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Get you up to speed: Tributes flood in for ‘happy’ Postman hit and killed while walking home for dinner | News UK
Andrew Gardiner, a 59-year-old postman, was struck and killed by a car while walking home on Canterbury Road in Folkestone, Kent, on Sunday evening. A 49-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by careless driving and has been released on bail as investigations continue.
A 49-year-old man was arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of causing death by careless driving and has since been released on bail while inquiries continue. Kent Police’s Serious Collision Investigation Unit is seeking witnesses and dashcam footage related to the incident that occurred on Sunday evening.
Kent Police are continuing their investigation into the fatal collision that claimed the life of 59-year-old Andrew Gardiner, announcing that a 49-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of causing death by careless driving but has since been released on bail. Gardiner’s family has expressed their grief and is seeking support through a fundraiser to give him an appropriate farewell.
What remains unclear — It is unclear whether the arrested man will face charges following the ongoing investigation into the collision.
Tributes paid to beloved postman killed in Folkestone road collision
A beloved postman was killed after being hit by a car while walking home for dinner just weeks before his 60th birthday.
Andrew ‘Andy’ Gardiner, 59, died in the collision on Sunday around 6.39pm on Canterbury Road in Folkestone, Kent.
He was well known throughout Folkestone, where his family described him as the town’s ‘best-known postie’.
Andy, who was on foot, was reportedly struck by a black Volkswagen Sharan outside the Black Bull pub, near the junction with Downs Road.
He was treated by South East Coast Ambulance Service but was pronounced dead at the scene.
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Andy’s heartbroken daughter, Elli Gardiner, said: ‘The man who stayed by my side through everything, supported me through everything and held my hand at every step.
‘Less than six weeks short of 60 amazing years spent smiling, my dad was tragically taken from me, his grandson, his family, friends and loved ones.
‘Words cannot explain the pain I am feeling, the confusion, anger and shock running through me. He was loved by so many but I know the love he had for me and my son could never compare.
‘My dad was everything to me; his grandson idolised him and I cannot believe he is gone.’
His family said Andy loved running, football, music, the outdoors and socialising with friends. He had also been a long-serving member of Royal Mail.
In a tribute issued through Kent Police, they said: ‘Andy was an amazing father, grandfather, brother, partner, friend. Tragically taken too soon from all who knew and loved him.
‘Known for his infectious smile, his running, his football, his love of music and the outdoors and being the best-known postie in all of Folkestone.
‘Such a happy man with enough love to give to everyone around him. Rest in peace, Andy (AG) Gardiner. Forever loved and missed.’
Elli has launched a fundraiser to help give her father ‘the best send-off possible’.
She said Andy had made life happier for his daughter, grandson, partner, brothers, nieces, nephews and friends.
A 49-year-old man was arrested on Tuesday (3 November) on suspicion of causing death by careless driving.
Kent Police said he was subsequently released on bail while enquiries continue.
Officers from the Serious Collision Investigation Unit are appealing for witnesses and dashcam footage.
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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November 23, 2024
8:25 am
Defense alliance NATO chief Mark Rutte has met US President-elect Donald Trump to discuss global security issues, according to a NATO spokesperson.
The meeting took place in Palm Beach, Florida.
During his first term as US president, 2017-2020, Trump pushed for European NATO countries to spend more on defense and described the alliance’s cost-sharing as unfair to the US.
Rutte took over as NATO chief from Norwegian Jens Stoltenberg in November.
Before taking office in January, Trump has nominated Pete Hegseth for the post of defense secretary, which has raised eyebrows among many allies.
Hegseth, 44, has served as an infantry captain in Iraq and Afghanistan, but has no senior military or government officer experience.
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Multiple missiles were fired in an airstrike towards a densely populated part of Lebanon’s capital early on Saturday.
The huge airstrike targeted Beirut’s Basta neighbourhood, and no prior warnings were given by the Israeli military. The largely residential area was struck last month.
At least one violent explosion was heard across the city, Reuters witnesses said, and plumes of smoke could be seen. Scenes of massive destruction at the site were shared online, including a massive crater in the ground.
“Beirut, the capital, woke up to a horrific massacre, as the Israeli enemy’s air force completely destroyed an eight-story residential building with five missiles on Al-Mamoun Street in Basta,” the state-run National News Agency reported.
The health ministry put the initial death toll at four, with 23 wounded. The number is expected to climb in the coming hours as search and rescue efforts continue.
It came after a long day of Israeli airstrikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs, which have been non-stop since last week.
The cross-border fighting between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group escalated into a full-blown war in mid-September.
Israel has bombed southern Lebanon, Beirut’s southern suburbs and the eastern Beqaa region, and has sent ground troops across the border. Hezbollah has continued to fire rockets deeper into Israel.
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