Tasmania’s Coroner has found South Australian woman Kerry Michael was bashed and left for dead by her jealous and controlling husband while on holidays in Tasmania.
Coroner Simon Cooper found Kerry Michael’s husband of 14 years, prominent South Australian health official Robin Michael, attacked her from behind in February, 2015, using a rock to hit her between three and eight times on the head.
Her body was found on the Face Track, just below the summit of Mt Roland in Tasmania’s north-west.
“At least one of those blows [a blow to the back of her head which shattered the base of her skull and caused massive injury to her brain stem and cerebellum] was landed when Mrs Michael was lying face down on the ground,” the coroner said.
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Thursday, May 3, 2018
Kerry Michael’s husband bashed her with a rock and left her for dead, coroner finds
#AFL premiership player Dane Swan calls police over non-consensual release of sex tape
RETIRED AFL star Dane Swan is said to be furious at the circulation of a sex tape featuring him in – and has called in police to investigate.
The video, which has been circulated online and on social media is understood to have been seen by thousands of people and has been offered, for payment, to news networks across the station.
Among those that the video was shopped to include 7 News, who refused to purchase it.
The ex-Magpie, who is naked in the vision, says it was taken without his consent and the premiership star is said to be upset that vision has been seen so widely viewed.
Whoever released the footage faces the prospect of police charges. It is in an offence in Victoria to distribute pornographic images without consent of those involved.
For an offence of this nature the penalty is up to two years in prison
via AFL premiership player Dane Swan calls police over non-consensual release of sex tape | PerthNow
Large fireball caught on video at London Jewish festival
Ten people suffered minor injuries following a large fire during a Jewish celebration in north London.
“Ten individuals suffered minor injuries following a large fire lit as part of local Jewish community celebration in Ravensdale Road, Stamford Hill,” Hackney Police said on Twitter.
“No criminal allegations reported. No serious injuries,” the police added.
Yeshiva World, an orthodox Jewish news service, said, “People shrieked and panicked, and people trampled on one another” as the fireball went up.
Bonfires are the biggest symbol of the Lag BaOmer festival celebration around the world, which commemorates Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai.
The explosion may have been caused by a mobile phone, according to a report by the British newspaper Express, which reported the incide…
Wednesday, May 3, 2017
#F1 owners discuss demonstration run in London before British Grand Prix
It is understood the proposed event, which could see Britain’s triple world champion Lewis Hamilton speed past Big Ben, Trafalgar Square and the Houses of Parliament, would take place four days before the Silverstone race on July 12.
The demonstration would be the first of its sort in the capital in more than a decade, and will renew hope that a Formula One race could yet be staged in London.
A new law was passed last month allowing motor sports to take place on public roads across England for the first time.
The proposed London demo fits with new Formula One chairman Chase Carey’s mantra of turning each grand prix into a week-long event, emulating the Super Bowl.
Indeed Valtteri Bottas, winner of the Russian Grand Prix joined Red Bull’s Daniel Ricciardo for a demonstration run through Budapest’s city centre on Monday ahead of their race later in the year.
Liberty Media – the American giants who took control of the sport in January – are keen to see grands prix staged in a number of major cities across the world.
Carey, the American who now lives in the capital following Liberty’s £6.4billion acquisition of Formula One, said in January: ‘London is a great city, and there is no question [you think of it] when you think where are the cities you want to be in.
‘We are talking to a lot of people. Realistically I have got a page-long list of places that we would like to have races.’
Back in 2004, 500,000 people lined London’s famous roads to watch Jenson Button, David Coulthard and Nigel Mansell participate in a demonstration run on a course between Regent Street and Piccadilly Circus which involved eight teams.
Bernie Ecclestone, F1’s overlord before he was deposed by Liberty, threw his support behind a number of projects in London during his four-decade reign, but failed to turn his dreams into reality.
Source: F1 owners discuss demonstration run in London | Daily Mail Online
US test-fires missile capable of carrying a nuke around the world for the second time in a week amid tensions with North Korea
America test-fired an inter-continental ballistic missile capable of landing a nuke virtually anywhere on earth for the second time in a week on Wednesday.
An unarmed Minuteman 3 missile, with an effective range of 8,000 miles, was launched from a silo at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 12.02am.
