A jealous headteacher who stabbed his estranged wife and her new boyfriend to death in a New Year’s Day bloodbath was a ‘coward’ and a ‘bully’ who abused her for years, friends have claimed. Rhys Hancock, 40, killed Helen Almey, 39, and Martin Griffiths, 48, at the £400,000 detached property the formerly-married couple used to share in … Read more
There are times when their dark, glossy locks made them appear almost interchangeable, their matching sense of style studiously classic, polished and understated. So similar are Canadian stylist Jessica Mulroney and her closest friend Meghan Markle, those who knew them on the Toronto celebrity circuit described them as ‘twins’. Even their values, it was said, … Read more
There are times when their dark, glossy locks made them appear almost interchangeable, their matching sense of style studiously classic, polished and understated. So similar are Canadian stylist Jessica Mulroney and her closest friend Meghan Markle, those who knew them on the Toronto celebrity circuit described them as ‘twins’. Even their values, it was said, … Read more
The Mystery Of Charles Dickens By A.N. Wilson (Atlantic £17.99, 368 pp) Like all the best mystery stories, this true one starts with a death. On Wednesday June 8, 1870, the small, punctiliously neat, whiskery 58-year-old Charles Dickens, having told friends he was on his way to London on business, took a train to Peckham, … Read more
Alex Salmond’s own lawyer has been caught on camera calling the former SNP leader a ‘bully and an a******e’ and identifying two of his sexual assault accusers. Gordon Jackson QC, 71, Scotland’s most senior QC, has now reported himself to the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission after seemingly calling his client a ‘sex pest’ and has released … Read more
Alex Salmond’s own lawyer has been caught on camera calling the former SNP leader a ‘bully’ and identifying two of his alleged sexual assault victims. Gordon Jackson QC, 71, Scotland’s most senior QC, was filmed on an Edinburgh-Glasgow train while publicly discussing the high-profile sexual assault case. Salmond, 65, was cleared on Monday of the … Read more