بريطانية تركت أطفالها الأربعة بمفردهم 24 ساعة للمشاركة في حفل تفلت من السجن
ريبيكا ستيفنسون ( الرياض)
(د ب أ):
أفلتت أم بريطانية عزباء تركت أطفالها الأربعة بمفردهم في المنزل 24 ساعة لتذهب إلى حفل من عقوبة السجن في بريطانيا.
وذكرت صحيفة "ميرور" البريطانية الشعبية امس الثلاثاء أن ريبيكا ستيفنسون /22 عاما/ أطلق سراحها يوم الاثنين بعدما تلقت حكما مع إيقاف التنفيذ بسبب تركها طفلين وطفلتين تتراوح أعمارهم بين 3 شهور وأربعة أعوام بمفردهم ليوم كامل.
واضطر الصغار المذعورين إلى الاعتناء بأنفسهم عندما غابت والدتهم التي ذهبت لتناول الخمور والمخدرات مع أصدقائها.
وأطلق الأطفال نداء الاستغاثة عندما صرخت أكبرهم في إحدى النوافذ قائلة "أين أمي؟".
واقتحم بول فيلدينغ زوج والدة ستيفنسون المنزل ليجد أحد الأطفال وعمره عام واحد مبللا بشدة حيث ترك دون أن يغير له أحد ملابسه وأيضا طفلاً آخر عمره ثلاثة شهور في حالة إعياء.
واعترفت الأم وهي من مدينة بلاكبيرن في مقاطعة لانكشاير أمام محكمة بريستون الملكية بأربع تهم تتعلق بإهمال الأطفال.
وأصدر القاضي نورمان رايت حكمه بحقها بالسجن 20 أسبوعا مع إيقاف التنفيذ. كما فرض عليها أمر بحظر الخروج من المنزل لمدة شهرين من الساعة الثامنة مساء وحتى السادسة صباحا.
ويقوم برعاية الأطفال حالياً الجدان فيما يسمح لستيفنسون فقط بزيارتهم.
Pictured: Inside squalid home where four children were left by their drink-binge mother
By Sara Nelson
Last updated at 11:01 PM on 17th November 2009
The squalor in which four young children were left while their mother enjoyed a 24-hour drink and drugs binge has been revealed for the first time.
Pictures emerged today which show Rebecca Stevenson’s kitchen crammed with junk and electrical appliances dangerously left out.
The 22-year-old, from Blackburn, left court yesterday with a 20-week suspended prison sentence despite leaving the children under the age of five to fend for themselves in the filthy, cluttered house - while she partied with friends.
Filth: The cluttered kitchen in Rebecca Stevenson’s house. Tiny footprints visible in spilled milk powder show where one child tried to mix a bottle for her wailing baby brother
One of her daughters was so hungry she had tried to clamber onto the kitchen counter to reach food.
The picture also reveals the heartbreaking sight of tiny footprints in spilled milk powder – a reminder of how one child desperately tried to mix a bottle for her baby brother, who was crying with hunger.
Another image, which like the first was taken at the time of Stevenson’s arrest in July, shows a urine-soaked cot mattress, where the mother left her one-year-old son.
Her three-month-old son was discovered lying nearby in a soiled travel cot, covered in sick.
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Squalor: The urine soaked mattress where the single mother’s one-year-old son was left as she partied with friends
Stevenson, who admitted child neglect, also received an eight-week night time curfew.
Judge Norman Wright told her she was guilty of ‘an absolute, complete dereliction’ of her duty as a parent.
The alarm was raised when Stevenson’s stepfather saw the eldest child hanging out of a window, crying: ‘Where’s mummy?’
Police found the house littered with empty beer cans and bottles amid a scene of ‘filth and disorder’.
Child welfare campaigners reacted with disbelief when Stevenson was not given a jail sentence.
Stevenson admitted four charges of cruelty. Her children are being cared for by their grandparents. She is allowed supervised visits
Claude Knight of children’s charity, Kidscape, said: ‘The important message should be that the safety and welfare of children must come first and that anyone who puts them at grave risk could face a custodial sentence.’
She added it is not clear how the sentence will help Stevenson to understand the ‘potentially tragic consequences’ of her actions.
Preston Crown Court heard Stevenson had four young children from three fathers.
She had put them to bed one night in July and then drank a bottle of wine.
She then invited some friends to her house where they all drank cider and snorted cocaine before going out to town.
There she downed shots of Sambuca and stayed up all night, drinking in the pub during the next day before finally arriving home at 10.30pm.
