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Philosophy student guilty of murder after running over fiancé in car
The Guardian ^ | Jan 2 | Robyn Vinter

Posted on 01/02/2024 10:23:29 AM PST by RandFan

A philosophy student has been found guilty of murdering her boyfriend when she “lost her temper” and drunkenly ran over him with her car, dragging him underneath.

Alice Wood, 23, used her Ford Fiesta as a weapon when she hit partner, Ryan Watson, 24, near the home they shared in Rode Heath, Cheshire, at about 11.30pm on 6 May 2022.

Wood, who had just received a scholarship for a master’s at Cambridge, denied murder and an alternative count of manslaughter as she claimed her boyfriend’s death was a “tragic accident”.

She told her trial at Chester crown court she did not realise he was trapped underneath her car when she drove 158 metres up a road after an argument.

Judge Michael Leeming told her she “may never be released” as he further remanded her in custody. Wood stared downwards as she left the dock.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: cambridge; crime; murder
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To: gundog

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Emmanuel Kant was a real pissant
And very rarely sober
...

Our drink-driving philosophy student seems to have been taking after him.


21 posted on 01/02/2024 10:35:13 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: MNDude

It’s a polite way of saying “leftist freak show”.


22 posted on 01/02/2024 10:35:17 AM PST by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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To: Publius
She was reading too much Sartre and Gide.

To Be is To Do

To Do is To Be....Sartre

Do be do be do...Sinatra

23 posted on 01/02/2024 10:37:06 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: RandFan

Clearly a ten day waiting period on Ford Fiestas is needed.


24 posted on 01/02/2024 10:37:08 AM PST by SpaceBar
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To: FlingWingFlyer

“How’d she get it to go over the body? I saw a guy one time giving his Fiesta hell trying to get it up the upside of a speed bump.”

LOL


25 posted on 01/02/2024 10:37:48 AM PST by MplsSteve
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To: BenLurkin

Someone should have told her she Kant do that.


26 posted on 01/02/2024 10:37:59 AM PST by Fido969
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To: RandFan

philosopher/killer is a nietzsche vocation, even for a nihilist.


27 posted on 01/02/2024 10:39:13 AM PST by golux
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To: Publius
She was reading too much Sartre and Gide.

Usually its Nietzsche's "Thus Spake Zarathustra" that sets the young ones off

28 posted on 01/02/2024 10:39:20 AM PST by PGR88
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To: RandFan

If she was drunk, it’s possible she didn’t realize it. I didn’t even know you could get a Fiesta to that speed!

Mine would begin to vibrate at 120 km per hour (about 75 MPH). 158 is about 97 mph.

Also, I have never seen people get drunk the way Brits get drunk. And I live in the “hold muh beer” South.

This doesn’t mean she shouldn’t be punished, btw, just that she’s probably not “evil.” She’s just a reflection of her culture, and British upper middle class culture has probably sunk even further than ours.


29 posted on 01/02/2024 10:39:46 AM PST by livius
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To: RandFan
Judge Michael Leeming told her she “may never be released” as he further remanded her in custody.

A lifetime gig with no financial worries is a pretty good deal for a philosophy major.

30 posted on 01/02/2024 10:40:51 AM PST by x (Nemo confido.)
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To: BenLurkin

“You need to view it philosophically.”

Was that wrong? Should she not have done that?


31 posted on 01/02/2024 10:41:50 AM PST by Afterguard
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To: RandFan
“may never be released”

Correction...

She should never be released.

32 posted on 01/02/2024 10:42:26 AM PST by lizma2
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To: x

https://youtu.be/sitq-RWJfgo?si=6YnvzQHL20itoHs8

she wept as she was arrested


33 posted on 01/02/2024 10:42:49 AM PST by RandFan
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To: RandFan

“What car? What fiancé? I have none of that in my construct?”


34 posted on 01/02/2024 10:42:51 AM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) My dog Sam eats purple flowers.)
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To: livius

https://youtu.be/sitq-RWJfgo?si=6YnvzQHL20itoHs8

they dont show the whole incident but it gives you an idea


35 posted on 01/02/2024 10:44:23 AM PST by RandFan
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To: Afterguard

A late term abortion, sub-contracted. Move along. Procrastination isn’t a crime. It’s just bad manners.


36 posted on 01/02/2024 10:44:49 AM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) My dog Sam eats purple flowers.)
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To: BenLurkin

“It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.” — Rene Descartes


37 posted on 01/02/2024 10:45:48 AM PST by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: RandFan

She must have been going through her Nietzsche phase.


38 posted on 01/02/2024 10:46:09 AM PST by OKSooner ("You won't like what comes after America." - Leonard Cohen.)
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To: RandFan

“Hell is other people...”


39 posted on 01/02/2024 10:46:38 AM PST by Noumenon (You're not voting your way out of this. KTF)
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To: RandFan
Alice Wood, 23, used her Ford Fiesta .....

What? Was he like 3 feet tall?.......................

40 posted on 01/02/2024 10:47:07 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while l aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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