- Father of JonBenet Ramsey
Loses Mich. Bid
By JOHN FLESHER,
Associated Press Writer
CHARLEVOIX, Mich. - John Ramsey came up
short Tuesday in his bid for a state
House seat after a campaign shadowed
by the unsolved murder of his
daughter, JonBenet.
Ramsey
placed second among six candidates
for the Republican nomination in the
largely rural district in northern
Michigan. He had 4,684 votes, or 24
percent, trailing attorney Kevin
Elsenheimer by about 500 votes.
Elsenheimer had 27 percent of the
vote.
A
cloud of suspicion has hung over
Ramsey and his wife since the 1996
slaying of 6-year-old JonBenet, but
no one has ever been charged. The
district attorney and a federal judge
in Colorado have said it is likelier
that an intruder was responsible, as
the parents insist.
Ramsey
did not shy away from the JonBenet
issue on the campaign trail, and the
notoriety of the case helped give him
nearly 100 percent name recognition
in the district. Ramsey's presence
also transformed the campaign into a
high-profile race that has drawn
coverage from the likes of CNN and
People magazine.
While
his rivals complained about the
attention Ramsey received, he tried
to focus on local issues such as
economic growth. But he often spoke
of JonBenet, saying her loss and the
death of another daughter in a 1992
car crash had made him more
compassionate.
"We
have made many new friends in this
journey and ... we have gotten to
know our old friends better," he
said. "That's the true gift of
this campaign."
The
Ramseys have had a summer place since
1992 in this Lake Michigan tourist
town about 230 miles northwest of
Detroit, and became full-time
residents last fall.
"I
think people are definitely voting
for the local person,"
Elsenheimer said as the results came
in.
Elsenheimer
will be favored in November in the
GOP-leaning district
4-8-04
TD calls for
monitoring of gardaí
24/07/2004
- 18:12:48
An
Oireachtas committee should be set up to
monitor the Gardaí and ensure the
recommendations laid out in the
hard-hitting Morris Report are followed,
it was claimed tonight.
Fine Gael’s justice spokesperson Jim
O’Keeffe called for a government
group to be established after a second
senior garda, criticised for his role in
Donegal during the early 1990s, handed in
his resignation.
Superintendent John P O’Connor, who
was the officer in charge of the Buncrana
district in Donegal, made his decision
after a meeting with Garda Commissioner
Noel Conroy yesterday evening.
Another senior Garda, Chief
Superintendent Denis Fitzpatrick, retired
last week after the first 500-page report
from Justice Frederick Morris into
certain Garda activities in Donegal was
published.
The Cork-South West TD said: “There
should be a special security committee
established.
“There should be regular reports to
the committee by the justice minister,
officials from the Department of Justice
and senior Garda members on the running
of the force and the recommendations from
the Morris Tribunal and the SMI on an
ongoing basis.”
Some 17 gardaí, including Mr Fitzpatrick
and Mr O’Connor, are facing the
threat of disciplinary charges for
various alleged offences following
publication of the report.
Mr O’Keeffe said: “Each of the
officers concerned should be dealt with
individually, some of them were very
severely dealt with in the report, other
less serious, so it is not possible to
take them all in bulk.”
The TD said Mr O’Connor made the
right decision in taking early
retirement, along with Mr Fitzpatrick,
from September 1 next.
He said: “Those who have to retire
early get pension entitlements but it can
result in major loss of income, less than
half of their current salary.
“They may have had a number of good
years of service left and maybe even
promotion, there is the penalty in
financial terms and they are also
retiring under a cloud.”
Justice Morris found Mr O’Connor had
tried to limit his role in the events
while giving evidence to the tribunal.
It also found that Mr Fitzpatrick and Mr
O’Connor had not asked obvious
questions about home-made explosives in
Bridgend in 1994.
The report found him ultimately
responsible for all investigations
carried out in his area and accused him
of negligence in relation to
investigating the activities of two
officers who faked explosive finds.
