Following A 45-Minute Outage, Musk’s X Website And App Are Back

Elon Musk’s X website and app are back online following a 45-minute outage that left thousands unable to access content.

The message continued that it was empty now, but it wouldn’t be long. Start following people and you’ll see the posts show up here.

However, the platform, previously known as Twitter, did seem to allow users to continue posting, despite them not showing up. #TwitterDown began trending shorting after 6 am as nearly 4,000 reports were filed on the website checker DownDetector.

The outage lasted about 45 minutes before user timelines started to display as expected.

Tesla billionaire Elon Musk took over the platform in a £33.6 billion ($44 billion) deal last autumn.

It comes after the EU said it would launch an inquiry into X over a suspected breach of obligations in its first such investigation under the Digital Services Act (DSA).

The DSA, which entered into force in November last year, needs extremely extensive online platforms and search engines to do more to tackle illegal content and risks to public security, and to protect their services against manipulative techniques.

The Commission said that the proceedings will focus on countering the dissemination of illegal content in the EU, and the effectiveness of measures taken to combat information manipulation, notably of the ‘community notes’ system.

It will also concentrate on the measures taken by X to improve the translucency of its platform and a suspected misleading design of the user interface such as checkmarks linked to subscription products, the so-called Blue checks.

The Commission said it will now carry out an in-depth investigation as a matter of priority and continue to gather evidence by sending additional requests for information, conducting interviews and inspections.

X, which is owned by Elon Musk, is part of a group of large tech firms facing increased scrutiny under the DSA.

Following Hamas’ attacks on Israel on October 7, EU industry chief Thierry Breton sent letters to X, Meta, TikTok and Alphabet reminding them of their responsibilities under the DSA to tackle harmful and illegal content.

The platforms answered promptly to Breton, highlighting steps they’ve taken to prevent disinformation on their platform but Elon Musk questioned Mr Breton over the disinformation charge.

Only X received a formal request for information under the DSA and has responded to the request.

The Commission said a preliminary investigation conducted so far included an analysis of a report submitted by X in September, X’s transparency report published in November, and the platform’s replies to a formal request for information about illegal content in connection to Hamas’ attacks against Israel.

If X wasn’t online anymore, how on earth would people manage to get through the day? However, even if X wasn’t there online anymore, some other platform would appear to do the same thing as X does.

Come to think of it, how would we manage if the media didn’t exist any longer? How about carrier pigeons? They were quite newsworthy. Saying that they were extremely nice to eat as well!

These types of platforms are of course excellent if you want to have a say in what goes on. The problem is now, they deny people the right to have a say and then say they’re troublemakers or terrorists.

I’ve heard it said that we don’t need social media to speak freely. The thing is, we’re not allowed to speak freely anymore, whether it be on social media or elsewhere. We don’t have any say at all! I don’t know any platform now that the truth is still allowed.

Hacking and outages are very common now, so we’d better get used to it.

What on earth was wrong with the name ‘Twitter’? Why did Elon Musk have to change it when everyone was used to it? Perhaps we should be calling Elon Musk the ‘Almighty’ or just ‘Musk’. Elon would look rather good pickled in a bottle of perfume, we could call it ‘Eau de Elon’. Please don’t do it Elon, you’re not worth the skunk scent it would produce!

After Being Unable To See An NHS Dentist For 2 Months, Teen Is Scarred For Life

A teenager who struggled to see an NHS dentist when he was in agony fears he has been scarred for life.

Jay Connaughton, 17, from Plymouth, Devon, developed an abscess in his mouth and attempted to locate a dentist but struggled so left it for two months, but when his face began to swell and he was unable to eat or sleep, he spent hours on the phone trying to book an appointment.

When he couldn’t get through he finished up at Derriford Hospital for several days where they extracted a tooth. It comes as a new report says NHS dentistry is at its most stretched point in its history.

Jay’s mother, Lisa Emmens, said that if her son had a routine dentist operation, it would have been picked up initially and his tooth could have been saved in the first place and that this was just the tip of the iceberg.

