And you thought you went to dodgy clubs

[Blink]

John Hooper

> Thursday November 14 2002

> The Guardian

>

>

> The prosecutor called it "a picture of cruelty and

> depravity such as I have never, ever seen". He was

> describing the scene left behind when Daniel and

> Manuela Ruda fled from their home in the west German

> town of Witten in July last year after murdering

> their friend, Frank Hackert. When police broke in

> three days later, on July 9, they found a poster of

> hanged women in the bathroom and a collection of

> human skulls in the living room. There was a coffin

> in which 23-year-old Manuela sometimes slept.

> Blood-stained scalpels were scattered around the

> house. And then there was Hackert's corpse. He had

> been stabbed 66 times. A scalpel was lodged in his

> stomach and a pentagram cut into his skin. Nearby

> was a list of names. Police believe that they were

> those of the people the couple intended to kill

> next.

>

> The Rudas' trial in January provided a stream of

> outlandish and gruesome details. Much of the focus

> was on Manuela, who shrank from sunlight and had had

> two of her teeth replaced with animal fangs to look

> more like a vampire. She said her initiation into

> the world of Satanism had taken place at a Gothic

> club in Islington, London, where she claimed to have

> met real vampires. "We drank the blood of living

> people," she told police. On January 31, she was

> sentenced to 13 years in a secure mental facility,

> while Daniel was sentenced to 15 years.

 

 

The only Goth club I know in Islington is Slimelight, and that is my regular haunt in London. Disturbing. Have never been invited to a vampire initiation tho

[Mr_Happy]

Slimelights too common 4 vampires

[Wub Wub]

Now that's the way to have a house warming party!