Monday 25 September 2017
Cannibal family 'confesses to killing and eating at least 30 people in Russia, where they kept human remains in the cellar of their house of horror and posed for selfies with body parts (8 Pics)
A family accused of being cannibals have admitted to killing and eating at least 30 people.
The gruesome killings are said to have taken place over 18 years as police are believed to have discovered eight body parts.
Officers are now checking for more human remains to determine if the confessions are genuine.
Dmitry Bakshaev, 35, from Krasnodar in southern Russia has allegedly told interrogators he began his macabre reign of terror in 1999.
His picture was released along with a 35-year-old woman alleged to be one of his victims. She has not been named.
Bakshaev and his wife Natalia, a nurse, was part of a "cannibal family", according to Mash news outlet, which is known to have links to Russian law enforcement.
As well as the shocking find of human body parts, police also found a "video lessons for cannibals" in their home, local news reports have claimed.
Mash initially identified the pictured woman as his cannibal wife but local sources in Krasnodar insisted she was a recent victim.
Bakshaev and his spouse stored human remains in their fridge and freezer as well as a cellar, according to sources in the Russian Investigative Committee.
Seven packs of frozen body parts were found. The couple also preserved some "meat" in jars.
Some 19 remains of "human skin" were also discovered.
The pair were detained after a mobile phone was found in Krasnodar city with pictures showing a man posing for selfies by human body parts, it was reported.
Since her detention, Natalia has undergone psychiatric tests and was judged to be "mentally healthy", according to Mash.
She is alleged to have confessed to at least 30 cases of killing and cannibalism by the couple.
Her psychiatric hospital tests showed she was "an absolutely healthy adequate person who fully accounts of her actions", said her diagnosis cited by Mash.
After being quizzed by law enforcement officers, the pair are reported to have "confessed".
It is known parts of a of female body were found on September 12 on land linked to a military academy in Krasnodar in a cellar.
A bucket and bag contained body parts. Another bag was filled with the dead woman's possessions.
Around the same time workers found a mobile phone with photographs of a man making a selfie with parts of a human body.
Bakshaev - believed to work in a military academy - had also photographed the decapitated head of the unknown woman and her skull.
Another sickening picture has been discovered by officers and is believed to show a human head being served as dinner.
It has been decorated with oranges and dated December 29, 1999, which, if true, leads to the suspicion that the confession of an 18 year reign of terror as a cannibal is correct.
Another image shows alleged human remains pickled in a jar.
The pictures were found by state investigators among the possessions of the "husband and wife cannibals".
One image shows alleged cannibal Dmitry Bakshaev posing with a hammer and sickle - the symbols of the Soviet Union, the country in which he was born.
Woman cannibal Natalia Bakshaeva is 42, seven years older than her husband, according to police documents.
It is not known how long they have been married. She works at the same military academy where her husband is employed.
They live in academy quarters in a hostel. Her picture has not been released.
Both are currently held in detention in Krasnodar.
The pair used ether and a Russian drug Corvalol to put their victims to sleep.
The smell of the drug reeked from their room in a hostel at the military academy, according to neighbours.
A worker said: "Each time we tried to enter their room, they started wild shouting and crying.
"Natalia is a scandalous woman, aggressive, so we did not risk it."
Investigative committee official Natalia Smyatskaya added said the initial criminal investigation is into the death of one woman.
Other alleged murders are "being checked by our officers", she said.
Ms Smyatskaya, senior assistant to the head of Krasnodar Investigative Committee confirmed that the pictured dead woman had been identified but her name was not being released
She was 35, and had came to live in Krasnodar from Omutinsk town in Kirov region.
A criminal investigation has been opened.
Michelin-starred restaurant shames 'brazen' vegan blogger on Twitter - after they demand a luxury meal for two for FREE 'in exchange for a review' (8 Pics)
A Michelin-starred restaurant has hit out at a blogger’s “cheeky” request for a free meal in exchange for “online exposure”.
Garrett Byrne, owner of the Campagne restaurant in Kilkenny, Ireland, says he gets around ten similar requests from bloggers a year and has “had enough”.
