At least 21 years jail for prostitute killing
Updated July 23, 2010 13:00:00
A man found guilty of killing a Sydney prostitute has been sentenced to at least 21 years behind bars.
Malcolm Robert Potts stabbed Emma King to death in 2008 at his Ashfield unit.
He then stripped her naked and had sex with her.
The 42-year-old schizophrenic pleaded not guilty to murder, saying he acted in self defence.
But a jury rejected that.
Potts’ story was that he heard a voice in his head warning him to be careful of Emma King.
He then told her he had decided against having sex with her, and she got angry and picked up a knife.
Justice Kirby said she probably did pick up a knife, but he said he can not believe Potts was scared of her because he was twice her weight.

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Palm Beach, Florida – Jeffrey Edward Epstein, 57, a Palm Beach billionaire who pleaded guilty to soliciting an underage girl for prostitution and received a one year house arrest sentence, is a free man today.
When very young girls and women came forward with allegations of performing sexual massages on Epstein, he was allowed to quickly cut a deal with prosecutors. He plead guilty to just one count of soliciting prostitution, hence the house arrest punishment.
But wait! There’s more!
Jeffrey Epstein: Billionaire Sex Offender Released After One Year House Arrest In Palm Beach (video, photo)
Police began an investigation of Jeffrey Epstein in March of 2005. The Palm Beach Police Department alleged in an affidavit that Epstein, then 53, had a pattern of paying underage girls to participate in sexual activity with him. He was eventually indicted on a felony solicitation of prostitution rap.

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SYDNEY PI Frank Monte’s on-again-off-again fiancee Sharon Sargeant has found herself in new controversy after being photographed with touring English rugby stars who set sail on a Sydney Harbour pleasure cruise with a group of “strippers”.
Four English rugby players found themselves splashed across the pages of The Sunday Mirror after they were sighted with a boatload of scantily clad Aussie women the day after winning a game against the Barbarians at Gosford a week ago.
The raunchy cruise apparently caused a stir within England’s governing rugby body the RFU following a scandalous tour of New Zealand in 2008 and the alleged rape of a woman.

Sargeant, who so far this year has flashed us after Lady Gaga’s Sydney concert and again at a Las Vegas porn convention, admitted to Confidential in May that she was the owner and manager of an escort agency called Red Velvet.

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By RACHEL WELLS – Sydney Morning Herald
WEST SIDE: Megan Fox’s sexy hourglass figure in Jonah Hex is bound to inspire a corset revival. CLASSIC HOLLYWOOD: Claire Danes in lush green velvet in Me and Orson Welles. LOVES IT: Tilda Swinton is set to inspire a rush on Jil Sander’s minimalist, tailored looks in I Am Love. TO DIE FOR: Katherine Heigl takes her fashion cues from Bonnie and Clyde in Killers. RURAL CHIC: Miranda Otto channels 1920s rural chic in the Australian drama South Solitary. IN THE HOOD: The buckled, brown suede boots created for Cate Blanchett in Robin Hood have already begun to flood the market. « Previous« PreviousNext »Next »

The curvaceous Megan Fox plays a gun-wielding prostitute in the western drama Jonah Hex – an adaptation of the DC Comics character. Fox is about to do for corsets what Sarah Jessica Parker did for Manolo Blahniks. Publicity shots of her hourglass curves already have fashion insiders talking about a corset revival.

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A GROUP of Christian dancers are homeless once again after the rental agreement for their Campbelltown studio was terminated.
The not-for profit Light of the World Performing Arts Outreach has had a troubled time since it moved to its Hepher Rd premises last year.
Campbelltown Council rejected an application about a year ago for a brothel in the same industrial complex, 150m from the dance school, after parents of dancers objected to the development.
The school was then destroyed by fire just weeks later. There was no suggestion the brothel developers were linked to the fire.
The school caters for about 150 students, offering classes for just $1 across a range of genres.
Light of the World Performing Arts Outreach co-owner Donna Pappas said everyone had been devastated about the eviction.

