A British teenager

 
A British teenager was stabbed 13 times and saw her boyfriend murdered in a bloodbath on a holiday island.

Maddison Wrixon, 18, tried to fight off a crazed knifeman who tied up Cristian Santana Guerra, 21, then stabbed him to death.

Brit Miss Wrixon, who lives on the Canary island of Fuerteventura, was rushed to hospital where she underwent emergency surgery which saved her life.
Police said she was expected to pull through.

The alleged attacker, reportedly a friend of the couple, was arrested hours later by police.

Miss Wrixon is thought to have been dating Mr Guerra, from the neighbouring island of Gran Canary, for just two weeks.

The couple were at Mr Guerra's flat in Puerto del Rosario, Fuerteventura's capital, when their friend David, 20, arrived yesterday afternoon.

The friend is alleged to have pulled out a knife, threatened Mr Guerra, tied his hands up and stabbed him repeatedly, puncturing vital organs.

Local reports said Miss Wrixon tried to fight of the attacker, who then stabbed her 13 times, causing her to collapse on the floor.

Her boyfriend ran out of the flat, blood pouring from him, in a bid to get help.

Neighbours who heard the couple's screams called police, who found the boyfriend dead at 1pm in a hallway of the block of flats.

Newspapers on the island said the attacker was well known to police.

He left the knife and his mobile phone at the scene of the horrific crime, it was reported.

The alleged attacker, sporting a Taxi Driver-style mohawk haircut, was later arrested by armed officers.

Maddison, who is half Spanish, was taken by ambulance to the Virgen de la Pena general hospital, where she is recovering in intensive care.

The murder and attempted murder are being investigated by the National Police under the instructions of a magistrate at Investigative Court 1 in Puerto de Rosario.

A spokeswoman for the National Police, said: 'We are investigating the death of a 20-year-old man and an attack on his British girlfriend on Wednesday.

'She underwent surgery on Thursday morning and is out of danger. A 20-year-old man has been arrested.'

A source at the Interior Ministry's office in Gran Canaria said the attack was believed to have been sparked by a drug debt.

A police source said: 'This was a shockingly brutal murder. Maddison appears to be an innocent victim whose only crime was to try to protect her boyfriend.'

Man drank wife's blood

This real life incident has the making of a scene from some vampire movie. A 22-year-old woman in Damoh district of Madhya Pradesh has told the police that her husband drank her blood for the past three years. "He used to take a syringe and draw blood from my arms," Deepa Ahirwar said. "He would then empty it in a glass and drink it. For three years he did this on a regular basis, threatening me of dire consequences if I revealed this to anyone."

Deepa was married to an agricultural labourer, Mahesh Ahirwar, in Shikarpura village in 2007. A few months after the marriage, Mahesh started drawing blood from his wife's veins and consuming it. He said it made him strong and did not stop even when Deepa was pregnant. It was after she gave birth to a son seven months ago that she started protesting. She told the police that she would feel drained and nauseating after the blood extraction. When she resisted, her husband beat her up.


Earlier this month, Deepa, with the baby in her arms, escaped to her parents' house under the Patera police station area. When she narrated the story to her farmer father, he took her to the local police station to register a case against Mahesh. But the police said that the case was not under their jurisdiction and the matter should be reported to the Hindoriya police station as the victim resided with her husband in that area.

Deepa and her parents took the matter to Hindoriya, where they were directed to the women counseling section. Neither Hindoriya nor Patera registered a case against the absconding Mahesh. When the residents of Shikarpura came to know of Mahesh's deeds, they took up Deepa's cause. The Hindoriya police have now registered an FIR that she was physically tortured by her husband.

Robber become sex slave

A Russian man who tried to rob a hair salon got more than what he had bargained for when the female shop owner, a karate black belt, overpowered him, stripped him naked, and for the next three days, used him as a sex slave to ''teach him a lesson'' - force feeding him Viagra to keep the lesson going.  Viktor Jasinski, 32, admitted to police that he had gone to the salon in Meshchovsk, Russia, with the intention of robbing.

But the tables were turned dramatically when he found himself overcome by owner Olga Zajac, 28, who happened to be a black belt in karate.

She allegedly floored the would-be robber with a single kick.


Then, in a scene reminiscent of Quentin Tarantino''s Pulp Fiction, police say Zajac dragged the semi-conscious Jasinski to a back room of the salon and tied him up with a hair dryer cable.

