Plan to scar lover
NZPA-PA London A jilted disc jockey, Michael Burditt, tried to get a couple to scar his pretty schoolgirl lover for life when she ended their affair, a court was told yesterday. The 41-year-old club disc jockey offered them £lOO ($265) to throw caustic soda in the 14-year-old girl’s face so her planned modelling career would never start. But the couple he approached, a news vendor
and his wife, went to the police, the Nottingham Crown Court heard. Burditt, of Nottinghamshire, was jailed for six months after admitting having unlawful sex with the girl and incitement to commit grievous bodily harm. The Court heard that Burditt helped the girl build, up a portfolio of glamour pictures to launch a modelling career. The couple planned to marry on the girl’s six-
teenth birthday, but she decided to ditch Burditt. He was so angry he asked the couple to attack the girl and gave them her photograph, caustic soda, and masks to disguise themselves, the Court heard. Judge Hopkins told Burditt: “I am satisfied there was genuine affection between you and this girl but it went sour. The act was committed in a jealous rage.”
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