Interesting News Of The Week 25/06/2012

Nearly missed this week due to my internet being down, but I'm here and it's a new week so here's a new post, enjoy.

Bishop quits over Bikini Snaps

This story is about religion or at least a lead figure from it, a bishop, and some of the sins hes commited (naughty bishop).

Here's the story.

The Pope has recently accepted the resignation of an Argentine bishop named Fernando Bargallo after the publication of pictures showing him embracing a woman on a Mexican beach.

The bishop who is 57, was photographed in the sea, hugging a woman in a bikini, awkward.

He initially said she was a childhood friend, but later admitted to having had "amorous ties" with her, (in other words some form of a realationship with her).

So wait that's a lying bishop, that's not a very good, seeing as he's supposed to be a religious role model.

The so called scandal happened last week, when an Argentine television station broadcasted pictures of Monsignor Bargallo on holiday at a beach resort in Mexico in the company of the woman in the bikini.

So if she is just a childhood frriend then why in one of the pictures is he is seen half-submerged in the water, embracing the woman in her bikini? Seems suspicious to me.

Shortly after the pictures were published, Monsignor Bargallo gave a public statement saying that the woman was a childhood friend, whom he had known all of his life, likely story there.

He said the situation in which he had been photographed was "imprudent, as it could lead people to jump to the wrong conclusion", big words there bishop.

He asked his flock (flock? wait I didnt know he was a bird) to forgive him for "the ambiguity of the pictures" (yet again more big words) and urged them to view the photos "in the context of a long friendship", yeah right.

But later that same week, Monsignor Bargallo convened the priests of his diocese and told them he had had "amorous ties" with the woman and would resign, so in oter words he had lied all along.

It is said he would be replaced by Monsignor Alcides Jorge Pedro Casaretto (I have no idea who that is, sorry).

No video for this so here's a picture of the bishop provided by the BBC (kinda scary if you ask me):

 

Murder escapes from London jail

Second story, this week it's taken place in the UK, in London in fact, and an escapee from jail.

Here's the story.

Convicted murderer John Massey, has escaped from Pentonville prison in north London, you may be thinking how? Explosives like in the movies?

Nope he simply climbed the wall using a makeshift rope, shows quite how good the security must be.

Prison sources say Massey who is 64, was not spotted in time, never mind the fact he wasn't spotted, I want to know how a 64 year old can escape by climbing a wall, must of done some serious work outs.

He was or should be serving life for a 1975 pub murder and was reported missing at 18:30 BST on Wednesday, Police advice he should not be approached.

The Ministry of Justice have also launched an investigation into the escape.

Massey is one of the UK's longest-serving prisoners and was convicted of shooting a man with a sawn-off shotgun in Hackney.

Now the escape must be deeply embarrassing for the prison authorities and will inevitably raise questions about the prisons security.

It is highly unusual for inmates to escape from within the confines of a closed prison such as Pentonville, but in this case, it's happened.

There have been only three such escapes in the past three years in England and Wales, so one a year? That sounds good.

Police want anyone who spots Massey to call 999 imediately.

Bit of background information for you all.

Massey was released on parole in June 2007 after spending the previous 18 months in an open prison in Derbyshire and ordered to live in a bail hostel in Streatham, south London.

But he broke his curfew after a few months to go and live with his dying father and, after a number of days, was recalled to prison, in my opinion that's a bit bad really.

He was arrested 10 months later and taken to Pentonville. all before his escape on Wednesday.

Up to 1,250 category B and C male prisoners, not the most serious category A offenders, are housed at Pentonville.

Category B prisoners are defined as those "for whom the very highest conditions of security are not necessary but for whom escape must be made very difficult".

Category C prisoners are defined as those "who cannot be trusted in open conditions, but who do not have the resources and will to make a determined escape attempt.".

In March 2009, convicted arsonist Julien Chautard spent minutes inside Pentonville before he escaped by clinging to the underside of the security van he had arrived in.

He later handed himself in to police.

So there has been more than one atempt at escaping the prision, not looking too good for Pentonville is it.

No video again, getting disapointing now, so here's two pictures rather than one, the first of Pentonville and the second of John Massey:

Summary of the week

So this week we have bishop's showing their darker sides and murders escaping from "High Security" jails by going wall climbing.