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Black magic inLondon 伦敦巫术 Crimes of passion;The Boy in the River. ByRichard Hoskins. 激情犯罪;《河里的男孩》，理查德霍斯金斯著。 In the late 1980s Richard Hoskins, young andnewly married, spent six years as a missionary inBolobo, upriver from the Congolese capital,Kinshasa. Now back in Britain and something of anAfrica specialist, he advises the authorities on tribal and ritual crimes. In his new book, TheBoy in the River, Mr Hoskins argues that these atrocities are a perversion of African beliefsystems and highly unusual. 在二十世纪八十年代早期，年轻且新婚不久的理查德霍斯金斯，在博洛博做了六年的传教士，该地位于刚果首都，金沙萨市的上游。现今已返回英国，有几分非洲专家味道的他，在部落和宗教式犯罪问题上给当局提出相关建议。在他的新书《河里的男孩》中，霍斯金斯先生说这些暴行是对非洲信仰的一种曲解，是极不寻常的。 His first case, in 2002, involved the mutilated torso of a boy they named Adam, found inthe River Thames. The police thought it was a muti killing, a South African practice thatinvolves removing organs for use in tribal medicines. Mr Hoskins recognised that Adam was infact a human sacrifice by a Nigerian tribe. Hisevidence was the precise slit in the victims neck and a body drained of blooda divinetribute that is condemned as juju, or black magic, in West Africa. The boys killer has notyet been convicted, but the investigation did uncover a trafficking ring that smuggled Africanchildren to Britain for such ritualistic abuses. | 
