Bad relationships with teachers boring lessons family problems and bullying were also mentioned as causes

Bad relationships with teachers, boring lessons, family problems and bullying were also mentioned as causes. The research officer in charge of the project, Kay Kinder, said that vocational courses which might be more relevant to these pupils could help to improve their behaviour.. A former soldier who warned that gay men would never be safe from him was jailed for life at the Old Bailey yesterday for the attempted murder of a man who picked him up in a bar. George Rees was left with a “festering hatred” of homosexuals after he suffered homosexual rape and was “bullied, tortured and abused” during his career in the Blues and Royals Cavalry Regiment, the court was told.
Passing sentence, Judge Richard Hawkins QC, said the “very dangerous” 39-year-old squaddie was motivated by “homophobia and a desire to steal”.”You said you were quite prepared to kill as many gay men as possible,” he said, adding that prison authorities should bear in mind medical reports showing that Rees posed a threat to other prisoners.As he was led from the dock, Rees, who pleaded guilty to a charge of attempted murder, smiled at the judge and said: “Perhaps I will be out in time for Manchester City to come back to the Premier League Thank you.

Have a nice day.”The court had been told that Rees, who left the Army in 1972, met Tony Grundy in a bar in central London last October. Over drinks they “discussed homosexuality and the former soldier’s experiences in the Army”, Peter Kyte QC, prosecuting, said. Mr Grundy then invited Rees back to his luxury flat.Under the “plain impression” that they were going to have sex, Mr Grundy began leading the way to the bedroom when he felt the point of a knife in his back. Rees, originally of Moss Side, Manchester, stripped and bound Mr Grundy and goaded him about his sexuality before stabbing him three times.Holding the knife to his jugular, he told his victim: “You are bleeding to death You won’t die yet – you have 20 minutes. Your only chance is to give me cash.”After Rees left with his valuables, Mr Grundy managed to stagger to a neighbour’s flat to raise the alarm. He lost four pints of blood and gave police a graphic account of “feeling bubbles in his breathing”, but he was saved by emergency surgery.Rees, already on the run from a six-and-a-half year robbery sentence, was arrested shortly afterwards and immediately confessed. He was “stunned” to hear that Mr Grundy was still alive, as he had been “aiming for the heart”.In a statement Rees said: “In my heart of hearts I had done something which I knew had been coming for a long, long time After the stabbing I felt a great sense of relief.

He epitomised everything I had gone through 20 years ago.”He told police he had also wanted to kill actor and gay activist Michael Cashman for his campaign to end the ban on homosexuals in the armed forces.”It was very worrying, especially as the police said they believed he had every intention of carrying out his threat,” Mr Cashman said after the hearing.. True, millions of novels have managed to be both good and non-sexually explicit But times change. And as long as most women writers avoid the temptation of the pointless orgasm, we should not worry too much about the odd Habitat lamp.t Runners-up for the Trask award were: Meera Syal for Anita and Me, Rhidian Brook for The Testimony of Taliesin Jones, and Louis Caron Buss for The Luxury of Exile.. There is little point describing sex and violence unless this is central to the plot, or the very point being made.

But many others in the Brutalist mould are simply not well characterised, plotted or written. Young women are writing about sex and violence in a way they did not before. But that is not to say they used to ignore realities of life completely. The fashion for Gothic novels from the end of the 18th century was led by Mrs Radcliffe and Mary Shelley and they were packed with death and destruction.The point of Mr Lord’s tirade should not have been whether women have started to write about the things they have always done (masturbation, menstruation, sex) but whether they are doing it well The answer has to be that, on the whole, they are not. Deborah Bosley’s Let Me Count The Ways is the “utterly unromantic story of a girl whose homosexual husband has Aids”; Louise Doughty’s Crazy Paving is “awash with foul dialogue, graphic descriptions of masturbation, menstruation and vomiting”.Mr Lord has a point.