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FARAWAY CRIMES (3#) -

# BATHTUB KILLER: Detectives are trying to piece together a picture of Tatsuya Ichihashi, the unemployed loner, who is suspected of killing Lindsay Ann Hawker, a young British language teacher.

*Inside his flat, police found piles of manga comic books, containing graphic images of sex and violence.*

Nicely written piece by Julian Ryall and Robert Booth; contains intriguing new details.

# SNIPPED: Paul Stokes writes: "A spectacular avenue of daffodils has been decapitated in a devastating overnight raid on a village."

# SELF-DEFENSE: It may sound like a device from an ancient saga, but the city of Irbil in the Kurdish north of Iraq is defending itself with a big moat or trench. And many Christian Iraqis are seeking refuge there.

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