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action against the prison claiming that their failure to provide him with secure computer facilities was a breach of his human rights. He argued that his correspondence should remain private: the prison had provided him with a portable computer but he had to save his work to a hard disk.
He lost his case, but the judicial review cost the British taxpayer at least £15,000, hardly the best use of resources. And, as an intelligent but bitter jailhouse lawyer, he is expected to make other expensive appeals.
Beggars belief
Recently a Scottish newspaper reported that William Beggs was to enter into a civil partnership with his prison lover, a 43-year-old man imprisoned for having sex with minors.
The authorities admitted that they were powerless to stop the ceremony, but said that they would not allow the two men to share a cell. But Beggs has allegedly told friends that he may take court action over this.
In April 2006, he asked Edinburgh High Court to free him, pending an appeal against his conviction, but his request for interim liberation was denied.
GRAHAM COUTTS
In 2003, Coutts was found guilty of murdering a female friend, an act he had committed out of a desire to assuage his asphyxiation fetish. But the Law Lords subsequently agreed that jurors should have been given the option of bringing in a verdict of manslaughter.
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SADISTIC KILLERS
Born in Leven, Scotland (though, by the time he murdered, he lived in England), Graham Coutts began to have sexual fantasies about strangling women when he was aged 15. As he matured sexually, he satisfied himself with consensual sex – but as he moved into his twenties he began to put his hands around girls’ necks during intercourse, asking them to feign unconsciousness. He also liked to bind their hands behind their back with tights. Later this wasn’t enough for him and he asked a girlfriend if he could strangle her until she passed out. He also liked to take the submissive role and asked one girlfriend to strangle him until he lost consciousness.
He told another girlfriend that he had an increasing urge to rape and strangle a woman and she persuaded him to see a psychiatrist. But Coutts quickly stopped treatment and instead began to frequent websites such as Hangingbitches, Necrobabes and Deathbyasphysixia. (These sites were shut down after details of his reliance on them came to light.) He searched for further images of sadism and necrophilia by entering the terms ‘strangled women’ and ‘dead women’
into a search engine.
As the years passed, Graham Coutts’ behaviour became increasingly misogynistic. When one of his girlfriends wept because of a family problem he told her that the tears were a turn-on and he began to masturbate. On another occasion he completely depersonalised her by putting a pillowcase over her head before they had sex.
Graham had originally hoped to be a full-time professional musician but he’d settled for playing the guitar in a pub band. It was respectable creative work but a far cry from the worldwide fame he’d longed for and his sense of frustration doubtless intensified his fantasies of being sexually in control.
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Sadistic Diversity
The victim
Graham Coutts now began to fantasise about a specific victim – 31-year-old Jane Longhurst who taught English and music to children with special needs. Jane had been friends with Graham’s girlfriend, music teacher Lisa Stephens, for the past five years and was delighted that the couple were expecting twins. Jane and her boyfriend Malcolm spent time with Lisa and Graham at their Brighton flat, and Jane, who loved keeping fit, sometimes went swimming with Graham.
She tended to see the best in people: she came from a close family, had met Malcolm in church and was adored by her pupils. She had no reason to think that her friend’s partner was fantasising about slowly
He lost his case, but the judicial review cost the British taxpayer at least £15,000, hardly the best use of resources. And, as an intelligent but bitter jailhouse lawyer, he is expected to make other expensive appeals.
Beggars belief
Recently a Scottish newspaper reported that William Beggs was to enter into a civil partnership with his prison lover, a 43-year-old man imprisoned for having sex with minors.
The authorities admitted that they were powerless to stop the ceremony, but said that they would not allow the two men to share a cell. But Beggs has allegedly told friends that he may take court action over this.
In April 2006, he asked Edinburgh High Court to free him, pending an appeal against his conviction, but his request for interim liberation was denied.
GRAHAM COUTTS
In 2003, Coutts was found guilty of murdering a female friend, an act he had committed out of a desire to assuage his asphyxiation fetish. But the Law Lords subsequently agreed that jurors should have been given the option of bringing in a verdict of manslaughter.
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SADISTIC KILLERS
Born in Leven, Scotland (though, by the time he murdered, he lived in England), Graham Coutts began to have sexual fantasies about strangling women when he was aged 15. As he matured sexually, he satisfied himself with consensual sex – but as he moved into his twenties he began to put his hands around girls’ necks during intercourse, asking them to feign unconsciousness. He also liked to bind their hands behind their back with tights. Later this wasn’t enough for him and he asked a girlfriend if he could strangle her until she passed out. He also liked to take the submissive role and asked one girlfriend to strangle him until he lost consciousness.
He told another girlfriend that he had an increasing urge to rape and strangle a woman and she persuaded him to see a psychiatrist. But Coutts quickly stopped treatment and instead began to frequent websites such as Hangingbitches, Necrobabes and Deathbyasphysixia. (These sites were shut down after details of his reliance on them came to light.) He searched for further images of sadism and necrophilia by entering the terms ‘strangled women’ and ‘dead women’
into a search engine.
As the years passed, Graham Coutts’ behaviour became increasingly misogynistic. When one of his girlfriends wept because of a family problem he told her that the tears were a turn-on and he began to masturbate. On another occasion he completely depersonalised her by putting a pillowcase over her head before they had sex.
Graham had originally hoped to be a full-time professional musician but he’d settled for playing the guitar in a pub band. It was respectable creative work but a far cry from the worldwide fame he’d longed for and his sense of frustration doubtless intensified his fantasies of being sexually in control.
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Sadistic Diversity
The victim
Graham Coutts now began to fantasise about a specific victim – 31-year-old Jane Longhurst who taught English and music to children with special needs. Jane had been friends with Graham’s girlfriend, music teacher Lisa Stephens, for the past five years and was delighted that the couple were expecting twins. Jane and her boyfriend Malcolm spent time with Lisa and Graham at their Brighton flat, and Jane, who loved keeping fit, sometimes went swimming with Graham.
She tended to see the best in people: she came from a close family, had met Malcolm in church and was adored by her pupils. She had no reason to think that her friend’s partner was fantasising about slowly
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