The Village Restauranter

He arrived in the village with a swagger. Overconfident and with an inflated sense of his own importance he told everyone he could that he was going to make the best restaurant in the street and that the other cafe's might as well pack up and go. He was an unattractive man - the sort that was creepy but hard to say why. His restaurant was called Japanese but had nothing Japanese about it except sushi and hand rolls with bizarre fillings. His coca cola sign at the front topped it off. This restaurant was going nowhere we said to each other indeed it was a bit of a joke especially as all sorts of rumors about his last restaurant were circulating involving rooms rented upstairs at inflationary prices to girls of a certain profession.

His other restaurant in the street more akin to his background was going fine and as he swaggered from one to the other he tried to ingratiate himself with important people in the village. At the time he had set up his third restaurant in the street whose window was adorned with strangled skinned ducks covered with burnt flesh and gaping mouths, his wife died. He told everyone in the street without a tear that she had some teeth out, went to the casino gambling and came home in the morning, collapsed and died.

Time went by and the Japanese restaurant was sold. I saw him at the chemist printing photos and smiling lecherously and the photos - an attractive young women in bathers at a beach setting. I thought to myself that didn't take him long. Not so long after in I saw his phot0 in the paper with his creepy smile and paunchy belly charged with being criminally responsible for his wife's death.

It is alleged that he took his wife, a diabetic and ardent gambler to a dentist and got her molars removed because she was complaining of pain from her teeth. That after he brought her home he refused to take her to a doctor even though she was very ill. He even told his wife's distraught sister who rang from Malaysia that he couldn't take her to hospital because there were no beds. It was alleged in court that his wife was a very wealthy woman whose family had begged her not to marry this gold digger who apparently had a penchant for wealthy women but she did anyway.

His restaurants have been replaced with more successful restaurants. He hired the best legal team he could buy. The hearing continues.