When her marriage ended, Samantha Stone destroyed her copy of a video of her enjoying group sex. Her estranged husband kept his copy, and yesterday Julian St Quinton, a butcher from Easington, East Yorkshire, was found guilty of blackmail with menaces.
The jurors found that he had used it to make Ms Stone give up her half of their £100,000 home.
In an acrimonious divorce, he threatened to send the tape to her parents and to the colleagues of her father, millionaire owner of a timber firm.
Residents of Easington, a hamlet with three pubs and a 12th-century church, were shocked to hear what had been going on. One said: "It's difficult to believe. That said, we're out on a limb here and there's not much to do, so perhaps that explains it." - Guardian (B A Jackson)
Overweight lions at Longleat Safari Park in Wiltshire are being forced to grab their food from a fast-moving truck in an effort to keep them in shape. - Worcester Evening News (Sigrid Rabiger)
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