Meanwhile...
In Hertfordshire:
A thirty-five year old plasterer is gazing into flames during a group meditation session at the Spiritualist Church in St. Albans.
He has a vision of a faceless man wearing gloves and a hooded top grabbing a young woman from behind.
He then sees a handbag with some writing on the side and, presumably with the aid of some kind of hoodooistic split-screen effect, some of its contents: a phone and keys.
At this stage other members of the group start speaking in tongues. Mention is made of lipstick or lip balm.
It becomes clear that someone from the “other side” is online; female, the envisioned accessories would indicate.
The medium declares her to be Sally Anne Bowman.
He later tells police:
“From the bedroom she showed me a park. In the park she showed me a small hill where there was a tree and a man kneeling down at the tree.”
The contents of her handbag, it transpires, are buried here; the man returns regularly, digs them up and looks at them.
“I was also given the name Justin, while in meditation,” he adds.
“She gave me the actual experience of being covered in blood. I was lying at an angle as if my back was in an arched position and the blood running up my face and into my hair. She also showed me a shoe print which had been left in blood.”
The spiritualist, Ben Murphy, from Watford, who claims to have had psychic episodes since 2001, says the dead teenager has given him vital clues as to the identity of her killer, and he is "frustrated" that the police have not taken him seriously.
Under Sally Anne's "influence" he has drawn a picture of the murderer, which, unsurprisingly, bears little resemblance to the police e-fit.
A Met spokesperson said: “We get a lot of calls from spiritualists, but we deal in fact.”
On April 2, commenting on the Sally Anne Bowman case in The Guardian, Jay Rayner wrote:
“Each day, as you go about your life, it's likely you'll make a guest appearance on at least 300 different CCTV screens. Britain now has more security cameras than any other country, yet their impact on crime rates is negligible, while our fear of crime is still rising. So have these screen saviours been a flop?”
Mr Murphy, it seems, would answer in the affirmative. He would have us lay the facts aside, abandon the technology, concentrate on flame-gazing.
Personally, I don't believe in magic and I'm sick to my stomach of phoney psychics and their impressionable disciples.
The dead are simply that: the dead.
They have ceased to exist; they will not return.
And the tragic victims of psychopathic killers do not use charlatans and superstitious idiots as conduits to their former loved ones.
Mr Murphy is a sociopath, and his fellow "spiritualists" are simple minded fools.
My deep and sincere sympathy to the family and friends of Sally Anne Bowman. May her killer soon be brought to justice, without the assistance of supernatural agencies.
www.thisislocallondon.co.uk
A thirty-five year old plasterer is gazing into flames during a group meditation session at the Spiritualist Church in St. Albans.
He has a vision of a faceless man wearing gloves and a hooded top grabbing a young woman from behind.
He then sees a handbag with some writing on the side and, presumably with the aid of some kind of hoodooistic split-screen effect, some of its contents: a phone and keys.
At this stage other members of the group start speaking in tongues. Mention is made of lipstick or lip balm.
It becomes clear that someone from the “other side” is online; female, the envisioned accessories would indicate.
The medium declares her to be Sally Anne Bowman.
He later tells police:
“From the bedroom she showed me a park. In the park she showed me a small hill where there was a tree and a man kneeling down at the tree.”
The contents of her handbag, it transpires, are buried here; the man returns regularly, digs them up and looks at them.
“I was also given the name Justin, while in meditation,” he adds.
“She gave me the actual experience of being covered in blood. I was lying at an angle as if my back was in an arched position and the blood running up my face and into my hair. She also showed me a shoe print which had been left in blood.”
The spiritualist, Ben Murphy, from Watford, who claims to have had psychic episodes since 2001, says the dead teenager has given him vital clues as to the identity of her killer, and he is "frustrated" that the police have not taken him seriously.
Under Sally Anne's "influence" he has drawn a picture of the murderer, which, unsurprisingly, bears little resemblance to the police e-fit.
A Met spokesperson said: “We get a lot of calls from spiritualists, but we deal in fact.”
On April 2, commenting on the Sally Anne Bowman case in The Guardian, Jay Rayner wrote:
“Each day, as you go about your life, it's likely you'll make a guest appearance on at least 300 different CCTV screens. Britain now has more security cameras than any other country, yet their impact on crime rates is negligible, while our fear of crime is still rising. So have these screen saviours been a flop?”
Mr Murphy, it seems, would answer in the affirmative. He would have us lay the facts aside, abandon the technology, concentrate on flame-gazing.
Personally, I don't believe in magic and I'm sick to my stomach of phoney psychics and their impressionable disciples.
The dead are simply that: the dead.
They have ceased to exist; they will not return.
And the tragic victims of psychopathic killers do not use charlatans and superstitious idiots as conduits to their former loved ones.
Mr Murphy is a sociopath, and his fellow "spiritualists" are simple minded fools.
My deep and sincere sympathy to the family and friends of Sally Anne Bowman. May her killer soon be brought to justice, without the assistance of supernatural agencies.
www.thisislocallondon.co.uk
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