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Tyler had three weeks earlier “caused upset to some very dangerous young men” by uploading a drill music track to YouTube, the court heard. Ms Carberry said the lyrics mocked, “in pretty vile terms”, Tanueh’s associates, in particular one member of the group who was stabbed, though not fatally.

And, following an unsuccessful armed attack just over two weeks before the fatal stabbing, Tyler “taunted the group” after he managed to escape unhurt, she told jurors.

Some people walk to their appointment in Samarra. Some people run. 

Some people, it seems, don't even need to leave the house any more, they can keep it via YouTube! 

Fewer People Like Lloyd Or Nate Is A Good Thing, That's True...

When Lloyd Williamson lay on his back in a GP’s clinic late last November, it was for the surgical culmination of years of soul searching. Williamson, who is 30 and from Essex, remembers wanting a family as a child, but something changed in his early 20s. “I thought: you know what? I don’t want to bring a life into this world, because it’s pretty shitty as it is and it’s only going to get worse,” he says, two weeks after his vasectomy.

You'd think his personality would be contraception renough, wouldn't you?  

Williamson, who works as a data support officer for Essex county council (he stood unsuccessfully as a Green party councillor in Chelmsford in 2019), says he knows of other young, childless men who are thinking of doing the same thing.

But then, this is Essex! 

Sadly, it's not confined to Essex:

It should not be surprising that a generation with increased awareness of the climate emergency is asking big questions about traditional family structures.

Translation: "These people are stupid enough to swallow anything, so no wonder they collude in their own destruction!" 

For Nate Miller (not his real name), a 36-year-old from Colorado, the election in 2016 of Donald Trump, a climate science denier, was the clincher.

Good. Maybe when enough of these people have embraced their own destruction, the overall IQ will go up a point or two. 

I Think We All Know How It's Going To End, Don't We?

Mrs Bell didn't fully co-operate with the police investigation but did tell that she had been attacked and suffered injuries.

Miss Atkinson said: "She confirmed that he threatened her with an axe and said he was going to hit her with it. She said that he had never shown this level of aggression before but she was scared about how it was going to end."

It's only going to end one way, isn't it? 

Bell, of Rivington Park, Appleby, Cumbria, pleaded guilt to grievous bodily harm following the incident in November last year.

Well, it's a long spell in chokey for you, and well des... 

The court heard how Mrs Bell wants to rekindle their relationship.

*blinks* 

Judge Timothy Stead (Ed: *deep sigh*) sentenced Bell to a two-year community order where he will perform 15 rehabilitation activity days and take part in an alcohol monitoring programme.

He said: "It is a great disappointment to see you hear (sic) at this age, it is the only time you have done anything wrong."

Actually, doubtful - it's simply the first time he's been caught. 

"It is a significant wrong – I don't want to be heard saying that domestic violence is in anyway a lesser form of violence than that which could be regarded as general violence against other people, it is the reverse, it is more serious."

Which is why you...haven't put him behind bars where he belonged?