She said that children are coming up who are going to need dentist appointments that just aren’t going to get them, and they will be losing teeth unnecessarily, and that her son couldn’t be put to sleep because his mouth was so swollen, and that they couldn’t put the tubes down the back of his throat, so he had to be heavily sedated but couldn’t be put completely under for the operation.

She added that he was in hospital for three to four days because it was constantly draining. He was on a strong course of antibiotics in there and then came home and was on another five-day course of antibiotics when he came home as well. She said her son’s injury was healing well, but that he would need follow-up treatment and has been left with a lifelong scar.

Jay added that he started having problems and that he left it for a while and that he was trying to get hold of a dentist, but couldn’t get through so left it for two months.

He said that he kept contacting emergency dentists and that he was probably on hold for about three hours a day. When he finally got through, they took out the tooth instead of the abscess and his face started swelling up, he couldn’t eat and couldn’t sleep.

It comes as new research reveals most dental practices are not taking on new NHS patients, forcing most people to go private or, as in Jay’s case, seek out emergency help when something goes awry.

Now because it’s so hard to get an NHS dentist loads of people will have mouth disorders or some form of mouth cancer which will go undetected and likely kill them because they can’t get to see a dentist.

All that dentists are concerned with now is money and dentistry work that is ridiculously pricey.

However, if this lad was in agony and couldn’t find a dentist, why didn’t he go to the hospital immediately? Because some hospitals won’t treat you if you have teeth issues and will turn you away, of which I have no idea why, is the mouth no longer part of the human body?

It does, however, sound like this lad wasn’t registered with a dentist in the first place and he waited until it was an emergency before attempting to find one, although I must confess most people loathe going to the dentist, myself included.

The thing is why should people have to pay for their treatment if they’re entitled to an NHS dentist? That’s why we pay into the system. The problem is that dentists have become too greedy and won’t do NHS work for a fixed amount. They don’t care that people are suffering and have rotten teeth, they only care about the money. People are just greedy and can’t see beyond their noses.

Thousands Of Patients Will Spend Christmas In Hospitals Due To Junior Doctors’ Strike

Thousands of patients face being stuck in hospital over Christmas as junior doctors embark on the most disruptive walkout in NHS history.

Junior medics will begin a three-day walkout from 7 am today and will return on Saturday before embarking on a mammoth six-day stoppage from January 3.

Health leaders said the action, which has already forced one A&E to close, leaves patients safety in a ‘precarious state’ at the busiest time of the year.

They warned that patients are the ones being left to pick up the pieces of this dispute with yet more operations and appointments cancelled.

Rishi Sunak told the Commons Liaison Committee that the question for the junior doctors is as to why they’re refusing to accept something that everyone else is now accepting, on top of having a pay increase which is more generous than anyone else’s set by the independent body going into this.

Nurses, physiotherapists and paramedics have all called off action following pay talks, while consultants are to vote on an offer their leaders have accepted.

However, junior doctors rejected an additional three per cent pay increase on top of an average 8.8 per cent pay rise for 2023-24.

The stalemate has resulted in the latest strikes, which caused Cheltenham A&E to close last night until Saturday. Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust said no minor injury and illness unit services would be provided, and that it would restrict treatment over Christmas and New Year.

Hospitals have been gearing up to discharge healthier patients sooner, with NHS chief Amanda Pritchard admitting that reduced staffing caused by the doctors’ strikes slows down discharges.

About 13,000 people a day who are considered medically well enough to leave the hospital were stuck on wards, mainly due to limited social care and community service capacity. However, NHS data shows the number discharged from hospitals fell in the last period of industrial action.

Julian Hartley, chief executive of NHS Providers, said that trusts were doing everything they could to enable people to get home as soon as they were well enough but the strikes were bound to have an impact.

Caroline Abrahams, charity director at Age UK, said it was ‘so sad’ elderly patients in particular could remain in hospital unnecessarily over Christmas.