She fed him Viagra and had sex with him for three days before releasing him, telling him that he''d "learned his lesson."

Jasinski went straight to the police and told them of his back-room ordeal, saying that he had been held hostage, handcufffed naked to a radiator, and fed nothing but Viagra.

When police arrived to question Zahjac, she said: ''What a bastard. Yes, we had sex a couple of times. But I bought him new jeans, gave him food and even gave him 1,000 roubles when he left."

Both have now been arrested.

Breast milk spray

A lactating US woman was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct after she sprayed sheriff's deputies with breast milk as they tried to remove her from a vehicle, police said on Monday. 
Ohio-resident Stephanie Robinette, 30, was arrested and charged with domestic violence and assault linked to a domestic dispute, as well as resisting arrest and disorderly conduct, according to the Delaware County Sheriff's Office.
 
It said Robinette's husband told authorities the pair had been attending a wedding when his wife got drunk and started a dispute. He said that she hit him multiple times before locking herself in her car outside a banquet facility on Saturday.  Sheriff Walter L. Davis III said that when police approached the car to speak to her, she yelled profanities and refused to get out.
  "When deputies attempted to remove Robinette from the vehicle she advised the deputies that she was a breastfeeding mother and proceeded to remove her right breast from her dress and began spraying deputies and the vehicle with her breast milk," Davis said.  Robinette was later removed from the car and arrested after more deputies arrived on the scene.  "This is a prime example of how alcohol can make individuals do things they would not normally do," Davis said.

Cruel Uncle

A 13-year-old tribal girl from Virar was allegedly raped by her uncle with whom she had been staying for the last eight years after the death of her parents.
The crime came to light after the girl attempted suicide last week. The victim lost her parents when she was five. She and her younger brother moved in with their uncle, Sanjay Vaye (30),
who was their mother's first cousin. On June 22, the girl, a class VIII student, attempted to hang herself at her home in Agashi in Virar (W). A neighbour saw her and persuaded her to open the door.

The girl finally opened the door but refused to say why she had attempted suicide. It was only after her mother's sister took her into confidence did the girl reveal that she had been raped by her uncle on several occasions over the last year.
Vaye had moved to Boisar last year with his wife and daughter after he got a job in a private firm there. He left the victim and her brother with his mother at Agashi.

The victim said that Vaye used to rape her when he came to visit them. She tried to confide in Vaye's wife, but Vaye threatened her and warned her against telling anyone about the rape.
The victim's aunt lodged a complaint with the police after which Vaye was arrested.
The victim has undergone medical tests at a Thane hospital and the police are awaiting the reports, said senior inspector Yusuf Bhagwan. According to investigating officer Rajendra Panhale, Vaye has been booked under Section 375 of the IPC (rape).

morality laws British former lapdancer

A British former lapdancer, her rich banker lover and his jealous Brazilian model ex-girlfriend who caught them in bed have all been jailed in Dubai for having sex outside marriage.

Danielle Spencer, 31, was naked with Toby Carroll, 33, when furious Priscilla Gomez, 25, stormed into his flat, threatening them with a knife and smashing his possessions.

Police called to the scene decided that all three in the love triangle were in breach of the Arab emirate's strict morality laws and arrested them.

Yesterday Dubai's Misdemeanours Court rejected claims that Spencer and New-Zealand-born Carroll were just kissing after a prosecutor produced damning DNA evidence.


Spencer was sentenced to 30 days in jail before deportation, while Carroll  and Gomez received the same sentence. A court source said today it was another example of westerners 'ignoring' Islamic law, and that 'bed-hopping' would never be acceptable in Dubai.       

Speaking about the case earlier Spencer, a former Hull and Birmingham-based lapdancer, said: 'As we had not actually had sex, I thought that they would just release Toby and me.

'But at one point a policeman turned to me and said, "You are going to jail." I broke down. I remember weeping, "But I've done nothing wrong." It was the moment I realised my life in Dubai would be ruined.

'I thought I was going to die in that prison cell, that once I was in I'd never  get out. The worst thing was the not knowing what was happening, the sense I was being forgotten.'
The trio spent 30 days in Dubai police holding cells over Christmas and New Year last year as they awaited a court date and bail.

Incredibly during their time there Spencer struck up an unlikely friendship with her love rival Gomez after they were forced to share a cell.


The pair often shared a bed and huddled together for warmth and security.

Spencer said: 'We just had to become friends because it was such a terrible experience. All we had was each other for comfort and at night we would huddle together on our mattress, scared out of our lives.

