Tuesday, September 08, 2009

Reggie Kray do you know my name?

In today's news, is the case of a millionaire British playboy who murdered a caretaker who got in the way, when he refused to move out of a warehouse Thanos Papalexis, the killer, wanted to sell for £2 million to clear mounting debts accrued as his buisness crumbled. Way back in 2000, Papalexis killed Bambi for this was what Charalambos Christodoulides, the caretaker, was known as. A gentle, solitary man, he was tied to a chair, beaten, tortured and strangled. His body was then dumped down a pit in a disused factory. Papalexis shortly after left for Florida, reinventing himself as one of the 'Palm Beach Elite', alternating between fund-raising parties for the Clintons, orgies with prostitutes (wonder if Bill got a free pass) and buying breast implants for four different girlfriends.
But when he confessed to a prostitute, he was undone (in more ways than one). Jonathan Laidlaw QC, prosecuting, said that despite being born with all the advantages of wealth, Papalexis "led a life based not only on deceit, false promises and failure, but at times on complete fantasy." That last part alluding to telling the prostitute, Rebecca DeFalco, that he had worked for both the British and American secret services.
Now, extradited and convicted, while he waits for sentencing, I wonder if Morrissey comes to mind, singing in that Mancunian drawl "I am the last of the famous international playboys."

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