RedHanded - In The News: The 2020 Round-Up

Episode Date: December 23, 2020

Merry Christmas Spooky Bitches! This year as a present for all the incredible things you guys have achieved (The Listener's Choice and Spotify No:1) we've decided to give you all some bonus content Christmas Presents. We've scoured through the hours of extra content we put up on Patreon to bring you 2020's greatest hits. This episode is In The News, our monthly episode on the cases that have been hitting the headlines but haven't progressed far enough for a full-length episode. This year has been a smorgasbord of criminal mayhem and in these 2020 highlights, we discuss The Dairy Pirates, a sexually sadistic Grime artist, and a wannabe gangster who turned to fish porn, along with so much more. If you like what you hear and want some more information head on over to: https://www.patreon.com/redhanded   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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She even increased taxes in this economy. Yeah, higher taxes, carbon taxes. She sounds expensive. Bonnie Crombie and the Ontario Liberals. They just don't get it. That'll cost you. A message from the Ontario PC Party. They say Hollywood is where dreams are made.

A seductive city where many flock to get rich, be adored, and capture America's heart. But when the spotlight turns off, fame, fortune, and lives can disappear in an instant. Follow Hollywood and Crime, The Cotton Club Murder on the Wondery app or wherever you Hello friends. Welcome to another one of our 2020 Patreon roundups. This time what we've done is we've gone through a piece of content we do called In The News. In The News is a monthly full-length episode where Runters and I go through all of the tip-top news stories that we can find. Some of them are true crime, some of them are about alligators. Some of them are about eggs. Some of them are about broken ladders.

Some of them are about Mr. Potato Chest. Have a listen. I have a word, sort it out. Right. Story number one of a possible four or five. I'm not sure yet. We're talking about PC Harper is the one that I've got. So in the UK in August last year, so 2019,

the news broke that a police officer, Andrew Harper, was killed while being dragged behind a car for approximately a mile down a country lane in Berkshire, which is a long way to be dragged. I wouldn't want to be dragged a centimetre, let alone a mile. A mile, that is like from my house to the nearest train station that takes me a good 15 minutes to walk imagine being dragged for that what the fuck this was such a horrible case when it came out last year is pc harper jumped from his unmarked

police car at about 11 20 p.m on the 15th of August 2019, after seeing the car that was being driven by Henry Long, towing a stolen quad bike. P.C. Harper then ran towards the car, attempted to stop the teens from the passenger side of the car as they sped past him. And then he became entangled in the tow rope and dragged behind the car, even though the quad bike had actually been untied at this point so pc harper just gets caught up in the sort of how they'd connected it to the car and then he gets dragged into the darkness by three teenagers and these teenagers well henry the one that's driving furiously drove along at dark country lanes and if you live anywhere near a country lane you know that everyone absolutely bombs it because you feel so confident and you feel like you really know the roads.

Like, everyone does it. Not encouraging speeding. But I can definitely believe that these teenagers were absolutely ragging it. So they're driving furiously through the country lanes. And then Constable Shaw, who was Harper's partner, is attempting to chase them in the police car. But unfortunately, he couldn't turn around in the tight lane, which meant he had to chase the teenagers in reverse.

Really, you can't do that very fast. So as Shaw drives along the country lane, he came across his partner's battered stab vest lying in the road, along with other bits and pieces of PC Harper's uniform, which must have been quite a chilling sight. And at around 11.30pm, 10 minutes after the terrible event had unfolded, Shaw received a radio call

saying that other officers were responding to the incident and they'd found PC Harper's body in the road. And he was pronounced dead by paramedics 15 minutes later after having been dragged for a mile at speeds averaging about 40 miles an hour 40 miles an hour doesn't sound that fast the speed limit on country lanes is 60 but when it's dark and it's wiggly windy that is pretty fast and when your body is not in the car exactly so on the 24th of july all three of the teenagers in the car so that's long coal and

bowers were cleared of murder, but they were found guilty of manslaughter. And their defence claimed that it was just a freak accident that led PC Andrew Harper to get tangled behind the car. You know, no one's saying that they actively tied him to the car themselves. Henry Long, so the driver, was sentenced to 16 years in jail, while the other two who were in the car, Jesse Cole and Andrew Bowers, were given 13 years apiece.

And there were audible gasps from the public gallery. I think the major question is, how long do you drag someone behind your car before it goes from an unlikely accident to a decision not to stop? Because a mile is quite a long way. Yeah. And I guess the argument from the defence's point being like a freak event or whatever it is, is just saying like, oh, you know, he jumped out of an unmarked police car. They didn't know what was going on. PC Harper gets himself tangled into the sort of ropes that are attached to this car and they just sort of go. But you're right.

