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A senior Sun reporter has died and tributes are pouring in.
There’s just this one tiny thing they’re forgetting to mention.
He murdered his wife.
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A senior Sun reporter has died and tributes are pouring in.
There’s just this one tiny thing they’re forgetting to mention.
He murdered his wife.
Drowned her in the bathtub. Oh well, it’s hard to be perfect. Best not speak ill of the dead, especially when he was such a great chap. /s
Just the normal Wikipedia sections for a biographical entry:
I don’t understand people that decide to kill themselves and step 1 is to first kill their family. Ideally don’t kill your self, but, if you must, let other people decide for themselves if they want to join you.
Well you don’t know that he decided to kill himself and killing his wife was merely step one toward killing himself. Note that he didn’t kill himself but he did kill her. I don’t think we need to frame things the way he would frame them.
An article I saw via Twitter said he claimed he thought it would be better for her, estranged from her Japanese family and all alone without him. So mercy, much considerate.
I guess he was too flustered to realize if that turned out to be the case she could decide for herself what to do about it.
That is correct; I don’t know for sure. I was inferring that from from Wikipedia (TRIGGER WARNING):
I thought he clearly seemed to be trying to kill himself. But, who knows, maybe an elaborate hoax. Or maybe he really was trying to kill himself but idea came only after he’d murdered his wife and realized he’d get caught, and he made up the planned murder/suicide story.
Regardless, he had no business killing his wife and he got off too easy no matter how it went.
He pleaded guilty to manslaughter, not murder. He killed her, though.
Can you imagine the homicide would have been elided in any obituary of a Black person?
In all these murder [homicide]/suicide schemes, they so often fail on the suicide part. Tell you what: do the suicide first. Prove your commitment to the part of the scheme that affects you.