Ex-DJ Ray Teret Guilty Of Rapes And Sex Attacks

Written By Unknown on Sabtu, 06 Desember 2014 | 10.03

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By Mike McCarthy, North of England Correspondent

Ray Teret, a close friend of disgraced DJ Jimmy Savile, has been found guilty of raping and indecently assaulting schoolgirls.

Teret, who was also a DJ, attacked 11 victims throughout the 1960s and 1970s.

A crown court jury in Manchester heard the 73-year-old used his status as a local celebrity to single out vulnerable girls in nightclubs and discos.

He took one victim back to his flat and raped her while Savile was present.

The court was told that after the attack Teret told the 15-year-old: "You should be thanking us."

A lawyer for one of Teret's victims and 169 of Savile's, Liz Dux, told Sky News Tonight: "This is the closest we are ever going to get to having Savile on trial.

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Ray Teret, a friend of Jimmy Savile, used his status as a local celebrity to single out vulnerable girls in nightclubs and discos

Teret was a DJ on the pirate station Radio Caroline. He also worked at Piccadilly Radio in Manchester and performed in nightclubs and youth discos run by Savile

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"Through the guilty verdict today, I know that the Savile victims will take some comfort that there has been a finding of guilt associated with Savile."

Teret, of Woodlands Road, Altrincham, told the court he had no interest in underage girls, despite being convicted for having sex with a 15-year-old girl in 1999, which he denies.

He denied 18 rapes, two other serious sexual assaults, one attempted rape, 12 indecent assaults and one count of indecency with a child.

The jury found him guilty of seven rapes and 11 indecent assaults and not guilty of one serious sexual assault in relation to 11 victims.

Teret was cleared of various sexual offences relating to six other complainants, and not guilty of aiding and abetting Savile to rape a 15-year-old girl in the early 1960s.

However, he was found guilty himself of raping the same girl.

Teret was a DJ on the pirate station Radio Caroline. He also worked at Piccadilly Radio in Manchester and performed in nightclubs and youth discos run by Savile.

One man who knew him well told Sky News: "He loved Savile to bits."

Video producer Lez Barstow worked with the DJ for 18 months in the 1990s, helping him to put together a showreel which Teret hoped would help kickstart a career in television.

Barstow said that Teret, whose nickname was "Ugly", had an inflated idea of his own attraction to the opposite sex.

"He always seemed a bit of a fantasist. Certainly he thought he was irresistible," she said.

"I remember one incident where he was talking about his sex life and he was boasting about his conquests saying he was having sex with four different women every day."

Teret's offences finally came to light following the publicity surrounding Jimmy Savile in 2011.

The first of his victims contacted police in October 2012 and Teret was arrested the following month.

According to police the ensuing publicity caused a domino effect, prompting a number of other victims to come forward.

Detective Chief Inspector Graham Brock of Greater Manchester Police said: "There are no positives to take from Savile's appalling crimes, but by prompting Teret's victims to come forward, someone who is still alive has now been brought before the courts and finally made to answer for their heinous crimes.

He added: "This was not the trial of Jimmy Savile ... we need to focus on the victims who not only suffered appalling abuse at the hands of Teret but also suffered in silence for decades, fearing they would not be believed, that it was their fault or that it would tear their families apart."

Teret will be sentenced later this month.

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Written By Unknown on Jumat, 05 Desember 2014 | 10.03

The body of a newborn baby has been discovered in a Bristol gorge just hours after 30-year-old mother Charlotte Bevan was found dead nearby.

Police say they are confident the infant is Ms Bevan's baby daughter, Zaani Tiana Bevan Malbrouck.

Ms Bevan, whose body was identified on Thursday afternoon, was filmed on CCTV walking out of Bristol Maternity Hospital on Tuesday carrying the child.

Detective Chief Inspector Simon Crisp said the infant's body was found near where officers located Ms Bevan.

"I regret to inform you that a short time ago on the cliff face close to Charlotte, the body of a small baby girl has been found," he said.

"No formal identification has so far taken place, but we anticipate that it is going to be Charlotte's daughter.

"We will be conducting an investigation on behalf of the coroner. At the moment we are not treating either death as suspicious."

A statement released by Ms Bevan's mother Rachel Fortune said: "My beautiful daughter and granddaughter are now at peace.

"The response and support from the public has been overwhelming and we would like to thank you all."

Ms Bevan's body was found in the Avon Gorge below the suburb of Clifton late on Wednesday.

She had walked out of hospital wearing no coat and hospital slippers, prompting fears for her safety.

Police had earlier informed the family that a body had been found.

Elizabeth Cairncross, headteacher of Wells Cathedral School, her former school, released a statement of condolence.

