Girl's sex-assault murder: man charged David Braithwaite June 27, 2006 - 5:08PM
An eight-year-old girl allegedly murdered in a Perth shopping centre may have been attacked as her uncle and brother knocked on the door of the disabled toilet where she died, police believe.
A 21-year-old man was today charged over the death of Sofia Rodrigez-Urrutia-Shu, who police believe was snatched at random before allegedly being sexually assaulted and killed at the Livingstone Market shopping centre in suburban Canning Vale.
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"Please keep Sofia and our family in your thoughts and prayers."
Police who went to a house in Canning Vale today later charged a man with wilful murder, deprivation of liberty and sexual penetration.
"We went to a house in Canning Vale this morning, and as a result of what was seized at the house, and the lead-up interview at the house, he was taken into custody," Detective Senior Sergeant John Wibberley told reporters.
Sgt Wibberley said the man lived with his parents and worked as a shop assistant in the area.
He would not say whether the man worked at the shopping centre.
He said he believed the alleged attack was "totally random".
"We will allege it was a spur of the moment attack at this stage," Sgt Wibberley said.
"It's a horrific offence against an innocent young child who ... has just made the fatal mistake of being in the wrong place at the wrong time," he said.
Sgt Wibberley said it was not clear whether Sofia had wandered into the disabled toilet or had been snatched from the female toilets.
A post-mortem examination is expected to confirm the cause of death tomorrow.
Sgt Wibberley said the girl's father had flown back from a business trip in Hong Kong to be with his family.
"The family is absolutely distraught as you can imagine," he said.
"It is probably the worst nightmare for any family with a young child."
In their statement, Sofia's family said they had received "immense support" from the police, the parish and from the school community.
"We understand the interest of the media and the public following this awful criminal act but ask that you respect our privacy and allow us to deal with our grief," the family said.
Dozens of police officers were at the shopping centre today, examining the scene and surveillance footage and interviewing witnesses and shopping centre employees.
Brooke McCaffree, 22, who works as a shop assistant at a gift shop next door to the toilets, said she was "absolutely disgusted".
"I just don't understand how this could happen, we live in a nice suburb," she said.
"The fact that I was there serving customers as this was happening in the next room, is just diabolical."
The accused man was expected to appear in Perth Magistrate's Court later today. AAP
When the trial begins, it will be revealed that this predator has a fixation with pornography . . .
If only people today would realise how dangerous it is and just play football or cricket instead. . then our women and children would be so much safer.
DEMOCRACY = Voters deciding by Poll on who will be the local member that "Big Business" will push around.
Perth accused not Bulger killer: police Wednesday Jun 28 17:50 AEST
Police in Perth have been forced to deny that a man accused of murdering an eight-year-old schoolgirl is one of the killers of British boy James Bulger.
Dante Wyndham Arthurs, 21, of Canning Vale, was remanded in custody after appearing in Perth Magistrates Court charged with wilful murder, sexual penetration of a child and deprivation of liberty.
He was charged following the discovery on Monday of the body of Sofia Rodriguez-Urrutia-Shu on the floor of a disabled toilet at Livingstone Market shopping centre in Canning Vale.
Since his arrest rumours have circulated, including that Arthurs was one of two 10-year-old boys convicted of abducting three-year-old James Bulger from a Liverpool shopping centre in 1993 and killing him near a canal.
EDIT by Suzi The above statement is incorrect. James Bulger was killed and left on a railway track, not a canal.
West Australian police have been forced to issue a statement saying they were aware of the rumours but had failed to substantiate them.
"The rumours are speculative and without ground," WA Police Deputy Commissioner Chris Dawson said in a statement.
Mr Dawson said the overriding public interest was for the case against Arthurs to proceed unhindered, and he appealed to the media not to publish information which may prejudice a fair trial.
There was a public outcry in Britain in 2001 when the two killers of James Bulger, Jon Venables and Robert Thompson, were released from prison and given new identities.
Details of their new names and locations have not been released, but the new rumours are believed to be based on speculation that one of the pair began a new life in Australia.
Meanwhile, Perth has rallied around the shattered family of Sofia.
Sofia's school, the Mater Christi Catholic Primary School in Yangebup, held prayer services for the little girl.
A school spokeswoman said a shrine had been set up for Sofia in the school grounds and counsellors were helping the girl's friends and classmates.
