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• Lauren Ashley Mastrosa recibió una orden de corrección comunitaria de 18 meses después de que su libro fuera leído por un pequeño grupo de lectores anticipados • La autora de una novela ofensiva que describe juegos de rol de niños pequeños ha sido condenada, pero evitará la cárcel por redactar material de abuso infantil. • Lauren Ashley Mastrosa, exejecutiva de marketing de 34 años para una organización benéfica cristiana, escribió Daddy’s Little Toy bajo el seudónimo de Tori Woods y lo publicó a través de un adelanto en línea en marzo de 2025. Continuar leyendo...

• La confesión de Jay Bryant se produjo más de dos décadas después del asesinato del rapero, aunque no mencionó a otros implicados. • Casi un cuarto de siglo después de que la estrella del rap Jam Master Jay, de Run-DMC, fuera abatida a tiros, un hombre admitió ante el tribunal el lunes su participación en un crimen que frustró a los investigadores durante décadas. • Jay Bryant se declaró culpable de un cargo federal de asesinato, informando a un juez que ayudó a otras personas a entrar en un estudio de grabación para emboscar al DJ, nacido como Jason Mizell.

Not using capital punishment ‘really a requirement’ for Council of Europe’s parliamentary assembly, says presidentIsrael’s observer status at the Council of Europe’s parliamentary assembly could be suspended over the country’s new law mandating the death penalty for Palestinians convicted of some offences, the president of the body has said.Petra Bayr, an Austrian Social Democrat and president of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (Pace), said not using the death penalty was “really a requirement” of having observer status at the pan-European human rights body, which has no connection to the EU. Continue reading...

Ex-civil servant testifying about Peter Mandelson says there was a ‘creep’ of senior diplomatic roles going to political figuresUK politics live – latest updatesDowning Street asked the Foreign Office to find a senior diplomatic role for Keir Starmer’s then communications chief, Matthew Doyle, the department’s former lead civil servant revealed on Tuesday.Testifying to MPs at parliament’s foreign affairs select committee, Olly Robbins said he had had several conversations with No 10 about finding a role for Doyle, who was later suspended as a Labour peer after it emerged he had campaigned for a friend charged with possessing indecent images of children. Continue reading...

Exclusive: deputy prime minister says it is ‘inexplicable’ top civil servant kept Downing Street in darkKeir Starmer would have blocked Peter Mandelson from serving as the UK’s ambassador to Washington had he known he failed security vetting, David Lammy has said, as he attempted to shore up the prime minister amid damaging fallout from the row.In his first public comments on the vetting affair, Lammy said it was “inexplicable” that Oliver Robbins, the former top civil servant who was forced out of the Foreign Office this week, had opted to leave Downing Street in the dark over the outcome. Continue reading...

Exit of former Newsnight editor after eight years comes after appointment of new chief executive Priya DograChannel 4’s content chief, Ian Katz, who holds responsibility for the broadcaster’s £650m annual programming budget and output, is to leave after almost nine years in the post.Katz, a former senior executive at the Guardian, became the channel’s director of programmes in January 2018, having moved from being the editor of BBC’s Newsnight. Continue reading...

Report finds there were dozens of warning signs about Axel Rudakubana as far back as 2019 and identifies five main failures of those involvedSouthport attack blamed on ‘catastrophic’ failures by agencies and killer’s ‘irresponsible’ parentsIt took seconds for Axel Rudakubana to carry out one of the most barbaric attacks on children in modern British history.Yet by the time he entered that joy-filled holiday club, where young girls sat making Taylor Swift bracelets, his deadly intentions had been known for years. Continue reading...