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Lady Faces Family Dilemma After Arresting Her Brother For Alleged Misconduct Involving Household Staff
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A lady is facing family dilemma after arresting her brother for alleged misconduct involving a household staff.
Our house help has being moody for a while now. She is usually a very bubbly person and she makes us all laugh in the house. I noticed a change in her behavior two months ago as she became withdrawn and reserved around the house. I chalked it up to her being on her period at first but it persisted.
I asked her about it and she said she hasn’t being too well. I gave her money to go to the hospital and she said thank you but I didn’t notice a change in her mood or countenance. Anyway, last week I came home from school. I’m currently doing my masters and working around my school. So I stay near the school but I come home some weekends if I get a chance. I had initially intended not coming home that weekend but what we had to do was canceled so I decided to go home.
I walking in on my brother f%rcing himself on our house help was the last thing I expected to see. This was a twenty five years old guy f%rcing himself on a girl that’s barely eighteen. I scr£amed and he rolled off her and started lying that she came onto him and sed¥ced him. I had stood at the door for close to a minute and observed everything I didn’t need a soothsayer to tell me that she wasn’t a willing participant. Seeing I wasn’t buying his excuses he started confessing and begging me not to let anyone find out.
I secretly took out my phone and recorded the confession while trying to help her with her clothes. He followed me to my room and tried to stop me from locking the door but I binged it in his face and locked it.
Safely in the confines of my room, she collapsed in my arms and started crying bitterly. She told me how he started doing it to her two months ago when everyone travelled leaving them alone in the house. She said it was her first time and he was very inconsiderate of that and he h¥rt her real bad. I was sobbing alongside her unable to accept what happened to this poor child and the fact that the person who did this to her was my brother.
I called the authorities and also gave them the recordings of his confessions as evidence and he was arrested. My parents came home and were also shocked but they soon all turned on me asking why I didn’t inform them before taking action.
My Mum asked me how I could do this to my own bld but my Dad was more understanding and told me I did the right thing but I should have informed them first and we could have seen other ways of sorting the issues out first before getting him arrested. I shouted at them and asked if this would be their response if it was their daughter. I took her and left the house because I knew she wasn’t safe there.
Now my family is divided between the people on my side and the ones against me. My mum even refused to talk to me till I have my brother released but my dad has being reasonable I really don’t care what they think. I am a woman so I understand the p in of this girl and in as much as he is my brother, I cannot let him go scot free after doing this.
Now this is where my delima lies. On taking her to the hospital to get checked and treated in case of injuries we found out she was pregnant. I called my dad immediately and he came over, we spoke to her and asked her what she wanted to do about it and she said she cannot ab%rt the baby.
My dad pulled me to the side and told me he did support me no matter what we decided to do but I should consider getting my brother released so he can take care of his child and the mother.
I rejected the idea immediately, but upon sitting down to reflect I’m beginning to have second thoughts on if what my dad was saying was actually true. I’m desperately in need of advice so please let me know what you guys think. I will be in the comment section please.
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92-Year-Old Jailed For 20 Years Over 1967 R+pe And Mrder In UKs Oldest Cold Case Conviction
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92-Year-Old Jailed for 20 Years Over 1967 R+pe and M¥rder in UK’s Oldest Cold Case Conviction
A 92-year-old man, Ryland Headley, has been sentenced to life in prison with a minimum of 20 years for the r+pe and m¥der of 26-year-old Louisa Dunne in Bristol—58 years after the crime.
Headley, who is now the oldest person in UK history to be convicted of m¥rder, was told by Justice Sweeting: “You will d+e in prison.”
The judge described Headley as a “cr¥el, depr+ved, pitiless man” who bru¥tally att+cked Dunne, a mother of two and widow living alone in Easton, Bristol, in 1967.
The case was unsolved for decades until cold case detectives in 2023 reexamined evidence and discovered Headley’s DNA on Dunne’s clothing, leading to his arrest.