Experts said the impact on services would be long-lasting and could jeopardise efforts to tackle waiting lists.

If doctors are not willing to put their patients before themselves, then they choose the wrong profession to be in. What happened to caring, that went out of the window? The problem is, that healthcare is all about money now.

These doctors don’t work all hours for peanuts, they get a rather fair wage. Some nurses work longer hours for less money.

So much for the caring profession. They simply care for nobody but themselves and the money in their pockets.

The medical profession is appalling. These doctors knew what they were signing up for when they entered the profession. It’s time these walkouts were prohibited, and how can these doctors go home at night and sleep soundly when someone in the hospital could be dying because they’re on strike?

Care in the medical profession is at an all-time low, and the wrong kind of people are being trained as doctors as they support money over patients.

We clapped our hands for the NHS staff, well they can stick that where the sun doesn’t shine. We want an NHS that values and can retain doctors and nurses, otherwise our healthcare in the future is finished!

Esther Rantzen’s Daughter Says She Doesn’t Want Her To Die At Dignitas Clinic

Esther Rantzen’s daughter has called on Parliament to vote on assisted dying rules to stop her mother from travelling alone to the ‘horrific’ Dignitas clinic.

The Childline founder, who was diagnosed with stage four lung cancer earlier this year, revealed she’d joined the assisted dying clinic in Switzerland and would consider going there to end her life should her next scan show she’s getting worse.

Esther’s family and friends could be prosecuted should they decide to join her, which would mean that Esther who is terminally ill faces the possibility of dying alone in an impersonal room.

Rebecca told a newspaper outlet that prisoners get a nicer farewell with their favourite last meal, whereas her mother would go into some strange conveyor belt where you are rushed through a process in an impersonal room without the people that you love because if they go with you they would be arrested.

She said that she wouldn’t be able to go because they would be arrested on landing. That she didn’t want her mother to go. That she didn’t want her to die, and she certainly didn’t want her to go alone.

In 2015, MPs voted against changing the law to let doctors help terminally ill people end their lives, meaning Dame Esther may be forced to go to Switzerland alone.

Rebecca said she wants to be with her mother because Dignitas isn’t a lovely place, and she said that her mum is the worst flier, she gets nervous, she goes to the wrong gate, she always gets delayed, and she said that Dignitas is on an industrial estate, it looks like a box.

Dame Esther has called for a free vote on assisted dying as the law needed to catch up with what the country wants.

She will find out in a few weeks if a new medication she’s been taking is performing its miracle or if it has given up.

Ms Wilcox had earlier told ITV’s Good Morning Britain how her mother, who has also worked as a broadcaster for several years, doesn’t care what anyone else says as she prepared to join her family for what tragically could be her last Christmas.

The Childline founder, who is 83 years old was diagnosed with stage four lung cancer earlier this year, revealed she’s joined the assisted dying clinic in Switzerland and would consider there to end her life should her next scan show she’s getting worse.

Assisted dying is not a decision one makes lightly, but Dame Esther has made her decision, for whatever reason that is.

We don’t choose to come into this world, the decision is made for us by our parents to have a child. The same decision should be made by the person who wants to end their life by assisted dying.

I do hope that Esther gets the good news about her scan, but if not, then her decision should be respected and her family should be permitted to go with her.

Watching a parent die is not for the faint-hearted, and for some, it can be torture to watch.

Animals are given more dignity than human beings when it comes to dying and this shouldn’t be the case. If we still have free will up until the time we die, then it should be our decision to make and not some government that says otherwise.

We don’t allow animals to suffer, but of course, assisted dying needs to be regulated, but why should humans be allowed to suffer?

A Gale-Force Wind Of 80 MPH Is Predicted For Britain

Britain is bracing for 80mph winds this week which could put lives at risk and disrupt Christmas travel plans.

Forecasters warned the gales hurtling towards the country from Norway pose a significant ‘danger to life’ from large waves and debris being thrown onto sea fronts, coastal roads and properties.