How are you driving a mile not noticing that there is a man being dragged behind your car? I mean, again, I don't drive, but I'm guessing if there is that weight hanging off the back of your car, you're going to notice. I don't think it's even the weight, it would be the noise. I think like when you're driving, like you get used to what your car sounds like.

I've been thinking about this this morning and like if something's a bit off with one of your tyres, you can hear it. If anything is off, it's the sound that you hear first or like the feeling there's no way they couldn't have known that something was very seriously wrong yeah and also that apparently and this just made me so sad for the future of our species that apparently spotify

are going to introduce a new function whereby you can listen to a podcast and music at the same time because our brains aren't fucking frazzled enough. That just made me really sad for how we're all doing, really. Well, my sister works in marketing. She said that the average Gen Z-er, which is her age group, consume 26 hours of content a day. I mean, I just don't even know. It's no wonder. We're all completely

fucked. Our brains are fucked. Doing that many things at the same time. It's not good for our brains, guys. I know I'm saying this as I stand in a little box speaking, looking at Hannah speaking to me on a phone and reading some notes and also keeping an eye on the recording that's happening next to me. But don't listen to music and podcasts at the same time. That's going to fuck you up. It's just my humble opinion but anyway right to save that particular oh he's a good person he's just anyway right so the title that we have for this is grime artist solo 45 sentenced to 24 years for a string of rape abuse and imprison imprisonment. This is pretty awful. So let's just do it, I suppose.

Andy Inoki was his real name, but his stage name was Solo 45. He's about 33 years old now. Grew up in one of the roughest parts of Tottenham, where I got eggs thrown at me. He grew up on a place called the Broadwater Farm Estate. But before the age of 18, he had already had several run-ins with the police, thanks to abuse allegations from an ex-girlfriend an incident with a bb gun and a barber shop he was also on the receiving end of a stabbing so the police are fully aware of him and i think like the name of the estate on which he grew up broadwater farm is a bit misleading i'm guessing it's not anything like a farm or anywhere that sounds like what it's named after.

No, definitely not. Quite a lot of estates have names like that. They're like, really nice place estate. Pleasant Lake Estate here in the roughest part of the world. Good, great. So Andy managed to use music to pull himself up and out of Broadwater Farm. And by 2014, he was performing as an artist in Earl's Court as a part of the grime collective Boy Better Know. And his track Feed Them to the Lions got him

on a set list that contained grime royalty like JME, Skepta and Wiley. Skepta as in the same Skepta that is going out with Adele now. They're still together, right? I believe so. Also, Adele, also from Tottenham. Don't know if she's from Broadwater Farm, but facts. So many connections. But by 2017, all of his musical castle building was about to fall apart. Anoki himself told Bristol Crown Court, quote, I don't think women I was involved with would look at me and think, he's going to make slow, sensual, candlelit love to me. They knew the sex I was into.

I would tell them it would sometimes involve terrorising. Er, what? I was just about to say do what you want with that, but there's only one thing you can do with that, and it's be physically sick. It's just to be absolutely terrorised by that statement. Thanks very much. Jesus.

I'm going to tell you the sort of things that he did to these women, and I think we can all agree that none of them could possibly have been A, expecting it and B, describing it as just what he was into. So in April 2017, a woman approached the police in Bristol after she had an intensely unpleasant sexual encounter with Anokhi. She'd gone to her friends afterwards after her and Anokhi had had sex and described how during the the encounter he'd rubbed a bleach soaked flannel on her face and spat on her repeatedly after this enoki told her that he would quote bury her if she came forward to the police but after a chat with her friends she did anyway and good for her and thank god she did when the police raided his bristol flat he freely gave up the passwords to all of his devices and And what the police found was pretty shocking.

He had been habitually recording himself having sex since his teens and much of the footage showed what appeared to be rape, abuse and even imprisonment. Unsurprisingly, this led the police to contact several other women who had featured in his videos. And with four strong witnesses, they took Inoki to court. And he doesn't actually seem to feel that guilty about it because he spoke extremely freely in the witness box about how he enjoyed slapping, choking and biting women during sex.

He even went as far to say that he sometimes left them with bruises, raised skin and carpet burns. And also him saying like, oh, you know, sometimes I left them with bruises, raised skins or even carpet burns. That does just make it sound like, oh, we were having a bit of like extremely passionate sex and it got carried no you're fucking rubbing bleach flannels on people's faces and trying to waterboard them he also told the court that he wouldn't have risked his freedom by raping women because quote life was too sweet not because it's wrong not because you don't want

to put women in danger not because you care about their consent just because your life is too good to go to prison. And also bullshit. He's saying his life is so sweet because he's acting however the fuck he wants and raping all these women. That's what makes his life sweet. So to say that he wouldn't do it because his life was so sweet rings not particularly true.

