British Airways cabin crew member sacked after £23,000 went missing from a NIGERIAN in First Class cabin

Ian McClure, 42, sacked despite no evidence of theft brought by police

BA's internal probe branded 'biased and inadequate' by lawyer

Airline defends its decision to sack attendant after 18 years of service

A British Airways steward has been sacked after £23,000 went missing from a passenger's briefcase, despite a failure to bring charges against him for the theft.
Ian McClure, 42, a flight attendant of eighteen years, is now challenging his dismissal. A tribunal has heard that BA's internal staff investigation was found to be 'biased and inadequate'.
The incident is alleged to have occurred on a five-and-a-half hour overnight flight from Nigeria to Heathrow in London on April 10, 2011.
A First Class passenger who had been carrying £65,000 in a briefcase secured in his overhead locker complained that £23,000 had gone missing mid-flight. The First Class cabin was almost full with 11 of the 14 seats taken.
Five days after the flight Mr McClure was arrested by police at his home Buckinghamshire. Officers found quantities of notes in £50s and £20s with similar markings to those belonging to the BA customer.
However, detectives could not match the notes with those in the original briefcase and they eventually dropped the charges against Mr McClure.
BA's own procedures ended in the dismissal of Mr McClure, ignoring the results of a police investigation. The decision is now being challenged at an employment tribunal in Reading.
Mr McClure's barrister, Angus Gloag, told the hearing that BA's internal investigation l was 'biased and inadequate


'It's a question of who done it? That's if the money ever existed in the first place,' Mr Gloag said.
'Mr McClure had travelled to Nigeria a couple of weeks before this flight so he had access to money of this type with these markings.
'These are similar markings, not unique.'

Harveen Gupta who carried out the British Airways investigation defended the decision to sack Mr McClure

Mr Gloag claimed that it would have been impossible for Mr McClure to have broken into an overhead locker and removed money from a secure briefcase, given that the First Class cabin had been nearly full and silent.
'Could he really have opened an overhead locker generating noise- and noise is at a premium in First Class - taken the briefcase out, taken it to the toilet, got money out, secreted it on himself or hid it somewhere and put the case back in the locker without anyone seeing anything?
'He had spent a significant amount of time with a nervous customer sitting in 4E.'
Harveen Gupta, an inflight business manager for BA, who carried out the internal inquiry defended the company's investigation.
She said: 'I took the hearing very seriously.
'It took a long time to do this. I believe I gave a very fair hearing.'
Ms Gupta admitted her inquiry was stopped while the police investigation took over.
The court asked her to explain her decision to sack Mr McClure despite no evidence found by police against the flight attendant.
Ms Gupta said: 'The explanation given to me by Mr McClure was that the money had come from a UK Bank Society.
'The markings were similar to that described by the customer.
'I found that strange.'
The tribunal, held before Judge Andrew Gumbiti-Zimuto, continues.

Husband, wife, three others arrested for pipeline vandalism

Husband and wife and others surviving from the failure of a system to provide adequate security to government properties, It was indeed a show of shame Yesterday as they pleaded with men of the civil defense corps for leniency, Mr. John Gere, and his wife, Queen Gere, and three others
Reports from Punch says“They were arrested in Epe and that they even attacked some of the officers who went for the raid. According to Mr. Evans Ewurum, the deputy commandant of the civil defense who said, “We recovered from them more than 20 kegs of petrol. They will be charged to court and the exhibit will be handed over to either the police, court or Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation as the case may be,” he said.The suspects, however, denied being pipeline vandals, saying that they were arrested unjustly by overzealous NSCDC operatives.One of the suspects, Favour Egboh, said, “I live at Temu Village, Epe and I buy diesel from trailers. The trailers I buy diesel from do not have company names written on them. I went into this business because of my condition.

“I have three children and no husband. I’m presently suffering from diabetes and I have my medicine here with me. I went to buy my medicine from a chemist nearby and they arrested me on my way back.”

Asked how much she sold diesel, she said, “I buy it at the rate of N3,500 for 30 litres and sell it for N4,000 naira or N3,750. I buy 50 litres for N7,000 and sell for N7,500. I use the money I get from my business to take care of my three children.

Queen however denied complicity, saying that she was arrested by the operatives when she came to secure Egboh’s release.

“I don’t sell diesel. I sell spirits and I don’t even live in Epe. My sister (Egboh) sells diesel. I went to plead that she should be released and they arrested me too,” she said.

Queen’s husband corroborated her story, saying he was also arrested after his wife called him to secure her release. He said he was not a pipeline vandal and urged the operatives to release him.

He said, “I stay at Ishala. I sell spirits. I went to buy a large quantity of spirits in a drum when my wife called me that her sister was arrested. I rushed down to the place. My wife said she came out and met with the civil defence officials and they arrested her. They asked if I was the husband and they arrested me when I said ‘yes.’

“My vehicle was attacked by armed robbers on Wednesday and my boys that were in it were injured. I have not even found the vehicle and these people have come to inflict on me more pains.”

Meanwhile, the DCG in charge of operations as well as other senior officers, visited Arepo area of Ogun State on Tuesday where a pipeline explosion occurred, killing scores.

Ewurum described the incident as suicide and urged members of the public to continue to provide the corps with information that could lead to more arrests.

The corps boss also gave vandals a seven-day grace to vacate the area or face the wrath of the law.

“I give oil pipeline vandals seven days to evacuate the area and relocate to another country or else they will face fire. We will comb the area and descend upon them without mercy,” he said.