The court heard how the four children, who cannot be named for legal reasons, were discovered that day by Stevenson’s stepfather, Paul Fielding, who alerted police.
Stevenson admitted four charges of child neglect over the incident.
In a letter to the court she said she had been under enormous pressure looking after the four children.
She said: ‘I broke up with my partner of three years at the end of March. I was pregnant with my second son.
‘He cheated on me and got another girl pregnant and married her around the time I gave birth to my son.
‘At 28 weeks I was told there was a risk of Down’s syndrome, all this I went through alone and found it very distressing.’
The court was told all four youngsters are being cared for by their grandparents and see their mother only on supervised visits.
Home alone: The children were discovered at Stevenson’s house in Blackburn
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Somali woman, 20, stoned to death by Islamic militants after admitting affair with boyfriend

By Mail Foreign Service
Last updated at 7:26 PM on 18th November 2009
A Somali woman of 20 has been stoned to death after admitting she had an affair, an Islamic militant judge said today.
The woman was a divorcee - but even though she was no longer married, her affair was seen as adultery in the eyes of Somalia’s extremist interpretation of Sharia law.
ترجمة متظرفة للشريعة الإسلامية من قبل ميليشيا صومالية متطرفة
Her punishment was therefore to be buried up to her waist in front of a crowd of 200 people and stoned to death.
طريقة القتل لإيرانية تم دفن نصف جسدها ثم رميها بالأحجار حتى الموت
A woman is pictured being prepared for stoning in Iran (file photo). The woman stoned to death in Somalia would have been buried in the same way
Her unmarried boyfriend was given 100 lashes for the affair.
Sheikh Ibrahim Abdirahman, the judge for the group al-Shabab, says the woman was killed yesterday in front of a crowd of some 200 people near the town of Wajid.
Abdirahman says the 20-year-old woman had an affair with a 29-year-old unmarried man and gave birth to a stillborn child.
The militants that control much of southern Somalia and have links to
have implemented an extremist reading of Islam’s Sharia law.
جماعة الشباب المتطرفة موالية للقاعدة.إنها المرة الرابعة التي يتم تنفيذ فيها حكم كهذا في خلال السنة الحالية.والمرة الثانية لقتل إمرأة بتلك الطريقة الشنيعة.
The stoning death was at least the fourth for adultery in Somalia over the last year.
It was the second time a female has been killed.
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أب يغتصب ابنته ويجبرها على ممارسة الفاحشة مع شقيقها
دمشق - (د ب أ):
حكمت محكمة في سورية على رجل بالسجن لمدة ثمانية وعشرين عاما بتهمة الاعتداء الجنسي على ابنته القاصر عدة مرات وإجبارها على ممارسة الفاحشة مع شقيقها.
وذكرت صحيفة "الثورة" السورية امس الثلاثاء أن المتهم "زكوان" من ريف العاصمة السورية دمشق كان يرغم ابنته القاصر وشقيقها الحدث الأصغر منها على مشاهدة أفلام إباحية بوجوده بعد أن اشترى جهاز عرض.ونقلت الصحيفة عن القاصر قولها إن والدها اغتصبها ثلاث مرات وإنه أجبر أخاها القاصر - 13 سنة - على ممارسة الفاحشة معها أمام عينيه وأضافت الصحيفة أن شقيق الفتاة أيد أقوالها في ذلك ، موضحة أن الفتاة هربت مع شاب بهدف الزواج منه بعد أن رفض والدها تزويجها منه.
وذكرت الفتاة إنها تفضل السجن على العودة إلى منزل والدها.
ووجدت المحكمة أن أقوال الفتاة صحيحة بعد إجراء التحاليل اللازمة وأصدرت حكمها على الوالد بالسجن لمدة ثمانية وعشرين عاما بتهمة اغتصاب ابنته.
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من أغرب القضايا
بريطاني يقتل زوجته أثناء نومه
برايان توماس مع زوجته كريستين
لندن-ي ب ا:
تجري محكمة بريطانية مداولات من أجل البت في قضية رجل قتل زوجته بعدما تراءت له في حلمه على شكل شخص متطفل خلال نومهما في مركبة مخصصة للإقامة في المخيمات.
وذكرت هيئة الاذاعة البريطانية (بي بي سي) أمس الثلاثاء أنه تمّ العثور على جثة كريستين توماس ( 57 سنة) داخل المركبة في موقف للسيارات في أبيربورث بمقاطعة كريديغيون في يوليو/ تموز عام 2008.
