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• Weken voor haar overlijden liet Annabel Rook (46) uit Stoke Newington een spraakbericht achter voor haar zus over het misbruik door Clifton George. • De mede-oprichter van een sociale onderneming, die fataal werd neergestoken door haar partner, zei in een spraakbericht dat tijdens een moordproces werd afgespeeld, dat hij kort voor haar dood "op oorlogspad was". • Clifton George (45) wordt beschuldigd van de moord op de 46-jarige Annabel Rook tijdens een ruzie in hun woning in Noord-Londen afgelopen juni. Lees verder...

Judith Alexander describes how Kentish Town house owned by the prime minister was targetedThe prime minister’s sister-in-law has said she feared what might have happened had she not woken up after her home was targeted in an arson attack, a court has heard.The incident is one of a series of arson attacks that took place in May last year on property linked to Keir Starmer, which three men with links to Ukraine are accused of targeting. They deny all the charges. Continue reading...

Energy secretary says both he and the then foreign secretary were worried making Mandelson US envoy was riskyUK politics live – latest updatesEd Miliband and David Lammy discussed concerns about the appointment of Peter Mandelson as the UK’s ambassador to Washington which they feared could “blow up”, the energy secretary has revealed.Miliband said he had spoken to Lammy, who was foreign secretary at the time Mandelson was given the Washington post, with both expressing reservations. Continue reading...