Saturday, June 29, 2013

DOG BREEDER IN CAGE FOR DISTRIBUTING UNILAG GIRL"S NUDE PHOTOS ON NET

The Lagos State Police command have arrested a young man who kidnapped a female undergraduate of the University of Lagos State, Akoka, stripped her naked and beat her black blue for refusing to date him.
The suspect, identified as Babajide Bashorun, 22, a dog breeder, did not only stripped and beat the 22-year-old girl, but also raped and took snaps shot of her nudity.
Few days later, the pictures were all over the internet. The picture had the name and surname of the girl, her university, age, department and course of study.
Before the girl knew what was happening, people were stopping her in the campus to tell her they had seen her nude pictures on the internet.
The tensed situation finally came to a head after her relations in overseas saw the pictures and called her parents. It was gathered that the parents broke down and wept.
Bashorun had since been arrested by detectives at t
he Adeniji Adele Police Station.
The detectives are however hunting for two undergraduates of the University of Lagos, Akoka, identified as Aje Mayowa, 400level, studying Architecture and his partner, one Babajide Ademuyiwa, also 400level, Architecture student, for their complicity in the crime.
According to Bashorun, after he took the snap shots of the girl, he sent them to Mayowa, who sent it to Ademuyiwa. Ademuyiwa made sure the pictures were distributed on the internet.
Detectives from Adeniji Adele Police Station are working on the theory that Bashorun told the duo of Mayowa and Ademuyiwa to distribute the nude pictures on net, but the suspect insisted that he only sent the pictures to Mayowa, but did not tell anyone to distribute the pictures on the internet.
Asked why he sent the pictures to Mayowa, he kept mute.
The drama started in April 2013, but was blown open June, when a family member called the girl’s parents from USA.
The girl who had kept her kidnap, beating and rape subsequently  finally opened up to her parents about what happened in April. The parents had immediately rushed down to Adeniji Adele Police Station, to report the crime.
Narrating the incident of how she was kidnapped, the girl said:
“Jide (suspect) came to our house to treat our dog. He asked for my BB number and phone number. I gave him because he was friendly and I saw him as a friend. We became friends. Then he suddenly started calling me. He said he wanted to date me, but I told him that I already had somebody I was dating. I love this guy that I’m dating. But Jide kept calling me, saying he wanted to marry me. But he’s not even my type. He kept monitoring my moment. Even the guy I’m dating does not monitor my movement that much.
“I deleted him from my BB and phone. I was returning home for the weekend one day, when a car drove and blocked me at Idumota bus stop. Jide was in the car. Someone else was driving. When I saw it was Jide, I hissed and made to walk away. But he held my hand, dragged me closer and showed me a gun under the waist band of his trouser.
“He dragged me into the car and took me to his house. He started beating me and tore my clothes. He and his friend raped me. As he was beating me, he kept asking me what was it I wanted that he couldn’t  give me.
“He said I should unlock my phone. My password is my boy friend’s name. He started beating me again because I used my boy friend’s name as my password. He gave me his phone to speak to friends. They threatened me. They told me that they were cultists. They said they would kill me for treating their friend badly. I was afraid.
“He used bottle to hit me on my head and forehead. He hit me repeatedly on my back.  When he wanted to take my picture, I tried to cover my face but he started beating me. He took different snap shots of me.
“When he saw that I was bleeding, he stopped beating me. He started begging me. He said he was sorry, he didn’t know what came over him. He said he didn’t mean to take things that far. The second friend, who raped me with him, had since left.
“I laid down crying. He asked me what I would eat, I said nothing. I told him I was not hungry. I begged him to allow me call my mother. I wanted my mother badly. I used to be close to my father, but he was not around. And since he married another wife, we’ve drifted apart.
“Jide wouldn’t allow me to call my mother. I begged him to delete my nude pictures from his phone, but I guessed he didn’t. He used one of his shirts to cover my body. In the morning, he said he was going to buy some drugs for me.
“After he left, I tried the door and was surprised to discover it was unlocked. I was going home for the weekend when he kidnapped me. I had some of my dirty clothes in my bag. I quickly changed into one of those clothes and ran out of the apartment.
“The first person I saw when I got home was my elder brother. When he saw the blood on me, he shouted and asked what happened to me, I told him that I had an accident. When my mother saw me, I told her I fought with a fellow female student, who used to smoke Indian hemp. She wanted to go to school with me but I asked her how many people had she seen who used to follow their undergraduate children to school.
“When Jide discovered I had escaped, he called and threatened me. He said that if I tell anybody what he had done  to me, that he would kill me. He was a cult member. I didn’t want anything to happen to any member of my family, thus I didn’t tell my family. As Jide was calling and threatening me, his friends were also doing the same.”
Bashorun and his friends would have gotten away with the crime, but for the discovery of the nude pictures on the internet by family members in USA.
The girl’s mother said: “When Jide discovered that we now knew of the crime, he called a family friend, threatening that he and his cult members would come down to our house and burn it down. It was a terrible that day! We couldn’t sleep. We embarked on a night vigil.”
Bashorun also have his defence. According to him, he and the girl had been dating for long and he had spent a lot of money on her.
He  denied beating her in April, insisting that they only fought, but “I didn’t beat her.”
Explaining that he was shocked by his arrest and the girl’s claims, he said: “She is my girl friend. We fought in April and had since settled. I have begged her and she has forgiven me. What happened in April was that she asked me for money, that she wanted to buy I Pad. Its cost is about a hundred thousand. She’s always asking for money. And I always try my best to satisfy her.
“I ran around to raise the money to buy the I Pad for her. I was able to raise about N70, 000. She came to my house to collect the money. I started talking to her, telling her to change her ways. I didn’t like the fact that she was always going to club, prostituting. We now fought. I used floor mop to hit her on her back. I now took her pictures. I sent the pictures to my friend, but I didn’t tell him to distribute the pictures on internet.”
On June 24, 2013, Jide was charged to Tinubu Court 5, Lagos lsland. He was charged on six counts: kidnapping, rape, conspiracy, and attempt to commit murder, indecent assault, and assault occasioning harm.
Jide pleaded not guilty to the charge. He was granted bail with three Sureties, the sum of N250,000.00 each, with three years tax clearance.
The case was adjoined to July 10, 2013.

