The Duke of Sussex has not always been a model of racial awareness, but a broad smile from his wife, who has a black mother and a white father, he spoke out about his own awakening to the lack of opportunities for people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) communities.
The duke said that he wasn’t aware of so many of the problems and so many of the issues within the United Kingdom and also globally as well. He said he thought he did, but that he doesn’t.
But then does he know anything about deprivation as well – he’s not short of a penny or two and neither is his wife whose continually got her arm up his behind coaching him.
I’m sure that there will be a lot of posh people out there that will not agree, but Prince Harry knows nothing about deprivation or race. He went to a posh school, but what’s wrong with the local comprehensive school? Unless you believe in an exhausted education system where some children are brought up with an advantage over other children.
There’s nothing wrong with children earning their success, but saying that, people who come from great privilege or are advantaged, they frankly do need to reflect on the disadvantaged in our society.
And people like Prince Harry never speak out because the system works perfectly well for them and they have little or no interest in changing it, but there are many that work actively to preserve it.
Prince Harry should be encouraged to speak out because deprivation and race is still a battle which needs fighting, rather than freeloading around drinking champagne and shooting grouse all day, like he could have opted to do.
But he’s never been faced with the true understanding of how being impoverished works and how it negatively impacts people, but he shouldn’t be shouted down before he’s taken a few steps, just because he’s not fighting all the battles at once – he’s a novice in terms of being a campaigner for social justice.
Saying that, there is a lot of middle-class white kids that have a big brain and a healthy body and a fancy degree, many of which grew up in a stable, loving home with smart, educated parents who didn’t drink, do drugs or commit crimes or bash each other up.
However, they’re very well aware of how fortunate they are compared to many other people. You can’t help the life that you were born into, but there are people out there that will speak up for the people that are less fortunate and the biggest problem is people’s understanding of poverty and race.
Allies of Jeremy Corbyn are hunting a mole among friends of the ex-Labour leader after the emergence of a photograph showing him breaking coronavirus constraints.
Jeremy Corbyn has been mortified by a picture of him at an assemblage of nine people, violating the rule of six that is written in law, which was squealed to a news outlet on Tuesday night.
Publication of the photo started a quest for the turncoat among the seven friends of Jeremy Corbyn who were at the dinner bash, which he attended with his wife, Laura Alvarez.
But to be honest, how can you punish Jeremy Corbyn and not Dominic Cummings?
The SNP politician is different, she knew that she had symptoms and then tested positive, yet still chose to travel, and for that, she needs to be sacked as an MP and prosecuted.
However, this speaks volumes about Dominic Cummings that had to drive that distance to find someone willing to care for his son, when most children make friends and develop support networks close to where they live.
But it appears that everyone is dishonest and complicit in this Government, no matter who they are, they simply don’t care who they hurt along the way, and they don’t seem to care what laws they break, as long as they’re doing it to serve themselves.
And now Jeremy Corbyn’s at it – undoubtedly, he believes he’s above the law as well, but they will all have blood on their hands and everyone knows it, but let’s hope he doesn’t lose a loved one or his own life due to such selfishness.
But it seems that our Government, Conservative and Labour are making a pig’s ear of it and they seem to be customising the rules, and they can because they’ve been applied so erratically.
However, the only thing that these rules do is confer control over our lives through a Government that is incompetent and I’m not going to defend either of them because it seems they all have hatred for the average person.
And you know Jeremy Corbyn’s a hypocrite when he said he was going to go after billionaires, but multi-millionaires are okay, considering he’s worth three million pounds (Last Updated: 10.03.20).
It would appear that one thing that politicians of all parties seem to share is that it’s one rule for them and another for us ordinary folk, but then they expect us to vote for them.
I would love to condemn Jeremy Corbyn so that I could point the finger at him and laugh – he knew he was disobeying the rules and therefore he should expect the same focus and condemnation as Dominic Cummings did.
He shouldn’t have done it and now it’s been leaked and they’re trying to find the mole when Jeremy Corbyn is the one that should be disciplined, not the mole, although this so-called mole shouldn’t have been at the gathering either, and whoever took the photograph must have been at the gathering as well.
