Human torch bank protest

A MAN turns himself into a human torch yesterday in protest at Greek banks.

The demonstrator doused himself in petrol in Thessaloniki after saying he had been ruined by catastrophic debts.
He was taken to hospital with chest burns.

It is the second time the unnamed 55-year-old has set himself on fire over his failed business.

Extreme measures ... man pours petrol over his chest

Euro bosses yesterday rejected demands for urgent action to tackle the Greek debt crisis.
Eurozone finance ministers postponed a decision over whether to allow Athens the next instalment of bailout cash.
Chancellor George Osborne urged leaders to send "a clear signal they truly recognise the gravity of the situation".

Extinguished ... fire tackled by cop

Gaddafi son binged on drugs and hookers

ONE of Colonel Gaddafi's vile sons went on a sex and drugs binge in London as his dad's regime crumbled.

Saadi Gaddafi, 38, blew thousands on hookers, vodka, cocaine and cannabis while at the family's £11million mansion.
Bodyguard Stefan Bell, paid £300 a day to protect Saadi, said: "He was intimidating and nasty and lived a bizarre life.
"He did like his hookers. He'd spend ages trawling the internet for Chinese escorts, they always had to be Chinese.
"He'd show me or my colleague a picture of the girl and we rang to book a visit. He wanted them to stay all night which was £1,500.
"Drugs were also common. Saadi asked me once if I could get him some cocaine, but I refused.
"A lot of cannabis was smoked by him and his entourage. They were high a lot of the time.
"There was masses of vodka too, bottles and bottles. Sometimes they hired a barman to pour their drinks for them."

Bodyguard ... Stefan Bell

The beautiful mansion in Hampstead that was the base for his five-week binge has now been overrun by squatters.
And Saadi, the third of Gaddafi's seven sons, was yesterday seeking refugee status in Niger after fleeing the Libyan rebels who overthrew his tyrant father.
It is a stark contrast to the arrogant figure he cut when he arrived in Britain in November.
Stefan, who met him at Stansted airport, said Saadi arrived with a couple of aides, his personal doctor, an America woman who was his PA and about eight friends. They went straight to the Hampstead home, which had just had a multi-million pound refurbishment.

Mad dog and his puppy ... Saadi with his tyrant father Colonel Gaddafi

Stefan, 33, said: "The house was amazing inside. But there were one or two teething problems with the stereo system which piped music into each room.
"They could easily have been fixed. But instead Saadi decided he wanted to buy a new house so we drove around looking for one.
"There was one he really liked in Surrey, a huge place for £50million. I'm not sure if he actually put an offer in by the time everything kicked off in Libya but he certainly planned to.
"Spending £50million just because he couldn't get the stereo to work — that's Saadi for you."
Saadi, an ex-footballer who was on the books of three Italian clubs, spent hours hand-picking his hookers. But when they turned up he was not always happy.

House of stoned ... £11million mansion where Saadi took cocaine and bedded hookers

Stefan said: "Sometimes he said he didn't like the look of them and would send them away.
"We gave them a bit of money but they were furious for not earning the full amount. Saadi never booked girls for his friends, just for himself. He'd disappear to his room with them and we wouldn't see him until morning."
Rumours of Saadi's homosexuality have been doing the rounds in Libya for years. When rebels raided his home in Tripoli they found piles of gay DVDs.