وبحسب مصادر محكمة سوانزي فإن برايان توماس ( 59 سنة) من نيث والذي يعاني من اضطرابات في النوم أقرّ أمام المحكمة بمسؤوليته عن موت زوجته. وقد تتوصل هيئة المحلفين إلى قرار إما باعتبار المتهم غير مذنب بسبب جنونه.
ووصف محامي الادعاء بول توماس خلال افتتاح جلسة المحاكمة امس القضية بأنها " غير عادية تماماً"، وشرح الظروف التي قتل فيها توماس زوجته كرستين التي يحبها جدا بعد أن حلم بأنها رجل دخل المركبة التي كانا يقيمان فيها عن طريق الكسر والخلع.
وخنق توماس زوجته التي التقى بها قبل نحو 40 سنة عندما كانت نائمة بجانبه، فيما يقول خبراء في النوم إنه ارتكب جريمته بشكل لا إرادي وبالتالي لا يمكن اعتباره مسؤولاً عن عمله.
وقال توماس إنه بعدما تبين له أن الذي قتله هو زوجته وليس رجلاً كان يحاول الدخول إلى العربة اتصل بقسم الطوارئ لمساعدته وهو ينتحب عليها.
وكشفت تسجيلات أنه بكى بصوت مرتفع وقال" أعتقد أني قتلت زوجتي .. يا إلهي". وأضاف "لا بد أني حلمت بشيء ما، إني أحبها، ماذا فعلت؟ إنها كل شيء في حياتي".
وقال الادعاء إن توماس الذي وجهت إليه تهمة قتل زوجته والذي وافق على أنه مسؤول عن وفاتها قد يصدر في حقه حكم بأنه "غير مذنب بسبب جنونه"، أو " حكم بسيط بأنه غير مذنب".
ولدى الزوجين ابنتان راشدتان وكانا يستمتعان جداً بقضاء أوقاتهما معاً في مركبتهما التي كانت بمثابة منزل متنقل لهما.
Husband ’strangled wife in his sleep after stopping his medication to enjoy an intimate camper van holiday’
By Luke Salkeld
Last updated at 5:29 PM on 18th November 2009
- أوقف الزوج توماس تناوله لعقار ضد الكآبة لأعراض مرض باركنسون التي يعاني منها،وذلك حتى يستطيع أن يستمتع بممارسة الجنس مع زوجته في الأجازة، وكانت النتيجة أن عانى من هذياةن وهلاس وتهيأ له أن لصا هجم عليهما،فقام بقتل زوجته وهو نائم.لقد كان يعاني من أرق مزمن .
A devoted husband who allegedly strangled his wife as he dreamed he was fighting off an intruder had stopped taking tablets so he could enjoy sex while on holiday, a court heard today.
Brian Thomas stopped taking anti-depressants so he could enjoy intimate nights with his wife Christine, 57, while they were on holiday in their camper van.
But in the night Thomas, who suffers from a chronic sleep disorder known as automatism, killed his childhood sweetheart as he slept.
Sleep disorder: The court was told Brian Thomas was not in control of his actions when he killed Christine
Today Paul Skett, an expert in prescription drugs, told Swansea Crown Court that the defendant was taking three separate drugs to combat depression and hand tremors.
He said that Thomas had stopped taking them as he believed they affected ‘his performance in bed’.
The court heard the couple slept in separate rooms at home but were ‘intimate’ while on holiday, when they shared a bed in their camper van.
Dr Skett said Thomas would have experienced nightmares after coming off the drugs he was taking.
He said: ‘The anti-depressant should be slowly withdrawn, over at least two weeks.
‘Withdrawal will cause some sleep disturbances, most notably very vivid dreams during withdrawal.’
Dr Skett told the jury that one of the effects of hand tremor drugs is to inhibit rapid eye movement sleep which is associated with dreaming.
He said: ‘With withdrawal you get a rebound effect where the individual suffers more rapid eye movement and more dreaming.
‘These can be very vivid and take the form of nightmares.’
Thomas was also taking tablets for high blood pressure which he carried on taking.
The jury also heard strands of Thomas’s hair showed he may have stopped taking the drugs up to two months before he killed his wife.
Elwen Evans, QC, defending, said: ‘Mr Thomas tells us that when he and his wife went on holiday he stopped taking his anti-depressants and a drug for the symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease.
‘He did this because they were sleeping together - they were intimate together - in a way they weren’t when they were in their separate bedroms at home.’