Sounds like that's the reason it's sweet. And in the end, it didn't matter how often Anokhi repeated the line, quote, it's the sex I have. Slick wordplay and lyrics were not going to get him out of this one. And in July of this year, 2020, he was convicted of 21 rapes, two counts of assault by penetration, five counts of false imprisonment, and he was sentenced to 24 years in prison, followed by five years on license. Which, good, but similar to Ian Watkins, you've kind of got to wonder he was on tour with

Wiley Skepta like as a part of a grime collective surely they must have known and like I know that we've had people get in touch with us who were close to Ian Watkins or like whatever who were like no my god no one knew I still think he's going to be boasting about this for sure if he's filming it and like giving up the passwords to his computer completely freely, he doesn't think it's wrong. I just think it's like with the Ian Watkins thing. With Ian Watkins, I don't think that anyone who was around him probably knew the extent to what he was doing.

So like with the babies and that kind of thing, I think they probably thought he was having sex with, you know, 15, 16 year old fans. And it was like, obviously it's not great and maybe they're not partaking but I think they're probably like looking the other way on that but here I find it hard to believe I don't know that no one could have known what he was doing he seems very forthcoming about his actions yeah yeah like I don't think he thought what he was doing was illegal whereas Ian Watkins knew that raping babies was definitely illegal. Precisely. And if, you know, he clearly has.

Right. So, baby food. 45-year-old farmer from Lincolnshire has been found at the end of the largest blackmail investigation in British history, apparently. At one point, the investigation had about 100 officers involved in the search for the elusive

dairy pirates. Which just makes me think of like fucking Captain Pugwash just like coming down on a rope and stealing your lunchables out of your lunchbox. It's much worse than that what they're actually doing. Though you know big dairy is a big problem. Big dairy is a big problem. What these dairy pirates had been doing is tampering with baby food on the shelves of Tesco supermarkets. Morven Smith who's a mother in the Scottish town of Lockerbie, described feeling shocked and sick when she gave her baby boy a couple of spoonfuls of Heinz baby food before noticing, quote, something shiny in the pot. And this something shiny turned out to be shards of metal designed to be swallowed

and inflict internal damage on the child. So literally like the urban legend of like razor blades in your Halloween sweets. Literally that. Oh my god. Another mother Harpreet Kaur Singh in Rochdale found similar fragments in a jar she was feeding her daughter. Tesco soon received dozens of letters and emails asking for bitcoin in return for information and an end to the tampering and these blackmail correspondents were signed off under various aliases, including the Dairy Pirates. And what these Dairy Pirates claimed is they would stop leaving the Heinz baby food that had been laced with shards of craft knife. And they would also tell Tesco where the other jars were in return for 1.4 million pounds worth of Bitcoin. This led to Heinz recalling over 42,000 jars of baby food, but they didn't find anything in them. And it's

a difficult one because it's kind of like that thing where, you know, there's like, again, like an urban legend of like buying four chickens on your last day of school and labeling them one, two, four and five so that the teacher spent the whole day looking for number three. It could be a similar thing. Like maybe there are no more and the Tesco would have absolutely no way of knowing. But also, is it worth the risk? Also, 42,000 jars of baby food is what? Lots of pounds. It is. I mean, I don't know how much a jar of baby food costs, especially at wholesale. It's probably like a quid more. I don't know. It's Heinz though. That's a brand. Could be two. That is a brand. It's not like Tesco Basic. Do Tesco Basic sell baby food? Fucking probably. I don't know. Maybe. I don't know.

Why are we talking about babies? What? Who? So after a two-year plot that began in May 2018, the jars of tampered food were eventually traced to a 45-year-old sheep farmer called Nigel Wright. This information only came about after 30 officers worked around the clock trawling through CCTV footage. And in this footage, which we will post for you below,

Wright can be seen pulling three jars of baby food from his coat pocket before adding them to a shelf in Tesco. And when the police arrived at his family home in Lincolnshire, they found photographs of the contaminated food on his laptop, along with several draft blackmail notes, one of which read, "'Imagine a baby's mouth cut open and blood pouring out or the inside of their belly is cut and bleeding.

