the death penalty.
Rocap argued that one of the gunmen later claimed he manipulated Lewis, who has a history of mental instability, 'to dupe her into believing he loved her so that he could achieve his own selfish goals.'
Lewis pleaded guilty in May 2003 to two counts of capital murder for hire in the slayings of her husband Julian Lewis and her stepson, Charles Lewis.
The gunmen, Matthew Shallenberger and Rodney Fuller, were sentenced to life terms. Shallenberger, whom Rocap names as the mastermind, committed suicide in prison in 2006.
'If she was not the mastermind - and it is now clear she was not - it is grossly unfair to impose the death sentence on her while Shallenberger and Fuller received life,' Rocap wrote to McDonnell.
McDonnell's legal counsel said the governor's decision would stand.
Based on a thorough review, 'The governor found no compelling reason to grant clemency and made a final decision,' J. Jasen Eige wrote to Rocap, who released the response on Tuesday.
Teresa Lewis and Julian Clifton Lewis Jr met in 2000 at a textile factory where they worked and later married.
In 2002, Julian's son Charles bought a $250,000 life insurance policy when he was called for active duty by the U.S. Army Reserve. He named his father as beneficiary.
Lewis offered herself and her 16-year-old daughter for sex to Shallenberger and Fuller. She stood by while they shot Lewis, 51, and his son, who was 25, in 2002.
Lewis rummaged through her husband's pockets for money while he lay dying and waited nearly an hour before calling paramedics.
Lewis allowed a judge to determine her sentence. Her attorneys believed she stood a better chance of getting a life prison term from the judge who had never sentenced anyone to death.
The last execution of a woman in the U.S. occurred in 2005 when Frances Newton died by injection in Texas.
In Virginia, the last woman executed was in 1912, when 17-year-old Virginia Christian died in the electric chair for suffocating her employer.
Thousands of advocates have appealed for clemency for Lewis, arguing she is a changed woman. Her scheduled execution has also stirred interest because of her gender.
Out of more than 1,200 executions since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated capital punishment in 1976, only 11 women have been executed. Of the more than 3,200 inmates on death row nationwide, 53 are women.
MOTHER WHO 'HOG TIED' SON TO TABLE FOR 6 MONTHS JAILED FOR 34 YEARS
ANOTHER EVIL BITCH THAT WOMEN'S AID WOULD WELCOME WITH OPEN ARMS
A mother who 'hog tied' her eight-year-old son to a table has been jailed for 34 years.
Andreia Huffman wept in court as a judge told her she was responsible for the 'torture' of her son.
As well as tying him up most nights with his arms bent behind his back he was forced to stand facing a wall for six months.
The court heard that when he moved his 37-year-old mother would smash his face into the wall until his nose broke.
The torture went on for almost four years before one of Huffman's other eight children - a 15-year-old boy - alerted authorities.
Huffman also forced one of her daughters to hog tie the boy to a coffee table.
Her partner, 32-year-old Jason Dunikowski, claimed he had not taken part in the abuse - but the daughter, who spoke before the sentencing, said that was a lie.
'He seen it everyday happen,' she told the court.
'He was two inches away from this child every night when I was told to tie him up and it hurts me to this day that I had to do that and I'm still shaken to this day because of it.
'I don't know what to say about it except it hurts me to see that I can't have my whole family together again.'
The boy's foster mother told the court in Cleveland, Ohio, that the youngster has been left permanently crippled from having his hands and feet bound.
Judge Kathleen Ann Sutula said she was imposing the maximum sentence because she wanted to make sure Huffman's children were grown up before she is released.
Prosecutors had recommended a lighter sentence but after listening the horrific abuse Judge Sutula chose 34 years without parole.
Dunikowski was jailed for 26 years without the chance of early release.
Judge Sutula told Huffman: 'Make no mistake about it, this was torture.
'We don't allow our military to engage in acts of torture - why would be allow our children to endure it?'
