Charlbury news in the Oxford Mail
A Charlbury man tried to kill his fiance by throwing plugged-in electrical equipment into her bath and holding her head under water, a jury heard. Gary Boyland, 34, threw a hair-drier, music stereo and a lamp into the bath after finding out Lynsey Brookes was again in contact with a man she had had an affair with, Johannah Cutts, prosecuting, told Oxford Crown Court. More here...
The first time a television production company asked Greg Rasmussen to tell the story of his miraculous escape from the African bush, he turned them down. "I had been lucky to survive, indeed I shouldn't be alive and I definitely shouldn't be walking, so I thought it best I just bury what had happened and just get on with things," said the 50-year-old from Charlbury. More here....
Richard Fairhurst · Fri 4 Aug 2006, 13:11 · Link