liadnan

I put it to the vote: which is the better* opening line:

"A man obsessed with pop singer Sonia, who believed the Germans were controlling his mind, decapitated his 80-year-old mother with a chainsaw, a court heard today",

as Greyarea would have it; or

"Before Toma Petre's relatives pulled his body from the grave, ripped out his heart, burned it to ashes, mixed it with water and drank it, he hadn't been in the news much",

as Liz contends?

*Edited to add: look, I have a loud and annoying inner pedant, and it gets very cross when I make grammatical errors, so I correct them silently when I spot them.