Following the m¥rder, Headley left Bristol, eventually settling in Ipswich, where in 1977 he r+ped two elderly women, aged 79 and 84.
He was initially sentenced to life, but on appeal, psychiatrists claimed the a§§aults stemmed from s+x¥al frustration due to a troubled marriage. His sentence was reduced, and he served just two years.
Despite his age, the court ruled that the gravity of the 1967 crime—and the s¥fferings inflicted—warranted the full penalty. Justice Sweeting emphasized that Dunne had lived a quiet life surrounded by her books and belongings and that her d+ath had caused deep, lasting p+in for her family.
Prosecutor Anna Vigars KC noted that in the 1960s, such a crime could have carried a d+ath sentence. Though societal norms have changed, she urged the court to consider the horror Dunne must have experienced.
Headley showed no remorse, believing for decades he had escaped justice. But forensic breakthroughs and persistent police work ensured he finally faced the consequences.
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The Stunning Earnings Of The Biggest Movie FranchisesSee How They Compare
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Movie franchises are a cultural touchstone and a lucrative financial opportunity. Film franchises regularly drive billions of dollars of box office revenue and billions more in merchandise sales. If a franchise can reach the pinnacle of financial success, it can benefit its owner for decades. These five franchises, listed by total worldwide gross, have earned a whopping combined $67.52 billion.
Disney’s Marvel Cinematic Universe, or MCU, is unquestionably the king of lucrative movie franchises. Based on Marvel comic books and superheroes, the MCU is the highest-grossing film franchise in history—the 45 MCU movies have earned over $30.8 billion worldwide—and the franchise has grossed over $20 billion more than the next highest-grossing franchise. Much of this dominance is a result of the extremely popular Avengers movies, which have earned $7.7 billion over four films. An Avengers movie, , also holds the record for second-highest-grossing film of all time at $2.79 billion.
However, MCU’s financial success was not an obvious outcome when Disney first acquired Marvel Entertainment in 2009. At the time, the movie rights to many of Marvel’s most popular characters had already been sold and the Marvel Cinematic Universe was not the mainstream brand it is today. Luckily for Disney, the deal has paid off in mammoth box office and merchandising opportunities as Marvel reacquired many of the characters it had previously sold.
Another Disney property, Star Wars, is the second most valuable movie franchise in the world by box office revenue. After 15 movies, the franchise has grossed a total of $10.32 billion. The highest grossing Star Wars film by nominal revenue, 2015’s , grossed slightly more than $2 billion worldwide and is the fifth-highest-grossing movie of all time. However, despite placing fifth in worldwide gross behind Titanic.
In 2012, Disney acquired Lucasfilm, which owned the rights to the Star Wars franchise, for $4 billion. When merchandise and licensing sales are included with box office earnings, it is clear the investment has paid off handsomely.
Third on the list of highest-grossing movie franchises, the Harry Potter movie franchise includes both the original eight Harry Potter movies as well as a spin-off series, Fantastic Beasts. The two series make up a movie franchise and shared universe known as the Wizarding World. Based on the popular books by J.K. Rowling, the franchise steadily gained steam over the 2000s; for example, the final Harry Potter movie, , grossed over $1.3 billion worldwide after its release in 2011. With both series combined, the franchise has made a total worldwide gross of $9.6 billion.
Like the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the Star Wars franchise, the Harry Potter franchise has spawned a myriad of related business opportunities. Along with a Broadway play, , the franchise is involved in theme parks at Universal Orlando Resort and video games through Electronic Arts.
The fourth-highest-grossing movie franchise of all time is Spider-Man. While the most recent two live-action Spider-Man movies are included in the total gross of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the Spider-Man movie franchise includes two earlier series of films and an animated film as well. In total, the Spider-Man movie franchise has grossed $8.9 billion worldwide. The second most recent film, Spider-Man: No Way Home, is the highest-grossing—the film earned almost $2 billion at the worldwide box office.