And in London he was clearly having a relationship with a man who was known as the Butler. Stefan said: "When the Butler arrived I was expecting an older bloke, but he was about 18.
"Saadi would shout for him in the night. We'd get up thinking he wanted us but he wanted the Butler to go to his room.
"Later on Saadi would come out of the room covered in sweat and wearing just a towel."
Stefan, from Newcastle, said Saadi also blew thousands at a time on shopping trips. He added: "We visited Harrods a lot.
"One time he bought a set of 12 solid silver knives, forks and spoons with his initials on.
"It cost £70,000 and the entire bill for that trip was £120,000.
"Sometimes his card was declined which was quite embarrassing. But all he did was ring the Libyan embassy to put some more money into his account. Towards the end of the trip he sent one of the men out to Soho to buy loads of porn DVDs to take back to Libya. This bloke would come back with bags of DVDs — he got hundreds of them."
Saadi, who reportedly once blew £170million in just 12 months on private jets, jewels, cars, clothes and women, was in his father's inner-circle and commander of Libya's special forces.
But Stefan said he never once mentioned his father. He added: "He never came across as a politician or as a representative of the Libyan government."
Saadi left Britain in late December. He planned to return a week later but never came back.
Stefan said: "We took him to Luton airport and he flew to Tripoli on a private jet. Despite working with him so intimately for five weeks he did not have the courtesy to say goodbye."

Bombs, executions, poverty... welcome to Anzhi FC, Mr Eto’o

THEY have been dubbed the Manchester City of Russia, with a playboy owner whose spending would make even Roman Abramovich wince.

Forget the sheik billionaires who have taken the Premier League by storm, it is little-known Russian club Anzhi Makhachkala which is setting the standard in the lavish spending stakes.
Their shock capture of Inter Milan ace Samuel Eto'o for £22million — pipping City to his signature — made headlines across the world, especially his salary of around £350,000 A WEEK.
That swoop made the African Player Of The Year the world's highest-paid footballer, with a reported wage of £17.9million per season after tax, effectively doubling his wage.
It leaves Cristiano Ronaldo — previously the best paid — trailing behind on his comparatively measly £11.3million per season at Real Madrid.

Mean streets ... destruction wreaked by a suicide bomb that killed 7 policemen in January last year

Wanted ... Fabio Capello

Far from being an unrealistic attempt at a fantasy football-style assembly of a superstar squad, the Russians are chasing the man they consider to be the world's best manager — England coach Fabio Capello.

Already on a £6million-a-year deal with the FA, Fabio could well be licking his lips at an unlikely pay rise after next summer's European Championship, his final tournament in charge of the Three Lions.
Anzhi have sent out a real signal of intent having also signed World Cup-winning Brazilian Roberto Carlos on a free transfer. He is said to be on £65,000 a week.
Other big signings include £15million Chelsea winger Yuri Zhirkov (on an estimated £92,000 a week) and former Blues midfielder Mbark Boussoufa, who is also paid megabucks, at around £10million.
There have also been moves mooted for Manchester United's Serbian captain Nemanja Vidic and Arsenal's Russian forward Andrey Arshavin.

Big-money move ... Yuri Zhirkov

Sandwiched between the killing fields of Chechnya and the Caspian oil basin, bordered by Georgia and Azerbaijan in the deep south of Russia, the city of Makhachkala is hardly a hotbed of glamorous WAG culture.
It is in the Republic of Dagestan, which has an unemployment rate of at least 40 per cent. The impoverished area is so dangerous that the Foreign Office has advised Brits not to visit.
But that looks certain to change as the modest local club becomes a real player in world football.
Set up in just 20 years ago, Anzhi only returned to the top tier of Russian football last summer.
Their highest ever league position was fourth in 2000, which paved the way to Uefa Cup qualification and a tie against Rangers, which they lost 1-0.

Russia's deep south ... Makhachkala is located between dangerous Chechnya and the oil-rich Caspian Sea

Wanted ... Nemanja Vidic

Last season Anzhi finished a far from glitzy 11th. They will harbour loftier ambitions this season after the arrival of super-wealthy businessman Suleyman Kerimov as boss in February this year.
Listed 118th on the Forbes Rich List — a who's who of the world's billionaires — he is worth an estimated £5billion.
Though that is little over half of the fortune amassed by his countryman, Chelsea chief Roman Ambramovich, Kerimov has made it clear that no expense will be spared in his bid to revolutionise football.
He has authorised spending of more than £150million on transfer fees and wages for well-known players from Europe's elite. A member of the Federation Council of Russia, the 45-year-old served in the lower chamber of the Russian parliament.
Married with three kids, Kerimov is every bit the magnate. In 2006 he was injured after crashing a new Ferrari Enzo into a tree in Nice, France.

