Man choked to death during hot-dog eating contest

Walter Eagle Tail

 Fourth of July celebrations got off to a bad start when a South Dakota man choked to death while participating in a hot dog eating contest.

Walter Eagle Tail, 47, was competing with five others at an even organized by the Custer Chamber of Commerce at a local city park. The speed-eating contest was the start of Fourth of July weekend festivities, and one they’ve held for the last several years.

Witnesses say that once people realized Eagle Tail was choking on a hot dog, paramedics were called to the scene. “There was someone doing CPR when we arrived,” said Custer County Sheriff Rick Wheeler. “He probably just suffocated. It got lodged in his throat and they couldn’t get it out. It all happened within minutes.”

Eagle Tail was rushed to Custer Regional Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Organizers decided to call off a pie-eating contest scheduled for the next day.

This may be the second story we’ve featured in 10 years that involved someone dying during an eating contest. In 2012, we reported on Edward Archbold, the Florida man who collapsed and died shortly after winning a live cockroach eating contest.

However, there was some good news in the speed-eating circuit over the weekend. Hot dog eating world-record holder Joey “Jaws” Chestnut participated in Brooklyn’s annual hot dog eating contest at Coney Island, and managed to eat 61 hot dogs in 10 minutes. Yay.

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Woman helped boyfriend bury her daughter after he beat the toddler to death

Alexis Botello

Alexis Botello, 17,  and her boyfriend, 20-year-old Joshua Beard, are behind bars after Beard beat the toddler to death and the couple hid the toddler’s body.

Police responded to a hotel where the couple were staying after Beard’s aunt called to report the child, Tylea Moore, was missing. When police interviewed Botello, she initially stated she hadn’t seen her child in two days.

Police weren’t buying it and after further questioning, Botello admitted Tylea was dead. She said that Beard, her boyfriend of a few months, had beat the little girl to death but “didn’t mean to do it.”

Here’s what she says happened, you be the judge:

Botello said she and Beard were fighting over Beard pushing and yelling at Tylea. Beard allegedly hit the girl repeatedly and threw Tylea on the bed so hard that she bounced off and landed on the floor. That’s when Botello said he stomped on her stomach until she puked up green stuff.

When Botello checked on her daughter in the morning, she said Tylea “looked awful” and had bruises on her ribs, chest, arms, legs and tops of her feet. She also had bite marks all over her and two cuts on her mouth. She was also unresponsive. After they both tried CPR on the toddler without success, they did the only logical thing they could…

They put the dead girl in the trunk of a car and drove to Walmart where they bought gloves and shovels. From there they drove to a bridge in Springtown where they chucked Tylea’s body in a hole they dug. Investigators have recovered human remains, but have not confirmed whether they belong to Tylea.

Beard, who was already in jail for marijuana possession and speeding, is now facing a capital murder charge. He’s currently in the Arlington jail on a $1 million bail. Botello is facing charges of tampering with or fabricating physical evidence and injury to a child. Her bail has been set at $125,000.

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Judge suspended after claiming incest is becoming more socially acceptable

Advocacy groups say the Attorney General should reconsider Judge Garry Neilson's appointment to the bench

A Sydney judge, who said incest was becoming more socially acceptable, has been stepped down until an investigation into his comments is complete.

Judge Garry Neilson, aged in his 60s, has come under fire after saying the community may no longer see sexual contact between siblings and between adults and children as 'unnatural' or 'taboo', just as homosexuality is now widely accepted.

The comments were made while he was presiding over a case of a woman who had allegedly been sexually abused by her older brother when she was 10 and 18 years old.

Judge Neilson said the abuse she suffered as an adult did not need to be considered in relation to the abuse she suffered as a child because by that time she had been 'sexually awoken', the Sydney Morning Herald reported.Late on Friday, Chief Judge of the District Court Justice Reg Blanch made the announcement that Justice Neilson would not be taking on any more cases.

'I have now been advised by the Attorney-General that he has referred the matter to the Judicial Commission and Judge Neilson will not sit in crime until this matter is determined,' he said in a statement. 

Justice Blanch said no further comment would be made on the matter.

Judicial commission members will examine the complaint before potentially referring it on to the conduct division. They decide whether a complaint justifies the removal of a judicial officer.

Bravehearts founder Hetty Johnston has sent letters to the Attorney General and the Chief Justice of NSW calling for Judge Neilson's sacking and demanding a review of all the decisions he has made

Earlier on Friday, NSW Attorney-General Brad Hazzard asked Justice Blanch to prevent Judge Neilson presiding over criminal trials while he was investigated by the judicial commission.