SSS arrests army officer

There were strong indications yesterday that operatives of the State Security Service (SSS) may have arrested an army officer for his alleged association with the murderous Boko Haram Islamic sect.
The arrest, which was said to have taken place on Thursday, was the outcome of the raid on a residential duplex in Jikwoyi area of Abuja.  Although the identity of the officer could not be established last night, he was however said to have been arrested in a posh home in Jikwoyi, a suburb of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). Military authorities declined yesterday to discuss the reported arrest.
Instructively, troops of the Nigerian army are currently conducting operations in the north eastern states of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe, to  flush out the Boko Haram insurgents whose blood-thirsty members have killed and maimed hundreds of innocent citizens.
At a press briefing yesterday in Abuja, which was addressed by the Chief of Civil/Military Affairs, Major General Mobolaji Koleosho on behalf of the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Azubuike Ihejirika, to mark  the commencement of the ‘2013 Army Week’, inquiries about the reported arrest were not attended to by the military authorities. Reporters were requested to restrict their questions to the ‘Army Week’ alone. Even a few that defied the directive and sought clarifications on the alleged arrest of the army officer over terrorism, the latest operations in the troubled northern states and in Mali, were politely turned down.
Major General Kolosho instructed specifically that any matter outside the ‘Army Week’ should be reserved for the monthly briefing of the Director of Army Public Relations, Brigadier Attahiru Ibrahim, who was also present at the briefing but equally refused to answer questions outside the forthcoming event. It was, however, gathered that operatives of the State Security Service (SSS) in two unmarked vehicles, zoomed into a residential duplex believed to be owned by a soldier at Jikwoyi Phase Four and whisked away the officer. A senior officer at the SSS head office behind the Millennium Park on Aso Drive confirmed yesterday to Saturday Newswatch that the service had been talking to a soldier, but failed to say precisely what allegations the army officer is facing.
The Director of Media and Publicity for the SSS, Mrs. Marilyn Ogar, could not be reached for her comments. Her regular mobile phone number was switched off for a better part of the period Saturday Newswatch reporter tried to contact her.  But when our reporter eventually got her at about 2:40pm yesterday, Ogar said she had not been briefed on the operation. “I do not know anything about that operation,” she said, and switched off her mobile phone again in a manner that suggested that she was avoiding being ‘disturbed’ by newshounds over the matter.  Meanwhile, the identity of the arrested officer, the brief of the security operatives and the crime the officer is suspected to have committed were still unclear as at press time last night.  Also, inquires made at the office of the FCT Director of the State Security Services (SSS), Mr. LittleJohn Okojie, did not yield results.
mydailynewswatch