It just seems that the whole of our Government is complicit – perhaps they should be sent to a re-education centre so that they can learn about the rules the rest of us peasants have to obey.
An ex-pastor and BBC television presenter has been imprisoned for 10 years, and four months after he confessed to abusing boys and men for over almost three decades.
Mold crown court in north Wales heard that Ben Thomas, 44, carried out many of his aggressions while his victims were sleeping at Christian camps and conferences.
Sentencing Ben Thomas for 40 sexual crimes involving 33 boys and men, the judge, Timothy Petts, said that for almost 30 years, Ben Thomas concealed a dark secret, namely that he was a prolific sex abuser.
The vast preponderance of Ben Thomas’s victims were teenage boys and Judge Petts said that Ben Thomas used his position as an esteemed church leader to pinpoint his victims.
Judge Petts said Ben Thomas, who started the sexual abuse when he was 14 or 15, had a mask of respectability, but was a dangerous criminal, and ruled he would be on the sex offender register for life.
Ben Thomas worked for BBC Wales as a presenter on Ffeil, the Welsh language news programme for young people, and as a correspondent on Wales Today.
He left the BBC in 2005 to sermonise on the streets of London before returning to Wales in 2008 as the pastor of the Criccieth Family Church in Gwynedd.
His offending came to light when one victim came forward and Ben Thomas was reported to the police.
When questioned by the police, Ben Thomas, of Flint, initially replied ‘no comment’, but three weeks later he requested to be re-interviewed and confessed to crimes against victims aged between 11 and 34 in North Wales, Shropshire, London and Romania.
The court heard that multiple victims were clueless they’d been abused until they were traced by police after Thomas’s admission and not all of those he confessed to abusing have been found.
Ben Thomas, who has a wife and children, pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to crimes including sexual activity with a child, sexual assaults, attempted sexual assaults, indecent assaults, voyeurism and making inappropriate videos of children.
The court heard that he once concealed his phone in a wash bag at an outdoor centre to film boys going to the toilet or showering and on some occasions when his victims awoke to find him in their room, he would pretend to be sleepwalking.
And one man who woke as he was being assaulted described his bed shaking and being excessively frightened, as he thought ‘dark spirits’ were attacking him and in a statement read to the court, another victim described feeling enraged, hurt, disgusted, let down and violated and he said the man’s face will never leave his thoughts.
But the painful fact is that this beast abused his victims for 30 years and only got a ten-year sentence, which doesn’t make any sense at all.
Ben Thomas acted like a wolf in sheep’s clothing and for 30 years he committed 40 sexual crimes involving 33 boys and men, yet was given such lenient sentencing, but he deserves a much harsher punishment than this.
There were so many victims here, including his wife and children – imagine the stigma they will face and this man sought out his position so that he could exploit boys and men.
The sentencing should have been per offence and ten years in jail is an affront to those victims, but then I suppose all this man has to do is say sorry to the invisible sky fairy and all is forgiven, with them believing that their place in heaven is guaranteed.
The church is respected in numerous ways and being a paedophile appears to be a prerequisite to enter the brotherhood – is this really how the corrupting influence of the church really works? And all in the name of religion, and it seems that all institutions are corrupt.
And it seems at our justice system only cares about crimes concerning money, but rape, marital or sexual abuse they really don’t care about but commit fraud and they’ll put you in the clink forever.
International markets dropped early Friday after President Trump said that he and the first lady had tested positive for the coronavirus, with European markets opening more than 1 per cent lower in early trading, although they clawed back some territory later in the morning and were drifting at around half per cent lower.
Futures tracking Wall Street initially likewise indicated US stocks would open nearly 2 per cent lower before coming back and of late morning in Europe, they were indicating Wall Street would open as much as 1.5 per cent lower.
The volatility indicated that investors will still be parsing how strongly to react to the news and Donald Trump’s disclosure infiltrated a tremendous amount of apprehension into financial markets, and serendipity is what investors like least.
It throws the political leadership of the world’s biggest economy into doubt and it also raises questions about his campaign for re-election against ex-Vice President Joseph R Biden Jr, his Democratic opponent – the election is set for November 3, a little more than a month away.
