Fury at farmer who 'threw worker to lions'

[T_i_B]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;sessionid=1FAXQIMSB4ZDPQFIQMGSM5WAVCBQWJVC?xml=/news/2005/01/25/wlion25.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/01/25/ixportal.html&secureRefresh=true&_requestid=7848

A packed courtroom echoed to the chants of furious South African demonstrators yesterday as a white farmer went on trial, accused of murdering a black worker by feeding him to a pride of lions.

Mark Scott-Crossley, 37, pleaded not guilty to all charges, drawing hostile glares from the public benches on the opening day of the most racially charged court case in South Africa's recent history.

He is accused of assaulting a former worker, Nelson Chisale, 41, before throwing him, bound and bleeding, into an enclosure filled with lions.

All that remained was Mr Chisale's skull, ribs, vertebrae and a single finger. Each had been gnawed and scored with the tooth marks of lions.

[katinmn]

1. I hope he draws much more than "hostile glares"

What a monster.

[T_i_B]

2. Oh he is

The last paragraph of the article

The farmer was beaten senseless in his cell by eight masked men while on remand and was granted bail for his own safety.

[katinmn]

4. I'm not surprised. This guy was over the top and

as much as I despise violence, he deserves everything he gets.
:thumbsup:

[ET Awful]

5. That's got to be a first . . . granted bail for his own safety?

Damn.

[jdj]

6. the only difference between here and there

is that there aren't any wild lions in the U.S to throw people too.

I heard about this around the time it happened. I don't know if the it was the lions that were in the enclosure...I think the farm was fenced because it borders a national park or something.

[GiovanniC]

3. Whoa... I Thought They Meant FIGURATIVELY

n/t