Roy Exum: Two Differing Views Thursday, April 22, 2021 - by Roy Exum
Roy Exum
For many reasons, I am infatuated with Constitutional law and, therefore, I was absorbed with the abject unfairness of the Derek Chauvin trial we just watched unfold in Minneapolis, Minn. Understand, my concern has nothing to do with the verdict. Instead, I am drawn to the nationwide circus that accompanied the outcome and how is it possible for the courtroom to be void of all emotion when thousands are gathered on the lawn, and pressing on the doors, of the Hennepin County Justice building. My God, the media even printed the names of the jurors.
A 28-year-old man has been jailed for six years for blackmailing two people he met on a dating website. Sam Shepherd was sentenced at Bristol Crown Court on Thursday, April 15 after admitting two charges of blackmail relating to victims in South Gloucestershire and Bristol. Shepherd, of Kent Street, Portsmouth, would befriend his victims on a dating website and then threaten to release intimate details about them to their friends and family. He arranged to meet the victims and demanded they hand over large sums of money. In a victim impact statement read to the court, one of the victims said: “It’s been three months since the blackmail began, but it has felt like an incredibly long, tortuous and traumatic time. It truly has felt like my life has stood still and that I have been paralysed as the life I loved has fallen apart around me.
Blackmailer who targeted men on gay dating website is jailed
Sam Shepherd chatted with the two victims, threatened to expose them as paedophiles and squeezed them for £40,000
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When two men decided to go onto a same sex dating website their lives were destroyed.
For laying in wait on FabGuys.com was Sam Shepherd, who met both and told them he would expose them as paedophiles unless they loaded him with cash.
Promises
Five years in the making,
Promises is a stunning fusion of classical, jazz and ambient electronica, involving a remarkable set of collaborators, said Ludovic Hunter-Tilney in the FT. Floating Points is the recording name of the acclaimed British composer and producer Sam Shepherd. Pharoah Sanders is the American saxophonist who, with John Coltrane, pioneered “spiritual jazz”. The third component is a 29-strong string section from the London Symphony Orchestra.
Over nine seamless movements lasting 46 minutes in total, they have created an immersive and richly detailed work, said Kitty Empire in The Observer.
Promises combines “highly sophisticated” cosmic psychedelia with jazz saxophone interventions, weird drones and rustles, and electronic birdsong, as “the mood swings from succour to awe and back again many times”. Halfway through, the LSO strings arrive “adding depth and weight”.
Sam Shepherd was sentenced to six years in prison.
Thug Sam Shepherd extorted £40,000 from gay men he met on a dating site by threatening to expose them as paedophiles, a court has heard.
Shepherd, 28, from Portsmouth, was sentenced to six years in prison in Bristol Crown Court after he pleaded guilt to two charges of blackmail, according to the
Shepherd targeted his two victims after meeting them on FabGuys.com, prosecutor Charley Pattison told the court.
After striking up a conversation with his first victim, Shepherd threatened to expose him for talking to a minor. The victim denied that he had done so, but he agreed to supply the man with money to stop him from making the accusations public.