'We were in a stinking room with murderers. I got to know Priscilla well and like her. There are no hard feelings. I have forgiven her for what she did.
'We have both laughed at the irony of it – I locked myself in the bathroom to get away from her when she went crazy with the knife and now I realise that she is the safest person to be with here in prison.'

Carroll moved to Dubai to forge a career as a banker for HSBC and was joined by his then girlfriend Gomez.

But the couple broke up the day before she caught him in bed with Spencer.

His mother Beverley Carroll said: 'He hasn't done anything that any guy in any other country wouldn't do.

'He has slept with a girl, it was sex outside of marriage and there is no other country where that is a crime. I'm extremely proud of my son – he hasn't done anything wrong.'

Remote access to the user’s computer

A computer repairman was arrested Wednesday for allegedly planting spyware on dozens of computers he fixed and remotely taking hundreds of photos of women in their homes partially clothed or naked.
Trevor Harwell, 20, a technician for Rezitech Inc., provided home computer services to users with Macintosh computers, said Fullerton Police Sgt. Andrew Goodrich.
Harwell went to elaborate lengths to ensure that he got lurid images, even convincing users through system messages that they needed to take their computers into steamy environments, such as near their showers, Goodrich said.
"While he had physical access to the computers, he would install a spyware-type application that allowed him remote access to the user's computer and webcam," Goodrich said.
He also would work on friends' computers.
"Once he had access, he would take photographs of the users, usually women," Goodrich said. "Often, the female victims were undressed or changing clothes."

He said Harwell then stored the photos on a remote server and eventually downloaded them to his own computer.
The department estimated that hundreds of thousands of images were collected as part of the investigation, and they are seeking out victims.
The lurid repair ploy first came to light last summer when a Fullerton resident contacted police about suspicious messages appearing on his daughter's computer, Goodrich said.
One message mimicked the appearance of a system message and read: "You should fix your internal sensor soon. If unsure what to do, try putting your laptop near hot steam for several minutes to clean the sensor."
The message led many victims to take their laptops into the bathroom while taking a shower, Goodrich said.

Harwell serviced computers in Los Angeles and Orange counties. Fullerton police say they have documented numerous victims, all of them women.
Still images, videos and cellphone videos of women taken surreptitiously were all seized from Harwell's computer.
Harwell was a student at Biola University at the time but no longer attends the school. Goodrich said many of the victims attended the university.
Harwell used a program called Camcapture that was installed on the victims' hard drives, Goodrich said.
Detectives also believe Harwell may have exploited Macintosh computers that were connected to Biola's internal network. The sergeant said potential victims should search the "/Library/WebServer Documents" directory for the Camcapture program.

drunkn rape

An Indian student of engineering who climbed into a bed where a young woman was sleeping next to her boyfriend and indecently assaulted her, has been jailed in Britain for three years.

Pradeep Baskaran, 23, who completed MS in Advanced Manufacturing Engineering and Management from the Loughborough University, woke the woman when he climbed into her bed and was then chased out of her house on the night of December 5 last year.

Baskaran, who dropped his passport in the house while being chased away, is likely to be deported to India after completing the jail term. He was found guilty earlier this week of sexual assault, but cleared of attempted rape. The unusual nature of the case was highlighted during his sentencing in the Crown Court on Thursday, according to reports from Leicester.

Judge Ebraham Mooncey said: "This case has very unusual features. It's difficult to envisage what you hoped would happen, and difficult to see what you had in mind."

"I don't know if you thought the victim and her boyfriend would have been so drunk they wouldn't know what was happening. There was skin-to-skin contact and you were pushing against her, and that's what woke her up.

"It's fortunate she woke up at that point and chased you out. You had walked into someone's home and went upstairs and found the room in which this woman was sleeping and proceeded to do what you did."

"No-one's suggesting you had broken in (the door was unlocked), but you weren't invited there and had no business being in the house. Your account that you wanted some water, because you were dehydrated (while walking home the worse for drink) was fanciful, bizarre and certainly untrue. The jury rejected your account. What you did was outrageous."

A piece of chewing gum with Baskaran's DNA was found beside the alleged victim's bed. A pair of the woman's knickers allegedly taken from her bedroom as he fled were recovered from Baskaran's home. Another pair were found in an alley near the house by her boyfriend.

