Voyeur snooped on China's Olympic swimming team

(I think this should be an Olympic event,or even series f events like the Decathalon! the 1000 yard locker crawl, the ten mile boob stare, the cross country sneak and peek. the potential is endless.)

LONDON — A voyeur who snooped on members of China's Olympic swimming team was told Monday he risks being sent to prison if he enters a female locker room again within the next 5 years.

Declan Crosbie, 25, was sentenced Monday after he previously admitted a charge of trespass with intent to commit a sexual offense.

Prosecutors told Leeds Crown Court that Crosbie snuck into a locker room at a swimming training pool and was caught peeking over the top of cubicles as female Chinese Olympic athletes got changed.

When staff at the pool in Leeds, northern England, went to investigate, Crosbie hid in a cubicle and imitated a woman's voice.

Judge Peter Collier ordered Crosbie, who has previous convictions for voyeurism, to attend a rehabilitation course for sex offenders.

Collier also imposed a 5 year order which legally compels Crosbie to stay away from female changing rooms or bathrooms.

Any breach of the order in that time period would likely see the snooper jailed automatically, without the need to charge and convict him of a new offense.

German lawmakers see signs of far-right cover up

By FRANK JORDANS, AP

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BERLIN — German lawmakers investigating a string of far-right murders said Monday there appeared to have been a cover up by officials who withheld key information on the authorities' contacts with neo-Nazis linked to the case.

Members of the cross-party committee set up to probe 10 suspected neo-Nazi killings between 2000 and 2007 have previously voiced frustration that law enforcement agencies appeared to have held back evidence — and in at least two instances shredded material.

Their anger reached another peak following revelations last week that a mole in the far-right scene gave Berlin police information in 2002 that could have led to the arrest of the three main suspects in the murders.

"That the (parliamentary) investigation committee wasn't informed seems to have been intentional," its chairman, Sebastian Edathy, told The Associated Press. "Only when we've seen the files will we be able to get a clear picture," he said, before adding: "This is the most serious failure yet by the authorities."

Fellow lawmaker Hans-Christian Stroebele went further, accusing security officials in the state of Berlin of deliberately lying to lawmakers.

"Twice we asked them whether they had anything that was of relevance to the investigation committee," Stroebele told rbb-Inforadio. "They didn't tell us anything. On the contrary, we were told they had nothing. That can only be described as a lie."

Frank Henkel, Berlin's state interior minister, is scheduled to make a statement Tuesday on his department's failure to reveal that from 2000 to 2011 it had an informer with close links to the so-called National Socialist Underground. The group is alleged to have killed nine immigrants and a policewoman over a seven-year period.

Two of the NSU's three core members were found dead after an apparent murder-suicide last November. The third, Beate Zschaepe, is in custody.

German media have reported that the informer is one of 13 people — including Zschaepe — against whom federal prosecutors are now preparing indictments.

The office of federal prosecutors declined to confirm the reports.

On Monday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel weighed in, saying her government was intent on clearing up the entire affair.

"In countless places the investigation isn't working the way it should, and the way I think it should," she told reporters. "Some consequences have already been drawn, others must still be drawn."

Four senior German domestic intelligence officials have already resigned in recent months over the authorities' failures in the National Socialist Underground case.

Ohio inmate says he's too obese for execution

(the hideous hypocrisy  of the death penalty in full display. There is no nice way to kill someone simple as that and all this pretext of mercy and lethal injection being the kinder gentler way to end a life is grade a bull. Either should embrace the fact that we don’t give a rolling rats tuckus about reform and really just get down to the cruel and unusual punishments other countries with the death penalty have, beheading is most popular followed by firing squad. We try to be civilized here and treat the problem as a problem. Sugar coating the process benefits no one. The murderer being slain didn’t go to any  lengths to concern himself with the comfort of his victims why should the state be burdened to concern itself with killing him in a “merciful” fashion? It’s not like he’s cattle or terminally ill, mercy matters then.)

By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS, APCOLUMBUS, Ohio — A condemned Ohio inmate who weighs at least 480 pounds wants his upcoming execution delayed, saying his weight could lead to a "torturous and lingering death."

Ronald Post, who shot and killed a hotel clerk in northern Ohio almost 30 years ago, said his weight, vein access, scar tissue and other medical problems raise the likelihood his executioners would encounter severe problems. He's also so big that the execution gurney might not hold him, lawyers for Post said in federal court papers filed Friday.

"Indeed, given his unique physical and medical condition there is a substantial risk that any attempt to execute him will result in serious physical and psychological pain to him, as well as an execution involving a torturous and lingering death," the filing said.

Post, 53, is scheduled to die Jan. 16 for the 1983 shooting death of Helen Vantz in Elyria.

A spokeswoman for the prisons department had no comment on the pending litigation.

Inmates' weight has come up previously in death penalty cases in Ohio and elsewhere.

In 2008, federal courts rejected arguments by condemned double-killer Richard Cooey that he was too obese to die by injection. Cooey's attorneys had argued that prison food and limited opportunities to exercise contributed to a weight problem that would make it difficult for the execution team to find a viable vein for lethal injection.

Cooey, who was 5-foot-7 and weighed 267 pounds, was executed Oct. 14, 2008.

In 2007, it took Ohio executioners about two hours to insert IVs into the veins of condemned inmate Christopher Newton, who weighed about 265 pounds. A prison spokeswoman at the time said his size was an issue.

In 1994 in Washington state, a federal judge upheld the conviction of Mitchell Rupe, but agreed with Rupe's contention that at more than 400 pounds, he was too heavy to hang because of the risk of decapitation. Rupe argued that hanging would constitute cruel and unusual punishment.

After numerous court rulings and a third trial, Rupe was eventually sentenced to life in prison, where he died in 2006.

Ohio executes inmates with a single dose of pentobarbital, usually injected through the arms.

Medical personnel have had a hard time inserting IVs into Post's arms, according to the court filing. Four years ago, an Ohio State University medical center nurse needed three attempts to insert an IV into Post's left arm, the lawyers wrote.

Post has tried losing weight, but knee and back problems have made it difficult to exercise, according to his court filing.

While at the Mansfield Correctional Institution, Post "used that prison's exercise bike until it broke under his weight," according to the filing.

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