The two senior officers had failed to
properly examine information from
Superintendent Kevin Lennon, Detective
Garda Noel McMahon and Adrienne
McGlinchey, who they claimed was an IRA
informer.
Mr O’Connor had been in the force
for 37-years and he was serving in Tralee
when his early retirement was announced
last night.
The Commissioner has begun proceedings to
dismiss Det Garda McMahon from the force
and the Government will consider the fate
of Mr Lennon in September.
This is
significant because the WSWS, (a normally
sceptical organisation for
"conspiracy theories"), has
realised that the Bush clique and the CIA
have manipulated the 9/11 tragedy to
further their plans for their nazi New
World Order!
I havent read this book but I believe
it is popular in the USA.
24-7-04
20-7-04
Morris
bombshell for gardai
By
C.J. McGinley
THE
Garda force in Donegal was reeling
yesterday after the Morris Tribunal found
that two members orchestrated the
planting of ammunition and hoax
explosives in the county.
They
are Superintendent Kevin Lennon and
Detective Garda Noel McMahon who are both
currently suspended from duty. The
finding has been described by the
Minister for Justice, Mr Michael McDowell
as 'frightening and unprecedented'. He
said it was a dark day in the history of
the Garda S’ochána. him. The fate
of Detective Garda Noel McMahon will rest
with the Garda Commissioner.
The
report follows lengthy hearings at the
tribunal in Dublin. In the first report
on the explosives finds, which was
published yesterday morning, the inquiry
headed by Mr Justice Frederick Morris
also found that the superintendent and
the detective lied to the Tribunal.
He
has called for immediate action to be
taken on the report. The Government has
said it fully accepts the findings and
the Minister for Justice, Michael
McDowell, has described them as extremely
serious.
He
said that there had been a deterioration
in discipline in the Garda S’ochána
and this would have to be addressed. He
said that up to 17 members of the Garda
S’ochána had been found to have
been involved in gross dereliction of
duty or lack of candour.
The
report also levels strong criticism at
people who were untruthful and
un-cooperative in their dealings with the
tribunal. The report, which stretches to
500 pages, also raises serious questions
about the garda management in Donegal.
It
also concludes that senior garda
management failed to uncover the
activities of the two gardai in relation
to planting explosives and ammunition and
the negligence of senior garda management
allowed those actions to continue.
The
Garda Commissioner, Mr Noel Conroy said
yesterday that appropriate action would
be taken as soon as possible.
"I
am concerned at the findings of the
Morris Tribunal on this aspect of the
inquiry. I am also concerned of the
possible impact this reports findings
will have on all members of the
organisation and the public alike.
Therefore the action I have taken in
setting up this working group under the
chairmanship of Deputy Commissioner
Fitzgerald
is necessary to start the process of
addressing all aspects of this module of
the Tribunal Report,' he said.
'This
first module relates to complaints that
some Garda’ were involved in hoax
explosives and bomb making equipment
finds in Donegal between 1993 and 1994,
its terms of reference also being to
carry out a review of the management and
investigation of these issues. I've
discussed the reports findings and
recommendations with the Minister for
Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Mr.
Michael McDowell, T.D,'
'The
report is very comprehensive running to
in excess of 500 hundred pages and will
be thoroughly examined. It also contains
several recommendations made by the
Tribunal.
'I've
set up a working group under the
Chairmanship of Deputy Commissioner Peter
Fitzgerald to examine in detail all
recommendations so that appropriate
action can be taken as soon as possible.
This working group will report to the
Commissioner within a very short time
frame and the implementation of the
recommendations will follow.
The
Tribunal was set up following a
resolution passed by Dail Eireann on
March 28, 2002. It is examining serious
public concern about allegations that
members of the Garda S’ochána in
the Donegal Division engaged in unethical
and criminal behaviour and the garda
handling of the death of Raphoe cattle
dealer, Mr Richie Barron and allegations
from Raphoe businessman Mr Frank
McBrearty that gardai tried to frame him
and members of his family for the death
of Mr Barron. The findings of the report
are clear and stark.
