Females Murdering Males
Mum ‘organised murder of daughter’s boyfriend’
Editor: Another article highlighting the capacity for women, just like men, to murder.
A UK mother arranged for her 13-year-old daughter’s boyfriend to be murdered and then convinced the teenager to take the blame, a London court has heard.
Gedu Bibi, 47, is on trial for her part in the murder of Sumon Miah, 21, at her home in Walthamstow in October 2006.
Mrs Bibi allegedly recruited former lover Lilu Miah, 48, to kill the young man after he uploaded naked pictures of her daughter to the internet, according to the Daily Mail.
Sumon Miah was hit over the head with a chair leg, fracturing his skull and dying nine days later in hospital.
After the murder, Mrs Bibi allegedly convinced her daughter to tell police she had killed her boyfriend in self-defence, also allegedly persuading her then 12-year-old son to lie.
Fraud in Australia’s plan to reduce violence against women
The 2009 Australian project a ‘Time for Action: The National Council’s Plan for Australia to Reduce Violence against Women and their Children, 2009-2021′, was approved for implementation by the Council of Australian Governments (COAG). The Plan, which is split into several parts, puts forth recommendations for new legislation, changes to judicial processes, requests for funding and ideas for domestic programs targeted at reducing domestic and sexual violence against women. The advisory council has some powers to implement programs through the Office of Women among other agencies, but much of what the government funded program calls for requires approval by Parliament.
The entire premise of the National Plan was underpinned by the belief in this statement:“While a small proportion of men are victims of domestic violence and sexual assault, the majority of people who experience this kind of violence are women in a home, at the hands of men they know.”[27-pg1] But a quick examination of the statistics and data shows a much different picture to the rather sweeping indictment of Australian men the National Council paints.
National Geographic seeks male victim of domestic violence for documentary
Sarah Isaac is currently researching the topic of men as victims of domestic violence at National Geographic and is looking for a younger male victim/survivor who is happy to talk on camera.
The reason behind this being that they want to highlight that this is a global and not domestic story.
The show that she is researching on behalf of, Taboo, is National Geographic’s most successful show.
Taboo is a long-running prime-time documentary series on the National Geographic Channel. The series presents an in-depth analysis of human behaviours and customs from around the world. As the title suggests, the focus is on practices that some countries or cultures might consider strange.
Submissions to Family Law Amendment (Family Violence) Bill 2010 Exposure Draft released under FOI
Subject: Submissions by organisations to Family Law Amendment (Family Violence) Bill 2010 Exposure Draft released under FOI
Dear colleagues,
Under a Freedom of Information Act request, the Federal Attorney General’s Department has finally released the following information to the public:
1. Copies of all public submissions lodged by organisations in response to the public consultation process into the Family Law Amendment (Family Violence) Bill 2010 – Exposure Draft . 122 submissions by organisations supported the proposed amendments; 15 submissions did not support the proposed amendments; and 6 submissions did not indicate whether they supported or did not support the proposed amendments.
2. A tally of the number of submissions by personal individuals that supported the proposed amendments (178); the number of submissions that did not support the proposed amendments (52); and the number of submissions that did not indicate whether they supported or did not support the amendments (36); for all submissions lodged in response to the public consultation process into the Family Law Amendment (Family Violence) Bill 2010 – Exposure Draft.
It is sad that in a democracy such as Australia, we have to rely on Freedom of Information legislation to obtain access to public submissions to a public federal government inquiry, especially when the inquiry’s website clearly states, “unless submissions are marked confidential they may be published.” There is no doubt that the Labor Government is pushing through their Family Law reforms with as little transparency as possible.
When the Attorney General’s Department was originally contacted in February 2011 we were told they “didn’t know if or when the submissions would be published.” When pressed further, we were told they “might be published when the legislation goes through parliament.” This clearly hasn’t happened. The FOI request was made on 18th February 2011, and the documents were finally received on 3rd June 2011 (FOI legislation requires that information be provided within one month, or two months when sensitive information is involved). It has taken a further month to scan them and put them online.
