UK- SEX CON KILLER HUNT

6-10-2005 United Kingdom:

A CONVICTED sex offender has been found stabbed to death at home.

Gerald Furlong, 67, was discovered in his flat with multiple knife wounds.

Police had not ruled out a vigilante attack as the motive for murder.

The delivery driver from Enfield, North London, had been given a three-year probation order in 1992 for five counts of indecent assault. His body was found on Sunday.

Det Chief Insp John MacDonald said: "We are looking at all possibilities.

"The conviction is quite historic and it's not necessarily the motive for this brutal attack." ..News Source.. by Mirror.co.uk

Killed tourist 'mistaken for pedophile'

8-19-2005 United Kingdom

AUSTRALIAN tourist Newton Thompson may have been murdered in London earlier this month because of his uncanny resemblance to convicted pedophile Robert Excell, a police source says.

Police are investigating the death of Mr Thompson, whose body was found at a hotel in Paddington, west London, on August 2.

He had suffered heavy blows to the back of his head.

Excell was deported from Western Australia to his native UK on July 30, two days before Mr Thompson's murder.

Excell, 66, and Mr Thompson, 61, both had longish white hair and clipped white beards, and both wore almost identical silver metal-framed glasses.

"The likeness between the victim and Excell is quite uncanny and the timing of the murder could be important," an unnamed police source was quoted as telling The Sun.

"We urgently want to hear from anyone who saw Mr Thompson on the night he was murdered.

"We also want to hear if anyone heard someone bragging about killing Excell."

Mr Thompson, from the southern Melbourne suburb of Sandringham, was on a six-week tour of the UK and Ireland.

He was using the Paddington hotel as his base during his travels. ..more.. by News.com.au

Man accused of sexually molesting 5-y-o girl beaten to death

9-30-2005 Jamaica:
ROEHAMPTON, St James - A man who allegedly sexually molested a five-year-old girl was chased and beaten to death by an angry mob in the Roehampton community yesterday.

Up to late last night, the man's identity could not be ascertained, but residents said he was not from the community.

According to the police, at about 4:30 pm, residents observed a man driving a blue and white Toyota Corona in the district, with the girl aboard.

The residents told the Observer that they became suspicious after the car drove off the main road into a secluded area.

"When we se the car go in a the bushes we went in search of the driver, but by that time he had locked up the car and gone with the girl," one resident said.

An alarm was raised and other residents joined the search for the man and the girl.

Screams from the little girl, the residents said, led them into a woody area where the man was seen hiding behind a tree. On seeing the angry mob, the man reportedly fled. He was cornered by the residents who used stones to inflict wounds to his head.

The man who appeared to be in his early 40s reportedly died on the spot while the toddler was taken to hospital for medical examination.

The man's car was later torched by the angry mob. Last night, residents celebrated the killing of the man and warned would-be rapists that they would meet a similar fate for committing such an act.

"We don't tolerate rapist here, anybody who rapes will be murdered," the residents warned. ..more.. by MARK CUMMINGS