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Broken heart's seclusion ends with.fire
HONO KONO. A man who tocked himself up in hto apvt-ment for a decade after being disappointed in a tow affair was discovered anly after a fire broke out. press reports said here Saturday. reports AFP.
Police rescued Lau Yi-Man. 90. the holder of a master's degree, from his 5O-square-metre apartment in a busy shopping area after fire broke out in the building, focal newspapers reported. *
Reports said Lau. under extreme mental pressure, had kept himself locked up since being Jilted by hts girlfriend 10 years ago.
His parents and brothers who have emigrated to Australia, paid neighbours to take meals and other dally necessities to Lau. who lived amid Garbage and Mice, the reports said
Id-year imprisonment in AIDS rape case
CAPE TOWN: A man received a 10-year prison sentence Friday after being convicted of raping an I ) year-old girl and infecting her with the virus that causes AIDS, reports
It was believed to be the first known case in South Africa of a rapist poMlng the AIDS virus on to hts victim.
Martin Jooste. 24. and an accomplice. 23 year old Ph Ulip Rheede. were found guilty of raping the girl last year. Jooste later was found to carry the AIDS virus.
Judge Wouter Rothman imposed the maximum sentence for rape on Jooste while giving Rheede an eighl-year sentence. He said the rape victim was dying of AIDS
Jooste and Rheede were acquitted on a charge of attempted murder because the prosecution failed to prove Jooste knew he had the AIDS virus at the time of the rape
Juicy comments are costly if they find you guilty
pti JUAN. Puerto Rico: A free lance photographer has been convicted of slander for saying two of the managers of the singing group Menudo sexually molested several of its former members, reports AP.
New York-based photographer Bolivar Arellano said Wednesday he was appealing the misdemeanor conviction.
Charges were filed against the photographer for comments he made against Jose Jimenez Mcurdo and Orlando Lopez Rodriguez on a Dec. 9 television talk show in San Juan.
Arellano was linked to the group as a freelance photographer and as owner of a Menudo souvenir shop.
Arellano was found guilty of two slander charges Wednesday by San Juan District Court Judge Awilda Irizarry Pardo. She sentenced him to six hours Incarceration, imposed a 1,000 dollar fine and ordered him to publish the court's order in one of the Island's dally newspapers at his own cost.
The judge also ordered the photographer to publish a halfpage advertisement in a newspaper retracting the charges he made in the television show.