Sunday, 24 December 2006
JUNKIES MURDERED IN SUFFOLK - SUSPECT NICKEDMood: celebratoryNow Playing: Cautiously optimistically...Topic: News Views
IPSWICH MURDERS - ONE SUSPECT CHARGED
One big PS re the Ipswich, Suffolk junkie prostitute murders.
Two men were arrested in the last week.
One, named Steve Wright, has been charged with the murders of all five girls...
... Innocent until proven guilty is the firm credo of English law...
Still, police do not charge someone with something that serious unless they believe they have pretty strong evidence against that person.
Only time and our courts of law will tell the outcome...
Posted by gledwood at 10:21 PM GMT
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Daily Mirror
Monday, 18 December 2006
Daily MirrorNow Playing: the ModeratorTopic: News Views
WITH THE RECENT MURDER of five drug-addicted street prostitutes in Ipswich, the papers are full of letters on the issue of drugs.
These comments from today’s Daily Mirror:—
The Ipswich killer is a piece of trash who will be caught anyway bit I regard him as the secondary killer.
The people who took these girls’ lives in the first place are the scum who deal drugs.
They have been slowly destroying our country in ways that Hitler or al-Qaeda could only have dreamt of.
Put resources into stopping them before they finish the job.
Says Ian Crichton of Birmingham.
Heroin should be made available on the NHS which would curb drug dealing and prostitution. It’s time for a more enlightened approach.
— E Cosby, Leeds
We need to adopt a realistic attitude towards prostitution — I suggest regulating it as the Dutch and Scandinavians do.
Drug addiction is also a nightmare but trying to stamp it out will not work. We must seek to lessen its malignant influence by licensing drugs. Poverty too leads to degradation and despair.
Perhaps these deaths will jolt enough people into realizing something must be done.
— David Sawtell, Tydd St Giles, Cambridgeshire.
— Yes, but what?
The tabloids have not always been so open-minded regarding drugs as they are today.
But in a society where most people have a son or daughter, niece or nephew or at least know someone whose family has been blighted this way, it becomes more and more difficult merely to write off addicts as “scum”.
There are too many of us about nowadays — and I don’t say this with pride — to ignore this situation. Addiction to hard drugs crops up e.g. on TV talk shows incidental to the main subject so frequently it suggests to me that the Government’s figures, a quarter of a million supposed heroin addicts in a population of 60 million, are wildly underestimated.
There’s no point my demanding that someone ought to do something because I know they won’t. The problem will only get worse and society, like an already iceberg-hit Titanic, will continue to creak and groan and sigh in all its agonies. I believe our society is literally falling apart.
One day soon, just like the legendary boat, our civilized society will suddenly sink without a trace.
We’ll be left in anarchy and chaos, wondering how we managed to go so badly wrong.
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Saturday, 23 December 2006 - 12:46 PM GMT
Name: "Igor" Home Page: http://--E-Mail: igorigorovic@yahoo.com
They talk about solutions, what is the solution though? I take methadone also, with some success. Surely a better treatment should be available...
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Saturday, 23 December 2006 - 9:37 PM GMT
Name: "Gledwood" Home Page: http://gledwood.tripod.com/blog
Yes, I'd like to see diamorphine made available to addicts.
Daily MirrorNow Playing: the ModeratorTopic: News Views
WITH THE RECENT MURDER of five drug-addicted street prostitutes in Ipswich, the papers are full of letters on the issue of drugs.
These comments from today’s Daily Mirror:—
The Ipswich killer is a piece of trash who will be caught anyway bit I regard him as the secondary killer.
The people who took these girls’ lives in the first place are the scum who deal drugs.
They have been slowly destroying our country in ways that Hitler or al-Qaeda could only have dreamt of.
Put resources into stopping them before they finish the job.
Says Ian Crichton of Birmingham.
Heroin should be made available on the NHS which would curb drug dealing and prostitution. It’s time for a more enlightened approach.
— E Cosby, Leeds
We need to adopt a realistic attitude towards prostitution — I suggest regulating it as the Dutch and Scandinavians do.
Drug addiction is also a nightmare but trying to stamp it out will not work. We must seek to lessen its malignant influence by licensing drugs. Poverty too leads to degradation and despair.