 Frank McBrearty
The
Minister and the Government accept the
findings, and regard them with the utmost
seriousness. Findings of culpability in
respect of individual members of the
Garda S’ochána are made.
'I
have no doubt that the sense of anger and
outrage at the findings of the Report
will be felt most keenly by the vast
majority of the members of An Garda
S’ochána who have been let down
badly by a small number of their
colleagues. But we would do well to
remember that the bad behaviour of the
few should not be allowed traduce the
reputation of the many members who will
continue to serve us in the best
traditions of dedication, efficiency and
loyalty to the State."
19-7-04
-
ONLY
THE START - WORSE TO COME!
Morris
report names two garda officers
15 July 2004 14:03
RTÉ
News - Morris report names two garda
officers
The
Morris Tribunal has found that two
members of the Garda Síochána
orchestrated the planting of
ammunition and hoax explosives in Co
Donegal.
They
are Superintendent Kevin Lennon and
Detective Garda Noel McMahon.
In
a report on the explosives finds,
which was published this morning, the
inquiry headed by Mr Justice
Frederick Morris also found that the
superintendent and the detective lied
to the tribunal.
The
inquiry has called for immediate
action to be taken on its report.
Govt
accepts findings of report
The
Government has said it fully accepts
the findings and the Minister for
Justice, Michael McDowell, has
described them as extremely serious.
He described the events as
frightening and unprecedented.
Mr
McDowell said that there had been a
deterioration in discipline in the
Garda Síochána and that this would
have to be addressed.
He
said that up to 17 members of the
Garda Síochána were found to have
been involved in gross dereliction of
duty or lack of candour.
The
Garda Commissioner has set up a
working group under the
Deputy Commissioner Peter Fitzgerald
to examine the tribunal's
recommendations.
This
working group will report within a
very short time frame and
implementation of the recommendations
will follow.
15-7-04
- Trafficker
may be key to torso in Thames
Rosie
Cowan, crime correspondent
Wednesday July 7, 2004
The
Guardian
A man convicted of people-trafficking
yesterday may hold the key to the
horrific ritual killing of the
African boy known as Adam, according
to the detective heading the murder
hunt. The
man was named in Southwark crown
court, London, as Mousa Kamara, 30,
but police say he is Kingsley Ojo,
35, from Nigeria. He admitted two
charges of smuggling adult illegal
immigrants into the UK, and using a
false passport and driving licence.
Police
suspect he may be the man who brought
the boy, whose torso was found
floating in the Thames in Septem ber
2001, to Britain. The boy, who was
black and aged five or six, had been
decapitated and had his limbs hacked
off. A pair of orange shorts had been
put on the torso after death.
Detectives
believe he was a ritual sacrifice, of
which there are believed to be
hundreds every year in Africa. Unable
to identify the victim, or to find
the rest of his body, Scotland Yard
was initially baffled.
But
forensic experts, using skills
developed to help identify victims of
the September 11 attacks, carried out
advanced analysis of his bones,
revealing his diet, from which they
were able to deduce that he was from
the region around Benin city in
Nigeria.
Ojo,
arrested with 20 others in a series
of immigration-linked raids across
London last July, is also from Benin
city. Police do not suspect him of
murdering Adam, but they are
interested in the geographical link
and his connection with other
suspects.
Detective
Chief Inspector Will O'Reilly, who
heads the murder inquiry, said:
"This man was discovered during
the course of the Adam investigation,
operating a trafficking enterprise
between Nigeria, Europe and the UK.
"We
interviewed him before, and he has
been eliminated as far as the murder
is concerned. But he is from the same
city as Adam and is associated with
one of our suspects, so we would like
to speak to him again. We still
suspect he may have had something to
do with trafficking the child into
the country."
DCI
O'Reilly said the Crown Prosecution
Service was considering conspiracy to
murder charges in relation to other
suspects, but not against Ojo.
