A woman in Britain killed her boyfriend and kept his body in a wheelie bin in her bedroom for 11 days, a court heard yesterday.
When police found Shaun Corey, 42, his body was so decomposed they could not say how he died.
Karen Otmani, 42, had been talking about getting rid of her on-off lover and had even asked another boyfriend to experiment with some blue liquid to see if it would knock him out, Bobbie Cheema, prosecuting, told the Old Bailey.
Mr Corey was last seen at Otmani’s home in Stanstead Road, Forest Hill, south London, on June 4 last year. (AP)
Nine lives minus one
A cat has survived a six-mile journey from Edinburgh sitting on a van’s engine.
The Persian, named Penelope, was discovered when the van’s driver looked under the bonnet after noticing a burning smell. It is now being treated for burns and a fractured jaw, and the Scottish SPCA is looking to reunite the cat with its owners. (PA)
Peculiar names unearthed
Mary Scary, Fran Pire and Frank N Stein are among the peculiar names unearthed by a family history website.
Ancestry.co.uk said a study of names on its site going back hundreds of years, ranging from school registers and marriage records to phone books, revealed some unusual entries.
Names of interest included Norfolk woman Mary Scary born in 1843, butcher Fran Pire, who left New York for Southampton in 1926, a World War I soldier called Will Fright and a Southampton newsagent described in a phone book as Mr Spooky. (PA)
‘Dead’ man at own wake
A car washer in Brazil walked into his own wake, where his distraught family was already weeping over their loss.
“People were so startled. Women were fainting, people started running all over the place,” said one of the mourners in Alagoinhas, in Salvador de Bahia state.
Gilberto Araujo, 41, heard from a friend on the street that his family thought he was dead and was busy getting ready to bury him so he decided to head straight to the wake and clear things up.
“A friend of mine told me there was a coffin at the wake – and that I was inside it,” Araujo said. In fact, Araujo’s family had been burying a corpse that looked startlingly like their loved one, a body that had yet to be formally identified. (AFP)
2,200 joints in bedroom
Dutch police said yesterday they had arrested a woman in the port city of Rotterdam with 2,200 cannabis joints and 12 kilos of soft drugs.
A statement said police went to the address looking for another man and noticed a strong smell of cannabis coming from a locked bedroom. Once inside, they seized the joints and the other drugs, arresting the 37-year-old tenant.
Possession of small quantities of soft drugs is tolerated in the Netherlands. (AFP)