Red-Light Runners Injure Pedestrians

Cyclists have caused a record number of pedestrian injuries, and half of them confess to recklessly running red lights daily.

For the year 2024, police recorded 603 accidents in which a civilian was injured in a bike collision, according to Department for Transport road casualty figures.

Meanwhile, in 2023, 507 similar injuries were reported. 

Last year also made a record for the most casualties involving cyclists on pavements and at zebra crossings, as 321 incidents were recorded – a nine per cent increase from the 292 in 2023.

Two pedestrians were killed in 2024 in a cycling collision. 

Meanwhile, 52 per cent of cyclists in London admitted to running red lights – with 16 per cent, or almost one in six, confessing they did so regularly, a study by e-bike provider Lime revealed.

Cyclists on the roads daily were the worst culprits, as 58 per cent of them said they wheel directly past red lights.

It is illegal to run a red light even as a cyclist, yet many continue to disregard the rules and put pedestrians at risk. 

Ten times more cyclists than drivers have been fined for running red lights in one of London’s busiest districts.

Some 284 people have been fined so far this year for not stopping at traffic lights while riding bikes in the City of London, compared to just 25 drivers.

And one in six bike riders admits to repeatedly disregarding traffic light signals to stop.

There has been growing pressure on the government to take greater steps to safeguard pedestrians and to regulate road safety for bikers.

City of London Police say they are carrying out a new crackdown on cyclists who disregard regulations, with many more doing so compared to drivers in the region. 

They have said they want to be able to introduce harsher penalties to cyclists who do not stop at red lights and have requested that the government raise the penalty.

Fines for cyclists running red lights are set at £50, while drivers must pay £100 – with the money going to the Treasury – and receive three points on their licence.

The study demonstrated 82 per cent of the capital’s cyclists, more than four in five, recognised that going through traffic lights was dangerous – yet 13 per cent of those committing the crime were unaware it is even illegal.

Some 71 per cent of London bikers say there should be harsher penalties for running red lights, according to the new poll of more than 1,000 cyclists across the city.

Lime is now launching its own new safety campaign, dubbed ‘Respect the Red’ – installing safety messages at high-traffic cycling hotspots and key junctions.

City of London Corporation figures show cycling in the area has risen by 50 per cent in the past two years. 

And capital-wide statistics indicate there are now 1.33 million daily cycle journeys across the entirety of London. 

It was not a smart idea to change the law to prioritise cyclists in its current form. They should bring in compulsory licensing, insurance and road tax for cyclists. Cyclists are not accountable, so make them accountable! And a lot of cyclists now seem to expect that pedestrians should give way for them.

You can’t even trace these cyclists because they have no number plate, so they can get away with whatever they want.

All those Lime rental bikes are a danger and need to be removed because some of the people riding them don’t have a clue, and don’t have any respect or appreciation for what else is going on around them.

‘Ethan Scott Brown’ Died Thinking He Had Failed Everyone

For Ethan Scott Brown’s graduation day in December, his happy mother had prepared everything with great care.

Tracy Scott had booked a restaurant in Glasgow for a post-ceremony dinner. She’d ordered a cake, bought balloons and wrapped up the new watch she’d bought her son to celebrate the momentous moment – the culmination of four years of educational slog.

A nurse, Tracy had not been to university herself and didn’t socialise ‘in those circles’. She’d fretted over her own outfit, frantic not to let down the bright, brilliant son whom the family jokingly called The Prof.

‘I remember saying to Ethan, “Is this OK? You won’t be ashamed of your mother wearing this?”,’ She says, dabbing her eyes.

‘He said, “No, mum, you look good”.’

Tracy had left some of the details to Ethan because, as she says, ‘when they are grown-ups, you have to, don’t you?’

She had deposited funds into his account to reserve a time slot with a photographer and rent a graduation gown. She had also volunteered to iron Ethan’s shirt.

‘He said he’d already done it. I said, “Let’s see”, and he had.  His good suit was hanging up. I went to bed thinking everything was ready.’

The next morning, she was up and dressed early, ‘hair curled and everything’, when she called to Ethan that he should be up by now.

‘You’d usually get a grunt from him or something, but there was no reply at all, so I just went into his room. But as soon as I opened the door, I saw. I knew. Then I screamed.’

There would be no graduation. Aged just 23, Ethan had taken his own life.

He had never been on the list of students who were graduating that day. The suit, the shirt, the gown hire – it had all been a sham. 

Having failed to complete a module, he was informed by Glasgow University that he would not be awarded his coveted Honours degree.

‘And we think–or we thought then–that he was too ashamed to tell us he had failed,’ says Tracy.

‘There were so many opportunities where he could have told us.’

He had planned as well as his mother had. Being a neat person, Ethan could not stand anything that wasn’t in place.

Four suicide letters – ‘pages of them’, says Tracy – sat neatly on the very desk where Ethan had carried out his studies.

Two were for his family, one was for his best buddy Kyle, and one was for the police.

In them, Ethan apologised for his actions, but explained that he felt he had let everyone down. 

His motivations were not made clear at the time, although nobody was very interested in the details.

Ethan’s stepfather, Colin, was with Tracy in their solicitor’s office, and it was Colin who followed the 999 operator’s instructions on the morning Ethan had been discovered and gave him CPR, even though they knew it was meaningless.

‘Even the woman on the phone was crying as she was telling me what to do,’ he says.

What an incredible loss.

Ethan was Tracy’s second child, and it had been his life’s dream to study at Glasgow University, just like his Auntie Marilyn, Tracy’s sister.

In his primary school yearbook, he had written about where he saw himself in ten years.

‘Still begging Glasgow University to accept me,’ he wrote.

However, Ethan’s passing goes beyond a simple family sorrow. The controversy is a national one.

