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I’ll never let Elton have my little boy




By OLIVER HARVEY

Published: Today

THE penniless HIV mum of a Ukrainian boy Sir Elton John wants as his son vowed last night she will NEVER give him up.

 

Lev, the 15-month-old who stole the star's heart last month, is in care.

But alcoholic Marina, 25, told The Sun: "I will not give my baby to Elton John for any money."


BUY TODAY'S SUN FOR FULL EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH LEV'S MUM ... AND THE SHOCKING TRUTH ABOUT HIS DAD


 

Marina, a chaotic alcoholic who had both her children taken into care by social workers, insisted she could change her ways and regain custody.

Hug ... Lev melted Elton's heart

She admitted: "I understand Elton's feelings. Lev is a very sunny and cheerful boy. It's impossible not to love him.

"But I'm going to overcome my problems. I so much want my babies back."

Sir Elton, 62, announced last month that he and partner David Furnish, 46, wanted to give a Lev a home after meeting the child in an orphanage.




Cyclist plunges 80ft off cliff at Cheddar Gorge but is saved by mystery climber

 

By Daily Mail Reporter

Last updated at 10:22 AM on 05th October 2009


A female cyclist plummeted more than 80ft down a cliff and escaped with a broken collar bone and cuts and bruises after a mystery climber stopped to give her aid.


The 50-year-old was 'very lucky' to be alive after she fell off her bike at Cheddar Gorge in Somerset, rolled down a grassy bank and went over the edge.


She was saved by a mystery climber who gave her first aid - before disappearing into the night.

 

A female cyclist survived after falling 80ft down a cliff at Cheddar Gorge, where cliff faces have a maximum dept of 449ft


The woman, who has not been named, was cycling with members of her family when she fell from a cliff at the beauty spot.

Mountain rescue teams, 20 firefighters and a Royal Air Force helicopter rushed to her aid following the accident at 6.55pm on Saturday.


By the time they reacher her, she had been given first aid and spinal stabilisation by a mystery climber.

Alan George, spokesman for Avon and Somerset Mountain Rescue, praised her rescuer last night, saying: 'Without him she would probably be in a much worse state.

'From what we could tell she literally took a Tom and Jerry fall.'

'The number of injuries she is likely to have sustained is considerable. She ended up jammed into a small gully on the cliff face.


'A local climber was the first to to see her. He gave her first aid and spinal stabilisation and then disappeared into the darkness.


'There's no two ways about it, the lady was very, very lucky.'

The woman was airlifted from the gully and is in a stable condition at Frenchay Hospital in Bristol.

The woman tumbled from her bike at the Old Quarry just 600 the yards from the entrance to Cheddar Gorge, Somerset.

A spokesman for Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service said she had suffered a suspected broken collar bone, back injuries and facial and hand lacerations during her fall.

 


Jack the Ripper's identity finally uncovered?


An historian has claimed to have discovered the real identity of Jack the Ripper, and believes the notorious Whitechapel murderer was also responsible for killing two more women.

Published: 11:44AM BST 05 Oct 2009


The front page of The Illustrated Police News of September 22, 1888, featuring reports of the Jack the Ripper murders, part of the British Library's online newspaper archive Photo: PA

Mei Trow used modern police forensic techniques, including psychological and geographical profiling, to identify Robert Mann, a morgue attendant, as the killer.

His theory, the result of two years intensive research, is explored in a Discovery Channel documentary, Jack the Ripper: Killer Revealed.


Trow's research is rooted in information from a 1988 FBI examination of the Ripper case, which had worked up a comprehensive criminal personality profile.

The portrait drawn up of Jack was as a white male from the lower social classes, most likely the product of a broken home.

It was also thought he would have had a menial job but with some anatomical knowledge, something like a butcher, mortuary or medical examiner's assistant or hospital attendant.

Because of prolonged periods without human interaction, Jack would also have been socially inept

It is known that Mann was from an extremely deprived background. His father was absent for much of his upbringing and he had spent some time as a child in a workhouse.

Trow said: "I wanted to go beyond the myth of a caped man with a top hat and knife, and get to the reality, and the reality is simply that Jack was an ordinary man."

Trow makes another startling conjecture, that the Ripper killed another two women.