Ewurum added that the corps needed a helicopter to carry out more surveillance as this would go a long way in aiding their job.

Governor of Anambra State Peter Obi promises N5 Million for Information on Bodies Found in Ezu River

The governor of Anambra state, Peter Obi, has promised N5 Million to anyone with information on the bodies found in Ezu River, Amansea, Akwa North Local Government area of the state.

On Saturday over 15 bodies were found floating on the river situated at the boundary between Enugu and Anambra States. The corpses that could not be easily identified were suspected to have been dumped in the river on Friday night by unknown persons.

Natives of Amansea said some of the bodies they saw had been swept away while some were still buried down the river and are expected to become afloat later.
Obi, who was away to the United Kingdom on official duty at the time of the discovery of the dead bodies, cut short his trip after being briefed by his aides on the mysterious development.
According to Vanguard, he said the corpses obviously floated from elsewhere into Anambra state. “The fact that River Ezu flows into Anambra State from another state shows that these corpses obviously floated from elsewhere into our state. As you can see, the bodies are already decomposing and this shows that this incident happened some time ago. But I do not care where the corpses floated from; I am worried that this type of scenario could be witnessed in our country in this age and time. This is a most barbaric and unacceptable development. It cannot happen in any decent society.”
He explained that the N5 million would go to anyone who provided necessary information which would help to unravel the circumstances surrounding the strange incident.

Fate of Malaysia-based Undergraduate Scammer to be determined

Arrangement has been concluded by The EFCC to arraign the Malaysia- based Nigerian fraudsters, Hope Olusegun Aroke and his accomplice, Tafida Garuba Ibrahim before a Federal High Court, Lagos Today, Monday January 21, 2013. They will be docked before Justice Mohammed Idris on two separate charges of Money laundering and False Declaration of Assets.

Aroje was one of two Malaysia-based Nigerian undergraduate fraudsters arrested by the EFCC in the closing weeks of 2012 at the 1004 Housing Estate, Victoria Island, Lagos following a tip- off. The 25 year-old indigene of Okene, Kogi State claims to be a student of Computer Science at the Kuala Lumpur Metropolitan University, Malaysia. But the Commission’s investigation fingered him as the arrow head of an intricate web of internet fraud scheme that traverse two continents.

His accomplice, Tafida Ibrahim is a Bureau De Change operator. Through him, Aroke was able to launder proceeds of multiple scams to the tune of over N31million. The duo enjoy a cozy business relationship that saw Ibrahim travel to Malaysia twice between September and October 2012 at the instance of Aroke.

When Aroke was arrested, a search conducted by EFCC operatives on his apartment led to the recovery of several items such as laptops, iPad phones, travelling documents, cheque books, flash drives, internet modem, and three exotic cars - a Mercedes Benz Jeep, One 4Matic Mercedes Benz Car and a Range Rover Sport SUV.

Operatives of the EFCC also downloaded over 80 implicating documents from the laptops recovered from him.

Just Weird: Mother and daughter record porn video together to save their home from foreclosure

daughter have done the extreme to save their home from being foreclosed by the bank. The mother and daughter have made porn videos together.

The mother, Jessica, 52, is a former waitress and her daughter, Monica, 22, is a high school dropout.

Jessica and Monica Sexton, the mother-daughter duo from Tampa, Florida, went to the pornography industry with the intention of making some serious money.

According to reports it was the daughter Monica who suggested the idea to her mother when the

family was having financial problems.

 

The mother and daughter claim that this is not technically incest because they refrain from making physical contact with each other during sex, while participation of a third party.

Although in the video it may seem as though they are touching or kissing, they claim that it is not happening.

Beverly Hills-based psychiatrist Dr. Carole Lieberman believes that these actions are "emotionally incestuous"

WATCH THE VIDEO HERE   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEGcj0ZuUM4&feature=player_embedded

ONE MORE TIME: President obama sworn in for his second term in office

President Obama officially took the oath of office in the Blue Room of the White House a few minutes before noon on Sunday. Chief Justice John Roberts administered the oath. Obama was sworn in using a Bible from his wife's family, after hugging various family members, he told his daughter Sasha, "I did it." The public inauguration ceremony will be held on Monday, but the Constitution states that the president must be sworn in on January 20 and the inauguration ceremony is usually delayed if January 20 falls on a Sunday. Vice President Joe Biden was also sworn in for a second term at his home at just after 8 o' clock this morning. Justice Sonia Sotomayor delivered his oath/

40 decomposed bodies found in Anambra river

Residents of Amansea in Awka, Anambra State woke up yesterday morning Saturday January 19th to a horrifying sight; 40 dead bodies floating in a River in their community. People from the community and some neighbouring ones besieged the Ezu river yesterday to catch a glimpse of the dead bodies. The river is at the boundary between Enugu and Anambra states and the dead bodies were found at the old Enugu-Onitsha road axis of the river.

The corpses whose identities were unknown, were suspected to have been dumped in the river Friday night by unknown persons.

The traditional ruler of Amansea said the community had never witnessed such a gory sight before, while the Commissioner of Police in the state said the dead bodies remained a mystery as there had been no communal clash in Enugu or Anambra where many people were killed. He said investigations are ongoing...

Meanwhile the governor of the state, Peter Obi, has cut short his working trip abroad to return to the state to enable him visit the scene.

The photos are quite horrifying...so view with discretion. Find it after the cut...