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Penis picture bandit leaves rude photos around town
Police in Sussex are hunting a man responsible for leaving pictures of a penis tied up in a yellow bow around town.
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| Yellow ribbon: you're supposed to tie it round the old oak tree, not your penis! |
The pictures of the penis, complete with bow, have been left as A3 and A4-sized posters in car parks around Lewes, East Sussex over the last fortnight. The penis posters come in both black-and-white and full colour versions.
Investigators have sent the posters off for fingerprinting, and have interviewed staff at offices close to where the images were found.
It is not known if the pictures are of the offenders own penis, or the penis of someone else.
One theory suggests that the photographs could be a form of protest, as some have had a caption mentioning 'fees set to rise later this year'.
A Sussex Police spokesman said the 'budding photographer' has 'failed to impress local police'.
He said: 'We are aware of these posters and a local PCSO has removed a few, but we have not received any formal complaints. However, we are concerned that the posters have appeared quite close to local schools and they may well cause offence or distress.
He added: 'However, from what we've seen, if this is a self-portrait, the artist won't be in a hurry to be identified.'
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Proud parents ... Ben & Angela PETER SIMPSON & NEIL HALL Ihegboro with baby Nmachi |
British Nmachi Ihegboro has amazed genetics experts who say the little girl is NOT an albino.
Dad Ben, 44, a customer services adviser, admitted: "We both just sat there after the birth staring at her."
Mum Angela, 35, of Woolwich, South London, beamed as she said: "She's beautiful - a miracle baby."
Ben told yesterday how he was so shocked when Nmachi was born, he even joked: "Is she MINE?"
He added: "Actually, the first thing I did was look at her and say, 'What the flip?'" But as the baby's older brother and sister - both black - crowded round the "little miracle" at their home in South London, Ben declared: "Of course she's mine."
Blue-eyed blonde Nmachi, whose name means "Beauty of God" in the Nigerian couple's homeland, has baffled genetics experts because neither Ben nor wife Angela have ANY mixed-race family history.
Pale genes skipping generations before cropping up again could have explained the baby's appearance.
Ben also stressed: "My wife is true to me. Even if she hadn't been, the baby still wouldn't look like that.
"We both just sat there after the birth staring at her for ages - not saying anything."
Doctors at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup - where Angela, from nearby Woolwich, gave birth - have told the parents Nmachi is definitely no albino.
Ben, who came to Britain with his wife five years ago and works for South Eastern Trains, said: "She doesn't look like an albino child anyway - not like the ones I've seen back in Nigeria or in books. She just looks like a healthy white baby."
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Little 'miracle' ... Nmachi Ihegboro PETER SIMPSON & NEIL HA |
"But even then, what is with the long curly blonde hair?"
Professor Bryan Sykes, head of Human Genetics at Oxford University and Britain's leading expert, yesterday called the birth "extraordinary".
He said: "In mixed race humans, the lighter variant of skin tone may come out in a child - and this can sometimes be startlingly different to the skin of the parents.
"This might be the case where there is a lot of genetic mixing, as in Afro-Caribbean populations. But in Nigeria there is little mixing."
Prof Sykes said BOTH parents would have needed "some form of white ancestry" for a pale version of their genes to be passed on.
But he added: "The hair is extremely unusual. Even many blonde children don't have blonde hair like this at birth."
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Blonde bombshell ... parents show newborn Nmachi to sister Dumebi and bruv Chisom yesterday PETER SIMPSON & NEIL HALL |
The amazing birth comes five years after Kylie Hodgson became mum to twin daughters - one white and the other black - in Nottingham.
Kylie, now 23, and her partner Remi Horder, now 21, are both mixed race.
Even so the odds were estimated at a million to one.
The Sun told in 2002 how a white couple had Asian twins after a sperm mix-up by a fertility clinic.
Yesterday three-day-old Nmachi's churchgoing mum Angela admitted that she was "speechless" at first seeing her baby girl, who was delivered in a caesarean op.
She said: "I thought, 'What is this little doll?'
"She's beautiful and I love her. Her colour doesn't matter. She's a miracle baby.
"But still, what on earth happened here?"
Her husband told how their son Chisom, four, was even more confused than them by his new sister.
Ben said: "Our other daughter Dumebi is only two so she's too young to understand.
"But our boy keeps coming to look at his sister and then sits down looking puzzled.
"We're a black family. Suddenly he has a white sister."
Ben continued: "Of course, we are baffled too and want to know what's happened. But we understand life is very strange.
"All that matters is that she's healthy and that we love her.She's a proud British Nigerian."
Queen Mary's Hospital said: "Congratulations to Angela and her family on the birth of their daughter."