Facebook investigation

Social networking sites are not just for chatting with your friends. They can also be used to trap wayward husbands, as one woman from Coimbatore discovered. With the help of Facebook, she was able to trace her husband who abandoned her a year ago, moving to Saudi Arabia, where he planned to remarry.


When Mahalakshmi, the young mother, got wind of her husband's plans to remarry, she lodged a complaint with the city police commissioner.  she fell in love with R S Karthikeyan of Uthamasolapuram in Salem, who sold rods for a living, and married him in June, 2008. A year later, they had a baby girl.

Trouble erupted when Karthikeyan and his parents demanded 15 sovereigns of gold and `1 lakh as dowry from Mahalakshmi's parents. Since the latter could not provide the dowry, Karthikeyan refused to let his wife visit her parents. He also abused her often. When an anguished Mahalakshmi informed her parents about the abuse, they asked both mother and daughter to leave immediately and come stay with them. However, Karthikeyan refused to let his wife take their child Nimisha. Mahalakshmi filed a complaint with the police and was able to rescue her daughter from her father in 2009.

Meanwhile, with the help of the police, Mahalakshmi thwarted her husband's attempts to remarry. Having received a severe warning from the police, he agreed to live with his wife again. However, the happiness was short-lived. In a drunken fit, Karthikeyan thrashed his wife and drove both mother and child out of the house. A month later, he visited his wife and gave her his phone number. Mahalakshmi could not reach him at this number.

When Mahalakshmi got wind of her husband's marriage plans in Saudi Arabia from a friend who refused to give her his contact details, an idea to trap him struck her. Knowing that Karthikeyan had a Facebook account, she created a false account under her relative, Satish's name, but he refused to fall prey to her tactics. She immediately changed her tracks by creating a fake profile of a suitable bride and sent him love messages. This time around, Karthikeyan readily departed with his contact details.

Soon after, Mahalakshmi called him. A shocked Karthikeyan informed her that he was keen on getting married again. He promised to compensate her adequately. An angry Mahalakshmi petitioned the city police commissioner. A case has been registered with the all-woman police station at R.S.Puram.

young woman and same stranger

A young woman was raped twice in three months by the same stranger after she did not report the first attack to police, a court heard yesterday.  O'Nile Huggins, 20, struck in April last year after dragging the 23-year-old woman to the ground near his home in south London, jurors were told.

The woman chose not to report her ordeal to police but realised she had made a 'terrible mistake' when he raped her again three months later, Inner London Crown Court heard.
Paul Cavin, prosecuting, said Huggins was traced from an e-fit image created with the victim's help and published in a national appeal.  His DNA also matched a sample taken from the woman, jurors heard.

When his home in Stockwell was searched, officers found hundreds of unused condoms, said the barrister.  Mr Cavin told the jury: 'It is no exaggeration to say that the case you are about to try constitutes every woman's worst nightmare.
'The prosecution allege that not once, but twice, she was raped by this defendant.  'On both occasions she was subjected to a terrifying attack in the street.

'This was a stranger rape, with the added horror of it happening again some three months later.'  Huggins approached the woman as she walked home from a bus stop in Stockwell Road and 'tried to engage her in conversation,' said Mr Cavin.  'She politely gave him the brush-off but he persisted and began to try and kiss her.

'Suddenly he grabbed her and forced her towards the side of a house.' He then forced her to the floor and raped her, said Mr Cavin.  Eventually he got up and was friendly towards her, seeming to 'believe that they had a pleasant evening out together and even mentioned seeing her again', said the prosecutor.

'He stood there watching as the victim pulled her clothes together and began to tell her how nice it had been for him and tried to kiss her again,' added Mr Cavin.
He put his arm around her and as they walked along the victim made a vain attempt to call 999, while pretending she was not and saying: 'Hello mum.'

The prosecutor said it was 'an unfortunate aspect of this case' that the operator did not realise it was a cry for help and hung up thinking it was a crossed line.
The woman told the attacker she was nearly home and he left her.

She spoke to her flatmate who advised her to call police but she decided not to, partly due to the desire to forget, said Mr Cavin.
'Her decision not to report is understandable,' he said.
'It was perhaps the product of two different factors. Firstly the shock. Secondly she is a woman of some strength.

'Without in anyway seeking to criticise her for that decision, events were to prove that it was an understandable but terrible mistake.'
Huggins denies one count of rape between April 10 and 20 last year, and two further rape charges on July 14. He claims the woman consented.
The defendant, who has learning difficulties, is being assisted in the dock by an 'intermediary'.

guns and bullets like cheap onions.