'In my view, the community would be rightly appalled at his reported comments,' Mr Hazzard said in a statement.

'Incest is completely reprehensible, unacceptable, disgusting and criminal.'

But Judge Neilson defended his comments to Daily Mail Australia: 'My comments were taken completely out of context, I think it's a fabrication'.

Judge Neilson made the comments in the case of a 58-year-old western Sydney man who is charged with repeatedly sexually abusing his younger sister at the family home in 1981.

He said that just as community attitudes towards homosexuality had changed since the 1950s and 1960s: 'a jury might find nothing untoward in the advance of a brother towards his sister once she had sexually matured, had sexual relationships with other men and was now "available", not having [a] sexual partner'.

Judge Neilson also said: 'If this was the 50s and you had a jury of 12 men there, which is what you'd invariably have, they would say it's unnatural for a man to be interested in another man or a man being interested in a boy. Those things have gone.'

The 58-year-old man had previously pleaded guilty to raping his sister when she was 10 or 11 years old in the 1970s.

But he pleaded not guilty to the charge of sexual intercourse without consent, with an alternative charge of incest, relating to the events in 1981.

NSW Attorney General Brad Hazzard is facing intense pressure to stand Judge Neilson down, but he has said he 'cannot comment on specifics of this trial as any comments might prejudice it'

On April 7, the Crown Prosecutor requested the jury be told of his previous convictions, arguing that without this knowledge jurors may struggle to understand that the man had a tendency to be sexually attracted to his sister and may also question why she never told other family members of the abuse.

But Judge Neilson refused, saying the abuse she suffered as an adult did not need to be considered in relation to the abuse she suffered as a child.

'By that stage they are both mature adults. The complainant has been sexually awoken, shall we say, by having two relationships with men and she had become 'free' when the second relationship broke down,' Judge Neilson said.

Judge Neilson also suggested the only reason incest was still a crime was because to 'prevent chromosomal abnormalities', but said that has become less relevant because of the availability of contraception and abortion.

Adults Surviving Child Abuse president Dr Cathy Kezelman said Judge Neilson's comments were 'disgraceful' and has also called from him to be stood down

It has also emerged that in November 2011 Judge Neilson gave a man who raped his niece when she was 15 and 16 a shorter sentence because 'there was no rough handling involved' and he did not ejaculate.

The case concerned a 55-year-old man who indecently assaulted his niece multiple times in her bedroom in 2007 and 2008. 

The man was in a de facto relationship with the victim's mother and lived in the same home.

In considering the most serious offence, 'when penile/vaginal intercourse occurred without consent over a number of minutes', Judge Neilson took the view that it fell below the mid-range of objective seriousness 'because there had been no ejaculation involved, so that the victim had not been exposed to the risk of pregnancy or having some sexually transmitted disease passed on to her'.

In the NSW Court of Criminal Appeal in March 2013 justices Derek Price, Lucy McCallum and Monika Schmidt said the comment was 'entirely questionable'.

Justice Blanch's Friday announcement comes after child abuse groups expressed disgust at Judge Neilson's comments.

Bravehearts founder Hetty Johnston said she had sent a letter to the Attorney General and the Chief Justice of NSW calling for Judge Neilson's sacking.

'I also want them to revisit all the decisions he has made, in case they have created a precedent in sentencing which other judges have had to follow,' Ms Johnston told Daily Mail Australia on Friday.

'Clearly he's held these views for some time and it's gone unchecked.

'He’s been making all kinds of decisions for years, he's not a young man.'

Adults Surviving Child Abuse president Dr Cathy Kezelman said Judge Neilson's comments were 'disgraceful'.

'The Attorney General needs to look at his appointment,' Dr Kezelman told Daily Mail Australia.

'This level of ignorance cannot be tolerated on our benches.'

Dr Kezelman added that his 'misogynistic, paternalistic' views were damaging and said his conflation of incest with homosexuality was offensive.

'As a society we've come to understand homosexuality - that does not mean there's any parallel, not for a second, with child sex abuse and incest.'

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Woman threatened man with knife after he refused her sexual advances

from left to right, Crue Finley and lizabeth Highley 

 Police said a 56-year-old Florida woman attacked a 25-year-old man with a knife after he rejected her sexual advances.

A police report obtained by The Smoking Gun said that Elizabeth Highley wasdrinking with Crue Finley at her Jensen Beach home when she offered to have sex with him. Finley turned her down, and told St. Lucie County Sheriff’s deputies that she then became angry and violent.

