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Judge caught kissing convict whose sentence she tried to reduce
An Argentinian judge is being investigated after she was filmed kissing a prisoner who was convicted for killing a police officer.
According to Daily Mail, Judge Mariel Suarez was filmed kissing Cristian ‘Mai’ Bustos in jail on December 29, one week after she had voted against a life sentence for the convict.
Ms Suarez was part of a panel of judges who had been voting to decide whether Cristian Bustos should be handed a life sentence for the killing of police officer in 2009.
She was the only judge on the panel to vote against a life sentence, instead seeking a reduced sentence for the man who had already admitted to fatally shooting the cop.
Despite her dissenting vote, Mr Bustos was handed a life term for the killing. The judge was filmed kissing Mr Bustos in jail.
An officer who spotted them reported her to his superiors, but Ms Suarez denied any wrongdoing on her part.
“I don’t have any sentimental relationship with this person. I’m writing a book on him. Our relationship is a working relationship,” she was quoted as saying by an Argentinian news website.
“We were talking and felt we were being listened to. They were secret talks and there were people walking nearby and a camera and that’s why we talked close-up,” she said.
The Superior Court of Justice of Chubut opened an investigation into the judge’s conduct. A statement from the court described the convict as a “highly dangerous” man. –Ndtv.com
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Message in bottle floats from Canada to Ireland in 13 years
A message in a bottle launched by visitors to Newfoundland’s Bell Island was found washed up on an Irish beach nearly 13 years later, after apparently crossing the Atlantic Ocean.
Kate Gay said she was walking a Dingle Peninsula beach this week when she spotted the wine bottle with a sheet of paper inside.
Gay showed the bottle to members of Creative Ireland NeartnaMacharaí during a meeting at her house that evening, and they broke the bottle open.
The note, written by a couple named Brad and Anita, was dated Sept. 12, 2012. The letter described the couple’s day trip to Bell Island.
There was a phone number on the letter, but there was no answer when group members tried to call.
The Maharees Heritage and Conservation group posted photos of the bottleto social media on Monday, and within an hour group members were messaging with Anita.
Group member Martha Farrell said Anita reported that she and Brad had married in 2016 and are still together to this day. -upi.com
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Woman earns world record for collection of 15,485 egg cups
A Spanish woman who has been collecting egg cups for over 50 years earned a Guinness World Record when her collection was tallied at 15,485 items.
María José Fuster recruited two witnesses to help her tally her collection at a community center in her hometown of Campo, Spain.
Fuster’s collection includes multiple patterns, colors, designs and even novelty cups bearing the images of characters including Superman, Betty Boop and Garfield.
Fuster maintains two blogs related to her hobby — one to catalog each piece, and one to list the names of the people who have donated egg cups to her collection.
Some of her most prized egg cups, about 1,143 of them, are currently on display at a local museum.
-upi.com