You pay, you save them. What is your ish, Nige? Why is this the way you've decided to go? Like, what do you have against Tesco's and or babies? Oh, my God. I mean, I guess maybe what he has against Tesco's is that he's, what is he, a sheep farmer? Oh, good point. I mean, I guess, like, our against Tesco's is that he's, what is he, a sheep farmer? Oh, good point.

I mean, I guess like our supermarkets don't really, and my God, I am not here to fucking defend this piece of shit, right? I'm just saying Brexit coupled with the way in which our supermarkets treat our farmers in Britain is pretty atrocious. They pay them like fucking pennies for whatever, like to the point that a lot of farmers are making a loss. But what you got against babies? I guess it's just like, this is what's going to make them pay up. But fucking hell, to take off 42,000 jars of baby food is going to cost Tesco's less than paying him 1.4 million

pounds. Yeah, and it's not even pounds, it's Bitcoin, which like, fine. I know it's a cryptocurrency. And I know people think it's safer, but it is traceable. There is absolutely no cryptocurrency which isn't traceable. My cousin writes articles about it all the time. Like, it's a complete nonsense that it's untraceable. It's more difficult, but it's not impossible. Nigel hasn't quite done his research on that front, clearly. How many sheep can you buy with 1.4 million bitcoins?

Maybe it's like one. Maybe sheep are really expensive. I have no idea. Maybe someone can tell us who's a sheep farmer. Not me. I don't know. Maybe it's like one. Maybe sheep are really expensive. I have no idea. Maybe someone can tell us who's a sheep farmer. Not me. I don't know. What's a sheep worth? So Nigel immediately admitted to leaving contaminated foods in Lockerbie.

However, he completely denied ever leaving them in Rochdale. And on top of that, he told the court that he had been forced into the plot by travellers at Knife Point. That would be my go-to excuse, honestly. Oh my god. Travellers at knife point. Fantastic. So now he hates Tesco's, babies and travellers.

Yep. What is this guy? He's so filled with rage. I'm generalising here massively, but it's not uncommon for farmers to hate travellers because they'll just pitch up on land and not leave. It's the classic triad of farmer hate. Babies, Tesco and travellers.

All makes sense. So apparently they told him that he had to leave these jars in Tesco or they would, quote, hang his family from the trees. He's got the most, like, grizzly imagination. The dairy pirates who hang people from trees. Oh my God.

And he said all of these things, so convinced of his own story flying in the face of the fact that there was very convincing cctv evidence of nigel wright driving to tesco's on his own entering on his own leaving the baby food on the shelf on his own and then spending 30 quid on wine and flowers for his wife oh my god he like, I've done it, baby. I've hit the big time. We're celebrating. And on top of all the shit that's on his laptop as well, like he has physical pictures of him.

I know I shouldn't laugh. It's super dangerous. I don't know. We're talking incels, guys. We're talking incels, because why not? Your fave. Everywhere. My fave.

My absolute fave. So this guy, his name was, or is, he's still alive. Spoilers. Cole Carini. And he admitted himself into his local medical center in Richlands, Virginia on Tuesday, the 2nd of June. So this was, you know, just over a month ago. When he arrived, his face and his neck were filled with shrapnel, along with the fact that he was missing several fingers and a whole entire hand. Just a whole hand blown off. It's gone. Seb has put here, insert caught red-handed joke. I cannot think of one.

He is missing his hand. There's red. I don't know. He's missing a hand. There's something. He's turned himself in no-handed. I don't know. He's missing a hand. There's something. He's turned himself in no-handed. I don't know. Something. Do something with that.

And according to the official criminal complaint written up by FBI Special Agent Neil Schmeich, when Carini was initially questioned by local officers in hospital, he told them that his injuries were as the result of being sucked into, so his hand was sucked into, an upturned lawnmower. I don't know how one's hand gets sucked into a lawnmower, but this is a story that Carini stuck to relentlessly. And from what we could find, he continues to stick to that story to today. And given the shoddiness of this story, the local police force were inevitably able to gain a warrant to search his home. Upon arriving and searching the home of Colcarini, officers found various white powders, peroxides, and other paraphernalia associated with bomb making, as well as a trail of blood leading to an upstairs bedroom.

So when the FBI arrived, they entered the bedroom that the trail of blood led to. And this room was in a state of total carnage. It was covered from floor to ceiling in fresh blood and human flesh. The blinds had been blown to pieces and on the floor lay a t-shirt that had been ripped to shreds by an explosion. In the centre of the room lay a charred plastic container from which the explosion appeared to have come from. According to one local news source, some members of the local police force actually felt physically sick when they entered the scene. Possibly there is some throw up, we cannot confirm, but I don't really think you can blame them. That is quite the scene to walk into. Even if they suspected that, I think

it's going to shock you. So the FBI found various pieces of bomb making equipment in the bedroom as well, including a big box of rusty nails that FBI agent Schmeich believed could be used as shrapnel in an explosive device. So once the FBI found this scene of disturbingly gruesome but fairly comprehensive evidence, they then set about searching for a possible test site for these homemade explosives. And it was at this point that they noticed a shed at the bottom of the garden of Karini's grandmother's house, which just so happened to be his next-door neighbour. So his grandma lives next door to him, and at the bottom of her garden, they see a shed where there looks like there's been some explosives gone off.

