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| PI Bala returns, vows to help oust BN Posted: 24 Feb 2013 08:05 AM PST
Talks had been circulating that he was planning to return home and campaign for the federal opposition bloc. "I came back because I want to be with my fellow Malaysians. We must change this corrupt government. "If we let them govern for 50 years more this country will be ruined," he told some 50 PKR supporters who greeted him at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport here upon his arrival from India. The former private investigator also swore that he had made the second SD under duress while claiming that the allegations contained in the first statement was the truth. Balasubramaniam (picture) had said in the past that he fled the country after he and his family received death threats. "I had no other choice. I had to take my family out of the country," he said. The former PI confirmed that controversial carpet dealer Deepak Jaikishan had assisted in the drafting of the second SD. |
| NY ‘cannibal cop’ trial to spotlight violent sex fantasy subculture Posted: 24 Feb 2013 08:02 AM PST NEW YORK, Feb 24 — The New York federal trial of accused "cannibal cop" Gilberto Valle due to start tomorrow promises to highlight an online subculture where people trade violent sexual fantasies.  New York City police officer, Gilberto Valle, is charged with plotting to kidnap, torture, cook and eat at least 100 women. — AFP pic "It's the perfect alibi," said former Manhattan sex crimes prosecutor Linda Fairstein, who is not involved in the Valle case, which is being prosecuted in Manhattan by the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York. "A case of this magnitude, and of this nature, may make case law," Fairstein said. Opening arguments were expected to begin tomorrow afternoon. Valle has pleaded not guilty to conspiring with New Jersey mechanic Michael Van Hise to kidnap, cannibalise and kill a Manhattan woman. Valle has said he was merely engaged in online fetish role-play and never intended to commit a crime. Federal authorities contend he took real action outside the role-play websites. Investigators say Valle compiled an online dossier with the names and in some cases photos or physical descriptions of more than 100 women, and discussed targeting some of them for kidnap and murder. They say he met one woman for brunch, improperly accessed a police database to get information on another, and engaged in surveillance of a third, a high school senior of whom Valle wrote to a fellow fetishist that "she is the most desirable piece of meat I've ever met." Prosecutors have also said Valle searched online for homemade chloroform recipes so he could "knock out" a Manhattan woman and deliver her to Van Hise. The pair also discussed "slow cooking" the woman to keep her alive as long as possible, prosecutors contend. Defence attorneys for both men have said the goal of role-play is to make it as realistic as possible, enhancing the thrill. "You draw on your real life to make it as real as possible, but it's fantasy," Van Hise's attorney Alice Fontier told a judge recently. Sex crime investigators have been monitoring chat rooms and fetish websites for child molesters since the advent of the Internet. But violent sex fantasy role-playing sites present a new level of legal complexity. "Everybody is concerned about individuals whose sex fantasies reflect a dangerous mindset," said Martin Klein, a sex therapist who has testified in state and federal sex crimes cases. "The problem is the people that are actually dangerous — their fantasies tend to look very, very similar to those of healthy people. On the Internet, the line between imagination and behaviour has gotten really very thin." — Reuters |
SEPANG, Feb 24 — Private investigator P. Balasubramaniam returned to Malaysia today, vowing to help voters and Pakatan Rakyat (PR) oust the Barisan Nasional (BN) government in Election 2013. Balasubramaniam fled the country since he made a second sworn statement to refute his first statutory declaration (SD) that implicated Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak and his wife Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor in the 2006 murder of Mongolian Altantuya Shaaribuu.| You are subscribed to email updates from The Malaysian Insider :: ALL To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
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