The
inquiry into Adam's death has been
painstaking. Police checked DNA of
39,000 black people on the
Metropolitan police database to try
to find relatives, but without
success. They also combed the Thames
river bank for clues. Six post mortem
examinations have been carried out
and forensic analysis is continuing.
The
police have talked to forces all over
the world, comparing other cases of
possible ritual murder. In 2002, they
went to South Africa, which has a
serious problem with muti killings,
where people are murdered for body
parts used in traditional medicine.
Last
year, detectives travelled thousands
of miles around Nigeria, researching
ritual murders, in an attempt to
pinpoint Adam's birthplace. A
scientist at Kew Gardens worked out
that Adam had been given a potion
containing poisonous calabar beans up
to 48 hours before his death. The
calabar, commonly used in witchcraft
rituals in west Africa, causes
paralysis while keeping the victim
conscious.
Children
and young people are preferred for
sacrifice, and are kept conscious to
the point of death because their
screams are said to waken the
ancestors necessary to give power to
the ceremony. Blood is drained from
the body and sometimes drunk by the
participants.
In
July 2002, Joyce Osagiede, a Nigerian
also from Benin city, was arrested in
Glasgow and questioned about the
murder. She has not been charged and
is currently back in Nigeria.
Last
year, police in Dublin questioned her
estranged husband, Sam Onojhighovie,
about the murder. He was convicted of
people-trafficking in Germany in his
absence, and German authorities are
trying to extradite him.
12-7-04
The most wealthy rtwing fascist Born
Again hypocrits in the richest country in
the world lecture the poorest people in
the world how to avoid AIDS - their
solution is to just abstain!
These self indulgent hypocrits quote
from the Bible from selected verses but
they completely ignore all the other
verses - such as - "a rich man, a
camel and the eye of a needle" -
"love thy neighbour" -
"turn the other cheek" -
"do not kill" - and remember
the big one - " if any man would
harm one of these (children) it would be
better he had not been born".
The fascist Evangelical Charismatic Born
Again "Christians"
have plucked these two words from the
Bible and they have given them devine
power, and twisting and falsifying the
messages in the rest of the testimonies!
The first Born Again I met told me it
was OK to kill because the Old Testament
said so - "an eye for an eye"
and all that!
What a shower of deceiver fascist
b.......s!
The
Vacuum: Home Page
Vacuum is a free newspaper
in Belfast! Threatened with removal
of its Council Arts grant for
publishing articles on devil worship!
11-7-04
- IOL: Gardaí appeal
to find missing child Gardaí appeal to
find missing child
04/07/2004
- 17:36:28
Gardaí
in south Dublin have appealed for
help in locating a 12 year-old girl
who went missing from the Firhouse
area on Thursday last.
Stephanie Domingos went missing from
her residence at Dodder Crescent on
the morning of July 1.
She is from Nigeria, and is described
as five feet in height and of medium
build. Anyone with information is
asked to contact the gardaí at
Rathfarnham.
Editors comments!
According
to RTE news around 3000 people go
missing in Ireland every year, but
about 30 people "disappear
off the face of the earth" - leaving no trace -
no banking records, no applications
for state assistance!
So - as it
is almost impossible for most people
to "disappear like Reggie
Perrin", or to survive without
substantial finances , or "go
under-ground" - selling your
body or becoming a thief - we must
assume the missing people have been
abducted and murdered!
But there
is another interesting fact in the
socalled Garda official figures for
missing people!
The fact
that the numbers of missing are
around 30 every year - that is a
pattern! Any mathematician can tell
you that! And as far as I am
concerned - a pattern means a
conspiracy!
- eircom
net Ireland-International / Irish
news headlines from leading Irish
newspapers -- New
book shines more light on the Brendan
ODonnelll murders!
