The Second Reason.

Also with 40% weighting.

On Thursday (23/6/11) a British court convicted Levi Bellfeild of the murder of Amanda (Milly) Dowler, a white, British female aged 13 years old. The short version is that Mr Bellfield is one of Britain's pet killers who has killed and sexually abused an unknown number of women and teenage girls. He was rewared for this with a lucrative career as a night club bouncer (door security). Then in 2002 he killed Ameilie Delagrange - a 22 year old, white, French, female who was in Britain "studying." The French government of the day took offence to this and Mr Bellfield was imprisoned for life for that kidnap & murder and for the kidnap & murder of Marsha McDonnell, a 19 year old white, British female.

By putting Mr Bellfield in prison for life the initial judge made him the happiest he's ever been in his life by giving letting him run his cell block. The current French government clearly didn't see a problem with this so gave permission for Britain to hold a theatrical trial of Mr Bellfield for numerous offences including the kidnapping and murder of Milly Dowler.

While this case has dragged on for over two months and although it made no difference to Mr Bellfield he was convicted of that murder on Thursday afternoon. The important thing though is that in passing the Milly Dowler verdict the Judge - Mr Justice Wilkie - gave the BBC national news team little option other then to turn their headline story on the 22:00 (10 o'clock) bulletin into an incite-full and instructional video in how to break into my grandmother's home. To their credit the news team caught a grenade on that one and instead broadcast a nice, toned down version of the story. Then I made my evening post.

Not one to be put off his stride the Judge responded to my first post of this morning (24/6/11) by dismissing the trial jury due to "adverse media coverage" and in the process dismissed another (largely irrelevant) kidnapping charge involving a woman called Rachel. This prompted a police helicopter to adopt a low hover over the home of the local thieves while I was in the gym (approx 13:15). It also prompted the British news media to nearly collapse into a paranoid mess as the BBC got involved in a nasty argument about funding and we all had to deal with the Dowler family lining up - one by one - to theatrically tell us how they should never have been put through the trial while we wondered what effect the debate over the conduct of Mr Bellfield's QC (barrister) would have on the government's legal reforms that were announced on Tuesday.

Anyway it's now 23:19(BST) on Friday 24th of June 2011 (4/6/11). I left my grandmother just as BBC London were leading on two stories about old women being beaten to death in their own homes including a Stanford Hill case. So while my father and I are on episode two I think I'm in for a long night.