The family has held a press conference, making public the truth behind Ethan’s death, which they had to piece together themselves.

There was ‘no help at all from the university, which didn’t even send a note of condolence, and which has acted as if Ethan didn’t exist’, says Colin, bitterly.

Their solicitor, Aamer Anwar, a former rector of Glasgow University, goes further. ‘Callous’ is how he sums up the way the family has been treated.

In fact, Ethan had not ‘failed’ his degree, as he had gone to his grave believing. He had been the victim of a string of errors by staff at the university.

Ethan himself had contacted the university several times, querying what had happened and asking to be allowed to graduate.

He had also ‘reached out’, says his mum, about mental health problems, especially after the loss of his grandmother.

‘Ethan never wanted to accept help. He was so independent. But he asked for it from the university. He tried to sort this all out himself.

There was a stage – when he learned he didn’t have enough credits to graduate and he just didn’t understand it – when I said, ‘Do you want me to ring the university?’ And he said, ‘No, mum. I can’t have my mum phoning up.’

Now she regrets not picking up the phone.

Only after his death were questions asked about Ethan’s state of mind and about how a capable student can suddenly ‘fail’ his degree, despite being on track to do well.

An inquiry was established, and it emerged that there had been a catastrophic string of administrative blunders. Ethan, who was studying geography, should actually have been awarded a 2:1.

‘How could no one have noticed?’ asks his mother. ‘How did no one care?

‘Ethan fell through the cracks in this system, and he can’t be the only one.’

An internal report, written by Professor Jill Morrison, identified where blunders had been made. She concluded that this was a ‘systemic’ problem, rather than a mistake by an individual.

Glasgow University has since apologised to the family, saying: ‘We are profoundly sorry that this terrible event occurred and understand the deep distress it has caused.’

It also insisted that the error in relation to Ethan’s marks was an ‘isolated one and that no other students have been affected’.

Tracy is outraged. ‘Did they forget we have read the internal report? You don’t need a degree to know that a ‘systemic problem’ is a big deal.’ The report makes for devastating reading.

While it documents that the university staff who were questioned about the events leading up to Ethan’s death were ‘visibly upset’, it says: ‘Staff expressed regret that they had not known the student and felt the circumstances of his time at the university meant that he was less well known than many other students.’

What does this mean? How can a student – a good and capable student – not be known to his own tutors and lecturers?

‘This is what I don’t understand,’ says Tracy. ‘Ethan was a good student. He went to all his classes. He loved it. But the big decisions about his future weren’t made by tutors who knew him.

‘It was all done by people who are called Professional Non-Academic Staff. I didn’t even know what this meant. At some point, he was just lost in the system. He fell through the cracks. He was just a number to them.’

Ethan started his university course in 2019. Glasgow was only a brief train journey from his family home in Coatbridge, Lanarkshire, so he lived at home, commuting in every day.

His ‘in person’ studies were interrupted by the COVID pandemic. But Tracy says: ‘Still, when it was optional to either go in or do lectures remotely, he tended to go in. I think he went in more than most.’

Ethan probably wouldn’t have been the loudest person in the class, but he was known for his cheeky sense of humour and wide smile. He loved fancy dress parties – his mum laughs about the time he got a perm.

He didn’t have a girlfriend. When he died and the family were looking for answers, Tracy says she wondered whether there was ‘some great unrequited love or something that we’d known nothing about. There wasn’t’.

She thought he had taken to university life like a duck to water. ‘He still had his home friends,’ she says, ‘but he made a new group of uni friends’.

Ethan spent his third year abroad, happy to be picked to go to Stockholm to study.

‘I was worried sick about how he’d manage, but he had a great time,’ Tracy says.

But she adds: ‘When he came back, he tried to register for his final year. He couldn’t. The university didn’t know who he was, they didn’t remember him and had no record of him.

‘Then they said he couldn’t register for his final year because he hadn’t completed his third year.

‘We laughed about it at the time because it was so ridiculous. Ethan ended up having to get proof – transcripts, I think – himself. He wasn’t the sort to make a fuss about it. He just kind of rolled his eyes.’

However, when he eventually settled into his final year, things began to go wrong.

Tracy insists she saw no sign of depression, but he was deeply affected by the death of his grandmother around this time.

‘He had to hand in a dissertation in the December and he asked for an extension,’ she explains.

‘In the email, he cited mental health issues.

‘This extension wasn’t granted, and he had to scramble to get the dissertation done. I think he submitted it three hours late, but he did get it done, and he wasn’t penalised. He did well in it, too.

 ‘After that, there were another couple of pieces of work that he was struggling with, and he did ask for extensions for those. This time, they were granted.

‘My point is this: why did a red flag not go up then? Why did no one get in touch to ask, ‘Ethan, is everything OK?’

So were there any signs at home that he was losing his grip, I ask her. ‘No, and we’ve racked our brains since, thinking, ‘How could we have missed this?’. But Ethan would never have wanted to make a fuss or for us to worry.’

Ethan’s final exams took place in spring last year, and he should have graduated in the summer.

But he received word from the university – through a cursory email, his mother believes – that he had failed to achieve the needed ten credits. His family were aware of ‘some issue’ but Ethan downplayed it.

‘He was upset that he wasn’t going to be graduating in the summer, but he said he was sorting it and he’d be able to graduate in December,’ Tracy says.

‘To this day, I don’t know if he genuinely thought the university would sort it all out in time. But the point is he reached out to them and he got nowhere.’

Ethan’s family didn’t learn that he had never been scheduled to graduate until a few weeks after his passing.

‘We were devastated,’ says Tracy. ‘We never considered that the university would be at fault. We just thought Ethan had failed and had been too ashamed to tell us.’