The gun house owners in this town, which seems to have become a paradise for gunrunners and getting fake arms licenses, welcome their customers with their arms wide open as was witnessed by this correspondent, who walked inside one such shops on Tuesday afternoon with cash and exited to get bullets like sweets in his hands.

No questions were asked, no identity was disclosed, no licence for firearm was asked to be shown-all it took was a monetary negotiation that finally settled down for Rs 150 for per cartridge of .32 bore.

As per the directions of the Union ministry of home affairs, which are blatantly being violated by the owners of arms and ammunition shops, an arms dealer has to maintain a record of the ammunition sold by classifying the date of use, place where the ammunition was used, numbers of bullets fired and the purpose behind usage of the ammunition.


The guidelines further stated that after getting report from all the arms dealers, district magistrates is to send all such reports to the respective state governments.

But the arms dealers of this town don`t keep a database of the ammunition sold by them and what is more concerning is that bullets of .32 revolvers or .12 bore guns are available in these places for anyone who is ready to shell out a little more than the original price.

Requesting anonymity, an official in the `asla shakha` of the local district magistrate office admitted that the arms dealer have to submit their sales record of ammunition to the concerned District magistrate`s office, but here it never happens.


"If an arm dealer sells any arm or ammunition to the registered licensee outside the state, he has to inform the district magistrate accordingly," he informed.

Several arms dealers in the district were found to be involved in the fake arm licence scam, which had rocked the state government in 2001.

The district was once again in the thick of similar controversy in July 2010 when some government employees and arms dealers were found preparing fake arms licences by forging the signature of the additional district magistrate. And these arms dealers continue with all their unlawful activities under the nose of the law enforcement agencies.

the love police / i love police

It was a love story that turned sour and resulted in a killing in a police station. In the early hours of Monday, constable V Srinivas (23) shot his colleague, constable Lalitha Devi (23), and then turned the rifle on himself at the Kukatpally police station. While Lalitha died, Srinivas is critical.

According to cops, the two had been seeing each other since 2009 and the provocation for the crime appears to be Lalitha's recent engagement to another man after refusing Srinivas' marriage proposal.

Both Srinivas - (PC 4965) from Mohammedabad in Rangareddy district - and Lalitha Devi - (PC 5060) from Annavaram in East Godavari district - belonged to the 2009 batch and were posted together at the Kukatpally police station since September, 2009.

Police sources said that Lalitha had been avoiding Srinivas since her engagement and this had led to frequent altercations between the couple at the police station, much to the discomfort of other cops at the station.

On Sunday, both Lalitha and Srinivas were on night duty. And when Lalitha went to the first floor hall to rest, Srinivas, who was on sentry duty, walked in around 4am and shot her in the head with his 303 rifle, cops said. He then turned the gun on himself. The bullet pierced his chest and hit the ceiling.


Other cops on duty rushed the couple to a nearby private hospital and then later shifted them to Apollo Hospital in Jubilee Hills, where Lalitha succumbed. Srinivas' condition is stated to be critical.

Police have found a suicide note written by Srinivas in the sentry register. According to Kukatpally inspector K Srinivasa Rao, the note, written in Telugu, said: "She cheated me in love and that is why I am killing her. I am also ending my life."

Police have slapped cases against Srinivas under IPC section 302 (Murder) and 309 (Attempt to commit suicide).

girlfriends for kids / crime involving minors

In a dramatic crime involving minors, the Jeedimetla police on Friday claimed to have arrested a 12-year-old Class VII boy on the charge of murdering his 13-year-old girlfriend who was a student of Class VI in the same school. Proceedings will be initiated against the boy under the Juvenile Act, they added.

According to the police, the victim was the daughter of a scrap vendor and resident of Sanjay Gandhi Nagar in Jeedimetla while the accused is the son of a welding unit owner from the same locality. Both were studying in a private school at Shahpurnagar in Jeedimetla.

The police said the boy and girl had developed a close friendship but the boy's family did not approve of him roaming with the girl.

On April 21 morning, the victim stole Rs 2,500 from the house and left without informing her parents. "She along with the accused and another boy, also a Class VI student from the same school, went to Tirupati. When the girl did not return home by evening, her father lodged a complaint with the police," said Jeedimetla inspector A Sanjeeva Rao.

Following the lodging of the missing complaint, Jeedimetla cops grilled some of the friends of the girl and discovered that three of them including the girl had gone to Tirupati. The teenagers stayed at Tirumala for two days and then reached Vijayawada on April 23 night.