Coincidence? Absolutely not. So surrounding the shed were small marks on the ground that looked to be as a result of explosions. And the area was littered with wires and more white powder. When the FBI entered the shed, they found what looked like a small bomb-making factory filled to the brim again with white powder, bleach, wires, PVC piping,

and various other pieces of bomb-making gear. And along with this, as if this wasn't enough, they found a handwritten note, which they presumed had been written by Carini. The note had been ripped up, leaving some parts illegible. However, the following could be made out. We've spoken about this, guys, before. The FBI will put your notes together. You cannot just tear them up.

You cannot put them through a regular shredder. You need a fucking cross shredder. This is what Carini needed. But knowing him, he probably would have stuck his remaining fingers in those and torn them apart. So be careful. But yeah, they put this note together and this is what they were able to read. This is written directly. So what I'm about to read you is a direct quote of what was written down.

He casually walked through the shopping mall, his jacket concealed deadly objects. He was doing it and was assured it must be done. Even if he died, this statement was worth it. He had of tension that would come and go as he approached this stage of hot cheerleaders. He blended in with his audience. He began scanning his surroundings. He noticed two security guards who were standing side by side. This was an important observation. A dead seriousness sank in as he realized he was past the point of no return. He decided, I will not back down. I will not be afraid of the consequences, no matter what.

I will be heroic. I will make a statement like Elliot Rogers did, he thought to himself. For God's sake. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. Oh, yes. For those of you who don't understand the reference to Elliot Roger, or just perhaps need a refresher, Roger was a 22-year-old incel.

And if you can't remember what an incel is, it is an involuntary celibate. We have covered this in extensive detail. I cannot remember the episode number, but if you go into your podcast player and just search red handed incel, you will find it. He basically killed six people and injured 14 others by gunshots, stabbing and ramming them with his car before finally getting into a shootout with police in Isla Vista in California in 2014. He did die as a result of that shootout. But before he did it, Roger posted a video on the day of his attack titled Elliot Rogers Day of Retribution, along with a hundred thousand word manifesto. These incels are all the fucking same.

They just love it. Love a manifesto. So all the while that this house hunt is taking place, Carini was still insisting to the two FBI agents guarding him in hospital that his injuries were as a result of an upturned lawnmower, despite at this point being aware that the police had been granted a warrant to search his house and the surrounding area. According to Agent Schmeich, when he was confronted with the evidence that had already been collected by the FBI, Carini doubled down on his story and said that the lawnmower had turned over and because of the high speed of the blades, he had been sucked in and the lawnmower had exploded blasting him back out and causing his heavy injuries i'm no lawnmower expert but i think

even i know it's not like a hoover like it's not like i could kind of see like maybe you know like that bit in walk the line where johnny cash's brother's like shirt gets caught on the saw i can kind of see that if you're like a piece of your clothing gets stuck in a blade, then you might. But like saying that you get sucked in like it's a reverse leaf blower doesn't really seem to make any sense. But also, I have not been to the lawnmower conference this year, so I might be wrong. No, and nor have I. But I will confidently say how fast are these blades spinning that they can literally suck your hand in? Create a vacuum, yeah.

If we look at what the FBI found at his house, it was in his bedroom. So you're telling me you took your lawnmower up to your bedroom, turned it over, turned it on, and then your hand got sucked into it. That's just not a thing that happened. And also, where was the lawnmower? They didn't find bits of lawnmower in his bedroom. But anyway, not only this, not only the fact that a lawnmower they didn't find bits of lawnmower in his bedroom but anyway not only this not only the fact that a lawnmower's blades wouldn't be spinning this fast to create a vacuum

and the other things we have to consider and how even vaguely trustworthy this story would have been is that if he had been mowing his lawn it would appear that he had the fastest growing lawn in the world because agent schmeich noted that the grass in front of cole carini's house was a good six inches long and didn't show any signs of being cut at all i'm beginning to think that he's not really telling us the truth i think it's okay we've had a quite a ukraine heavy couple of days actually we're talking about it just just yesterday in the feral children episode a couple of days were in ukraine oh yes yes you Well, I don't think I've ever thought about Ukraine so much in my life. Now is a better time than ever. Clearly. Evidently. Especially