Perhaps these deaths will jolt enough people into realizing something must be done.
— David Sawtell, Tydd St Giles, Cambridgeshire.
— Yes, but what?
The tabloids have not always been so open-minded regarding drugs as they are today.
But in a society where most people have a son or daughter, niece or nephew or at least know someone whose family has been blighted this way, it becomes more and more difficult merely to write off addicts as “scum”.
There are too many of us about nowadays — and I don’t say this with pride — to ignore this situation. Addiction to hard drugs crops up e.g. on TV talk shows incidental to the main subject so frequently it suggests to me that the Government’s figures, a quarter of a million supposed heroin addicts in a population of 60 million, are wildly underestimated.
There’s no point my demanding that someone ought to do something because I know they won’t. The problem will only get worse and society, like an already iceberg-hit Titanic, will continue to creak and groan and sigh in all its agonies. I believe our society is literally falling apart.
One day soon, just like the legendary boat, our civilized society will suddenly sink without a trace.
We’ll be left in anarchy and chaos, wondering how we managed to go so badly wrong.
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Saturday, 23 December 2006 - 12:46 PM GMT
Name: "Igor" Home Page: http://--E-Mail: igorigorovic@yahoo.com
They talk about solutions, what is the solution though? I take methadone also, with some success. Surely a better treatment should be available...
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Saturday, 23 December 2006 - 9:37 PM GMT
Name: "Gledwood" Home Page: http://gledwood.tripod.com/blog
Yes, I'd like to see diamorphine made available to addicts.
My Sleep Cycle
Thursday, 14 December 2006
Mood: blueNow Playing: Wearily...Topic: Daily Doings
MY SLEEP CYCLE, as I’ve remarked, is all over the place. Some things never change and my sleep is one of them. Thanks to some cheese, having zzz’d all night, I dragged myself up, forced myself to do some necessary things only to end up lying down again and drowsing deeply throughout much of the afternoon. Then I did get up, only to feel weary and depressed.
I know the winter blues, when they fit the “syndrome” get labelled Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). That is, depression with massive over-sleeping and a craving for sweets and pasta etc is triggered by the (in my opinion massively) diminished hours of winter daylight.
That said, I have noticed an added urge for Jaffa Cakes and Turkish lemon curd biscuits (the lemon curd is in the middle — yummy.
Plus I have been spending hours and hours as unconscious as possible. “Hibernating,” I like to call it. Hmmm…
As well as nasty old winter the killings of those young girls have got me down. As I implied earlier, I count myself lucky that in the roulette wheel of life chances, I was not born female. Because if I was, I can’t see that I would not be out on the midnight streets as those women were.
A newspaper commentator called those “working girls” streetwise. Well of course they think they are.
And to most “straight” people, no doubt they would seem that way. But as yet another article implied, drug addicts actually tend to be immature. (Streetwise and mature are not of course the same, but one thing does feed into the other.)
Perhaps the Narcotics Anonymous theory is true and the age at which addiction grabs you is the emotional age at which you stay.
That would put me in my 20s. But many of my acquaintances are stuck in their teens.
Youngsters stuck in adult bodies. No wonder they live lives of such chaos…
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Saturday, 16 December 2006 - 5:49 AM GMT
Name: "Laurie Ishii" Home Page: http://www.laurieishii.comE-Mail: laurieishii@yshoo.com
Hi Gledwood -
I just finished sending you an e-mail - I'm sorry if it took me a while to get back to you, and I should have visited your web blog before I even wrote but I didn't. I had gotten numerous e-mails at once and was just trying to get back to everyone ASAP.
But once I was finished with that, I wanted to visit your site.
My heart goes out to you... I can't say I know exactly how you feel... but I know that I can definitely relate... a LOT. Please, just don't give up those days when you are just trying to survive, exsisting like an empty shell... I was like the girls you wrote about below... it was only the grace of God that I am not dead like one of the many...
Before I received your e-mail I was in the process of writing a more detailed story of my own nightmare... I just put it on todays blog.
God has a purpose and destiny for your life... I'd love to correspond more with you, please feel free to write me again! Thank you for sharing your heart...