Why we executed 4 convicts on death row – Edo Govt

Edo State government has explained why it recently executed four convicts who were on death row.  The state’s Attorney General and Commissioner of Justice, Mr. Henry Idahagbon, threw more light on why the ordered the execution of the convicts, an action that has drawn the ire of the human rights community in the country and internationally. Idahagbon made this clarification when civil society organizations and student leaders led by the Executive Director of Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice, Reverend David Ugolor protested to the State Ministry of Justice. They presented two communiqués on extra judicial killings and the killing of criminals on death row issued at the end of two separate meetings held by civil society organizations and student leaders from various higher institutions in Edo State.  According to Idahagbon, any state governor is under a legal duty to sign execution warrants, saying failure which the governor can be sued in accordance with the provisions of the law. He said the advocacy of the Amnesty International and the civil societies in Edo State should therefore be directed towards amending the country’s criminal code so that death sentences can be commuted to life imprisonment, and expunged from the law.
“The advocacy of the Amnesty International; the advocacy of the civil societies here should be directed towards amending our laws. As we speak today; in Edo State, there are three offences that carry death penalty. The first is murder under section 319, the second is armed robbery, the third is treasonable felony. And when a person is charged with armed robbery or any of these three offences, the judge has no discretion. He must impose the sentence of death, because that is the law. “And let me say finally, every governor of a state is under a legal duty, a constitutional responsibility to sign execution warrant,” Idahagbon  emphasised. He said the execution warrant was signed on the four convicts after they had exhausted all their rights known to law in the country, right from the High Court to Appeal Court and finally at the Supreme Court where death sentences were imposed on them all through. Idahagbon said they were sentenced to death due to the level of crime they committed. “The four convicts are persons who have exhausted all their rights known to law in this country. Their sentences had been confirmed since 1993, 1994 and only one of them was 2000.
“Daniel Nsofor entered a vehicle from Ekpan to Ehor and with two others and a lady called Maria Imariagbe. At about 07:15, they disembarked from the vehicle at Ehor and then they got Maria Imariagbe; they strangulated her, killed her and collected her money. “Chima Ejiofor was an auto spare parts dealer in Benin here. He had a relationship with a woman that led to the birth of a baby. The baby was two-and half-months old. He came to visit the baby and the mother at their house; he gave money to the mother to go and buy Coca Cola, and before she came back, he poured acid into the mouth of the baby and the baby died. What was his excuse, that as a first child, from his state of origin, he is not expected to have a child out of wedlock.
“Osarenmwinda Aigbokhian went into the bush and he claimed he saw a big deer, so he shot at the deer and the deer died. He went there and he started butchering the deer. While butchering the deer, the deer turned to a human being. He didn’t stop to say let me run to the village; come and see the wonder of the world, the deer has turned to a human being, but he kept on butchering his victim. He cut the human being into small parts and buried it; (in) several parts of the bush. And when autopsy was done, there was no mark of any bullet, so there was no shooting. The person was killed with a very sharp object. “The one remaining (Richard Igagu) was not executed because the sentence of the court is that he should die by firing squad. He went with his gang to a house to rob. After robbing the man of his possession, they raped the wife. And after raping the woman, they took a bottle and inserted into her private part until she bled to death.” Earlier, leader of the advocacy group, the Executive Director of Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice, Reverend David Ugolor said their concern is to put an end to the incidence of extra-judicial killings and killing of convicts on death row as there are other stiffer punishments that could be meted out to offenders instead of death sentence.
mydailynewswatch