Parish priest Bryan Rosling said Sofia was a well behaved and well liked girl, from a respected and admired family, which had been shattered by her senseless death.
"She was just a gorgeous little girl, and she will always be that now," Fr Rosling told reporters.
"(She was) very sweet, very quiet, affectionate and much loved by everyone."
Fr Rosling said he had received many messages of support and offers of help for the family from the local community, and the family was very appreciative.
"I have assured them of our prayers, our support, anything the school can offer them, we are offering them," he said.
"They are very close and they are in torment.
"They are a wonderful Christian family with tremendous ideals."
Fr Rosling said Sofia's murder was likely to change the fabric of the school.
"I don't know if any good will come out of it, but I hope there will be," he said.
"I hope it is a reminder to everyone that we need to appreciate each other as treasures, as precious, and only on loan.
"There are no answers to a thing like this, so it is a test of faith for all of us."
Fr Rosling said no arrangements had yet been made for Sofia's funeral.
One of the men of interest in the cruise ship death of Dianne Brimble demanded she be removed from his cabin while medical staff were trying to revive her, an inquest has been told.
Passenger Services Director Melvyn Armitage today told the Glebe Coroner's Court that a man, whom he later identified as Letterio Silvestri, was twice stopped from entering the cabin where medical staff were attending to Mrs Brimble.
Mr Armitage labelled Mr Silvestri "arrogant", saying he demanded staff remove Mrs Brimble from his room.
"He was quite arrogant," he told the inquest into Mrs Brimble's death. "He was saying get the b**** out of the room, that's my room."
"It's an impression I'll never forget, he was just so arrogant."
Mr Silvestri has been named as one of eight men of interest to police investigating Mrs Brimble's death. The others are Mark Wilhelm, Matthew Slade, Dragan Losic, Petar Pantic, Ryan Kuchel, Luigi Vitale and Sakelaros Kambouris.
Mrs Brimble's naked body was found on the floor of the cabin Mr Silvestri shared with Mr Wilhelm, Mr Kuchel and Mr Slade aboard the Pacific Sky.
She died of an overdose of the date rape drug gamma-hydroxybutyrate, or fantasy, less than 24 hours after boarding the P&O cruise liner on September 23, 2002.
Mr Armitage today said he had sought permission from staff captain Ivan Jerman for the four men to clear their belongings from their cabin where Mrs Brimble was found.
He sought the permission after the chief of security told him no-one was allowed inside.
"I was just trying to alleviate the tension going on down there," Mr Armitage told the inquest.
"I just wanted to take them (the men) away from the area and put them in a different area.
"I'm just trying to appease passengers."
While accompanying two of the men as they packed their belongings, Mr Armitage said one of the men searched under the mattress for "sleeping tablets".
"He lifted the mattress up looking for sleeping tablets," Mr Armitage said. "Once he did that I told him to put the mattress down."
Mr Armitage said the same man also removed two capsule-shaped "white tablets" from the dresser.
Asked by counsel assisting the coroner Ron Hoenig if he later had an argument with Mr Jerman about allowing the men into the room, Mr Armitage replied: "I don't remember".
"There's a lady dead on the boat, you've got a lunatic wanting her body out of his cabin and you don't remember?" Mr Hoenig said.
Mr Armitage then conceded he may have had a discussion with Mr Jerman about the matter.
"I may have done," Mr Armitage said.
"After we had some doubt to the way she passed (away) then we started talking about it."
Brimble 'fully consented' to taking drug Friday Jun 30 19:05 AEST
Brisbane mother Dianne Brimble "fully consented" to taking the date-rape drug that caused her death aboard a Pacific holiday cruise, a Sydney inquest has been told.
Letterio Silvestri is one of eight men of interest to police investigating the 42-year-old's death from the drug gamma-hydroxybutyrate, dubbed fantasy.
On Friday, he became the first of the group to take the stand at Glebe Coroners' Court, telling the inquest Mrs Brimble was told of the drug's effect before willingly taking it.
Mr Silvestri, 38, said his cabin-mate, Ryan Kuchel, told him he had overheard their friend Mark Wilhelm offer Mrs Brimble fantasy when they returned to the cabin they all shared early on September 24, 2002 - day two of the cruise.