Highley allegedly sliced Finely's thumb with a hunting knife as he ran out of the house. The woman then chased him down the street with the knife and a cane, according to the report.

Finley flagged down a deputy in the parking lot of a convenience store and said that there was a woman chasing him and that she was trying to kill him.

The deputy saw Highley approaching "with a knife in one hand and what appeared to be a broken walking cane in the other," according to TC Palm. When the officer intervened, she dropped the weapons.

Highley, who deputies described as "angry, crying and [apparently] intoxicated," was arrested on felony assault charges and released on a $3,500 bail. Her arraignment is scheduled for July 11.

The outrageous case has made the rounds on the Internet, including an animated "reenactment" by Taiwan's Tomo News:

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Google founder, Larry Page, says people shouldn't work so much

Larry Page

Google co-founder Larry Page has said people shouldn't work as much as they do - because there really is no need.

The tech mogul, who spoke alongside fellow Google founder Sergey Brin in an interview with venture capitalist Vinod Khosla, didn't expand on how people could afford to live if they worked less.

'If you really think about the things you need to make yourself happy - housing, security, opportunity for your kids - it's not that hard for us to provide those things,' he said in the interview last week.

He said the resources we need do not require as much effort to achieve as we think they do, and instead said that we only work to make ourselves feel needed.

'I think there's a problem that we don't recognize,' he went on. 'There's a social problem. 

'A lot of people aren't happy if they don't have anythings to do, so we need to give people things to do. You need to feel like you're needed and wanted.'

Instead, he suggested that we should work much less - or split jobs between more people - citing an example set by Virgin's founder, Richard Branson to battle unemployment in the U.K.

'He's been trying to get people to hire two part-time people instead of one full-time, so at least the young people can have a half-time job rather than no job,' he said.

'If you have global unemployment, you just reduce work time.'

While explaining his view, Page, who is worth nearly $32 billion, according to Forbes, failed to outline exactly how people would afford to live on fewer hours, and presumably a lesser wage.

He added that he had asked many people if they would like to have an extra week of vacation or work fewer days in the week - and most said they would.

'Most people like working, but they'd also like to have more time with their family or to pursue their own interests,' he said. 

Co-founder Brin said he had to 'quibble' with Page's view.

'I don't think that in the near term, the need for labor is going away,' he said. 'It gets shifted from one place to another, but people always want more stuff or more entertainment or more creativity or more something.'

Page, 41, launched Google in 1996 with Brin after they met while studying for PhDs at Stanford University before starting Google Inc. two years later.

He is married to Lucinda Southworth, a former model and research scientist, and together they have two children and live in a mansion in Palo Alto, California.

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Man arrested for sexual assault of his 82yr-old grandmother

Willie Johnson

 A registered sex offender was taken into police custody last week after allegedly sexually assaulting his grandmother and his uncle.

The investigation started Tuesday evening, after officers were called to a North Portland home on a report of a sexual assault.

Police learned that the alleged rapist, later identified as 34-year-old Willie Johnson, sexually assaulted his 82-year-old grandmother and his 49-year-old uncle, before fleeing the home.

Johnson managed to evade police and a K9 unit for a few hours, but was picked up at a McDonald’s Wednesday morning.

After an overnight stay at the hospital for some bullshit medical drama, Johnson was booked into the Multnomah County Jail. He is now facing charges of first-degree attempted rape, first-degree unlawful sexual penetration, two counts of first-degree sex abuse, first-degree kidnapping and fourth-degree assault. His sex offender status apparently stems from a first-degree rape conviction.

Grandma was treated at the hospital and released, and both she and the uncle are said to be doing fine. Physically, anyway.

Culled from Dreamindemon

British woman abandons her 3 children to marry violent prisoner she met online

Love: Jennifer Butler, 29, pictured right earlier this year, is flying 5,000 miles from the UK to French Robertson Unit in Texas to marry Christopher Mosier, 23, left, leaving her three young kids who are all younger than 10

A British mother is to pack up and leave her three children behind to make a whole new life with a violent US prisoner she met online.

Jennifer Butler, 29, whill leave the UK and travel to French Robertson Unit in Texas to marry Christopher Mosier, 23 and leave her three young children all younger than 10 with their father.

The besotted mom will move in with Mosier when he is released on parole in September and denied she is making a mistake.

'Some people might think I'm bonkers for falling in love with a prisoner. And not everyone will agree with our relationship,' Butler said to The Sun. 'But Chris is a wonderful man. Sure, he made a few mistakes in the past, but everybody deserves a second chance.'

