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There are certain elements of this story that appear at first glance to conflict slightly. I look forward to seeing how they are resolved.

A man shot dead by police officers was trying to buy an illegal firearm from a supplier, Scotland Yard has said.

The 52-year-old victim was fatally wounded outside Paolo’s restaurant in Ealing, west London on Tuesday night. A loaded weapon was found with the dead man, according to the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC), which is investigating the incident. […]

Witness Andrew Wood told BBC London 94.9 the dead man was naked. “There was a guy lying on the floor, a naked man, and they were trying to revive him.”

1990s phone box cards

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"Not the swan"

A case currently at Inner London Crown Court centres on three 13 year-old boys accused of raping two 16 year-old girls. The boys were vandalising a 261 bus between Bromley and Lewisham before, it is claimed, they followed the girls, mugged them for their phones and said, “Give us a blowjob if you want your phones back”. The girls claim they were then gangraped by the boys who filmed everything on their own phones.

Barrister Sheilagh Davies knows how to stick up for her clients. Representing one of the boys, she said in court today that the girls consented to sex, “maybe to get attention, maybe to gain affection”.

She told the jury one of the girls, who testified via video link, had “slimmed down a lot” since the incident in southeast London last November. The barrister added: “She was 12st 6lb—not quite the swan she may turn into. She may well have been glad of the attention.” [thelondonpaper]

Good point, Sheilagh. When you’re overweight, “Give us a blowjob if you want your phone” is as close as you’re going to get to being sung “Three Times A Lady”. Another great day for women and for the legal profession, then.