Perhaps banning toilet seats and criminal behavior should be pursued, rather then the targeting of yet more common tools.
Jeff
The Guardian
Man killed friend after toilet row
Saturday March 25, 2000
A print manager was jailed for life yesterday after he admitted murdering a friend who told him off for not lifting the toilet seat. Nicholas Hilliard, prosecuting, told the Old Bailey that Michael Holleran, 41, had been friends with Norman Stephenson, 56, a former colleague, for years. Holleran rented a room in Mr Stephenson's house in Wealdstone, north London.
Last August, Mr Stephenson was found on his living room floor in a pool of blood, and never regained consciousness. He had a fractured skull from a single blow with a sledgehammer, Mr Hilliard said. Holleran told psychiatrists that Mr Stephenson had criticised him for not lifting the seat when he went to the toilet, and had hit him on the chin. Mr Hilliard said Holleran had then fetched the hammer and hit his landlord as he sat in an armchair.
Holleran left and joined a Christian sect in Northampton. He was arrested after contacting a friend.
RACIST THUGS GROWING MORE EXTREME, MINISTER WARNS A Government minister has issued a warning about the growing extremism of racists in Britain as he condemned the vicious knife attack on the white boyfriend of Olympic athlete Ashia Hansen. Home Office Minister Mike O'Brien says the Government is seriously concerned about this and a number of other racist incidents across the country.
Mr O'Brien condemned the attack on Chris Cotter, 28, as "appalling" and said the Government had already brought in tougher sentences for people found guilty of racially-aggravated offences.
Jeff
The Guardian
Man killed friend after toilet row
Saturday March 25, 2000
A print manager was jailed for life yesterday after he admitted murdering a friend who told him off for not lifting the toilet seat. Nicholas Hilliard, prosecuting, told the Old Bailey that Michael Holleran, 41, had been friends with Norman Stephenson, 56, a former colleague, for years. Holleran rented a room in Mr Stephenson's house in Wealdstone, north London.
Last August, Mr Stephenson was found on his living room floor in a pool of blood, and never regained consciousness. He had a fractured skull from a single blow with a sledgehammer, Mr Hilliard said. Holleran told psychiatrists that Mr Stephenson had criticised him for not lifting the seat when he went to the toilet, and had hit him on the chin. Mr Hilliard said Holleran had then fetched the hammer and hit his landlord as he sat in an armchair.
Holleran left and joined a Christian sect in Northampton. He was arrested after contacting a friend.
RACIST THUGS GROWING MORE EXTREME, MINISTER WARNS A Government minister has issued a warning about the growing extremism of racists in Britain as he condemned the vicious knife attack on the white boyfriend of Olympic athlete Ashia Hansen. Home Office Minister Mike O'Brien says the Government is seriously concerned about this and a number of other racist incidents across the country.
Mr O'Brien condemned the attack on Chris Cotter, 28, as "appalling" and said the Government had already brought in tougher sentences for people found guilty of racially-aggravated offences.