I'm on holiday at the moment (more later, but it's lovely thanks) when I receive a spate of texts about The Crossbow Cannibal, a case being presided over by my more useful namesake.
Curious to find out more (and with a broken laptop), I rush out to buy an English language paper and end up with The Times International Edition. It features a curious article which is, at best, insensitively subbed (and strangely missing from the Times Online site). In it the reporter wanders the streets of Bradford talking to friends of the three victims, sex-workers who appear to have been chopped into tiny pieces and dumped.
Here are a few quotes which illustrate what might have gone a bit wrong with the article:
"I've been taking my punters there ever Friday, right where they found the body. I've been doing punters right under my friend's nose."
"Sue was soft. She was an angel but soft as shit. She'd do punters for £10."
"My friends always used to have a laugh with her and she'd give her right arm to anybody."
Another draft?
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