when they've got weird shit going on like this case. Yeah, it is pretty weird and more weird to do with what they're allowed to show on TV on the news. That's my biggest takeaway. Mate, other countries are so rogue. I'm sure obviously other people have been to other countries and maybe watch the news there. But as someone who spent every summer in India with my grandparents I mean Jesus Christ okay look I'm just gonna say it you know when there was that whole thing of like jihadis executing people by like beheading them yeah yeah yeah yeah Indian news here you go boom no warning no blurring no like you know blurring of the image here you go just showing. No warning. No blurring. No, like, you know, blurring of the image. Here you go. Just showing it on, like, 9pm news. Just someone fully getting executed.

Wow. And then they just cut back to a very po-faced reporter continuing with their script. And the thing is, no one there thought it was weird that me and my little brother were in the room and my parents were like, oh my god! But yeah, just totally cash. Just totally cash cash everyone just eating some rice watching some fucking executions on the tv it's intense so a man called alexander which i would imagine is probably the ukrainian version of alexander probably didn't figure that out until i said it out loud dyslexia in the house everybody this alexander alexander situation person is 41 and we only know his first name for lots of reasons,

one of which I don't think has actually been released and also none of us, including Seb. He is amazing but he doesn't speak Ukrainian. And he was arrested at his home in somewhere called Krivoyvry I think. Good. Let me spell it. K-R-Y V-Y-I-R-I-H

Pardon? Imagine if the actual news was delivered like this. That would be the best. Why, why, why? Let me just spell it. So he was arrested at his consonant house. You know those books that you heard when you were a kid like Biff and Chip? Or like, no, what was the one was the alphabet and all the alphabets are people and you've got like kicking cut and curly cut. I just imagine that his house is entirely constructed of those cartoon letters. I mean, prob not, but most prob. Right, I'm going to get to it. I'm going to get there, I promise. So he was arrested

last week following the brutal murder of his girlfriend. And we don't know her name because, again, Ukrainian and also, I would assume, patriarchy. Apparently, a little under two weeks ago, a Ukrainian man named Mykola was walking down the banks of a river, which I can't say in the consonant town, which I also can't say. Looks like in Hulets. In Hulets River, in the city where the consonant house is, which is in Ukraine. And Mykola was walking with his two children, looking for somewhere to go for an early morning fishing session when he saw a sack amongst the reeds on the riverbed. And this sack, not just any old sack, had a pair of naked buttocks sticking out of it.

Just out there for the world to see. Jesus. Full bum. Oh my God. I don't even know what to say. Like, what the fuck? And also he's with his kids. Like, he's not like a lone ranger out for an early morning walk he's just like come on children let's go and find something fun to do let's catch some fish oh no we've accidentally caught the

blinding sight of some bum cheeks so mccullough probably against common sense decided to have a little bit more of an investigate in this butt sack and he found that it contained an almost entire human body of a woman. Just never look. Never fucking look. We've been over this. Yeah, leave it for someone else. Don't look in barrels that aren't yours and don't look in sacks full of arse that aren't yours. For God's sake, Nicola. It's like he doesn't listen to this fucking podcast. No, I don't think he is the target demographic

now you mention it. Micola decided that he was going to alert the police, going to pass off this particular chore to someone else. And he told the local media, I saw naked buttocks sticking out of it and I realized it was human remains. I called the police. The end.

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so police used the help of locals who quickly worked out who the body belonged to and they also knew who this lady's boyfriend was surprise it's alexander it's the guy from the beginning so the locals are just like oh yeah no we know her and we also know him. And he probably did it. He's over there. It seems like a pretty slick process. After being given the identity and address of the dead woman's boyfriend, the Alexander character, the police had a look for it. Well, they got told where his house was and it turned out that his house was 500 metres away from where the body was discovered.

