Land disease

idunnoshur

Good evening, read this in the newspaper earlier today and said I'd throw it up to see what people thought. I'm surprised that it hadn't been posted previously.

THE heartbroken wife of a man who shot his brother-in-law dead before he hanged himself will wake the two men's bodies side-by-side.

Grief-stricken Hilda Jordan was making funeral arrangements yesterday for her husband Michael Jordan (51) and her brother, George Rothwell (71).

Both men had been involved in a dramatic exchange of gunfire after a disagreement over farmland before Mr Rothwell was shot in the upper body at his home at Ballycormac near Bagenalstown, Co Carlow.

Deputy State Pathologist Dr Michael Curtis conducted post-mortem examinations on the bodies of the two men yesterday.

The examinations revealed Mr Rothwell had been shot at least four times -- one of the gunshot wounds to his upper body was fatal.

Mr Jordan received no gunshot wounds but died from asphyxiation due to hanging.

It is thought that Mr Rothwell tried to defend himself by firing back at his brother-in-law. Ballistic experts are resuming their investigations at Ballycormac House today.

A firearm was recovered by gardai shortly after they discovered Mr Rothwell's body in the living area of his home early on Wednesday morning.

Emergency services had been alerted to trouble at the large farm belonging to George Rothwell after a neighbour called 999 when he saw plumes of smoke coming from sheds at the side of the property.

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/wife-will-wake-murdersuicide-husband-and-brother-together-3030578.html

It doesn't say it in this article but I read in the newspaper that allegedly Jordan shot Rothwell because he wouldn't let him build a house on his land. It was a despicable act that Jordan carried out and he's now ruined his wifes life over a bit of land.

If Jordan really wanted to build a house there couldn't he have waited for Rothwell to die? There can't have been many more years left in him and it wouldn't have fucked up his wifes life.


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RichieC

A shooting over land... that absolutely never happens... madness.

Jesus Wept

You should get a job writing headlines for the Daily Mail.

TeddyTedson

RichieC wrote: »

A shooting over land... that absolutely never happens... madness.

It would make a good play perhaps. It could even make it on to the Junior Cert syllabus someday.

byhookorbycrook

There is a thread about this on Carlow boards.I don't think it's a subject we can speculate on.

Gee Bag

Go back to America Yank!

My name is URL

Land disputes don't drive people to commit murder and then hang themselves.. madness does.

It's pointless to speculate on what could have tipped the guy over the edge. He obviously wasn't stable to begin with considering how he reacted to whatever it was that drove him to do it.

EGAR

*THE FIELD IS MINE!*

TeddyTedson

Lesson here is don't shoot someone if you're pissed off.

Micky Dolenz

Worst thread title ever.

sgb

Shotguns have been in the headlines this week

idunnoshur

The-Rigger wrote: »

You should get a job writing headlines for the Daily Mail.

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

Worst thread title ever.

What's wrong with the title?

Micky Dolenz

idunnoshur wrote: »

What's wrong with the title?

Land disease could mean anything. It relates in no way to the tragedy that occurred.

idunnoshur

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

Land disease could mean anything. It relates in no way to the tragedy that occurred.

What else could it mean? According to my old man it's an insatiable desire for more land so I think it suits the article perfectly.

bergheim

Hot headed people involved in land disputes can be dangerous. It sounds to me that these people had problems to think clear and rational

Arnold Layne

idunnoshur wrote: »

What else could it mean? According to my old man it's an insatiable desire for more land so I think it suits the article perfectly.

Basically, its GREED

Fizman

If the OP really wanted to be sensationalist, he would have gone with....

'Michael Jordan shoots bother-in-law then hangs himself'!

That would have got a few punters.

Chuck Stone

Dammit! I thought it was the tater blight again. I was making plans to head for Americky to escape the hunger.

Phew.