Not until three months later did his aunt, who was more familiar with university procedures, begin to investigate and obtain Tracy’s consent to enquire about these unaccounted-for credits.

The family had attempted to access Ethan’s emails, but it hadn’t been possible. ‘Before he did what he did, he wiped his laptop, restoring the factory settings so I could use it,’ she says. ‘He told me that in his letter. He was trying to be helpful.’

Tracy says it is unforgivable that the university let the family believe for three months that Ethan had failed his degree.

‘Even when they heard he was dead, did no one think, ‘This seems odd’? We had to fight them to get any information at all. This wouldn’t even have come out if we hadn’t pushed.’

It’s surprising how depersonalised the system appears to be.

Tracy says she had no contact from university staff after Ethan died – not even his immediate tutors or advisers. ‘There wasn’t a phone call or a letter of condolence, nothing.’

However, there is evidence that Ethan made many attempts to contact himself before his passing.

The report says that there were two requests for extensions – in December 2023 and February 2024 – which detailed ‘deteriorating health and distress’.

Professor Morrison says these ‘could have alerted staff to a student with deteriorating wellbeing and provided an opportunity for communicating with him. As far as I could ascertain, there was no follow-up contact with the student’.

On the issue of the missing credits, there was ‘misunderstanding or confusion’ – with even staff at the university not being aware of what should happen if a student fails to complete an assessment.

There was only one essay that Ethan had failed to submit, and even without the marks for it, he had reached the standard required to achieve a 2:1.

But when his marks were recorded on a spreadsheet, the computer said he hadn’t. And no member of staff intervened to say, ‘This cannot be right’.

Even when Ethan sent emails – and there were at least two requesting clarification about the process for getting his degree – he was ‘fobbed off’, Tracy says.

‘He was told someone would get back to him, and they didn’t. They just abandoned him.’

The report recommended that changes should be made to how marks are recorded and that students ‘individual circumstances are discussed’.

However, Ethan’s family finds it astounding that this degree of interaction with a pupil would not be done regularly.

Their solicitor, Mr Anwar, says: ‘One of the issues and one that is continually raised by university students and staff – not just in Glasgow but in all large-scale universities – is that these are huge money-making operations now.

‘When I was at university, you had tutors who knew you by name. There were regular meetings and contact. There was a way of catching you if you had troubles.’

Tracy nods. ‘Ethan should have been caught, and they let him fall,’ she says.

Ethan’s university books are still sitting in his bedroom in a tidy pile just as he left them. The watch his mum bought him is there, too, still wrapped.

There will never be a graduation photograph on the wall, but there will be his degree certificate.

Glasgow University has agreed that the family will be able to collect it at a ceremony.

‘And we will, because he worked so hard for it,’ says Tracy, her pride in her son undiminished.

Where are the supervisors, counsellors, and mentors?  In addition to making sure that all students are supported, universities must also make sure that those in such positions genuinely care about the welfare of their students.

Who are these heartless apologies coming from? While they’re red arrowing the words of sympathy for this heartbroken family. Evil really does walk among us!

These universities don’t give a damn after they have your money.

This is a story that’s so difficult to comprehend, and it makes me so furious that a young lad was overlooked.

I was moved to tears by this. Instead of performing CPR on the unfortunate youngster, his family ought to have been enjoying a wonderful day, and he should be alive and well.

This is an indisputable, tragic loss of life and a beautiful heart, and the university needs to pay, not that it would bring Ethan back, but somebody needs to pay for this.

Security Guards Slam A Customer To The Ground

When heavy-handed security officers falsely accused an innocent John Lewis customer of shoplifting, the victim was forcibly thrown to the pavement.

Stunning footage captured on Above Bar Street, Southampton, reveals the moment spectators say ‘could have killed’ the victim as he was tossed to the concrete after being wrestled from behind.

Eyewitnesses said the man, thought to be in his 60s and sporting a blue t-shirt, had been followed by guards after leaving the nearby John Lewis.

Employees had demanded to peek inside his bag after accusing him of stealing something from the upscale retail shop.

The conflict came to a head in the video captured by one eyewitness, where a member of staff tells the man: ‘We’ve got confirmation you’ve taken an item from us without paying for it.’

Two security officers come up behind the victim to demand identification, and one of them yanks and wrestles him to the ground in front of the shocked witnesses.

As the altercation exploded, one of the guards can be heard shouting in the man’s ear: ‘Behave yourself, right now! Right now!’

But in an embarrassing turn for the hot-headed security and staff, a search of the victim’s bag revealed he had not taken anything from the store.

The man was shaken by the experience, which took place in broad daylight on the crowded retail street, even though he was promptly released with everyone’s apologies.

Minutes after the victim left the area, the member of staff who could be seen in the video wearing all black, also bizarrely fainted on the street.

While out for coffee in the city centre, local farmer Thomas Oswald took the startling video and expressed his outrage at the man’s treatment.

He said, ‘The poor victim’s head was just a few inches from hitting a curb. It would have killed him. 

‘If he’d hit the corner of the curb that hard, it would have killed him or given him serious brain damage.

‘I didn’t know if I should call the police, but I could tell the way the man was being treated wasn’t right.’

Supporting the victim for asking to see staff ID while he was being questioned, Mr Oswald said: ‘If you’d had your bag taken off of you and accused of stealing in public, you’d be pretty annoyed.

‘They could have sat the man down and dealt with the incident calmly, but instead they slammed him to the ground.

‘I think it’s probably fairly common if you see what happens nowadays.

‘If they saw him stealing, why not talk to him in the shop? Why get him out on the high street and slam him down there?’

Addressing the fainting member of staff, he speculated: ‘I have no idea about the manager fainting. He could have just realised he made an awful, terrible mistake.’

