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a welsh dad has been jailed after he used an aerosol can as a makeshift flame-thrower to set his wife's hair on fire.
a police officer who was called to the house narrowly escaped serious injury by leaping back as a jet of flame shot directly towards his face.
graham and deborah caswell had been at the pub just hours earlier celebrating their forthcoming 19th wedding anniversary.
mrs caswell decided to leave early, leaving her husband to continue drinking, but when he returned a row broke out, merthyr tydfil crown court heard.
after letting him in she went back upstairs to bed but caswell grabbed her by the arm and demanded she join him downstairs for a cup of coffee.
fearing he was about to hit her mrs caswell, 43, punched him, but he bit her on the cheek, telling her: "you can give it, i can give it too".
the 37-year-old then went downstairs and grabbed a seven-inch knife, saying: "kill me, finish me off, i know you want to."
after eventually handing the knife to his pleading 15-year-old son, he armed himself with several aerosol cans and lighters and said: "you won't kill me, i'll kill you."
lighting the spray, he then directed the 'explosion of fire' at his wife.
prosecutor jonathan bushell said: "the defendant directed it at mrs caswell, causing her hair to catch fire."
"her son helped her to put it out and dragged her downstairs away from his father who he feared had gone mad, and phoned for the police while the defendant continued to use the cans to spray jets of flame."
by the time officers arrived at the couple's menelau square address in dowlais, merthyr, caswell had barricaded himself upstairs with mattresses.
as pc adrian jones put his foot on the first step a 2ft long jet of fire shot towards his face from between the banister spindles.
during interviews, caswell said he had been drinking heavily and rowed with his wife but said he had not intended to hurt anyone.
alex greenwood, defending, said the father of two accepted he had behaved disgracefully but that while he was not a violent man, he had been left deeply scarred following an assault two years ago.
"it had left a deep psychological scar," he said. "he took offence when his wife referred to it and, in essence, snapped."
caswell, who was supported in court by his wife, son and 12-year-old daughter, admitted assault occasioning actual bodily harm and affray, and was sentenced to 12 months.
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an african prince who tried to smuggle cocaine concealed inside onions into the uk has been jailed for 12 years.
prince adegbenie olateru-olagbegi, 55, thought the onion odour would hide his cache, worth £163,000, as he arrived at heathrow airport from lagos, nigeria.
he also packed shrimps and other pungent dried fish in his luggage - but failed to put off a drugs sniffer dog which smelled the drugs as the prince walked through the nothing to declare channel.
he denied all knowledge of the 17 hollowed-out onions containing 3.21kg of cocaine found in his luggage.
he had had more luck at customs in lagos, where he was waived through by customs officials.
sentencing him at snaresbrook crown court in london on tuesday, recorder farouk ahmed said: "you took advantage of your good character and high social standing in nigeria to cause nigerian customs to waive you through."
the prince's barrister, gideon cammerman, said the prince had been a "simple courier".
the prince denied all knowledge of the cocaine in his luggage.
however, mr ahmed said: "a man of your very considerable standing...and with your connections in high places in nigeria, is highly unlikely to have been carrying these drugs for someone else and certainly not for some small reward. you were not acting as some hapless drugs mule."
the prince was arrested in march this year and convicted of smuggling on 1 september following an eight-day trial at middlesex guildhall crown court in london.
he told his trial that his father is king to 450,000 subjects in owo in southern nigeria and that he has 149 siblings.
he had been involved in anti-drug work in nigeria, run for office, and been a director of several companies, the court heard. he was also involved with several organisations which promoted good behaviour and christian values among young men in nigeria. his lawyer said he had faced "public pillory" in nigeria since his arrest.
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today, the united nations committee on torture has urged the united states to close guantanamo bay and their secret jails, saying they violate international law.
it asked the us to relocate the prisoners held at these locations and to either give them a fair trial or release them.
washington should however make sure that the released prisoners would not be returned to any state where they could face a real risk of being tortured.
the un also asked the us to disclose the locations of secret prisons, thought to be in eastern europe and northern africa. a delegation of 30 officials, send by the us government to geneva to attend the hearing by the committee, however refused to answer any questions pertaining to secret facilities.
the un panel urged bush not to allow the use of any interrogation techniques that constituted of torture of foreign detainees at guantanamo and other secret facilities.
although the us officials claimed that the cases of abuse were incidental, the panel believes the torture to be systematic, saying that there have been “reliable reports of acts of torture or cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment” by us military personnel.
reports by the us officials, stating that those who indeed mistreated and abused foreign terrorist suspects were prosecuted and convicted, did little to change the panel’s position.
furthermore, the us has repeatedly stated that it believes that the normal conventions regarding torture do not apply in this long-time war on terrorism. the panel however, says that the total ban of torture applies both in times of peace and war.
human rights groups have welcomed the un panel’s report and have expressed the hope that the us will rethink its policies.
the panel has asked the us to report back in a year.
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