She said: "We all are deeply saddened at Wells to hear of Charlotte's tragic death.

"We remember Charlotte with great affection, and our thoughts and prayers are with her family at this terrible time."

Officers continued searching the steep sides of the gorge below the Bristol suburb of Clifton for the baby after the mother was found.

The baby's father Pascal Malbrouck told a news conference on Wednesday that he was very concerned about Ms Bevan as she had suffered from mental health problems.

Sky's Siobhan Robbins said one line of enquiry is focusing on the possibility that Ms Bevan may have stopped taking medication for the mental illness because she was breastfeeding.

Ms Bevan is believed to have been suffering from schizophrenia and depression and had been sleep deprived after giving birth.

A spokeswoman for University Hospitals Bristol Trust said a review of the care Ms Bevan and her baby received would be undertaken.

"We are deeply saddened to hear the news of the death of Charlotte Bevan and offer our heartfelt condolences to her family," the Trust spokeswoman said.

"While it remains unclear as to how Charlotte died, we will be conducting a thorough review of the care Charlotte and her baby received to see if there was anything we could have done to prevent this tragic and unexplained death."

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Hamas: Loss Of Hope Behind Jerusalem Violence

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By Tom Rayner, Middle East Reporter

The leader of Hamas has claimed rising violence in Jerusalem is the result of Palestinians having lost hope of any "just solution" to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

In an exclusive interview from his base in Qatar, Khalid Meshaal said recent deadly attacks against Israelis were the fault of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "playing with fire" by allowing right-wing activists to enter the Al Aqsa Mosque compound.

Mr Meshaal warned it could lead to "chaos in the region".

Israel has repeatedly accused Hamas of being behind attacks on civilians, and said Palestinian leaders were inciting violence by misrepresenting its policies regarding the sacred area, known to Jews as Temple Mount.

Hamas, deemed a terrorist organisation by EU governments and the US, has not claimed responsibility for the attacks - but Mr Meshaal refused to condemn them.

"The Palestinian people no longer have anything to lose in light of the continuation of the occupation and settlements, stealing the land, the attacks on the women and children and the Holy sites," he said.

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The motorist rammed into the crowd on a busy street and then got out of his vehicle to attack people with a metal bar. Israeli police shot him dead.

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"The reaction is spontaneous…The Israeli stubbornness, combined with the international impotence in solving the Palestinian issue with a just solution, which gives the Palestinian people their self-determination, and gets rid of occupation… will lead to chaos in the region, not just in the Palestinian arena, but to an open conflict - a blood-bath."

"We warn against keeping the Palestinian issue with no solution and stripping the Palestinian people of hope," said the Hamas leader.

"Those betting on a security solution for stopping the resistance, by hunting its leadership and blocking weapons coming to its fighters, through the security cooperation of the Palestinian Authority with the Israelis, with regional and international cooperation - all of this has proven useless.

"Because when public anger reaches its limit it explodes on its own, and expresses itself in ways that surprises everyone."

Read the full transcript of the Sky News interview with Khalid Meshaal

Mr Meshaal, who leads the political wing of the group, said Hamas remained committed to reconciliation with President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party.

He described it as a "national necessity" despite the apparent deterioration of relations following bombings targeting the property of Fatah officials in Gaza.

He also claimed Hamas was committed to the goal of a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders - a position Mr Meshaal said was enshrined in Palestinian reconciliation agreements signed with Fatah and other factions - but that it would remain committed to "armed-resistance" until it was achieved.

When asked whether this made the prospect of resolution impossible, Mr Meshaal said: "Put Hamas aside, what about Mr Mahmoud Abbas?

"He has positions which satisfy Western and American standards. And with all this, what has Netanyahu done in return? Nothing.

"Therefore the problem is not the Palestinian position, whether from Fatah or Hamas, or the leadership, the fault is Netanyahu's position."

Mr Meshaal also welcomed the recent symbolic votes in the France and UK parliaments supporting recognition of a Palestinian state.

He described them as "excellent developments", adding: "the world has started understanding the justice of the Palestinian cause".

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Written By Unknown on Kamis, 04 Desember 2014 | 10.03

The body of a woman has been found by police searching for a missing mother and her newborn daughter.

The body was found in Avon Gorge and police have said the family of Charlotte Bevan has been informed.

A police spokesman said: "The police helicopter remains in the area to assist the continuing searches by police officers on the ground."

Formal identification will take place later.

The 30-year-old left Bristol Maternity Hospital between 8.30pm and 9pm on Tuesday night with her four-day-old baby girl, Zarnee Teanna.

