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Feb 10 2023
Metropolitan Police officer tied up flatmate who thought she was going to be raped, court hears | UK News

A Metropolitan Police officer who used duct tape to restrain a woman asked her “who are you going to tell? I am the police”, a court has heard.

PC Sam Grigg, 36, tied his flatmate to the sofa by her wrists and ankles and later hurt her twice with a kitchen knife as he cut her free, Kingston Crown Court heard.

The young woman said she “100% thought” she was going to be raped by Grigg during what was described as “10 minutes of terror”.

Grigg was sacked from the Met after being charged and previously pleading guilty at the same court to false imprisonment and assault against the woman.

Ahead of his sentencing on Friday afternoon, the court heard the officer, who was not on duty at the time, approached his flatmate in the kitchen of the townhouse they shared in Twickenham, southeast London, while their other flatmates were out on 2 December last year.

Prosecutor Alexander Agbamu said Grigg grabbed the woman’s wrists and pulled her towards him before bending her over the sofa and tying her ankles together and taping over her mouth.

At one point Grigg left to answer the door before “smiling” down at her as she attempted to free herself by edging towards a drawer she believed might have a knife inside.

The woman asked him to remove the bindings and Grigg replied: “If you ask nicely, I’ll take them off.”

He eventually got a knife from the kitchen and used it to cut the tape, nicking her ankle and wrist in the process.

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‘Who are you going to tell?’

She asked him to avoid slicing her again after the first cut, to which Grigg said: “What will you do if I do… Who are you going to tell? I am the police”.

One of the first things the woman did after the assault was message a friend: “I genuinely, like 100%, thought he was going to rape me.”

Grigg was arrested mid-shift at Mitcham Police Station and a search of his bedroom uncovered a bag of cable ties, several pairs of handcuffs – including two which were police-issue – bundles of rope, a gig and a ball, and four silk cloths.

Victim impact statement

Mr Agbamu said since the attack the woman has struggled to sleep, did not eat for a long time and has self-harmed.

He said “aggravating factors” included “the pleasure the defendant seemed to derive from the incident”, his position as a police officer and the “clear sexual overtone” of the attack.

Defending, John Howey said: “He (Grigg) says it would not have progressed beyond the tying up phase to rape or any other form of sexual assault.”

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Jan 18 2023
Kaylea Titford: Morbidly obese teen died in conditions ‘unfit for any animal’ after parents ‘seriously neglected her’, court hears | UK News

A vulnerable teenage girl died after becoming morbidly obese and forced to live in conditions “unfit for any animal”, a court has been told.

Kaylea Titford, 16, was living in “squalor and degradation” when she was found dead by paramedics at her home in Powys, Wales, in October 2020, jurors heard.

Prosecutors say her parents “seriously neglected” their daughter, who weighed almost 23st and had a body mass index of 70.

They ordered takeaways five times a week, including Chinese and Indian food and kebabs.

Her mother, Sarah Lloyd-Jones, 39, has admitted manslaughter by gross negligence.

But her father, Alun Titford, 45, denies the same offence and is standing trial at Mold Crown Court.

Kaylea used a wheelchair from a young age due to health conditions including spina bifida, a spinal defect, and hydrocephalus, which causes a build up of fluid on the brain.

She was described as “funny and chatty” by staff at her secondary school in Newtown.

But she was confined to her home after the COVID-19 lockdown began in March 2020.

Vulnerable girl depended entirely on others for her care

Six months later on 10 October, Lloyd-Jones called the emergency services who arrived to find Kaylea lying on filthy “puppy pads”.

She had dirty and matted hair and ulcerated skin and had not been properly washed for weeks.

Milk bottles filled with urine were found where she slept, with police describing an “unbearable” rotting smell and maggots and flies on her body.

Ms Rees said: “Kaylea Titford was living in conditions unfit for any animal, let alone a vulnerable 16-year-old girl who depended entirely on others for her care.

“The prosecution say that the scene – as witnessed by those that attended – together with the state in which Kaylea’s body was found demonstrate clearly that this vulnerable girl, who relied heavily on others for her welfare needs, was seriously neglected by not just one but both of her parents, who owed her a duty of care.”

