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Teen who ‘uploaded video of girl, 9, being raped’ wrongly deemed ‘low risk’ by police
BBC broke its own accuracy rules when woman bishop wrongly accused the police of a ‘murder’
Hundreds of Lords inundate Cabinet Office wrongly claiming roles at King Charles’s coronation
Patients Wrongly Told They’ve Got Cancer In SMS Snafu
About an hour after thoroughly alarming recipients of the not-so-glad tidings, the medical facility reportedly apologized in a follow-up text message. “Please accept our sincere apologies for the previous text message sent,” the message reads, as reported by the BBC. “This has been sent in error. Our message to you should have read, ‘We wish you a very merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.’ In case of emergency please contact NHS 111.” On Tuesday, the surgery took its apology public via its Facebook page. The surgery characterized the errant text message as both an administrative error and a computer-related error, without clarifying just how the mistake occurred. “While no data was breached, we can confirm an admin staff error was made, for which we apologized immediately upon becoming aware,” Askern Medical Practice said in its post. “We would like to once again apologize sincerely to all patients for the distress caused. We take patient communication, confidentiality and data protection very seriously.”
“We also pride in looking after our patients,” the medical facility’s apology continued. “We would like to reassure all our patients that the text message was a mistake (it was an internal patient supportive task amongst admin staff to act upon) and not related to you as a patient in any way. This was an isolated computer-related error for which we are extremely regretful, and steps are being taken to prevent a reoccurrence.”
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Man wrongly spent 21 YEARS in jail over rape & murder of girls, 8 and 10, after he was falsely convicted in Norway
A CONVICT who wrongly served 21 years in prison for the rape and murder of two young girls has been cleared of his crimes.
Viggo Kristiansen, now 43, was falsely convicted of the slaughter of eight-year-old Stine Sofie Sorstronen and Lena Slogedal Paulsen, 10.
Viggo Kristiansen wrongly served 21 years in prison for the double-murder[/caption]
The dropping of the charges, following a re-examination of the evidence, has been branded one of Norway‘s “most serious miscarriages of justice“.
Stine and Lena’s bodies were found dead after they went swimming in a lake in a wooded area in the south of the country.
On the day of their murders on May 19, 2000, the two girls had gone to visit their fathers, who lived in the same block of flats close to the woods where the lake was.
Kristiansen was sentenced by two different courts in 2001 and 2002 to a maximum possible sentence of 21 years with the option to extend.
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A court at the time heard that Kristiansen had lured the pair away into a secluded area while pretending to be looking for lost kittens.
The verdict claimed that Kristiansen had raped the girls before stabbing them both in the chest and neck.
Their naked bodies were found covered with leaves and hidden between two large rocks, while their blood-soaked swimsuits were stuffed in a nearby muddy drainpipe.
He was purportedly helped by his co-defendant Jan Helge Andersen, who told the court at the time that Kristiansen was the main perpetrator.
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But the new investigations reportedly indicate that Kristiansen wasn’t involved at all and that the crimes were solely the work of Andersen.
The gruesome nature of the killings sent shockwaves throughout Norway, where such violent crimes are highly unusual.
But when the case was reopened last year, Andersen’s testimony was discredited, after DNA evidence was shown not to support his insistence that multiple people had been involved in the murders.
The new report also noted that Kristiansen’s phone was well away from the scene of the crime at the time he was alleged to have carried out the murders.
Attorney General Jon Sigurd Maurud told reporters: “The case has had profoundly tragic consequences, especially for Kristiansen – who has served more than 20 years in prison and has thus been deprived of large parts of his life – and for his relatives.
“I, therefore, want, on behalf of the prosecution, to offer my sincerest apologies for the injustice that has been inflicted.”
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Svein Kristiansen
Norwegian police forces who carried out the investigation at the time also apologised.
Kristiansen’s father, Svein Kristiansen, gave an emotional statement after learning of his son’s innocence.
He told the Norwegian publication VG: “This is what we have been waiting for for 20 years. Finally, we believe in what we have stood for all along.
“It is just a great pleasure. Finally, we can go ahead with getting Viggo into society,” he added.
Kristiansen was released from prison last year and may be eligible to request compensation of more than 30 million Norwegian Kroner (£2.5m) from the state, according to his lawyer.
“If the court of appeal announces an acquittal, this will be one of the biggest legal scandals in Norwegian history,” Justice Emilie Enger Mehl told reporters.
Andersen, who received a lighter jail sentence of 19 years for cooperating with investigators at the time, now faces further probes into his actions, the prosecutor added.
It comes after Stine’s brother Kristoffer spoke publicly for the first time about his sister’s murder.
He told Norwegian TV channel NRK that he had been wracked with guilt about his sister’s death for more than two decades, explaining that he was meant to go swimming with the two girls on the day they vanished.
But instead, he had gone home to build a new computer with his father, telling the girls to go swimming alone.
The way police handled their investigations into the “Banaheia Murders” was criticised at the time, after it was found cops applied controversial suggestive question techniques, holding “informal conversations” with Andersen before his lawyer arrived.
During this time, the interrogator told Andersen that police “knew” there was more than one perpetrator in the murders and suggested to him that Kristiansen may have been involved.
