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Lord Charles Brocket, who is known for his appearance on 'I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!', has pleaded not guilty to multiple charges including two counts of rape and two counts of sexual assault.

The 32-year-old was charged last month with two counts of raping a woman on a date in December 2020. It followed five other charges of rape and sexual assault against separate complainants last year. Partey was excused from attending a preliminary hearing for the new charges at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Friday. However, his barrister Emma Fenn indicated he intended to plead not guilty to both counts at a crown court hearing set for 10 April.

The mother of Stephen Lawrence has said she feels like "a victim all over again" after she learned about the alleged hacking of her phone by the Daily Mail, a court has heard. Baroness Doreen Lawrence, who says her phone was tapped and voicemails hacked, said the alleged actions of the newspaper reminded her of the police handling of the investigation into the racist murder of her son. She told the High Court the Mail was only "pretending" to support her campaign for justice for the "credibility of supporting a black family". The peer is among several high-profile figures - including the Duke of Sussex - suing the paper's publisher, Associated Newspapers (ANL).

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging. At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground.

"Does truth actually exist if no one believes it?" The new Hulu mini-series, "The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox," has everyone wondering how an innocent college student could be convicted for a crime when the evidence pointed to another person. Research on legal psychology, specifically on a 20-year old theory known as the phenomenology of innocence, holds some of the answers.

On 19 January, Slade took to Instagram ahead of the Australian Open to share with the world that he's gay. "As one of only a handful of gay men playing at the highest levels in tennis, I want to use this privilege and uniqueness of my position to help bring about positive change," he wrote. The post, which was in collaboration with Pride in Tennis, saw the 23-year-old announce that he would be working with the organisation to "further amplify their important work".

Elite ski jumpers are aware of the advantage and have already crotch-rocketed to scandal with related schemes. Last year, two Norwegian Olympic medalists, Marius Lindvik and Johann Andre Forfang, and three of their team officials were charged with cheating after an anonymous video showed the head coach and suit technician illegally restitching the crotch area of the two jumpers' suits to make them larger. The jumpers received a three-month suspension, while the head coach, an assistant coach, and the technician faced a harsher 18-month ban.

Since 1979, there have been just two school shootings carried out by teenage females in the United States, claiming a total of four lives. There have been none in Canada. So the news, as reported by RTÉ's Morning ­Ireland last Wednesday, that a woman had shot dead eight people in a Canadian school was shockingly historic for two reasons.

He was just rage. He looked like a monster. His behaviour was just wrong. She just fell. I went to help her but he screamed at me to get in the car. Witness Paige Allen described the brutal assault, capturing the severity and callousness of Owusu's actions as he attacked Mukhtar and prevented others from assisting her.

Murder at The U, ESPN's new, seven-part podcast on the slaying of Bryan Pata and the two-decade odyssey to find his killer, debuts this Thursday. Listen here. Police did not arrest ex-Hurricane Rashaun Jones in Pata's death until August 2021. State prosecutors charged him with second-degree murder, alleging in the arrest warrant that the teammates had "ongoing issues." Jones, 39, has remained in custody for the past 4½ years amid court delays and changes in attorneys on both sides. He has maintained his innocence throughout.

The former school caretaker, who murdered 10-year-olds Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman in 2002, had been kept on life support in hospital after being hit repeatedly over the head by an inmate armed with a metal bar. Huntley's life support was switched off at lunchtime on Friday after brain tests showed he was in a vegetative state.

Prosecutors said investigators also identified additional blood traces using the forensic detection agent Bluestar. A preliminary autopsy by Hamilton County medical examiner Dr Stephen Cogswell found that Perpetuo suffered multiple injuries that together constituted blunt force trauma, including facial contusions, a fractured cheekbone, broken teeth and a fracture of the upper cervical spine. The report also documented shallow stab wounds to the chest and thigh, and a bite mark on the shoulder.

There was an early public acknowledgment that a serious error had occurred, yet Mr Morton was forced to pursue proceedings to the brink of trial to achieve any finality. Prolonged denial and delay can itself become a source of real harm.