They also warned of transport cancellations affecting road, rail and ferry as millions prepare for the festive getaway.

Exposed areas in the North of England and Scotland are set to be the worst impacted, with winds predicted to hit 80mph while other places will feel gales of 60mph and 70mph.

A yellow warning covering Scotland, Northern Ireland, the North of England and parts of the East and West Midlands is in place from the early hours of Thursday until midnight on Friday.

Today, forecasters said the rain will slowly clear southeastwards from England and Wales to leave a mainly dry, bright and breezy afternoon.

Scotland and Northern Ireland will see sunshine and scattered gusty showers.

It will be extremely mild across the southeast, however, temperatures will be closer to average elsewhere.

Tomorrow will be increasingly overcast and windy, with rain at times. Some bright spells are likely in the south and east.

It will be generally mild, though tempered by strong to gale-force winds for some.

A Met Office meteorologist warned northern parts of the United Kingdom would be worst affected on Thursday as low pressure over Norway and high pressure in the Atlantic are set to push gale-force winds over the United Kingdom.

They said that it was across northern parts that we were going to see the strongest winds. Across northern regions, 50 to 60 miles-per-hour winds were particularly likely.

They said even perhaps 70 to 80 in some exposed spots over the higher ground, and they said that also in the east, we were going to see some strong gusty winds, perhaps 60 to 70 miles per hour affecting parts such as the Pennines and Sheffield.

They said that we could have some pretty strong winds as we go through to Thursday and it was no surprise that we do have a warning out currently and that it would affect many parts of the United Kingdom and was valid for pretty much the whole of Thursday.

They added that at this time of the year, many people would be taking to the roads with a lot more travel happening so that could cause some problems.

Of course, this will be put down to more global warming, climate change, and net zero garbage, which will inevitably force up the cost of gas and electricity.

People are triggered by weather predictions. So, switch off the television, the news, the weather. Forget about climate change and focus on the most important thing – family!

It’s the reaction that gets me when it comes to weather and climate change. Everyone is panicking about travel disruptions and how they’re going to get around the country before Christmas. We are an obsessed nation of overthinkers and have become obsessed with climate this and climate that, and now our entire life revolves around a door that’s going to hit us on the head time and time again. The trouble is we have too much technology and not enough brains to know that we should just live our lives and be happy that we have one.

As Iceland’s Volcano Erupts, Airlines Delay Takeoff For Hours 

British holidaymakers were waiting anxiously to see if their getaways to Iceland would be withdrawn or postponed after the nation’s volcano erupted last night, with local experts warning that this was a very different creature to anything they’d seen before.

The eruption on the Reykjanes peninsula just north of the evacuated town of Grindavik started last night at about 10.17 pm after an earthquake swarm, the Icelandic Meteorological Office said, referring to a string of small shakes.

Live streamed footage of the eruption showed molten lava spewing into the sky from cracks in the ground, encircled by billowing clouds of red smoke.

There are fears that the eruption, which has seen 200 cubic metres of lava spewing out from the fissures every second, could cause havoc to air traffic travel after another Icelandic eruption in 2010 grounded thousands of flights across Europe and North America and saw holidaymakers stranded.

Flights from Reykjavik’s international Keflavik airport were postponed last night, with an EasyJet flight to Manchester standing on the tarmac for five hours before taking off at 1.35 am due to the volcanic activity.

Passengers were told by EasyJet that they were sorry that their flight had been delayed, but this was because volcanic activity in Keflavik (KEF) was causing restrictions to the areas in which aircraft were permitted to fly.

British holidaymakers are now waiting anxiously to see if their flights will be withdrawn. However, the Icelandic government and airlines including EasyJet have said the airports in Iceland are not impacted and that flights should be operating as scheduled.

Indeed, Hallgrímur Indriðason, a journalist from Icelandic state broadcaster RUV, said there was ‘no threat to air traffic – at least not for now’ with Reykjavik’s international Keflavik airport remaining open today.