CCTV footage showed her wearing hospital slippers and with her baby in her arms wrapped only in blankets.

The baby's father Pascal Malbrouck told a news conference on Wednesday that he was very concerned about her as she had suffered from mental health problems.

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Vicar And Daughter Held In Baby Murder Probe

A vicar, along with his wife and daughter, are being questioned by police over the suspicious death of a baby boy.

Rev Jim Percival was arrested, together with his 28-year-old daughter, Ruth, on suspicion of murder, conspiracy to conceal the birth of a child and sexual offences.

Susan, his wife, only faces questions about the alleged concealment.

Officers have been granted an additional 30 hours to talk to them after they were held on Tuesday in Freckleton, Lancashire, where Rev Percival is the vicar of Holy Trinity CE Church.

Officers had been called to a property - thought to be the vicarage - on 25 November, in response to reports that a woman had suffered a stillbirth.

In a statement, Lancashire Constabulary said: "When police attended, the body of a newly born baby boy was discovered at the address and an investigation was launched.

"The baby's mother, a 28-year-old woman, was taken by ambulance to Blackpool Victoria Hospital where she was treated and later released.

"Following numerous inquiries, the death of the baby boy is now being treated as suspicious. A post-mortem examination has been carried out and the cause of death is currently inconclusive."

One of their neighbours said: "They are a quiet family. I didn't even know the daughter was pregnant."

The Diocese of Blackburn has confirmed it "is aware of the situation regarding Rev Jim Percival and his family" and is working "closely" with police.

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Osborne 'To Stay On Course To Prosperity'

Written By Unknown on Rabu, 03 Desember 2014 | 10.03

By Darren McCaffrey, Sky Political Reporter

Around a billion pounds of investment for small and medium sized businesses, relief on petrol prices and changes to business rates to help the High Street are just some of the Austumn Statement measures to be announced later.

Plans to make stamp duty more progressive, easing the bill for people buying at the bottom end of the market but with possible heavier charges on more expensive homes, could also be unveiled by George Osborne later in what has been described as the "Government's last big economic event".

The Chancellor will say: "Our long-term economic plan is working. I say: we stay the course. We stay the course to prosperity.

"We support people who want to work hard and get on. And it is for their sakes that we resolve to stay on course to prosperity."

The Treasury and the Bank of England have agreed to extend the Funding For Lending (FLS) scheme by another year to January 2016 - underwriting loans specifically for smaller firms.

George Osborne is also allocating an extra £400m to expand the state-owned British Business Bank's venture capital programme.

And it will be handed funding to guarantee up to £500m of new lending in 2015-16.

The Chancellor is also expected to scrap the Fair Fuel Stabiliser, which would have seen petrol prices increase by 1p next March.

Air Passenger Duty on children's flights is also due to be abolished, which could reduce the cost of long haul flights by hundreds of pounds for families.

And there could be help for the High Street, with a review of business rates and how it is calculated due to be completed by early 2016. Rising rates have in part been blamed for hitting traditional town centre shops.

The Chancellor is expected to have to acknowledge that net borrowing will miss targets and reach about £90bn – greater than the £86.5bn predicted in March during the budget.

Lower tax revenues as a result of an increase in low paid jobs and continued high social security bills will only increase pressure on future budgets, meaning possible further cuts or tax increases.

Shadow chancellor Ed Balls, speaking ahead of the Autumn Statement, accused the Conservative party of shaping the wrong sort of economy recovery.

He said: "David Cameron and George Osborne have now failed every test and broken every promise they made on the economy.

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Osborne Pledges More An 'Autumn Restatement'

So far it has been more of the Autumn Restatement than anything else - with the big headline numbers on road building and flood defences already known.

A third of the extra £2bn for the NHS already exists. Even the headline measures of what the tabloids will call a "White Van Man" Budget, on fuel duty and air passenger duty for children, are small fry.

Approving the principle of devolving corporation tax to Northern Ireland is a significant step in the context of the Democratic Unionist Party's possible parliamentary bargaining power.

The Scottish government too has shown its concerns.

And watch out for the impact of the Welfare Cap.

A series of fascinating discussions have gone on between the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) and the Department for Work and Pensions.

Essentially the OBR will judge whether capped welfare (excluding pensions) can be kept under £119.5bn next year.

The big picture will be a fiscal announcement with no net giveaways - basically fiscally neutral - but perhaps even a small symbolic takeaway.

That is because, as we know, the cupboard remains bare even after four years of deficit reduction.

So the main story will be the big macroeconomic numbers. There will be a lot to boast about.

From the best growth figures in the G7 to the extraordinary jobs numbers. But given that, the deficit numbers and poor tax receipts cancelled any hope for proper pre election goodies.

