Many memorable lunches

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Ophelia Benson

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A senior Sun reporter has died and tributes are pouring in.

https://twitter.com/ian_tolfts/status/1391168071075762177
https://twitter.com/whagerty/status/1391005008028741634
https://twitter.com/AndrewJEwart/status/1391008084282290177
https://twitter.com/TomJHarper/status/1390992746517831683

There’s just this one tiny thing they’re forgetting to mention.

He murdered his wife.

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7 responses to “Many memorable lunches”

  1. Rob Avatar
    Rob

    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

  2. Skeletor Avatar
    Skeletor

    Just the normal Wikipedia sections for a biographical entry:

    Early life

    Career

    Wife killing

    Death

    References

    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.

  3. Ophelia Benson Avatar
    Ophelia Benson

    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.

  4. Sackbut Avatar
    Sackbut

    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.

  5. Ophelia Benson Avatar
    Ophelia Benson

    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.

  6. Skeletor Avatar
    Skeletor

    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.

    That is correct; I don’t know for sure. I was inferring that from from Wikipedia (TRIGGER WARNING):

    Returning home after the conference, Kay said he felt unable to resign because it would harm his career, but knew he was not capable of functioning as Industrial Editor either – he claimed that he announced to his wife that he was going to kill himself. He drowned his wife, Harue, in the bath. He then claimed he unsuccessfully attempted to kill himself through methods including hanging, putting his head in a gas oven, jumping out of a window (only to have his fall broken by plastic dustbins), and finally driving his car head-on into a bridge. He was found by the police naked and covered in blood.

    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.

  7. maddog1129 Avatar
    maddog1129

    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.

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