An actor comes to a sticky end.

The Torygraph describes them–barristers, a remnant of feudalism which, despite attempts to diversify the profession remains ‘male, public school and Oxbridge educated’–as ‘work-obsessed stars’. The poor loves:

The Bar, once the most fusty of professions, is being penetrated by young men who look like City traders–and some of whom are increasingly seen to be acting like their whizzkid financial equivalents.

But today it is still a profession shocked by the violent death earlier this week of Mark Saunders, an Oxford-educated barrister in one of London’s leading chambers, but who ended up shot dead by police at the end of a five-hour siege at his home in Chelsea.

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[C]ould it be that the peculiar stresses and strains of the barrister’s life may have contributed to Saunders’s violent end–what has been described as “suicide by cop”?

Exeunt omnes.