Paul Donovan, the chief economist at UBS Global Wealth Management, said in a note to clients that after an initial reaction the news is only likely to have an ongoing market impact if it’s seen as impacting the election outcome or public health, as the market moved early to reflect those jitters.
Investors aspired to put money in acquisitions that were traditionally considered safe havens and the prices increased for the United States Treasury bonds, sending yields lower.
Gold prices also increased, as did the value of the Japanese yen against other currencies.
Investments that are more susceptible to economic and policy changes dropped fast and oil futures slid along with stocks, while other commodities plunged too.
In Japan, where the news broke late on the trading day, stocks were about 0.7 per cent lower after spending most of the day in positive territory. Most other Asian markets were closed for the autumn holidays.
President Trump announced that he and the first lady, Melania Trump have tested positive for coronavirus, throwing the US leadership into uncertainty, but I must say, it didn’t take the coronavirus diagnosis for most to be sceptical about Donald Trump’s administration.
But then has he put this out there because he doesn’t want to face a debate with Joe Biden – it’s not like he’s not fibbed before and it seems that he wants to drum up sympathy from his base and then, he will rise like a Phoenix out of the proverbial ashes.
Sadly, there’s a lot of people in the US that don’t trust their President anymore and they’re becoming extremely distrustful of him.
Is he dodging debates? Is he dawdling to delay the vote? Is he actually sick? And if he is sick, do the public feel compassion for him or do they feel vindicated? But it’s more likely he’ll pop back up in two weeks and say he beat it and it’s no big deal and his disciples will eat that up.
However, if he really is sick, which many people question that he is, then Mike Pence won’t have time to do anything but wring his hands and Trump’s base will lose interest if their God isn’t out there yelling his baloney at rallies – although this is the perfect opportunity for Don Jr to finally shine – he can then get all coked up and be centre stage.
Members of the far-right organisation, Proud Boys, posted jubilant messages on social media after Donald Trump appeared to support their activities during the first presidential debate, telling the group to stand back and stand by.
Asked to denounce white supremacy, Donald Trump initially replied ‘sure’, before saying that everything he saw was from the leftwing, not the rightwing.
When pressed further, the US president asked the moderator for a name, prompting Joe Biden, his Democratic opponent, to mention the Proud Boys, an organisation that the Southern Poverty Law Centre has designated as a far-right hate group.
Donald Trump’s response prompted condemnation from Democrats and a few Republicans.
It echoed his comment in 2017 when he spoke of ‘fine people on both sides’ in referring to a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville.
The Proud Boys, a self-proclaimed fraternal organisation founded in 2016 when Donald Trump was running for president, refers to its members as ‘western chauvinists’.
Joe Biggs, a Proud Boys member, wrote on Parler, an alternative social media network, in a reference to extreme anti-fascist protesters that President Donald Trump told the Proud Boys to stand by because someone needs to deal with ANTIFA who is a political protest movement incorporating autonomous groups affiliated by their militant opposition to fascism and other forms of extreme right-wing ideology.
Proud Boys was barred from Facebook in 2018 but has continually tried to revamp its base on the platform.
The group is best known for street fighting, bizarre rituals and wearing black and yellow Fred Perry polo shirts.
The movement has branches across America and elsewhere, including the United Kingdom.
Facebook removed a network of accounts connected to the group in June.
Oren Segal, an expert on extremism at the Anti Defamation League, said membership of the group ranged from white supremacists to ethnic minorities, who had increasingly converged around the concept of being the frontline in the battle against the extreme left.
Donald Trump has repeatedly asserted that Joe Biden supports anarchists and radical protestors in his campaign for re-election.
After returning to the White House on Wednesday, Donald Trump sought to distance himself from his own comments, claiming he was not familiar with the group and he said that he didn’t know who the Proud Boys were and that whoever they are, they need to stand down.
Joe Biden and campaign surrogates kept up the pressure, however, Mr Biden retweeted a post by a journalist who had posted screenshots of rapturous remarks from members of the group, including Mr Biggs.
Joe Biden, who has previously said his decision to run for president was partly a response to the way Donald Trump had responded to the situation in Charlottesville three years ago, tweeted that this was Donald Trump’s America.
