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But Specktor is trying to do something subtler and more slippery than cataloging boldfaced names and bellyaching about how commerce has strangled art.

Moving the action to Seattle brings a lot less of it – it’s a wild, dangerous place strangled in conflict, governed by a military sect that makes Jackson’s militia look like a hippie horse club.

The first was strangled by a python, and others died shortly after birth, likely related to nutritional deficits.

Kent Police said Mr Rickards had suffered five stab wounds to the chest, had recent injuries to his ribs and showed signs of having been strangled.

The prosecution argued that this was a "smokescreen" and that Thomas "attacked and strangled" Ms Thomas in a room where she had gone to get away from him.