Most news outlets mentioned the fact that there had been a fatal shooting on a nuclear submarine in Southampton, but so far I haven't found anything which tells us the perp's name, his background or possible motive.
I can only assume that we are dealing with a Man Of No Appearance (TM Tim Blair, as far as I can make out), who presumably was also a Man Without A Motive.
UPDATE: Quiet Man links to an article in the Daily Mail, so he's not a MONA at all. Ah well.
Two Birds, One Stone!
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"A row over the use of a lavatory led to one Royal Navy officer being shot dead and another critically wounded aboard Britain’s newest nuclear submarine, it was claimed last night. "
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"A Ministry of Defence source said: “With civic dignitaries on board, toilet arrangements were stretched to the absolute limit. I’m told the rating said he urgently needed to attend a call of nature only to be ordered to allow visitors first use of a toilet near the control room. It appears that matters suddenly got out of hand and shots were fired.
The submarine, which is still undergoing sea trials, has a crew of 95 but only five lavatories, or “heads”. "
From The Times(£)
Bizarre if true.
I'm going for 'white raving nutter' over 'Muslim raving nutter' (which, I'm assuming, is the point of this post), just based on the low proportions of Muslims in the Navy and the fact that you'd have to be a raving nutter to sign up for a submarine tour of duty in the first place.
His name is Ryan Donovan
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html
Not a Muslim, just a nutter
I suppose that submarinners aren't used to pissing over the side.
When I heard someone had been arrested for shooting seamen on a boat I thought George Michael was in trouble again.
If them's the "heads" where (and what) are the "tails"?
WRENs?
"...and the fact that you'd have to be a raving nutter to sign up for a submarine tour of duty in the first place."
Ah, but LibDem MP and (presumably) spare-time criminal profiler Mike Hancock thinks that no-one with a hint of 'eccentricity' should be trusted on board a submarine in the first place...
I think Ross has nailed it here.
Wigger.
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