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Monday, 11 April 2016

Stabbed to death for refusing to have sex with flatmate

Twisted monster Gary Stevenson, 27, stabbed his flatmate who is a former cruise ship worker Katy Rourke, 25, three times in a horrific attack in the early hours.

At the High Court in Glasgow her family sobbed as they heard how he confessed to the slaying after cops nicked him, saying: “If it wasn’t her, it would be someone else.” He admitted murdering his flatmate after she refused to have sex with him. The court heard how the hospital lab assistant struck at the flatshare where they lived in Govan, Glasgow, just three weeks after Katy, from Broughty Ferry, Dundee, had moved in. When she failed to turn up for work the next day her pals went round to the flat and saw her car parked outside.

Advocate depute Bruce Erroch, prosecuting, said: “They went out into the back garden and noticed one of the rear windows of the flat was open and a light was on. “They thought if a light was on Katy must be in and phoned the police.” The court heard how Stevenson fled the flat after shimmying down a drainpipe and ended up in North Berwick.

He was snared the following day after he was rushed by ambulance to hospital claiming he’d slashed his wrists and as they drove him to the station he confessed, saying: I just want to tell the truth for the sake of the family. He then claimed they had been drinking and had sex. However, when Stevenson woke up and pestered Katy for sex again she refused and then he lost control, punching her repeatedly in the face and putting his hands round her throat. As terrified Katy screamed for help, Stevenson went into the kitchen, got a knife and stabbed her three times.

He told police: “She started fighting back so that's when I took a knife from the kitchen and used that to make sure she stopped moving, that's it. “I've never been in trouble for violence. But when I did lose control, it just felt like there was nothing to stop me. There were no moral boundaries left in my life.”

Stevenson admitted murdering Katy between December 29 and 30, last year. Sentence was adjourned until next month.

Culled from thesun.co.uk

Amaechi should resign or apologise to Nigerians – Nigerian Senate

The Senate today (Monday, April 11) advised the Presidency to come clean with Nigerians on the 2016 Budget and stop engaging in surreptitious campaigns of calumny against the Senate in order to cover up its serial errors.

Reacting to claims in the media credited to the Executive arm of government on the 2016 budget, Senator Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi, chairman, Senate Committee on Media and Public Affairs, in a statement in Abuja, said the National Assembly had bent backwards to wring a coherent document out of the excessively flawed and chaotic versions of the budget proposal submitted to the National Assembly.

He said : "while the executive is mandated to prepare and lay before the National Assembly a proposed budget detailing projects to be executed, it should be made clear that the responsibility and power of appropriation lies with the National Assembly. If the presidency expects us to return the budget proposal to them without any adjustments, then some people must be living in a different era and probably have not come to terms with democracy."

"We make bold to say however, that the said Lagos-Calabar rail project was not included in the budget proposal presented to the National Assembly by President Muhammadu Buhari and we challenge anyone who has any evidence to the contrary to present such to Nigerians."

Since the beginning of the 2016 budget process, it is clear that the National Assembly has suffered all manners of falsehood, deliberate distortion of facts, and outright blackmail, deliberately aimed at poisoning the minds of the people against the institution of the National Assembly. We have endured this with equanimity in the overall interest of Nigerians. Even when the original submission was surreptitiously swapped and we ended up having two versions of the budget, which was almost incomprehensible and heavily padded in a manner that betrays lack of coordination and gross incompetence, we refused to play to the gallery and instead helped the Executive to manage the hugely embarrassing situation it has brought upon itself; but enough is enough."

"This latest antics of this particular minister of transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, is reckless, uncalled for and dangerously divisive. Apart from setting the people of the southern part of the country against their northern compatriots, it potentially sets the people against their lawmakers from the concerned constituencies and sets the lawmakers against themselves. This manner of reprehensible Mischief has no place in a democracy. We hereby demand from Mr. Amaechi a publicly tendered apology if he is not able to show evidence that the Lagos-Calabar road project was included in the budget. Otherwise, he should resign forthwith.

"Finally, by the provision of Section 81 (4) (a) and (b) of the constitution, the President is allowed to sign the budget and kick-start the implementation of the other areas that constitute over 90 percent of the budget where there is agreement between both arms, even as we engage ourselves to resolve the contentious areas, if there were any. We therefore maintain that even this contrived discrepancies are not sufficient excuse not to sign the budget into law."

"We therefore urge President Buhari to sign the 2016 budget without any further delay. For every additional day that the president withholds his assent from the bill, the hardship in the land, which is already becoming intolerable for the masses of our people gets even more complicated. Certainly, as primary representatives of the people we shall not vacate our responsibility and watch the people continue to suffer unduly."

Signed

Sen. Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi

Chairman, Senate Committee on Media and Public Affairs