"By this time, the boys were tired and wanted to return home. But the girl was persistent and pressured the accused to stick along with her for some more time as she might get severely reprimanded on returning home. The accused, who was already under strict restrictions from the family members for being close to the girl, got vexed with her behaviour. He thought that killing her is the only way to get rid of all his troubles," inspector Sanjeeva Rao said.

the accused along with the other boy and the girl, went to the railway bridge opposite Prakasam Barrage on river Krishna in Vijayawada. "He told the girl that by standing on the bridge, they can get a very close view of the passing trains. On reaching the middle of the bridge, the accused waited for an opportune moment when no one was nearby and pushed her into the water. Even as she drowned, the duo fled from the spot," the inspector said. Immediately after the incident, the accused along with the accomplice left for Hyderabad.

Police who were tracking the movement of the boys since they left the city, got to know that the boys reached their homes but the girl did not return.

When confronted about the whereabouts of the girl, the two boys feigned ignorance. But after two days of interrogation, the 12-year-old confessed that he pushed the girl into water. The second boy is likely to be booked as accomplice and also tried under the Juvenile Act.

Meanwhile, while coordinating the investigations into the case with the Vijayawada and Guntur police, the Jeedimetla cops were informed that the decomposed body of a girl was found at Kanakadurga Varadhi on April 26.


Police then took the accused and the girl's family members to Tadepally. The body has been identified. While the victim's family members cremated the girl at Vijayawada, the two boys were brought to Hyderabad. The accused will be produced before the juvenile court on Saturday.

boyfriend during a sex session, that went wrong

Jason O'Malley, 39, told the police that his girlfriend Kerry Sneddon liked him to apply "a little bit of pressure" and they had done it six or seven times in sex sessions although he didn't like doing it.
Sneddon's naked body was found at the home they shared in November last year.
O'Malley told the police that they had drunk beer and began kissing and stripping each other's clothes off after watching the X Factor. He said he remembered starting to have sex, but didn't recall the events leading to her death.
He is alleged to have throttled her after an argument, Sheffield Crown Court was told.

"The defendant killed Kerry Sneddon and when he strangled her he must have intended to kill her or at least cause her serious harm. We do not accept the defendant suffered genuine amnesia.
"We do not accept it may have been an accident during the course of some consensual sexual activity which is the suggestion he has made. A ligature was made and force applied for a considerable period of time," Prosecutor Bryan Cox was quoted as telling the jury.
O'Malley left his wife in July, 2007 and moved in with Sneddon. They lived at her home in Rotherham town centre. They had met on an dating site and begun a sexual relationship.
When Sneddon went on a holiday to Turkey, O'Malley met another woman on an internet dating site. They had a sexual relationship and she became pregnant.
Sneddon saw a copy of the baby scan in O'Malley's wallet, leading to friction between them, Cox said.

cocaine in lake

A small planed loaded with bundles of cocaine crashed into a lake in northern New Mexico on Sunday morning, apparently killing all on board, according to the New Mexico State Police.
Police Lieutenant Eric Garcia said the number of people aboard the aircraft was not immediately known but there were no signs that anybody had survived the crash.
All access to the 4-mile long, 3-mile-wide Heron Lake was closed after bundles of what turned out to be cocaine began floating to the surface, Garcia said.
He said state police responded with boat and diver teams after fishermen on the lake reported seeing the plane nose-dive into the water at about 11 a.m. local time. The plane was fully submerged, Garcia said
The National Weather Service in Albuquerque reported there were thunderstorms and wind gusts of up to 30 miles an hour in the area at the time of the crash.
The Federal Aviation Administration regional office in Fort Worth, Texas, also was investigating but had no further information.
Heron Lake State Park, about 100 miles north of Santa Fe, is located on the edge of the reservoir.

best way to clear your debts

A small-time businessman from Rajkot found a strange way to clear his debts. He paid a supari to a friend and had himself killed so that his family would get the Rs 2 crore insurance money.

Eight months after paan masala dealer Yogesh Patoliya, 30, was found murdered on the outskirts of Rajkot, police say they have cracked the case. Crime branch officials have arrested Navghan Sindhav, 20, a close friend of Patoliya, who says he committed the murder because the victim insisted that he do it.