So he's not trying that hard. Nope. Nope. Try harder, Alexander. 500 metres? What the fuck? Yeah, and also just leaving bum cheeks waving in the wind. Yeah, it's not a top move. So local reports state that the officers raided Alexander's home and they felt sick when they found him because they interrupted Alexander frying flesh which he had cut from his girlfriend's legs

and which he was planning on eating. I mean all the times we say it's very hard to prove if they've been doing cannibalism or why they were really cooking it. If you've dumped most of the body 500 meters from your house and you're just frying up like some fucking prime strips in your kitchen you're not doing it to just get rid of the body you're fucking eating it like that's the fact that's what's happening he really incriminates himself with this next bit because he apparently told the police when they asked him why he was cooking this flesh he said i was hungry don't speak until you have a lawyer for the love of god oh my god according to some news sources the couple had been drinking all day and they were having a dinner party but they were the

only two invited is that a dinner party or is that just eating inside your house yeah i don't think you could just be like i'm cooking dinner tonight for my dinner party of one yeah exactly in that case i've been having a dinner party every fucking night of lockdown three times a day sometimes yeah most dinner parties don't only contain two people one of whom ends up dead after he'd killed her after they had a row that got a bit out of hand he hacked off her legs presumably to save for later and stuffed what was left of her head first into a sack but made sure that he left the buttocks sticking out. Jesus.

And I have not written this joke. Seb wrote it, so do with it what you will. But I'm going to say it because I think it's funny. So Seb has written, I guess she ended up legless in more ways than one. And then he's put in brackets, please don't hate me. Oh, the classic Ukrainian dinner party, where you end up legless in more than one way. So he puts her remains in the bag apart from her legs and then he carries it just 500 metres to the nearby river.

And he left it roughly hidden in the reeds, but obviously leaves the bum on show. And having had a look at the local news reports on the incident, it's pretty clear that A, he didn't do a great job of hiding the body and B, that he really did leave her with her bum sticking right out of the bag. And we know all of this. It was all really clear, despite not being able to understand Ukrainian television, because, as we said at the top, they really don't seem to have any sort of censorship guidelines at all. They just sort of show her body

in the reeds with her bum out for all to see and just like a tiny little bit of pixelation over it but like it's very obvious what you're looking at so yeah absolutely nothing left to the imagination what a way to go being killed by your boyfriend and then him eating your legs and then all that gets shown of you on the news is your arse. God fucking hell. And no one even bothers to like release your name or like give any sort of background of who you are as a person. They're just like, whatever. He's done it before.

He was bound to do it again. And he did. He's awaiting trial. His nickname is way more fun because today I'm going to be telling you about the case of a man named Mr. Potato Chest. Wow. Mm-hmm. I'm fucking pumped for this.

Jesus. Are you ready? So Mr. Potato Chest is a, is a, was a, at some point was a male model and a drug dealer. He was arrested in Bali in Indonesia in July 2019. But still, as of now, he hasn't arrived back in the UK, even though he's been set to like appear in court multiple times, he's just not come back. We will get to the story of why he is not here or where he is, blah, blah, blah at the end. But that's what you need to know. So Mr. Potato Chest's real name is Terence David Murrell. I mean, we're going to call him Terence very few times during this.

I am going to call him Mr. Potato Chest. Fantastic. That's all I want. And he's just like a wannabe. I mean, he did deal drugs, but, you know, he's pretty like small fish. That will also become funnier as we go on with this episode but it kind of reminds me of like the whole joe bananas like giving gangster shit names so i really enjoy it and if you're wondering where on earth the nickname like mr potato chest came from well wonder no more because he gained himself this less than cool nickname

after facebook's translation feature bungled a translation from Welsh to English. I love that. I know. It's amazing. So basically, the police were posting on Facebook as like an appeal to the public to find this guy. And in an effort to describe him because he's a very like, you know, he was a male model. He's got like a very douchey face, but he's very like muscular. And I guess in an effort to describe this kind of gym lad look he's got going, they described him and his quote unquote impressive physique and tattoos in Welsh.

So when Facebook translated this back into English, it read, quote, with a number of potatoes on his muscular and chest. I love that. So now that we've laid the groundwork on who he was, what was he up to? Well, moral, no, fuck it, Mr. Potato Chest fled to Bali, having been released on bail after admitting to conspiracy to supply a controlled substance here in the UK in 2018. This bit is just hilariously stupid. Basically, some of the packages were addressed to bogus addresses, but some of them were actually addressed to members of the gangs themselves.

So like they had put their real addresses on these fucking packages that contain illegal and illicit substances. That's like putting drug money into your bank account like that. They're gonna find you. Yeah, just putting your name and address on a packet full of literal drugs. Genius. Genius. And so this rather handy piece of evidence, of course, led to the gang's arrest. And it is estimated that the gang made over 1.2 million pounds over the two years that they had been operating. 200,000 pounds of which went straight to Terence Mr. Potato Chest Murrell. So he basically has money. So why he was let out on bail is kind of beyond me because he clearly has means to flee. So I feel like he probably shouldn't have been let out. But he was.

