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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You owe me a new keyboard!
”C’mere!”
Good thing it wasn’t a Ford Pinto; those things are unsafe.
However, she still gets a free prison scholarship. Watch her switch to law.
She was at 100 mph, having started accelerating two miles away.
What I’d like to know is if she shouted OLE’.
Sure, he was the guy who said "When thou goest to women do not forget thy whip", prompting Bertrand Russell to reply "Nine out of ten women would have got the whip away from him and he knew it..." And from Wiki:
Additionally, he [Nietzsche] commanded the German emperor to go to Rome to be shot and summoned the European powers to take military action against Germany, writing also that the pope should be put in jail and that he, Nietzsche, created the world and was in the process of having all anti-Semites shot dead.
That was the year 1900. Seems pretty level-headed to me.
Exactly my thoughts. Journalism at its finest.
As bad as putting desCarte before de horse.
A lifetime gig
Leaving plenty of time to contemplate the universe, and her navel.
Watson: "Heidegger."
Friend: "Just, be careful. They say she turns mean after she's had a few."
Are YOU drunk?
She drove 158 meters according to the story. That is about 500 feet.
Sounds like she flunked philosophy. Couldn’t answer the question is murder morally acceptable? She probably answered, depends.
The philosophy major. Why is there air?
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