Hemp photos: Tonto Dikeh risks 15-year jail term


Tonto Dikeh


The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency on Friday said controversial Nigerian actress, Tonto Dikeh, risks a minimum of 15 years in jail for encouraging the consumption of hemp.
Dikeh had on Friday posted photographs of a wrap of hemp and grains of the weed formed into the letters, ‘Happy birthday POKO.’
She also posted a photograph of herself and added the inscription, ‘Mi smoke ganja mi smoke weed while my hatez smoke ma gossip.’
Her picture is a close-up of her face that seemed to depict her in a high state.
When Saturday PUNCH contacted NDLEA for comments, its spokesman, Mr. Mitchell Ofoyeju, said the matter would be investigated.
He said the matter had been referred to the appropriate department of the agency.
Ofoyeju said, “Our attention has been drawn to the post quite frankly and I can tell you that action will be taken on it. The law is clear and NDLEA has been very clear on the issue. No one is permitted to sell, use, cultivate or encourage the use of Indian hemp in Nigeria. The weed is one of the banned narcotics in the country.
“NDLEA Act Section 14 (b) states that any person who conspires with, aids, abets, counsels, attempts to commit or is an accessory to any act or offence referred to in this act shall be guilty of an offence under this act and liable on conviction to be sentenced to imprisonment for a term not less than 15 years and not exceeding 25 years.
“Investigation has not started as of now but definitely, a step has to be taken on the matter. Ignorance of the law is not an excuse; so, it is obvious that the actress stands the risk of 15 years jail term. The appropriate department is meeting on the issue for necessary action.”
The NDLEA spokesman, however, declined to give any hint on particular steps the agency would take in its investigation, citing reasons bearing on ethics.
Dikeh’s post has expectedly drawn mixed reactions from readers, with many of them voicing concern for the way she is living her life.
PUNCH

