News articles for Thriller ideas.

Poppy seller burned in aerosol attack in Manchester

A 15-year-old Army cadet who was selling poppies for Remembrance Day suffered burns to his face in an attack with a lit aerosol can.

The boy, who was wearing his uniform, was at a bus stop near Manchester Art Gallery at 18:00 GMT on Saturday when he was attacked.

Police said a man lifted an aerosol can and a lighter and sprayed him with lit fumes.

The cadet suffered burns to his face and singed hairs, officers confirmed.

Greater Manchester Police said the offender, described as black or Asian, 5ft 8in tall and wearing a dark hooded top, then walked off without saying a word.

• Taking inspiration from this news article I have an idea to create a thriller in which a religious extremist believes the people who do a lot for those who aren't as fortunate deserve to go to heaven earlier as heaven is meant to be paradise. He goes round stalking them and murders them at the best given opportunity. The rest of the public see this differently.
• The antagonist will believe he is doing the people a favour by killing them and sending them to heaven.
• This could create an interesting opening sequence as it could introduce the man and show like a news programme saying ' Another charity worker killed' . Cuts to man and goes to dungeon to kill next victim.

Former Severn Vale teacher John Fleck jailed for obsession with disciplinarian and sadistic child pornography

A 53-year-old secondary school teacher and scout master obsessed with sadistic child pornography featuring boys being spanked and caned was jailed for 10 months today.

Many of the thousands of illegal images and videos in bachelor John Fleck's possession were of children receiving corporal punishment, Gloucester crown court was told.

The material, collected over a 16 year period, was not only on Fleck's two computers but also on a collection of so-called 'naturist' DVDs - one of which, called 'A Century of Discipline', was a compilation of eight hours of child punishment scenes, the prosecution said.

The court heard Fleck had worked as a teacher and served as a scoutmaster for the last 28 years but there was no suggestion he had ever abused any of the children in his care in any way.

• Man teaches at a secondary school. His daughter died at 16 years old.
• First day of the year, girl in his new class looks very similar to her.
• He starts to develop feelings for this girl.
• He stalks her and follows
• She doesn't know who the person is and gets very scared and becomes timid and anxious.

New Mobile Phone software

• New mobile phone from company no one has ever heard of.
• It is very well marketed and has all these new features that teenagers ream of having on a phone.
• The phone during the first phone call each make releases a gel into the persons ear and turns them into zombie like students and totally chnages them into the opposite of their usual personality.