God bless you,
Laurie
Mood: blueNow Playing: Wearily...Topic: Daily Doings
MY SLEEP CYCLE, as I’ve remarked, is all over the place. Some things never change and my sleep is one of them. Thanks to some cheese, having zzz’d all night, I dragged myself up, forced myself to do some necessary things only to end up lying down again and drowsing deeply throughout much of the afternoon. Then I did get up, only to feel weary and depressed.
I know the winter blues, when they fit the “syndrome” get labelled Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). That is, depression with massive over-sleeping and a craving for sweets and pasta etc is triggered by the (in my opinion massively) diminished hours of winter daylight.
That said, I have noticed an added urge for Jaffa Cakes and Turkish lemon curd biscuits (the lemon curd is in the middle — yummy.
Plus I have been spending hours and hours as unconscious as possible. “Hibernating,” I like to call it. Hmmm…
As well as nasty old winter the killings of those young girls have got me down. As I implied earlier, I count myself lucky that in the roulette wheel of life chances, I was not born female. Because if I was, I can’t see that I would not be out on the midnight streets as those women were.
A newspaper commentator called those “working girls” streetwise. Well of course they think they are.
And to most “straight” people, no doubt they would seem that way. But as yet another article implied, drug addicts actually tend to be immature. (Streetwise and mature are not of course the same, but one thing does feed into the other.)
Perhaps the Narcotics Anonymous theory is true and the age at which addiction grabs you is the emotional age at which you stay.
That would put me in my 20s. But many of my acquaintances are stuck in their teens.
Youngsters stuck in adult bodies. No wonder they live lives of such chaos…
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Saturday, 16 December 2006 - 5:49 AM GMT
Name: "Laurie Ishii" Home Page: http://www.laurieishii.comE-Mail: laurieishii@yshoo.com
Hi Gledwood -
I just finished sending you an e-mail - I'm sorry if it took me a while to get back to you, and I should have visited your web blog before I even wrote but I didn't. I had gotten numerous e-mails at once and was just trying to get back to everyone ASAP.
But once I was finished with that, I wanted to visit your site.
My heart goes out to you... I can't say I know exactly how you feel... but I know that I can definitely relate... a LOT. Please, just don't give up those days when you are just trying to survive, exsisting like an empty shell... I was like the girls you wrote about below... it was only the grace of God that I am not dead like one of the many...
Before I received your e-mail I was in the process of writing a more detailed story of my own nightmare... I just put it on todays blog.
God has a purpose and destiny for your life... I'd love to correspond more with you, please feel free to write me again! Thank you for sharing your heart...
God bless you,
Laurie
The Sun
The SunMood: blueNow Playing: thoughtfully...Topic: News Views
THE SUN NEWSPAPER, not always a bastion of open-minded thinking in times past, published a remarkable editorial this morning.
Under the banner, "The Sun Says"... "Deadly Craving".
The five women murdered were all prostitutes.
But they can't be dismissed as tarts who asked for all that they got.
... All five were somebody's little girl.
Addiction drove them to risk everything. They craved drugs more than life itself.
The most poignant image... of this horrific saga was a terrified girl starting her night shift...
"I know the risk but I need the money," she said.
A few hours later, Paula Clennell, 24, was dead.
If there is a lesson it can be summed up by her distraught Dad, Brian: "Don't do drugs."
The press is full of sad tales of these girls who, as the cliché says, "had everything going for them" until drugs stole it all away.
I feel so sad reading these stories of girls not that much younger than me, how drugs came into their lives — and the resulting decline and fall.
As a heroin addict I've got used to living an existence I can't expect the outside world to understand.
So when something truly awful happens like this I'm suddenly confronted by realities that from day to day I've almost managed to forget.
Because drug-taking (hard drugs, anyway) is about forgetting.
And remembering feels sometimes almost too painful.
What else can I say? My thoughts aren't so much with those girls' families as with the girls themselves.
Because I know that, put in the same situation, I'd be dead also.
Posted by gledwood at 5:45 PM GMT
Updated: Thursday, 14 December 2006 11:51 PM GMT
THE SUN NEWSPAPER, not always a bastion of open-minded thinking in times past, published a remarkable editorial this morning.
