Currant Bun

[1959]

Seen today's Sun front page? All about how disgusting it is that convicted killer Learco Chindamo had a day out from Ford Prison.
If you haven't read it, here's a link http://www.thesun.co.uk/article//0,,2-2006080368,00.html
Terrible, isn't it?

But wait a minute. Look who wrote the story. Champion of law and order, The Sun's Chief Reporter and, er, convicted wife-killer John Kay, who drowned his wife in the bath in 1977 and, thanks to somebody's expensive and powerful lawyers (I wonder who?) served how long in prison?

Yep, you guessed it.

 

[Napper]

surely ford "open" prison is like a holiday camp anyway ?

 

[Easy 10]

Driven past Ford prison a few times when getting dragged along to that pikey market. Its basically a Butlins with barbed wire.

 

[crasher]

Seen today's Sun front page? All about how disgusting it is that convicted killer Learco Chindamo had a day out from Ford Prison.
If you haven't read it, here's a link http://www.thesun.co.uk/article//0,,2-2006080368,00.html
Terrible, isn't it?

But wait a minute. Look who wrote the story. Champion of law and order, The Sun's Chief Reporter and, er, convicted wife-killer John Kay, who drowned his wife in the bath in 1977 and, thanks to somebody's expensive and powerful lawyers (I wonder who?) served how long in prison?

Yep, you guessed it.

John Kay and his wife (who was Japanese) had a suicide pact because their families would not accept their relationship. He survived and she didn't.

Not excusing him but I'm not sure it's the same thing as knifing a complete stranger.

Also - he's a reporter. Which means he reports news stories (like this one). His personal morals or views shouldn't really come into it.

 

[bathseagull]

Driven past Ford prison a few times when getting dragged along to that pikey market. Its basically a Butlins with barbed wire.

played football there a couple of times aswell against some inmates - they can only play home games, wonder why......

 

[Gully]

Crasher, if he works as a journo there shouldn't be any concern about his personal or moral views, he won't need to call on them.

 

[crasher]

Crasher, if he works as a journo there shouldn't be any concern about his personal or moral views, he won't need to call on them.

I think we may be confusing the paper's moral view (hang em and flog em) with an individual reporter's view.

There are, no doubt, some liberals working on the Sun and some right-wing headbangers working on the Guardian. As a journalist you have to know what stories are right for your paper's readership. What you think is neither here nor there.

 

[Gully]

Yes I agree, I admit to being a little facaetious in my posting, I have a fairly low opinion of journos and should not have let personal opinion cloud my statement. This is of course exactly the point you make, personal opinion/morals should never get in the way of a story that will raise the circulation of your own newspaper.

 

[HampshireSeagulls]

Can you get actual proof of the court case taking place and the offence happening? I belong to another board which takes an active interest in two faced Scum journos. I know it was 1977, and the web is quite light on this (apart from two scurrilous rumour boards). Can anyone give me proof that this happened?

 

[Garry Nelson's Left Foot]

Can you get actual proof of the court case taking place and the offence happening? I belong to another board which takes an active interest in two faced Scum journos. I know it was 1977, and the web is quite light on this (apart from two scurrilous rumour boards). Can anyone give me proof that this happened?

Couldn't you do some good old fashioned detective woprk like they do in the movies?

You know, get down the library, use that computer thing that has all the old newspapers stored on it and search through the local news from 1977. They always find remarkable things in them old newspaper searches.

 

[Hunting 784561]

use that computer thing that has all the old newspapers stored on it

microfiche

 

[1959]

Can you get actual proof of the court case taking place and the offence happening? I belong to another board which takes an active interest in two faced Scum journos. I know it was 1977, and the web is quite light on this (apart from two scurrilous rumour boards). Can anyone give me proof that this happened?

The case was heard in St. Albans, if that's any help. For written "proof", look for a book called "Stick It Up Your Punter". I can't remember the author's name, but it's a funny read, a history of the Kelvin McKenzie period of The Sun.

 

[crasher]

Can you get actual proof of the court case taking place and the offence happening? I belong to another board which takes an active interest in two faced Scum journos. I know it was 1977, and the web is quite light on this (apart from two scurrilous rumour boards). Can anyone give me proof that this happened?

Perhaps you should hire someone who's good at research and investigation and knows how to dig out information.

Someone like a "two-faced scum journo" perhaps?

 

[HampshireSeagulls]

I can dig, I'm just being bone-idle. If I wanted two-faced journo scum, I could always PM London Irish - he's may be broadsheet, but he's tabloid at heart!