200 SUVs, others seized from Boko Haram •JTF nabs 4 sect leaders •Detention camps overflowing



OVER 200 vehicles, consisting mainly of Sports Utility Vehicles (SUVs), have so far been recovered from the camps of the Boko Haram Islamic sect since the beginning of the onslaught against the insurgents.
The vehicles are believed to have been stolen from their owners in various parts of the country.
The insurgents are said to have demonstrated a preference for SUVs or 4-wheel drive vehicles as these facilitate their quick escape in the desert area.
On Friday, four members of the sect, including one believed to be very close to the Boko Haram leader, Sheikh Abubakar Shekau, were arrested by the ‘civilian joint task force’ in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital.
Saturday Tribune gathered on Friday that  three of the sect members were arrested at Galtimari Ward, close to Giwa Barracks, and handed over to the unit along Barracks Road, while the remaining one was arrested at Kawar-Maila, in Shehuri Ward of the state.
One of the task force officials who arrested the fourth sect member on Friday told Saturday Tribune that the suspect would be taken to one of the car wash centres near the Maiduguri zoo so as to make him indentify some other members of his group and also show (the task force) where they keep their guns.
A military source who spoke to Saturday Tribune on Thursday had foreclosed an early restoration of communication facilities in parts of the North currently under state of emergency, saying there were security reports that the terrorists were making efforts to contact one another so that they could regroup.
Also, those hoping that the state of emergency currently in place in the three northern states of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe will soon be lifted may also have to wait a little longer, as military authorities have declared that they are determined to see the current anti-terrorists clampdown to its logical conclusion.
Saturday Tribune gathered from informed security sources that the detention camps are already overflowing with terrorists captured during the various raids, while the Chief of Defence Staff, Admiral Ola Ibrahim, has set up an assessment team on the development.
The defence headquarters is bothered that the facilities in the detention camps have been overstretched, and has mandated the assessment team to ascertain the level of involvement of the terrorists so that those not deeply involved can be recommended to the Federal Government for amnesty.
Also, it was gathered that the military task force has been given a marching order to either capture or eliminate Shekau, as it is believed that this is the only way to end insurgency in the country.
He recounted how a member of the sect riding a motorcycle in Borno tried to beat a checkpoint but was pursued by troops who shot at him. When the bag he was carrying was searched, a recent recording of Shekau was found in it. When the tape was played, it had the voice of Shekau, the Boko Haram leader, warning the people not to cooperate with the troops, as those who do so would be risking their lives.
The recording was to be posted on Youtube.
The troops also recovered various hand bills that would have been distributed to cause disaffection between the people and the troops.
According to the source, military authorities believe that this particular terrorist is very close to Shekau and would provide useful information about his whereabouts.
Saturday Tribune gathered that various types of activities go on inside the sect’s camps in Sambisa forest, which stretches over 16 kilometres on the outskirts of Borno and lies between Bama and Maiduguri.
According to the source, locally fabricated rocket stands and other equipment were being manufactured in the forest.
One of the bullion vans taken away by the terrorists when Bama prison was attacked was seen in the forest, which the terrorists set ablaze while they were fleeing.
Also, the troops discovered a tailoring factory where the terrorists were sewing fake army uniforms and camouflage and other materials.
Defence spokesman, Brigadier-General Chris Olukolade, said that it was not easy for the insurgents to regroup and that this was why communication in those areas cannot be restored now.
On the involvement of youths in hunting for the sect members, Olukolade said the youth were being watched and controlled, since (their involvement) is a voluntary effort, having experienced the ferocity of the terrorists.
TRIBUNE

Friday, June 28, 2013

Sri Lankan man claims to have lived without eating food for FIVE YEARS

A Sri Lankan man claims he has survived without food for the last five years.Although experts believe humans can only live for two months without a meal, Kirby de Lanerolle insists he has only needed fresh air as nourishment.
The breatharian also claims his lifestyle - which he says harnesses light, wind and the 'vibrations of God' - can reverse the ageing process and make him immortal.
'In a new state of consciousness': Sri Lankan Kirby de Lanerolle claims he has survived without eating food for the last five years
'In a new state of consciousness': Sri Lankan Kirby de Lanerolle claims he has survived without eating food for the last five years
'Calories comes from photons': De Lanerolle claims his breatharian lifestyle - which he says harnesses light, wind and the 'vibrations of God' - can reverse the ageing process and make him immortal
'Calories comes from photons': De Lanerolle claims his breatharian lifestyle - which he says harnesses light, wind and the 'vibrations of God' - can reverse the ageing process and make him immortal
In an interview on TV show Taboo USA cited by The Sun, de Lanerolle said: 'There are energy sources out there that are greater than the food calories you are putting in your body.
'Calories come from photons and light and vibrations and wind. Anything can feed you if your energy centres are open.'
He admits to having eaten seven 500-calorie meals over the last ten months, but claims they made him feel ill.
He said: 'In this consciousness, when I do eat food, it makes me feel very tired. And my alertness goes away when I eat now.'
No need to feed: He admits to having eaten seven 500-calorie meals over the last ten months, but claims they made him feel ill
No need to feed: He admits to having eaten seven 500-calorie meals over the last ten months, but claims they made him feel ill
Controversial: Experts are worried about his claims because some people have died trying adopt the lifestyle
Controversial: Experts are worried about his claims because some people have died trying adopt the lifestyle

VITAL LIFE FORCE OR DANGEROUS PSEUDOSCIENCE?