Under the banner, "The Sun Says"... "Deadly Craving".
The five women murdered were all prostitutes.
But they can't be dismissed as tarts who asked for all that they got.
... All five were somebody's little girl.
Addiction drove them to risk everything. They craved drugs more than life itself.
The most poignant image... of this horrific saga was a terrified girl starting her night shift...
"I know the risk but I need the money," she said.
A few hours later, Paula Clennell, 24, was dead.
If there is a lesson it can be summed up by her distraught Dad, Brian: "Don't do drugs."
The press is full of sad tales of these girls who, as the cliché says, "had everything going for them" until drugs stole it all away.
I feel so sad reading these stories of girls not that much younger than me, how drugs came into their lives — and the resulting decline and fall.
As a heroin addict I've got used to living an existence I can't expect the outside world to understand.
So when something truly awful happens like this I'm suddenly confronted by realities that from day to day I've almost managed to forget.
Because drug-taking (hard drugs, anyway) is about forgetting.
And remembering feels sometimes almost too painful.
What else can I say? My thoughts aren't so much with those girls' families as with the girls themselves.
Because I know that, put in the same situation, I'd be dead also.
Posted by gledwood at 5:45 PM GMT
Updated: Thursday, 14 December 2006 11:51 PM GMT
Serial Killer
Wednesday, 13 December 2006
Serial KillerMood: surprisedNow Playing: Disgusted ObserverTopic: News Views
WE HAVE A SERIAL KILLER ON THE LOOSE. In Eastern England this man (it almost definitely is a male) has been picking up young prostitutes, none of whom has been seen alive again. Five bodies recovered over two months; two of these were found in a stream last weekend.
What the BBC are calling “sex workers” and the tabloids label “vice girls” or “hookers”, let’s be clear, are heroin and/or crack addicts driven to the streets to fund their own (and frequently their parasitic boyfriends’)drug habits.
Some heartbreaking stories appeared in the newspapers this morning. Young women, bright-eyed, their whole lives laid out full of opportunities ahead . Along come hard drugs and — wham!— all dreams are shattered. Life reduces to a treadmill, working, scoring, using, sleeping, working, scoring… and so on…
Confronted by (probably paying) journalists, the girls say mostly what they know is expected. But some have admitted the uneasy truth: while their every intuition warns them: keep off the streets, the pull of drug-money becomes stronger even than the instinct to preserve life.
Police say their warnings have been heeded. I really don’t think so. When sex workers know their clients have been all scared off, why bother coming out? Maybe the girls can make a bit of money talking to journalists if they find the right ones. Otherwise I’d suspect the majority are relying on their families (if they have families) to support them, or else are robbing the local high street… all the time waiting patiently for the situation to die down.
What motivates a man to such depravity? The police have conceded he knows enough about forensic techniques to strip the corpses and dump them in a stream (where two were round very close together). The culprit is, apparently, “well organized” and (this is where it gets truly frightening) dangerous even as serial killers go…
Experts, of course, disagree on the details.
To Radio 4, he is a charming man the street girls feel they can trust; to the Sun newspaper he’s inept and full of rage. He targets street girls because they’re the easiest women to get hold of and he’s angry, one expert theorizes, because he’s (sexually) inept and resent the (sexual) power such women wield over him.
A supposed “fund” has been set up to cover these ladies’ living expenses: but to be blatantly frank I cannot conceive how on earth such a scheme could operate without being abused.
Are they going to hand out £50 a day to anyone who says she’s a prostitute? If the girls say they need it, will they give them more?
There are no answers to this nightmare situation. The sooner the monster(s) responsible are caught, the sooner (relative) peace and harmony can be restored…
Pete Doherty, notorious rocker fiancé of Kate Moss has been fined yet again for possession of crack cocaine and heroin.
The judge or magistrate in the case went leniently because Mr Doherty is doing so well at his treatment programme.
Doesn’t this judge read the newspapers? fumes Jane Moore, columnist in the Sun.
Well excuse me, Ms Moore, but aren’t judges supposed to disregard hearsay (which, let’s face it, is what the papers are full of) and focus only on the facts presented in court. Isn’t that why justice is blind? If the tabloid press were granted the power over the law courts of the land they desire, imagine just how OTT the outcomes would be…
For information, BTW, I hear Mr Doherty is fitted with a heroin-busting naltrexone implant. For about £3000, a private clinic will fit one of these internal patches that blockades the effects of heroin and all other opiates completely for up to three months.
