Friday, 27 June 2014

MAN DIED AFTER MINUTES OF SENDING HIM TO JAIL



Authorities in Cleveland say a man collapsed and died outside a courtroom minutes after a judge sentenced him to 60 days in jail for trying to restrain and kiss a 14-year-old girl.
The coroner's office was expected to determine why 51-year-old Miguel Aybar died Wednesday morning.
The Northeast Ohio Media Group reports that Aybar was in handcuffs when he slumped to the floor in the hallway outside the courtroom.
Judge Michelle Denise Earley had sentenced Aybar after he was found guilty of a third-degree misdemeanor charge of unlawful restraint. He was accused of restraining the 14-year-old girl and trying to kiss her on the mouth.

MAN IN SUSPECT OF KILLING FOOTBALLER SON RE-ARRESTED



A man charged with killing the 2-year-old son of Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson in South Dakota last fall was ordered held on $1 million cash-only bond Wednesday following accusations that he assaulted the boy's mother this week.
Authorities say Joseph Patterson, 28, attacked Ann "Ashley" Doohen. Patterson was arrested on charges of kidnapping, aggravated assault, interference with emergency communication and injury to property.
Patterson had been free on $750,000 bond while he awaits an October trial on charges including murder in the death of Tyrese Ruffin in Sioux Falls last October. Patterson was living with Doohen at the time of the boy's death and was alone with the toddler at the time of the incident. Police say Patterson hit the child in the head with a steel rod.
Vikings star Peterson had just recently found out that Tyrese was his son.
The prosecution on Wednesday in court said Patterson allegedly went to Doohen's apartment and terrorized her, twice choking her and once leaving her unconscious. She was able to call a relative, and her parents contacted police.
Minnehaha County State's Attorney Aaron McGowan told the presiding judge that Patterson held Doohen at the apartment for more than an hour and caused her physical injuries.
"The victim had ligature marks on her neck," McGowan said. He added that despite signing a no-contact order with the victim, Patterson still texted Doheen within an hour of Wednesday's court hearing.
Judge Joni Cutler imposed the $1 million bond after Patterson's attorney, Ken Tschetter, waived bond arguments.
"Mr. Patterson is a danger to both the victim and the community," Cutler said.

FOUR YEAR OLD GIRL FOUND UNCONSCIOUS AT THE BOTTOM OF A SWIMMING POOL






A FOUR-YEAR-OLD girl is fighting for her life in a Barcelona hospital after being found unconscious at the bottom of a swimming pool in Spain.
Little Cally Simpson was on holiday in the Spanish resort of Salou with her dad Steven when tragedy struck.
The toddler, from Arbroath, was pulled from the pool and attempts were made to resuscitate her.
She is now in intensive care after being rushed to hospital in nearby Barcelona.
It's understood doctors are preparing to bring Cally out of an induced coma.
A Facebook page, Saving Cally Simpson, has been set up to raise funds to allow her mother to travel to Spain to be with her daughther.
The latest post reads: "Quick update they are way to start raisin cally b's temp and slowly takin her off meds so lets get praying people thanks again 4 all urn support xxxxx."
Messages of support have also been left on the site.
Louise Cargill wrote: "Come on cally auntie lous needing to see that cheeky smile love u loads xxxxx."
Yvonne Bannister added: "Come on callybee wake up sweetie x alibee needs her wee pal xxxxxxx."
Family friend Koula McCracken said the whole of Arbroath is praying for Cally.
She said: "Everyone is praying for Cally to pull through.
"We all did a whip round so Kate has money when she is in Spain. Kate is an amazing mum and Cally is her world."
The Foreign Office confirmed they were providing consular assistance to the family.

KFC STAFF SERVE DEEP FRIEDPAPER TOWEL TO YOUNG BOY




A seven-year-old boy got more than he bargained for after biting into a deep-fried paper towel at KFC.
Krystal Henderson, 29, purchased a chicken meal as a treat for her step-son Oliver Hallam from the Killingworth branch on Tyne and Wear.
To her disgust instead of finger-licking meat, the child instead locked his lips around a finger-wiping blue hand roll.
Nursery nurse Krystal, from Gosforth, Newcastle, said: "I got a shock. I thought the actual chicken had gone off. All it was inside was deep fried blue roll.
"If it was bad chicken they might have just had a bad batch or something, but the blue roll could have been used for anything - it could have bleach or disinfectant on it
"I didn't know where the blue roll had been because it was screwed up. Had someone wiped their hands on it, had it been used to wipe the floor?
"To give that to a child, I felt so guilty even though it wasn't my fault. For a child to bite into that is horrendous.
"When he bit into it, it was rock hard. He pulled it out of his mouth and when he did, it pulled away the batter - you could see the blue roll inside.
"If you bite into something that awful you are just taken back."
The mother-of-two bought the meal as a takeaway to eat at home.


