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Man Beating Baby Said 'Demons' Were In Boy

Dad 'walked past dead twins'

June 17, 2008 01:03pm

THE father of 18-month-old twins did not know they were dead until yesterday, despite having walked past their room many times since they died more than a week ago, a court has been told.

The 28-year-old man and his 30-year-old partner, from Sunnybank Hills in Brisbane, appeared in Brisbane Magistrates Court today charged with failing to provide the necessities of life.

Police found the bodies of the twin boy and girl at the couple's house in Brisbane's south yesterday evening.

Police prosecutor Sergeant Tina Green told the court the man had to walk past the twins' bedroom to get to his own room, where he slept separately from his partner.

Sgt Green said the man told police he had not seen the twins since Christmas.

She told the court it was likely the charges would be upgraded once post-mortem examination results were obtained.

"It's most likely they are heading towards manslaughter or murder charges," she told the court.

Lawyer Michael Cridland, representing the father, said his client was "hardly present at home" and that he had no contact with the twins.

He said the mother was the primary carer and the father took the older children to school before going to work each day.

Mr Cridland said his client had been told of the deaths only yesterday.

The court was earlier told that the decaying bodies of the twins were found by an 11-year-old sibling who smelled something unusual in the room the toddlers rarely left.

Police prosecutor Michelle Clarke told the court today the twins were found in the front bedroom of the rented home.

The 11-year-old then went to the mother and said: "I know why you have been crying now."

When police arrived they found the bodies in a "state of decay" and the children appeared to be malnourished, Ms Clarke said.

The court was told the mother told police in an interview that she noticed the twins were dead on either June 8 or 9.

She told police she had been suffering from a cold and rarely fed or changed the twins.

When asked by police how they died, the mother allegedly said: "I don't think I fed them enough."

One of the children weighed 3.6kg and the other 4kg, and the court was told the children were fed with a bottle only.

The court was told the other four children - who are now in the care of their grandmother - allegedly told police they had rarely seen the twins, who had been kept in the room for most of their lives.

Magistrate Noel Nunan granted the prosecution's application to have the pair held in custody for 48 hours, pending the results of a post-mortem examination.

"The circumstance of the death of two young 18-month-old children is bizarre, given that both the parents had been in the house for approximately one week since their death," Mr Nunan told the court.

Both were remanded in custody until Thursday.
 
Fuck babies anyway. Crying all the time. I'd be pretty happy to suck on titties all day and have someone else wipe my fucking ass for me.
 
A MAN accused of deliberately spreading HIV had organised "conversion" parties where others could be infected with the virus, a court has been told.

The trial of Michael Neal, 49, of Coburg, began today in the Victorian County Court.

He faces more than 30 charges, including deliberately infecting two people with HIV and attempting to infect others.

Prosecutor Mark Rochford said Mr Neal arranged "conversion" parties where some people were not aware they risked being infected.

"It was the aim of Neal to infect people with HIV in order to have more people come into the grip of HIV-infected people (and) to engage in unprotected ... sex," Mr Rochford said.

He said the case involved some bizarre and graphic details but told jurors they would have to put aside their prejudices.

The trial continues.
 
TWO men have been jailed for life in Britain for murdering a schoolboy with a submachine-gun as he slept in his bed at home, in a case of mistaken identity during a gang war.

Michael Dosunmu, 15, was hit by four bullets, one hitting in the heart, fired by two gunmen who had burst into his south London home looking for his brother.

They had been fighting with his brother Hakeem Dosunmu over the proceeds from a series of robberies, prosecutors told the Old Bailey.

Mohammed Sannoh, 19, and Abdi Omar Noor, 22, both from south London, were convicted today of murder and firearms offences after the jury deliberated for nine days.

Jailing them for life yesterday, Judge Stephen Kramer said they would not be eligible for parole for at least 30 years.

"This was a planned and premeditated killing," the judge told the court. "It was an execution. You both, quite probably acting with another person or others, carried out this killing in an act of revenge.

"It was a death that could only invoke in all right-minded people feelings of outrage, shock and sympathy for Michael's family."

During the trial, prosecutor Jonathan Laidlaw told the court the shooting happened just before 1am on February 6 last year, when the men forced their way into Michael's house in Peckham.

"They went straight to the first floor and entered one of the three bedrooms," he said. "They turned the light on and opened fire with a MAC-10 submachine-gun at a figure lying wrapped in a duvet.

"It was a well-planned and well-executed execution. The victim had no chance of surviving."

Michael's older brother was involved in drug dealing and had taken part in three successful raids on security vans, the court was told.

Sannoh was part of the robbery team and he and other members believed Hakeem had cheated them.

The jury was told that members of the robbery team believed that a cash box the gang's leader had said was empty was in fact full of cash.

One of them confronted the gang leader and was stabbed to death. The gang leader was arrested, leaving Hakeem as the target for the aggrieved robbery team, the court was told.

"Hakeem was the target on the night his brother was killed," Mr Laidlaw said.

"It was a revenge attack, or else Michael was killed deliberately to punish Hakeem. But it appears he was shot in error because of the money they believed they had been cheated out of and the murder of the other gang member."

The court was told Hakeem Dosunmu was sentenced to two years' jail in April for his part in the security van robberies.

His sentence was reduced from five years.

The court was told he "carries around with him the thought that it should have been him".
 
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MELBOURNE, Australia — Forensic scientists have proved the champion Australian gelding Phar Lap died of arsenic poisoning, solving a mystery which has intrigued the horse racing world for more than 75 years.

Phar Lap won 37 of his 51 starts before his death in mysterious circumstances at the Menlo Park racetrack in California in April, 1932. Days earlier he had won Mexico's Agua Caliente Handicap, which was then the richest horse race in North America.

At the time of his death, Phar Lap was the third highest stake-winner in the world.

Arsenic poisoning has long been suspected as the cause of Phar Lap's death, but confirmation had been lacking until Thursday when researchers Dr. Ivan Kempson of the University of South Australia and Dermot Henry, manager of Natural Science Collections at Museum Victoria, released the findings of their forensic investigation.
 
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