The missile struck a target approximately 4,200 miles away on the Kwajalein Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, military chiefs said.
The test, which took 10 months to plan, comes amid tensions between North Korea and President Trump over Kim Jong-un’s own nuclear missile program.
The launch was designed to test the accuracy and readiness of a weapon that was first developed during the Cold War but still forms the backbone of America’s nuclear threat.
It was the second such launch in seven days from the Central California coastal base. Last week’s had been delayed from the fall.
Wednesday’s test saw a single decoy warhead delivered to the target. The missile can carry up to three.
North Korea is known to possess missiles with a range of up to 930 miles, and is though to be developing a new projectile, the Taepodong-2, which has an estimated maximum range of around 3,700 miles…
MORE HERE: America test-fires another nuclear-capable ICBM | Daily Mail Online
Australian 4yo girl saves injured mother by calling emergency service
A four-year-old girl in Australia will be recognised for her “quick thinking” for contacting emergency services after her mother got trapped under a quad bike, New South Wales police say.
The woman lost control of the vehicle, which rolled several times before stopping in the family’s property.
Her daughter was watching some 700m (2,300 ft) away. She ran to the scene, fell and suffered some facial wounds.
But she was able to go home and ask for help by dialling the emergency number.
The incident happened when the 35-year-old woman accidentally drove down a steep slope off a private road in Bundook, about 250km north of Sydney, police said in a statement.
The quad bike, fitted with a cage, rolled and only stopped some 100m (328ft) off the road, trapping her leg.
The girl was waiting at the family home and after seeing the incident, ran to help her mother, falling on the way.
Even so, she climbed down the embankment, tended to her mother, climbed back to the road and returned home, where she called the emergency services on the number 000.
MORE: Australian girl, four, saves injured mother by calling emergency service – BBC News
Howard Stern: ‘nobody wanted Hillary Clinton to win more than Donald Trump’
Stern, a long-time associate of President Trump, said Mr Trump was “being very honest” when he confessed he missed his former life. Stern explained he had seen exactly what his life as a billionaire property developer and former reality TV star had looked like.
“I’ve seen it up close,” Stern said on his Sirius XM radio show. “[Mr Trump’s] got that kind of life that politicians want.”
“Seventy-year-old guy who has made so much money – he’s made billions of dollars – that he has his own helicopter, he has his own aeroplane. He has a hot wife.”
“He’s got fame from a No. 1 television show. He can walk around Mar-a-Lago, which is like any palace – better than the f*****g White House”.
Over the years Mr Trump was a frequent guest on the Howard Stern Show, appearing on the programme more than two dozen times from the late 90s until the 2000s. And while Stern insists he is not a Trump “insider”, he has referred to him as a “friend”.
Stern recounts being at Mr Trump’s 126-room Mar-a-Lago resort “when he first announced he was going to win” however it is unclear if he is referring to winning the Republican nomination or the November election…
Ilie Nastase banned from Wimbledon’s royal box after Fed Cup row
Romania team captain Nastase, 70, was ejected from the match in Constanta following a foul-mouthed tirade directed at his British counterpart Anne Keothavong and British No1 Johanna Konta – one of a series of incidents for which he is awaiting sanction by the International Tennis Federation.
The All England Club indicated last week that it would block the two-time finalist’s customary invitation to the Royal Box, and this was confirmed by chairman Philip Brook at the Wimbledon spring press conference on Wednesday.
Brook also announced the winners of this year’s singles titles will receive £2.2m – a rise of £200,000 on last year’s prizefund.
“We are proud of the important leadership role that Wimbledon plays locally, nationally, and internationally, and are committed to continuing to invest to secure the future of The Championships, and of our sport, for the years to come,” Brook said.
Brook said the club had “taken into account” exchange rates, but that the “Brexit effect” had not been instrumental in their calculations.
“Exchange rates go up and go down over time,” he said. “In my time with the club I think all four grand slam tournaments have led on prize money, and now the US dollar is particularly strong.”
MORE HERE: Ilie Nastase banned from Wimbledon’s royal box after Fed Cup row | Sport | The Guardian
Cassini brings back shocking data from Saturn’s rings, Nasa announces
Scientists have received puzzling and shocking data back from the first part of Cassini’s Grand Finale.
