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A highly intelligent British student was jailed for life on Wednesday after he admitted bludgeoning his parents to death, then using their credit cards on a £30,000 ($54,000; €45,000) spending spree.
Brian Blackwell, 19, admitted two counts of manslaughter at Liverpool Crown Court in northwest England. Both had been beaten with a claw hammer and stabbed repeatedly with a kitchen knife. They had been dead for several weeks.
Prosecutors said Blackwell created a fantasy life, claiming he was a professional tennis player and hiring his girlfriend, Amal Saba, as his manager.
After killing his parents, he took Saba on vacation in the United States, running up a bill of around £30,000, including £2,200 on a three-night stay in the Presidential Suite of the Plaza Hotel in New York.
Soon afterwards, he heard that he had passed his final school exams with A grades in all subjects, earning a place to study medicine at Nottingham University.
In a statement read out in court by his lawyer, Stephen Riordan, Blackwell said he wished he could "turn back the hands of time" to when his parents were alive. "I miss them more than anything in the world," he said
Bron: http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/e...s.ap/index.html
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Ik was net halverwege (40km) en ik begon last te krijgen van een flauwte. UIteindelijk ben ik tot de 53km gekomen, waarna ik NOG een flauwte te pakken kreeg. 