In a highly unusual move, prosecutors have agreed that although Brian Thomas killed his wife Christine, they will not seek a guilty verdict because he was not in control of his actions.
Both prosecution and defence say he did not intend to kill her and are arguing for different ‘not guilty’ verdicts.
If the jury finds in favour of the prosecution he could be sent to a secure mental unit, but if they favour the defence he will go free.
Elwen Evans, defending, said today that the family treated Thomas’s sleep disorders as ’something of a family joke without realising the potential seriousness."’.
The jury was told Thomas suffered from sleepwalking since a child but had never sought medical help.
Miss Evans, said: ‘In fairness to Mr Thomas he had never been diagnosed with a sleep disorder prior to these events.
‘It had never been explained to home that there was any risk of him doing anything while asleep.’
But the jury was told Thomas is now a broken man because he is responsible for the death of his wife.
Elwen Evans, defending, said: ‘He is deemed to pose a risk of suicide.
‘His realisation of what has happened led to him being detained under the Mental Health Act. He spent some time in a psychiatric ward as a detained patient because of the risk it was felt he posed to himself.’
Yesterday Thomas wept as a recording was played of the 999 call he made just minutes later.
In the call, which was timed at 3.49am, he can be heard crying: ‘What have I done? I’ve been trying to wake her.
‘I think I’ve killed my wife. Oh my God. I thought someone had broken in.’
Minutes later, when police arrived at the scene to find the father-of-two crying and shaking, he told them: ‘She’s my world.’
He then said that he and Christine had been disturbed by a group of ‘boy racers’ performing driving stunts near where their motor home was parked.
Prosecutor Paul Thomas QC said Mr Thomas later ‘became convinced that one of these youths had broken into the van and a fight erupted in which he grabbed one of them in an arm lock.
‘But it must have been a dream because there turned out to be no intruders and the person he had seized by the throat was his wife.’
He added: ‘The defendant accepts he caused the death of his wife, but the prosecution do not seek a verdict of guilty to murder or manslaughter.
‘Instead, very unusually, we seek what is called a special verdict - a verdict of not guilty by reason of insanity.’
Swansea Crown Court heard that Mr and Mrs Thomas were a ‘happy, devoted couple who enjoyed going away in their camper van’. They had two grown-up daughters.
But the jury was told that ‘for the best part of 50 years Thomas had been prone to episodes of sleepwalking and other sleep-disorder behaviours’.
Detectives were initially sceptical when Thomas claimed he had been asleep.
But scientists specialising in sleep disorders conducted a series of tests and agreed his behaviour was consistent with the ‘legal concept of automatism’.
The barrister said: ‘In other words, at the time of the killing the defendant was asleep and his mind had no control over what his body was doing.’
He stressed that this did not mean that Mr Thomas was insane in the ‘everyday sense of the word’.
‘This was a case of insane automatism - because the sleeping disorder the defendant had suffered from since childhood was ‘part of him’ and not something that could be cured,’ he said.
It is for this reason, he said, that the prosecution is seeking the particular verdict.

The couple often went on jaunts in their camper van and had driven 60 miles to the seaside village of Aberporth, Cardiganshire (pictured)
But Mr Thomas’s defence team claim he was affected by ‘ non-insane automatism’ brought on by the stress of the boy racer youths in the car park.
The couple, from Neath, South Wales, often went on jaunts in their two-berth white Peugeot camper van and had driven 60 miles to the seaside village of Aberporth, Cardiganshire, on July 26 last year.
They had been due to go on a luxury Mediterranean cruise to celebrate their 40th wedding anniversary shortly.
That evening they were seen enjoying a meal together in a local pub. Mr Thomas had stopped taking some of his medication before they went on holiday, the court heard.
Elwen Evans, QC, defending, said: ‘Mr Thomas tells us that when he and his wife went on holiday he stopped taking his antidepressants and a drug he was taking for the symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease.’
He continued to take tablets for his high blood pressure, however.
The case continues.
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عمليات جراحة التجميل في بريطانيا «فوضى غير منظمة» و«جشع مهني»
لندن - ي ب ا:
قال طبيب بريطاني إن قلة التنظيم و"الجشع المهني" يعرض المرضى الذين يخضعون لعمليات تجميل جراحية للخطر أكثر من أي وقت مضى.
وذكرت هيئة الإذاعة البريطانية (بي بي سي) يوم الاثنين أن نايغل ميرسير رئيس الجمعية البريطانية لجراحي التجميل وصف صناعة جراحة التجميل بأنها «فوضى غير منظمة».
