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For many comedians, the bane of their lives is that no one will take them seriously. That’s no joke it drove Tony Hancock to suicide and sent Spike Milligan into psychotic breakdowns.
Johnny Vegas appeared to be in genuine emotional distress as he struggled to set up a campsite business, converting clapped-out buses into holiday cabins on Carry On Glamping (C4).
That sounds like the set-up for a sitcom. It isn’t, though you’d be forgiven for supposing Johnny, a stand-up comedian with a drunkenly chaotic stage act, was just fooling around.
His mates all thought so, when he sounded them out. So did the fitters he approached for a quote to renovate one coach: They seemed deeply suspicious that the whole business was a leg-pull.
He s spent almost 20 years in prison for murder - but could new evidence give Omar an alibi?
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He s spent almost 20 years in prison for murder - but could new evidence give Omar an alibi?
Despite spending almost 20 years in jail, Omar Benguit has always said he s not guilty of murder. Could new evidence provide him with an alibi?
Bronagh Munro
From the moment he was arrested in August 2002 in connection with a young woman’s murder, Omar Benguit has protested his innocence.
At first glance, the case against him looked cut and dried. A large number of witnesses testified against him. Omar was a drug addict with 60 criminal convictions, including one for stabbing another man. At his trial, the main prosecution witness told the jury she’d driven him, covered in blood, to a crack house, after the murder of South Korean student Jong-Ok Shin, known as Oki. Omar was said to have stabbed her as she walked home alone on a Bournemouth street, after she refused to come
South Korean student Jong-Ok Shin, 26, known as Oki, was stabbed to death in 2002
A man jailed for nearly 20 years for a murder he says he did not commit hopes that new CCTV footage discovered by a BBC investigation will give him an alibi and clear his name.
South Korean student Jong-Ok Shin, 26, known as Oki, was stabbed to death in the street while walking home from a night out in Bournemouth in 2002.
Omar Benguit, 48, a heroin addict and petty crook, was tried three times for the killing and finally convicted in 2005 after a key prosecution witness, a prostitute and heroin addict known as BB, claimed that she had witnessed the murder.