Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe Drug kingpin buried in gold coffin ESSENDON, Australia, April 30 (UPI) -- A former Australian drug kingpin, killed in prison last week, was buried Friday in an oversized gold casket valued at $30,000. Advertisement Carl Williams, who was beaten to death last week in Barwon Prison where he was serving the third year of a life sentence, was buried Friday in the gold casket at Keilor Cemetery in Essendon, the Sydney Morning Herald reported Friday. Williams' family followed the hearse to the cemetery Friday in a black stretch Hummer. Williams was convicted of four murders and was a suspect in at least six others. Widow keeping cutout of dead husband NESS, England, April 30 (UPI) -- A British widow said she has kept a life-size cardboard cutout of her husband since he died last year. Maria Challis, 36, of Ness, England, said the cutout of her late husband, Paul, 38, was made for his funeral in July 2009 and she could not bring herself to throw it away after the service, the Daily Record reported Friday. Advertisement Challis said she keeps the cutout in the family home she shares with children Jack, 7, and Molly, 9. "When you lose someone you love, you worry you'll forget them and this is our way of remembering Paul and keeping our precious memories of him alive," she said. "He was due to go to a friend's wedding some weeks after he died. He didn't make it but his cutout did. Some people might raise eyebrows but who is anyone to say what is the right and wrong way to deal with grief?" Designer axes sell for up to $500 TORONTO, April 30 (UPI) -- A Canadian company is creating designer wood-chopping axes starting at $200 and selling for up to $500 at a New York outlet. Graeme Cameron, 38, and Peter Buchanan-Smith, 38, the New York-based designer who paints, varnishes and stains the axes, said the tools are specially designed to cut through even the most difficult pieces of wood, the Toronto Star reported Friday. "Anyone who thinks it is just art is very wrong," Cameron said. "These are very powerful axes." The pair, who founded the company in May 2009, said their products, available only at Partners & Spade in New York, have been featured in design magazines, The New York Times and an upcoming design show in London. Advertisement Cameron said they have sold about 500 of the axes thus far. Bigamist busted by newspaper photo CONNINGHAM, Australia, April 30 (UPI) -- An Australian man pleaded guilty to bigamy after his first wife saw his second wedding photo in a newspaper and went to the police. Nicholas Trikilis, 44, of Conningham pleaded guilty to bigamy, forgery and giving false information in Hobart Magistrates Court, the Australian Broadcasting Corp. reported Friday. Trikilis forged divorce papers and married his second wife in 2008, court records showed. His first wife saw a wedding photo he submitted to a local newspaper and reported him to police. Magistrate Michael Daly sentenced Trikilis to six months in prison, which was suspended for five years, and ordered him to pay a fine of more than $1,800.
