Killer shot Anni Dewani to pay for ritual circumcision
LONDON: Xolile Mngeni, the guy who killed Anni Dewani has reportedly said that he agreed to commit the crime because the blood money offered by her husband Shrien would pay for him to undergo a ritual circumcision. The convicted drug dealer says he was ashamed not to have had the procedure “to become a real man” before the age of 25, the Daily Express reported. Meanwhile, Anni”s uncle Ashok said last night that the family had been informed of Mngeni”s reasons for shooting her and it has made them even more angry. He said that he had since read about the Zulu tribal initiation ceremony and it is meant to make men out of boys, and condemned Mngeni saying that he had shot a defenceless young woman on her honeymoon and planned to use his blood money to make himself appear as a man. (ANI)
Swedish man’s short obituary reads ‘I am dead’
London: In what may be the shortest obituary ever, the news of a 92-year-old Swedish man’s death was published in three simple words in a national newspaper: “I am dead”. Stig Kernell had instructed his local funeral home in Tranas, southern Sweden to publish the advert on his death including the simple message, his name, place and date of death. He felt that was all that needed to be said, his son Lars-Ake Kernell told the Swedish paper Expressen. The aerospace historian and transport technician died on April 6. The unusual obituary was published on Saturday in Dagens Nyheter and Svenska Dagbladet. The modest message did not pass unnoticed however and several newspapers carried the story of the obituary over the weekend, ‘The Local’ reported. Kernell had a pilot’s licence and had previously featured in the Guinness Book of World Records for his expansive collection of aviation literature.(PTI)
US man throws away $1.25 mn worth winning lottery tickets
New York: A man in the US lost out on USD 1.25 million when he threw away winning lottery tickets in trash. The man bought 25 tickets with the same numbers from Zhou Grocery on South Queen Street in York more than a year ago, but never claimed the prize. The tickets have now expired and the winnings will go unclaimed. The man was pretty upset, the York Daily Record reported. “Wouldn’t you be,” Wendy Hinton, who works at the store was quoted as saying by the daily. She sold 25 tickets in March last year to one of her regular customers. She remembered because he played the same numbers every day and always bought a bunch of tickets with the same numbers — sometimes 20, other times 25 — among his daily lottery purchases that totalled about USD 100 a day. Shortly after the drawing, she said, the man checked the numbers, but must have misread them and threw the tickets in the trash. The 25 tickets were worth USD 50,000 each — USD 1.25 million total. “He was mad,” Hinton said of the day he found out that he threw away more than a million dollars.”He was so mad he played USD 400 that day.” It had been a mystery what happened to the tickets. (PTI)
Ohio man sentenced to wear ‘BULLY’ sign is jeered, taunted
CLEVELAND: An Ohio man sentenced by a judge to spend Sunday wearing a sign reading ‘I AM A BULLY’ at a busy suburban Cleveland intersection was greeted by a boisterous stream of honking car horns, jeers and insults. Edmond Aviv, 62, clad in a hat and dark sunglasses, sat slumped in a green plastic chair holding the cardboard sign that is punishment for his treatment of a neighbor, whose husband suffers from dementia, and her seven children, several of whom have disabilities and use wheelchairs. (Reuters)