These Proud Boys need to get a job, don’t we all wish we had time to hang out on the streets all day and they’re all grown-ups and they might want to think of themselves as men and not as boys, although they do all seem to have the intelligence of children.
And what are they proud of, their douchebagness? Yet groups like these are permitted to live out their fantasies.
But does anyone actually take these Proud Boys seriously, it all seems a bit niche to me and reminds me of Germany before the second world war? And hoodlums will find any vision for a speck of attention.
The Proud Boys are a far-right and neo-fascist, male-only organisation that encourages and engages in political violence. It’s based in the United States and has a presence in Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom.
The Proud Boys emerged as part of the alt-right, but McInnes started distancing himself from the alt-right in early 2017, saying the alt right’s focus was about ethnicity.
The group believes men, especially white men and the Western culture is under siege and their views have elements of the white genocide conspiracy theory.
Officially, the group rejects white supremacy, although it has significant links with white supremacist groups.
Its members have partaken in numerous racist events and events centred around anti-left violence, with ex-members organising the Unite the Right protest in Charlottesville, and the organisation glorified violence and the Southern Poverty Law Centre has called it an alt-right fight club.
Remember, it only took two white American supremacists to execute the Oklahoma City Bombing, killing 168 Americans, including 19 small children and injuring another 500.
No one had ever heard of them before and no one should be encouraging these groups, let alone the President and the abiding impression of Donald Trump’s remark was that he considers himself the commander in chief of the Proud Boys and that they would obey his orders.
He clearly made no attempts to estrange himself from them, and in the context of his remarks following the Charlottesville violence, I believe we can safely conclude that he considers himself as their commander in chief.
And regardless of which side people might support, the formation of armed militias on the streets of US towns and cities further destabilises a fraught situation and contributes to greater fear and violence.
And we would expect any credible politician to indeed condemn any escalation of threat or violence, but Donald Trump doesn’t seem the least bit interested in even containing the situation and more interested in blaming one side and validating the other.
The measures he’s taken, sending in various Federal forces seem to have done nothing but fan the flames of discord.
In the context of that, and the manner in which Donald Trump responded to the invitation to condemn white supremacists appears to be implicit acceptance of them.
And there has been global anger at his acceptance of jackbooted fascism and Donald Trump is frequently forced to explain his verbosities, when it’s pretty evident that his first utterance on a matter is the one he usually means.
Olympian and Commonwealth Games gold medallist Jane Flemming has announced that transgender athletes should be barred from competing in female sport on safety grounds.
The 55-year-old former track and field champion has weighed into the divisive issue as several sporting codes, including rugby, face calls to ban female sport to competitors born as girls.
The federal Sex Discrimination Act, however, prohibits gender or gender identity-based discrimination.
Jane Flemming who represented Australia at three Commonwealth and two Olympic games during the late 1980s and early 1990s, said transgender athletes were a safety risk to female competitors.
She told the ABC’s 7.30 programme that the problem was that for the human species that’s been born biologically male, if they go through puberty in particular, they have, undoubtedly some physiological advantages.
She said whether it’s bone strength or additional capillarization or larger muscle dimension, but then there are other aspects of that as well. Not only does that affect performance but there’s a health or danger factor as well.
The issue of transgender athletes is so politically tainted and Tasmanian Liberal senator Claire Chandler was labelled as transphobic after calling for transgender rugby players to be banned to protect women’s safety.
Labour senator Nita Green compared Senator Claire Chandler to Harry Potter author JK Rowling, who’s outraged trans activists by suggesting only someone born biologically female could comprehend what it was like to be a woman.
She informed the Senate in late August that Senator Chandler had made at least two speeches, attempting to veil her transphobic beliefs as faux-feminist values.
She said that they knew where Senator Chandler’s getting her speeches from because she said in an address to the senate that she stood with JK Rowling and millions of women around the world who were determined to ensure that their rights as women were not traded off in the name of diversity.
Senator Chandler has previously told news outlets that they needed to look at the research that’s within the report, adopt the findings and prioritise women’s rugby being for women.