You can read the submissions using the links below. They were sent to us by the Attorney General’s Department in the exact format that you see online. They have been scanned and OCR’d “as-is” into one large PDF document that can be easily searched using Acrobat Reader software. For those of you who might have trouble downloading large documents, the large PDF has also been split into 5 smaller sections.
I have also discovered that a submission lodged on 14th January via email from the One in Three Campaign was not provided under the FOI request. This raises some very serious questions indeed:
1. How many other submissions were sent in to this Inquiry but were not received, and therefore were unable to be considered by the government?
2. How many other submissions were indeed received by this inquiry but were not provided under the FOI request?
Either way, there appear to be serious administrative errors taking place in the Attorney General’s Department. If your organisation’s submission is also not included in the PDFs linked below, could you please let me know as a matter of urgency?
Download links: Full document (142MB) or Part 1 (33.8MB) | Part 2 (16.5MB) | Part 3 (22.9MB) | Part 4 (35.2MB) | Part 5 (34MB)
Kind regards,
Greg Andresen
Research & Media Liaison Men’s Health Australia
Website http://www.menshealthaustralia.net
Post P.O. Box 1292, Bondi Junction NSW 1355, Australia
Another woman walks free after killing her husband
AN Adelaide woman who snapped and killed her cheating husband by setting him on fire has walked from court with only a suspended sentence.
Rajini Narayan, 46, was found guilty of the manslaughter of 47-year-old Satish Narayan after being tried for his murder.
In the Supreme Court of South Australia today, Justice John Sulan sentenced her to six years in jail with a non-parole period of four years for the death of her husband in December 2008.
He suspended her sentence saying there was good reason to do so and that her husband’s conduct was a mitigating factor.
Mrs Narayan had told her trial she snapped, threw petrol and a lit candle onto her husband’s back after learning via his emails that he was having an affair.
She had intended just to burn the tip of his penis with a candle and a beaker of petrol to save their marriage.
But she snapped and threw the beaker and candle on him after he turned his back on her.
Fathers rights groups have condemned this judgment as yet another example of the double-standards in our laws, where women serve little if any jail time despite murdering their husbands or children in the most gruesome of circumstances.
Ash Patil, President of Fathers4Equality, says that women always tend to rely on stereotypes to get away with murder. “They always pull out the..he abused me argument, or I was depressed argument.”
Patil notes that these arguments are never accepted for men in this country, and they should never be accepted as defence for murder, regardless of whether the murderer is male or female.”
Patil slams this murder as a revenge murder, from a jealous wife who sought to hurt the man that was leaving her.
“We recently saw a man, Arthur Freeman, be put to jail effectively for life for murdering his daughter, Darcy Freeman, exacting revenge on his estranged wife. The question is however, why was this woman not treated the same?”
American Woman found guilty of HK ‘Milkshake Murder’ of Husband
A Hong Kong jury on Friday unanimously found an American woman guilty of murdering her Merrill Lynch banker husband in 2003, ending the lengthy retrial of a case that riveted the territory with tales of rough sex, marital violence and adultery.
Nancy Kissel, who has appeared in a wheelchair during nearly 10 weeks of proceedings at Hong Kong’s High Court, had already been sentenced to life in prison in 2005 for murdering senior Merrill Lynch investment banker Robert Kissel  by giving him a milkshake spiked with sedatives and then clubbing him to death with a metal statuette.
Kissel, in her mid-40s, had been convicted of murder. But in the retrial, she had pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter, with the defence arguing that she suffers from depression and had been provoked into the crime after years of sexual and physical abuse by her husband.
After the verdict from the jury of seven women and two men was read out, Kissel, looking pale and thin, rocked backwards and forwards slowly as members of her family broke down in tears and held one another.