He believes Martha Tabram, found with 39 stab wounds to her body in Gunthorpe Street, was the first of Jack's victims, and Alice Mackenzie, brutally murdered eight months after the confirmed five killings, was his last.

The two women, along with Polly Nichols and Annie Chapman, would have been delivered to the Whitechapel mortuary in which Robert Mann worked.

After the killing of Polly Nichols, Jack's first recognised victim, Mann unlocked the mortuary for the police so they could examine the body and as such, was called as a witness in her inquest to help establish the cause of death.

Most damningly, he undressed Polly's body with his assistant, despite being under strict instructions from Inspector Spratling to not touch the body, and Trow suspects that this was an opportunity to admire his handiwork.

The Coroner, in his summation of Robert Mann's testimony, concluded that, "It appears the mortuary-keeper is subject to fits, and neither his memory nor statements are reliable."

Professor Laurence Alison, Forensic Psychologist at Liverpool University, who features in the documentary, said: "In terms of psychological profiling, Robert Mann is the one of the most credible suspects from recent years and the closest we may ever get to a plausible psychological explanation for these most infamous of Victorian murders."

Trow's is the latest in a long line of theories about who Jack the Ripper was. More than 100 suspects have been proposed over the years, including a member of the royal family, a doctor and even the artist Walter Sickert.





Man survives 165ft fall after bungee accident in Thailand


British holidaymaker Rishi Baveja is lucky to be alive after his bungee rope came loose, plunging him into a lagoon at 80mph in Phuket, Thailand.

 

By Nick Collins

Published: 12:04PM BST 05 Oct 2009

Mr Baveja was fortunately able to take the impact of the landing on his chest, meaning he avoided serious head injuries Photo: KNS NEWS

Mr Baveja was fortunately able to take the impact of the landing on his chest, meaning he avoided serious head injuries. Photo: KNS NEWS

Mr Baveja, a Cambridge graduate from Wakefield, West Yorkshire, spent a month in a Bangkok hospital in Thailand after suffering a ruptured spleen, torn liver, collapsed lungs and serious bruising.

But doctors were "staggered" he survived at all after the harness around his feet worked free during the jump, meaning he continued accelerating until he hit the surface of the lagoon at the Jungle Bungy centre in Kathu, on Phuket island.


Mr Baveja was able to take the impact of the landing on his chest, meaning he avoided serious head damage. Doctors compared his injuries to those of a car crash victim.

He told the Daily Mail: "All the doctors were staggered that I lived. I'm very lucky. If I had landed head first I would be brain damaged, or dead.

"I knew the jump would be scary but I didn't think it was dangerous. I had a long phone conversation with my mum telling her it was safe.

"She only believed me when I told her that the website of the jump centre claimed it had a 100 per cent safety record. I didn't need to do that jump. I wish I hadn't."

Mr Baveja, who was in Phuket on a month-long holiday to celebrate graduating with a 2:2 degree in engineering, had to have his spleen removed as a result of his injuries.

A video of the jump records him crying out just before his impact with the water, while an instructor seems to say "Oh" when he realises what has happened.

The tourist, who paid £50 for the jump, said he had no idea how the harness came loose, but that he would not sue the operator because there would be little chance of him succeeding.

He also added that his experience had not put him off extreme sports, and that he hopes to go skydiving when he has recovered.





Arizona Man Confesses to Being a Serial Killer

 

Sunday, October 04, 2009


ST. JOHNS, Ariz. —  A scruffy 21-year-old walked into the police station in the small eastern Arizona town of Springerville, winded after running the 2 1/2 blocks there from his home. He wanted to tell the police chief that cops from out of town were in his jurisdiction.

"There's people in your town," William Inmon told Chief Steve West, then suggested that West run them off.

West saw no harm in hearing out the gangly young man's complaints about the officers from nearby St. Johns. He then listened for hours as Inmon told stories of a troubled childhood, the weapons he owned, and, finally, that the officers were investigating the killing of 16-year-old Ricky Flores from their town.

Then, authorities say, Inmon admitted killing the teenager.

Inmon had hoped to divert attention from himself by sprinting to the police station, authorities said. Instead, his world came tumbling down. On Sept. 30, he pleaded guilty to killing Flores and to two other murders. He proclaimed himself a serial killer, and said his plans to kill two more times had been thwarted.

