Following a painstaking investigation by BBC’s Panorama programme, convicted murderer The Rev Green, is to be released from prison after what’s being called a gross miscarriage of justice during the now infamous Cluedo Mansion murder case in 2016.
Green was sent down for a full life term without remission, following Mum’s revelation that it was he who committed the grizzly murder using a length of lead-piping in the mansion’s stately ballroom.
However, that conviction is now being called unsafe after new evidence emerged during the investigation accusing Mum of frequently cheating at all family board games.
Daughter, Tamsin, confirmed Mum had once stashed an extra £500 note from a second Monopoly set, in order to settle a crippling fine that would otherwise have seen her crash out of the game, after she landed on Mayfair which belonged to Toby who had two hotels on it.
Speaking to Panorama Dad said: ‘I’m gutted by this. You think you know someone and that they can be trusted… then they go and do something like this. Sickening! It’s impossible to convict Rev Green now, as we only have Mum’s word for it that the incriminating evidence was actually even in the envelope at that time.’
Nevertheless, Mum was putting on a brave face. They can go ahead and broadcast whatever they have but I’m not worried. I can’t imagine either Police or the CPS being remotely interested in what is clearly nothing more than just a silly trivial pursuit.
First published 6 Nov 2021
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A British version of the popular word game Connections is baffling Americans.
'It sure is tough, heavy, onerous, hard,' complained Jake Pegg, a puzzle addict from Landfill View, Illinois. 'To find the connections you need an extensive knowledge of UK soccer teams, cockney rhyming slang, British snack foods, and early sixties sitcoms. And there's a lot of stuff about beer, class, the Empire, WW2 and the royals. On a bad day I can't get any of the connections at all.
'I can always do the American version in one or two minutes, but the UK version is a doozy, astonishing, incredible, awesome.'
British puzzle compiler Colin Corbyn says he invented the game because he found the American version annoying, pesky, trying, vexing. 'You need to know about weird American sports, bizarre US TV shows, strange Yankee politics and odd Stateside customs.
'I invented the UK version to let the Yanks know that they aren't the boss, chief, head, master of everything.
'I'm reclaiming English for the English, and I'm doing it with proper spellings.'
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