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Li Heping
Evening Standard
19 August 2008
Lawyer Li and the goon squad.
"Come on," said Li Heping, "let me show you my secret police guards." We went through the gate of the pleasant residential compound where he has his apartment, and there they were, three of them, sitting on garden chairs outside the entrance to his building.
Michelle Diskin
The Independent
16 August 2008
Michelle Diskin: Life on the outside for Barry George.
She fought tirelessly for the release of her brother. Now Michelle Diskin explains to Mark Hughes how Barry George is adjusting to his freedom – and reveals the help he is receiving from another man convicted of a crime he did not commit
Caroline Hedges
Daily Mail
14 August 2008
"Yes, I was drunk. But I didn't asked to be raped."
This week it was revealed that a number of rape victims have had their payouts cut by the Criminal Injury Compensation Authority after being told their drinking was a 'contributing factor' to the attacks. Inevitably, the story has provoked fierce debate.
Can a woman really take any of the blame if she is drunk when she is assaulted? Here, Caroline Hedges, 29, a PR account director from Clapham, South London, who was raped while drunk on holiday in Corfu ten years ago, tells her story.
Colin Stagg
Evening Standard
14 August 2008
"The money is great but being free is priceless."
Colin Stagg, falsely accused of murdering Rachel Nickell, tells today how he feels no sympathy for Barry George because of his history of stalking vulnerable women. Mr Stagg, who has just been awarded more than £700,000 for wrongful arrest and prosecution, moved to distance himself from Mr George - acquitted last month of murdering TV star Jill Dando.
Mr Stagg, 45, said: "I do feel sorry for George because he has been behind bars all these years when he was clearly not guilty on the evidence. But I can feel no sympathy for the man himself because he is a serial stalker of women who has also admitted attempted rape.
"I can understand police pointing the finger at him because of his previous conviction. But he's not like me. I had never had a single conviction until police accused me of murdering Rachel Nickell. There's a big difference between me and Barry George."
Mr Stagg spent a year in jail awaiting trial for the 1992 murder of Ms Nickell, who was stabbed 49 times as her two-year-old son Alex looked on. He was acquitted in 1994 but the cloud of suspicion hung over him until a second man, Robert Napper, who stands trial in November, was charged with the murder last year.
Yesterday the Standard revealed that Mr Stagg had finally won a long legal battle with the Home Office for £700,000 compensation, He likened the sum - far larger than any previous award for wrongful arrest - to winning the Lottery. For years he was unable to shake off the stigma of being accused of murdering Ms Nickell, 23, a former part-time model, as she walked across Wimbledon Common. ...
Shevaun Pennington
Daily Mail
13 August 2008
The innocent victim, 12, of an internet paedophile describes: 'The abduction that RUINED my life'.
All 17-year-old Shevaun Pennington has to do is close her eyes and she is 12 again, but for her there are none of the carefree summer memories a girl of her age might expect to treasure.
Four days, in particular, haunt her still. Four days in July 2003 during which Shevaun sparked an international police hunt and became Britain's most famous missing child, after being abducted by a 31-year-old American paedophile who'd spent a year grooming her over the internet....
Sion Jenkins
News of the World
10 August 2008
IS THIS MY BILLIE-JO'S KILLER?
Sion Jenkins, wrongly jailed for murdering foster daughter, says this is guilty man
Elizabeth Cameron
Daily Mail
9 August 2008
At 16 she was gang raped and left pregnant. Now one mother explains... Why I love my rapist's baby.
Like so many teenage mums, Elizabeth Cameron doesn't like to talk much about the father of her toddler daughter.
She shrugs when asked about him, and admits that when questioned about his whereabouts - as people inevitably do - she likes to keep things vague.
'When new people ask, I say I have nothing to do with him - which is true,' she says quietly. 'But I'm not sure yet what I will tell Phoebe herself when she is old enough to ask.
