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U.K. Shocker: Killers Poured Gasoline Down Victim's Throat and Set Him Afire!

By David Lohr

Simon Everitt, 17, an engineering student at Great Yarmouth College, located along the coast northeast of London in Norfolk, was reported missing on June 9, 2008.  A homicide investigation began nearly a week later after police received a telephone call in which the caller provided shocking and appalling details of an attack on the young college student that ended in his gruesome murder.  A Norfolk police detective characterized the murder as one of the most horrific that he had ever investigated. According to details that were revealed during the May 2009 trial of the defendants, young Everitt was taken captive and placed inside the trunk of a car and driven to a wooded area near Great Yarmouth where he was subsequently tied to a tree...continue to full post

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