There’s an old newspaper joke about newspaper sub-editors trying to outdo themselves with a story headline that touched all of their readers’ hot buttons. The apocryphal winner was "Black Bishop in Mercy Sex Dash to Palace".
The Telegraph web site currently has a story classified under "Breaking News" that appears to be making a bid for the prize: "Vicar ‘Imprisoned Me Like a Sex Slave’ Says Cleaner". I think that’s a worthy effort. Although the sub-editor would have got extra points by inserting the word "Gay" between ‘a’ and ‘Sex’ – even better, because it’s apparently true.
I haven’t seen a decent trashy headline like this since the days of Joyce McKinney and Kirk Anderson.
The story itself is pretty bizarre, and full of lovely touches like "[the cleaner], who lives with his diplomat uncle in Maida Vale, west London, said he also wanted to persuade his tormentor to return his passport so that he could renew his student visa".
Human nature – it’s a wonderful thing.
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