Pathologist Dr Deryk James ruled the teenager died due to “inflammation and infection” arising from being obese and immobile, jurors heard.

Simple tasks such as changing Kaylea’s socks regularly appeared to have been ignored, according to forensic podiatry specialist, David Blake.

Alun Titford arrives at Mold Crown Court in Flintshire
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Alun Titford said he was ‘not a very good dad’ when questioned by police, jurors heard

During his police interview, Titford said he was “not a very good dad” and claimed Lloyd-Jones cared for their daughter and did the housework.

He said Kaylea had outgrown her wheelchair – but added he had not seen her out of bed since the lockdown.

When questioned about when he last asked Kaylea how she was, Titford replied: “I didn’t ask her. Like I say, I’m not the best of people.

“Nobody ever thinks their child is going to end up like that.”

Titford also denies an alternative charge of causing or allowing the death of a child.

The trial, expected to last four weeks, continues on Thursday.

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Dec 1 2022
Nurse Lucy Letby helped to make celebratory banner to mark baby reaching 100 days old – then tried to kill her, court hears | UK News

Lucy Letby helped to create a banner to celebrate a premature baby reaching 100 days old – then tried to kill her, a court has heard.

The little girl had reached the milestone after she was born “very, very prematurely”, weighing only 535 grams.

Doctors at Wirral’s Arrowe Park Hospital gave the girl a 5% chance of survival, but she stabilised and months later was well enough to be transferred to the Countess of Chester Hospital, where nurse Ms Letby worked.

Weeks later, on the evening of 6 September 2015, nursing staff on the neonatal unit, including Ms Letby, put up a party banner in celebration of the baby’s 100th day of life.

The infant’s parents joined in the celebrations as a cake was brought into the unit, Manchester Crown Court heard.

They later went home, but received a call in the early hours of the next morning to say their daughter had vomited.

Medics noted the baby, referred to as Child G, had projectile vomited at about 2am and her abdomen appeared “purple and distended”.

Nurse accused of murdering seven babies

Her oxygen levels dropped, and she stopped breathing several times over the next few hours before she responded to breathing support on ventilation.

The prosecution alleges Ms Letby overfed Child G with milk through a nasogastric tube or injected air into the same tube.

The next day, the court heard, she messaged an on-duty colleague asking how the baby was, saying “poor parents”, then adding: “Awful isn’t it. We’d all been sat at desk at start of the shift making banner.”

The defendant later told her colleague: “Needs to go out.”

The colleague replied: “Too sick to move.”

Ms Letby said: “Oh no. Any idea what’s caused it?” To which, came the reply: “Nope. Just seems to be a circ (circulatory) collapse, chest seems clear.”

‘She looks awful’

The court heard Ms Letby visited the unit briefly again later that evening.

Afterwards, she messaged her colleague – who had finished her shift – saying: “She looks awful, doesn’t she.”

On learning the baby was to be transferred to another hospital, Ms Letby responded: “Just hope they get her there.”

Child G was transferred at 3am on 8 September back to Arrowe Park, where she recovered, but was moved back to the Countess of Chester more than a week later, the court heard.

The Crown alleges Ms Letby made two more attempts to murder Child G on 21 September.

Jurors were told Child G now has quadriplegic cerebral palsy and requires round-the-clock care.

Ms Letby, originally from Hereford, denies murdering seven babies and the attempted murders of 10 others between June 2015 and June 2016.

She had been given specialist training in care for the sickest babies at the neonatal unit in the Countess of Chester Hospital.

The trial continues.

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Aug 23 2022
Mobility scooter rider Thomas O’Halloran was repeatedly stabbed in neck and chest, court hears | UK News

A man who was killed while riding a mobility scooter was repeatedly stabbed in the neck, chest and abdomen, a court has heard.

Thomas O’Halloran, 87, died in Greenford, west London, on Tuesday 16 August after what prosecutors described as a “vicious attack”.

