Minicab driver, Ashenafei Demissie, 53, was behind the wheel of a Volkswagen ID.4 when it suddenly accelerated forward, killing Fareed Amir and seriously injuring his son, on November 25 2022. During the weeklong trial at the Old Bailey, a prosecution crash expert told the court the collision occurred when Demissie had accidentally pressed the accelerator. However, Demissie maintained that the vehicle moved forward on its own, suggesting a possible software fault. After five hours of deliberation, the jury found him not guilty of causing death and serious injury by careless driving.
High Court enforcement agents, tasked with repossessing the premises due to unpaid rent and debts, had found the bodies of two elderly men. They felt immediate concern at the circumstances in which the bodies were being kept, Ms Bates said. Water was coming in through a leak in the roof of the mortuary room, it was running down the walls. The room was not refrigerated, the temperature within the mortuary room was no different to elsewhere in the premises.
"I'm trying to do my job. I am one of the few females doing it and I have already crossed over a lot of barriers. It's tough to do your job with that happening. "Fred and Rose West tortured, sexually abused and killed children, so I couldn't really work out why I was being called that. At first it was very, very harsh but then obviously it continued.
A woman on trial for allegedly stalking the parents of Madeleine McCann claiming to be their missing daughter sent them a letter signed Madeleine x and said she remembered being abducted from their holiday apartment in Portugal. Julia Wandelt, from Poland, is accused of stalking Kate and Gerry McCann over a period of two and a half years by contacting them hundreds of times and accosting them at their home, leaving them upset and worried about their safety.
The prosecution alleges Victoria died from hypothermia or was smothered while co-sleeping in a 'flimsy' tent after they took her off-grid in a bid to stop her from being taken into care.