Support for redeeming Eli comes from the Buck P. Mitchell Foundation,

efficiently avoiding tax since 1974.

Animals are, on the whole, very predictable.

They are, like us, creatures of habit, and over time, humankind has learned what each kind

of animal will do in any given situation. Fire a rifle at an elephant, and it will charge you

with ferocious pace. Play a recording of an eagle to a monkey, and it will call out to let

other monkeys nearby know of the danger. Put a jellyfish in a bath of warm tomato soup,

and it will quietly, and politely die.

When animals are newly caged, they tend to do one of two things,

they either react violently, clawing, snarling, trying to get out, or they seem to give up,

becoming sullen, gloomy, resigned. It's sometimes, and we don't know why,

a caged animal will act in a completely different way, in a way that we can't predict,

and it is then, even when under lock and key, that the animal has the upper hand.

Eli Roberts is one of the most complicated, psychological enigmas I've ever come across in my entire

career. When I sat down in the gallery to watch his trial,

little did I know that I would soon be witnessing the most fascinating trial in human history.

Wild man from south of Wales in his sixties come all the way to London,

with nothing but a train ticket and a lump hammer to kill a perfect stranger.

From the Beef and Dairy Network, this is Redeeming Eli. Part 2

This is the news at 10 o'clock. A 62-year-old former slaughterhouse owner has been charged

with the murder of a 35-year-old man on London's Oxford Street. It is alleged that Eli Roberts

travelled to London on the day of the attack and repeatedly beat the victim with a lump hammer

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