Rabia RahmanPublished 22 May, 2021 06:51am
On May 22, 2020, my husband’s parents, Wahida and Fazal Rahmaan, were killed in the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight PK-8303 crash. We imagine them holding hands in death as they always did in life. Of the two survivors, one was seated in 8F, a mere two rows away from our parents.
To say that our entire family was devastated would be a gross understatement. We have spent the past year feeling gutted, untethered and heartbroken for our own loss and also for the shattered families of the 95 others who perished. We have come to know and grieve virtually with the others who lost their most beloved in this crash. But we are also angry. Scratch that we are furious. The crash of PK-8303 was not an inescapable mishap; it is the result of sheer neglect and years of deliberate abandonment of safety principles by the PIA organisation.
Fisherman s friend saw cocaine-taking thief drive off in pal s car before violence erupted
Ashley Simpson, 34, was spotted driving away in the vehicle by the owner s colleague who decided to follow behind
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A man who stole a fisherman s car while he was at work went on to assault two female police officers as they tried to arrest him.
Cocaine-addled driver s high-speed police chase through Teesside town A DRUG driver s attempt to flee police ended when he smashed his car into a parked van. Nathan Sloan reached speeds of 75mph while four times over the limit for driving under the influence of cocaine. The 29-year-old raced around the streets of Billingham after he refused to pullover for police when they spotted him driving erratically in the early hours of June 24 last year. Prosecutor Uzma Khan told Teesside Crown Court it was around 4.35am when police spotted a Seat Altea with front end damage had stalled at a roundabout on Longfellow Road, Billingham.
Coked-up offshore worker tore away from police at high speed before violent smash
Nathan Sloan narrowly avoided hitting pedestrians as he led police on a wild chase
The Seat Altea collided with two parked vehicles
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20 May 2021
Jessica Brennan has been jailed for heinous crimes against children when they were still known as Allan Brennan.
North Yorkshire Police released a statement on Tuesday confirming that Jessica Brennan from Harrowgate, Yorkshire, who was “Allan Brennan at the time of offending” but now identifies as a woman, had preyed on school-aged girls between 1998 and 2016.
This week, York Crown Court had handed Brennan a notional 22-year sentence after being convicted of five counts of indecent assault, sexual activity with a child, another five counts of sexual activity with a child, attempted rape of a child under 13, assault of a girl under 13 by penetration, another assault by penetration, and two counts of sexual assault.