Both Go! Southampton, the company the security guards belong to, and John Lewis have said they are investigating the incident.

A spokesperson for John Lewis said: ‘We were very concerned to see this video, and are urgently investigating this matter.’

A spokesperson from Go! Southampton added: ‘We are aware of the incident, which we are taking very seriously.

‘Our service partner Argenbright Security Europe Limited are currently conducting a thorough investigation into the event.’

The victim should have had them arrested for assault, and he should be suing them, along with John Lewis.

I personally wouldn’t want to shop in John Lewis anymore, and hopefully, after this debacle, they won’t be enticing very many customers, particularly if they have security guards wandering about like a loose cannon.

A British-Syrian Man, 35, Who Arrived In The UK As A Child, Killed Two Innocent Men At Manchester Synagogue

Police have identified the Islamist terrorist who killed two people at a Manchester synagogue in a car and knife attack.

Jihad Al-Shamie, 35, a British national of Syrian descent, was shot dead by armed officers minutes after he targeted Heaton Park Synagogue on Thursday morning.

It is understood he entered the United Kingdom as a young child, before being given British citizenship in 2006. 

Two men aged in their 30s and a woman in her 60s have been arrested on suspicion of planning a terrorist attack, police added.

The horror began at 9.31 am when Al-Shamie – who is yet to be formally identified rammed into people with a car before stabbing a man outside the synagogue.

The incident, which took place on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, claimed the lives of two Jewish men and left three others gravely wounded.

Police said officers were ‘working to understand the motivation behind the attack’. Earlier, the Daily Mail exclusively revealed that the suspect was an Islamic terrorist. 

Al-Shamie is not believed to have been the subject of an investigation, and his name has apparently not turned up in preliminary searches of police and security service records.

Further checks are being conducted to determine if any of his details are listed in the records of other investigations.

In a statement on Thursday evening, Greater Manchester Police said: ‘We are now able to confirm that, although formal identification is yet to take place, we believe the person responsible for today’s attacks is 35-year-old Jihad Al-Shamie. 

‘He is a British citizen of Syrian descent.’

‘A suspicious device worn by the attacker during the incident has been assessed and was deemed not to be viable.

‘Based on what we currently know, our records do not show any previous Prevent referrals relating to this individual.’ 

The force confirmed that the two people who were killed in the attack were both men, although they have yet to be identified.

Three other men are presently in the hospital with serious injuries. One sustained a stab wound, and a second was hit by the car implicated in the attack.

Greater Manchester Police added: ‘We are working to formally identify those who have tragically been killed and provide support to their loved ones, in addition to the injured and the wider community.

‘We are working to understand the motivation behind the attack as the investigation continues.’

After a day of bloodshed, Sir Keir Starmer warned Britain faces a rising wave of antisemitism.

The PM gave a statement from 10 Downing Street where he hailed emergency services and security, saying they had ‘no doubt whatsoever prevented an even greater tragedy’.

Benjamin Netanyahu called the deadly rampage a ‘barbaric attack’ and said Israel was grieving with the Jewish community in Britain.

‘Our hearts are with the families of the murdered, and we pray for the swift recovery of the wounded,’ the Israeli Prime Minister said.

‘As I warned at the UN: weakness in the face of terrorism only brings more terrorism. Only strength and unity can defeat it.’

Rabbi Daniel Walker barricaded the entrance to the ‘packed’ Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue in Manchester, after it had come under the deadly attack.

He was hailed a ‘hero’ for calmly shutting the doors of the synagogue after the terrorist ‘started stabbing everyone he could get to’.

Speaking to the Daily Mail, Chava Lewin said: ‘Rabbi Walker was incredibly calm, he shut the doors to the synagogue to stop him getting inside.

‘He barricaded everyone inside. He is a hero; this could have been even worse.’

Soon after police shot the man, Rabbi Walker was seen outside, his white kittel – the traditional robes worn by Jewish religious leaders – evidently clad in blood.

Worshipper Rob Kanter, 45, was in the barricaded synagogue and described how Rabbi Walker was providing as much pastoral support as possible.

He described the horrifying moment the Heaton Park Shul was put into lockdown – but said most of those inside were able to remain calm.

‘We knew there was a commotion because we had already made sure all of the doors and windows were shut,’ he said.

‘I would say the mood amongst our fellow congregants was very calm. Everyone deals with these things in their own way, but generally, everyone was very calm and dignified.’

He said the worshippers evacuated across Middleton Road to a nearby relief centre. 

‘The rabbi was providing as much pastoral support in the circumstances as he could,’ he said.

‘We’ve obviously got to police quarters, and we continued to do part of the service, because at the end of the day, of course, it’s awkward and it’s difficult and people have got a multitude of emotions going on, but we carried on.

‘We did not do the whole service, but we did what we could in the circumstances.

‘Your mind’s on many things, but our Rabbi’s role was to try and say ‘yes, this is a terrible tragedy, but at the end of the day, we want to try where possible to remember today is the Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement’ and we did as much as we could as a group.’

Unfortunately, the UK has devolved into this, and we have lost our way, and our government have no care for its UK citizens, and it’s just going to get worse.

Under Keir Starmer, the UK has never been more divided.

How much more can the country take?

Church Leaders Forced Slaves To Work In A Crowded Mansion For A Decade

To finance their extravagant lifestyle, the leaders of a Florida church are accused of running a multi-state money laundering scheme and enslaving dozens of victims within a packed home.

David Taylor, 53, the head of the Kingdom of God Global Church, and co-conspirator Michelle Brannon, 56, were arrested for allegedly running a forced labour scheme that raised more than $50 million since 2014.

Prosecutors said these unpaid labourers were manipulated through physical and emotional abuse to operate call centres across five states and work as Taylor’s servants.

