General News Discussion

[Cardboard Box City]

You always find out more from the foreign press:

From the Toronto Star:

Asked his name during his first court appearance, alleged U.K. serial killer Stephen Griffiths replied that he is “the crossbow cannibal.”

The response elicited gasps from the courtroom on Friday, according to reports.

Griffiths was arrested Monday after video surveillance footage of a Bradford, England woman being fatally shot with a crossbow bolt was handed over to police.

Hours later, a tactical squad arrested Griffiths. A report in the Times of London suggested that Griffiths had admitted eating part of his victim.

On Thursday, the 40-year-old criminology student was charged with the murders of three sex workers.

The families of Suzanne Blamires – the woman seen being killed on video – Susan Rushworth and Shelley Armitage were on hand as Griffiths made his first appearance.

He stood in the prisoner’s dock wearing dark jeans and a T-shirt. When asked his name by the court clerk, he replied, “The crossbow cannibal.” Asked his address, he said, “Here. I guess.”

All three women disappeared in the last 11 months. The remains of Rushworth and Armitage have not been recovered.

Griffiths stands accused of killing Blamires, 36, in the early hours of Saturday morning. The video footage – discovered by a horrified apartment superintendent on Monday as he reviewed the weekend’s tape – showed Blamires’s last, horrifying seconds of life.

A man chases her down and disables her in a hallway. He walks back into the frame holding a crossbow and shoots Blamires in the head. Her body is dragged out of frame. Later, the assailant can be seen removing garbage bags and a rucksack from the apartment building.

Dismembered human remains were found in a river roughly 5 km from Blamires’s home on Tuesday. By that point, Griffiths was already in custody.

Bradford was the stalking grounds of Peter Sutcliffe, a truck driver who became infamous as the Yorkshire Ripper for a series of killings in the 1970s. In one of the many overlaps between the two cases, Griffiths is being represented by the law firm of Lumb and MacGill – the same firm that defended Sutcliffe.

Sutcliffe, 63, was convicted of 13 murders in 1981. He remains in prison.

[RABun]

Patrick Bateman

Reckon he was modelling himself on this, rather than Peter Sutcliffe.

[Atlanteanlost]

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So government overkill????

[beLIEveR]

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So government overkill????

[Atlanteanlost]

Ladies! Apparently in Australia if you have small baps you aren't a woman. You are in fact a paedaphile's dream

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Edited May 28, 2010 by Atlanteanlost

[oafc0000]

Ladies! Apparently in Australia if you have small baps you aren't a woman. You are in fact a paedaphile's dream

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[eFestivals]

why the f**k has that prossie killer been given the name "The crossbow cannibal"?

it's the name he gave when asked his name in court.

crossbow cannibal is a cool name, I might even change my username to that.

You sure you wanna do that.....?

[Atlanteanlost]

The world is going nuts

[ampersand]

it's the name he gave when asked his name in court.

[Langdale Wolf]

You sure you wanna do that.....?

[oafc0000]

Better than calling yourself 'oaf' or 'worm', isn't it?

Though there is one chap who posts on the Glasto forums called 'Absolute w*nker'. Which he is, but his username makes me titter.

[Langdale Wolf]

oi

I quite like being called oaf

[RABun]

I should change my name as it was only a code name peevis gave me and it confuses people.

Suggestions on a postcard

[t8yman]

i read that it was the name he was given by the tabloids? so not invented by him...though i could easily be wrong.

[indieheart]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/may/28/e...n-investigation

apart from the otherwise obvious why did the pub continue serving? this group relies on being able to hire transport, have meeting venues etc but clearly and plainly breaking the law.

[t8yman]

because it was a wetherspoons, and wetherspoons have no moral responsibility.

[ampersand]

ouch

[Atlanteanlost]

Still getting them

That will teach them to occupy all the sun loungers

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[Steve P]

Scary

NEWS

[smog]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jun/02/g...dead-whitehaven

yikes

[Atlanteanlost]

http://uk.movies.ign.com/articles/109/1094230p1.html

Why has James Cameron been called up to solve the oil spill problem, he's a director albeit with his own fleet of submarines?

Edited June 3, 2010 by Atlanteanlost

[philipsteak]

http://uk.movies.ign.com/articles/109/1094230p1.html

Why has James Cameron been called up to solve the oil spill problem, he's a director albeit with his own fleet of submarines?

[Atlanteanlost]

Talking of BP...

Was asked to download and convert this movie for a lecturer here at work..

However, there's no sound you stupid f**kwits, even on their own channel HERE.

I've checked it out on 4 different PCs/Laptops so I'm assuming its not local hardware

Expects shares to fall even further now

[Atlanteanlost]

Very cool

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[-pogo-]

Defend Tommy Sheridan.