The single mother started writing to Mosier in July after she found his profile on the website, writeaprisoner.com, which unites would be pen-pals to inmates online.

His honest profile revealed that he had been sentenced to 15-years in 2009 for burglary with deadly conduct and also had prior drug convictions.

Butler's future husband also was a member of an armed gang, but she said that she felt an instant connection with him and was struck by his honesty.

'I felt sorry for him being locked up, nobody to talk to except other prisoners. Of course, I didn't condone his crimes. But he was still a human being, and deserved to have a friend,' Butler said to The Sun.

'I was really intrigued by his profile. It was different to the rest. Most of the guys were posing with their tops off. But his was articulate and he was open about his crime.'

The love-struck couple began writing to each other three times a week but suddenly in June 2013, Butler stopped receiving letters.

'I felt really sad that I hadn't heard from him. That's when I realized my feelings for him ran a lot deeper. I no longer saw him as just a friend anymore,' Butler said to The Sun.

'Then a month later I received a letter from him. He told me that the prison had been on lockdown so he had not been able to get stamps to write to me,' the smitten mom said.

'I realized I was in love with him and that letter made me admit it to myself. I couldn't bear to lose him.'

As their love-affair blossomed, Butler even got her three children - Tyler, 8, Tristan, 7 and Mia, 4, to write to Mosier too.

The prisoner started to receive letters from the children with drawings for his cell that they had made.

Butler said that she believes it is really important that her children come to know Mosier because she will spend the rest of her life with him.

Eventually, Butler had saved enough money from her job as a part-time sales assistant to travel to Texas to see Mosier.

Butler made her first visit to the prison in October, but sadly, Mosier had been involved in a fight with an inmate and had his visiting rights revoked. He had to speak to Butler through a glass screen.

'We weren't allowed to touch because he was a maximum security prisoner at the time,' said Butler to The Sun.

'We had a glass window between us and had to talk through a phone. When I saw him walking down the corridor I knew he was the man for me. We talked for four hours and it felt like I'd known him all my life.'

Eventually, Butler's affair with her prison lover caused controversy with her family who began to worry for her children.

'I knew people wouldn't have a good thing to say because he is an inmate. If he was just a guy from America I'd met online it would be different,' Butler said.

'I've had people ask why I'm not worried for the safety of my children. That cut me deep. To think that because he's a criminal my children would be at risk hurt me. Chris is a brilliant man. He's not a dangerous criminal. He's learnt from his mistakes,' she said.

Butler traveled to see Mosier in American twice in the space of four months and on her third visit in April, the two became engaged.

Mosier used a piece of grey string to propose - wrapping it around her finger in the visitors room.

Butler swears that she will not let her children fall out of her life, even while she lives in America.

'He held my hand and said how much I meant to him and he got emotional. He never usually does,' said Jennifer to The Sun.

'He then said he wanted to make me happy and asked me to marry him. I just broke down. I said of course I would.'

'Leaving my children is not an easy thing to decide to do. But I want to get everything ready for them in America before they move, too,' she said. 

'I'm doing this for our future because I want us to be a family. I need to set up a life out there for us and I'll do whatever I can to get them over with us as soon as possible.'

She added, 'I am devoted to my children but they deserve a happy mum too. This relationship will be for me but the life I build is going to be for all of us.'

Butler claims her children are just as happy about her leaving as she is, but because they haven't met their future stepdad yet, she won't be sure until they do.

'My children are excited about eventually moving over there. As kids, they won't realize about me not being around until I'm actually gone. It's going to be hard saying goodbye, but I know I'll see them again soon,” she said. 

'It's fine because they know I'm going over there to find us a house and to sort out their schooling. The main thing is that they're excited to get to meet Chris.'

'I know he did a terrible crime but he's a changed man. He's going to make a wonderful husband and a brilliant stepdad to my children.'

Leaving them behind: Butler, seen center in May, plans to move in with her lover when he is released on parole in September. Her children, pictured with her, will stay with their dad, from whom she split in 2010

Mothering from abroad: Jennifer Butler from Mildenhall, Suffolk, is leaving behind her kids Tyler, 8, Tristan, 7, and Mia, 4. The single mum started writing to a criminal in a US jail two years ago. She intends to leave them in the UK with family for a year while she goes and sets up a life for them before sending for them

Pen pals: The pair were exchanging letters every day and eventually she flew to Texas earlier this year to meet him, which is when this picture was taken. They fell in love and now hey are now engaged

Free to marry: The prisoner, Chris, is up for parole next year and Jennifer, pictured, plans to marry him on his release

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Ohio conjoined twins become the longest living duo

New record: Donnie, left, and Ronnie Galyon, 62, walk to get water inside their Beavercreek, Ohio. They are hoping to be recognized later this year as the world's oldest conjoined twins

A set of 62-year-old conjoined twins from Ohio are preparing to become the world's longest living duo as they hit a massive milestone this weekend.

