British police are now calling the death of Joanne Yeates in north Bristol “murder” and say she was strangled. The 25-year-old landscape architect’s death made headlines in the UK after 17 December, when she inexplicably disappeared on her way home at 20:00 from a pre-Christmas party with friends. Her body was found eight days later, on Christmas Day, by people out walking their dog. Her coat, keys and mobile phone were found in her home, but no sign of the pizza she bought at Tesco’s on her way home, or of its packaging.
A couple in Bristol, UK, whose cat Wilbur was apparently eaten alive by their neighbour’s pet python, are petitioning for stricter laws in Britain that would make the Dangerous Wild Animals Act include constrictor snakes. Wilbur wandered into the neighbour’s garden where the python, whose name is not known, “ambushed” the cat, according to the BBC, which quotes a spokeswoman for the RSPCA (Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) as saying “A spokeswoman said: “The snake was scanned and we can confirm that a microchip was found inside. We can’t know for certain that it was Wilbur, but it is very, very likely.” Justice for Wilbur (website set up by cat’s family)
Update 30 May Wealthy Polish businesswoman Kinga Legg was beaten to death with furniture and fists in her hotel room at the five-star Hotel Bristol in Paris, police there say. AP reports that a French judicial investigation was opened Friday 29 May and that an autopsy completed Wednesday showed that she died of internal bleeding from blows to the head and spine. Her companion with whom she had shared the room for three nights, Briton Ian Davis, age 39, was seen leaving the hotel Tuesday 27 May shortly before Legg’s bloodied body was found in the bathtub by a maid. Davis left the hotel in a Porsche 911 and police told The Times that he was believed at one point to be heading for a yacht in southern France, owned by Legg, who “was the director and believed to be the owner of Vegex, a tomato-exporting firm at Opatowek, Poland, with a British base at Oxshott, Surrey,” according to the British daily. According to AP the car Davis was driving was found south of London, near the home of his parents. Police continue to search for him.
Bristol, UK (GenevaLunch) – England coasted to a comfortable six wicket victory over the West Indies in the second one day international in Bristol. The first was rained off.
