London: Kiaran "Psycho" Stapleton, who shot dead Indian student Anuj Bidve last year claims he has the "best cell" in his wing and knows "loads of people" in prison. Stapleton was sentenced to life in prison after he shot 23-year-old Bidve, in the head in Salford, Manchester, on December 26, 2011.
And despite his "sickening" boast, the 21-year-old has begged a judge to reduce his sentence, which he is currently serving at York's tough Full Sutton Prison. In a letter shown to The Sun, he brags: "I sit in my cell waiting for Emmerdale and Coronation Street and eating chocolate."30 isent (sic) that long I don't think enyway I can do it standing on my head 'ha'," the report said.
The note was passed to The Sun by an outraged reader following its 'Say No To Soft Justice' campaign. "The source, who didn't wish to be named, said: 'It's clear Stapleton doesn't care that he's in prison. He thinks he has a cushy life in there. It's disgusting,'" the report said. Despite his boasts, Stapleton pleaded with Court of Appeal judges for a sentence reduction. It is believed he asked for his age and mental health problems to be taken into account.
The judges reserved judgment in the case to a date to be fixed. Bidve had arrived in the UK to study micro-electronics at Lancaster University and was visiting Manchester with a group of friends last Christmas....
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04:30 PM, Oct 15, 2012
London: Police officers suspended from duty but getting full pay cost the British economy around six million pounds (nearly $10 million) last year, a media report said on Sunday. At the beginning of 2012, 174 police officers were off work on full pay. Of these, 34 had spent the whole of 2011 being paid while not being allowed to work, reported the Daily Express. An officer in Northern Ireland was...
06:16 PM, Apr 29, 2012
London: Tributes were paid to the memory of Indian student Anuj Bidve at Lancaster University, where he was enrolled for a post-graduate qualification before being killed in an unprovoked attack in Salford on December 26. Over 200 students and staff gathered at the memorial service at the Lancaster University Chaplaincy Centre on Saturday. The university is discussing with Anuj's family what sort of tribute would be a fitting way to...
09:22 AM, Jan 22, 2012
Pune: Anuj Bidve's friends and family paid their final tribute and cremated him in Pune on Saturday. But their fight for justice, they say, will continue for their son, an innocent 23-year-old, who was shot dead in UK on Boxing Day. Anuj's friends and family paid their last tribute to him on Saturday after his body was brought back to India from the UK where he was shot dead in...
07:33 AM, Jan 08, 2012
New Delhi: Demanding justice for his son Anuj Bidve, the family of the slain Indian student on Friday visited the spot where he was killed and thanked the British government for its support. "We have made the journey from India to see the place where Anuj died and take his body back to India. This was a difficult journey to make. When Anuj left India last year he was full...
04:50 PM, Jan 06, 2012
London: Anuj Bidve's family has been making a desperate plea for justice in the UK for their 23-year-old son who was killed on December 26. The family will visit the spot where Bidve was shot dead, and is expected to fly back home with his body on Saturday. On Thursday Anuj Bidve's parents went to the UK Parliament to discuss concerns over the investigation into his murder. A 20-year-old has...
06:11 AM, Jan 06, 2012
New Delhi: Family of slain Indian student Anuj Bidve on Thursday visited the UK Parliament. Anuj's father Subhash Bidve said that justice is yet to come and at this point he can't say that he is satisfied with the progress. "I humbly request to make sure that students who come here can study here and go back to their countries. I am very thankful and obliged to everyone. Justice is...
05:55 PM, Jan 05, 2012
The Bidve family will leave for Manchester later on Thursday and will visit the site of the gruesome incident in Salford on Friday. ...
04:28 PM, Jan 05, 2012
New Delhi: Anuj Bidve's family has reached the UK to bring his body home. The family is expected to return to Pune on Saturday. The 23-year-old micro-electronics student was shot dead in Manchester on Boxing Day, December 26; in what police say was an assault without a motive. Bidve's body was handed over to the Indian High Commission after the second post-mortem was conducted. One local 20-year-old Kiara Stapleton who...
06:05 AM, Jan 05, 2012
London: Family of slain Indian student Anuj Bidve arrived in London from India on Wednesday evening to take the body of the 23-year-old back home for final rites. Victim's father Subhash Bidve, who arrived along with Anuj's mother and brother-in-law, will meet MP Keith Vaz, Chairman of the Britain's Home Affairs Committee, in the Parliament House on Thursday. Vaz said: "I am pleased to welcome the Bidve family to Parliament....
02:26 AM, Jan 05, 2012
A team from UK police on Monday met Anuj Bidve's family, who was killed on December 26 in Manchester. ...
08:33 PM, Jan 02, 2012
Pune: Two top police officials from Manchester on Monday visited the family of Anuj Bidve, a 23-year old student from Pune who was killed on December 26 in an apparent hate crime in the English city. Manchester chief police superintendent Berry Russel Jackson and another official who arrived in Pune on Sunday evening drove straight to Bidve family's house in Chandannagar area to discuss matters relating to the death of...
08:05 PM, Jan 02, 2012
New Delhi: 20-year-old man Kiaran Stapleton has been charged with the murder of Indian student Anuj Bidve. Meanwhile, a team of UK police has reached Pune to meet the family of Anuj Bidve. Stapleton was on Monday remanded to custody after telling the court his name was "Psycho Stapleton". Anuj was visiting the city with friends when he was shot dead at point blank range outside a hotel. Stapleton appeared...
05:10 PM, Jan 02, 2012
London: A 20-year-old Briton has been charged with the murder of the Indian student Anuj Bidve, who was shot in the head in Salford on Boxing Day in an unprovoked incident. Kiaran Stapleton, from the Ordsall area, has been charged with the murder and will appear before the City of Manchester Magistrates' Court today, the police said, adding that the investigation was continuing. Bidve (23) was shot in the head...
11:02 AM, Jan 02, 2012
London: A 20-year-old Briton has been charged with the murder of the Indian student Anuj Bidve, who was shot in the head in Salford on Boxing Day in an unprovoked incident. Meanwhile, a team of UK police has reached Pune to meet the family of Anuj Bidve. Kiaran Stapleton, from the Ordsall area, has been charged with the murder and will appear before the City of Manchester Magistrates' Court today,...
10:28 AM, Jan 02, 2012
Pune: Despite assurances from the UK and Indian authorities, the grieving parents of slain city student Anuj Bidve are still running from pillar to post to expedite repatriation of his body awaiting a second post mortem in Manchester where he became a victim of an apparent hate crime. Still in a state of shock following the killing of the 23-year-old who left the city about three months back to study...
12:10 PM, Dec 31, 2011
London: Three teenagers arrested in connection with the murder of Indian student Anuj Bidve in the UK were on Thursday released on bail even as the police apologised to the family that it came to know about the incident not from them but from Facebook. A 16-year-old boy and two 17-year-old boys have been released on bail, the police announced. The UK police also offered a reward of 50,000 pounds...
07:11 AM, Dec 31, 2011
Tribunal ruled Gurmeal Singh suffered psychological damage, injury to feelings and personal injury. ...
11:52 PM, Oct 02, 2009
Police looking for teenaged girls they suspect to be accomplices in attack. ...
06:14 PM, Sep 10, 2009
Daniel James parents who assisted their son in committing suicide wont be charged. ...
02:15 PM, Dec 11, 2008