Crime branch inspector H K Rana says Patoliya had promised to give Sindhav Rs 90,000. The two had apparently made a pact where Patoliya wrote a letter stating that he owed Sindhav the money. Sindhav was supposed to show the letter to Patoliya's father after his death to get the money. Police officials have a copy of the letter but are yet to find out if Sindhav encashed it.

Sindhav worked with Patoliya for nearly four years and the two were close friends. The accused says he was shocked when Patoliya first proposed his plan but he convinced Sindhav by saying he should do it for the sake of their friendship.

On 17 August 2010, the two went in a car to Rajkot's outskirts. Patoliya even arranged for the knife with which Sindhav was supposed to stab him. The accused told the police he could not bear to see his friend's face while stabbing him so he turned away and then killed him. Police officials said the Patoliya had about Rs 2 crore life insurance cover from various companies and wanted the money to go to his family so that it could clear his debts.

The accused has also told the police that Patoliya had tried to kill himself by orchestrating an accident and had even driven full speed on Jetpur Road. When this plan failed, he asked Sindhav to kill him.

'real' looking caps for fake Scotch bottles

 
Darshan Lal Sharma made 'real' looking caps for fake Scotch bottles supplied to Punjab (from Delhi), Bangalore and Chennai (from Mumbai) and even to Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal from Kolkata, said a crime branch officer.  Sharma, who claimed to have won Mr Delhi and Mr North India titles in the 1950s and 60s, had hi-tech manufacturing units. At least five cap-making machines – each costing between Rs 80,000 to Rs 1 lakh – were seized from his factory in Shastri Nagar.

At another factory in the same area, other machines used at various stages of cap manufacturing were recovered. These included a sheet-cutting machine, a three-stage cap cutting machine, a hand press pressure device for installing the dispenser inside the cap and a groove making machine. 


Cops seized a huge number of unfinished bottle caps -- 4,900 of 'Johnnie Walker Black Label' and 2,200 of 'Red Label'. Besides, 380 finished 'Black Label', 220 'Red Label' and 60 'Double Black Label' caps were also recovered, along with 1,126 printed cap metal sheets and 450 'Johnnie Walker Black Label' cartons.

The regional head of EIPR (enforcers of intellectual property rights) of the Johnnie Walker brand joined the raid and certified that the caps were fake. A case under relevant sections of Copyright Act, cheating and Delhi Excise Act has been registered. 
 


























The caps were manufactured on the basis of orders received. "The cost of making a cap was about Rs 10 but the margins were huge. Each 'Red Label' cap was sold for Rs 125 and 'Black Label' for Rs 225. The printed metal sheets were procured from Anand Parbat. The accused persons were not aware of the location of the printing unit," Chand said.

Cops said they had gone to Bandra in Mumbai and the Fancy Market in the Khidderpore area of Kolkata to bust the fake manufacturing units. ``However, we were in for a shock as reports of our Delhi raids had already reached the units there and the entire setup was dismantled in 24 hours,'' said an officer.

 
The cops said investigations in Mumbai showed this fake Scotch-making racket was bigger than the one busted at Sarita Vihar in southeast Delhi. "There is huge demand for high quality liquor during the wedding season and in winter. This rush was met by the Mumbai unit which also supplied some quantity of this fake Scotch to farmhouses in Lonavla, Pune and even Kolkata,'' added the officer. 

affair with a colleague, playground bullying

The secrecy laws that allow celebrities to hide their involvement in sex scandals took a major leap forward yesterday in a draconian decision by Appeal judges.
They ruled that a well-known married man working in the entertainment industry who had an affair with a colleague cannot be named – to protect his children from playground bullying.
Three judges led by Lord Justice Ward said the public had no right to know about the relationship, which led to the sacking of the man's married lover.




























And for the first time, Lord Justice Ward extended the reach of privacy law beyond what is published by newspapers or broadcasters to cover everyday office banter.
In remarks described by lawyers as  setting a 'dangerous precedent', he said people were entitled to expect colleagues who notice their sexual affairs or hear  gossip about them to keep it quiet.
This suggests that ordinary people sharing office banter are at risk of falling foul of the expanding net of judge-made privacy law.



One critical MP said if the rules set down by the judges applied across the legal system, nobody would be able to name even murderers if they claimed their notoriety would embarrass their children. The landmark judgment came in the case of a father of two, an entertainment industry figure referred to in court only as ETK, who had a six-month sexual relationship with his colleague.
He ended the relationship after his wife discovered it and then told his bosses that he would prefer not to see his mistress again, and one of them should leave their job.





