"Ryan was obviously awake at the time. Mark produced some fantasy ... Mrs Brimble asked 'what is it', Mark replied 'it's fantasy'," Mr Silvestri said.
"Mrs Brimble asked 'what does it do', Mark then asked her 'have you ever been horny', Mrs Brimble said 'yes', Mark then told her 'this will make you 10 times hornier, it's like ecstasy'."
Mr Silvestri said Mr Kuchel told him Mrs Brimble then took the drug.
"Mark Wilhelm explained it to her what the effects were and she made it quite clear that she wanted some," he said.
"There was never any mention of her not wanting to have it."
Mr Silvestri told the inquest that while he was present during this exchange, he had been fast asleep, having taken a combination of valium and sleeping tablets.
In a later conversation, Mr Silvestri said Mr Wilhelm admitted having "consensual sex" with Mrs Brimble, and then claimed Mr Silvestri himself had "received oral sex from her".
Mr Silvestri said he had no memory of that: "I only remember the next morning when Mark waked me up (sic)."
He said Mr Wilhelm had woken him because he was concerned Mrs Brimble had passed out, and he wanted help putting her in the shower in the hope it would revive her.
Mr Silvestri was granted an immunity certificate by Deputy State Coroner Jacqueline Milledge, meaning he could not incriminate himself through his evidence.
During almost two-and-a-half hours on the stand, he said he met Mrs Brimble at the ship's disco but was not interested in her.
"I remember thinking I hope she doesn't come over here," he said.
In his taped police interview, previously played to the inquest, Mr Silvestri said Mrs Brimble "stank", was "black" and an "ugly dog".
When asked about those comments by counsel assisting the coroner, Ron Hoenig, Mr Silvestri replied: "Those were some harsh words at the time."
"I just didn't want to know anything about her."
As the day's hearing drew to a close, he described Mrs Brimble's death as tragic.
When asked by Ms Milledge if he understood what Mrs Brimble's family was going through, he replied: "Yes I do, yes, it's tragic."
Mr Silvestri will continue his evidence when the inquest resumes on July 24.
His seven travelling companions, including Mr Wilhelm, Mr Slade, Mr Kuchel, Dragan Losic, Petar Pantic, Luigi Vitale and Sakelaros Kambouris, have also been subpoenaed to appear at the inquest.
I personally don't believe a word that spews forth from these slime balls mouths. She can't argue because she has died. Like you'd take the word of a guy who takes Viagra like smarties and uses speed to exist and perform!
NZ suitcase murder accused arrested in Sydney Jano Gibson June 30, 2006 - 1:08PM
The accused murderer of a teenage student whose body was stuffed in a suitcase and found floating in Auckland's harbour has appeared in a Sydney court today.
Xiangxin Cui, a 21-year-old Chinese national and former New Zealand university student, is accused of kidnapping and murdering Wan Biao, a 19-year-old English language student.
Mr Biao's body was stuffed in a suitcase which was discovered floating in Waitemata Harbour in Auckland on Good Friday.
The discovery came not long after a ransom demand of about $650,000 was allegedly made to Mr Biao's parents in China.
Mr Cui was arrested by AFP officers in Surry Hills last night following a 10 week investigation involving Australian and New Zealand authorities.
He faced Central Local Court this afternoon where his extradition was sought based on warrants issued in New Zealand for kidnapping and murder.
Bail was not applied for and was formally refused by Magistrate Allan Moore.
Mr Cui will appear before Central Local Court via a video link on July 5.
Three alleged co-offenders, charged with kidnapping and murder or accessory to the fact, faced Auckland District Court on Wednesday.
They were remanded to appear at a depositions hearing at the court on September 4.
Convictions in doubt as top prosecutor faces porn charge
Tim D ick, Ben Cubby and Justin Norrie July 8, 2006
HUNDREDS of criminal convictions are under a cloud after the Director of Public Prosecutions, Nicholas Cowdery, QC, ordered an unprecedented review of every matter involving a senior crown prosecutor charged with possessing child pornography.
Cases covered by the review include some of the most high-profile cases of recent years, such as those of the gang rapist Bilal Skaf, the wife killer Andrew Kalajzich, and the man who shot at Prince Charles with a starter pistol, David Kang.