The spacecraft just completed its first flight through the narrow gap between Saturn and its rings. And it came back with surprising information: that the gap itself is free of dust, according to the data it gathered as dove through.
The news is a delight for Cassini’s engineers, since it will be much easier and safer to manoeuvre the craft as it makes the rest of its dives through the region. But it is a puzzle to Nasa’s scientists, who had expected there to be far more filling the gap between the rings and the planet.
“The region between the rings and Saturn is ‘the big empty,’ apparently,” said Cassini project manager Earl Maize of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. “Cassini will stay the course, while the scientists work on the mystery of why the dust level is much lower than expected.”
If the spacecraft had seen more dust, as expected, it might have meant that engineers would have had to use the saucer-shaped antenna as a shield during its dives, as it did the first time through. That would have meant that Cassini would have been restricted in what observations it could make and how much information it could send back as it did so.
But now the craft will be able to make the 21 more dives without such worry, and find out more about the mysterious gap around Saturn.
Scientists had used images from Cassini and models of Saturn to project that there wouldn’t be any large particles in the gap that would pose a danger to the craft. But since nothing had ever flown through the gap before, engineers used the antenna to point in the direction of oncoming particles, helping to shield the delicate instruments.
That meant that the craft couldn’t phone home during its dive, meaning that engineers were left in the dark about whether it had done so safely and according to plan. And it meant that some sensors were covered up and couldn’t do the science work that they normally would.
However, Cassini’s Radio and Plasma Wave Science (RPWS) instrument was poking out the side of the shield and so was able to detect the hits of particles as the craft continued its dive. RPWS picked up a lot of pings as it moved through the area just outside the rings – but picked up very few when it made the first of its Grand Finale dives on the inside of the rings.
Source: Cassini brings back shocking data from Saturn’s rings, Nasa announces | The Independent
Crash causes traffic chaos on Kwinana Freeway Perth
A crash in the middle of the Kwinana Freeway is causing traffic chaos for motorists trying to head home southbound.
Up to five cars are reportedly involved in the crash just south of the Narrows Bridge.
Emergency crews were called out to the scene just before 6pm with traffic banked back behind the crash.
Motorists are asked to avoid the area if possible.
According to police, one driver has sustained an ankle injury in the crash but luckily no one is trapped.
Paramedics and Main Roads remain at the scene.
Source: Crash causes traffic chaos on Kwinana Freeway | The West Australian
52,000 Australian households are at risk of defaulting on their mortgages in the next 12 months
According to Digital Finance Analytics (DFA), 767,000 households were in mortgage stress in April, meaning they had little leeway in their finances, up from 669,000 the previous month.
Of those, it said 32,000 were in severe stress and unable to meet repayments with their current income.
It estimated almost 52,000 households were at risk of defaulting in the next year.
“It’s a concerning trend, and it’s a growing trend, and essentially there’s quite a smattering [of households under stress] across the country,” DFA’s principal Martin North told ABC Radio Melbourne.
“What’s significant about the research is it isn’t just in the usual suspects, in other words the mortgage belt, the battling areas you might expect.
“We’re seeing households in all sorts of different areas now experiencing quite some difficulty in just managing their mortgage repayments.”
Traditionally well-off suburbs like Hornsby in Sydney, Brighton in Melbourne and Mount Claremont in Perth were also seeing high levels of stress.
The data was drawn from household surveys conducted by DFA, data from the Reserve Bank, the Australian Bureau of Statistics and APRA.
WA, Victoria lead the way on default risk
Of the 20 postcodes with the most risk of default, the majority fell in WA, followed by Victoria and Queensland.
Mr North said in New South Wales mortgage stress was spread out in a number of different areas, compared to Victoria’s, which was more concentrated in its booming growth suburbs.
Postcodes with high default risk:
- WA – Mandurah, Wanneroo, Canning Vale, Beeliar
- VIC – Derrimut, Point Cook, Werribee, Cranbourne, Craigieburn
- QLD – Mackay, Carrara, Nerang, Hervey Bay, Toowoomba
In those states, and around Brisbane, stress was related to flat incomes, big mortgages and rising costs of living exacerbated by investors.
“While the economic indicators are reasonably good in Victoria, if you actually look at real incomes, they are actually not great. The cost of living is growing faster in Victoria than elsewhere,” he said.