'My daughter was snatched by a paedophile, but her rescue was just the start of our nightmare'
Daily Mail
8 August 2008
Two childhood photographs, taken just a year apart, reveal the dramatic extent to which six-year-old Jane has changed. They could be of two different children.
The first, taken in November 2005 when she was three, shows a pretty little girl with long hair, sparkling eyes and a big smile.
In the second, taken 12 months later, she is almost unrecognisable.
'In the first picture, she looks like a beautiful doll, and in the second she's like a little old lady.
'It's as if something has died in her,' weeps her 36-year-old mother Angela.
'The light has gone out of her. It breaks my heart when I look at how she is now.'
Jane, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, is the child who was snatched from her home on the night of January 2, 2006, by 26-year-old convicted paedophile Craig Sweeney. ...
Lord Ashcroft
Sunday Telegraph
6 August 2008
Lord Ashcroft: my 20-year passion for Crimestoppers.
Without knowing it, an anonymous caller made a small piece of history last weekend when he volunteered information about a stabbing in Leicestershire. His became the one millionth “actionable call’’ to Crimestoppers since the charity was launched 20 years ago.
Barry George
News of the World
3 August 2008
PART 1: Barry George: Why I'm no killer. He tells his story for first time.
FREED Barry George has sensationally broken his silence and confessed: "I didn't kill Jill Dando— because I was stalking ANOTHER woman."
In a world exclusive interview with the News of the World and Sky News, the bug-eyed oddball revealed for the first time in detail exactly what he WAS doing the day in 1999 when Crimewatch TV beauty Jill was gunned down on her doorstep.
Astonishingly the 48-year-old loner declared: "Just because I was a pest to women doesn't make me a killer."
The man who was the only suspect in the case, and served eight years in jail until his dramatic retrial acquittal on Friday, answered our string of tough questions and detailed:
* WHERE he was on the day of the murder.
* WHY he was seen lurking in Jill's road in West London.
* WHY he was earlier caught with a knife and rope just yards from Princess Diana's home.
* WHY he earned a chilling reputation as a stalker latching on to women in the street.
* WHY he took on fake names linking himself to celebrities. ....
Barry George
News of the World
3 August 2008
Part 2: I've lost 8 years of life...the world has changed so much. Barry George: My hell in jail and joy of freedom.
ANGRY Barry George snatched a precious gulp of fresh air as a free man and declared: "The last eight years have been a WASTE of my life.
"I went into prison a young man—at a time considered to be the ‘best years of your life'. And yes, I AM very very bitter about what's happened to me.
"As a result I've LOST all that time and will never get it back. I've missed out on so much. I should have been getting on with my life. Who knows what I could have done and achieved?
Barry George
Sky News
3 August 2008
'I Was A Scapegoat'
Barry George had told how he was made a scapegoat by police investigating the murder of Jill Dando.
In an exclusive interview with Sky News and the News Of The World, he said he would be prepared to take a lie detector test to convince anyone who still has doubts about his innocence.
The 48-year-old told Sky's Kay Burley he did not believe police would ever catch the killer.
"I will maintain that I will look anyone in the eye and state I have not killed Jill Dando," he said.
"To be quite honest and practical, I don't think they'll ever find who done it."
Gary McKinnon
The Independent
2 August 2008
Gary McKinnon: 'If I have to spend some time in an American jail, I will survive but it will be tough. I can't imagine that I'll be too welcome'
Jerome Taylor meets Gary McKinnon, the hacker who this week lost his appeal against extradition to the US
Hugh Jones
The Times
2 August 2008
Of course I had to abduct Sam, it was the right thing to protect my family
Hugh Jones was jailed for helping his partner to flee a system that wanted to take away her child. But he holds no regrets
John Pridmore
The Independent
1 August 2008
Gods & mobsters: the story of an East End 'enforcer'
John Pridmore was an East End 'enforcer' who found God, joined a Franciscan order, and now devotes his life to fighting gang culture. It's little wonder that Hollywood wants to tell his story. By Jerome Taylor
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