The chef proprietor shared an email from an unnamed blogger on Twitter, who wrote: “In exchange for a vegan meal for two, we would be happy to provide significant online exposure on both our blogs and social media accounts.”
They added: “We would ideally like to try several items on the menu.”
However the request was flatly turned down by the restaurant’s owner who says the reaction to his tweet has been “crazy”.
“I don't normally tweet about them, but this one just struck a chord,” he told The Telegraph. “We get about 10 per year on average.
“I don't think they are exploitative for the most part, it’s just I don’t think restaurants should entertain them.
“I see these requests throughout the year and I've had enough of them, so i decided to tweet it and it has pretty much gone crazy yesterday and today.”
The restaurant's response has been praised on social media, with Amy Catherine tweeting: “I am mortified by this as a blogger!”
Another wrote: “These 'influencers' really are something else…”
Sunday 24 September 2017
'We are too young to see someone die': What teens told suicidal man as they fought to stop him taking his own life
Two hero schoolboys told today how they grabbed a suicidal man about to leap from a bridge and saved his life by refusing to let go.
Haci Demir and George Sofioniou cajoled the distressed man, urged him to think of his family and then pleaded: “Please don’t do this, we are too young to see someone die.”
As the desperate 21-year-old grappled with them, determined to jump into traffic below, the two boys tightened their grip and waited for help to arrive.
The harrowing 10-minute drama was caught on mobile phone. The boys had started to film the man, believing he was carrying out a stunt on the bridge.
Police vowed to honour the 15-year-olds and two other schoolboys, including a 12-year-old boy who helped the rescue. Shaken Haci and George told how they raced to the man’s aid as he perched 25ft above the A10 in Waltham Cross, Herts.
George said: “We knew we had to step in and stop it, but we were really scared as we didn’t want to see him fall.
“If he jumped I knew I would never stop thinking about it. It would have changed our lives forever.
“He was in a very distressed state and it was clear he had every intention of jumping off that bridge.”
Haci – who has had nightmares about Thursday’s drama – added: “I was shaking and my heart was beating so fast. Every time I think about it it’s made me upset.”
The man was moments from joining more than 6,000 Brits who commit suicide every year.
A Samaritans report revealed men are three times more likely to end their lives and suicide is the biggest killer of males under the age of 40.
The Sunday Mirror’s Time To Change campaign urges people to talk more openly about mental health issues in order to lift the stigma and save lives.
Haci and George told how they were walking home from an after-school revision session at St Mary’s C of E High School in Cheshunt when they saw the man at 5pm on Thursday. His legs were hanging off the side of the bridge and they believed he was a daredevil.
Haci said: “I thought it was a joke. I thought he was going to slide down or something. I started recording him.
“But then I saw he was really distressed and I knew it was serious.”
The teen, who lives within sight of the Paul Culley bridge, rang police then begged the man to come to safety.
Haci went on: “I knew I couldn’t just watch this. We tried to convince him to stop. I told him: ‘Don’t do this, your family loves you, think about your mum, your dad, your wife’. I kept saying this to make him calm down but he just ignored us. He was getting ready to jump off.”
As the man slipped from the top of the bridge down to a thin ledge, the brave boys rushed forward and grabbed him through the railings.
George gripped his jumper around the neck while Haci grabbed his hips. An unnamed 12-year-old held the man’s ankles before dashing off to call for help.
It took all of the lads’ strength to hold the man as he wrestled to free himself from their grasp, trying to push them away with his arms as he leaned forward.
Haci said: “He was crying and shaking so much. He was really fighting us but we wouldn’t let go.
“As we held him I said: ‘you can’t do this man, think about your life. Only God can take your life, you can’t do this’. When that didn’t work I told him: ‘Please don’t do this, I’m too young to see this’.
“The only thing he said to us was: ‘If my mum calls tell her that I love her’.” George, from nearby Enfield, told how some passersby ignored their struggle as they crossed the bridge.
He said: “It was a natural instinct to step in to help.
“But it was pretty traumatising to see people walking past ignoring the situation. I thought it was disgusting.”
