Mother-of-two Lynda Donnelly (left and right) said she felt 'ridiculed' and treated 'like a fantasist' by London's Metropolitan Police as she fought to bring her rapist Pierre Bate (inset) to justice. The US native attacked her in her own home in July 1996 but ended up back in Los Angeles where he became a music producer and rubbed shoulders with Leonardo Di Caprio at Hollywood Parties. Finally in 2011 the Met's cold case team became involved and eventually found DNA evidence that saw Bate convicted of the crime at Southwark Crown Court earlier this year, where he was jailed for 24 years. ...read
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'I'm so lucky to be here. But there'll always be anger that the doctors missed my cancer': As he's rushed back to hospital, dying cancer boy whose appeal touched the world reveals the blunders that haunt him
Stephen Sutton (pictured and with his mother Jane inset) doesn’t believe in miracles. Or at least, he didn’t. ‘I am so lucky and so fortunate to be here. My cancer has taught me a lot about life,' he tells REBECCA HARDY during an emotional interview. But his mature equanimity wobbles ever so slightly when the 19-year-old, who has terminal bowel cancer, discusses how doctors disastrously missed his disease, misdiagnosing it as mere constipation for six months. Had this not occurred, he says, his prognosis might be very different. ‘On the whole, the NHS has been brilliant, but there will always be a kind of . . .’ He searches for the right word. ‘Well, probably just anger.’ ...read
How will children ever grow up if schools won't let them take risks? A passionate attack on politically correct nannying by the inspirational teacher sacked for allowing pupils to go
Richard Tremelling was sacked after allowing two 15-year-old boys from his GCSE class to ride on a sledge in the snow as part of a practical technology lesson. Although neither pupil suffered any injury and neither they nor their parents complained, the 37-year-old head of the design and technology department was sacked from his £40,000-a-year post for breaching health and safety policy. ...read
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