Indriðason told the BBC that the 2010 eruption was different because it erupted under a glacier and when this happens you get this huge explosive ash high up in the air which is very fine and stays up in the air for a long time.

He said that this was much different. This was a crack in the ground with lava flow and the ash doesn’t stay up in the air as much as in previous cases. So, unless they have an eruption under the sea, which there is a slim chance of, then there will be no impact on air traffic.

I love how the Icelandic people feel so relaxed about this, yet the UK media go into a frenzy endeavouring to cause a panic, but then that’s what we do the best.

I suppose when you live in a country that has ongoing volcanic activity you sort of get used to it, but something like this would be a bit alien to the rest of us, but hey life goes on.

I bet Sadiq Khan is already working out a way he can tax Londoners on this in the name of climate change.

Newspapers frequently embellish the news, that’s why it’s called a newspaper. I prefer to view any media attention like a comic, similar to Beano or Dandy, but I guess it provides light entertainment, but very seldom true-to-life, but I suppose it does pass the time on your way to work or when you’re on the throne.

This is Mother Nature at her best. The earth will always go through cycles of transition, so why are we endeavouring to fight it?

Look at the world around you. Mother Nature is awesome and we need to stop meddling with the planet and let her do her own thing.

To Holiday In Europe, Brits Will Have To Provide Their Fingerprints

Travellers face enormous queues while entering Europe from next autumn with the introduction of strict post-Brexit border controls.

British passport holders will have to go through fingerprint checks and face scans as part of the new EU Entry/Exit System (EES). It will replace the stamping of passports, which started after Brexit when the United Kingdom became a ‘third country’ to the EU.

The new system will check every passenger’s name and biometric data when they travel into an EU country. It was expected to be rolled out earlier this year but has been postponed several times.

Some countries have voiced concerns about how much time the process will add to queues at EU borders, with the Slovenian government saying it takes ‘up to four times longer’.

According to a newspaper outlet, despite these worries, EES will be introduced on October 6, 2024.

Each time tourists attempt to cross into the continent, they will have to show a facial image and provide four fingerprints.

Personal data including first name, surname, date of birth, nationality, sex, travel document and the three-letter country code will all be required, with only children under 12 excused.

Austria has said processing times would be ‘double compared to the current situation’, while Croatia warned checks would ‘certainly be significantly longer’.

French officers will carry out EES border checks at the Port of Dover, Folkestone for Eurotunnel and St Pancreas International for Eurostar.

In a report released earlier this year, French public finance watchdog Cour des Comptes predicted queues at the UK-France border will at least double when the EES is launched in 2024.

The Port of Dover, which has regularly seen lengthy delays resulting from post-border checks, said the latest system could lengthen checks on cars from 45 seconds to as long as 10 minutes.

Port chief Doug Bannister was reported by a newspaper outlet as saying that even at the busiest times right now, with new post-Brexit rules, passport checks are taking 45 to 90 seconds per car.

He said with the pre-registration involved, a car with a family of four or five in it could take up to ten minutes.

He added that the government should be urgently discussing with their French and EU counterparts how this is going to work.

Eurotunnel warned it could take as much as six minutes longer to process each car boarding its trains.

This is absurd, we don’t bother checking illegals coming into the country but we’ll check legal citizens going on holiday. The retribution continues.

Perhaps we should be doing the same to EU citizens who try to enter the United Kingdom, and let’s face it, less criticism was made when we landed in 1944.

This system will simply be a digital health passport along with compulsory jabs and penalties. Then it will be a chip. Benjamin Franklin said that those who would give up their essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither Liberty nor safety, but we will do it just for a week in Spain.

We also need to do the same for those who enter our country from elsewhere on dinghies, no scanning, no entry.

We need a government that puts the interests of its citizens first, but sadly we have no possibility of that in the United Kingdom.

We in the United Kingdom need to adopt this for illegal migration and return those without the correct ID to their port of entry.