Small-scale ... Anzhi Makhachkala's 16,000 capacity stadium

Moneybags ... Suleyman Kerimov

Though it was originally suggested that Kerimov had bought out the club's former owners, it later emerged that he was given a 100-per-cent stake in Anzhi by the president of Dagestan in return for financial investment in the area.
The mogul has wasted no time — vowing to plunge £900million into the project. Around £125million of that will go on infrastructure, including a new 50,000-seater stadium to replace the run-down 16,000-seater Dynamo Stadium.
Other facilities likely to be built include a state-of-the-art training base, as well as hotels and luxury living quarters for the squad. All in pursuit of the holy grail — Champions League football.
It is an astonishing outlay, particularly given the club's bleak surroundings.
On Saturday night, ahead of Eto'o's first home appearance for the club where he scored in a 2-1 victory against Volga, four people were gunned down on the streets around the stadium. In separate incidents nine other bodies were discovered, including those of a policeman and two soldiers.

Captain ... Roberto Carlos

Just hours after the execution-style murders, the game kicked off.
It is an area gripped by Islamic terrorism and gun crime on the streets. One of our pictures above shows the devastation caused by a suicide bomb which killed seven policemen and wounded 20 people in the city in January last year.
For security reasons Eto'o and his new team-mates are not based in Makhachkala. Instead, they live and train 1,200 miles away in Moscow.
Indeed, they will only set foot in the area on match day, having been flown in by the club. Even then, the likes of Eto'o and fellow star Roberto Carlos are flanked by security guards.
Carlos, who now captains Anzhi, has had his fair share of problems outside Makhachkala — having endured several instances of racism.

Up and running ... Samuel Eto'o scores on his debut for Anzhi

On one occasion, in a match against Krylya Sovetov, bananas were thrown from the stands.
But despicable though the fans' behaviour was, it is unlikely to slow down the head of steam that Anzhi are building up.
Already this season, the club are fourth in the table — just six points behind leaders Zenit.
It seems that this ambitious club with such humble beginnings may be well on the way to glory.

I shopped my partner to ploce for having sex with his daughter

WELCOMING her partner's long-lost daughter into the family was just a natural reaction from mum Marie Betts.

After 15 years with Andrew Butler, 47, Marie encouraged him to be the doting dad he was to their two children, to the little girl he had left when she was just six years old.

Within a couple of months of being reunited with her dad, Nicola Yates, 26, spent Christmas with the family.

But factory worker Andrew had become secretive and Marie suspected he was having an affair.

However, never in her worst nightmares did she think he was in an incestuous relationship with Nicola.

Here, in an exclusive interview with The Sun, Marie reveals how her discovery led to the conviction of the pair — a story that shocked the nation.

Full-time mum Marie, 36, from Lichfield in Staffordshire, says: "Andrew had started being very possessive about his phone.

"Before he would leave it lying around but suddenly he wouldn't let it out of his sight.

"This odd behaviour made me really suspicious. I was desperate to find out whether he was having an affair.

"He left his coat draped over the chair while he went to the car one evening and I couldn't help myself from sneaking a peek.

"With horror I discovered a stream of dirty texts.

"When I looked at the sender I thought I was going to be sick — they were from his own daughter Nicola.