And she said that women’s sport was invented for people of the female sex and any hint that it’s somewhat provocative or controversial to articulate this view, she thought was rather ridiculous.
Physically there is no contest and maybe they should have their own competition, such as an LGBTQ sports event, but make it official. It just makes common sense, something that’s in short supply these days.
I’m not against transgender people, but they are built differently, but common sense has to be enforced at some point and it makes sense because some suppress or increase hormones to appear what they’re not, but you can’t conceal the adrenaline signs or the dominance of the chromosome, and it’s almost like cheating.
A team should be created so that they can play against other transgenders, it’s not rocket science and it should have been thought of a long time ago, after all, we are in the 21st century.
Regardless of what transgender people would like to be known as, they just don’t have the same muscle structure, stamina or metabolism as true females do, but it’s all about equal rights and stuff, but wouldn’t it be a bit like a boxing match – featherweight v heavyweight, there’s no contest really.
What determines your gender is your chromosome combination and not your mental state. Transgender people are not mental, and they definitely should not be in a mental facility, but some people are just born in the wrong body, and many transgender people have transitioned well into society, but unfortunately, some have not because society as a whole is far too short-sighted to see the bigger picture.
We should all be permitted to do the things we enjoy, no matter who we are.
Perhaps we should show everyone an oyster – there are two types of male oyster, and one of them can switch gender at will, and before man crawled out of the muck, perhaps he had the same option.
Maybe originally we were supposed to be able to change genders, and being born with just one sex is a mutation.
Of course, beauty is a societal construction, but then so is gender and when people find out that you’re slightly different from the norm they think you’re a psychopath.
The Duchess of Sussex displayed slight indications of anger during her Most Powerful Women Summit interview, body language expert Judi James said.
Judi James said that Meghan was splayed out on her sofa with her shirt sleeves rolled up to suggest she wanted to get down to business.
Judi said that Meghan was splaying and pit baring, and looking confident, as well as being gently assertive, as did the preen gesture of her hair. While her slightly lower jaw jut and a few sharp accelerated blinks indicated some of that anger, although her tone overall signalled bewilderment from a woman who tells us she’s not been controversial in what she’s said in the past.
Judi James said that Meghan highlighted her emotional side as she looked away dramatically to consider her thoughts as she spoke. It was the shaking of her head that suggested she was feeling bewildered.
During Meghan’s conversation with Ms McGirt, she talked about how the statements she makes are sometimes misunderstood and Meghan said that if you glanced back at anything she’s said, what ends up being inflammatory seems to be the people’s understanding of that.
And she continued to say that if you listen to what she really says, it’s not controversial.
She also asserted bad views about her are usually impacted by things that just haven’t happened, as she criticised clickbait and misinformation and asserted there are always going to be sceptics.
The Duchess then highlighted the importance of being genuine and living with purpose and she said that if you look back at anything she’s said, it’s actually interesting because it usually ends up that what seems to end up being inflammatory is people’s interpretation of it.
And she said that in some way you have to have a sense of humour, even though there’s quite a good deal of gravity and sense of danger in an interpretation of something that was never there, to begin with.
Meghan said that if you don’t listen to all the bluster out there but simply concentrate on living a purpose-driven life, you should know what your own moral compass is – Meghan also spoke out about the importance of creating safe spaces online against hate speech.
She also mentioned one of the issues she and Prince Harry had in mind for their charitable organisation, Archewell.
The Duchess added, part of their focus with the Archewell Foundation was to simply ensure that they were helping foster healthy positive communities, online and off, for their collective wellbeing.
It seems that Meghan is not liked very much and there will always be people who will find reasons to malign her, no matter what she does and jealousy is a terrible thing.
Of course, everyone is entitled to their opinions and that’s good, have an opinion, but don’t criticise her because it just feels good – that’s called bullying.
But this is how the press makes their money, and generally, they milk off the vulnerable but now they’re milking off the nobility with information that’s of no importance.
Five foul-mouthed parrots have been separated after learning to swear at a Lincolnshire zoo.
The parrots, named Billy, Elsie, Eric, Jade and Tyson, joined Lincolnshire Wildlife Park’s colony of 200 grey parrots in August, but shortly after, they started encouraging each other to swear.
