Thursday, July 28, 2011

Mid Day International News

Mid Day International News

Boy kills ex-girlfriend - for free breakfast

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A schoolboy in Britain is facing life sentence for murdering his former girlfriend -- after a friend promised him free breakfast if he did away with her.

Joshua Davies, 16, and Rebecca Aylward, 15, split up but she still visited him, hoping they would reconcile.

The boy, however, plotted to give her deadly foxgloves (flowers), drown her in a river or throw her off a cliff.

Rebecca bought new clothes for a 'date', unaware that Davies was telling his friends how easy it would be to kill her, the Daily Mail reported.

One of his friends promised to buy him breakfast if he murdered Rebecca.

Two days before the murder, Davies messaged the friend: "Don't say anything but you may just owe me a breakfast."

Davies lured a cheerful and fun-loving Rebecca into woods where he battered her to death with a rock, the court heard.

Two Malaysian girls held for kissing!

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Two teenage Muslim girls have been arrested by Malaysian Islamic officials for hugging and kissing each other publicly in Tawau town in the state of Sabah.

The girls aged 16 and 17 were detained during an integrated operation by the Sabah Islamic Religious Affairs Department together with the Tawau Municipal Council on Tuesday, news reports said today.

The department's officer Abdul Imam Basiron said the two girls faced charges under the Islamic Shariah Criminal Offences Enactment that carries a maximum fine of RM 1,000 (15,000 rupees) or jail of up to six months or both upon conviction.

Abdul Imam said during the operation they also detained three Muslim men aged between 20 and 60 for gambling.

They were caught buying 4D lottery tickets.

Malays Muslims are not allowed to drink liquor and gamble.

However, ethnic Chinese and ethnic Indians who are the other components of the 27 million population can buy lottery tickets and liquor.

During the operation, they also acted against two restaurants for displaying copies of the halal logo from other establishments.

He said restaurants were allowed to sell food to Muslims but they could not consume it within the premises during fasting hours.

He said the department would be conducting checks on Muslims who were not fasting during Ramadan.

Designer McQueen leaves Rs 36 lakh to his pet dogs

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Iconic designer Alexander McQueen, who met a tragic end last year, has left �50,000 (Rs 36 lakh) in his will to his beloved pet dogs.

The generous gift ensures English bull terriers Juice, Minter and Callum will be pampered for the rest of their lives.

The catwalk king also bequeathed �50,00 (Rs 36 lakh)of his �16 million (Rs 115 crore) fortune to each of his two housekeepers, his will discloses.

One of them discovered his dead body hanging from a wardrobe in his Mayfair flat in central London last year.

McQueen was 40 when he committed suicide after taking a cocktail of cocaine, sleeping pills and tranquilisers the night before the funeral of his mother Joyce on February 11, 2010.

He also handed �50,000 (Rs 36 lakh) to his godson and each of his nieces and nephews. His three sisters and two brothers will receive �250,000 (Rs 1.8 crore) each.

Teen 'Hit Boy' jailed for Mexican murders

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After he was seen on video calmly explaining how he tortured and beheaded at least four people, an American-born teen nicknamed 'El Ponchis' was sentenced to prison yesterday in a Mexican court on kidnapping and murder charges.

The San Diego-born 14-year-old, whose real name is Edgar Jimenez Lugo, received three years in a juvenile prison the maximum allowed under law.

Jimenez Lugo received three years in a juvenile prison and a fine of $390,000 (Rs 1.7 crore)


He was also fined $390,000 (Rs 1.7 crore). Lugo was captured in December, 2010 near Mexico City with his 19-year-old sister who is accused of helping him dump the bodies.

Authorities believe that they were fleeing the country after committing some chilling murders.

In the damning video shown in court, a military interrogator asks the unidentified teen, "How many have you killed?" The curly-haired teen calmly replies, "Four."

Asked how he killed them, he admits, "I slit their throats." The stories of 'El Ponchis' had become near-legend in the country after a YouTube video circulated reportedly showing the teen beating a man with a two-by-four while the man was hanging from the ceiling.

When he was captured by authorities, the teen said that he was kidnapped at 11 and had been forced to work for the Cartel of The South Pacific.

At the time he told reporters, "I participated in four executions, but I did it drugged and under threat that if I didn't, they would kill me."


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