Crazy World: Rape victim slept in locked bathroom for a year

BRITAIN: A woman who was raped by an Army captain who trawled bars for victims was so scared that he would return after he was released without charge and rape her again, that she slept behind locked doors of the bathroom for over a year.

The armyman was a serial rapist who was jailed indefinitely for three rapes and a sex assault over 15 years, reports Daily Mail.

The woman was allegedly his third victim after she met him for a drink in Richmond in 2008.

The man even tortured her while he raped her. He held her hands over a heat radiator forcibly and the mroe she said it was hot, the harder he raped her, the victim told the daily.

The woman in her late 30s, managed to escape by dialling 999 and knocking on neighbours' doors. However, she lived in a state of panic for more than a year since the man knew where she lived and worked. She lost her job subsequently and has not worked since the horrific incident.

The man found his targets by haunting online and in bars.

Each time, the man raped a woman, he was let off by police without a formal charge. All his victims felt they were let down by the authorities.

 

Former lover sets woman on fire

CHINA: A woman suffered 80 per cent burns on her body when her former lover allegedly set her ablaze.

According to a Shin Min Daily News report, the incident happened at 8.30am Friday morning in Sengkang.

The 43-year-old woman had moved out of her lover's home after a tiff, reported the Chinese daily. Neighbours told the daily that they saw a man in his forties splashing kerosene outside the victim's door.

The neighbours heard loud screaming and came out to find the victim coming out of the burning unit, wrapped in a towel. The entire unit was on fire.

The victim's aunt and uncle also received burn injuries in the fire.

The 44-year-old boyfriend was arrested by police officials.

 

Mates trick groom into bungee jumping

AUSTRALIA: A groom was persuaded by his mates to take a flying jump off a high cliff. His friends went to a lot of trouble by blindfolding him and fitting him with a fake bungee harness.

As his friends stood around him and chanted loudly to encourage him, he took the jump only to make a splash into a muddy lake, reports Herald Sun.

The mates' trick paid off as the groom jumped off the ledge of the lake instead of a cliff.

The groom had a hearty laugh after he took himself off the lake.

 

Indian, 16, solves 350-year-old problem

GERMANY: A 16-year-old boy of Indian origin was able to solve a mathematics puzzle that had been set by Sir Isaac Newton about 350 years ago.

"The schoolboy, from Dresden, Germany, solved two fundamental particle dynamics theories which physicists have previously been able to calculate only by using powerful computers," reported Daily Mail. 
 

Since the puzzle has been solved, mathematicians can now calculate the flight path of a ball and know exactly how it will hit and bounce off a wall, said the daily.

Shouryya Ray moved from the Indian city of Kolkata to Germany about four years ago. His instructors quickly realised his intelligence and moved him two years ahead in school.

The boy first knew about the puzzle when he was visiting Dresden University and he was told that they could not be solved. However, he thought "why not?" and succesfully solved them.

Ray claims he is not a genius but just good in math. He admits that he is weak in sports.

 

Man makes meat of 20 teens

BEIJING - Police in southwest China have detained a man suspected of murdering more than a dozen boys and young men, chopping up their bodies and selling the flesh to unsuspecting consumers, reports said Friday.

Zhang Yongming, 56, was detained two weeks ago in Nanmen village in Yunnan province and is being investigated over the murder of a 19-year-old man in late April, the Guangxi News website reported.

Police searching Zhang's home found the young man's cellphone, bank card and other evidence, according to the website, which said more than a dozen other teenagers had gone missing from the village over the years.

It said Zhang had previously served almost 20 years in jail for murder.

Zhang was known in the village as the "cannibal monster," the site reported, quoting residents as saying they had seen green plastic bags hanging from his home, with what appeared to be white bones protruding from the top.

Local police declined comment when contacted by AFP Friday, saying information would be made available "at an appropriate time", and other reports on the gruesome case appeared to have been removed from Chinese websites.

But Hong Kong newspaper The Standard said Friday that police entering Zhang's home discovered human eyeballs preserved inside wine bottles and pieces of what appeared to be human flesh hanging in the house to dry.

Police feared that Zhang had fed human flesh to his three dogs, while selling other parts on the market, calling it "ostrich meat", according to The Standard.

Beijing has dispatched a team of experts to Yunnan to supervise the investigation into the missing teenagers and two local police chiefs have been dismissed from their positions, the official Xinhua news agency said.

Families of the missing suspected that they had been kidnapped and forced to work in illegal brick kilns, Xinhua said, adding that the government had urged a swift resolution to the case. (AFP)

 

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