Ronnie and Donnie Galyon, the oldest living conjoined twins, will overtake the age of their heroes, Thai twins Chang and Eng Bunker, as they turn 62 years, eight months and seven
 days on Friday.The Bunker twins died in North Carolina in 1874 aged 62 years, eight months and six days.

Then later this year, the duo from Beavercreek, Ohio hope to be recognized as the world's oldest ever conjoined twins as they reach their 63rd birthday.

Guinness World Records says the record is held by Giacomo and Giovanni Battista Tocci,
who were born in Italy in 1877 and lived to be 63 - although their exact date of death
 in 1940 is unknown.

The Galyon twins, who are joined at the waist and face each other, are throwing a party Saturday to mark overtaking their heroes, Mlive reported. They have four arms and four
legs and separate hearts and stomachs but share a lower digestive tract, a groin,
 a rectum and penis, over which Donnie has controlThe twins were born healthy in
 Dayton, Ohio in October 1951 but stayed in the hospital for two years as doctors
 tried to figure out how to separate them. But when they said they could not guarantee
 both babies would survive an operation to part them, the parents said they would stay
 as they were.The men agree that was the best decision.'The good Lord made
 us,' Ronnie said. 'Let our savior do it.' From the age of four, the twins supported
their family by performing in carnival sideshows in the U.S. and circuses throughout
 Central and South America. When they tried to return to school, teachers told them
 to leave because they were too distracting to the other students. They continued
their work at circuses in Central and South America where they performed magic
 tricks and were treated 'like rock stars', their brother Jim told Mlive.

They retired in 1991 aged 39 and moved to Beavercreek to be close to Jim, who is younger by 11 years.

In 2010, they battled poor health when Ronnie suffered a viral infection that caused blood clots in his lungs and Jim wanted them to move in with him, but his home was not handicapped-accessible.

A family friend contacted the Christian Youth Corps, which helped accommodate the house for the twins' needs, including a kitchen, wife hallways, oversized bathroom and shower.

They also received a custom-designed bed from Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital in Grand Rapids, Michigan, which Ronnie said allowed him to 'sleep like a baby'.

The bed is comprised of two backrests that face each other and let the men sit with
their legs splayed out. It is far preferable to their days of sleeping on top of each other in a queen-sized bed, they said.

The updated home has meant that their health has improved dramatically in the past four years, their brother said. He says they no longer need help getting up and moving around.

He said that he and his wife love having his big brothers living with them.

'That's kind of giving it back right now,' he said. 'I don't do it because of that, but I feel that way. They paid for us all growing up.'

Mary added: 'A day doesn't go by that I don’t hear "I love you" and "Thank you". If you spend time around them, you can't help but love them.'

They sometimes fight but also enjoy going fishing together as well as heading to baseball games, fairs and restaurants, which they can access on their customized wheelchair, their brother said.

While out and about, people often stare or approach them to ask questions, the men said. Some people have mocked them, but others have paid their restaurant bills and spoken kindly to them.

'You see the warmest of hearts, and you see the coldest of hearts, and a little bit in between,' Jim said.

Conjoined twins occur once in every 200,000 live births and the survival rate is between five and 25 per cent. They form when the developing embryo starts to split into two, but stops before the process is complete.

Comfortable: A company in Michigan made the twins a bed - before that, they slept on top of each other

Visitor: Donnie, front, and Ronnie feed their dog, Mickey, inside their Beavercreek, Ohio home

Loved: The men live in a separate part of their brother Jim's home. He is pictured kissing Ronnie

Helping out: Their younger brother Jim Galyon, left, helps Donnie and Ronnie take off their socks

Heading out: Jim and his wife Mary use a joystick to control the wheelchair carrying the twins

Younger years: The Galyons are pictured in their family's Dayton, Ohio on their third birthday in October 1954, after their parents decided they would never be operated on

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Man murders fiancee with single punch during argument

from left to right,  Caroline Finegan, 29,   and  Ryan Ingham, 26

A bride-to-be was murdered by her fiance with a 'single devastating punch' during a drunken argument over whether to take a bus or a taxi home after a night out, a court heard today.