Patrick John Piers Power, SC, who prosecuted these and hundreds of other cases, was stood down on full pay on Tuesday before being charged by Surry Hills police late on Thursday night. Possession of child pornography carries a maximum sentence of five years' jail.
An explicit illegal video was allegedly found on his personal computer by a technician from Mr Cowdery's office, who was asked to repair the hard drive.
The technician noticed the video on Tuesday and reported it to his boss. Mr Cowdery's deputy then had a discussion with Power, who left without returning to his office.
Power, 54, is suspended at least until he faces court on July 27. He was also suspended from his role as the chairman of the Youth Justice Advisory Committee, which advises the NSW Government on policy on young offenders. Mr Cowdery said his office was reviewing "hundreds" of matters its records show involved Power, who became a prosecutor in 1987.
He would have conducted matters involving children, Mr Cowdery said, but the number of such cases was unknown, as was any effect on the convictions' validity. "We are going back through that database to identify the matters in which Dr Power has appeared and to get some assessment of the nature of the matters in each case," he said.
"When we have that information, we'll have to review it and make an assessment as to whether any further investigation is appropriate."
Asked if there could be grounds for convictions to be appealed, he said: "Certainly, there's an argument that that would be the case. I think we have to go one step at a time on that."
Patrick Keyzer, an associate professor of law at the University of Technology, Sydney, said ordinarily the principle of res judicata, which means the court decision is final, would operate, unless that decision had been obtained by fraud. The allegations had not been proven, Professor Keyzar said, and anyone appealing would have to show that proven allegations against Power had had a "material impact" on a court decision.
Russia knows how the mete out punishment. Remember the Beslan School siege and massacre by (apparently) Chechen Rebels? This news today....
'Beast of Beslan' killed, Russia says July 11, 2006 - 6:22AM
Shamil Basayev, the Chechen rebel leader who claimed responsibility for Russia's worst terrorist attacks, including the bloody 2004 Beslan school siege, was killed today, Russia's top intelligence official said.
Federal Security Service chief Nikolai Patrushev told President Vladimir Putin in a televised meeting that Basayev and many other rebels had been killed in the operation overnight in Ingushetia -- a republic bordering Chechnya that has been plagued by sporadic spillover violence from the separatist region.
Patrushev gave no details of the operation in his remarks, but an Ingush regional interior ministry official said Basayev had been killed while accompanying a truck filled with 100 kg of dynamite that blew up in the Ingush village of Ekazhevo.
The official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to speak to the press, said Basayev was among four militants killed in the blast, which authorities earlier said had occurred mistakenly during a special police operation against alleged rebels preparing to commit a terrorist attack later today.
The Interfax news agency cited Ingush Deputy Prime Minister Bashir Aushev as offering the same version of events and saying Basayev had been in a car accompanying the truck. He said Basayev's body had been identified "through some of the fragments, including his head," Interfax reported.
Interfax later quoted the Federal Security Service headquarters as saying 12 rebels had been killed in addition to Basayev.
Putin called Basayev's killing "deserved retribution" for terror attacks such as Beslan and others.
The September 2004 attack on the Beslan school, in which 331 victims were killed, shocked Russia and divided the rebel movement because civilians, including women and children, were taken hostage.
Patrushev said the operation to eliminate Basayev was "thanks to the (Russian) intelligence position abroad," but he did not elaborate.
The rebels' London-based envoy, Akhmed Zakayev, could not immediately be reached, and Kavkaz-Centre, a rebel-connected website considered a voice for Basayev, did not confirm or deny Patrushev's claim.
"The Chechen command is not yet making any commentaries or declarations," the website said in a statement under a portrait of Basayev wearing a beret.
Basayev, 41, has been reported killed on many occasions, but this was the first time the killing had been announced at such a high level.
Alu Alkhanov, president of the Kremlin-backed government in Chechnya, said the killing is likely to undermine the Chechen rebel movement irreparably.
"I consider that today can be considered the date of the logical end of the fight against illegal armed formations," Interfax quoted Alkhanov as saying.
Basayev was the boldest and most notorious of the Chechen warlords. But another rebel leader, Doku Umarov, pledged last month that rebels would step up their attacks against Russian forces.
A major Chechen rebel Web site confirmed the death Basayev and called him "a martyr".
The Kavkaz-Centre site, citing a member of the rebel parliament, said Basayev had died in an accidental explosion of a truck.
