At least he didn't try to claim that the glove didn't fit. But I doubt what's sure to be called the "she choked on my chicken" defense is going to gain a whole lotta traction either. Mama Cass choking to death on a chicken bone is one thing, but this attorney dame choking to death on this man's ham bone would seem to be quite another.48-year-old British machine worker Philip Martins (the guy above who's white) and 45-year-old "high-flying" attorney Linda Bakewell (pictured above and below) reportedly met through mutual friends. Prosecutors in the case describe Martins as a boorish lout who found Linda to be a "nuisance" but who was also "only too happy to take advantage of her affection and her wallet."
Martins would reportedly tend to become more than just a bit nasty and deranged when he was blitzed on booze and blow, which allegedly meant bad news for Linda on the night of her death. After the two went barhopping that night, Martins claims that Linda agreed to drive him to an industrial park in order to blow his horn.Arriving at the isolated location, Martins says the two ripped off each other's clothes and slipped into the backseat of Linda's Nissan Note. There, Martins says that Linda started giving him a Lewinsky but somehow mysteriously choked herself to death during the dirty deed.
(It must have been a scene eerily reminiscent of when Teach gave student Mikey an automobile calf feeding in the '80s AD film World According to Garp, although at least there only serious injuries, including a severed tallywhacker (and no deaths), ultimately resulted).
Martins also apparently claims that he was sitting there oblivious to all of this for awhile until finally "he noticed her head was slumped and after picking up her head he noticed her eyes were open and she was dead." Yep, you can sure see how that might suddenly happen during a Gobble Gobble. Or not.Martins reportedly admits he made no attempt to resuscitate Linda or to call for help. Instead, he claims he panicked and "did not know what to do with her body." And it showed, as he allegedly moved the naked corpse all over the damn place. What else was a guy to do, after all?
First, he allegedly drove the body home, dragged it across his yard, and deposited it on his living room floor before he retired to bed (it had been a long day). Then at some point, Martins allegedly moved it one room over, where he stuffed it (still naked) under a kitchen table. (I don't mean to pass judgment on the guy, but putting a few clothes the gal might have been nice).
Perhaps because he liked to eat on that same table -- though who really knows -- Martins allegedly later moved the body (yet again) from the kitchen table to the trunk of his car. At least, I guess, the corpse never found its way into Martins' shithouse (at least so far as we know). Martins' trunk is where cops found the body five days after the alleged incident.And now the only Oral Roberts in Martins' future may come from the type of knowledge gained down at the local hoosegow, as Martins is currently on trial for Linda's murder. Prosecutors say there's no doubt that she died from being strangled by Martins, and not from her yafflin' the ol' yogurt cannon.
As for Martins' defense on that front, prosecutors intend to introduce medical expert testimony establishing that speaking into the mike cannot, in fact, lead to asphyxiation. And that's a good thing too. Otherwise, the guy might walk -- what, with such a whistle-tight defense like that and all.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2039207/Philip-Martins-charged-sex-murder-solicitor-Linda-Bakewell-Liverpool.html
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