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Captain Tom’s family made more than £1m through link to charity, damning report finds Captain Tom Moore’s family “repeatedly benefited” financially from a charity created in his name, engaging in a “pattern of behaviour” that saw them personally earn more than £1m from their involvement, a highly critical report has found. Hannah Ingram-Moore and her husband Colin, who are now disqualified from serving as charity trustees, had allowed the public to “understandably feel misled” after sales from the Second World War veteran’s autobiography were not donated to the charity. The Charity Commission found that Ms Ingram-Moore had set out expectations for a £150,000 salary as CEO, and that the couple had used the charity’s name “inappropriately for private benefit” to erect a spa building in the garden of their Grade II listed home in Bedfordshire. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/captain-tom-hannah-ingram-moore-charity-report-b2650393.html
International news continues to dominate the UK newspaper front pages this morning as events across the Middle East continue to unfold as do updates into the shooting death of American healthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
In domestic news, the government has plans to open 14,000 more prison places and government departments have recommended a pay rise of 2.8% for millions of public sector workers including teachers, NHS staff and senior civil servants next year.
Last night’s Champions League matches make the back pages with Liverpool’s 1-0 win – continuing their perfect start to the campaign – leading most sports pages.
‘Aftermath of Assad fall’
‘Israeli strikes on Syria’s naval fleet is new turmoil in the Middle East,’ says the i.
The i newspaper reports on strikes against Syria’s naval fleet by Israel and Kurdish positions in the north of the country by Turkey, saying there is a “new turmoil” in the Middle East.
‘Israel bombed weapons silos to stop equipment falling into hands of terrorists,’ says The Times.
The Times says Israel bombed hundred of weapons of silos, warplanes, and tanks, quoting the Israeli military saying it wanted to stop the equipment “falling into the hands of terrorist elements”.
Israel has acknowledged that some of its troops have moved beyond a UN buffer zone on the Syrian side of the border but insists it does not intend to march on Damascus, the paper says. The Israeli PM is quoted saying Israel will “do what is necessary to ensure our security.”
‘Israel says they are not a side in this conflict,’ The Guardian says.
The Guardian’s front page quotes Israeli military spokesperson Lt Col Nadav Shoshani as saying “We are not involved in what’s happening in Syria internally,” he says. “We are not a side in this conflict and we do not have any interest other than protecting our borders and the security of our citizens.”
‘Syrian rebels drawing up hit list of those who tortured and killed for Assad regime,’ says the Mirror.
The Daily Mirror says rebels in Syria are drawing up a hit list of people who tortured and killed the Assad regime. The paper says up to 157,000 people might have disappeared after being detained by government forces and bounties are being offered for their capture.
‘CEO shooting suspect to plead not guilty’
‘Mangione manifesto apologises for strife and trauma caused,’ notes the Metro.
The Metro leads with the latest in the Brian Thompson killing. The paper says the man accused of killing the US healthcare CEO, Luigi Mangione, 26, was arrested at a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania. Mangione was found with a three-page handwritten document saying: “I apologise for any strife and trauma, but it had to be done”, the paper says.
Online, the papers continue their coverage.
‘Mangione to plead not guilty,’ says The Guardian.
The Guardian notes Mangione is expected to plead not guilty and will continue to fight extradition to New York.
‘Mangione fiery court appearance as he’s dragged into court,’ says The Independent.
The Independent reports on Luigi Mangione’s fiery court appearance, noting he shouted to reporters – “It’s completely out of touch and an insult to the intelligence of the American people and their lived experience!” – as police dragged him into court.
October 12, 2024
6:18 am
‘Cheer up, you caught the bad guy,’ says killer Virginia McCullough as she is arrested for murdering her parents
A woman who murdered her parents “in cold blood” before hiding them in makeshift tombs for four years told officers to “cheer up, you caught the bad guy” as she was arrested in her home.
Virginia McCullough, 36, poisoned her father John McCullough, 70, with prescription medication and fatally stabbed her mother Lois McCullough, 71, shortly afterwards in 2019.
She ran up large debts on credit cards in her parents’ names and after their deaths, she continued to spend their pensions until she was finally caught in 2023.
