Archive for November, 2007



A shot in the dark

Eye witness testimony of what actually happened during the final moment of Jean Charles de Menezes’ life, the innocent man shot by the police in London in July 2005, is set to be released by the IPCC this week. This follows the only prosecution so far, brought against London’s police authority under health and safety [...]

From the torygraph:
Sammy Duddy, who died on October 17 aged 62, had a rather unusual curriculum vitae for a member of the Loyalist paramilitary Ulster Defence Association in having been a drag artiste who went by the stage name of Samantha.
During the 1970s the self-styled “Dolly Parton of Belfast” became well known on Belfast’s [...]