 

Disturbing new documents have revealed that 57 victims were crammed inside a Tampa mansion – cut off from the outside world as they endured harsh conditions.

Pricey, human-sized stone statues kept in containers and luxury vehicles topped with gift-wrapping were also found at the mansion.

 

Inside the unsuspecting castle-like home, the vulnerable staff – including minors – slept on floors, were kept in the garage and had limited bathroom access, investigators said. 

Taylor, 53, and Brannon, 56, allegedly withheld food and sleep from their labourers and threatened them with violence if they failed to do as they were told. 

The bone-chilling plot began to unravel when they were both arrested in August. 

Brannon, who resided at the massive Tampa house of horrors, was detained in Florida. Taylor was arrested in North Carolina, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ). 

At the time, the church’s headquarters in Houston, Texas, was raided by the FBI and SWAT teams, with officers walking out 17 people, some of them handcuffed. Authorities also swarmed other centres. 

Before the blitzes, Taylor allegedly told his workers: ‘They gonna be in here with their FBI jackets on… You don’t scare me. God’s gonna to get you.’ 

In an August press release, the department claimed the pair had been running their money laundering operation and forcing people to work across Michigan, Florida, Texas, North Carolina and Missouri.

It is unknown how many more victims were drawn into the scheme while looking for religious contentment outside of the Tampa area.

The indictment alleged Taylor declared himself an ‘Apostle’ and Brannon his executive director. Prosecutors said they had been romantically involved. 

They had allegedly been operating various call centres where workers were forced to work 24-hour shifts. Others had to serve as ‘armour bearers’ for Taylor.

These ‘armour bearers’ were allegedly Taylor’s personal servants. They were at his beck and call – even delivering him women who had to take Plan B after their encounters, according to the indictment.

Taylor set unreasonable quotas for the labourers and punished them with public humiliation, abuse and forced repentance when those goals went unmet, the indictment claimed.

In one text message allegedly sent by Taylor to one of his call centre workers, he said, ‘If you don’t work, you can’t eat.’

‘POUR WATER ON EVERYONE’S FACES THAT’S HALFWAY SLEEPING AND NOT WORKING WAKE THEM UP NOW!!’ he allegedly wrote. 

The money was raised under the disguise of donations to charitable causes, but investigators claimed that it had actually been used to fund Taylor and Brannon’s extravagant lifestyles. 

Prosecutors said the donations went toward buying four Mercedes-Benzes, three Bentleys and a Rolls-Royce Cullinan, a luxury SUV that can retail for nearly $630,000.

Five ATVs, two trailers, and four jet skis were also purportedly purchased with the money.

‘Money laundering is tax evasion in progress,’ Special Agent in Charge Karen Wingerd of IRS Criminal Investigation of the Detroit Field Office said.  

‘The proceeds funded an alleged human trafficking ring and supported a luxury lifestyle under the guise of a religious ministry.’

Despite Taylor and Brannon remaining in federal custody, the Kingdom of God Global Church is still operating its 24/7 miracle prayer line.

The church’s website, which is also still active, claims the lord has given Taylor ‘a special teaching ministry’ to bring people closer to God.

If your church leader lives in such a grand home, then he’s undoubtedly glorifying the wrong God, and so is anybody who frequents this institution.

This story’s lesson is to never put your trust in a wealthy pastor.

The practice of making false claims that something is kosher while acting in the name of or within a religion is known as religious fraud.

Using falsehoods or deceit to persuade people that one’s own religion or certain religious claims are true is known as pious fraud.

Throughout history, there have been numerous cases of religious organisations engaging in fraud. The Roman Church offered indulgences to lessen the penalty that a person would get for their transgressions.

A Florida church’s leaders were found guilty of investment fraud, and more recently, the Baptist Foundation of Arizona, the worst religious financial institution failure in US history, collapsed.

It’s hard to understand why people follow these lowlives – blatant scam artists, but people do get duped because they so badly want to believe.

To believe in God or to pray, you don’t need a church. True Christians also don’t need a church; they live out what the Bible says without having to declare their faith to others.

Nobody wakes up one day and decides to join a cult, and that is what the church is, but millions join every year, presumably because they don’t know any better.

They’re enticed with promises of all manner of spiritual transcendence, world peace, or whatever the church is ranting at the time. Save your cash and pray in the comfort of your own home.

Sadly, A Mother Died Of A Blood Clot Due To The Ambulance Service’s Actions

A mother died of a blood clot in her brain after an ambulance service mistook her fatal symptoms for an ear infection.

Natasha Hewitt, 35, died three days after bungling NHS call-handlers did not urgently refer her to hospital for potentially life-saving treatment.

The mother-of-one contacted the NHS 111 non-urgent helpline for guidance after suffering migraine-like symptoms for several days. 

She had previously visited a walk-in centre where she was given antibiotics and painkillers for a suspected ear infection.

During the call, she complained she had been unable to get rid of her headache, which came on unexpectedly and felt like ‘someone had hit her with a brick’.

Natasha, of Sheffield, was also suffering from dizziness and difficulty standing – but the call handler failed to refer her to the hospital.

She should have been instructed to get to a hospital within an hour, or an ambulance should have been sent if she couldn’t make it.

She was instructed to speak with her doctor that morning for additional guidance instead, and after doing so, she was given more prescription drugs.

But about 24 hours later, her husband Nick called 999 and Natasha was rushed to the hospital.

She was diagnosed with a cerebral venous sinus thrombosis – a large blood clot on the brain – and moved to a specialist brain unit for surgery.

She tragically died two days later, leaving behind Nick, 44, and her then 16-month-old son Harry, just a week before Christmas 2022.

Yorkshire Ambulance Service, which ran the 111 helpline, has now admitted a breach of duty in Natasha’s care.

