Crime Watch

[Dunners]

Hopefully the trial will get to the root of what made them do it.

[faldO]

...and they'll both turn over a new leaf.

[Dunners]

I just hope that they don't branch out into illegal bush trimming.

[Proposition Joe]

Hope the people who felled the tree in Whitewebbs park get the same treatment and are prosecuted.

[Long slender neck]

The Mushroom Murders

Nanette Rogers SC, the prosecutor, said in her opening submissions that Patterson told police she had never owned a food dehydrator nor dehydrated food, but then said she may have owned one years ago.

She had, in fact, been sharing photos of the dehydrator and her habit of using it to dehydrate mushrooms with Facebook friends she met on a group dedicated to discussing the case of convicted baby killer Keli Lane.

CCTV footage later showed her dumping a dehydrator at a local tip. Forensic analysis later revealed it had her fingerprints on it and contained traces of death cap mushrooms.

The disposal of the dehydrator had been done to conceal her actions, Rogers said.

Rogers also said that police never recovered a phone used by Patterson at the time of the deadly mushroom lunch, and another phone seized during their investigation was subject to a “remote factory reset” while they were searching her house.

Rogers said Patterson concocted the story regarding medical issues and her cancer to ensure the children were not present for the lunch.

Simon was also invited to the lunch at Leongatha on 29 July 2023.

Patterson served individual beef wellingtons to her lunch guests, three of whom died from death cap mushroom poisoning, the court has heard.

Rogers said the prosecution also alleged that Patterson had not eaten the same lunch as her guests, but pretended she had the same type of illness to cover this up, had not fed the leftovers to her children and lied about where she had sourced the mushrooms.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-n ... ial-ntwnfb

[Long slender neck]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg5q92npm64o

Oxford street 'candy shop' charged tourist £900 for sweets. Workers then disappeared through a hidden panel in the wall.

[Proposition Joe]

LOL.

Pardon my ignorance, but surely the Council have some say in the shops that get opened? They seem surprised there's so many, although fewer than there were.

[Dunners]

Each unit will have a permitted use category and the landlord is free to let to tenants on that basis.

However, the UK high street economy is more reliant on vape, candy and barber shops than people realise. Without them most places would just close. We're now a low wage, low growth economy, dependent of mass low-skill migration, money laundering (city & high st) and Diliveroo.

[Long slender neck]

What would close?

[Max B Gold]

Each unit will have a permitted use category and the landlord is free to let to tenants on that basis.

However, the UK high street economy is more reliant on vape, candy and barber shops than people realise. Without them most places would just close. We're now a low wage, low growth economy, dependent of mass low-skill migration, money laundering (city & high st) and Diliveroo.

You missed off charity shops from your list.

Was down at Girvan last week, Scotlands premier holiday resort nestled on the sandy shores of the Firth of Clyde and where the water quality is classed as "sufficient". Their High Street is devastated (shops, pubs, cafes closed and boarded up) much like towns of similar size all over the country, except the posh ones.

Still who ever thought we would be sunbathing on the beach in Scotland in April. Global warming has its plus sides.

[Nurofen]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-20210451

[Proposition Joe]

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[Max B Gold]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-20210451

Anybody who swindles the Gloags cannot, in my book, be all bad.

[Dunners]

The sycamore tree duo have been found... GUILTY!

[y o y o y]

The sycamore tree duo have been found... GUILTY!

Northumbria Police special branch should take a bough, well done.