SyCo/Psycho

I noticed in the Metro that Simon Cowell has apparently offered weediest hunk in the world, Robert Pattinson (who plays Edward thingy in The Twiglet Saga), a record deal but he has turned it down since he believes his acting comes first. This is interesting for two reasons, firstly that he considered two hours of bland sleepwalking "acting", and secondly that Simon Cowell can smell a musical gravy train from a mile away. In case you need more evidence of this, a headline elsewhere in the paper reads 'Manslaughter rap for [Michael] Jackson's doc[tor]'.

You may also like the story under the heading 'Lover tried to behead his ex'. Here a man believed his ex-girlfriend was planning to kill him. So, rather unsportingly, he killed her. There is no evidence that she was in fact planning to kill him outside of his own 'psychotic delusions'. He is pleading guilty on the grounds of 'diminished responsibility'. Essentially saying "I couldn't help it, I'm mad". I've never really liked this defence, solely on the basis that there might be a judge somewhere that simply tuts, shakes his head and sends the nutcase on his way chortling at some murderers having no self-control ([sigh] "I don't know, what are you like"). In my mind, this defence means a killer could basically be given the same treatment as a dieter that has succumbed to a donut and held their hands up going "whoops, sorry".

He is definitely mad though, there's no doubt about that. For a start he tried to cut her head off with a pen-knife, and anyone could tell you that would take f***ing ages. Mental.