ودعا ميرسير إلى تشديد الرقابة على هذه الصناعة والحد من عروض تشجع المرضى على الخضوع لعمليتين اثنتين مقابل دفع سعر واحد فقط، وكذلك مراقبة المنتجات الطبية التي لا تخضع لاختبارات مسبقة.
وقال ميرسير، وهو جراح استشاري في طب التجميل إن هذه الصناعة وصلت إلى مرحلة تتسم ب"الجشع المهني"، داعياً إلى منع العروض التي تغري المريض بالخضوع لأكثر من عملية جراحية من اجل الكسب المادي.
وأضاف "إذا ألصق رجل سيارتين ببعضهما وباعهما على أنهما سيارة واحدة وجديدة فسوف يدخل السجن"، موضحاً بأن ذلك مشابه لما يحدث الآن في صناعة التجميل.
ودعم رأي ميرسير عدة أطباء آخرين من خلال مقال نشرته مجلة "ريسك"، أو "المجازفة"، الذين نبهوا أيضاً من مثل هذه العروض.
وقال الدكتور هارفي ماركوفيتش "علينا تشديد الرقابة على حملات الترويج الدعائي لجراحة التجميل بما في ذلك الاعلان على الانترنت".
Watchdog bans cosmetic surgery ad
ASA ruling comes days after trade body for British plastic surgeons called for clampdown on marketing
Listen to the My Breast ad
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- Mark Sweney
- guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 18 November 2009 07.52 GMT
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The advertising regulator has banned an ad campaign by a cosmetic surgery firm, My Breast, days after a leading doctor called for a crackdown on marketing practices in the sector.
My Breast, owned by a company called My Aesthetics, ran a radio ad campaign that made the claim that the company was a "leader in cosmetic surgery" in the UK.
The Advertising Standards Authority received a complaint from Transform Cosmetic Surgery Group questioning whether the company could substantiate the claim.
إعلان شركةفي رادية تدعي بأنها تقود عمليات تجميل الصدر في بريطانيا تغضب مجموعة حماية المستهلك التي تشتكيها لجهة مسؤلة .
My Aesthetics said that its radio campaign promoted the idea that My Breast was "leading the way in the development and operation of cosmetic surgery with surgeons who were leaders in the field".
However, the ASA considered that the claim was likely to be understood by listeners to be a comparative one that positioned My Breast as better than rivals.
"Because we had not seen evidence to show that, we concluded the ad was likely to mislead," said the ASA, which banned the radio campaign.
The challenge to the campaign is timely, as it follows a call by , the president of the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons, for a clampdown on the "unregulated mess" that had emerged following an industry boom in cosmetic surgery the past 20 years.
His complaints, published in a special edition of Clinical Risk Journal, were backed by several doctors who called for tighter control on the advertising of plastic surgery.
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Warning over ‘cosmetic ops risk’
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Thousands of UK patients undergo procedures like breast enlargement
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Lack of regulation and "professional greed" is putting patients undergoing cosmetic surgery at more risk than ever before, a leading doctor warns.
Nigel Mercer, president of the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons, called the cosmetic surgery industry an "unregulated mess".
Tighter control is needed to clamp down on issues such as two-for-one offers and untested products, he said.
His views are backed by several doctors writing in the Clinical Risk journal.
Cosmetic procedures are increasing in popularity, with year-on-year rises in the numbers of people opting to alter the way they look.
In a special addition of the journal, published by the Royal Society of Medicine, doctors from the UK and abroad argue that lack of scrutiny, increased marketing and media hype all put patient safety at risk.
Editor Dr Harvey Marcovitch said there was no area of medicine where UK patients were more in need of protection.
"We need tight control of advertising of cosmetic surgery - including internet advertising.
"We need proper regulation of the industry and we need both surgeons and GPs to manage patient expectation," he warned.
‘Perfect storm’
Mr Mercer, who is a consultant plastic surgeon, said the industry has reached a stage where "public expectation, driven by media hype and, dare one say professional greed, has brought us a perfect storm".
He called for a ban on discount offers for surgical procedures, such as two-for-one offers and surgery holidays, which he says governments would not allow in any other area of medicine.
And Mr Mercer said legislation was urgently needed to regulate new products, such as dermal fillers, which currently do not have to be tested as drugs, unlike in the US.
"If you had someone sticking two cars together and selling them as a new car they would be in jail, but you can pretty
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