FBI agent Gregg McCrary testified in court in 2011 and said about the police’s interview technique: “It’s a very alarming way to interrogate a witness. The police must never give the name of possible perpetrators or ask leading questions”
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He added that it seemed obvious that Andersen had been “guided” into implicating Kristiansen since his testimony changed from interrogation to interrogation.
Gisli Gudjonsson, a Professor of Forensic Psychology at King’s College London, also wrote in his report that the initial police interrogator “most likely ruined the case”.
Brother of Moors Murders victim Keith Bennett blasts amateur sleuth who ‘wrongly claimed he found grave on moors’
THE brother of Moors Murders victim Keith Bennett has blasted the amateur sleuth who sparked the massive dig.
Cops began excavating an area of Saddleworth Moor last week after an author came forward claiming he found a grave.
Alan Bennett, the brother of Moors Murders victim Keith, has blasted the amateur sleuth who sparked a massive dig[/caption]
Keith Bennett was murdered in 1968[/caption]
Russell Edwards told officers he had discovered a fragment of skull and an upper jaw with teeth, sparking a week-long search.
It was hoped the huge breakthrough could finally crack the riddle that has plagued police for nearly 60 years.
But police called off their search for Keith on Friday after finding no evidence of human remains.
And Keith’s brother Alan Bennett, 66, said he has been left with a “feeling of anger and pain”.
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In a lengthy post on social media, he wrote: “I’m just left with a feeling of utter contempt for him and his actions and I know the rest of Keith’s family feel the same, along with anger and pain.
“Will he apologise for the anguish, anger, hurt and distress caused by his thoughtless publicity-seeking actions?”
In the angry post, Mr Bennett adds: “Why would there only be a fragment of jaw bone left of Keith, considering the condition of the other victims that were found?”
“Does he always have a camera crew and photographer with him? Or was it just by pure chance and coincidence that they were with him on his supposed find?
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“What makes him think that a team of highly trained professional forensic archaeologists, scene of crime officers, a botanist, a facial features expert, lab technicians, another team of officers walking the moor both in front and behind his supposed find searching the ground and drone operatives […] could not find what he is supposed to have found?”
Tragically, Keith’s mum Winnie died without ever being able to bury her son.
Ian Brady and Myra Hindley snatched Keith on June 16, 1964, as he made his way to his grandmother’s house.
He was strangled and buried on Saddleworth Moor by the depraved duo but his body has never been found.
A spokesman for Mr Edwards told the Sunday Mirror he “totally understands” Mr Bennett’s frustration and anguish.
He added: “However, he remains convinced that he has found the true location of the grave and is commissioning further scientific analysis of his evidence.
“Until he has concluded his ongoing research, he feels it would not be productive to continue debating the issues in public.”
Edwards told police the skull is believed to belong to a child aged around 12 with a child’s upper jaw with a full set of teeth.
Detectives were also focusing on a sample of material believed to be clothing that was buried 3ft under the remains.
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The twisted duo then embarked on a gruesome reign of terror that saw five children slaughtered.
Hindley would often lure the children in before driving them to Saddleworth Moor or the pair’s home.
Brady would then kill them often by throat slashing or strangling.
Four of the five victims were sexually assaulted as well as murdered.
They were also beaten, abused and gagged and made to pose for photographs.
The five victims were:
- Pauline Reade, 16
- John Kilbride, 12
- Keith Bennett, 12
- Lesley Ann Downey, 10
- Edward Evans, 17
The reign of terror came to an end in 1965 when Brady invited Hindley’s brother-in-law and friend, David Smith, round to their home.
The monster then murdered Edward Evans – striking him fourteen times with a hatchet before finishing the job by strangling him – while Smith looked on in horror.
Under the pretence of helping them hide the body, Smith left and phoned the police next morning and directed them to Brady’s address.
On October 7, 1965, Superintendent Bob Talbot of the Cheshire Police arrived at the back door of 16 Wardle Brook Avenue and arrested the killer after discovering Edward’s body.
Over the course of the next few weeks, officers unearthed more evidence linking the couple to unsolved disappearances.
A huge search operation involving 150 officers was launched and on October 16, they found an arm bone sticking out of the ground belonging to Lesley Ann.
They discovered the badly decomposed body of Kilbride five days later.
On June 30, 1987, the body of Pauline Reade was found buried 3 feet below the ground after Brady finally admitted to her murder.
The author explained to police he had recovered a fruit stone, clothing material, hair and “what he described as decaying body tissue”.
After viewing a photograph and the samples provided, the area was secured by detectives so a forensic archaeological excavation could be carried out.
DCI Cheryl Hughes said the search for Keith “will not be closed until we have found the answers his family have deserved for so many years.”
She added: “The excavation and examination at the site is complete and, to reiterate, we have found no evidence that this is the burial location of Keith Bennett.”
Keith was lured into a van by Hindley, who drove him to a lay-by on the Moor.
Brady then took him away to sexually assault and murder him while Hindley kept watch.
Keith’s family have fought ever since to recover the little lad’s remains.
After he was transferred from prison to maximum-security hospital Ashworth in November 1985, Brady confessed to Keith’s murder in an interview.
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A search was carried out on the moors a year later, with Hindley joining officers in 1986 and Brady in 1987.
But Keith’s body was never found and it became a grisly secret Brady took to the grave.