MOTHER CHARGED WITH MURDER OF NEWBORN SON AFTER TYING DUMMY USING BLANKET
Mother charged with murder after her newborn son suffocated when she tied a pacifier to his face with a blanket
A mother has been accused of suffocating her newborn son by securing a dummy in his mouth to stop it falling out.
Janettee Mickelboro confessed to tying a blanket around her three-month-old son Hunter's face to make sure the pacifier stayed in place.
With the newborn said to be effectively 'gagged' to stop his crying, she placed him in a bouncy chair.
The newborn baby suffocated as his airwaves were blocked by the blanket.
Hours later when she checked on her son she found him 'stiff and cold'.
But rather than call for help, she told police she removed the blanket from his face and placed him in his cot where her partner and boy's father later found him dead.
Police in Tulsa, Oklahoma, revealed that Mickelboro, who also has a two-year-old daughter, had been warned before about tying the baby's dummy to his face.
'Some family friends had observed this practice and cautioned her that it was dangerous practice,' said Tulsa Police Child Crisis Corporal Greg Smith.
'It appears she repeated that practice even after being informed that it could be dangerous and shouldn't be done.'
During an interview with detectives Mickelboro allegedly admitted tying the blanket around her baby son's face.
'She took a small thin blanket to tie around his head to hold the pacifier in and that restricted some of his breathing,' said Corporal Smith.
'Oxygen deprivation then led to suffocation and death.'
Mickelboro also confessed to removing the offending blanket and leaving the dead baby for her partner to discover while she went to work.
'I believe the mum found him cold and stiff. She knew something was wrong.
'I don't know what her intent or her reason but then she untied the blanket from him and them moved him to a bed and placed him in a bed as if he were sleeping and left,' said Smith.
Mickelboro has been charged with first degree murder and is being held in jail on a £180,000 bond.
WASHINGTON WOMAN LIED ABOUT SELF INFLICTED ACID ATTACK VIDEO
A 28-year-old woman who said an unknown assailant threw a cup of caustic liquid in her face has admitted her injuries were self-inflicted, Vancouver, Washington, police said Thursday.
Bethany Storro was being interviewed by detectives, and whether she will be charged will be up to prosecutors, police said.
"She is extremely upset," said police Commander Marla Schuman. "She is very remorseful. In many ways it got bigger than she expected."
Police would not speculate on Storro's motives, only saying the August 30 incident did not occur as she described and that there were discrepancies in her account, including wearing sunglasses in the evening.
They also had questions about the liquid's splash patterns on Storro's face.
Officers acquired a search warrant and conducted a search Thursday morning. They removed several undisclosed items, but said they did not find a substance that might have caused her injuries.
Vancouver had searched for an assailant, described as an African-American woman with an athletic build and slicked-back hair pulled into a pony tail.
Storro was released from an Oregon hospital on September 5 after undergoing surgery for her injuries after the alleged attack.
Police spent hundreds of hours on the case and the community came together to offer donations for Storro's treatment.
"It has had an impact on our community," said Police Chief Clifford Cook. "It has brought negative attention on our community that is undeserved."
Storro's family was also being interviewed, police said. They described her as being in a fragile mental state.
Storro credited a new pair of sunglasses -- which she said she bought just 20 minutes before the attack -- with saving her eyesight.
"God is watching over me," Storro, of Vancouver, told CNN affiliate KATU in Portland, Oregon, at the time. "I believe in him. That his hands are on me and I can't live the rest of my life like that -- in fear. I can't let what she did to me wreck my life."
Storro told KATU that she had stopped at a Vancouver Starbucks about 7:15 p.m., just after she had gone back to buy a pair of sunglasses that she had seen earlier. The woman walked up to her and said, "Hey pretty girl, do you want to drink this?"
When Storro declined, the woman threw the contents of the cup in her face and ran off, Storro claimed at the time.