 

"I read one and it described them spending a night in bed together. I was in complete shock.
"Incest is a crime and I knew I needed to take his phone without him noticing and shop him to the police.
"This act was so vile, I could no longer recognise the man I loved for 15 years. We had two children together and I thought we were soulmates."
Marie slipped the phone back into his coat and waited for two days until their next date together.
They lived separately in Birmingham because, Marie says: "We were very much in love, but never felt the need to live in each other's pockets.
"I put on a brave face when I saw Andrew. He went into the bedroom and left his phone in the living room.
"I grabbed it and told him I was nipping to the local shop.
"I drove round the corner and parked up. I looked at his photos and couldn't believe my eyes.
"There were photos of Nicola in her underwear in her dad's flat and pictures of them having sex. I burst into tears, I was hysterical. There were hundreds of messages.
"How could he do this with his own daughter? He had been sleeping with me too. It was the ultimate betrayal.
"I went back to the flat and Andrew said he was leaving as he needed to find his phone. Then I marched to the police station with the phone and was interviewed for five hours.

Affair ... daughter Nicola

"Two days later he was arrested."
Marie could never have imagined this horror when she met timid Nicola.
Marie says: "Andrew and Nicola had been reunited through the family tracing website Genes Reunited in October 2006, when Andrew got a message from his long-lost daughter.
"I told him he must contact her, she was obviously desperate to be reunited.
"A week later Andrew brought her to my house. I welcomed Nicola into our lives with open arms and tried to make her feel part of the family.
"Within four weeks Nicola had started staying at Andrew's flat."
Three months later, Marie invited Nicola to spend Christmas Day at her home with the family.
Marie says: "As we opened gifts Nicola refused to get involved and would only talk to Andrew.
"She was really quiet and wouldn't leave Andrew's side. She was sitting on his knee like a little child.
"I thought it was a bit weird but didn't question it at the time. I felt sorry for her and thought it must be intimidating to have a new family."
Just two weeks later heartbroken Marie discovered the sickening texts.
In May 2007, at Birmingham Crown Court, Andrew and Nicole both pleaded guilty to having sex with an adult relative.
Andrew was given a four-month jail term while Nicola was sentenced to an 18-month supervision order.

Sentence ... Nicola was given 18-month supervision order

Marie says: "I knew I had done the right thing going to the police. Although we had children together I could no longer bear to be with him. I was disgusted and the thought of being around him made me feel sick."
Marie ended her relationship with Andrew and moved out of the area.
She says: "From the moment I turned him into the police, me and the kids had nothing more to do with him.
I still knew of his whereabouts as my father worked with him, though they never spoke.
"I heard Andrew had a new girlfriend. My dad said he was always on the phone to her at work."
Then Marie discovered the police were investigating Andrew again.

She says: "Deep down I had a feeling it had to do with Nicola. I then found out they had started their relationship again.
"I cried my eyes out. It brought it all back again. Nicola's half-sister had discovered sexual photos of Nicola and Andrew together on her mobile phone.
"She told her mum, who confronted her daughter before reporting the couple to the police."
At Birmingham Crown Court on August 4 this year Butler was jailed for ten months and ordered to sign the sex offenders register for ten years.
Nicola was sentenced to 26 weeks in jail suspended for two years.
For Marie the latest discovery has brought back painful memories.
She says: "I couldn't let a man touch me for three years after what happened. I still feel completely betrayed and find it hard to trust men.
"Even to this day it makes me feel sick to think he was sleeping with me and his daughter at the same time."

 

My 3-in-a - bed secret

SIMON Cowell yesterday sensationally confessed to having a three-in-a-bed session with two mystery beauties.

The X Factor chief, 51, revealed in his raunchiest-ever interview how he found himself alone with the two gorgeous girls.
He said of the encounter, which he confessed happened "years ago": "I was just with these two girls and we ended up in bed. It was cool — I liked it."
Cowell also admitted sharing a blind date with Charlie Sheen's ex Denise Richards, 40, when she was eight months pregnant — and said he romped with other celebs, who he would not name.
And asked whether he is still engaged to make-up artist Mezhgan Hussainy, 37, he replied: "I'm not sure."
Pressed on the remark during a US radio interview, he added: "It's something I would need to say to you off the radio.
"I do get embarrassed talking about these things publicly."
The millionaire telly mogul was quizzed about his sex life on controversial shock jock Howard Stern's breakfast show.