Justice Andrew Macrae described the retrial as a “difficult and very serious one” while saying that his “hands were tied” in upholding Kissel’s life sentence in accordance with Hong Kong punishment for murder, despite mitigating arguments put forward by Kissel’s lawyers.
“I don’t wish to say anything to add to your anguish,” Macrae said simply to Kissel, who struggled to stay on her feet as prison wardens led her from the courtroom.
Speaking outside the court building to reporters, Kissel’s elderly mother, Jean McGlothlin, said with tears in her eyes that she was “shocked by the outcome,” while expressing concern for the frail physical condition of her daughter.
Kissel’s step-father, Michael McGlothlin, said he thought the unanimity of the decision by the jurors was bewildering. “Certainly there are grounds for appeal,” he said.
The so-called “milkshake murder” case engrossed Hong Kong with its tales of domestic violence, rough sex and adultery that fractured the high-flying expatriate lifestyle that many financial professionals in the former British colony enjoy.
Prosecutors said Kissel gave Robert a milkshake laced with a “cocktail of drugs” before cracking his skull several times with a statuette. They said Robert had planned to divorce Nancy and wanted custody of their children after discovering she had an affair with a TV repairman in the United States.
After the killing, she left the corpse in the master bedroom for several days before rolling it up in the living room carpet and having it carried into a storeroom at the couple’s luxury apartment complex perched in the lush hills of Hong Kong island.
The defence had sought to argue that Kissel was suffering significant emotional problems and psychological distress from years of bullying by her husband that led to the killing in an “abnormality of violence.”
Last February, following an appeal to Hong Kong’s highest court, Kissel won a stunning reprieve when the panel of judges quashed Kissel’s conviction and ordered a retrial, saying the case had been flawed and riven with conflicting evidence.
The retrial which began in January and lasted 10 weeks clearly took an emotional toll on Kissel, who often appeared listless and pale in court, at times breaking down and even once screaming that she could see her dead husband in the courtroom.
Many Kissel supporters were bitterly disappointed, including her father Ira Keeshin who hobbled away with a walking stick and refused comment. But many echoed the view of her lawyer Colin Cohen who said: “We regret the verdict … but in my view, we have had a very fair trial.”
(Reporting by James Pomfret, editing by Miral Fahmy and Sugita Katyal)
http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/newshome/9078019/american-woman-found-guilty-in-hk-milkshake-murder/
Mum and son face murder charges in Adrian Trevett killing
BUSINESSMAN Adrian Trevett may have been killed, allegedly by two of his neighbours, over unfounded child sex allegations, NSW police say.
The 62-year-old went missing two months ago while on a cycling trip in the Gibraltar Range National Park, 45km west of Grafton.
He had been driven to Jackadgery on October 28 by a female friend and spent a night at a caravan park before riding to the summit of the Gibraltar Range.
The woman picked Mr Trevett up at Rangers Hut on the Gwydir Highway at Glen Innes on October 29, police allege.
Detectives travelled to Brisbane last week and arrested a 46-year-old woman who was extradited to NSW where she has been charged with his murder.
It’s not known if it is the same woman who had driven him to the national park last year.
Three men, aged 25, 29 and 36, and two women, both aged 32, were arrested just after 6am (AEDT) today.
Detective Sergeant Roger Best said the 25-year-old was the son of the woman who has already been charged with murder and he was also subsequently charged with the same offence.
Sgt Best said the mother and son were Mr Trevett’s neighbours in Red Range.
When asked if allegations of child sex offences may have led to his killing, he replied: “We would suspect so.”
“(The allegations) were investigated and police had serious doubts as to their validity,” Sgt Best said.
The 29-year-old man was charged with three counts of receiving, two counts of goods in custody and one count of supplying a prohibited drug.
The 32-year-old woman was charged with one count each of accessory after the fact to murder and concealing a serious offence.
All three were refused bail to appear in Lismore Bail Court tomorrow.