In NSW, high home values have pushed up repayments. Mr North also highlighted high childcare costs as a particular problem.
“In WA, we’ve got prices falling significantly and unemployment rising. It’s pretty scary what’s happening there,” he said.
In some parts of Queensland it’s a similar story to the west. Home values, employment and incomes are falling in the resource-heavy areas like Mackay and the Bowen Basin…
Aussie Baxter Reid detained in US for overstaying visa ‘by 90 minutes’ to face court
Family and friends of Baxter Reid said the 26-year-old was being held at the Buffalo Federal Detention Facility in upstate New York after being detained by US immigration officials.
According to Mr Reid’s family, Baxter had been in the US on a five-year visa, which required him to leave the country every six months.
He was reportedly trying to travel to Canada to fulfil this requirement when he was detained.
Yesterday Mr Reid’s brother Alexander said his family feared it could take up to six months for Baxter to receive a court date.
But today Mr Reid’s girlfriend Heather Kancso said a court date had been set for May 10.
“The past 24 hours have been a whirlwind to say the least,” she said.
“But he did receive a court date today. He will appear in front of a judge for his first bonds hearing on May 10 at 1:00pm.”
Ms Kancso said it was possible Mr Reid would be granted bail, but she said she was cautious of getting her hopes up.
“I’m learning to roll with the punches in this whole situation, though I’m hoping for the best possible outcome that is for sure,” she said.
“I’ve been in contact with Baxter every single day.
“He’s doing about as good as anybody who has no prior criminal record that is now sitting in jail can possibly do.
“He’s definitely in good spirits and he’s trying to see the bright side of things.”
When Mr Reid was first detained, Ms Kancso set up a Go Fund Me page with a goal of $8,000, in an attempt to help with legal fees.
She said both she and Mr Reid were shocked and thankful for how much support they had received.
“We’ve actually gone over our goal by $500 the last time I checked,” she said.
“It’s incredible, I don’t have words for how grateful I am.”
Cassandra Sainsbury’s cocaine smuggling case ‘could be closed in 90 days if she admits complicity’
An Adelaide woman accused of trying to smuggle cocaine out of Colombia could have her case ruled on in 90 days if she admits to a level of complicity, her newly appointed Colombian-based lawyer has said.
Cassandra Sainsbury, 22, is being held at El Buen Pastor Women’s prison in Bogota after she was arrested on April 12 at the city’s international airport for carrying 18 different packages of cocaine.
Lawyer Orlando Herran said she received the pre-wrapped packages from a man who claimed they were headphones and packed them in her luggage at the last minute.
“She bought several headphones, supposedly to sell them in Australia and gain money,” he said.
If found guilty of drug trafficking, he said Ms Sainsbury could face a prison term of between eight and 20 years, depending on the level of her guilt and responsibility.
“But if we can get a deal with prosecutors, we could avoid drug trafficking charges and instead get complicity or something where she had a guilty act of not reviewing her luggage, and we could get a deal of a minimum of four years,” Mr Herran said.
He said that could mean the case would be ruled on in 90 days and could result in “conditional liberty”, such as parole, which would be completed in Colombia and possibly even Australia.
“She would have to present herself before authorities and [follow] rules of conduct and a series of controls. If we get this, we could ask that she return to Australia and keep this condition and finish her punishment with Australian authorities,” Mr Herran said.
He said it could also allow them to request house arrest.
“We have difficulty with that, because Cassandra doesn’t live here in Colombia and doesn’t have a home,” Mr Herran said.
“In that case, we would have to look for NGOs [non-government organisations] that could take on the responsibility of looking after Cassandra.”
Colombian drug authorities, however, have dismissed claims by Ms Sainsbury’s family that she is innocent.
Colonel Jorge Mendoza from the Colombian drug enforcement police department said it was an unsophisticated method of concealment and Ms Sainsbury would have known the narcotics were in her bags.
He was confident the seizure would lead to jail time and, depending on the quality of the drugs, she could face up to 20 years’ imprisonment.
Sainsbury being held with other foreigners
Mr Herran said he was contacted by a mutual friend of the Sainsbury family who were “absolutely desperate” for a contact in Colombia.
He said Ms Sainsbury was “very traumatised” despite being in good health in prison and was with foreigners held under the same circumstances related to “narcotrafficking”.
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