The guilty pleas sent another collective shiver through St. Johns, where Flores lived and where the two older men who were killed were well known. In addition, just last November, an 8-year-old St. Johns boy was charged in a double homicide.


In each murder to which Inmon admitted, he had at least one accomplice, but authorities say he was the driving force, motivated by a desire to rid society of those who didn't live up to his standards. Four other people have been arrested in the three slayings that started in 2007 and ended with Flores in August.

Most residents say they're tired of having the town painted in a negative light.

They say St. Johns is like any other small town, with people helping raise each other's children and crime usually of the town-drunk variety. At a news conference Thursday, Apache County Attorney Michael Whiting highlighted the numerous state high school sports championships and a streak of regional wins at the academic decathlon.

"I've had a lot of members in the community ask me to express that to the media so people don't think all we do is run around and shoot people up here," he said.

Inmon's fall began when St. Johns police served a search warrant at the home he shared with his girlfriend. Inmon went to West "because everyone says you'll listen," he told the chief. "He thought that I would say 'it's my jurisdiction, get out of my jurisdiction,' but police departments just don't do that," West said.

"He was nervous because more than likely they were close," West said.

Inmon confessed to Flores' murder after Apache County investigator Brian Hounshell joined West in the interview. Hounshell said they repeatedly told Inmon he didn't have to keep talking and was free to leave, but he pressed on.

Weeks later, Inmon admitted to fatally shooting William "Stoney" McCarragher, 72, and Daniel Achten, 60, as part of a deal that spares him the death penalty. Now awaiting sentencing on three counts of first-degree murder, Inmon didn't respond to an interview request and his lawyer had no comment.

McCarragher was the first of Inmon's known victims. He lived on a small rural ranch outside of St. Johns and was known to carry large amounts of money, sometimes thousands of dollars. McCarragher often employed teenagers for odd jobs, and Inmon told police that he killed him after McCarragher inappropriately touched him in 2007.

McCarragher's daughter-in-law, Tiffany Stone, said she was shocked to hear of Inmon's allegations. She said he was a "gritty, crass old man who had a big heart that a lot of people never saw. But he would give you the shirt off his back."

Achten's remains were discovered in a shallow grave on his property outside of St. Johns over a week ago. Inmon told questioners he shot the nearly deaf Vietnam veteran, who locals called "Hummer Dan" for his constant humming, because he used drugs, shot Inmon's dog and generally mistreated people.

Prosecutors allege that Inmon killed Flores at the urging of the father of Flores' girlfriend, who along with Inmon's girlfriend, is charged with murder in the case. The mother of Flores' girlfriend also faces charges in the teenager's death.

Inmon never drew much attention to himself in St. Johns, home to about 4,000 near the Arizona-New Mexico border. Authorities say he described a childhood growing up in south Phoenix, with parents often absent because of problems with the law or drug abuse.

The closest thing he had to family was a dog that he had for more than a decade but that Inmon told authorities was killed by Achten.

Some locals recall Inmon working at a general store near the edge of town or hanging around a tire shop. Usually dressed in khaki-colored clothing, Inmon had a fascination with guns and the military.

When he showed up at West's office to chat, he had a head of curly, dirty blond hair that he later shaved, revealing large scars during a court hearing. He was dressed in a drab olive shirt, jeans and a baseball cap with two War II-type pins, both with swastikas on them.

Inmon's life as a serial killer is a stark contrast from how his mother, Dianna Inmon, remembers him growing up in south Phoenix. During a scheduled court hearing last month, she recalled the days when her son gave her a crown to wear and sang to her for special occasions and their own "Silly Willy" club.

"It put me on the floor," she said when she heard of her son's arrest in Flores' death.




Rare Malaysian tiger rescued from poacher's barbed wire trap

 

By Mail Foreign Service

Last updated at 11:12 AM on 05th October 2009

  

Writhing in agony in a poacher's barbed wire trap which cut him to the bone, this endangered Malayan tiger had a lucky escape after wildlife officials rescued him.


The 120kg cat was removed from the deadly snare yesterday after being tranquilised by Malaysian wildlife authorities.


The five-year-old male’s front limb had been caught in sharp steel string in the country’s north Perak state jungle, close to the border with Thailand. Two other traps were found nearby.

