Another former member of her chambers recalled, “She was the most terrific fun.” Encouraging to younger advocates of both sexes, it was she who ensured that Barbara Mills, later to become director of public prosecutions, joined the chambers. Charities working with the victims of strokes were sceptical of the claims that a stroke could produce such a radical change. 'We are very dubious of people claiming personality derangement,' said Donal O'Kelly of Different Strokes. His ‘day job’ was working as a janitor at the county hospital. About a week before his case was set to come up for a trial, I received word from the Superior Court Clerk’s office that the case was going to be dismissed because the defendant had died.

Possibly the smartest was former Metropolitan Police Detective Sergeant Rodney Whitchelo who was sentenced to 17 years imprisonment in the late 1980s.

The sentence was welcomed by Detective Chief Superintendent Jeff Rees, who led the investigation into the bombings. 'Edgar Pearce took as his model Rodney Whitchelo [the former policeman jailed for 17 years for extortion in 1990],' said Mr Rees. 'We hope the message that goes out today is that extortionists face a very heavy sentence.'

And in 1999 Edgar Pearce, the so-called Mardi Gra bomber, was jailed for 21 years for a four-year extortion campaign targeting Barclays Bank and the Sainsbury’s supermarket chain. Richard died in 2001, and Stephen in 2009. She is survived by her daughters, four granddaughters, three grandsons and a great-granddaughter. More successful was a kidnapper who established a chain of accounts in different countries, each with instructions to transfer any deposits to the next immediately. Police were eventually able to follow the audit trail to the final bank account, but by then all the money had been withdrawn in cash.The piece told the story of Rodney Witchelo who mounted a campaign against a supermarket and food manufacturers in 1988. When people have little power, agency or status in society, they may find they can weaponise their own body. Indeed, the threat of infection has been used by some people to try to stop police from entering their homes

Asked how we could be sure he wouldn't commit a similar crime,Whitchelo said: "How can you demonstrate that? Detective Sergeant Rodney Whitchelo either read the document or independently decided to act on the methodology we had outlined. He threatened a major supermarket chain that he would poison baby food if he was not paid off. An episode of the crime documentary series Real Crime was made about the campaign in 2009 and broadcast by ITV. The documentary featured interviews with Neal Butterworth, then-editor of the Bournemouth Daily Echo and DSI James, the police officer who led the investigation. [1] [5] See also [ edit ]Throughout the three-month long trial Whitchelo refused to admithis guilt, arrogantly claiming he was "set up" by fellowpolice officers. Whitchelo added: "I am trying to lead an honest life. I havemy own computer firm and I'm trying to avoid any publicity." He had spent some years in advertising and marketing with a small company in Greenwich, which had taught him that he should always market whatever he was involved with in a distinctive way. From Home Entertainment magazine he chose the image that was to appear beneath the logo of Welcome to the Mardi Gra Experience. A fluent French speaker, he chose Mardi because his first hit was on a Tuesday and the Gra, minus the final s, so that his quarry would always know that it was him. I don't expect he has got any remorse whatsoever. He wasan arrogant man who looked at me like I was a piece of dirt during thetrial.