Breatharians believe food and possibly water are not needed to sustain life.
Instead, all that's required is prana, a vital life force in Hinduism also known as 'living off light'.
Jasmuheen, formerly Ellen Greve, is credited with starting the Breatharian movement. 
She advises followers to convert gradually, first becoming a vegetarian, a vegan, moving to raw foods, fruits, then liquids and finally prana. 
However, many in the scientific community believe it is a dangerous pseudoscience that has caused many people to starve to death.
According to odditycentral.com, de Lanerolle was a drug addict at the age of 16.
But he has gone on to become a Gold medalist at the Junior National Level Championship for Rifle Shooting in 1995, winner of several boxing medals, Executive Advisor to the Ministry of Social Services in Sri Lanka and a successful entrepreneur.
He is also believed to be the only person known to have completed a marathon having only consumed water for three months.
He claims he owes his dramatic turnaround in fortunes to the breatharian lifestyle.
Around five years ago, he read about people who didn't eat for up to six years and didn't drink water for 40 days and 40 nights.
He was also convinced by the writings of a guru who said that cancer, diabetes and heart disease are caused by food.
He now wants to teach others to be breatharians, but experts are worried about his claims because some people have died trying adopt the lifestyle. 
dailymail.co.uk

Couple discover 7,500 machine gun, shotgun and pistol bullets in their back garden while weeding their pond

A couple who recently moved into a rented home discovered a cache of 7,500 bullets in a pond in their back garden.
Neil Tipping, 33, who lives with his girlfriend Eleanor Mercer, 32, made the shocking discovery while he was clearing weeds from the water feature.
He said he saw a flash of metal and thought it was a piece of gold, but upon closer inspection he found that it was actually a bullet.
Police officers arrived at the house where they discovered 2.2mm rifle rounds, up to 30 machine gun rounds, shotgun cartridges, and a cache of 9mm and 8mm rounds.
Hands-on: A police officer wearing purple gloves lines up bullets found in pond
Hands-on: A police officer wearing purple gloves lines up a number of the bullets found in the pond at Mr Tipping and Ms Mercer's home
Safe: Despite the thousands of bullets that were found, the police did not feel the need to evacuate the couple
Safe: Despite the thousands of bullets that were found, the police did not feel the need to evacuate the couple
Now the pair are worried there may be more rounds of undiscovered ammunition in their home. 
Mr Tipping said: 'It’s really unnerved us. I’m terrified that next time I’m mowing the lawn I’ll run over a bullet that hasn’t been found yet. One of us could be seriously hurt.
'We have friends with young children who could have put one of the bullets in their mouth, or one of our cats could have got hold of one - it doesn’t bear thinking about.
Shocked: Eleanor Mercer and Neil Tipping stumbled upon a haul of ammunition in their rented home
Shocked: Eleanor Mercer and Neil Tipping stumbled upon a haul of ammunition in their rented home
'We were planning to be in this house for years - now we want to move out as soon as we can.
The couple, who have been together for 10 years, moved into the rented house last September.

Mr Tipping made the discovery earlier this month while using a rake to pull up long reeds from one of the two ponds.
'Something fell from the pile of weeds I’d pulled out and it hit the paving stones with a clink. I didn’t think much about it until it happened again with the next pile - and I saw a flash of gold.

'My first thought was ‘Oh my God, I’ve found treasure! I was thrilled. 
'But I picked the metal up and realised it was a bullet.'