 

Saved: Authorities tranquilised the injured male tiger after he became entangled in a poacher's trap

Wildlife director Shabrina Mohamad Shariff said the tiger was taken to a zoo in southern Malacca state for treatment of a deep paw injury.


It is understood the big cat's limb was cut to the bone as he struggled to free himself.


Ms Shariff warned that poachers face up to five years in jail and a hefty fine if they are caught.

Pain: Sharp wire had to be removed from the tiger's paw


Authorities estimate there are only around 500 Malayan tigers left in the world – with the vast majority in Malaysia.

Their prized body parts are smuggled abroad for use in traditional medicine.


The government claims Malaysia is committed to an ambitious plan to double the tiger population by 2020.




'Pilots, cabin crew in mid-air brawl'

 

Agence France-Presse

October 05, 2009 08:08am


AIR India said it was investigating allegations of a mid-air brawl in which pilots and cabin crew were reported to have exchanged blows in front of startled passengers.

The Times of India reported that crew members threw punches and hurled abuse at each other on the flight from Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates to Delhi after a female attendant accused the pilots of sexually harassing her.

The fight spilled out into the galley of the plane as about 100 passengers looked on, the paper said under the headline "Pilots, crew slug it out at 30,000 feet".

The cockpit of the Airbus A-320 was left unmanned at one point, and one of the pilots threatened to divert the plane to Pakistan, the Times alleged.

The 24-year-old female crew member and a co-pilot both suffered bruises in the incident on Saturday and police have registered a case against the pilots for “outraging the modesty of a woman", it said

”There are several eyewitnesses and we are recording their statements,” the Times quoted police commissioner Satyendra Garg as saying.


State-run Air India said in a statement it had ordered an inquiry into what it described as a reported “scuffle”, adding that two pilots and two crew members had been suspended.




Ex-judge accused of spanking U.S. male inmates in his office and awarding them reduced jail time in return for sex

 

By Mail Foreign Service

Last updated at 12:29 PM on 05th October 2009


A former judge is facing life in prison after being charged with sexually abusing male inmates in exchange for leniency.


Respected circuit judge Herman Thomas, who was once the Democratic Party’s choice to be the first black federal judge in south Alabama, is accused of bringing inmates to his office and spanking them with a paddle.


His trial for charges of sodomy, kidnapping, sex abuse, extortion, assault and ethics violations is set to begin today.


The 48-year-old insists he is innocent and claims he was trying to mentor the inmates.

 

Herman Thomas is accused of sexually abusing male inmates in exchange for leniency

Thomas’s defence lawyer Robert ‘Cowboy Bob’ Clark has branded the accusers ‘lying felons’ who are trying to wreck the career of ‘a prestigious member of the Bar for over 20 years.’


The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, a leading civil rights group, has defended Thomas and claims race is behind his prosecution.


Thomas and his attorney blame the charges on politicians who don't like him.


‘There is no doubt that people assisted these inmates in telling these lies on me,’ Thomas said in April.


In an echo of sex allegations made against black Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas, Thomas's lawyer called the indictment ‘a high-tech lynching’.


‘They don't like uppity black folks, and that's what they consider Herman,’ Clark added.

Chief Assistant District Attorney Nicki Patterson said authorities began looking at Thomas after he changed a jail sentence in 2006 for his cousin, former Mobile County school commissioner David Thomas, even though the case was being handled by another judge.


Other cases that Thomas had taken over from other judges without their approval soon surfaced, she said.


Some inmates in those cases described being checked out of the jail for meetings with Thomas in his car or in his private office in the county courthouse. 

First, there were reports of inmates having to pull down their underwear for spankings with a wooden paddle. Then came allegations of oral and anal sex, according to court records.

 

Mobile, Alabama, where Mr Thomas's trial will start today (file photo)

Noting that each of the alleged victims is black, Patterson says jail checkout records back up inmates' claims about trips to Thomas' private office, and other inmates spotted marks after paddlings.


There also is other evidence, according to court records, including one inmate's seminal fluid on the office carpet.


The inmates also were able to describe in detail Thomas' unmarked windowless office.

Thomas stepped down from the bench in 2007 after the allegations of paddling surfaced and just ahead of a judicial ethics trial that could have forced him out of office.


