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Murder at Stake by Constance Barker6/25/2023 ![]() Yeah, right." Fashion spreads far beyond the ready-to-wear trade. Struggling past the crowds outside French Connection's Oxford Circus store at the weekend, I noticed the windows' new ironic slogan: "Apparently, there are more important things in life than fashion. Nor, it might be added, do the police themselves have to plunge so recklessly into armed stake-outs in which someone, who may turn out only to be holding a chair leg, gets killed.įashion is all-pervasive, even in modes of carrying out crime. Nor do drug trade rivals have to be mown down in the public street, as if Britain had suddenly become Al Capone's Chicago. There are many ways of robbing a small jeweller's shop - the crime during which 64-year-old Marian Bates was shot dead in Nottingham earlier this month - without firing live bullets. Even so, gun murders have rocketed in recent years and glamour still seems to be part of the equation. It may be true that England and Wales have one of the world's lowest rates of gun murder, and that Britain probably has the world's toughest gun ownership laws. In 1990, the story was filmed, with Kiefer Sutherland and Emily Lloyd, as Chicago Joe and the Showgirl. They were caught: Hulton was hanged Jones was reprieved, and released after 10 years in jail. ![]() ![]() ![]() Orwell doesn't go into the details, but what ended the crime-spree was that Hulton shot dead a taxi driver, and Jones then robbed him (the full proceeds were a cigarette case, a silver pencil and 95p). ![]()
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