Dissociation & Fragmented personality disorders

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) reports that London resident Nigel Barratt was sentenced to 28 months in jail after he was involved in a scheme that laundered low duty fuels to remove the chemical marker. The fuel was then sold on as legitimate diesel, with the profits being channelled through a number of bank accounts and cheque cashing companies, people in tax jobs in London might note. Mr Barratt also received a Serious Crime Prevention Order stopping him from trading in fuels in the future. Mike O' Grady, assistant director of criminal investigation at HMRC, said: "[Laundered fuel] undercuts honest businesses and has devastating effects on the environment when the toxic by-products of the laundering process are dumped in the countryside, costing tens of thousands of pounds in clean up costs." People in the look-out for tax jobs in London might be interested to learn that Mr Barratt was part of a six person crime gang whose other members have also been detained.

The UK Boarder Agency (UKBA) foiled two attempts to smuggle the illegal substances into the UK over two days. The first seizure was made on Wednesday, June 22, when UKBA officers discovered approximately six tonnes of cannabis resin, with an estimated street value of £17.9 million, hidden in a Spanish-registered lorry at the inward freight controls at Dover's Eastern Docks. On Thursday, June 23, a second shipment of drugs was found. Approximately 28 kilos of cocaine, with an estimated street value of £1.2 million, was discovered hidden in a British registered car at the inward tourist controls. The Spanish driver of the HGV and a 45-year-old British man have been bailed whilst investigations by the UKBA into the attempted importations continue. Carole Upshall, UKBA director for the south coast ports, said: "These are excellent examples of how UK Border Agency officers work tirelessly 24 hours a day, 365 days a year to detect and prevent drugs from being smuggled into the UK....

The Central Narcotics Bureau yesterday arrested a Malaysian driver, 30, for attempting to smuggle approximately 24 grams of drugs into Singapore. Immigration & Checkpoints Authority (ICA) officers found the drugs when they checked the Malaysia-registered oil tanker when it arrived at about 2.30pm at the Old Woodlands Checkpoint. Officers noticed a black cloth wedged in a hollow metal pipe near the rear mudguard. When officers removed the cloth, they found a taped red plastic bundle coiled with metal wire.  

Sleuths in Oman have foiled an attempt to smuggle heroin concealed in a spare car tyre into the country. Acting on a tip-off, they arrested two citizens who were trying to enter the sultanate through the Wadi al Jizzi border post in the Dhahirah region. Aided by police dogs, police detected 35 heroin capsules hidden in a spare tyre of the vehicle used by the alleged smugglers. A spokesman for the Royal Oman Police (ROP) said drugs with a street value of RO500,000 were seized in the country last year. More than 895 cases were registered and 1,417 people arrested. Meanwhile, a man who resisted arrest and fled will spend three years in jail.  The Mahoot Primary Court also ordered him to pay a fine of RO500.  The accused had violently resisted when police went to arrest him with a warrant from the Public Prosecution Department in April for a different crime. He escaped in his vehicle and was arrested in June. In another case, a person who dug an unauthorised well on public land wa...

. Ronald McGinn Jr. of Bridgewater pleaded guilty in federal court Tuesday to possession of heroin with intent to distribute at MCI-Norfolk. Federal prosecutors said the 40-year-old sent text messages and discussed with an undercover FBI agent the amounts he would smuggle into the prison and fees he would charge to do so. He was arrested in April afternoon in possession of about 29 grams of heroin. The investigation began after a Massachusetts Department of Corrections officer told the FBI that someone was smuggling contraband to the facility about 25 miles southwest of Boston. McGinn faces up to 20 years in prison at sentencing set for Sept. 27.

A jury at Winchester Crown Court in southern England found 39-year-old Danilo Restivo guilty of entering Heather Barnett's apartment, bludgeoning her with a hammer and cutting her throat in November 2002. Restivo was due to be sentenced on Thursday, where he could face life imprisonment for murder. But Italian authorities were reportedly preparing to pursue his extradition. The ritualistic murder, which involved cutting off the victim's breasts and placing hair in or underneath her hands, echoed the 1993 slaying of a teenager in the southern Italian town of Potenza. Elisa Claps' decomposed body was discovered in March 2010 in the hard-to-reach garret of the Most Holy Trinity Church in Potenza, with strands of her own hair in her right hand. Restivo, who had long been a suspect in both cases, was arrested two months later. Restivo has denied wrongdoing, claiming he'd been framed, but did acknowledge routinely cutting off pieces of women's hair, prosecutor Michael Bow...