Steve Nicols, CEO of the wildlife park said that they saw it very quickly and they’re quite used to parrots swearing but they’d never had five at the same time and that most parrots clam up outside, but for some reason, these five relished it.
The parrots have since been distributed to other regions of the park so they don’t set each other off.
No one had complained about the parrots, but they were separated for the sake of young visitors and in the hope that they would pick up natural calls from other African greys.
He said that people had come to them about it but they thought it was highly entertaining but that nobody had complained about it, and he said that when a parrot tells you to f**k off, it entertains people very favourably and that it’s brought a big smile to an extremely difficult year.
The park is also home to parrot Chico, who made headlines in September after learning how to sing a range of pop songs, including Beyonce’s ‘If I Were A Boy’.
Mind you, I don’t blame the parrots for swearing, I’d be swearing as well if I was stuck in a cage. Mind you, I’d pay extra to see talking swearing parrots and they should all be put back together – we don’t separate humans when they swear.
Swearing parrots are amusing and they have the right to swear at us – you humans get in the cage and see how long it is before you swear at your keepers and the zoo is missing the gimmick – after-hours tickets to see the sweary parrots, they could even charge extra for attractions like chimps that fling poo at visitors and the animals that are always shagging in public.
And you can’t blame them for swearing – after months of COVID lockdown, my swearing has got progressively worse as well and these Polly’s clearly wasn’t wanting a f**king cracker.
President Trump’s tax returns, or lack thereof, were in the limelight at the first presidential debate on Tuesday night, as moderator Chris Wallace pushed him on a startling revelation from The New York Times this week that Donald Trump paid only $750 yearly in federal income taxes in 2016 and 2017.
Donald Trump unsurprisingly deflected while also asserting he’s paid millions in federal income taxes and admitted wanting to avoid doing so, stirring another uneasy exchange, well, one of many with Democratic presidential candidate and ex-Vice President Joe Biden.
After Chris Wallace asked the question again about Donald Trump’s taxes, the President disclosed that he doesn’t want to pay tax and said that before he was President, he was a private developer and that he was a private business person and like every other private person, unless they’re stupid, they go through the laws and that’s what it was.
Joe Biden said that he’s clever because he can take advantage of the tax code and that he does take advantage of the tax code and that’s why he was going to eliminate the Trump tax cuts and make sure that they invest in fact in the people who need the assistance because people out there need help.
Donald Trump interrupted Joe Biden and asked repeatedly why he didn’t do that in the last 25 years? He then continued and said it was because he was the President, screwing things up, but the President kept talking over him, at which point Joe Biden said that he was the worst President America has ever had.
Even staunch right-wing commentator Bill O’Reilly, who regularly comes to Donald Trump’s defence, called out Trump’s deflection.
“Show us your tax returns,” Biden said twice as Donald Trump stumbled through his response to Wallace’s question.
Hours before the debate on Tuesday, Joe Biden posted his 2019 federal and state tax returns on his official campaign website, along with those of his running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA).
Joe Biden’s tax returns for years prior to 2019 were already publicly known, but Donald Trump has broken with decades of precedent and declined to release his tax returns despite saying he would do so.
This is the time that people should be united, making their voices heard, but instead, they would rather fight and tear each other down.
Donald Trump is good at avoiding everything, including paying his taxes, addressing white supremacy and well human decency, but I can see why people support such a despicable man, with his extramarital affairs, his treatment of asylum seekers, his greed and selfishness in regards to anything financial – I mean, I think I’ve got most of them covered.
I’m not even trying to put the man down, he does that all by himself.
He’s supposed to be the President of the United States, but there’s nothing presidential about him, with his lies and he never answers anything directly because he’s simply disrespectful to people.
He’s a bully, nothing more and he’s made the US the laughing stock of the rest of the world, but the people love him, perhaps we should rename him Jesus!
And Donald Trump has no understanding of the world that we live in. He talks down to people, lies and cheats on his taxes and he’s very good at manipulating everyone into believing he’s some sort of God.
Angelica Gaitan, 46, was discovered unconscious and suffering from hypothermia off the coast of Colombia.