He was indicted on the more-serious charges this past spring by a Mobile County grand jury. If convicted of the most serious charges - sodomy and kidnapping - he faces from 20 years to life in prison.


The oldest incident in the charges dates to 1999, his first year as a circuit judge.


The first public claim against Thomas surfaced in lawsuits filed by an inmate in 2001 in Mobile circuit court and in federal court that claimed the judge offered to help him with his case in return for sex.


Both lawsuits were dismissed, and Thomas' reputation remained unblemished.


Retired Mobile County Circuit Judge Braxton Kittrell said people thought Thomas' personal interest in the defendants was a positive.


'Everyone thought he had a lot of concern for people who got into criminal difficulty. All of this was a surprise to everyone,' he said.


The case has shocked Thomas' friends and former colleagues.


'I've always had the highest regard for him. The allegations were a complete surprise to me and everyone else who knew him,' said Bob Edington, a prominent Mobile attorney and former Democratic state senator.


Prosecutors say they have 15 current and former male inmates lined up to testify in a trial that could take several weeks.


Thomas grew up in Mobile and returned home after law school at Florida State University to become an assistant district attorney.

At the time, the majority white county had no black judges, and local officials were concerned that a federal judge might end countywide elections for judges.


Local Democrats and lawyers recruited Thomas, and they got a Republican governor to appoint him to a vacancy in 1990. Thomas later won election to a full term.


He handled lower level cases as a district judge, but he moved up to a county circuit judgeship in 1999 and started handling the most serious crimes, including murder.


In 1997, Alabama's presidential advisory committee recommended President Bill Clinton appoint Thomas as the first black federal judge in the southern district of Alabama.


The nomination was never acted on after Thomas failed to get the American Bar Association's top rating and amid some squabbling within the party.




Woman Mauled to Death by Pet Black Bear

 

Monday, October 05, 2009


ALLENTOWN, Pa.  —  Authorities in northeastern Pennsylvania say a woman was killed by her pet black bear as she cleaned its cage.

State police say 37-year-old Kelly Ann Walz was mauled to death Sunday evening by the 350-pound bear.

A state Game Commission spokesman says Walz kept the bear inside a steel and concrete cage near her house about 20 miles northeast of Allentown.

Officials say Walz threw a shovelful of dog food to one side of the cage to distract the bear while she cleaned the other side. At some point the bear turned on her and attacked.

The bear was shot and killed. No information was available about who shot the bear.

Game officials say Walz also owned a Bengal tiger and an African lion. They say she had licenses to own the animals.




Baby Snatch Victim Loses Kids to State Custody

Sunday, October 04, 2009

NASHVILLE, Tenn. —  A mother whose newborn was kidnapped by a knife-wielding woman posing as an immigration agent was briefly reunited with her baby Saturday, then saw him and her three other children taken from her and put into state custody.

Rob Johnson, a spokesman for the Tennessee Department of Children's Services, said the children were taken from their mother, Maria Gurrolla, "purely for safety reasons," though he would not detail why the state deemed they were in danger.

"Our focus is on the children, and under the current situation right now, we think the safest thing to do is take the children into state custody," he said.

Gurrolla, 30, was stabbed in her home Tuesday, just four days after giving birth to Yair Anthony Carillo, who was snatched by the attacker.

Nashville police said the baby was found in good health Friday night at a home in Ardmore, Ala., about 80 miles south of Nashville near the Tennessee line.

Tennessee Bureau of Investigation Director Mark Gwyn said officials arrested Tammy Renee Silas, 39, at the home in Ardmore. Federal authorities formally charged her Saturday with kidnapping.

Silas' live-in boyfriend, Martin Rodriguez, said he was shocked by the arrest and didn't think she was capable of the crime.


Speaking through an interpreter, he said Silas told him she was adopting a baby from a cousin who had to go to jail, and was going to El Paso, Texas, to get the child. He said he picked Silas up from the Huntsville airport Tuesday and she had a newborn with her.

"She was acting normal around the baby and I didn't really see any difference, but I think she was happy," Rodriguez said from their one-story home, where a box of baby clothes for a boy overflowed in the dining room. "What woman isn't happy to carry a baby?"

Rodriguez said he met Silas, a contractor, when they both lived in Nashville. He said Silas is bilingual and was born in Tarrant County, Texas, where she had family. "The last thing that she said to me was, 'I am so sorry and I love you,"' Rodriguez said.

