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Various places have speculated about motive. I read somewhere that the father and son would exploit vulnerable people, steal their possessions and benefit money, both victims were described as vulnerable in court. However, that doesn’t explain why they would go from doing that (if they did it) to doing something like this. There are other rumours as well, that probably can’t and shouldn’t be repeated. I think if there was a motive it would have been said in court, from the look of it the father and son just decided to brutally torture two guys to death, planned it out and did it. The Sun quotes the note they left in the flat, written by Dean Macleod it said Father and son both tried to commit suicide after the murders with methadone but failed, obviously. I’m sure I posted this before but Bronco MacLeod is mentioned here, in this salacious article about Edinburgh street gangs. https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Crime+Capital%3B+The+street+gangs+of+the+1960s+and+70s+spawned+a+new...-a0130202910

Sentencing remarks in the MacLeod double murder. https://judiciary.scot/home/sentences-judgments/sentences-and-opinions/2024/04/08/hma-v-ian-john-macleod-and-dean-ian-macleod Comment from one of his step daughters after his conviction for assaulting more than a decade ago https://www.deadlinenews.co.uk/2009/11/19/daughter-of-woman-attacked-with-corkscrew-say-stepdad-should-be-locked-up-2193/?amp=1

‘Bronco’ MacLeod has a long record for violence. https://www.eastlothiancourier.com/news/13553939.corkscrew-attacker-jailed/

This case was mentioned in here a few months back. Not exactly organised crime but references to a prominent Leith street gang, the YLT, in the case. https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/edinburgh-father-son-jailed-life-28956213?fbclid=IwAR2cCfnXPiSIHKSCYqA2aCLbuRScdruXfUCgjH6RY3fuvYcD2JzEzCbMsiI_aem_Af2wo_g_bfJ82HS-68fvZOSNkQcz3nSEQNk4UdhNQTjtDD3vTiKqr1p7AZGflsL1Sew#lur0vqf2jdzcofu4n3j I think the older guy may possibly be one the inspirations for Begbie from Trainspotting.

Sheridan was on a short term deal and didn’t perform at all well at any point in his time with us, including games against Cowdenbeath. He was released at the end of his deal and was then picked up by QP where he seems to have picked up. We just didn’t really play to what I presume are his strengths. We play a pretty negative, possession based style. Welsh was going to leave at the end of the season and the decision presumably was made to let him go early and save on wages. He was often injured but it’s clear that he was still a valuable player, particularly as we’ve since lost McAllister and Gilmour to injury and had Carson leave as well.

A man has refused to wear clothes during a court appearance in Dublin, in protest at the local police losing his emotional support cat during a traffic stop. Joseph Davis, 51, enter court nude to face charges of failing to keep his car stationary and refusing to give police his details. He refused a lawyer, telling his court appointed solicitor to “f**k off”. He claimed to have been dropping documents into the High Court accompanied by his cat Oliver, who he has permission to take into the a high a court, provided the cat is on a leash. There was a dispute in court regarding Mr Davis bail conditions, leading to the following exchange Mr Davis is due back in court on Tuesday. Have any P&Bers ever appeared in court naked to protest at the loss of an emotional support animal?

I am slightly wrong after fact checking myself - The Seekers cult in the 1950s predicted a date that UFOs were going to come and get them but that after the first date came and went the membership stayed loyal but when the second date came and went most of them left. Not all of them though! Do the JWs still say the world is going to end on a specific date?

Most people, maybe nearly everyone, will believe something that completely goes against evidence and will be unmovable from that position. There are millenarian cults who have predicted that the world will end on a specific date and when it hasn’t the cult has actually prospered. That said, almost everyone who doesn’t believe in global warming or the general consensus around it, is a mad crank. It’s almost a meme in our culture that the lone voice who everyone ridicules turns out to be right, it’s the theme of so many movies, TV shows and books. We should probably start producing shows about problems solved by careful planning and measured execution, where the subject matter experts and interested parties work collaboratively and professionally. The naysayers should be proved wrong and left to fester in their oddness.

The guy who made it also made a documentary about the benefits of silicone breast implants. So global warming - made up; massive tits - very good. It's a political programme I can get on board with.