She was found by fisherman Rolando Visbal and a friend floating 1.2 miles off the town of Puerto Colombia on the Atlantic side of the country at about 6 am on Saturday.
It said that her first words after being saved were “I was born again, God did not want me to die.”
She was brought ashore where locals tended to her before she was taken to hospital.
Angelica Gaitan was reunited with her family as she told investigators what had happened to her since vanishing two years ago.
During her time in the sea, she stayed afloat for eight hours as sharks circled her as she drifted in and out of consciousness, but then with time beginning to run out, she had a miraculous stroke of luck when she was spotted by a fisherman who initially thought she was a log until she waved her hand to call for help.
Rolando told Columbia’s Caracol Radio that they nearly didn’t go out fishing that day after issues with his boat’s engine stalled an earlier trip and he said that if they hadn’t had the problem with the spark plug on Friday, they wouldn’t have gone fishing that day and the woman would be dead at sea.
He said that Gustavo had warned him to be careful with the trunk and he started to turn about 15 degrees to the right, then to his surprise, the trunk moved and he thought it was something supernatural.
Angelica was pulled towards the boat in a lifebuoy that the pair had tossed to her and which she used her last ounce of strength to put on.
The pair tried to have a conversation with her and gave her water.
Rolando said Angelica didn’t say anything when they dragged her on to the deck and she was so frail, he believes she would have drowned if she had spent any longer in the sea and he said, so it turned out that they didn’t catch any fish that day either, but they fished a life and they believe that this was God’s intention.
Mystery continues to surround precisely what happened during that time with her version of fleeing domestic abuse at the hands of her partner disputed by her daughter.
Angelica says that after living rough then being forced to leave a refuge, she decided to take her own life and hurled herself into the sea.
She said that for 20 years she had been in a toxic relationship and that the abuse started in the first pregnancy and that he would beat her and violently abuse her.
She said that in her second pregnancy the abuse continued and she could not get away from him because the girls were small, and that numerous times she would report it, but that the police only took him away for 24 hours and that when he was in the house again, the assaults returned.
She said the day she decided to leave the house was after a vicious attack and that in September 2018 he broke her face and attempted to kill her, but that she managed to flee.
She lived rough in the city of Barranquilla for six months before she sought help and was housed in a shelter, but she was reportedly forced to leave because her partner was no longer living in the city, which sent her into a deep depression.
She said that she didn’t want to continue with her life and that a woman had loaned her money for a ticket and she took the bus straight to the sea.
She said that she just wanted to end everything and that she had no support from anywhere, not even her family because her partner had kept her away from her social circle and that’s why she didn’t want to continue living.
Angelica remembers being on the seashore and finding herself in isolation and decided to jump into the sea.
She said that she just let the sea take her and hoped that the suffering would soon end, but she said that she doesn’t recall much more as she slipped into unconsciousness.
She said that the man who saved me in the middle of the sea told her that she was lifeless and floating and she said that thank God she was alive and that he tossed her a life preserver and then brought her to the health centre where she’s receiving the necessary care.
According to a news outlet, her family say they last heard from her in 2018 when she left to go to Ecuador to live with her brother.
The paper also reports that Angelica claims she was abandoned by her family after suffering domestic violence.
Local media tracked down the woman’s daughter Alejandra Castiblanco who said she’d not known about her mum’s whereabouts for the past two years and that the daughter seemed to nullify Angelica’s story, saying her father had never been abusive to her and that he had never lived in Barranquilla.
She said that they don’t know who attacked her, or how she ended up in the sea and she said that her mother had suffered heart problems for years and that after a heart attack her mental health had deteriorated.
Alejandra Castiblanco and her sister are presently raising money to bring their mum to the capital Bogota where they live and hope she will now be taken care of by family.
Obviously, there’s more to this story than meets the eye, for which we don’t know about at the moment, but for whatever reason, this lady was in the sea, for now, at least, she’s safe and in the hospital being cared for and no doubt, in due course, the two missing years question will eventually be answered.
However, this news is going to get Youtube conspiracy theorists going into overdrive, plus the fact that she vanished for two years to flee a violent partner and now the newspapers print it for everyone to see including the partner.
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