The confirmation followed Russian officials' announcement that Basayev had been killed in a special operation, when a truck in his convoy blew up.
Abu Umar, representing the rebel parliament's military committee, said, however, "There was no special operation."
"Shamil and other brothers of ours became martyrs by the will of Allah." He said that three other rebels had been killed in the blast, the site said.
Boy gets 26 years for murdering playmate Evan Savoie was 12 when he stabbed disabled 13-year-old
Monday, July 10, 2006 Posted: 2135 GMT (0535 HKT)
EPHRATA, Washington (AP) -- A boy convicted as an adult of stabbing a playmate to death when he was 12 years old was sentenced Monday to the maximum 26 years in prison.
A jury convicted Evan Savoie, now 15, of first-degree murder for the 2003 stabbing death of 13-year-old Craig Sorger, who was developmentally disabled.
Savoie's attorneys have said they will appeal the verdict.
Savoie has repeatedly proclaimed he is innocent. He said Craig fell from a tree while they were playing and that he left him injured -- without a pulse -- on a trail but didn't kill him.
The prosecution said the victim had been beaten and had 34 stab wounds.
Prosecutors alleged Savoie had planned the killing. They told jurors he had blood on his clothes, access to knives, and lied to investigators, at one point deliberately leading searchers away from Sorger's body but later admitting that.
Savoie showed no reaction as the sentence was read, but he smiled when he was led from the courtroom in handcuffs.
"Somebody is going to have to figure out how a 12-year-old can be so violent so young," Grant County Superior Court Judge Ken Jorgensen said as he imposed the maximum sentence.
The Sorger family had pushed for the maximum sentence.
"In your worst nightmare, you never believe this could happen to you," the victim's mother, Lisa Sorger, wrote in a letter read to the court.
The key to the prosecution's case was the testimony of Jake Eakin, another playmate who pleaded guilty last year to second-degree murder by complicity. He is serving 14 years in prison.
Eakin led investigators to the murder weapon and identified Savoie as the killer. On the witness stand, he described the brief attack in wrenching detail, saying Sorger repeatedly cried out: "Why are you doing this to me?"
Adopted son 'murdered parents for money' Thursday Jul 13 12:05 AEST
A court order suppressing details of a Sydney double murder has been lifted, revealing an adopted son killed his wealthy parents for the inheritance.
The bodies of William Weightman, 52, and his wife Pamela, 50, were found in their car, 20 metres down an embankment at Heathcote in Sydney's south, on January 9, 2000.
Their adopted son David Weightman and an accomplice had killed the couple and put their bodies in the car to make their deaths look like an accident, NSW Supreme Court documents released on Thursday say.
Mr and Mrs Weightman were drugged, then suffocated with a pillow in their Glen Alpine home, in Sydney's south-west, on January 8. They operated a childminding service.
NSW Police investigated the deaths as a car accident until Mrs Weightman's sister raised concerns about the couple's death that were then backed up by forensic information.
There was no inquest, but police formed a task force in June 2001 to reinvestigate the case.
Weightman, now 27, denied murdering his parents until he was confronted about his role in the deaths by his mother's sister, Margaret Unwin, in February 2004.
He confessed to police the next day, saying he had promised his accomplice $17,000 for helping him kill his parents, the court documents says.
"The offender frankly acknowledged that his motive was to inherit a large sum of money," the documents say.
"He denied that he (or his accomplice) bore any animosity towards his parents.
"Indeed, he said that he had had a loving relationship with them and that he had been well provided for."
Weightman, the couple's only child, had been adopted shortly after birth.
He pleaded guilty to the murders and was convicted and sentenced by Justice Peter Hidden in the NSW Supreme Court on December 23 last year.
He will be eligible for parole in 2026, after serving 19 years' jail for the murders.
Details of the case were suppressed while an alleged co-accused was tracked by police.
A 38-year-old man was arrested at Coogee, in Sydney's east, on Friday, June 16, and charged with murdering Mr and Mrs Weightman.
He was remanded in custody to appear in Liverpool Local Court on August 30.
