DENVALYN Minott, the second of a long list of witnesses in the Everton "Beachy Stout" McDonald murder trial, went back on his word on Tuesday in the Home Circuit Court, Kingston, proclaiming that .
EVEN the seasoned prosecutor was taken aback. This case is one of the most painful and extraordinary that the annals of crime have ever disclosed, Mr Gunner declared. As if it has often been said, truth is stranger than fiction. Indeed the events at a Winchester pub were. Lying alongside another notorious prostitute, their bodies entwined, Robert Simpson and Sophia Rowe resolved on a death pact. Grasping an open razor, the soldier slashed her throat and sliced his own. Now I die happy, she gasped as the blood oozed. But she did not. He did – but not in the way he could have imagined.