A ‘sadistic’ wife forced her husband to live in squalor with sixty chihuahuas, making him clean up their faeces barefoot and locking him in their kennel during a year-long campaign of torture, a Belgian court has heard. Anna VDV, 47, emerged in the dock at Turnhout courthouse on Wednesday, crying as prosecutors laid out an extraordinary chronicleContinue reading “Torture By Sadistic Wife”
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A Newborn Baby Was Thrown From A Fourth-Floor Window
A newborn baby has perished after reportedly being hurled 40 feet from a window by her five-year-old sister. The tragedy came as the pair were left home alone by their mother while her husband was at work, say law enforcement. Upon hearing a girl screaming from a fourth-floor window, onlookers noticed the baby lying motionlessContinue reading “A Newborn Baby Was Thrown From A Fourth-Floor Window”
The Funeral Of A Dead Woman Suddenly Comes To Life
A woman who was announced dead at a hospital horrifyingly ‘came back to life’ en route to her own funeral. After taking a turn for the worse, the woman was found to have died and was moved from the mortuary to the funeral parlour in preparation for her interment. But staff were reportedly horrified whenContinue reading “The Funeral Of A Dead Woman Suddenly Comes To Life”
A Pensioner Who Was Immobile And Died All Alone At The Age Of 84
An 84-year-old immobile man who lived alone died after being sent home from the hospital unable to call for assistance as his phone was in the other room. Samuel Brookes was transported to his bed where he could not reach his pendant alarm or the handheld device as he was left alone for two weeks.Continue reading “A Pensioner Who Was Immobile And Died All Alone At The Age Of 84”
A Woman, 76, Dies After Waiting 2 Hours For An Ambulance On The Freezing Floor Of A GP’s Parking Lot
AN ELDERLY woman died after being left in agony on the freezing floor of a GP car park for more than two hours after falling over. Josephine Ellis, 76, had just attended an appointment at a mobile clinic adjacent to the Hoveton and Wroxham Medical Centre near Norwich, Norfolk. She lost her balance while walking to herContinue reading “A Woman, 76, Dies After Waiting 2 Hours For An Ambulance On The Freezing Floor Of A GP’s Parking Lot”
Pub Beer Garden Ploughed Through By Driver
All charges against a diabetic motorist who crashed into a beer garden, killing two adults and three children, have been dropped, allowing him to leave the courtroom. In Ballarat Magistrates Court this week, William Swale, 66, was the subject of a three-day committal hearing where he challenged 14 charges, including five counts of negligent drivingContinue reading “Pub Beer Garden Ploughed Through By Driver”
At A Tube station, A London University Student Leapt To His Death
Shortly after telling doctors he “wanted to be euthanized,” a university student left the hospital and leapt to his death in front of a Piccadilly Line train, according to evidence presented at the inquest. After consuming a mixture of alcohol and narcotics, Alexander Corda-Stanley, 20, was discovered drunk on the sidewalk in front of anContinue reading “At A Tube station, A London University Student Leapt To His Death”
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 hasContinue reading “Thousands Of Patients Will Spend Christmas In Hospitals Due To Junior Doctors’ Strike”
Mother Given All-Clear By Paramedics Before She Died
Paramedics who gave a young mother the all-clear hours before she died had a ‘significant gap in their training’, lawyers representing her family have claimed. Lauren Page Smith, 29, was discovered with her two-year-old daughter clinging to her chest trying to wake her up at her Wolverhampton home in January. Michael Portman-Hann, an associate atContinue reading “Mother Given All-Clear By Paramedics Before She Died”
Paramedics Walk Out Days Before Christmas As Ambulance Strike Dates Are Announced
More than 10,000 ambulance workers across England and Wales will strike days before Christmas if the Government declines to open pay talks, the first national ambulance walkout in 30 years. Three unions revealed the dates members will walk out, coordinating industrial activity for Wednesday 21 December. Members of the GMB union, who include paramedics, EmergencyContinue reading “Paramedics Walk Out Days Before Christmas As Ambulance Strike Dates Are Announced”