Life is not precious in South Africa.

Antigua Honeymoon Murder Hits Headlines

Published: 28 Jul 2008

LONDON - The murder of a British doctor, Catherine Mary Mullany, 31, while on honeymoon in Antigua makes the headlines, with pictures on nearly all the front pages.

A BRITISH doctor was shot dead and her husband critically injured following a suspected botched robbery in the Caribbean. Benjamin Mullany, 31, of Pontardawe, near Swansea, was shot in the neck and is fighting for his life in hospital. The couple were attacked in their holiday cottage at the Cocos Hotel at around 5am. Paper reports claim that robbers entered the Mullany’s cottage while they were sleeping.

This news four days ago was all over the Mirror and Daily Telegraph and splashed across the front page of all the local papers in the UK (see all links below)

Tragic sight ... Catherine's body is carried away after the killing

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Daily Express
Daily Mail
Daily Mirror
Daily Star
Daily Telegraph
Financial Times
Guardian
Independent
Morning Star
Sun
Times

Below is a news article about a killing that happened in SA yesterday, a similar story to the one above that hit headlines in the UK, both were a failed robbery, in both cases the armed robbers broke-in while their victims were sleeping in the early hours of the morning, both were shot in the head at point blank range... did you read about this shooting in the SA newspapers yesterday? Probably not!

The 2,980th victim murdered in ongoing armed attacks on smallholdings and farms and this story hardly made the news never mind front page...
South Africans are living in what amounts to a state of civil war between criminals and law-abiding residents while this uncaring body of terrorists and murderers that calls itself a "government" whose offocials live with VIP protection and armoured cars, couldn't care less, why should they when they are not affected...

Published 30 July 2008

PRETORIA - A former Griffons rugby player was shot in the head execution-style while trying to defend his parents from a gang of heavily armed robbers during a failed robbery at his parents' home in Pretoria.

Twenty-six-year-old Andre Bam of Doornpoort was shot at point-blank range when he came running from his bedroom during the early hours of Tuesday morning after he was woken up by by gun shots and his parents' hysterical pleas for mercy.

They were attacked at about 02:10 on Tuesday morning, while they were sleeping.

The robbers broke a window at the back of the house and bent open the burglar bars.

The father Chris Bam woke with a fright when the attackers entered the room and punched him while he lay sleeping in bed and then shot him in the left thigh, hip and groin while he was still in bed.

André woke from the shots and ran to help them, they shot him in the head.
André died in the house. Chris was admitted to Acacia Hospital in Pretoria where he underwent surgery on Tuesday.

No arrests had been made and nothing had been taken during the attack.

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News24
Daily News
Die Beeld