Caroline Finegan, 29, crumpled to the ground like a 'bag of potatoes' after Ryan Ingham, 26, ran at her at full pelt before striking her in the face, it was alleged.

One eye witness claimed Ingham had run at the victim and hit her a 'like car travelling at 40mph' before he started to shake her 'like a rag doll' as she lay on the ground in an act of 'wanton thuggery.'

The force of the punch broke Miss Finegan's nose, her eye socket and swiveled her head so violently that it tore blood vessels in her neck.

But when Ingham rang the emergency services he could be heard telling her to 'get up' and even suggested she was faking her injuries, it was alleged.

During a 999 call as Miss Finegan lay dying, Ingham was heard telling her: 'Hello, wakey wakey. Oi monkey, get up, look you bashed your head. What you doing, your belly is showing.'

When paramedics arrived at the scene near Shudehill bus station in Manchester city centre at around 1am on January 16 this year, Miss Finegan was not breathing. She was pronounced dead later that day in hospital.

Manchester Crown Court was told that the bingo hall worker, who had five children from previous relationships, had met father of six Ingham in August last year, becoming engaged to him three months later. 

In January they went for a night out together at Churchill's pub in Manchester city centre.

CCTV captured the pair as they appeared to be arguing after leaving the pub to make their way home to Stockport. 

The couple were seen initially heading towards a bus station, before speaking separately to a taxi driver.

Eyewitness Anthony O'Connor, who had just left work after a shift at Manchester Cathedral, said he heard a woman shouting and saw a man run past him, towards her.

Scene: The couple had been on a night out in Manchester city centre before they rowed, the court heard

He said: 'He ran at her at a really full speed and then came into contact with her and with the punch she completely fell to the ground.

'The one thing that affects me that time - and to this day - is the way she fell to the ground. The only way I can describe it is if you had a bag of potatoes and if you drop them and they crumple. That is how she fell. 

'As far as I am aware, the life left her instantly. She completely collapsed into the road. He did not stop running and ran four or five steps after.'

He went on: 'It was like someone hitting her in a motor car at about 40mph... 

'He came back and immediately picked her up by the arms and that scene was horrific and it disturbed me. He dragged her onto the pavement and as he was dragging her her blouse was pulled up and her skirt was coming down.

'I said to myself "What a way for a human being to go." There was total disrespect for human life. It was horrendous. He started to shake her like a rag doll.

'I think it was a total attack of thuggery. He had no respect of human life and not respect for that girl. It was wanton thuggery. There is no excuse for it.'

The court heard that Ingham rang 999 claiming he was 'ex-army' and saying he was qualified to carry out first aid on the battlefield. When asked by the operator what caused the fall he said: 'I don't know because we were arguing.

'I ran over to her and next thing I know she was being a mong, lying on the floor, because we were about to get a taxi home. We were arguing about getting a taxi home. It is superficial. I am ex-army. I have got my battlefield first aid.'

He told the 999 operator: 'She is in no danger. She is just p*****. I do not know if she is faking it or not.'

CT scans later revealed extensive subarachnoid bleeding in Miss Finegan's brain. At 6.19pm on January 16 she was pronounced dead.

Francis McEntee, prosecuting, said: 'The defendant got into an argument with Miss Finegan possibly over whether they should take a taxi or bus to get home - the consequence which was to say he ran some distance up the road of Shudehill and struck his girlfriend with a devastating blow which she never recovered from.

'The blow he struck was sufficient to cause a fracture to her right eye socket and break her nose on the right hand side. The examination of these injuries speaks to the force that defendant used.'

Ingham of Blackley, Manchester initially said Miss Finegan had passed out and fallen over but later admitted they had been 'bickering' about whether to get a bus or taxi home.

He denies murder but admits manslaughter.

The trial continues.

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BOKO HARAM uses military hardware stolen from the Nigerian army - US officials

Much of Boko Haram’s military hardware is not bought; it is stolen from the Nigerian army, an official of the US Treasury Department said in a statement to Reuters yesterday.

In February, dozens of its fighters descended on a remote military outpost in the Gwoza hills in north-eastern Borno State, looting 200 mortar bombs, 50 rocket-propelled grenades and hundreds of rounds of ammunition.

Such raids have left the group well armed. In dozens of attacks in the past year Nigerian soldiers were swept aside by militants driving trucks, motor bikes and sometimes even stolen armored vehicles, firing rocket-propelled grenades...READ MORE