His lover was said in the judgment to have been 'upset and angry' after she was sacked several months later.
The Appeal Court judges ruled that under privacy laws the figure must be protected from public exposure by a newspaper which planned to report details of the affair and its aftermath.

And they added that the man's name should be kept secret to spare his children 'the ordeal of playground ridicule'.
Yesterday's injunction is the latest in a string of controversial privacy orders being used to hide the involvement of the rich and famous in sex scandals.
In the past week alone, one injunction shielded the name of a Premier League footballer who allegedly cheated on his wife in a six-month fling with topless model Imogen Thomas, and another covered up the name of a leading actor, also married, who is said to have slept with Helen Wood, a prostitute once used by Wayne Rooney.























Privacy law, developed by judges over the past few years, has never been approved by Parliament.
It means that, for the first time in more than 100 years, newspapers, broadcasters and individuals are forbidden by law from telling the truth about people.

Liberal Democrat MP John Hemming, who has launched an inquiry into the proliferation of privacy rules, said the doctrine that children must be shielded from playground bullying could be used to prevent publicity about serious criminals.
'The trial of a murderer could be declared secret on the grounds his children might  suffer,' he said.
'I find it strange that an employer who takes such a  discriminatory view of how employees may be treated  cannot be named,' Mr Hemming added.
'Privacy law is growing and growing and growing. There seems to be no structure to it at all.'

Senior libel lawyer Niri Shan, of the Taylor Wessing firm, added: 'If work colleagues are no longer allowed to speak about what they observe, then this sets a dangerous precedent.'

ex-wife belly-dancing

 
A New York City woman who was getting $850 a month in alimony because she was supposedly disabled and unable to work had her payments slashed after her ex-husband spotted online photos of her belly dancing.

Brian McGurk went to court after discovering a blog that showed his 43-year-old ex-wife dancing at a gallery.

In other internet postings, she wrote about dancing vigorously for several hours every day. Dorothy McGurk told the court that the dancing was physical therapy for injuries she suffered in a car accident in the mid-1990s. A county judge didn't buy it — and reduced her payments to $400 per month. The judge also ordered her to pay her ex-husband's legal fees and 60 percent from the sale of their home. "I wasn't really belly-dancing in them," Dorothy McGurk, 43, told the  News on Saturday. "I was posing. In some of them I was moving a veil around with my arms, but I wasn't belly-dancing."


 


























I wish I could be a professional belly dancer," she said, "but it's just not possible." She said the photos showed her and another woman, but that only the other woman was dancing. "My girlfriend in front of me was belly-dancing with a sword," she said, refusing to provide the photos. "I was just standing behind her waving a veil."

"The only thing I do are gentle exercises," she said.

Let target American and Europe

Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) has declared a 'jihad' on America and is expanding its reach to Europe and other continents, a top US military commander has said, warning that it was no longer solely focussed on India or South Asia.

LeT, considered the bestfunded terror outfit in the region , had carried out the audacious 2008 Mumbai terror attacks which killed 166 people , including Americans and other foreigners.

Blaming LeT for carrying out attacks on US forces in Afghanistan, Admiral Robert Willard, chief of the US forces in the Pacific, told lawmakers that America had evidence of the group's presence in Europe , the broader Asia Pacific and even in the past in Canada and here.
LeT was cultivated by Pakistan's security establishment two decades ago to wage a guerrilla war to wear down Indian security forces in Kashmir , the US media report said.

At a senate hearing, Admiral Willard said "the discussion regarding the government of Pakistan's relationship to LeT is a very sensitive one." His comments come at a time when US is sharply focussing on the group particularly since the arrest of Pakistani American David Headley in 2009. According to Headley's statement to US authorities, he had joined LeT to fight in Kashmir but ended up scouting targets for the Mumbai attackers.


Last week, the White House in a report to Congress warned that despite unprecedented efforts by Pakistan to go after the militants within the country, it lacked "a clear path" to defeat them. Admiral Willard told the lawmakers that the US was working actively with South Asian governments including India, Nepal, Bangladesh, to help build their capacities to contain LeT.

But he cautioned that the group was active elsewhere.

"Unquestionably they have spread their influence internationally and are no longer solely focused in South Asia and on India," Willard told the Senate Armed Services Committee.


In the past, LeT has fielded militants in Canada and in the United States.

India continues to be LeT's main target. But Willard noted that the group has declared holy war against the United States and renewed longstanding concerns in Washington about attacks by LeT militants against US forces in Afghanistan.