But as Oliver went to tuck into one of the four boneless pieces of chicken - bought for £1.99 - he noticed something was amiss.
After realising what it was inside, Krystal returned to the restaurant but was simply told to call customer support.
"I was traumatised by it - I was really upset," she said. "I went back into the store crying at they said I had to call customer service.
"I had to keep ringing them and keep following it up. It felt like I had to do all the work when it was their mistake.
"I work full time and I'm a mother. I just don't have the time the time to keep chasing them up and ringing around. After what has happened, I shouldn't have to."
She said the incident has put her and Oliver off KFC for life.

"Oliver is only seven but he knows exactly what was going on and he doesn't want to go to KFC again," she said.
"He didn't eat anything for the rest of the week. He completely lost his appetite. He wasn't unwell or grumpy, just lost his appetite."
Following an investigation, KFC apologised to Krystal and offered her a free meal.
A letter to Krystal read: "The blue tissue has most likely originated from a tissue roll used for KFC hygiene purposes.
"The store assume it must have fallen unseen into the breading lug that is under the sieve and was not noticed by the cook."

A spokesperson for the franchise that operates KFC in Killingworth said: "We're very sorry for Ms Henderson's experience and apologised to her immediately, as well as giving her a refund at the time of the incident.
"We take food quality and hygiene very seriously and unfortunately, on this extremely rare occasion, our restaurant failed to meet the high standards that both we and our customers expect.
"We have retrained staff on our stringent food preparation procedures at this store to ensure this doesn't happen again."

17 YEAR OLD THAT MURDER HER HUSBAND SET TO BE HANGED



U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay looks on after her address to the 26th session of the Human Rights Council at the United Nations in Geneva June 10, 2014. REUTERS/Denis BalibouseU.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay looks on after her address to the 26th session of the Human Rights Council at the United Nations in Geneva June 10, 2014.



The U.N. human rights chief appealed to Iran on Thursday not to execute a woman convicted of murdering her husband at age 17.
Razieh Ebrahimi, imprisoned in Ahwaz, is among some 160 people thought to be on death row in Iran for crimes committed before they turned 18, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said in a statement.
More than 250 people are believed to have been executed in Iran this year, Pillay said.
"The imminent execution of Razieh Ebrahimi has once again brought into stark focus the unacceptable use of the death penalty against juvenile offenders in Iran," she said.
Ebrahimi was married at 14 and gave birth to a child a year later. She says that her husband subjected her to domestic violence, according to the statement. She was arrested in 2010.
"Regardless of the circumstances of the crime, the execution of juvenile offenders is clearly prohibited by international human rights law," said Pillay, a former international judge.
Jannat Mir, a 17-year-old Afghan, was hanged in April in Isfahan prison in Iran for drug-related crimes, she said, raising concerns about whether he had a fair trial, because he was said not to have had access to a lawyer or consular services. Five other Afghans were executed with him for similar offences.
Four "political prisoners" from the Kurdish minority - named as Hamed Ahmadi, Kamal Malaee, Jahangir Dehghani and Jamshed Dehghani - are also at imminent risk of execution, Pillay said.
They were convicted in 2010 on charges of Moharebeh (enmity against God) and Mofsid fil Arz (corruption on earth) after trials that fell short of the international fair trial standards, she said.
At least six political prisoners are among more than 250 people believed to have been executed in Iran this year, while some sources suggested a "considerably higher figure", she said.
Most of the executions were for drug-related offences, which do not meet the threshold of "most serious crimes" for which the death penalty may be applied in international law, Pillay said.
At least 500 people are known to have been executed in Iran in 2013, including 57 in public, she said.
President Hassan Rouhani has failed to fulfil campaign promises to allow greater freedom of expression and there has been a sharp rise in executions since his election, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in March.
The U.N. Human Rights Council on Thursday called on all states to ensure that the death penalty is not imposed for crimes committed by under-18s and to work toward abolition of the death penalty.
ChinaIndiaJapanPakistan and Saudi Arabia were among member states voting against the resolution brought by the European Union on behalf of a group of sponsors at the forum.
It was adopted by 29 states in favor, with 10 against and 8 abstentions. Russia and the United States abstained.