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Before the election, the former Conservative Party deputy chairman finally came clean – admitting he avoided paying tax on his vast offshore fortune. He promised to end his non dom status.
Similarly, Labour’s Lord Paul agreed at around the same time to end his non dom status and start paying UK taxes.
But five other peers, including Architect Norman Foster, have resigned to protect their ‘non-dom’ tax status.
Lord Foster of Thames Bank was elevated to the peerage in 1999 and now lives much of the time in Switzerland.
The architect, whose famous creations include the Gherkin in the City of London, sits as a crossbencher, meaning he is not affiliated to any party.
Of the other four who have decided to stand down, three are Conservatives.
Lord Laidlaw  -  a Monaco-based peer who sought treatment for sex addiction two years ago after hosting parties with prostitutes  -  will stand down.  He has donated £4million to the Tories.

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Spectacular German concert hall covets Sydney dazzle
By Deborah Cole (AFP) – Jun 26, 2010
HAMBURG, Germany — Germany’s second city Hamburg is building a dazzling new concert hall intended to rival the Sydney Opera House as a global attraction, but little has gone according to plan.
Construction delays, building defects and a price explosion have led even the developers to admit the landmark project has hurtled out of control, with no one able to say what the hall will finally cost or when it will open.
Meanwhile local artists fear the audacious development at the city’s 800-year-old port will eclipse the scruffy homegrown cultural scene that gave rise to future legends like The Beatles, who cut their teeth in Hamburg’s red-light district clubs.

At an official presentation of the building’s towering skeleton late last month, Mayor Ole von Beust said the dream was to create an indelible landmark on the order of the Eiffel Tower, the Statue of Liberty or Sydney Opera House.

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Indian neurosurgeon in Australia denied bail
Facing murder, manslaughter charges
Suresh Surendranath Nair, Sydney-based neurosurgeon facing charges in Australia for the alleged drugging of his two female escorts with cocaine, leading to their deaths, was denied bail on Tuesday.
Mr. Nair, who will face court again next month, has been charged with the murder of 22-year-old Brazilian student Suellen Domingues Zaupa in November.
He has also been charged with the manslaughter of 23-year-old escort Victoria McIntyre.
His psychiatrist reported that although he had been in denial about his cocaine addiction, he had now come to accept that it has had a detrimental effect on his life.
Supreme Court Justice Megan Latham said the strength of Mr. Nair’s cocaine addiction led her to believe he was likely to commit serious offences if given bail.

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An Indian-origin doctor facing manslaughter charges in Australia after he allegedly drugged his two female escorts, leading to their deaths, was denied bail on Tuesday.
Suresh Surendranath Nair, a Sydney-based Indian-origin neurosurgeon had sought bail, with the Supreme Court hearing he had been assaulted in custody and was unable to access appropriate counselling services for his cocaine addiction, media reports said here on Tuesday.
Nair who will face court again next month has been charged of murdering 22-year old Brazilian student Suellen Domingues Zaupa in November.
She died in his Elizabeth Bay apartment after he allegedly supplied her with cocaine. Apart from this, Nair has also been charged with the manslaughter of a 23-year old escort Victoria McIntyre who also died of cocaine toxicity in February last year which was allegedly supplied by Nair after engaging her for sexual services at his apartment.

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No bail … Neurosurgeon Dr Suresh Surendranath Nair being led into Central Local Court in Sydney in 2009. Picture: Stephen Cooper Source: The Daily Telegraph
A NEUROSURGEON accused over the cocaine deaths of two female escorts will remain behind bars, a judge ruling the case against him was weak – but his illicit drug addiction strong.
Suresh Surendranath Nair is facing a murder charge over the death of Brazilian national Suellen Domingues Zaupa, 22, in November last year, and a manslaughter charge for the death of Victoria McIntyre eight months earlier. Both women died in Nair’s Elizabeth Bay apartment from overdoses of cocaine allegedly supplied by the 42-year-old neurosurgeon.In a bail determination before Justice Megan Latham, the Supreme Court heard Nair has suffered from cocaine and sex addiction for many years, and has been under strict supervision from the Medical Board since mid-2004. Justice Latham said the Crown case of murder “cannot in my view be characterised as strong”, and the basis on which it was b …

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