BLACKMAILED TO KILL WITH PHOTO OF RAPE; Jury told of gay attack shame.A BUSINESSMAN used a 10-year-old photo of a gay rape to blackmail blackmail, in law, exaction of money from another by threat of exposure of criminal action or of disreputable conduct. The term was originally used for the tribute levied until the 18th cent. a friend into murdering his wife, a court heard yesterday. Darren Lake was allegedly told the picture of him being raped would be shown to his parents if he didn't agree to Colin Harrold's plot. Sobbing and speaking in a whisper, Lake, 31, told a jury his "whole world had caved in" when Harrold, 35, showed him the photograph. The wealthy book dealer had got "total control" of him, Lake said and wanted wife Diane dead so he could live a playboy Playboy monthly magazine renowned for nude photographs. [Am. Pop. Cult.: Misc.] See : Eroticism lifestyle and avoid a costly divorce. Lake, appearing for the prosecution at Harrold's murder trial at Nottingham Crown Court, has admitted murder and conspiring with Harrold. Harrold denies both charges. The rape photograph was taken on a beach when the two friends were on holiday in Tenerife. "It was a picture of me being raped by two guys," he explained. "I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. how many raped me. I was totally drunk. "The photograph shows me face down on the sand with my blue-green shorts round my ankles." Harrold showed Lake the picture for the first time last autumn after offering him pounds 20,000 to kill Diane. Lake said: "I just looked at him. He said 'I am being serious'. "I couldn't believe what he was saying. I was shocked. He put his hand in his pocket and brought out the photograph." Weeping quietly, Lake added: "He said he would give the photograph to Carol, the mother of my little boy, to my dad and my girlfriend Barbara. It would have made me look more useless than I was." But if he did the murder Harrold would give him the photo and negative. Lake explained how he drowned Diane's cat Cleo in her swimming pool, then he came back to her home in Stamford, Lincs, to help look for the pet. Sobbing, Lake told how he chatted to Diane about her desire for children before battering her with a stair stair n. 1. A series or flight of steps; a staircase. Often used in the plural. 2. One of a flight of steps. [Middle English, from Old English rail. "I hit her with it across the head. She went down. I tried to pick her up to take her to the pool." Lake said there was blood everywhere. "I tried to carry her to the pool. She was twitching twitching, n an irregular spasm of a minor extent. twitching, Trousseau's, n.pr a twitching of the face that the patient can exhibit at will and occurs obsessively to relieve tension. . I could not carry her. "I tried to stop her twitching. I put my fingers on her throat because I panicked. Not sure whether she was conscious or unconscious. "It's called a sleeper Sleeper Stock in which there is little investor interest but that has significant potential to gain in price once its attractions are recognized. Antithesis of high flyer. , a martial arts This is a list of martial arts, broken down by region and style. African martial arts Eritrea
"If people are conscious when you do that it makes them unconscious. I carried her to the pool. I put her in." Asked how he could do such a thing, Lake glared and pointed at Harrold, who was weeping in the dock. "Being frightened fright·en v. fright·ened, fright·en·ing, fright·ens v.tr. 1. To fill with fear; alarm. 2. of him," he said. "I was doing whatever he wanted. It had gone ever so wrong." The trial continues. |
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