UK News 15-04-2005 who: 15-year-old Charlotte Polius what: Stabbed to death at birthday party where: ILFORD when: Saturday night snippet: "She was stabbed once in the neck, allegedly when an argument got out of hand," reports The Times. An unnamed 17-year-old girl was arrested near the scene and appeared on Tuesday at Redbridge Youth Court in Barkingside, Essex, accused of murder. Elsewhere, 39 year-old Derek William Patterson was charged with two counts of attempted murder after an eight year-old girl and her mother were injured in a stabbing at their home. The Evening Standard reports on a case at Rhondda Magistrates` Court in South Wales in which a husband assaulted his wife in "a violent rage" because she had bought him a tin of HP beaked beans when he wanted Heinz. And in Germany, an Iranian man - variously reported to be in his 40s or 50s and armed with two knives - held four German schoolgirls hostage in a cellar for several hours on Tuesday after kidnapping them from a school bus in Ennepetal. [... more]

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