Mr Tipping called alerted his partner Ms Mercer and  headed to a friend’s house - incredibly, with the bullets in his pocket.
'It seems really stupid now but I didn’t realise they could be dangerous, I just wanted to find out what they were. My friend used to live on a farm and told me they were 2.2mm bullets.
'I came home and looked in the pond for more - then we spotted some really big ones.'

Ms Mercer added: 'I rang my dad because he used to be in the Navy, and he told us not to touch them because they could be dangerous.
Haul: The pond also contained 20 to 30 machine gun rounds, two shotgun cartridges, more than 50 9mm rounds and 30 8mm rounds
Haul: The pond also contained 20 to 30 machine gun rounds, two shotgun cartridges, more than 50 9mm rounds and 30 8mm rounds
Ready to go: A view of police preparing to conduct search for bullets, from inside Mr Tipping and Ms Mercer's home
Ready to go: A view of police preparing to conduct search for bullets, from inside Mr Tipping and Ms Mercer's home
He said they could have eroded over time and we should call the police straight away. It was at that point that we started to panic.'
The couple dialled 101 and two officers arrived, quickly realised the seriousness of the situation, and called in CID officers who alerted the fire brigade to drain the ponds because the underwater search unit was not available.

Search: A picture taken from inside the house shows police officers scouring the pond for hidden ammunition in Mr Tipping and Ms Mercer's garden
Search: A picture taken from inside the house shows police officers scouring the pond for hidden ammunition in Mr Tipping and Ms Mercer's garden
Before the pair knew what was happening, two fire engines pulled up, followed by two police vans - and their garden was taken over as a full-scale assessment took place.
As an examination of the bullets deemed them not to be a risk, the couple were not evacuated, but officers stayed until 1am sifting through the sludge and mud in one of the ponds - where they found around 2,200 bullets - the majority of which were 2.2mm rifle rounds.
But shockingly, the pond also contained 20 to 30 machine gun rounds, two shotgun cartridges, more than 50 9mm rounds and 30 8mm rounds.
Police assured the Mr Tipping and Ms Mercer they would be back the next day to search the second pond.

Ms Mercer said: 'After the second seven-hour day, one of the officers asked me how many I thought they’d found in that pond.
'I thought it would maybe be the same amount as the first pond, and I couldn’t believe it when he said they’d found over 5,600 more.'

The next day police brought metal detectors and did a full search of the house and garden to make sure there was no more hidden ammunition, before giving the couple the all-clear.

'It’s just mind-blowing,' Mr Tipping said. 'The police told me that they found more rounds of ammunition in our back garden than at the local arms store.'
No stone unturned: A police officer in protective gear looks under the floorboards of the living room in the house
No stone unturned: A police officer in protective gear looks under the floorboards of the living room in the house
While West Yorkshire Police have launched an investigation into how the ammunition ended up in the ponds, the couple have contacted their letting agent - who in turn, spoke to the landlord who now lives in Turkey.

'He was astonished, and said he had no idea where it had come from,' Ms Mercer said. 'The house was empty for a year before we took it so we don’t know what has happened.

'It’s sad because we love this house and have spent time and effort making it a home. And somebody somewhere has ruined that. I don’t want to stay in a house where that kind of thing has been found in the garden. I’m gutted.'

Mr Tipping added: 'Of course for our family and friends this is a great story, but for us, it’s ruined our home.'
Concerned: Mr Tipping and Ms Mercer have expressed unease about continuing to live at their home in Leeds after police drained their pond and found thousands of bullets
Concerned: Mr Tipping and Ms Mercer have expressed unease about continuing to live at their home in Leeds after police drained their pond and found thousands of bullets

Probe: Police have launched an investigation while the couple's landlord, who lives in Turkey, is said to be 'astonished' at the find at his property in Leeds
Probe: Police have launched an investigation while the couple's landlord, who lives in Turkey, is said to be 'astonished' at the find at his property in Leeds

dailymail.co.uk