Metro – ‘Brave Leah fought to the end’
The Metro reports on Leah Croucher, who a coroner has ruled was sexually assaulted and murdered by Neil Maxwell in February 2019. Ms Croucher’s body was discovered less than half a mile away from her home in October 2022 after she went missing while walking to work in February 2019. Neil Maxwell, who police believe ‘absolutely’ killed the 19-year-old, was convicted of a sex offence in February 2018 and jailed for rape in 2009. He killed himself two months after Leah’s disappearance.
(Today’s news summary – Paper Talk)
- Leah Croucher ‘killed by convicted rapist after trying to fight off sex attack’. Leah Croucher was murdered while trying to fight off a sex offender who killed himself while on the run from police, an inquest has heard.[https://metro.co.uk/2024/06/19/leah-croucher-killed-convicted-rapist-trying-fight-off-sex-attack-21064734/]
- Missing Jay Slater’s mum told ‘kiss goodbye to your boy’ in chilling Snapchat. The mum of a missing teenager, Jay Slater, in Tenerife has said she fears her son has been ‘taken against his will’ after she received a Snapchat message telling her to ‘kiss goodbye to your boy’.[https://metro.co.uk/2024/06/18/urgent-appeal-launched-british-teenager-missing-tenerife-21057775/?ico=top-stories_home_top]
- Oil well just outside London ‘should never have been given permission to expand’. Oil drilling in the UK faces an uncertain future after a new Supreme Court ruling saying permissions have to consider the impact of burning fossil fuels.[https://metro.co.uk/2024/06/20/oil-well-outside-london-never-allowed-expand-21070648/?ico=top-stories_home_top]
- Three gay men ‘hunted by pack of men with knives’ in a park. Three gay men have said they were ‘hunted’ as they walked through a park in Dublin by six men armed with knives.[https://metro.co.uk/2024/06/19/three-gay-men-hunted-men-knives-a-park-21068124/?ico=top-stories_news_top]
- At least 550 hajj pilgrims die after temperatures soar above 50°C at Mecca. It is believed 323 of those killed during the Hajj were Egyptian pilgrims, with around 60 Jordanians also succumbing to heat-related symptoms as temperatures in the Saudi Arabian holy land surged to over 50C throughout the week.[https://metro.co.uk/2024/06/20/550-hajj-pilgrims-die-mecca-temperatures-soar-past-50c-21070379/?ico=trending-module_category_news_item-1]
