So, if you need to get a crime off your chest, just write a column confessing to it. Everybody knows police don't read the newspapers:
A newspaper columnist who confessed to killing a terminally ill relative has been arrested by police on suspicion of murder. Last month Maureen Messent, 67, used her column in the Birmingham Mail to say that she had given her great aunt, who was stricken by cancer, a fatal dose of morphine more than 30 years ago.
I must remember to be more careful what I write about.
