
A Whitechapel woman murdered her boyfriend in cold blood after he switched off the radio at their home before the end of Mr Blue Sky by ELO, a court heard yesterday.
Tracy Dell, 42, attacked her live-in lover, Steven Carter, 47, with a pickaxe handle at their home in Vallance Road on December 23 last year.
“Dell’s barrister, Michael Higgins QC, told the court that Ms Dell lost control after Carter turned off the radio just before the soaring violin crescendo at the end and the subsequent vibrato vocal in which vocalist, Jeff Lynn, sings, ‘Mister Blue Sky’ in a tremulous voice.
“It’s her favourite bit” he explained to the jury. “Is it any wonder that she was filled with murderous rage? ”
Sentencing Dell to life with a 25-year recommendation, Judge William Shay QC, told her: “You are clearly a ruthless and dangerous woman who will resort to any lengths to listen to your favourite bits at the end of records, including cold-blooded murder”
Dell’s crime mirrors that of a 32-year-old woman from neighbouring Cripplegate, who murdered her husband with a hatchet last year after he began talking during the introduction to Wilson Picket’s classic, In The Midnight Hour.
May 3, 2019 at 9:38 am
What an affront to justice!
FREE TRACY DELL NOW!
(the bastard had it coming)
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May 3, 2019 at 2:15 pm
Yes, JUSTICE FOR THE WRONGLY IMPRISONED! But that’s enough about my wife’s gross indecency conviction…
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May 3, 2019 at 11:58 am
My God… this person should have been attacked for turning it on in the first place.
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May 3, 2019 at 2:15 pm
A pre-emptive strike you mean? Good thinking!
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May 3, 2019 at 10:50 pm
Oh aye…. Spare all our lives ‘from this monstrosity….’ x
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May 3, 2019 at 12:39 pm
I would have let her off.
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May 3, 2019 at 2:16 pm
A small gratuity from public funds should have been awarded, in my view
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May 3, 2019 at 2:45 pm
Steven should have known better! 😀
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May 3, 2019 at 3:06 pm
In our neck of the woods, someone shot up the radio station KOWS for snipping off the end of Free Bird for a Pioneer Seed commercial. You just don’t do that shit, especially to Free Bird.
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May 5, 2019 at 5:57 am
Hanging offence in some counties of England.
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