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Bizarre Bieber castration and murder plot uncovered
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 13 December 2012
A late contender for most bizarre story of the year now, and US police have uncovered an elaborate plot to castrate and kill Justin Bieber and his security guard.
The pop teen homicide was seemingly planned by a man called Dana Martin, who is serving a neat 978 years in prison for rape and murder. According to reports, Martin is obsessed by Bieber and has a tattoo of the popstar on his leg.
Martin recruited a fellow prison inmate called Mark Staake to organise a grim plot to abduct Bieber while he was in New York to perform concerts. The plan was to strangle the singer with a neck tie, and to ultimately kill both him and his security guard. Bieber’s testicles would also have been removed as part of the attack.
Once out of prison, Staake recruited his nephew Tanner Ruane to help with the crime. Quite how serious the plans were isn’t really clear, but things seemingly went awry when the only recently released Staake was picked up by police in Vermont regards outstanding warrants, leaving his nephew to complete the plan alone. Police subsequently intercepted phone calls between Ruane and Martin in which the former admitted that the murder plot had stalled.
Police then confronted Martin in prison, who provided information enabling officers to track down Staake and his nephew. Media reports say that New York police found a pair of pruning shears in Ruane’s car.
Bieber’s management have wisely declined to comment on the bizarre story.
