{"id":2268,"date":"2004-03-25T14:51:41","date_gmt":"2004-03-25T18:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2004\/03\/25\/bring-me-the-head-of-george-mackenzie\/"},"modified":"2004-03-25T14:51:41","modified_gmt":"2004-03-25T18:51:41","slug":"bring-me-the-head-of-george-mackenzie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/03\/25\/bring-me-the-head-of-george-mackenzie\/","title":{"rendered":"Bring Me the Head of George Mackenzie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a3088'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"537\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/hedd.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"199\" align=\"left\"> LONDON<br \/>\n        &#8211; A teenage boy pretended to perform a sex act on a head which had been<br \/>\n        removed<br \/>\n        from a body in a graveyard tomb, a witness told a court today.<\/p>\n<p>The 15-year-old girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, also told the High<br \/>\nCourt in Edinburgh that Sonny Devlin, 17, was &quot;chucking the head around&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>It is alleged that on June 30, 2003, they forced open the entrance to<br \/>\n        the Mackenzie Mausoleum in the city&#8217;s Greyfriars Cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>The<br \/>\nwitness, who was going out with the younger of the accused at the time and is<br \/>\nstill dating him, told the court that<br \/>\na member of a group<br \/>\n          of &quot;goths&quot; had said to her group, &quot;Do you want to go<br \/>\n      and get the head of George Mackenzie?&quot;\n      <\/p>\n<p>from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisislondon.com\/news\/articles\/9876365?source=PA\">This<br \/>\n          is London<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON &#8211; A teenage boy pretended to perform a sex act on a head which had been removed from a body in a graveyard tomb, a witness told a court today. The 15-year-old girl, who cannot be named for legal &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/03\/25\/bring-me-the-head-of-george-mackenzie\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}