Meanwhile a 36-year-old man who was arrested in South Grafton was charged with one count of murder and 17 counts of obtain property by deception.
He appeared in Grafton Bail Court today where he was remanded in custody to appear in Armidale Local Court on Monday 10 January 2011.
Police officers recovered a decomposed body in a ravine at Sandy Hill in the Girard State Forest, 30km east of Tenterfield, on Saturday.
The body is believed to be that of Mr Trevett but police are still awaiting the results of scientific analysis to make a formal identification.
Also on Saturday, the 46-year-old woman appeared before Armidale Local Court where she did not apply for bail.
She has been remanded in custody to reappear in the same court on January 10.
Investigations are continuing and anyone with any information is urged to contact detectives via Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
Women Killers of NSW: On Facebook
WITH their distant looks and sinister appearance, these women all share the same brand of notoriety.
Each spent time in a NSW jail charged with murder.
Their stories are even more haunting than the images.
They include details of the first woman to be hanged in Sydney’s Darlinghurst jail (she was also the last woman to be hanged in NSW).
Another, at the age of 22, shot the man who employed her because she was carrying his twins and refused to marry her.
Her great-granddaughter is living in Camden and told The Sun-Herald she also has twins (see story on opposite page).
Now the rogues gallery of some 34,000 women and men prisoners is to be made available for the first time from tomorrow through the Ancestry website.
“The records in this collection contain a unique insight into the who’s who of NSW prisons in the late 19th century and early 20th century,” said Brad Argent of Ancestry.
Mr Argent said: ”The wonderful resources at Trove (trove.nla.gov.au) enabled me to access historic editions of The Sydney Morning Herald with the background information
I needed to pull together these fascinating stories.”
Emily May Macdonald is a haunting beauty. In January 1901, she was charged with the wilful murder of her 18-month-old daughter Thelma. Macdonald had poisoned herself and Thelma with phosphorous from match heads, the toddler dying from the effects.
She spent a short time in Darlinghurst jail but was released into the care of an asylum later that year.
Louisa Collins was the first woman to be hanged at Darlinghurst jail and also the last woman to be hanged in NSW. Her crime was to poison not one but two husbands, using an arsenic-based product known as ”Rough on Rats”.
She apparently killed the first, Charles Andrews, to marry the second, Michael Peter Collins. Then, perhaps not happy with her choice, she decided to murder Collins as well.
Much was made of the case at the time. It was referred to in the press as “The Botany Mystery”.
Louisa was convicted of murder by poisoning and hanged at 9am on January 8, 1889, despite much protest (no woman had been hanged in NSW for more than 20 years).
Her execution caused an outcry, partly because Collins was a mother – she was farewelled by three of her children – and partly because there was a view at the time that women, barred from voting and sitting on juries, should not be held accountable to the same laws as men.
The report of the hanging in The Sydney Morning Herald the next day said that Collins, dressed in a ”common brown wincey prison dress”, walked slowly and firmly towards the door which led to the scaffold.
A chaplain said that in her last days she had shown great courage which did not desert her in her final hour.
Mother and daughter Mary Ann Burton and Sarah Louise Keep were both convicted of murdering Keep’s husband William Henry Keep in the “Maitland Poisoning Case” of 1884-85.
Such was the ill will locally that the trial was moved to Sydney to ensure justice prevailed. Keep died in Darlinghurst jail in September 1885 of natural causes. Shortly after, Burton confessed to poisoning William and exonerated her daughter. Burton herself died seven months later (in April 1886) also in Darlinghurst jail.
A PREGNANT Ethel Herringe shot her employer, Maurice John Lee, on November 19, 1902. Herringe, aged 22, was charged with murder after Lee died six days later.
Lee, the licensee of Cowra’s Clubhouse Hotel, had apparently promised to marry Herringe, who was carrying his twins.
She arranged for a clergyman and witness to be present one night after closing then attempted to ambush Lee into marriage.