They will take fingerprints and scan faces, what they won’t do is remove the scavengers from entering our country.

Fire accidentally burns family’s Christmas tree, killing autistic 13-year-old Brandon Gonzales

A 13-year-old autistic boy tragically died after he got hold of a lighter and set fire to the Christmas tree at his family’s North Carolina home.

Brenda Contreras Juarez, 30, has been left heartbroken following her son Brandon’s demise on Tuesday.

Myfox8 reported that a caregiver was looking after the teenager, who lived with autism, and a five-year-old girl at the time of the tragedy at 6.30 pm.

Family members said he somehow got his hands on a lighter and set their family Christmas tree ablaze, causing a fire to quickly spread through the home.

The caregiver and the little girl managed to flee the disaster, but Brandon got stuck in the flames, and despite rescue efforts from his caregiver, he perished in the blaze.

His caregiver suffered minor injuries from her efforts to save Brandon’s life, she’s now recovering in hospital.

The family lost everything in the fire, but the most devastating loss of all was Brandon, the oldest of his siblings.

His grief-stricken mother said that it had been three days of torture. That she missed him so much, and that she was dying of sadness.

Brenda’s aunt Noelia Juarez added that they had lost all the material things, but the most difficult thing was that they couldn’t recover what hurt them the most.

The home where Brenda lived alone with her three children, located on Fanning Pointe Lane, was completely destroyed by the fire.

Family members set up a GoFundMe page to collect money to help with funeral expenses, it’s raised $5,255 so far.

Noelia Juarez wrote on the page that on behalf of Family Contreras Juarez, they were making the page to whomever would like to kindly donate money in memory of Brandon Gonzalez since he lost his life in a house fire.

She said that they’d lost everything, their home, and 13-year-old Brandon’s life and that they were asking for help with the funeral costs and to build a new home.

Juarez said he always me her happy with his smile and that he was her world.

It was particularly painful for the family to lose the young boy during the Holiday season, just weeks before Brandon’s birthday.

Neighbours of the family witnessed the catastrophe and reported that the caregiver was a grandmother and it was she and her grandchild who managed to flee the fire.

This is an extremely heartbreaking story made more so because Christmas is just around the corner.

The young man wasn’t seen grabbing a lighter and a small lighter isn’t something that obvious – it’s a small item that a lot of people have in their homes and this is a very tragic misfortune.

This was truly horrible. The home was made from wood, and these kinds of homes go up extremely fast. The lady was his caregiver and was also injured in the fire, and she will now have to recover not only physically but mentally as well.

Some people have said this caregiver should have gone to jail. I grant you that perhaps a lighter should have not been in the home, but perhaps it was used to light the gas on the cooker or for another reason. However, the caregiver was not to blame. It could have happened to anyone, and as sad as this might be, sometimes some things are just out of our control.

Tesco Recalls Batch Over ‘Potential Presence Of MOTHS’

Tesco has recalled a batch of its 139g Finest Apple and Cranberry Stuffing Mix over the possible presence of moths, causing chaos for customers over the festive period.

The supermarket has recalled a batch of its 130g Tesco Finest Apple and Cranberry Stuffing Mix and is advising any customers who may have bought the item to not consume the product and to bring it back to the store where they will receive full reimbursement.

Tesco issued a notice of recall, which said they were recalling a single batch of Tesco Finest Apple and Cranberry Stuffing Mix due to the possible presence of moths which make the product unfit for human consumption.

The supermarket urged customers to not consume the product and to return it to the store where a full refund would be given and that no receipt is needed.

It added that Tesco apologises to their customers for any inconvenience caused, and that if they require any further details to please contact Customer Services directly.

The Food Standard Agency (FSA) also issued a notice of the recall, explaining that a particular batch of the supermarket stuffing was contaminated by a foreign body, which had been identified to be the presence of insects (months), deeming the festive side dish unsafe to eat.

