Murder Suspect Tycoon Nabbed in Woods

(NEWSER) - The tycoon lover of a Polish businesswoman found battered to death in the bathtub of a ritzy Paris hotel claims the woman attacked him with a stun gun before a fatal fight, reports the Times of London. British millionaire Ian Griffin told a former girlfriend that Kinga Legg used a stun gun that was disguised as a lipstick. The two trashed the room in the midst of a deadly row after drinking "copious" amounts of champagne last week in the Bristol, said authorities. More»

Visited marina day after girlfriend found dead

(NEWSER) - A British millionaire sought in the murder of his Polish girlfriend in a tony Paris hotel tried to buy a cabin cruiser to flee, reports Times of London. Ian Griffin visited a British marina earlier this week after his girlfriend was found beaten to death and tried buy a vessel—but left because the process was taking too long. A friend has warned that Griffin, who is still on the lam, may now be at risk of suicide. More»

'I wanted to cut him a bit and it went right in'

(NEWSER) - The niece of Britain's defense minister has been sentenced to 15 years for fatally slashing a man she picked up at a bar for sex. "I do not even dare ask forgiveness from Olivier’s family,’ Jessica Davies told a French court yesterday, referring to her 24-year-old victim. "What I did terrifies me. I will never again touch a drop of alcohol." Investigators believe the murder in a French apartment may have been "inspired" by the gruesome stabbing death of Meredith Kercher in Italy just days earlier. More»

British woman guilty of helping boyfriend assault her girls

(NEWSER) - A sadistic mother in Britain will spend 10 years in prison after a court convicted her of encouraging her boyfriend to systematically rape her three young daughters. The 65-year-old woman instructed her daughters to wear provocative underwear, gave them alcohol, and then drove the girls, who were all under the age of 16, to her partner's home so he could rape them, according to court testimony. She pleaded guilty this week to 25 charges involving the aiding and abetting of child rape. More»

Security camera confusion leads to hilarious pursuit

(NEWSER) - For 20 minutes, an undercover British police officer intrepidly tracked a suspicious person in an area recently hit with a spate of burglaries. Unfortunately, the officer was chasing himself. How? An operator watching the street via security camera alerted the plain-clothes officer of a suspicious person in the area—not realizing it was, in fact, the cop, explains the Telegraph . The camera operator began relaying the whereabouts of the "suspect" so the officer could nab him. More»