Book
reveals murderer was abuse victim
From:ireland.com
Friday, 25th June, 2004
One of the victims of a paedophile
priest unmasked by the Bishop of
Killaloe, Dr Willie Walsh, last
weekend, was triple murderer Brendan
O'Donnell, a new book is to reveal.
Last weekend, Dr Walsh stunned
four separate congregations in the
east Clare joint parish of
Mountshannon-Whitegate when he
revealed that their former parish
priest, Father Tom McNamara, had
abused a number of children in the
area.
A decade ago, the east Clare area
was convulsed with grief as the
community tried to come to terms with
local man Brendan O'Donnell murdering
Ms Imelda Riney, her three-year old
son Liam and Father Joe Walsh.
O'Donnell was convicted of their
murders in 1996 and died one year
later, at the Central Mental
Hospital, following an overdose. He
was 23.
O'Donnell was one of Father
McNamara's parishioners and the late
priest served the area between 1973
and 1993. Father McNamara died in
1997 and his grave is located in the
grounds of Mountshannon Church.
At the Masses Bishop Walsh
indicated that his predecessor, the
late Bishop Michael Harty, was aware
of allegations made against Father
McNamara.
It is understood that Bishop Harty
did not refer the matter to gardaí.
Instead, he had Father McNamara
assessed by a psychiatrist and
allowed him remain in the community
after the psychiatric evaluation
concluded that Father McNamara would
not reoffend.
Now, a new book to be published by
Gill and McMillan in September is to
claim that O'Donnell was one of
Father McNamara's victims.
Entitled A Tragedy Waiting to
Happen, and focusing on the life of
Brendan O'Donnell, the book is
written by a local man, Mr Tony
Muggivan, who took O'Donnell into
foster care in 1989.
Mr Muggivan yesterday declined to
comment on the contents of the book,
stating that he is bound by the terms
of a contractual agreement with his
publishers prior to publication.
However, it is understood that the
book will claim that Father McNamara
abused O'Donnell.
On the bishop's public apology
last Sunday, Mr Muggivan said,
"It is high time that the bishop
came out and apologised to the people
of this area for the way this priest
treated the people here, and their
children. This is our Church as
well."
He also said he cannot understand
why the late Bishop Harty did not
bring this matter to the attention of
gardaí.
Bishop Walsh - who took up his
office two years after Father
McNamara retired - was yesterday sent
a series of questions to clarify a
number of matters arising from his
public apology.
The bishop was asked why he was
now making the statement of apology
and asked to clarify facts
surrounding the late Father McNamara
being referred to a psychiatrist by
the late Bishop Harty.
The bishop was also asked about
allegations being made by victims for
the period Father McNamara was
allowed to remain in the community
after the psychiatric assessment.
Bishop Walsh was asked how many
victims have made complaints and has
compensation been paid out by the
Church. He was asked if there was
anything in the Church's
investigation to confirm that Brendan
O'Donnell was a victim of the priest.
However, Bishop Walsh declined to
issue a response to any of the
questions at this time. His spokesman
said that the bishop now wanted to
give space for those who wished to
come forward and tell their story.
The spokesman said that the bishop
wanted to concentrate on his pastoral
work around the issue and may comment
in the future on the questions asked.
Last Sunday, Dr Walsh told the
congregation that he has met a small
number of people who have suffered
abuse at the hands of Father
McNamara.
4-7-04
3-7-04
Ten convicted
in France sex case
A court in northern France has
convicted 10 members of a paedophile ring
after a trial that gripped France.
The court heard allegations of sexual
abuse, torture and bestiality involving
children from three to 18 in the town of
Outreau between 1995 and 2000.
2-7-04
'Serial killer'
helps find bodies
- Photo of the Monument
to the missing people of Ireland!
Left: New Monument for the Irish
missing
Above: Stone Memorial commemorating
the numerous Irish missing people,
officially opened by Irish President,
Mary McAleese.
Monument for the missing people in
Ireland erected in the grounds of
Kilkenny Castle and officially opened on
the 26th May 2002 by Mary McAleese ,
President of Ireland.
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