In body-worn video footage released by police, a handcuffed – and eerily calm – McCullough told officers: “I did know that this would kind of come eventually.
“It’s proper that I serve my punishment.”
She said she had slipped something into her father’s drink then put his body under a bed on the ground floor, and put her mother’s body in an upstairs wardrobe.
McCullough, having been arrested on suspicion of double murder, told an officer: “Cheer up, at least you’ve caught the bad guy.”
She added: “I know I don’t seem 100% evil.”
At the police station, she told officers where a kitchen knife was, which she described as a “murder weapon”, and a hammer which she said “will still have blood on it”.
McCullough, of Pump Hill, Chelmsford, Essex, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Friday with a minimum term of 36 years at Chelmsford Crown Court, after she admitted to their murders between 17 and 20 June 2019 at an earlier hearing at the same court.
Chelmsford Crown Court heard how she hid their bodies in makeshift tombs at the family home in Great Baddow in Essex, then told persistent lies to cover her tracks.
The court heard she cancelled family arrangements and frequently told doctors and relatives her parents were unwell, on holiday or away on lengthy trips.
But concerns over Mr and Mrs McCullough’s welfare were raised in September 2023 by a GP at their registered practice, and Essex County Council’s safeguarding team referred these to police.
The GP had not seen the couple for some time and said Mr McCullough had failed to collect medication and attend scheduled appointments. It was found McCullough had frequently cancelled appointments, using a range of excuses to explain her father’s absence.
Police said a missing persons investigation was initially launched and McCullough lied to officers, claiming her parents were travelling and would be returning in October.
It became a murder investigation, and when officers forced entry to the house in Pump Hill on September 15 2023, McCullough confessed that her parents’ bodies were in the house and that she had killed them.
Nicola Rice, a specialist prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service, said: “McCullough callously and viciously killed both of her parents before concealing their bodies in makeshift tombs within their home address.
“She spent the next four years manipulating and lying to family members, medical staff, financial institutions, and the police, spending her parents’ money and accruing large debts in their name.”
She added: “This was a truly disturbing case, which has left behind it a trail of devastation, and I can only hope that the sentence passed today will help those who loved and cared for Lois and John begin to heal.”
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December 14, 2024
11:54 am
Welsh public bodies ‘could be shortchanged on NI hike’
Mark Drakeford told the Senedd’s finance committee the cost of workers within the Office for National Statistics definition of a public sector employee will be covered by the UK treasury.
Andrew Jeffreys, director of the Welsh treasury, explained the UK Government plans to use the Barnett formula to decide how much Wales will receive based on the costs in England.
But Prof Drakeford said: “That’s not my position … if public authorities in England are getting 100% compensation then public authorities in Wales should have 100 percent.
Welsh public bodies ‘could be shortchanged on NI hike’
“The Barnett share may turn out to be less than we need in Wales.
“That would seem to me fundamentally unfair if English public authorities know they’re getting everything covered and in Wales we’re left filling gaps.”
He added: “If things worked out in the way we just described where Wales doesn’t have full cover but English public authorities do …, I won’t simply be leaving it there.”
MS for South Wales East Peredur Owen Griffiths, who chairs the committee, raised a warning from Ynys Môn council of a “gaping hole” in the budget that leaves local authorities facing an existential crisis.
He said councils could be put in an invidious position of having to balance books, potentially making jobs redundant, in the interim before clarity on compensation in May or June.
December 14, 2024
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December 14, 2024
11:51 am
Brexit reset: five business leaders on how they’d like relations with the EU to change
Rachel Reeves has spoken of a reset in EU relations. Here, experts in everything from music to farming explain what they hope it will mean
Earlier this week, the UK chancellor, Rachel Reeves, said she was hoping talks in the new year could lead to an extensive “reset” of post-Brexit relations.
The remarks were seized on by leave supporters who fear a betrayal of the referendum vote, while others argue Reeves won’t go nearly far enough.
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Brexit reset: five business leaders on how they’d like relations with the EU to change
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/dec/14/brexit-reset-five-business-leaders-on-how-theyd-like-relations-with-the-eu-to-change
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