MAN DENIES HAVING SEX WITH Ex- WIFE'S DOG

An English woman who refused to go to bed with her ex-husband was shocked to find him having sex with her dog soon afterwards, a jury heard today.

Kelly Thacker could not believe her eyes when she went upstairs to her bedroom and saw her naked ex husband Nicholas Saunders trying to penetrate her bull mastiff Sasha, it was alleged.

“Ms Thacker just couldn’t believe what she was seeing to start off with so she looked away and then looked again,” said prosecutor Frank Abbott at Gloucester crown court.

Mr Abbott said that by that stage Mr Saunders was having full sexual intercourse with the dog.

Ms Thacker ordered Mr Saunders ‘in no uncertain terms’ to leave the house, Mr Abbott said.

At first Saunders protested that he was tired and wanted to stay but eventually he did leave – although he later returned saying he wanted to talk to her.

Mr Abbott said Saunders, 46, of Bell Lane, Lechlade, Glos, had been at her house that night because he had called on her after being thrown out by his new girlfriend following a row.

Ms Thacker agreed to let him stay the night – but made it plain she would not be having sex with him and went downstairs, leaving him in her bedroom, Mr Abbott said.

The couple’s two daughters were asleep in their rooms in the house at the time.

When Saunders was arrested after she found him having sex with Sasha he agreed to give an intimate sample and dog’s DNA was found, added Mr Abbott.

Mr Saunders has pleaded not guilty to having sex with a female dog on Jan 15th last year. Mr Abbott told the jury of seven women and five men at the start of the trial that they must not let feelings of revulsion or amusement about the case affect their judgement.

The trial continues.

Kill a Mosquito or go to JAIL

Police arrested 53 people for failing to eliminate stagnant water and other mosquito breeding grounds as Sri Lanka tries to prevent dengue fever, which has infected thousands already this year.

Police, army and health officers searched 11,500 houses in the capital Colombo over seven hours on the 1st of july, police spokesman Ajith Rohana said.

Those arrested for not cleaning up their surrounding environment face fines and up to six months in jail.

He said this is the first time police made such a large number of arrests from Colombo for failing to clean mosquito breeding places.

Dengue fever has killed 74 people this year and infected 15,000.

Health officials say it has increased because residents have become more careless about cleaning their properties and eliminating mosquito breeding grounds.

The flu-like illness is spread by the Aedes mosquito and spikes during the annual monsoons, when the rains leave puddles of stagnant water where the insects breed.

In Sri Lanka, the southwest monsoon that usually begins in May lasts until September.

Dengue starts suddenly with a high fever, rash, severe headache and pain behind the eyes and in the muscles and joints. The severity of the joint pain has given dengue the name “breakbone fever.” Nausea, vomiting and loss of appetite also are common.

Deputy prime minister Sri Lanka Muyiddhin Yassin

                         

The government said last week 10,000 security forces had been deployed to help dengue eradication efforts this month. They help to search houses and buildings to detect breeding places and join other public workers to clean public buildings and places.

BEING SMART CAN COST YOU

A private German economics and business university is suing one of its students for lost income after he finished his Bachelors and Masters degrees in about a quarter of the normal time.

Marcel Pohl completed 60 examinations in 20 months, gaining a grade of 2.3, and was officially ex-matriculated in August 2011. Such a course usually takes 11 semesters, but he only needed three.

Now the Essen-based School of Economics and Management (FOM) want the 22-year-old to pay his fees up the end of 2011 – an extra €3,000.

“When I got the lawsuit, I thought it couldn’t be true,” Pohl, who now works for a bank in Frankfurt, said. “Performance is supposed to be worth something.”

Pohl completed his turbo degree by dividing up all the simultaneous lectures with two friends and then swapping notes.

At the same time, he completed an apprenticeship in a bank.

“We didn’t get any freebies, and we agreed our plans in advance with the school,” Pohl said.

“We’re always against slow students,” said his lawyer Bernhard Kraas. “But when someone hurries and finishes early, suddenly he has to pay. That can’t be right.”

But the FOM argues that its fees are the total price for the studies, independent of how long the studies last.

But if that it is the case, it remains unclear why they are only calling for a part of the cost for 11 semesters.

“We do not want to comment on the case before it has reached court,” a university spokesman said.