News about Jeremy Bentham

In the dead of night, robbers took a large bronze statue of a horse from the grounds of a historic country estate. The crooks who took sculptor Marcia Astor's bronze sculpture of a stallion from the gardens of Forde Abbey near the village of Thorncombe in Dorset are being hunted by investigators. According to police, they are looking for a blue Ford Transit-style van, which is reported to have been seen close to the house.

A world first research experiment on the dead that might be able to aid in the investigation of murders is underway at a little bushland experimental center on Sydney's far outskirts. More than 70 dead bodies are discovered among gum trees in several states of decomposition around the body farm's location. Author of a new book Jackie Dent met Norwegian scientist Dr Maiken Ueland who is doing world first studies of the odours emanating from decomposing human remains and is trying to find the 'holy grail' of cadaver research, establishing the exact time of death