The service agreed that if her condition had been diagnosed and successfully treated, on the balance of probabilities, she would have survived.

An inquest also previously ruled there was a ‘missed opportunity’ to refer Natasha to the hospital earlier, and negligence had contributed to her demise.

Heartbroken, Nick said: ‘Natasha was the most loving and devoted wife I could have ever hoped for. She was warm, funny, and incredibly bright.

‘More than anything, she was my closest friend.

‘We’d been through some tough times, but when Harry was born and home, it felt like a new chapter in our lives.

‘We’d do everything as the three of us, and life seemed perfect.

‘Watching her suffer during those final days was awful. I could see her condition getting worse, but felt powerless to help.

‘We had no reason not to believe what Natasha had been told when she called 111. However, by the next day, I knew I had to call 999.

‘I can’t thank the doctors and everyone else at the hospital for everything they did to try and help Natasha, but by that point it was too late.

‘Losing Natasha is something I’ll carry with me forever. We had so many plans and dreams for our future, which have been left shattered.

‘What’s most painful is knowing that Harry has lost his wonderful mum.

‘I tell him about her and how proud she would be of him, but it breaks my heart that Harry can’t get to feel Natasha’s love first-hand.

‘Natasha didn’t deserve to go through what she did. I just hope that by sharing her story, other families don’t experience what we have.’

Natasha, who was studying for a business management with accounting degree through the Open University, began complaining of back pain on December 8, 2022.

She began taking powerful pills for a headache three days later.

She managed to go Christmas shopping with Nick and Harry, where the pair purchased Harry his first pair of shoes.

On December 14, Nick drove her to a walk-in medical centre where Natasha was prescribed antibiotics and painkillers for a suspected left ear infection.

The next day, Natasha began vomiting. Following the call with NHS 111, a GP prescribed her more antibiotics.

However, her condition continued to decline, and Nick called for an ambulance on December 16.

Following brain surgery, Natasha died at 1 am on December 18, 2022.

Natasha and Nick had suffered 11 miscarriages and two failed rounds of IVF before they found out they were expecting Harry.

When Natasha was 25 weeks pregnant, she was diagnosed with a blood clot in her placenta, and doctors decided to deliver Harry 14 weeks premature in July 2021.

The following month, Natasha also received hospital treatment for a blood clot in her lung.

Harry, now aged four, spent 18 weeks in neonatal intensive care before he was allowed home to his parents.

Rosie Charlton, the medical negligence lawyer at Irwin Mitchell representing Nick, said: ‘This is a truly tragic case.

‘Nick and the rest of Natasha’s family are traumatised by her avoidable death and the circumstances surrounding it.

‘Worrying issues have been admitted regarding Natasha’s 111 call, and they vividly highlight the importance of patients being fully listened to so the best decisions are made regarding care.

‘As we work with the Ambulance Service towards a settlement which will secure the future of Natasha and Nick’s son, we urge it to learn lessons from Natasha’s death so others don’t have to endure what they have.’

According to the NHS, cerebral venous sinus thrombosis is a blood clot in the cavernous sinuses, which are located under the brain behind the eyes.

When an infection in the face or skull spreads to the cavernous sinuses, a blood clot may form. Clots can occasionally form without infection.

Symptoms include: a sharp and severe headache, swelling and bulging of the eyes, double vision and a high temperature.

Peter Reading, the chief executive at Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust, said: ‘First and foremost, our thoughts remain with Natasha Hewitt’s family following her death in December 2022.

‘On behalf of the Trust, I would like to reiterate our sincere and unreserved apologies for the NHS 111 service failing to meet the high standard of care that all of our patients are entitled to expect.

‘The incident was fully investigated, and learning from this has been used to make improvements to the care and services we provide.’

This is a terrible loss of life because this poor woman trusted the system.

I truly do hope that the family get some justice.

It appears that our once-loved NHS is now not fit for purpose, and people are dying because of their mistakes, and there have been many.

However, this will keep happening again and again because we now have cheap replacement healthcare.

This is what ‘skill mix’ looks like, and it’s swirling about like alphabet soup.

Sadly, the damage has been done, and anything that is inflicted on the people will be covered up, and the media propaganda machine will be in full force.

We are using cheap labour for all types of industries because money matters and so does control, but even if that were not the case, anyone harmed under these circumstances is nothing short of a sacrificial lamb.

This was a monumental failure in care, and numerous services like this one don’t have access to the patients’ care records, but in this day and age of technology, all healthcare professionals should be able to access the same damn records.

Reeves Wants Unemployed Young People To Lose Their Benefits If They Refuse To Take A Job

Rachel Reeves is set to announce that tens of thousands of out-of-work young people could be stripped of their benefits if they refuse to take a job.

The Chancellor will pledge to ‘abolish’ long-term youth unemployment by securing paid employment for those aged 18 to 21 who have been on Universal Credit for 18 months without earning or learning.

Those eligible will be given support to take advantage of available opportunities. Still, those who refuse to take an offer without a good reason could face a sanction – including losing their benefits.

The government will subsidise the jobs available under the ‘Youth Guarantee’, meaning the scheme is likely to cost the Treasury. It is thought that big retailers will be appealed to for help.

Rachel Reeves is set to outline the plan in her keynote address to the Labour Party conference in Liverpool today.

People don’t want to work, and it’s not just the young! So, we Brits work our behinds off, and migrants come to this country and get everything they want, and they don’t have to work for it. Where is the justice in that?

Come to that, why should taxpayers finance MPs’ second houses and utilities?

Imagine if an MP had to get a job outside of government, cleaning dishes and scrubbing toilets. No, I can’t either; they would be useless!