Lee reneged and Herringe unloaded.
In hospital, he made something of a death-bed confession, suggesting he had got what he deserved. There was much community support for Herringe and a petition for leniency attracted 5000 signatures.
Community sentiment prevailed and her charge was reduced to manslaughter. She was released from prison in 1904, thanks largely to the work of prominent feminist Rose Scott.
Great-granddaughter Julie Sligar said last week her father had memories of Herringe, who was allowed to keep the infants in jail – something of a first at the time. She later married Bill Laws and had three more children (the youngest, Therese, was Ms Sligar’s grandmother). Herringe died in 1958, aged 78.
Ms Sligar, 38, speaking from her home in Camden, said: ”I feel proud of her; she stood up for herself and she certainly never intended for him to die – she wanted to marry him, for goodness sake. I have twins too, Natalie and Amy, aged 8. I joke with my husband Damian to watch what he does or he’ll cop the same fate.”
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/haunting-facebook-of-nsw-women-killers-comes-to-life-20101211-18th0.html
Woman charged with Man’s murder
A YOUNG woman has been charged with murder following the death of a man in a domestic dispute in Mt Gambier, South Australia.
Police arrested the 24-year-old woman after investigating a report she was arguing with a 24-year-old man about 2.45 am.
“On arrival, police saw a motor vehicle had collided with another car and a stobie pole,” Acting Superintendent Tom Carter said.
It is understood the man was travelling along Power St and collided with another vehicle. The man was taken to Mount Gambia hospital but died a short time later.
Police have stated that the “injuries on this person did not appear consistent with the vehicle collision.”
Police believe that man was in fact murdered by the women.
Female TV star may face life over murder
Elena Skordelli ... accused of hiring the hitmen.
When police found Andis Hadjicostis, he lay lifeless, with his shirt soaked in blood, his eyes wide open and legs splayed, beneath the open door of the car parked outside his home.
Minutes earlier the Greek Cypriot media mogul had been shot at point blank range by two men on a motorbike. Before neighbours could rush to his aid, the assailants had fled the scene, a leafy side street in the heart of Nicosia.
Now, nearly 10 months after the murder, Elena Skordelli, the presenter who hosted the prime-time news on Sigma, the channel owned by Mr Hadjicostis, 43, is to appear before Cyprus’s criminal court accused of ordering the killing.
The 41-year-old will be joined by three other defendants including Anastasios Krasopoulis, her 37-year-old brother.
The prosecution contends that the siblings masterminded the murder after Ms Skordelli was sacked by Mr Hadjicostis.
But it was not just a simple case of revenge. Compelling commercial motives also played a role, according to court documents.
As the owners of 20 per cent of the shares of Sigma’s parent company, Dias, Ms Skordelli and her brother were determined to buy a majority stake.
Life imprisonment is in store for Ms Skordelli if she is found guilty. As the plot has thickened, Cypriots on both sides of the ethnic divide are asking whether she did it.
The trial was postponed when authorities in Moldova arrested Gregoris Xenofontos, who is alleged to have pulled the trigger. After his extradition, a re-run of the hearing was announced. The judge said proceedings would resume ”from the beginning”.
This has meant that Ms Skordelli, one of the Greek Cypriot elite used to a life of conspicuous consumption, has spent almost a year in prison. A bail plea after Mr Xenofontos’s arrest was rejected on the grounds that the defendants might try to escape or tamper with evidence.
The prosecution has rested its case on the testimony of one witness: Theophanis Hadjigeorgiou, 30, one of the two motorcyclists spotted fleeing the scene of the crime.
In return for immunity from prosecution, Mr Hadjigeorgiou said he was hired by the siblings to kill Mr Hadjicostis in exchange for $69,000 and a job for life at Sigma.
http://www.smh.com.au/world/tv-star-may-face-life-over-murder-20101025-170u3.html?autostart=1