"We cannot agree with the slant of this resolution in favor of a moratorium or abolition, nor with the generality expressed that use of the death penalty inevitably leads to violations of human rights," U.S. ambassador Keith Harper told the talks.

MAN INJURE 7 IN AIRPORT WITH KNIFE



Beserk: Attack at El Alto International Airport


A crazed knifeman left seven people injured at an airport after being told he couldn't travel to Jupiter.
Javier Cusi Aduviri went on the rampage in the international arrivals area of the world's highest airport, and was reported to first stab a female shop assistant before knifing "anyone who crossed his path".
Initial witnesses said he had tried to buy a ticket to Chile from Bolivia's El Alto International Airport, which sits at 8,202 ft above sea level.
But a police source said after he was arrested: "He said he wanted to travel to Jupiter and that he was stopped from boarding his flight."
Aduviri was arrested after trying to flee the airport, eight miles south of La Paz, and was held for questioning.
Bolivian Airports Service said in a statement activity at El Alto had returned to normal.
Aduviri was not listed as a passenger of any national or international flight.

LIBYA HUMAN RIGHT ACTIVIST MURDER

Salwa Bugaighis
Salwa Bugaighis took part in the revolution that overthrew Gaddafi. She resigned from the first rebel government, accusing it of freezing-out women. 




Many Libyans are in shock following the murder of one of Libya's most prominent human rights activists, killed at her home on the day of country's general election.
Salwa Bugaighis was stabbed and shot through the head by gunmen who broke into her house in the eastern city of Benghazi, wounding a security guard and abducting her husband, Essam al-Ghariani, who remains missing.
The couple had just returned from voting in Wednesday's election, the attack reminding Libyans of the growing power of extremists in a country wracked by violence.
Earlier in the day, she had been speaking by phone from her home on a Libyan TV channel about fighting that was raging near her neighbourhood, sparked when militants attacked army troops that had been deployed polling station.
"These are people who want to foil elections," she told al-Nabaa network as gunfire interrupted her call. "Benghazi has been always defiant, and always will be despite the pain and fear. It will succeed."
A family friend said relatives who gathering for the funeral on Thursday were too upset to speak to the media: "Everyone is in deep shock, you can imagine, they do not want to talk now."
The UN and EU condemned the killing, with the British ambassador Michael Aron tweeting "devastated about horrific murder" and calling Bugaighis a "leading light of the 17 February revolution and human rights champion".
Her killing triggered outrage on social media, with one supporter tweeting: "Salwa Bugaighis was hope. Shocked and saddened."
Bugaighis, a lawyer from a prominent Benghazi family, was among the first to the barricades in Libya's 2011 Arab spring revolution, and later resigned from the first rebel administration, the National Transitional Council, accusing it of freezing-out female members.
She was identified as perhaps the most charismatic figure in Libya's women's movement, supporting a successful campaign to establish minimum quotas for female lawmakers in parliament. She also opposed moves to make the wearing of the hijab compulsory, and her views brought her into conflict with the Muslim Brotherhood and Islamist extremists.
"The killing seems intended to silence critics and muzzle dissent," said Hanan Salah of Human Rights Watch. "Her conviction that dialogue is the only way out for Libya is now forever silent."
This year Bugaighis and her husband left Libya with their three young children after one child was threatened by gunmen. But the couple returned recently, vowing to continue campaigning.
Hassan Morajea, a student from Tripoli, said the lawyer was respected by men and women alike for her zeal. "Not only did she have something to say, but she knew how to say it, she was able to articulate what we all thought," said Morajea.
Most recently Bugaighis had been a prominent member of a commission trying to bridge Libya's growing factional divide. That divide appeared as wide as ever on Thursday, with rival militias deployed on the streets of Tripoli and the supreme court suspending sessions amid fears of violence.
A car bomb wounded two people outside the assembly designing Libya's constitution in the eastern city of al-Baida and security officials said three soldiers deployed to guard ballot boxes were killed by Islamist militias in Benghazi.
A national mood of apathy towards democracy seemed confirmed by figures showing only 630,000 people voted in Wednesday's election, about one fifth of the eligible population, and officials are unclear when full results will be published