Garli murder!

A YOUNG mum was murdered by her teenage boyfriend in a frenzied knife attack — after an argument over garlic bread.

Violent Jamie Ellis, 18, stabbed Alami Gotip 34 times as her two young children slept upstairs.

When police asked him why he had killed the 22-year-old, callous Ellis claimed she had been "moaning" at him for not making garlic bread for dinner.

He said: "I just snapped. I got sick of it. I stormed through into the kitchen and got a kitchen knife and I just attacked her."

Argument .. row was over garlic bread

Ellis will be caged for life after admitting murdering Alami in Livingston on May 25.

The High Court in Edinburgh heard she had collected daughters Shola, four, and one-year-old Jasmin from nursery that day with her ex Neil Henderson.

The girls' dad left when they were in bed, and Ellis — who'd been smoking cannabis and taking Valium — arrived at 7.30pm.

The teenager, who was jealous of Inland Revenue worker Alami's good relationship with her ex, started to a cook a meal before he "snapped" and turned on her with the knife.

Attack ... Ellis

He said he had feared their relationship was coming to an end, and told cops who quizzed him: "I can't leave her because I love her so much. It totally destroys me, thinking that she is going to be with somebody else."

Police arrived at the house after Ellis contacted his mother to confess to the killing and she raised the alarm. He later told cops: "It's not that I'm a horrible person, but s*** happens."

Advocate depute Susanne Tanner told the court: "Two very young children have been left without their mother and, in the case of the deceased's youngest daughter, Jasmin, without any memory of her."

As he left court with Alami's friends and family yesterday, the murdered woman's cousin Robert McKenna, 31, said: "Hang the little b******. They should bring back the death penalty."

Ellis will be caged for life next month when judge Lord Glennie decides how long he must serve before being eligible for parole.

My lover was a fake fella

A SHATTERED young mum last night admitted she had no idea her "boyfriend" was a woman — despite romping with her lover every time they saw each other.

The shocked woman claims Samantha Brooks fooled her with a string of elaborate excuses as she posed as a man called Lee.
Brooks, 26, refused to strip naked in front of her, claiming that being struck down with cancer had made "him" insecure.
She hid her breasts by binding them up with bandages then told her 24-year-old partner she had suffered horrific burns. And the outraged mum, who does not want to be named, claimed Brooks even used a fake manhood during their passionate six-year relationship.

Living a lie ... Brooks fooled trusting partner with string of excuses about her appearance

Last night the devastated woman, who still refers to Brooks as Lee, said: "We slept together every time we saw each other.
"We could be walking down the street to the pub and we'd pass the park and he'd be like, 'Come on in here for a quickie'.
"Lee told me about loads of previous relationships he'd had. He was supposed to have nine kids with different women.
"He even used to make me take pregnancy tests to see that I wasn't having a baby.
"I've only known him as a man, and that's what he still is to me."
The woman, from Bridge of Earn, Perthshire, first got in touch with Brooks when she was just 14 after a mobile phone mix-up.
And their relationship began two years later when they finally arranged to meet at Perth train station.
The mum-of-two said: "We met by accident — it was a mix-up of phone numbers.
"Lee started phoning, saying he was sorry but it had happened because there was only one number different in our phone numbers.
"After that we just kept in contact. That was from when I was 14.
"We didn't meet until years later. He told me he was staying with someone in Falkirk and came through to Perth on the train.

