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Camden Revealed

Local News - July 2002 - E: ken@myvillage.co.uk
Local news: Missing rabbi's body discovered - 12/07/02
The body of missing gay rabbi Andy Hinz has been discovered wrapped in a bin bag under a north London railway bridge. Hinz, 37, from Finchley, disappeared last Tuesday after being seen leaving a club in Camden. Three people; two men in their twenties and a woman in her teens, are currently being questioned by detectives in Camden.

Hinz was last seen talking to a white man with a Scottish accent aged between 18 and 23 at the bar of well-known gay haunt The Black Cap in Camden High Street. It is thought that the two left together at 2am in a taxi. A man phoned police on Wednesday to complain of a putrid smell emanating from a bin bag at the front of a block of flats called Caulfield Court next to the railway bridge. The area was closed off and a search by forensic scientists uncovered other body parts in garden bins nearby.

No apparent motive has been identified for this hideous crime and police are appealing for anyone who has information about Andy's last known movements to contact the incident room on 020 7321 7228 or to call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555111.
Local news: Seven years for sexual assault - 05/07/02

The former manager of Rhino Ridge shoe shop on Camden High Street has been jailed for seven years for sexual offences against two teenage tourists. Shail Sakhare, 33, enticed the two girls into his shop on July 13th 2001, gave them alcohol and then forced them to perform sexual acts. The girls, from Lublin in Poland, were in London for a fortnight's holiday.

Snaresbrook Crown Court heard that Sakhare and an accomplice, Rehan whiskey and Red Bull, Snaresbrook Crown Court heard. , who disappeared while on police bail, invited the two girls aged 17 and 18 into the shop, asked other customers to leave and closed the shutters. They then gave the girls whisky and Red Bull and threatened them with rape unless they agreed to give the men oral sex.

During the trial, Sakhare protested his innocence and claimed that Rehan had said one of the girls was his girlfriend and that the two teenagers had left the shop in a good mood. But after considering their verdict for fours the jury of three women and nine men found Sakhare guilty of two counts each of indecent assault and false imprisonment.

 

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