Nigel Lawson's pre-election income tax cut of 2p in the pound was never going to be repeated, except as a vague conditional Conservative Conference aspiration.

For there is a nagging doubt at the heart of the Conservatives. After a year of recovery and a rapid rise in the feel good factor (measured by consumer confidence) and rises in house prices, Conservative poll ratings have remained stubbornly anchored in the low 30s. The feel good factor is missing in action.

That rise in consumer confidence flattened out in the summer, and is now dipping slightly. Black clouds are emerging from the continent.

More than that, the Miliband economic narrative on "cost of living crisis" remains strong, even if not all those who believe it will vote Labour.

Economic pessimists are fuelling UKIP's surge up the polls.

The sight of the Chancellor and Prime Minister apparently crowing about macroeconomic success has not been a vote winner in these circumstances.

It did not work in a thoroughly normal constituency such as Rochester and Strood.

So yes, the aim of this Autumn Statement will be to get the argument away from Europe and immigration and on to the economy.

But, Mr Osborne will also try to modulate the boasts. The argument to be made will be a relative one.

People might not feel it everywhere, but a corner has been turned, and if they don't feel good, at least they might feel less bad than they would under "an untested Opposition with no economic plan".

That is more "feel better" than necessarily "feel good".

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Drug Addiction Treatment Doubles In 10 Years

Written By Unknown on Selasa, 02 Desember 2014 | 10.03

By Nick Martin, Sky News Correspondent

The number of adults seeking treatment for heroin and crack cocaine addiction in England has more than doubled in 10 years, new figures have revealed.

While the total number of heroin and crack cocaine addicts has fallen below 300,000 for the first time since estimates began, there is a generation still hooked - the so-called Trainspotting Generation.

The disaffected, heroin-addicted young people immortalised in Irvine Welsh's bestselling novel are getting older.

More than a third of the total population of adults in treatment centres are aged 40 or over, according to Public Health England.

Many started using heroin in the epidemics of the 1980s and 1990s when good-quality, cheap opiate flooded the inner cities.

But as they enter old age there are warnings that dwindling health and dependence on heroin could place an increased burden on the National Health Service.

Louise Ford, deputy manager at the Smithfield Detox Centre in Manchester, told Sky News: "For many people of this age group there is a sense of 'now or never' in finally getting the treatment they need.

"For the over-40s is could be redundancy, bereavement or failing health that finally prompts them to come in for help. The treatment is not easy and many relapse."

For those who have not sought treatment, life is a cycle of "scoring" heroin and finding the money to pay for it.

Homeless Paul, 42, has been taking heroin since he was 17 years old.

His partner Jill, 39, was introduced to the drug at the age of 13. They take heroin in the back streets of Manchester's city centre.

He said: "I had a good life, what you'd call an average life, a car, a flat. I got laid off last year. I had never been out of work before.

"Now I wake up, go and score, go and take it, go and find a pitch and start raising money again to score again and that goes on and on.

"If I don't get help now I'll still be doing this into my 50s and 60s and I don't want that. Heroin just makes you feel bad when you don't have it. It doesn't make you feel good anymore."

But there is hope in the form of recovered addicts like Steve Cundell, who first dabbled in heroin so that he could come down from ecstasy fuelled raves in the 1980s.

He went from experimenting to dealing in a matter of weeks.

He said: "I thought it wouldn't grip me but it did and very, very fast.

"I decided the best way to get my supply was to start dealing in it. My every waking hour was consumed by heroin.

"It used to play on my mind so much that I was getting older and older and I had not achieved anything - that I was going to wake up one day 65 or 70 years old still on heroin."

Mr Cundell is now a peer mentor on a rehabilitation course run by Turning Point and tries to help others.

He added: "I like to think I have something to give back and it helps my recovery - because I'm not out of the woods yet."

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Cancer Doctor Jailed For Child Sex Attacks

A children's doctor who sexually abused 18 boys in his care has been sentenced to 22 years in prison.

Dr Myles Bradbury carried out examinations on children "purely for his own sexual gratification" and with no medical justification, Cambridge Crown Court heard.

The cancer specialist admitted 25 offences in September involving 18 boys aged 10 to 16 whom he had treated while working as a paediatric haematologist at Addenbrooke's Hospital in the city.

The abuse included seven counts of sexual assault and 12 of engaging in sexual activity with a child.

Sentencing him, Judge Gareth Hawkesworth said: "For a doctor to attack children in this way is one of the worst forms of sexual abuse imaginable.

"These boys were all vulnerable and gravely ill. In all my years on the bench, I have never come across such a grotesque betrayal of your Hippocratic oath."