Thankfully, other strangers did step in, with as many as seven people struggling to hold on to the man. They included Joanne Stammers, 47, who has Klippel-Trenaunay syndrome, making her highly prone to blood clots.
George continued: “The police came and handcuffed his arms around the bars. You could see on his face at that point that he knew it was over.”
The shocked schoolboy went home and broke the news to his parents Stella, 43, and Michael Sofioniou, 45 – who were celebrating their 20th anniversary.
Haci and his mum Dilek Demir, meanwhile, looked on from their home close to the bridge as police and a fire crew eventually helped the man down.
Dilek, 35, told how the incident had affected her son. She said: “I’m worried for Haci. At bedtime he sits on his bed and says he can’t sleep. He dreams he’s on the bridge, that he’s jumping and the people are not holding him.”
Haci admitted: “It keeps coming into my head. I just want to forget about it. But I am happy I saved his life.”
George added: “I am proud we did manage to help him.” The boys will be recognised by police for their actions. Chief Inspector Ian Butler, of Hertfordshire Constabulary, said: “I am in no doubt that the actions of the four boys and a woman who also helped saved this man’s life. I will be recommending them for the highest possible bravery award. A number of other people also stopped to assist and I will be looking at recognising their actions as well.”
The man was taken to hospital after the drama but is now recovering back at home.
His grandmother said: “We are so grateful to the boys. It wasn’t an easy thing to do and they were very brave. And thank you to the other men and women that assisted.”
'He's in MY country': Woman is caught on camera launching racist tirade at takeaway staff who criticised her for vaping in the shop as they made her food
The video shows a woman in Medo Kebab House, on Eastbank Street, Southport , vaping while waiting for her order.
A member of staff hands over her food, and she can be heard saying, “remember he’s in my country, not his”, before shouting a racial slur into the shop from the doorway.
A staff member can then be heard on the footage “it’s your country - no need to be racist.”
Cihan Erdogan, 42, owns Medo Kebab House and has lived in the UK for 23 years since moving here from Turkey.
He was working behind the counter when the woman went in to the shop last night.
Speaking to the ECHO, Cihan said: “I’m 42 years old and I’ve been in this country almost 23 years now, so most of my life I’ve spent here and I’ve been serving Southport people most of my life.
“When the credit crunch started I almost went bankrupt and my parents sold their house in Turkey and paid the money into my business here.
“I work very hard, like 15 to 18 hour days sometimes - it’s very hard to pay bills and everybody thinks foreign people come here to take money and take benefits but it’s not like that.
“I came to the UK when I was young and since then I’ve never taken benefits.”
Medo kebab house was nominated for an award for the best takeaway outside London in 2015 and 2014.
However, Cihan said he’s noticed racist comments and abuse getting worse, despite having lived and worked in Southport for years.
He said: “There are lovely people here, that’s why we moved here from London and I’ve been in business here 16 or 17 years.”
Cihan, who has a British passport and considers himself to be English, said the racist rant was “upsetting”.
He said: “She tried to grab something behind the till, a piece of paper or a pen, and I told her not to.
“We said ‘please just ask us, we can give you whatever you want’ and she was saying, ‘This is my own country - this is mine, you are foreign, you can’t say that to me’.”
Cihan shared the video on social media so customers could see the abuse his staff had to deal with.
The incident was branded “vile” and “disgusting” online in responses posted on Cihan’s post.
Friends Hold Fake Funeral For Friend Who Is Always With His Girlfriend (9 Pics)
When 20-year-old Keiran Cable from South Wales started to date 19-year-old Jess Ferguson, his friends say that he disappeared from their lives. After 18 months of unreturned calls and emails, fifty of Cable’s friends decided to surprise him with a mock funeral that included a coffin, hearse, and even a eulogy!
“Keiran has had a tough 18 months trying to keep his friendship with his friends alive but sadly the wait is now over and he has floated up to the gates of heaven,” the eulogy reads in part.”What hurts the most is that we were starved of precious time to say our last goodbyes after his relationship status was changed from ‘Single’ to ‘in a Relationship.'”
