A Stranger's London
Host is killed in row over noise at party
Party host Desmond Beach was stabbed to death after a row over the noise made by his guests. An emergency operation failed to save his life after the attack, which took place on the doorstep of his neighbour's flat.Horrified party guests saw him stabbed repeatedly with a long-bladed kitchen knife and then fall to the ground.
A 38-year-old man was under police guard in hospital. He had also been stabbed, and detectives were waiting for him to recover enough to be questioned. Mr Beach's death followed complaints about noise coming from the party, which was attended by about 30 guests at his flat in Kingsclere Close,Weston, Southampton.
As the party spilled out on to a balcony an angry neighbour poured a bucket of water from his balcony over the guests on the balcony below. A police spokesman said that 36-year-old Mr Beach went to the flat above to investigate the drenching, and the knife attack followed.
Detectives were called in and later several party guests were taken to Bitterne police station to make statements..
Groom runs off with mate's wife
A groom ran off on the eve of his wedding - with his best friend's wife. Instead of walking down the aisle with his bride, farmworker John Pike was in hiding with mother of two Rita Fillis. After the white wedding had been called off, jilted bride Susan Ashford was heartbroken. And Rita's husband, Dennis, begged his wife to return home. Dennis, who regularly went drinking with John, choked on tears as he said: "To say I'm devastated is an understatement. "But the children and I still love her. "We will forgive her for anything she has done and we want her home with us".Dennis's daughters Melanie, 14, and Samantha, 12, were to have been among the guests at the village wedding in Bromham, Wiltshire, but the service was called off just as flowers were arriving at the church.
Rector of 70 and a girl, 18
A rector's wife reckons her 70-year-old husband took charity too far after he showed pity for an unhappy teenager. For Mrs Barbara Jamal says 18-year- old Dawn Coles not only moved into their home she also ended up in the clergyman's bed."I caught them several times," said Mrs Jamal, 44, "My husband told me he kept his dressing gown on and was just comforting Dawn because she had nightmares".
The bizarre love tangle then took a new twist.
For Mrs Jamal fled to the home of her late best friend's husband Walter Greeves and really set tongues wagging in Fletton, Peterborough. The mixed-up marriage now seems doomed to end in divorce with the Rev Khalil Jamal and his wife each swearing they have not been up to any hanky-panky. Mrs Jalam said: "I moved in with Walter because I had nowhere else to go.
"We're just close friends. There's no sex between us".
Asked about his relationship with Dawn, Mr Jamal - a former vicar of Jerusalem said: "My wife is a liar'. Dawn, now 19, said: "I wouldn't go to bed with anyone as old as Khalil".
Killer to be a father
The wife of a man who walked free from court after killing their baby is five months pregnant.Adrian Murphy, 21, pleaded guilty at Lincoln Crown Court to hitting his two-month-old son Dean over the head because he would not stop crying. Now his 17-year-old Wife Maria has revealed that she is expecting another baby in February.
Her mother Mrs Janet Gollings said at her home in Grimsby: "I can't say we aren't concerned, but we think they'll cope better this time".The couple, of Freeston Street, Cleethorpes, refused to talk about the baby.
Murphy was put on probation for three years by Mr Justice Sheldon who described him as "no monster, but a devoted, loving father."
'Taunts' of a wife hacked to death
A husband who hacked his wife to pieces and hid bits of her all over London snapped under constant sex taunts, a jury has heard. Christabel Boyce, 32, former nanny to Lord Lucan's family, used to accuse Nicholas Boyce of having sex with his mother and his workmates.Boyce, 37, a Philosophy graduate working as a cleaner, suffered years of "remorseless grinding down," his defence counsel said at the Old Bailey. His wife accused him of being good for nothing. She told him: "Sleep on the rubbish tip," it was alleged. Boyce, of Roman Road, Bethnal Green, East London, "began to think his very existence was a mortal sin". One Sunday night in February he attacked his wife in a frenzy. He cut her up, roasted the pieces to make them seem "like the remains of a Sunday joint" and dumped them in skips and waste bins. The jury was shown a picture of the severed head which Boyce threw in the Thames. He denies murder. The trial goes on.
Nagged to fake death!
Angler Ted Derling has revealed that he faked his drowning to flee a nagging wife.Ted, 41, left his rod by a lake near his Bedfordshire home and secretly flew to Brazil. And on Rio de Janeiro's exclusive Copacabana beach he sobbed as he spoke of his fiery Mauritius-born wife Marilyn.
"She's a beautiful woman, but she nagged me unmercifully," he said.
"I can't stand nagging. There's nothing else for me in life apart from the solitude I enjoy when I'm fishing". Last night Ted was flying home to face the music from 31-year-old Marilyn.
At the couple's home in Thureigh, she said: "Every woman nags - but I don't think I was worse than anybody else".
Marilyn promised to welcome Ted back, adding: "I feel sorry for him. He was depressed but never talked about it".
