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Friday 10th February 2012 Issue No 753 | varsity.co.uk
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News: Interview with Helena Kennedy
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Two more bodies discovered in Cambridge in the past week add to the rising body count by Helen Charman NEWS EDITOR
On Wednesday morning the body of a 40-year-old woman was discovered in the River Cam, marking the third such discovery in Cambridge in eleven days, and drawing attention to the growing number of bodies found in Cambridge in the past year. At 11.15am on Wednesday, Cambridgeshire Police were informed that a body had been spotted near Ditton Meadows; it was later confirmed to be that of a woman from Cambridge, who is yet to be publicly identified. This comes just days after the tragic news of another death in the early hours of Monday morning. The body of a man thought to be in his forties was discovered by passers-by in the doorway of St Luke’s Church on Victoria Road, buried in the snow following the freezing weather over the weekend. The body was found not far from the
Riverside Housing hostel for the homeless. Dario Fisher, the studio manager of Minuteman print company, situated opposite St Luke’s church, told reporters “it is really tragic that he could have found help just up the road”. The man, originally believed to be homeless, was a resident of the Emmaus community, which provides a supportive environment for homeless people, and which the Duchess of Cornwall visited this week. Just eleven days earlier than Wednesday’s discovery, and only nine days prior to the body found outside St Luke’s, the body of 37-year-old Marek Bogdan Zajechowski, a missing man from Newmarket Road, was uncovered by a rower near the Fort St George pub on Midsummer Common. A full investigation has taken place, and the post-mortem results have confirmed that he drowned. The police are not treating any of the deaths as suspicious. In total this is now the fifth body found in Cambridge within a year.
Last November, ARU lecturer, former Fellow and Director of Studies in English at Homerton College, Professor Julia Swindells was discovered in the Cam over a week after her disappearance. Just as with the bodies found more recently, the death of the 60-year -old, who was reported to have suffered from depression and extreme paranoia, was not treated suspiciously. The death of the 52-year-old homeless man, Raymond Boyle, last May Week, however, is being treated as a murder enquiry. Boyle was reportedly stamped upon and then dumped in the water by Jack Robinson, 18, and Daniel Mynott, 17, following an incident on Jesus Green. The coroner’s report stated multiple blunt impacts to the head, face and chest, as well as immersion in water and alcohol intoxication, and the prosecution are claiming that the attack occurred without warning. The trial investigating the two teenagers continues, with Mynott and Robinson denying all charges.
The chemistry of love
MUSIC
Errors, of Montreal
BOOKS
The Art of Fielding, Granta
FILM
Roman Polanski’s Carnage
ART
Shelf Lives, Boooooooooom
THEATRE
Bereavement: The Musical
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