The stuffing mix with toasted ciabatta-style breadcrumbs, advertised to be made with extra virgin olive oil, croutons, dried sweetened cranberries and dried apples, would have a best-before date of September 2024.

The mixture has received an overall 3.6-star rating for quality by Tesco customers, with some describing it as ‘sludgy and tasteless’, and others applauding the £2 box of stuffing for its ‘lovely aroma’.

The FSA issues Product Withdrawal Information notices and product recall information notices to let consumers and local authorities know about issues associated with food.

In some cases, a ‘Food Alert for Action’ is issued. This provides local authorities with details of specific actions to be taken on behalf of consumers.

I’m sure that some of those who did consume the stuffing reported thought it was lovely. Perhaps they even had a weird desire to head-butt their light bulbs. Well, what can I say, ‘Every moth helps!’.

They said it would cause chaos for shoppers, good grief, when outside of your window is a world of fear and dread.

If their finest stuffing contains moths, what on earth has the budget version got in it? Essense of wardrobe.

But seriously, it does make you wonder what toxic foods we eat that never get recalled.

Honestly, these moths have got some balls to get into our stuffing mix, but it does speak volumes about the hygiene and the food preparation in the factory. Perhaps they should be sponsored by ‘I’m a celebrity, get me out of here’.

His Wife, 81, Made Him Pancakes, And He Didn’t Want To Eat Them, So He Stabbed Her To Death

An 85-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly stabbing his wife to death because he didn’t want to eat the pancakes she made for him.

Steven Schwartz is now facing murder charges for the death of his wife, Sharron Schwartz, 81, as announced by the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia.

Their statement reads that the defendant didn’t want to eat the pancakes she made and so he stabbed her in the back.

The alleged murder occurred on Sunday afternoon at the couple’s home on Corcoran Street in northwest Washington, DC.

When officers arrived at the location, they discovered Sharron inside the apartment with stab wounds, and Steven had self-inflicted injuries, the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington said.

Both elders were rushed to a nearby hospital for treatment, but Sharron was later pronounced dead.

According to a police affidavit obtained by the Washington Post, Steven told detectives he ‘loved that woman for 40 years’.

The 85-year-old defendant said that he had lost 45-50 lbs in the hospital in recent months due to physical and psychiatric disorders.

The affidavit read that Steven said that his wife wanted him to get back to 180lbs.

In an interview with Detective Jeffery Clay, Steven described his wife as a bit of a taskmaster but said she was doing it for his benefit. That she loved him so much that she wanted him to be well and that she wanted her partner and protector back, Steven told officers.

The argument began on Sunday morning when Sharon asked the defendant if he was going to have breakfast.

Steven responded by saying that he’d had a quarter of a Krispy Kreme doughnut the day before.

Steven said he told his wife that he would try to eat a pancake with not too much syrup, but later changed his mind.

The affidavit said that the next thing he heard was a plate crashing against the wall and after he reached and grabbed a carving knife from a holder.

A postmortem report later found Sharron was stabbed once in the back and the blade pierced her heart.

Police on the scene said that Steven was clutching a knife and refused to let go of it until an officer used a taser to subdue him.

Steven allegedly told police that he leaned down and kissed his wife as she lay on the floor, and said it was the most beautiful kiss.

This man evidently had mental health problems, perhaps Alzheimer’s or dementia, and people who do these sorts of things are usually totally shocked by what they’ve done. Numerous families who have a relative or loved one with the illness have to deal with all sudden violent episodes with them.

Yes, I agree. What the man did was bad, but we also need to have understanding and compassion as well. They were married for an extremely long time, and his mental health might have waned a bit, but it always comes back to bite them on the arse. However, people should not make jokes about what has occurred.

I’m going to say that dementia did play a part in this because impulse clearly took control, and although this woman didn’t deserve to die this horrific death as his wife and caregiver. She chose to do it because she loved her husband, and we must remember that if this man does have dementia or Alzheimer’s disease, it is such a horrible disease, and this would have been a lousy situation.

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