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Depraved David Carrick tried to kill himself in ‘self-pitying’ suicide attempt after arrest
DEPRAVED cop David Carrick tried to kill himself in a “self-pitying” suicide attempt after he was arrested for raping and abusing women.
The former Met Police officer, 48, was moved from HMP Belmarsh to a secure mental health unit on February 22 last year after hurting himself.
Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb said it was ‘a self-pitying reaction to the shame’[/caption]
But a consultant psychiatrist at Rampton Hospital concluded that Carrick did not have depression or any mental disorder.
Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb said it was “a self-pitying reaction to the shame”.
She said the cop had shown no “remorse or regret” beyond admitting guilt at Southwark Crown Court, South London.
When assessing the risk he posed to the public, she said: “I am sure that you represent a grave danger to women who might be persuaded to be alone with you in intimate situations and this danger will last indefinitely.”
He has now been handed 36 life sentences with a minimum term of 30 years and 239 days.
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We’re parents of Britain’s smartest toddler – he taught HIMSELF to read at age two and has IQ of 139
BRITAIN’S smartest toddler taught HIMSELF to read at the age of two and has an IQ of 139.
Teddy Hobbs, now aged four, became the country’s youngest Mensa member as a toddler with abilities like being able to count to 100 in six other languages.
Teddy Hobbs with his MENSA certificate[/caption]
The toddler taught himself to read aged two years old[/caption]
The exclusive organisation for the intellectual ‘elite’ welcomed the youngster when he was just three years and nine months old.
Mensa is an international group for high-IQ individuals founded in 1947 that only accepts members who are above the 98th percentile of IQs worldwide.
He scored 139 out of 160 on the Stanford Binet test and shocking his parents, who had no idea quite how smart he was.
The child genius was born through IVF to proud parents Beth and Will Hobbs, from Portishead, Somerset, who only got their son assessed ahead of him starting school.
Beth, 31, said: “We did an IQ test, where we basically told him he was going to sit and do some puzzles with a lady for an hour, and he thought it was the most wonderful thing.
“After he completed it we were told he was eligible by Mensa’s child advisor, so we thought he may as well join.
“We were a bit like ‘pardon?’. We knew he could do things his peers couldn’t, but I don’t think we realised quite how good he was.”
Teddy is now capable of even reading Harry Potter books, when his parents allow him.
He even likes to relax – with a word search.
Beth says that Teddy’s genius comes as a blessing and a curse though, with him showing little interest in some of the more ‘normal’ things a young boy may enjoy like games and TV.
She said: “It comes with it’s challenges, my friends can say ‘oh should we have some c-a-k-e’ and their kids will not know what they’re saying, but Teddy will immediately spell it out and want some.
“You can’t get anything past him, he listens to everything. He will remember conversations you had with him at Christmas last year.
“His idea of fun is that he likes to sit down and recite his times tables, and he even got so excited over fractions one time that he gave himself a nosebleed.
“That seems to be his quirk, and we’ll roll with it, but we’re trying very much to not make a thing of it.”
The pair say that they are trying to keep him “humble” given his genius to prevent him from developing any kind of “superiority complex”.
However, for now he is apparently unaware of his abilities compared to other children his age.
Beth added: “We’re slowly getting to the point in nursery now where they’re starting to do a more formal curriculum.
“His friends can sort of read a couple of letters of the alphabet – meanwhile he can read Harry Potter.
“Obviously we don’t let him read Harry Potter – we pick more emotionally appropriate books, but he’s essentially at the stage where he can read anything we put in front of him.”
Beth says Teddy’s level of interest in conversation likely exceeds what her friends are talking about with their four year olds.
She said: “His social and development skills really are us are the main priority; we spent a lot of time trying to have these children – so they need to be good citizens.
“He has some ideas that he wants to be a doctor one day because him and his friend likes to play doctors at nursery, but if you ask him what he wants to be he will just say he wants to focus on being a Teddy.”
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Sam Bankman-Fried launches a Substack to defend himself over FTX’s collapse
Move over, Twitter Spaces, Sam Bankman-Fried has a new platform to opine on about the collapse of his cryptocurrency empire.
The founder and former CEO of failed crypto exchange FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried, also known as SBF, launched a newsletter via Substack on Thursday. The first and only post at this time, titled FTX Pre-Mortem Overview, is a rundown of SBF’s version of events that led to the demise of his company.
