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Daily Mail
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British woman in her 20s 'found dead behind church during family holiday to France' had been seen 'arguing with her partner'
A British woman in her 20's allegedly found dead behind a church during a family holiday to France was seen 'arguing with her partner' in the hours before her death, it emerged tonight. The deceased – who has not yet been named – was on holiday in Barfleur, 17 miles east of the Normandy port of Cherbourg. Her lifeless body was found in a rock pool next to the coastal St Nicholas's Church by a dog walker at around 9am on Friday morning. Sources close to the investigation told Ouest France that the woman is believed to have drowned. The church overlooks the Channel. Following the opening of a criminal investigation, her partner was questioned by police, said an investigating source. Others in the couple's party from the UK have also been interviewed, following claims that she was likely to have drowned after falling into the sea. The source continued: 'They were all on holiday in Barfleur, staying in a rented cottage by the port. 'It is believed the English woman had been arguing with her partner following a night out on Thursday. 'She may have gone out to get some air, before her drowned body was found in a rock pool hours later.' It is not known if anybody had raised the alarm about the woman's initial disappearance. Sea conditions were relatively calm on Thursday night, overnight to Friday, and the temperature was warm. The area behind the church was on Friday blocked off by police teams, including forensics experts. A drone could also be seen flying across the potential crime scene, as detectives made house-to-house enquiries. Local prosecutors working with judicial police have opened a criminal investigation, and no theory for the death has yet been ruled out. An autopsy was due to be carried out over the weekend, to establish the precise cause of death. Barfleur, which has a history stretching back to before the Norman Conquest of 1066, is a member of The Most Beautiful Villages of France association. It is a small fishing village of some 700 residents in the north of France, largely untouched by tourism and rated one of the country's most attractive communes. The area regularly tops polls for being one of the most popular tourist destinations in the country. Many of those arriving for holidays are from Britain, because of Barfleur's position on the English Channel, close to major ferry ports, and surrounded by Normandy countryside.
Daily Mail
20 minutes ago
- Daily Mail
Soham killer Ian Huntley 'makes vile jibe about his 10-year-old victims' by wearing number 10 Man United-style shirt similar to the ones the two little girls he murdered were wearing when he attacked them
Child killer Ian Huntley has sparked fury by reportedly wearing a number 10 Manchester United-style shirt in an apparent vile taunt about his ten-year-old victims. The 51-year-old school caretaker murdered Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells at his home in Soham, Cambridgeshire, in August 2002, in a case that shocked Britain. They were both wearing matching red United football tops when they went missing after leaving a family barbecue to buy sweets. Huntley, who lured the girls into his house and murdered them before dumping their bodies in a ditch, is serving a life sentence at HMP Frankland, County Durham. A source told The Sun: 'He's been seen strutting about in the shirt as if it's funny. It is vile.' He was reportedly called a 'sick b****d' by fellow inmates for wearing the football top - but responded with a thumbs up. It is thought Huntley ordered the red number 10 shirt from Sports Direct, despite prisoners being barred from wearing tops of the football teams they support. The insider said: 'Huntley has made it as close to a Man U top as he can — and it is sick.' 'Everyone thinks he is doing it to satisfy his own sick mind, rather than for football reasons,' they added. Huntley reportedly started wearing the shirt earlier this year and has been seen in it walking to the gym and health centre. Inmates at HMP Frankland complained about the football-style shirt in May but nothing was done, according to The Sun's report. It is understood that because it is not an actual football shirt, Huntley has not broken any prison rules by wearing it. The move was criticised by Robert Jenrick who said Huntley should not be 'swanning around' in jail insulting the memory of his victims. The Tory shadow justice secretary said it should be 'ripped off his back' by prison guards. An image of both girls wearing matching Man Utd tops was one of the last haunting images of them before they went missing. They were later discovered by police burned and dumped in a bin. Despite being responsible for the murders, Huntley gave TV interviews and joined in searches while his then-girlfriend Maxine Carr gave him a false alibi. Carr even showed off an end-of-term card the girls had sent her, covered in loving comments and kisses. Huntley, meanwhile, repeatedly spoke of how he was the last person to see the girls before their apparent disappearance. He also helped organised community events to help the search effort. The truth was that Huntley had lured the girls into the home he shared with Carr, as they passed by. He has never fully revealed what took place there, but within an hour both girls were dead. Then he hid their bodies near RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk, six miles away, and later returned to set fire to them. When he was in court, Huntley lamely claimed that both schoolgirls had died accidently. He said Holly drowned in his bath and that he inadvertently suffocated Jessica while trying to stifle her screams. But in 2018 he confessed to deliberately killing Jessica to stop her from raising the alarm. He continued to insist that Holly's death was an accident. Huntley was jailed for life in 2005. Carr was jailed for perverting the course of justice and was released in 2004 with a new identity.
Telegraph
20 minutes ago
- Telegraph
Notting Hill tote bag designer loses High Court copyright claim
A designer who created a Notting Hill tote bag once presented to the Princess of Wales has lost a High Court claim against two brothers she accused of copying her designs. Natasha Courtenay-Smith sued Nangialai Takanai and Ehsanullah Takanai over claims they copied her design bearing the words 'the Notting Hill shopping bag' in an attempt to pass themselves off as being part of her brand. Lawyers for Ms Courtenay-Smith told a hearing in London in April that the men's actions were 'parasitic', adding that her design had been presented to Kate on a visit to Portobello Road and had been featured in 'high-profile media publications' such as Mail Online, OK! Magazine and the Sunday Mirror. The two men, who have been selling two designs with the words 'the Notting Hill shopper bag' and 'the Camden Town shopping bag', denied copying the logo's designs and passing off, claiming that Ms Courtenay-Smith's design is 'devoid of distinctive character'. In a ruling on Friday, Francesca Kaye, sitting as a deputy High Court judge, ruled that the 'level of creative freedom' used to create Ms Courtenay-Smith's design was 'low', meaning the amount of copyright protection it could receive was 'correspondingly low'. She said: 'Given the nature of the artistic copyright work and those features that were relied on as giving rise to the copyright as setting the logo apart as a creative work, I am not satisfied that the defendants have in fact copied a substantial part of the copyright work. 'Given the low degree of creativity, the scope of the protection conferred by the copyright is correspondingly narrow, and on the basis of a qualitative assessment, I am not satisfied that these are close copies. 'The defendants are not, therefore, liable for copyright infringement by their use of the defendants' signs.' In a 53-page judgment, the judge also ruled that the trademark of Ms Courtenay-Smith's logo, which was registered in 2013, had expired and had not been infringed. At the hearing earlier this year, Joshua Marshall, for Ms Courtenay-Smith, told the court his client had been selling her 'unique' design, which has 'proven to be incredibly successful and has become iconic'. He described the two men's design as a 'sleight of hand', adding that the reason they chose the word 'shopper' instead of 'shopping' was to make it 'different enough to avoid a claim of counterfeit'. Jamie Muir Wood, for the two businessmen, said in written submissions that the average consumer 'will notice the difference between the Notting Hill word sign and the logo, namely the replacement of the word 'shopping' with 'shopper'. He said: 'Whilst there is similarity between the signs, given the differences between them and the fact that the average consumer will distinguish between them, no misrepresentation will occur. 'Accordingly, there can be no damage.'