“Keiran had been in a relationship for a few months and it felt like he had died because none of us had seen him since then,” said friend Ben Sullivan
“A couple of weeks ago we were all in the pub and we all started saying RIP Keiran”
“We decided if he wasn’t going to come out with us and was going to pretend he was dead then we’d organise a funeral for him”
“One of the boys, Shaun Bundy, organised most of it and he spent Friday and Saturday making the coffin”
“[Keiran] had no idea what was going on. He thought he was coming out to watch the rugby but he” ended up in a coffin
“I borrowed a funeral car and we drove the coffin from pub to pub”
“Another one of the boys, Daniel Bundock, was the vicar, and gave speeches from the Old Testament”
“The roads were completely closed off, it was epic”
Cable’s reaction? “I was in complete shock and didn’t know what to do or say”
8 Things That Are Making You Bloated
Feeling uncomfortable, bloated, or gassy can ruin anyone’s day, and according to research over 30% of the population deals with digestive discomfort. But just because it’s common doesn’t mean you have to live with it. Read on for 8 reasons why you might be bloated—and what to do about it.
1. WHERE—AND WHEN—YOU EAT.
Our extremely busy lifestyles mean we often eat what we can, when we can. From grabbing a bagel to go for breakfast, to eating lunch hunched over a desk or in a car, eating on the fly is a recipe for bloating. For optimal digestion, our bodies need to be primed to rest and digest. If we’re mindlessly munching on social media or during a rush to get out the door, our body and brain aren’t prepared. The same goes for eating too late at night. Our digestive system is more active during the daylight hours. Eating and going to bed can cause bloating, gas, and heartburn or acid reflux. Take the time to sit down for proper meals, and be mindful and present as you eat. Slow down the process, enjoy your food, and stave off bloating.
2. PASS THE SALT.
Sodium-heavy foods (read: processed) make us retain water, which leads to bloating. Flavoring dishes with herbs and spices and reading labels are a great way to avoid salt-induced bloating. Reach for whole foods over processed options, and cook at home as much as possible. Drinking lots of water can help flush the sodium, so aim for 8-12 glasses to help banish the bloat.
3. UNHAPPY MICROBIOME.
When the trillions of bacteria that make up our microbiome become unbalanced, it can cause bloating, nausea, pain, and even vomiting. To support a healthy gut, focus on adding fermented foods like kimchi and kombucha into your diet, as well as choosing a high-quality probiotic supplement to help rebalance the good and bad bacteria. [Editor's note: We recommend supplements from our partner Bio-K+.]
4. GLUTEN INTOLERANCE OR SENSITIVITY.
An intolerance or even insensitivity to gluten could be behind the bloat. Even if you follow a gluten-free diet, it can hide in things like soup, scrambled eggs, and ground meat. The best way to find out if Celiac disease is causing bloating (and other health issues) is a simple blood test that you can do at home or your doctor’s office. You can also try an elimination diet to see if you have a food sensitivity.
5. FRUITS AND VEGGIES.
Believe it or not, some healthy fruits and vegetables can cause serious bloating. Common culprits include carb-heavy foods like apples, mango, asparagus, and cruciferous vegetables like broccoli. Discuss experimenting with a low FODMAP diet with a natural health professional to decide if it might be right for you.
6. HORMONAL BIRTH CONTROL.
The hormones in birth control, especially estrogen, can cause bloating and weight gain in the abdominal area. Birth control can also lead to insulin resistance, which also causes weight gain. Talk to your natural health care provider about non-hormonal alternatives.
7. TOO MUCH OR NOT ENOUGH CAFFEINE.
Caffeine can have a diuretic effect, helping rid the body of excess salt and water. But too much caffeine—more than one or two cups of tea or coffee daily—can actually cause bloating. Switch to herbal tea, water, or a healthier alternative after that.
8. NOT ENOUGH ACTIVITY.
Our bodies need movement to keep things moving in the digestive tract. Think about how a long walk after a big meal makes you feel better. Yoga poses that focus on twisting can be especially helpful in promoting digestion, but a walk, bike ride, or any type of regular exercise will work wonders.
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