Let’s put it another way, should MPs lose their seats if they fail to adhere to their party’s manifesto, of course they should, but they won’t because it’s one rule for us and another rule for them because they are egotistical, greedy taskmasters.

And perhaps with all the ongoing job losses, Rachel from accounting could tell us where all the magic jobs are?

Can Starmer Save The NHS With Online Appointments?

The Prime Minister will announce plans for a new virtual hospital to create millions of new appointments and help shorten waiting lists, as he will declare that a ‘new world is coming’.

Keir Starmer will unveil plans for a new ‘online hospital’ in a bid to crack down on long waiting lists.

Will the Prime Minister be able to save the NHS with this digital service?

At the Labour conference in Liverpool, Starmer will set out plans for NHS Online, which will link patients with specialist doctors through the NHS App.

The reshaped system, which will be introduced in 2027, will reportedly deliver 8.5 million appointments in the first three years, cutting waiting lists for treatment.

According to NHS sources, these could include digestive conditions, ophthalmology and gynaecology. Starmer will declare a “new world is coming” during Tuesday’s speech, adding: “In decades to come, I want people to look back on this moment as the moment we renewed the NHS for a new world.”

The digital service will see patients get referred for scans and tests, receive clinical advice, and access prescriptions without stepping outside.

High-priority treatments with long waiting lists will be targeted first, with the scheme extended to more conditions over time.

Patients will still be able to see a doctor at their local hospital if they prefer, but the new service is designed to shorten waits for in-person appointments by diverting those who want to use the app from the queue.

The PM will tell Labour’s annual conference: “The responsibility of this party is not just to celebrate the NHS, it’s to make it better.

“A new chapter in the story of our NHS, harnessing the future, patients in control. Waiting times cut for every single person in this country. That’s national renewal, that’s a Britain built for all.”

Speaking to BBC Breakfast, Health Secretary Wes Streeting voiced his excitement for the new online hospital, hailing that it has “been proven to work” in some hospitals. He said: “It’s basically about modernising the NHS, helping it to move with the times.”

NHS England chief executive Sir Jim Mackey said the scheme would “deliver millions more appointments by the end of the decade, offering a real alternative for patients and more control over their own care”. It will build on innovations, such as a virtual triage system in Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust, which sped up referrals for specialist care as well as discharges from hospital.

It comes after Labour highlighted digital innovation as one of the fundamental themes in the 10-year NHS plan, which was published in July.

The plans were described as an “interesting experiment” by Dr Becks Fisher from the Nuffield Trust think tank, but she added: “At this stage, detail is largely lacking.

“And there are some difficult questions looming about implementation. Where will the doctors and nurses for this service be taken from? And how will they pass patients who need care from digital to physical services?”

So the shady spider, Starmer, is spinning his evil web once more!

There will be inadequate treatment for many patients as a result of the numerous flaws in this system, resulting in many people falling through the cracks.

There is a plan here, and it’s not for the good of your health.

It’s all about control. Our government want to keep us indoors, so that they can keep us all in one place – to control us!

I’m all for innovation and technology, but not to the point where it will make our NHS worse or our lives worse.

They are going to create a digital service, but they haven’t demonstrated how it will work, and they said that we will be able to access prescriptions without stepping outside. We all know that you physically have to get your prescriptions from the chemist – what is somebody going to bring us our medication, or are we going to now have virtual medication instead? Perhaps they will dispatch it by carrier pigeon.

People need to see a doctor face-to-face; it’s the only answer. Mark my words, in about 30 years or less, it will all be done by AI – there will be no doctors that are actually human.

Telephone consultation may help with a migraine or headache, but not with a tumour!

How can they possibly diagnose people over the internet? It’s bonkers, and what about the elderly, homeless, and those who are unable to use technology?

Starmer saving the NHS with online appointments! The only thing he’s saving is his own bacon. Um, tasty, not so tasty if it ended up on your plate. And it won’t be so tasty when people start ending up in the morgue because online consultation got it all wrong.

Taliban Commander’s Nephew Granted Asylum In The UK

A Taliban commander’s nephew who has been granted refugee status in Britain can ​be joined by seven family members currently living in Turkey, an immigration judge has ruled.

None of them speak English, and a tribunal accepted they would place ‘a significant burden upon the public purse’ if they were permitted to move to the UK.

But the relatives – the man’s parents, three sisters, and a niece and nephew – have ‘no options’ and are unable to return to Afghanistan, a judgment said.

It is the latest controversial ruling by Britain’s asylum courts and comes as ministers pledge to limit the freedoms of refugees to be joined by relatives.

The nephew, referred to only as ‘S’ in the ruling, arrived in Britain in 2016. He claimed to be 15 years old but was later assessed as being 18 years old.

His uncle was said to be a Taliban commander who had been pressuring his father to allow ‘S’ to ‘join the jihad’.

‘S’ was sent to Kabul by his father to get away from his uncle.

But ‘S’ was stabbed by two cousins because of the family dispute and he eventually fled Afghanistan, the tribunal heard.

In 2018, an immigration judge allowed him indefinite leave to stay in the UK after a psychotherapist said he had post-traumatic stress.

Meanwhile, ‘S’s’ parents and sisters had all fled through Iran to Turkey, where they feared being arrested and sent back to Afghanistan.

In 2023, his relatives applied to enter the UK, citing the ‘right to private and family life’ under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, but were refused.

However, Upper Tribunal judge Gaenor Bruce has now decided the refusal of entry clearance to Britain was ‘unjustifiably harsh’ and allowed the appeals on human rights grounds.

A lawyer for the family had argued that the sisters were all being threatened with forced marriage if they had remained in Afghanistan, while ‘S’s’ father ‘faced retribution from his brother’.