So he uses the substantial money that he's got and he runs off to Indonesia. And when he was there, he was living the fucking life of luxury. During the October 2018 trial for which he was absent, the court was even shown images of this glam existence that he was now living in Bali through photos found on Facebook. And honestly, he is so stupid. While he's on the run avoiding the British justice system in Bali, Mr Potato Chest was still regularly posting

pictures of his life on Instagram. I mean, honestly. Some people just can't be helped, can they? I mean, it's honestly, we are just a bunch of narcissistic, crazy people. And it's only going to get fucking worse. I'm going to have to put myself in the sin bin. But like, it's because everyone's fucking bored. And it's going to get even more boring because everyone is just in their fucking houses all the time. We've got nothing to do but to document our descents into madness with our phones.

That's it. Exactly. Oh, God. So this guy, Mr. Potato Chest, he very much loves his Instagram. He's still posting on there. And on his Insta, this just gets better and better. He describes himself as a, quote, muscle slash fitness model slash icon. And he said that he was in the newspapers for being a bad boy.

I mean. Where's the lie, though? I mean, yeah. Yeah. Good. I just think someone describing themselves as an icon is absolutely fucking hilarious. It's like when someone with like 3,000 followers is like public figure. Are you?

Are you? Are you? I mean, I guess you've got a very limited number of characters you can fill in on your Instagram bio. So they're just like, they'll get it. They'll get the point. But if you're starting to feel annoyed that this guy, Mr. Potato Chester just fled the UK after he was wanted for all these drugs charges and was living the life in Bali. Don't worry, because Mr. Potato Chess' plans became unstuck in early 2019. And this was because he was asked to provide his passport to Indonesian police when a local tipped them off about his true identity. And Mr. Potato Chess, when the Indonesian police come a-knocking, he told them that he couldn't provide a passport. And so obviously obviously this made them

incredibly fucking suspicious you are clearly not indonesian you're living in bali and they're like we need to see your passport and you're like i can't provide a passport how do you think that's an out for what's about to happen they're gonna be like well why the hell not so dodgy so basically yes they've arrested him they got him for visa charges. They got him for drugs and they got him for pornography. After this, they parade him around in front of news conferences in Indonesia. And I feel like even his very appearance would be very intriguing over there. We'll definitely like post a picture of him on social media, but just Google Mr. Potato Chest. He's like the first three lines of Google images he's just a very like um striking looking

man for sure and if anyone thought at this point that this little spectacle was all there was to it oh no because soon after the arrest the police released the details of the exact nature of the pornography that mr potato chest had been charged with having produced. Are you ready? Born ready. Lay it on me. Lay it on me like a potato on my chest. So Mr Potato Chest was accused of selling pornographic videos of himself that involved animals such as dogs and fish. But no potatoes.

No potatoes. and fish. But no potatoes. No potatoes, but fish. Okay, not to be sick. The dogs, okay, like I can see what's happening. Yeah, I mechanically understand how that would work. Fish, what, what, what? What? It's just him in a bath just like flopping around in loads of like sardines.

Oh my God. He's just gone to a bath, just like flopping around in loads of like sardines. Oh my God. He's just gone to the shop and got like fucking vats of canned sardines and has sat there for hours just emptying them all into the bath one by one. And he just wriggles around in them. And then he's covered in oil. I think like I'm sure someone would watch that. Okay. Okay. Clearly you're more sort of like creative minded in terms of this, because I'm just like completely lost. I'm just drawing a blank. So Indonesian immigration official Amran Aris, after having seen some of this pornographic material that he had produced, described the videos that they had found on Mr. Potato Chest's phone as deviant. I think that's putting it mildly, to be honest. And they told the press that Mr Potato Chess had basically resorted to selling these kind of videos of himself to fund his excessive lifestyle.

Clearly, he wasn't very good at budgeting that $200,000 that he had profiteered off all of the drugs money. So he had to resort to fish porn. Following this arrest, court officials in this country were told that Mr Potato Chess would be deported from Indonesia to London via Taipei this week. So if you're wondering why is he being sent back here, remember at the top we said that he had already been charged with drug offences here because of the stupid packages with people's addresses on them. And then he had fled to Bali to try and escape that and then been caught in Bali, they were going to send him back to sort of be dealt with by the British system. But Mr. Potato Chest never arrived as planned. And as of right now, the whereabouts of Terence

Murrell, aka Mr. Potato Chest, are currently unknown. And as of the time that we are writing this and recording this, we cannot find a statement from the Indonesian authorities to explain how the man was lost on his way to London. I mean, it seems like he got off in Taipei and then just fucking legged it. Yeah, made a run for it. Ran off to make his fishy porn dreams. Exactly. If In The News is something you fancy, you can go on over to patreon.com

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