1.   Earlier suggestions by some politicos that forgiveness and understanding would follow honest confession appear to have given way as opponents now assail him as a self-convicted liar.

2.   -- Police dug up parts of the bodies of a Yokohama lawyer and his wife at two separate mountain sites following confessions by AUM Shinrikyo members.

3.   The arrests followed the confessions of a Turkish Cypriot man who was detained earlier this week.

4.   Following his confession, Deputy Home Minister Megat Junid Ayub said it was up to Premier Mahathir Mohamad to decide whether the detainees could now be released.

5.   Following the confession of one of the seven involved in the murder, the three bodies were unearthed in remote mountains in central Japan in September.

6.   He therefore sentenced them to amputation following their confessions, quoting the Quran.

7.   In early December, Japanese police found the toxic VX gas in Tokyo, following a confession by a recently arrested Aum fugitive.

8.   Arsenal star Paul Merson agreed to take part in a rehabilitation programme here on Thursday following his confession to cocaine addiction last week.

9.   Police said the arrests followed confessions by three suspects implicated in an armed robbery in which an Asian shopkeeper was shot and wounded.

10.   The arrests were made following confessions by seven mafia turncoats.