This evening on the local news there was a report regarding the uproar surrounding the revelations that Prisoners at the Woodford Correctional Centre here on the Sunshine Coast were receiving 'rewards' for good behaviour. The rewards?Paddle Pops! Don't people in the community understand that you get more with a kind word (or in this case an ice cream) than a harsh one. I know there is a saying that says something similar, and quite correct it is too. For goodness sakes. How horrid, pointless and boring would life be without little treats, however small. These prisoners are still human beings even if they have commited crimes that were inhuman. The point of a Correctional Centre is to rehabilitate the incarcerated for re-entering the community at large. Not degrade and dehumanise them to the point that once released they reoffend immediately.
15-year-old charged with murder From: AAP July 17, 2006
A TEENAGER has been charged with the murder of a six-year-old girl in Adelaide. Police said the 15-year-old youth was arrested this morning, but refused to provide any further details.
The youth has not been named and it is not known if the accused is a boy or a girl.
Six-year-old Mintra Zwar-Potts was found at her suburban Parkside house on June 8 and rushed to the Women's and Children's Hospital.
MP's 'love' for Balding's killers By Janet Fife-Yeomans July 18, 2006
NEW South Wales Labor MP Peter Breen has penned a sickening tribute to the killers of Janine Balding in which he talks about his realisation one night "under the stars" that he loved two of them. The controversial MP, who switched to Labor after being wooed by Premier Morris Iemma to help shore up its Upper House numbers, describes the vicious killers in a new book as having rosy cheeks, pleasant smiles or being hapless. He declares the oldest of the three killers - "Shorty" Jamieson - to be innocent of the murder. Mr Breen calls "blue-eyed" Jamieson by his nickname Jamo. He bought him a television for his cell. "Jamieson is gazing out the high-barred window behind me, his eyes reflecting blue sky," Breen describes one jail meeting in his bizarre paperback, researched mainly in parliamentary time. "I love Shorty Jamieson and I'm not afraid to say so." The Iemma Government, already under fire for going soft on prisoners, will be further embarrassed by their star recruit lobbying for the release of three of the state's most notorious killers. Jamieson, Matthew Elliott and a third man, B, were all jailed for life with their files marked "never to be released" for the 1988 abduction, rape and drowning of Ms Balding, 20. Mr Breen, who swapped from independent to Labor after his arch enemy Bob Carr quit as premier, yesterday said Mr Iemma was "much more sensible" in reviewing criminal convictions. He said Mr Carr had been "irrational" over the three killers. The Carr Government passed laws cementing all "never to be released" prisoners in jail and closed down the controversial Innocence Panel after Mr Breen put up Jamieson's case for review. Mr Breen also professes his love for the youngest of the killers, B, in his book, which he has self-published but which three mainstream publishers are said to be interested in. "I love B and the statement causes me to blink at the stars," he writes in Life as a Sentence, which he claims is the "true story of the Janine Balding murder". Mr Breen, who considered entering the priesthood, believes B, 14 at the time of the murder, is totally rehabilitated after being baptised in the swimming pool at Minda Detention Centre. He ignores a prison psychiatrist who describes B as a charming psychopath. Of Elliott, Mr Breen refers to reports he is a "very impressive young man". And he labels "hapless" a fourth man, W, convicted of raping Ms Balding and who has been convicted of two other abduction and rapes since his release from jail. The book has outraged Ms Balding's family, the police and victims' groups. "He had the hide to send me a copy of the book and I told him that I was highly annoyed and that I found it offensive that he would use Janine's name to sell his book," Bev Balding said. "Poor Janine. I wish he would leave us alone." Homicide Victims Support Group executive director Martha Jabour said: "Mr Breen is discounting the system we have in this country of policing and the judiciary and that is inconsistent with him being an MP. "How can anyone say that they love a murderer when they are not a blood relative and have only met them a few times. It is bizarre." One of the investigating officers, Detective Inspector Russell Oxford, wrote to the Government answering all Mr Breen's claims and reinforcing the evidence against Jamieson. In his book Mr Breen also declares Gary Murphy, one of the five men who killed Anita Cobby, innocent and says that he wished another notorious murderer, Kevin Crump, good luck in his appeal to get out of jail. http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,19820690-2,00.html
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Don't people in the community understand that you get more with a kind word (or in this case an ice cream) than a harsh one. I know there is a saying that says something similar, and quite correct it is too. For goodness sakes. How horrid, pointless and boring would life be without little treats, however small. These prisoners are still human beings even if they have commited crimes that were inhuman.