Lee Byer, 44, is charged with Mr O’Halloran’s murder in a case set to go to trial in May.

During a pre-trial hearing this morning, the Old Bailey heard that Mr O’Halloran told a passerby he had been stabbed, though wounds to his body were clearly visible.

Police received a 999 call from a member of the public who found the victim travelling in his scooter from a passageway that runs between Runneymede Gardens and Welland Gardens.

The police arrived within minutes to find Mr O’Halloran had collapsed and was being helped by members of the public.

Police and medics took over first aid but he was pronounced dead at the scene at 4.54pm.

A post-mortem examination found the grandfather, who was known “throughout the local community”, had sustained multiple stab wounds to the neck, chest and abdomen.

Byer, of no fixed address, was charged on 19 August with Mr O’Halloran’s murder and possessing a large knife.

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Jul 18 2022
Pensioner slit throat of wife in suicide pact that went wrong, court hears | UK News

A pensioner slit the throat of his wife of more than 40 years in a suicide pact went wrong, a court was told.

Police were greeted with the “extraordinary scene” of Dyanne Mansfield, 71, slumped dead in a chair at the bottom of the couple’s garden backing on to open fields in Hale, Greater Manchester.

Mrs Mansfield had bled heavily from a 16cm “gaping incised wound” and her windpipe had been severed.

Three knives and a lump hammer were found near her body.

They had responded to a 999 call on the morning of 24 March last year from her husband, Graham Mansfield, 73, who was discovered lying seriously injured in the kitchen.

He told officers he killed his wife at about 9pm the day before and then tried to take his own life but it had “all gone wrong”, Manchester Crown Court heard.

Together forever

Mrs Mansfield had been suffering from cancer and the court was told the pair “had a perfect relationship and wanted to remain together for the rest of their lives”.

Opening the case, prosecutor David Temkin QC said: “He explained what he had done was in pursuance of a ‘pact’ made with his wife.”

He said Mansfield, who denies murder and manslaughter, does not dispute he intended to kill his wife but claims his reason for doing so provides him with a defence.

Also discovered at the scene nearby were two bricks on top of a plastic wallet containing a note written by Mansfield for the police.

“We have decided to take our own lives,” it said, giving instructions on where to find his house keys and how to contact his sister, the court heard.

‘Don’t get upset’

Another note written by Manfield, addressed to his family, was found in an envelope on the dining room table.

It read: “We are sorry to burden you with this but there is no other way.

“When Dyanne was diagnosed with cancer, we made a pact. I couldn’t bear to live without Dyanne and as the months progressed and as things got worse, it only reinforced our decision that the time has arrived.

“We hope you all understand.

“Don’t get too upset. We have had a wonderful and happy life together.”

Mansfield was arrested on suspicion of murder at the scene and was captured on police body-worn cameras explaining how he killed his wife and then tried to kill himself in the garden and then in the house.

Mr Temkin said: “He repeatedly expressed frustration at having failed to kill himself. He said that he just wanted to die.”

Mansfield was taken for surgery at Manchester Royal Infirmary, where he said he and his wife made the suicide pact on the first day of her diagnosis in September 2020.

Devoted to his wife

When interviewed by police, Mansfield said life had been “turned upside down” in the preceding six months. Mrs Mansfield’s disease had spread rapidly and quickly reached stage four.

Mansfield searched the internet for ways to end life, Mr Temkin told the jury, with the pair settling on the garden as the “venue” at the suggestion of Mrs Mansfield.

Police spoke to the couple’s family, their friends and neighbours.

Mr Temkin said: “All of them spoke about the defendant’s unswerving devotion to her.”

No record of her wishes

However, he added an “important feature” of the case was there was no record of Mrs Mansfield’s wishes.

“The defence has to satisfy you on the balance of probabilities that a genuine suicide pact existed,” he said.

He said Mansfield had also pleaded not guilty to the alternative count of manslaughter because he maintained “his actions were lovingly undertaken through duress of circumstances or necessity for the purpose of avoiding any further severe pain and suffering”.

The trial continues on Tuesday.

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