This post marks the first time Bankman-Fried has spoken out since his arrest in the Bahamas on Dec. 12. SBF is facing multiple criminal charges, ranging from wire fraud to money laundering.
For those who have listened to the multiple audio interviews that Sam Bankman-Fried gave to crypto influencers on Twitter Spaces prior to his arrest, the details in this post will sound quite familiar. SBF continues to claim that he’s unaware of what was going on at his crypto hedge fund, Alameda Research, and the improper transfer and use of customer funds from FTX to Alameda.
The head of Alameda Research at the time was SBF’s ex-girlfriend Caroline Ellison, who accepted a plea deal and has agreed to cooperate with prosecutors in the case against Bankman-Fried.
SBF claims that Alameda Research was a victim of downturns in the market and eventually “Alameda’s contagion spread to FTX.” SBF cites other recently failed crypto firms, like Celsius and Voyager, in an attempt to show that this was an industry-wide issue and not unique to FTX.
Bankman-Fried also continued to criticize FTX’s legal counsel, Sullivan & Cromwell. SBF has maintained that he could have continued to raise liquidity which would have saved FTX from failure and made its customers whole. However, according to the former FTX CEO, Sullivan & Cromwell pressured him to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy instead.
FTX was once one of the largest crypto exchanges in the world. Shortly before its collapse, FTX was valued at $32 billion. In November, reports from Coindesk and independent crypto investigator Mike Burgersburg revealed that FTX’s hedge fund, Alameda Research, appeared to be insolvent. As a result of this news, competing crypto exchange Binance sold off its holdings of FTX’s own crypto token, FTT. FTX customers followed, with billions of dollars being withdrawn from the exchange.
According to the stock website, Unusual Whales, SBF initially launched his Substack with a paid subscription, asking readers for either $8 a month, $80 a year, or $150 for a “founding” yearly subscription. The payment plans have since been removed entirely from SBF’s Substack.
Bankman-Fried is currently out on a $250 million bond, awaiting trial at his parents’ home per the condition of bail.
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Six journalists arrested after TV cameras filmed South Sudan president ‘wetting himself during national anthem’
SIX journalists have been arrested after footage appeared to show the South Sudan president wetting himself.
A dark stain was seen spreading down President Salva Kiir’s trousers with a wet patch forming on the floor as he stood for the national anthem at an event last month.
Footage showed a dark stain spreading down President Salva Kiir’s trousers[/caption]
South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir[/caption]
The 71-year-old leader was seen looking down at the stain while leaning on his walking stick before the camera panned away.
The national journalists’ union said the six journalists detained over the footage work for the South Sudan Broadcasting Corporation.
They were arrested on Tuesday and Wednesday, it said.
Union president Patrick Oyet named the journalists as cameramen Joseph Oliver and Mustafa Osman, video editor Victor Lado, contributor Jacob Benjamin, and Cherbek Ruben and Joval Toombe from the control room.
Mr Oyet said: “We are concerned because those who are detained now have stayed longer than what the law says.”
The law in South Sudan states people should be detained for a maximum of 24 hours before appearing before a judge.
The Committee to Protect Journalists said the journalists are under investigation over the footage that went viral on social media in December.
CPJ’s sub-Saharan Africa representative Muthoki Mumo said the arrests match “a pattern of security personnel resorting to arbitrary detention whenever officials deem coverage unfavourable”.
“Authorities should unconditionally release these six SSBC employees and ensure that they can work without further intimidation or threat of arrest,” he said.
The Union of Journalists of South Sudan called for a “speedy conclusion” of the investigation, who it said were suspected of “having knowledge of the release of ‘a certain footage’ to the public”.
“If there is a prima facie case of professional misconduct or offence then let authorities expedite an administrative or legal process to address the issue in a fair, transparent (manner) and in accordance with the law,” it said.
South Sudan Information Minister Michael Makuei told Voice of America radio that “people should wait to learn why the journalists were detained”.
Kiir, 71, oversaw the birth of South Sudan as an independent nation after it broke free from Sudan in July 2011.
But the world’s youngest country has lurched from crisis to crisis since – facing brutal conflict, political turmoil, natural disasters and hunger.