Here's our team Six of the starting line up loan players (Kerr, Anderson, Boyes, Carragher, Samuel and Lawal), with Pepple on the bench also on loan. Seems a very similar line up to recent games, can't really see things going much differently. Dreary, goalfree 90 minutes to come!

Howling at this story Must be a parody

No excuse for looking scruffy, even if the roof has fallen in and none of the students can read.

Doesn't every school do that? I was reading about the case of Ruth Perry, the headteacher of a primary school in Reading who took her own life after the school was inspected by Ofsted and regarded from 'outstanding' to 'inadequate'. The issue was with the schools safeguarding practice and the inspectors estimated that it would have taken 30 days to rectify the issues found. The single word inspection results (oustanding, good, inadequate etc) have been criticsed, with Labour saying they will get rid of them. Ofsted have undertaken to update their procedures to deal with some concerns raised in the coroners inquest but some teachers unions are campaigning for the abolition of Ofsted. This isn't the first time that Ofsted inspections have been mentioned in relation to the death of a teacher. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd1088x7w5xo - Latest story about the case, with lots of links explaining other details. I know that inspections are very difficult, being a headteacher under inspection must be hard. It's very British that Ruth Perry was worried that the inspection report would cause house prices in her area to fall and have the local community turn against her - house prices not safeguarding of children! You surely have to have a method of assessing schools though.

His son was sent home a couple of days after he reported him missing. He could technically have been charged with a crime but I think the fact that he was a minor and there were questions about what happened, they left it. Jade, who was the main woman interviewed, was one of the women who accused him of rape. The others couldn't be identified, either through choice or because of their age.

I don't think they can give any details on his son for legal reasons. Also, he might have declined to co-operate with the documentary. I don't think the woman who Avis abused when she was pregnant with his child was the mother of the son who reported him missing. His son was 17 when he reported him missing in 2019 and the woman interviewed about the abuse when she was pregnant said she met him in the early 2000s and then developed a relationship over years. As noted by others, he has numerous children. Incidentally, this article says that he was from Newmarket in Suffolk - https://www.suffolknews.co.uk/newmarket/news/rapist-is-jailed-after-faking-his-own-death-in-california-9206543/

GHF as soon as his Green card comes through

I’m not saying the US is some perfect place, more illustrating how the UK has declined. The murder rate is approximately six times more in the US than the UK. The wage and wealth gap between the US and UK used to be far smaller. It began widening significantly about twenty years ago.

A few months ago, this advert got a lot of attention. It’s for staff at a car wash in Texas. An assistant general manager of a car wash paid about the same as an NHS consultant. I mean, I’m sure those salaries might not be typical for working in a car wash in the US but damn.

The Wall Street Journal has an article about the rise of the UK as an offshoring location for American businesses. Basically, incomes have stagnated so much that American firms are looking to utilise what for the UK are high end jobs but come at half the salary of the US. Illustration here I have actually looked into this, if I moved to the USA and did the exact same job I do here I’d be earning around double my salary. The wage and wealth gap between the UK and the US is a big black pill. It also wouldn’t all be taken up with paying for health insurance, as the US has much lower taxes. If the UK was a US state then we would be the poorest, ranking alongside Mississippi.

What do people make of Hoka as a brand? I've heard they are the comfiest trainer, so I have just bought a pair.

My friend found out their wife was having an affair with a work colleague because messages popped up on Christmas Eve when they were watching a movie on wife's iPad. The wife had been doing a new job and hadn't been coping and had been drinking really heavily - she'd fall asleep drunk almost every night, which she did that night as well. They were at her families for Christmas and the wife begged my friend to just put up with it for a day before they sorted it out but basically they split up immediately afterwards. I think that the wife had been looking for a way out of the relationship but couldn't bring herself to just say she needed to leave so she would do things to drive away my friend - drinking heavily, being very difficult and finally, having the affair. I don't think she meant to get caught though.

https://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/mans-only-god-can-judge-me-tattoo-proved-wrong-by-county-court-judge-20160816112398

Nice of the owner to give his dog a turn of his necklace. Every part of the story just gets better. Quote from the owner also, the owner

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/first-xl-bully-owner-prosecuted-32495262 Everyone in this story looks exactly how you think they would.