The judge said Bradbury's sentence would be reduced because of his early guilty pleas, although "some might observe" that the weight of evidence meant he had little option but to admit the offences.

Victims' lawyer Renu Daly said the families were "relieved" that Bradbury had been given a lengthy jail term as it meant he would be unable to harm more children.

His victims included children with haemophilia, leukaemia and other serious illnesses, some of whom have since died.

Bradbury, a married 41-year-old father-of-one from Herringswell, Suffolk, would abuse the boys on occasions when "the parent was a curtain away".

He would also secretly film them using a camera pen, and more than 16,000 images were found on a disc at his home.

Bradbury was described as "a man of great charm and persuasiveness" whom everybody trusted.

When one victim raised concerns with his mother, she said: "He's a doctor, it must be necessary."

Prosecutor John Farmer said Bradbury had a "longstanding, unlawful, sexual interest in boys" and abused them "for his own personal gratification".

The Crown Prosecution Service in the East of England said it was "one of the worst" cases of a breach of trust it had ever prosecuted.

Bradbury's barrister, Angela Rafferty, said in mitigation that his guilty pleas had spared his victims the ordeal of having to give evidence.

Bradbury accepts that what he did was "repugnant", Ms Rafferty told the court.

The offences were carried out over four-and-a-half years from 2008.

Bradbury's crimes came to light in November 2013 after an 11-year-old told his grandmother about what had happened during a visit and how he had been told to keep it a secret.

Bradbury was suspended by Addenbrooke's before being arrested the following month.

Dr Keith McNeil, chief executive of the Cambridge University Hospitals Trust, said: "Our thoughts today are with our patients and families who were victims of Bradbury's shocking and cynical abuse.

"Today's sentencing of Bradbury cannot undo the damage he caused but he is finally behind bars and is no longer a risk to vulnerable children.

"The lengthy sentence shows Bradbury's abhorrent betrayal and manipulation of his position as a doctor has been fully recognised."

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Ferguson Officer Quit Because Of 'Threats'

Written By Unknown on Senin, 01 Desember 2014 | 10.03

Ferguson Officer Quit Because Of 'Threats'

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By Sky News US Team

The white officer who shot dead black teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, quit because of threats against the police department, his lawyer has said.

Darren Wilson's resignation with immediate effect was announced on Saturday, four months after the confrontation that fuelled violent protests in the St Louis suburb and across the US.

Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson told a news conference on Sunday: "The threats (from protesters) have been egregious and counselling is available to the officers."

He was joined by Ferguson Mayor James Knowles, who said Mr Wilson, 28, received no severance payment package.

The city leader also unveiled proposals to boost the number of black members on the community's police force, including a stipend for officers who live locally.

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Protests have been held across the US after a white officer was not charged for shooting unarmed black 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri

Some of the most violent rallies were in San Francisco. Here a police officer on a motorcycle confronts protesters

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Protesters face off with police in front of the Westfield Mall in San Francisco

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Mr Wilson's attorney, Neil Bruntrager, told the Associated Press news agency his client stepped aside after the department told him of the unspecified threats.

"The information we had was that there would be actions targeting the Ferguson (police) department or buildings in Ferguson related to the police department," Mr Bruntrager said.

A grand jury declined last Monday to bring charges against Mr Wilson, who had been on administrative leave since the shooting on 9 August.

Mr Wilson, who had been with the department for less than three years, told the St Louis Post-Dispatch: "I'm not willing to let someone else get hurt because of me."

According to the newspaper, his resignation letter to the Ferguson force read: "It is my hope that my resignation will allow the community to heal."

Benjamin Crump, a lawyer for Michael Brown's family, said Mr Wilson's resignation was not a surprise.

"It was always believed that the police officer would do what was in his best interest, both personally and professionally," Mr Crump said.

"We didn't believe that he would be able to be effective for the Ferguson community nor the Ferguson Police Department because of the tragic circumstances that claimed the life of Michael Brown Jr."

The US Justice Department is still conducting a civil rights investigation into the shooting and a separate probe of police department practices.

Mr Wilson began his career in nearby Jennings before moving to the Ferguson job a few years ago.

He had no previous complaints against him and a good career record, according to Chief Jackson, who described Mr Wilson as "an excellent police officer".

A few months before the shooting, Mr Wilson had received a commendation for detaining a suspect in a drugs case.

An American flag was burned during the most recent protests outside police headquarters in Ferguson on Saturday night, when two people were arrested.

Ten people were meanwhile arrested at a Ferguson-inspired demonstration in Portland, Oregon, after a rally at which civil rights leader Rev Jesse Jackson spoke.

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