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Wednesday, 29 January 2014

MPs should put their own House in order

According to the Public Accounts Committee, Her Majesty is being let down by her advisers, who have allowed the household reserves to decline to around

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Joanna Dennehy murders: Two men accused of helping serial killer will not give evidence in their defence

Two men accused of helping serial killer Joanna Dennehy will not give evidence in their defence, a jury heard yesterday.

Dennehy, 31, has admitted murdering three men and dumping their bodies in ditches.

Her alleged accomplices Gary Stretch, 47, and Leslie Layton, 37, are currently on trial.

Karim Khalil QC, acting for Stretch, told Cambridge Crown Court his client would not take the stand to give evidence.

Layton, who is represented by Christopher Morgan, made the same decision.

Closing the prosecution case, Andrew Jackson read out a telephone conversation Stretch made while in prison.

He called his ex-partner Julie Gibbons, who is the mother of his three children.

In it Ms Gibbons asked why Dennehy "did it."

Stretch responded: "Well she’s just that way, she’s just that way I suppose. You know what I mean, she's off her head."

Ms Gibbons said: "So why didn't you run a mile?

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Tuesday, 19 November 2013

Female serial killer admits murdering three men before dumping their bodies in ditches

By Alice Philipson

9:00PM GMT 18 Nov 2013

A female serial killer has pleaded guilty to murdering three men before dumping their bodies in ditches.

Joanna Dennehy stabbed her landlord Kevin Lee, 48, and housemates Lukasz Slaboszewski, 31, and John Chapman, 56, within days of each other.

The body of Mr Lee, who was a married father, was found stabbed to death in a roadside ditch in March. Four days later, a farmer found the corpses of the two other men in a remote dyke five miles away.

A post mortem found Mr Slaboszewski, who was unemployed, had been stabbed in the heart.

Dennehy, 30, from Peterborough, appeared in the dock in a white shirt with a star tattooed under her right eye. She stood alongside her boyfriend Gary Richards, who is 7ft 3in tall, and also known as Gary Stretch.

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19 Nov 2013

Multimillionaire couple told to pay

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Monday, 18 November 2013

Six-year-old's drawing of 'neighbours from hell' gets troublemakers kicked out of their home

"Gangs and loud music: The six-year-old's drawingMEN Syndication

A six-year-old's school drawing depicting her "neighbours from hell" helped get the trouble-makers kicked out of their home.

Mum-of-two Louise Thomas moved next door to Maria Jiminez in Manchester in May 2011.

But she struggled to call her new house home as Jiminez and her two teenage sons subjected their neighbours to all-night parties, loud music and fighting in the street.

Ms Thomas, 37, said their antics made life "unbearable" for her kids, and when one of their drawings describing the impact was flagged up to her by a teacher, she threw her weight behind an 11-month legal battle to have the problem family evicted.

Having been asked to draw events from their life, the youngster drew their new home in Hollinwood Avenue with the caption "New house, gangs and loud music".

It was used as part of evidence at Manchester Civil Justice Centre as Northwards Housing secured an eviction order again Jiminez, 45.

Ms Thomas said: "We moved in on the Thursday and that Saturday there was music and loud banging until 5am.

"They used to cut through gardens, urinate in our gardens, shout abuse up at the house and at my kids, jump on our cars, it was horrendous.

"My children were having to sleep in earmuffs and I think it's important to stand up to people like that."

Mike Stevens, director of neighbourhood services, added: "We are delighted the courts were able to act to rid this neighbourhood of such a selfish and anti-social character."

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Thursday, 14 November 2013

Camilla's candid comments show 'strength of their marriage'

The Duchess of Cornwall's candid but affectionate comments about Prince Charles shows "the strength of their marriage" and "the confidence she has in herself", says Telegraph's chief reporter Gordon Rayner 12:01AM GMT 14 Nov 2013

In an interview Cochin, India before leaving for Sri Lanka where the Prince will for the first time represent the Queen at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, the Duchess of Cornwall described the Prince as "exhausting and "difficult to buy birthday presents for".

Telegraph's chief reporter Gordon Rayner said she made the comments during a "very happy" off the cuff interview.

"The fact that she feels comfortable talking about him affectionately but in such candid terms shows no only the strength of their marriage after eight years but also the confidence she has in herself."

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Prince outspoken on 'hideous buildings'

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09 Nov 2013

The Prince's public and private personas

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Tuesday, 12 November 2013

Duchess of Cornwall meets Indian women supporting their families

"Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall attempts a hand gesture used in traditional dance as she poses with students during a visit to the Asha Sadan children's home in Mumbai" itemprop

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Another couple flee to France only to have their baby taken away

By Christopher Booker

6:23PM GMT 09 Nov 2013

Last year I reported the shocking story of Marie Black and Joe Ollis who escaped to France for the birth of their first child, after learning that Norfolk social workers intended to seize it at birth on the grounds that Marie had previously been in a violent relationship with another man, who was by then out of her life. The social workers tracked down the couple and, after baby Luna was born, returned, with the approval of a British judge, to deport the child to England.

Fortunately, the couple had been put in touch with a robust British solicitor, Brendan Fleming, who took their case to the High Court. Here, a more senior judge ruled that, since Luna was born in France and was therefore, under an EU law called Brussels II, “habitually resident” there, the British authorities had no jurisdiction over her. He ordered the social workers to return the baby to her parents in France.

Far from our social workers having learnt any lesson from this case, I have lately been following one which is almost a carbon copy. Another couple fearful that Bedfordshire social workers might seize their first child at birth, again on the grounds that the mother had previously been in an abusive relationship, set off to start a new life in France. A few days ago their baby was born in a French hospital, by caesarean section, and given a French birth certificate. The next day, the mother returned from a shower, covered only in a bath towel, to find her room filled with 10 French policemen and her baby gone.

The policemen were holding a piece of paper indicating that they had been sent by Interpol, at the instigation of the British authorities, to remove the child on the grounds that the mother was a dangerous woman who might harm her baby. The couple were shocked to see that much of the description of her was factually wrong. It was also clear that they could only have been traced by someone hacking into emails they had sent since their arrival in France. The French social workers had removed the baby on “orders from Britain”, but could not otherwise have been more friendly, allowing the couple to see their baby, who had been taken to an orphanage an hour’s drive away. They were horrified to see their child lying in a room full of cots containing other babies.

The mother had already been in touch with Marie Black and Brendan Fleming (although there is still no order from a British court to authorise all that has happened). When the couple appeared in a French court to contest the demand that their baby be deported, the judge was shown a statement citing the Marie Black judgment, making clear that, since Britain had no jurisdiction over the child, deporting her would be illegal. The judge, seemingly out of her depth, adjourned the case, suggesting that it should be heard by a more senior judge in three weeks’ time. We may hope that the new judge can recognise that the law is clear, and that the British authorities had no legal right to arrange what amounted to an act of kidnapping. Meanwhile, a note from Marie Black glowingly reports that 21-month-old Luna has just started attending a toddler group and that all is well. In due course,

And so the 30-year betrayal of our Armed Forces goes on

09 Nov 2013

Why do judges in our family courts ignore the law?

02 Nov 2013

Out to seize their children, courts hound a reformed family

19 Oct 2013

The social worker's petty power trip

12 Oct 2013

I hope to be able to report that this new case has come to a similarly happy ending.

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Wednesday, 23 October 2013

Bedroom Tax forcing poor to give up their family pets

23 Oct 2013 00:00Hundreds of families have been forced to leave their cherished pets at animal shelters since the hated tax was brought in - now the shelters are at breaking point