Engaged ... Brooks and trusting partner

"I was excited — here was someone I had been talking to for years, and I was finally getting to meet them. We had a laugh, he had so many stories. After that I think we fell in love."
After their first face-to-face meeting, the smitten woman travelled to London to meet her "boyfriend".
Brooks also came to visit her in Scotland and would stay with her at her gran's home in Perthshire.
And as the pair — who planned to marry — grew closer, the woman's two daughters even started to call her lover "dad".
But despite her shocking secret, the woman claimed Brooks never gave her any reason to be suspicious — even covering up with bubble bath while in the tub. She said: "Lee used to have a bath and we don't have a lock on the bathroom door. He'd go in there and have a bath, no bother at all.
"He would sit in the house with his boxer shorts on."
The woman claims Brooks came up with a string of cunning excuses to cover up her secret.
She claims that she never saw her lover completely naked because "he" claimed that he had been left too insecure having suffered from testicular cancer.
And the woman believed Brooks' bandages were to protect injuries inflicted by an ex-lover.
She said: "Lee told me a previous girlfriend was a traveller and that she lived in a caravan.
"He said that the bandages he wore across his chest to hide his breasts were there because she had taken a bit of wood out of a fire and hit him with it and that he was all blistered."
As well as describing a traveller ex, the woman claims Brooks told her about a string of former lovers — bragging about fathering nine children.

Truth ... Brooks as bridesmaid for pal

She said: "Lee told me about loads of previous relationships he'd had.
"There was this girl called Ellie who he was supposed to have had a 14-year-old boy to — he was supposed to have had nine kids with different women.
"There was another ex called Katie, and one called Denise.
"If these women weren't real, then Lee must have been setting up fake profiles for them in Facebook, because he kept showing me them all. He was writing to me through these lassies' pages, pretending that he was them."
But despite the trusting woman believing that Brooks was a man, she admitted that some of her family had raised doubts about her partner during their relationship.
She said: "A lot of my family aren't stupid. He came to a party and my uncle was there. He was asked what he thought.
"He said, 'Well he doesn't have an Adam's apple and he shakes hands like a b**** — that's a lassie'.
"Lee had a bald patch on his head and my uncle asked him where it had come from. Lee said that he had had cancer.
"My uncle said, 'I've had cancer twice and that's not from cancer — that's alopecia'. My uncle said, 'Get to the police about him'."
The couple had planned to tie the knot in March this year, but split up after Christmas 2009.
Despite the break-up, Brooks made one more trip to stay in Perthshire to the young mum and her two daughters.
The woman said: "The last time I saw Lee was when he was up for Christmas and New Year before last.
"I'd split up with him, but he wanted to come up and have Christmas with the kids and I let him do that.
"He knew that when he went I'd have nothing more to do with him.
"My daughters called him dad. They knew Lee as their dad.

"Of course, the oldest knows her real dad, but she called Lee dad."
The horrified woman only discovered the shocking truth about her former "boyfriend" when police contacted her and revealed Brooks had been living a lie for the last six years.
She said officers had told her: "We need to let you know Lee is not a man, she's a woman."
And the mum added: "I couldn't take it in. I was in floods of tears.
"I couldn't handle it then, and I haven't been able to handle it since."
Brooks, of Uxbridge, West London, was charged with obtaining sex by deception from two women as well as two counts of assault between January 2001 and December 2009.
In court, it was claimed she had gone to the toilet while standing up and even put a condom on her fake manhood to keep up the pretence of being a man.
But the charges against her were officially dropped by prosecutors in Scotland this week after another witness refused to co-operate.
And Brooks' former girlfriend insists she should be punished for what she put her through.
She said: "This whole episode has put me through hell. I used to be so happy and now I'm on anti-depressants. I can't sleep and I've lost the baby I was carrying to my new boyfriend. Lee should be punished for what he did to me."
The devastated mum believes Brooks carried out the deceit after falling in love with her.
Brooks's ex-lover said: "He knew we couldn't be together if he was a woman — it's that simple. It was so convincing. I can't believe what he put me through, making me have pregnancy tests. I had an engagement ring and we'd picked a date. We were getting married on March 3 this year.
"In a way I regret everything that has happened, but I knew her as Lee. I never knew in a million years that she was a woman. I'll never forgive Lee or want to speak to him again."
Last night Brooks denied even knowing the young mum. She said: "She hasn't got a leg to stand on.
"There is no evidence. I wasn't going out with her. I've never had a relationship with her."