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Ghislaine Maxwell has been sentenced to 20 years in prison and fined $750,000 for helping sex offender and billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein abuse teenage girls. US District Judge Alison Nathan handed down the sentence on Tuesday (28 June) in Manhattan, six months after Maxwell was convicted by a federal jury on five charges, including sex trafficking. Judge Nathan described Maxwell's offending as "heinous and predatory" as she sentenced her to a term that exceeded her own maximum sentencing guideline of up to 19 years and eight months. The jury found her guilty of recruiting and grooming four girls between 1994 and 2004 for sexual encounters with her former boyfriend Epstein, who took his own life behind bars in 2019 while awaiting his own sex trafficking trial. |
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| Family hail 'amazing wife, daughter, sister, mummy' who campaigned to raise awareness of her condition |
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| 'It's amazing it took this long,' say Sarah Everard vigil campaigners |
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| Zara Aleena was beaten to death in East London in the early hours of Sunday morning |
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| Covid waves are likley to have a 'deleterious' impact on hospital waiting times, warns senior medic |
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How likely are you to catch Covid again as cases rise? |
Scientists have warned that a new wave of infections has begun in the UK as two Covid-19 sub-variants prompt a surge in cases. More than 1.7m people now have the virus, in a 23 per cent weekly increase, according to the latest figures from the Office of National Statistics, which blames the Omicron sub-linages BA.4 and BA.5 for the present state of affairs. More than two years on from the first cases of coronavirus seen in Britain, millions have caught the virus and some will have had it on multiple occasions. But just how likely is a reinfection and how much protection do vaccines and booster shots offer? |
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| "It's more than language. These archaic mindsets need to change and have no place in our sport. I've been surrounded by these attitudes and targeted my whole life. There has been plenty of time to learn. Time has come for action." |
– Lewis Hamilton has called for action after comments where Nelson Piquet used racist language to describe him resurfaced. |
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