If Pete Doherty’s really fitted up with one of these, I’d point out that merely getting such a drastic device installed under one’s skin says more than a whole folder of “drugs progress reports” ever could…
…Being in the public eye with a raging habit cannot be easy.
So I say: hats off to Mr Doherty, for making the effort.
Posted by gledwood at 7:21 PM GMT
Updated: Wednesday, 13 December 2006 7:28 PM GMT
Serial KillerMood: surprisedNow Playing: Disgusted ObserverTopic: News Views
WE HAVE A SERIAL KILLER ON THE LOOSE. In Eastern England this man (it almost definitely is a male) has been picking up young prostitutes, none of whom has been seen alive again. Five bodies recovered over two months; two of these were found in a stream last weekend.
What the BBC are calling “sex workers” and the tabloids label “vice girls” or “hookers”, let’s be clear, are heroin and/or crack addicts driven to the streets to fund their own (and frequently their parasitic boyfriends’)drug habits.
Some heartbreaking stories appeared in the newspapers this morning. Young women, bright-eyed, their whole lives laid out full of opportunities ahead . Along come hard drugs and — wham!— all dreams are shattered. Life reduces to a treadmill, working, scoring, using, sleeping, working, scoring… and so on…
Confronted by (probably paying) journalists, the girls say mostly what they know is expected. But some have admitted the uneasy truth: while their every intuition warns them: keep off the streets, the pull of drug-money becomes stronger even than the instinct to preserve life.
Police say their warnings have been heeded. I really don’t think so. When sex workers know their clients have been all scared off, why bother coming out? Maybe the girls can make a bit of money talking to journalists if they find the right ones. Otherwise I’d suspect the majority are relying on their families (if they have families) to support them, or else are robbing the local high street… all the time waiting patiently for the situation to die down.
What motivates a man to such depravity? The police have conceded he knows enough about forensic techniques to strip the corpses and dump them in a stream (where two were round very close together). The culprit is, apparently, “well organized” and (this is where it gets truly frightening) dangerous even as serial killers go…
Experts, of course, disagree on the details.
To Radio 4, he is a charming man the street girls feel they can trust; to the Sun newspaper he’s inept and full of rage. He targets street girls because they’re the easiest women to get hold of and he’s angry, one expert theorizes, because he’s (sexually) inept and resent the (sexual) power such women wield over him.
A supposed “fund” has been set up to cover these ladies’ living expenses: but to be blatantly frank I cannot conceive how on earth such a scheme could operate without being abused.
Are they going to hand out £50 a day to anyone who says she’s a prostitute? If the girls say they need it, will they give them more?
There are no answers to this nightmare situation. The sooner the monster(s) responsible are caught, the sooner (relative) peace and harmony can be restored…
Pete Doherty, notorious rocker fiancé of Kate Moss has been fined yet again for possession of crack cocaine and heroin.
The judge or magistrate in the case went leniently because Mr Doherty is doing so well at his treatment programme.
Doesn’t this judge read the newspapers? fumes Jane Moore, columnist in the Sun.
Well excuse me, Ms Moore, but aren’t judges supposed to disregard hearsay (which, let’s face it, is what the papers are full of) and focus only on the facts presented in court. Isn’t that why justice is blind? If the tabloid press were granted the power over the law courts of the land they desire, imagine just how OTT the outcomes would be…
For information, BTW, I hear Mr Doherty is fitted with a heroin-busting naltrexone implant. For about £3000, a private clinic will fit one of these internal patches that blockades the effects of heroin and all other opiates completely for up to three months.
If Pete Doherty’s really fitted up with one of these, I’d point out that merely getting such a drastic device installed under one’s skin says more than a whole folder of “drugs progress reports” ever could…
…Being in the public eye with a raging habit cannot be easy.
So I say: hats off to Mr Doherty, for making the effort.
Posted by gledwood at 7:21 PM GMT
Updated: Wednesday, 13 December 2006 7:28 PM GMT
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