Earlier Saturday, officials said the newborn would stay with a foster family as authorities arranged for Gurrolla to be reunited with her son.


"This baby is a week old, and this child has spent half his life away from his family. I think it's time we reunite them," said My Harrison, a special agent with the FBI in Tennessee.

Johnson said officials made arrangements for Gurrolla to see her baby Saturday afternoon and hold him, and she brought her three other children — ages 3, 9 and 11 — with her. All four children were then taken into custody. Johnson, who said he could not discuss details of the situation for privacy reasons, said a judge would review the case next week to determine when the children can go home.

Joel Siskovic, an FBI special agent in the Memphis division, said he could not say why the children were put into state custody. "As of now, there's no indication that there's an ongoing threat to the family," he said.

Authorities said they had no word on a possible motive in the kidnapping. Police in Nashville did not know if Silas has a lawyer. The Morgan County Sheriff's office said Silas was picked up by U.S. Marshals on Saturday morning, though it was not known where she was being taken.

The infant's mother told police a heavyset white woman with blonde hair arrived at her home posing as an immigration agent and attacked her with a knife.

Gurrolla told investigators that at one point she heard the woman make a phone call and tell someone in Spanish words to the effect of "the job is done" and that the mother "was dying," said Siskovic, the FBI agent.

Siskovic said Silas took the victim's cell phone, which helped investigators locate Silas.

He would not comment further on the possibility that Silas was not working alone.

At a Wednesday news conference, Gurrolla told reporters she had never seen her attacker before.

Officials believe Silas followed Gurrolla and her baby from a local office of the Women, Infants and Children program and to a Walmart store. "I think it's clear that she was targeting people at that location," Siskovic said.

Investigators got a break when they found that a video camera in the Walmart parking lot had captured the license plate of the car seen following the mother and baby, according to the arrest warrant.

Cathy Nahirny, a senior analyst for infant abduction cases at the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, said there have been at least two other recent cases where an abductor used a ploy similar to the one used in this case.

"We need to get the word out to our immigrant communities," Nahirny said. "Anybody that claims they are from federal law enforcement agencies, you have the right and you should ask for photo identification."

Abductions of infants by strangers are rare, with nine reported cases so far this year and five last year, according to the missing child center.

Nahirny said immigrant families have been targets of child abductions because of the assumption they will not tell police.

Gurrolla is Latina but her immigration status isn't clear. She was released from the hospital Thursday




Two girls, 14, die 'holding hands' after jumping 125ft from suicide bridge

 

By Daily Mail Reporter

Last updated at 12:19 PM on 05th October 2009



Two girls died last night after jumping from a 125ft-high road bridge in a suspected suicide pact.

The 14-year-olds were seen holding hands as they plunged to their deaths from the Erskine Bridge, a notorious suicide spot near Glasgow.

A massive search operation was launched after the pair were spotted jumping at about 9pm.

Their bodies were pulled from the River Clyde and taken to the Southern General Hospital in a Ministry of Defence helicopter.

 

The girls fell 125ft to their deaths from the Erskine Bridge, above

A police spokesman said: 'Between 20.50 and 22.30, the bodies of two females were recovered from the River Clyde near to the Erskine Bridge.


'Inquiries are continuing to establish the identities of the females.


'We would ask anyone who was in the area at the time and may have witnessed the incident to call us.'


A Coastguard source said: 'The information that we have is that it was two teenagers and that they held hands as they jumped from the bridge.


'They were clearly in the water for a long time and it is very rarely that anyone lives after a fall like that.


'We co-ordinated a search for the girls and they were eventually picked up by an RAF helicopter.'


Fire appliances from Clydebank, Knightswood, Polmadie and Renfrew Community Fire Stations, and two fire rescue boats were sent to the scene to assist with the search and rescue effort on the water and along the shoreline.

A Coastguard helicopter was also sent to the scene, and pulled one of the women from the water.

The second woman was located by a Strathclyde Fire and Rescue boat and removed with the help of a police boat.

A Ministry of Defence spokesman said it had been contacted by Strathclyde Police to help with the search for the two women.

The Erskine Bridge is one of the country's highest bridges connects Renfrewshire and West Dunbartonshire and is a notorious suicide spot.