Stella Firotto's Open Salon Blog

Tattoo is the only clue to Brighton beach body

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:11:53 -0500

This tattoo is the clue which Sussex Police hope will lead to the identification of a body that was washed up on Brighton beach last week.

Officers were called to the seafront at Hove last Monday, November 16, after a member of the public saw the body in the sea.

After a weekend of storms, the waves were still too strong for coastguards to retrieve the corpse but they tracked it for about 90 minutes before managing to pull it ashore further along the beach in Brighton.

The body was that of a man aged between 25 and 35, 5ft 11in (180cm) tall and weighing around 12 stone (76kg). He was wearing a short wetsuit, a black T-shirt and blue DIY trousers with padded knees and a label in French from a French mail order supplier, Outiror.

Cocaine-snorting rabbi Baruch Chalomish cleared of drug deal

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:11:44 -0500

A multi-millionaire rabbi who enjoyed cocaine-fuelled parties with prostitutes wept today as he was cleared of dealing drugs.

Rabbi Baruch Chalomish, 54, held his head in his hands, head bowed, muttering to himself as he wiped tears from his eyes before leaving the dock on bail at Manchester Crown Court.

The father-of-three spent £1,000 a week on “the best cocaine in town” to go to parties with GPs and surgeons while paying prostitutes for sex, the court heard.

Chalomish, worth £7 million through his property dealings, had been accused of financing a drug-dealing business with his friend and co-accused Nasir Abbas, the jury was told.