The Spider-Man film franchise is unique in that, unlike other Marvel properties, the films are not produced by Disney. Instead, Spider-Man films are produced by Sony Pictures. The two companies have managed to come to an agreement over the hero’s inclusion in the MCU, but there are still unanswered questions over the future of live-action Spider-Man movies.
Based on the novels by Ian Fleming, the James Bond movie franchise is the fifth-highest-grossing of all time. While the first film in the series, , only grossed $59.57 million in 1962, the most recent Bond movie, , grossed more than 12 times as much. All in all, the franchise has made $7.9 billion in total gross over 27 movies. The most successful movie of the franchise was 2012’s , which made $1.1 billion worldwide.
The Bond movies are one of the longest-running and most successful film franchises of all time. Over 60 years, eight actors have played the famous spy. While the latest Bond film starring Daniel Craig, , was scheduled for release in 2020, the coronavirus pandemic forced Universal Pictures to delay its release until 2021.
When you combine the worldwide total gross of the MCU, Star Wars, Harry Potter, Spider-Man, and James Bond you get a jaw-dropping total of $67.52 billion.
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Israel Bombs Yemens Hodeidah Port After Attack Near Tel Aviv
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Air strikes come a day after the Iran-aligned Houthis fired a missile that struck near Israel’s main airport. Israel strikes target Yemen’s Hodeidah a day after Houthi missile attack on Ben Gurion Airport The Israeli military says it has carried out air strikes on Yemen’s Hodeidah port and a cement factory, claiming the sites were used to support Houthi operations against Israel. The strikes on Monday injured at least 21 people, the Houthi-run health ministry spokesman Anees al-Asbahi said. According to the Israeli army, fighter jets struck infrastructure linked to the Houthis, including a cement factory east of Hodeidah that it described as “an important economic resource” used in building tunnels and military infrastructure. “The Hodeidah seaport serves as a hub for the transfer of Iranian weapons and equipment for military needs,” the Israeli army said in a statement. The claim could not be independently verified. Houthi-run Al Masirah TV reported that six Israeli strikes hit Hodeidah’s port and blamed both Israel and the United States. Axios journalist Barak Ravid quoted a senior US official who said the air raids were coordinated between Israel and the US. A US defence source told Al Jazeera that “US forces did not participate in the Israeli strikes on Yemen today” but did not deny nonlethal support may have been provided. The attack was carried out after a ballistic missile fired from Yemen on Sunday struck close to Ben Gurion International Airport outside Tel Aviv. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had pledged retaliation for the Houthi attack, the first known missile to avoid interception since the Yemeni group began targeting Israel in November 2023. Al Jazeera correspondent Ali Hashem reported that about 30 Israeli warplanes took part in Monday’s operation, which was overseen by Netanyahu and Defence Minister Israel Katz from a command centre in Tel Aviv. Hashem said the strikes mark a “new phase” in Israeli attacks on Yemen. Since US President Donald Trump returned to power in January, the US has embarked on a more aggressive assault on Yemen “which is related directly to Israeli interests”, Hashem added. This is not the first time Israel has bombed targets in Yemen. In December, air raids struck the Ras Isa oil terminal and other sites in Hodeidah province, killing at least nine people. While most Houthi-launched projectiles have been intercepted, Sunday’s attack was the “most significant strike”, Hashem said, since the group launched its campaign in November 2023, which it said is in response to Israel’s war on Gaza and to show solidarity with Palestinians. A drone had previously hit a building in Tel Aviv last year. Since November 2023, the Houthis, also known as Ansar Allah, have launched more than 100 drone and missile attacks targeting vessels they said are linked to Israel in the Red Sea. Although the Houthis paused attacks during a ceasefire in Gaza this year, they resumed their operations in March after Israel cut off humanitarian aid to Gaza and resumed its offensive. Follow Al Jazeera English:...
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