One sister had married an Afghan man in Turkey – father to her two children – but they split up after he beat her with an iron bar and was later deported.

She and another sister have been working illegally in Turkey, washing dishes to support their housebound parents, both of whom are diabetic, with the father suffering undiagnosed seizures.

An expert claimed ‘S’ was constantly ‘re-triggered’ by his worry for his family, although he’d been able to visit Turkey twice to see them.

He wanted to train as an electrician but was unable to do so due to his mental distress.

In addition, the tribunal was told that Afghans in Turkey are not recognised as refugees and are at risk of ‘violent summary returns’, ‘torture’ and ‘ill-treatment’.

Backing their appeal, the judge said, ‘The relationship between S’s mental health and his contact with his family is at the heart of this claim.

‘Only by being reunited with them will he be able to recover and live a meaningful existence.’

In addition, it was unlikely that, as asylum seekers, the family would be able to look to any other European country to facilitate family reunion, she added.

The judge praised the relatives’ case as being ‘conspicuously well-prepared’ and said ‘S’s’ medical expert had been ‘impressive’.

She accepted that allowing the family members to settle in the UK ‘would place a significant burden upon the public purse’.

‘S is presently unable to work and is reliant on public funds.

‘It is not only likely, but inevitable, that this too will be the position of his family members once they arrive.’

But she concluded that was overshadowed by ‘S’s’ wish to be reunited with his relatives and the ‘precarious’ situation of the other family members.

Earlier this month the government announced it was temporarily suspending new applications for a scheme allowing refugees to bring their family members to the UK in a bid to address concerns over Channel migrants.

It is believed that the Home Office is requesting authorisation to file an appeal against the ruling.

A spokesman said: ‘We have recently moved to suspend the refugee family reunion route, acknowledging the pressures it is putting on local authorities and public services.’

It’s not the UK’s responsibility to take them in. There are other places they can go to; I’m sure they will welcome them with a red carpet – or a prayer mat.

It appears that immigration judges never say no and are not concerned as to the cost to the British taxpayer, and we have some of our British servicemen who fought in Afghanistan living on the streets, while our government gives the enemy houses, benefits and free NHS to boot. The UK has gone quite insane.

Why are the British even paying for this? Why even bother going to work when migrants who have never paid anything into the system can come to our country and get everything they want?

Now that there are more rapists, killers, drug lords, and terrorists residing in the UK, our nation is more dangerous than it has ever been. This is a serious issue that our government is ignoring and has no intention of resolving.

The nephew lied about his age when he came to the UK illegally, so what other lies has he told to justify this judge’s decision, who clearly couldn’t see through his lies or just didn’t want to?

Three Children Injured In London Flat Block Fire

When firemen arrived at Maybury Close in Enfield early, three youngsters were taken to the hospital.

Terrifying images seem to show people ensnared by their windows as flames tear through the roof of the block.

A London Fire Brigade (LFB) spokesperson said the victims were taken to hospital with smoke inhalation. Their conditions have since been described as non-life-threatening.

A ‘hero’ neighbour described how he fought through smoke-filled corridors to help evacuate families at 5.30 am.

Yunus Mert, 45, ran from his ground-floor apartment after he made sure his wife and daughter, 9, were safe.

He told Metro: ‘There was smoke everywhere. I was choking, but I battled my way up the stairs to make sure everyone got out.

‘I was banging on doors. There were children and families; I made sure they got out. The fire started in a flat near the top.

‘There were kids I needed to get out – the smoke was thick, I knew we didn’t have much time.’

Yunus, a courier, has been evacuated to a community centre nearby.

He added: ‘It was my birthday yesterday; just thanks everyone is alive.’

Shortly after the fire began, Councillor Rick Jewell, who is spearheading efforts to assist the evacuees, arrived on the site.

He said, ‘There was a crack and then huge flames and a mushroom of smoke. The air was filled with smoke.

‘Every time the firefighters put water on one bit of the roof, another flared up.’

The cabinet member on Enfield council added, ‘We are helping residents and taking them to a community centre so at least they can have a cuppa. ‘It’s terrible.’

Witnesses described how flames shot from the roof of the flat block, leaving scenes of ‘carnage’ like a ‘war zone’.

James Higginson, 45, said he and his family were awoken by shouting followed by a fleet of fire engines racing down the road.

He told Metro: ‘It was proper carnage. I looked out the window after hearing shouting, and then there were fire engines and people coming out of their houses, looking panicked.

‘I opened my door and there was smoke across the street; the heat was incredible. The flames were big. I’m just praying everyone is ok.’

Firefighters were on the scene, trawling through the charred wreckage of the flats as an inquiry into the cause of the fire was established.

The alarm was first sounded at 5.19 am, with brigades from seven stations speeding to the location.

Steven Hinson, 32, said, ‘I saw the fire engines arrive; it was like a war zone or something. It’s very sad to see.

‘It was a huge fire and we are all hoping nobody was badly hurt.’

The fire completely damaged the building’s roof.

Peri, who lives opposite the scene, said, ‘The flames were very big and there was a lot of smoke. ‘It was horrible to see.’

Images show flames raging from the top of the building, which has been largely obliterated. One image seems to show a resident in the window waiting to be saved.

Plumes of grey smoke are seen rising in the sky as firefighters continue to pump water into the core of the fire.

A Met Police spokesperson confirmed no arrests have been made so far in their investigation.

They said, ‘Three children were treated at the scene by paramedics and taken to hospital where their conditions were deemed not life-threatening or life-changing.

‘Police are working alongside the London Fire Brigade to investigate the cause of the fire.

These kinds of fires appear to be on the rise.

These kinds of fires are dreadful, but this is what happens when you create flats—they are not safe. I hope that everyone involved was accounted for and taken care of since it looked horrific.

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