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Police and crime commissioner apologises for ‘dead bodies' claim
A police and crime commissioner has apologised for claiming that multiple human remains have been found in woodland at the centre of a murder investigation. Alison Hernandez told a meeting of the Devon and Cornwall police and crime panel that 'dead bodies' had been found in woodland at Sticker, near St Austell, and investigations were ongoing to establish exactly how many. Devon and Cornwall Police said in response the body of one man had been recovered from woods and no other remains had been found. Police and forensic experts have been carrying out extensive inquiries in the woodland since the discovery of the body of 43-year-old Daniel Coleman. James Desborough, 39, is accused of murdering Mr Coleman, from St Austell, on a date between June 2 and July 7. He is due back before Truro Crown Court next month. In her apology, Ms Hernandez said: 'In trying to be helpful I responded to an operational question at the police and crime panel, however, I was not fully up to date with the facts of the investigation. 'I apologise for any alarm this may have caused. 'The police have operational primacy over these matters. 'Any investigation will unfold rapidly and I was not in possession of all the facts at that time.' Devon and Cornwall Police rejected Ms Hernandez's claims, with Detective Superintendent Jon Bancroft saying: 'We currently have three separate murder investigations being conducted in the Cornwall area. 'I have oversight of all of these investigations at this time, and can confirm they are being carried out independently of each other and are not believed to be linked. 'I can categorically state that we have recovered remains believed to be those of Daniel Coleman only from an area of woodland in Sticker. 'No other remains have been located at this scene to date.' Police are also investigating the discovery of the body of Lee Hockey, 50, who was found in another woodland between Truro and Probus on July 1. A third murder inquiry is under way following a fatal fire at a residential property in Newquay on July 22. The body of a man in his 30s was found in the property, with a 33-year-old man from Bolton was arrested on suspicion of murder.
BBC News
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Maguiresbridge: Vigil held for murdered mother and two children
A vigil has been held in Maguiresbridge, County Fermanagh, for a mother and two children killed in a suspected triple murder and attempted Whyte, 45, her 13-year-old daughter Sara Rutledge and her 14-year-old son James Rutledge died after they were shot at their home in vigil was held at Maguiresbridge Primary School, where James and Sara were former in the day a book of condolence was opened at the school. Among mourners who attended was Anita McLarkey."I worked with the family at the primary school," she told BBC News NI."James was just a great wee character, Sara was a quiet wee girl. They were inseparable. They were both super bright." Another local woman who attended, Lynn Bussel, said it was important to show support."I was born and bred in Maguiresbridge," she said."It's a very good cross community, it has shocked everyone in the village."Jessie Robinson said it was important to show love and support to the extended family."It's important to show my respect," she said. The First Minister Michelle O'Neill and Agriculture Minister Andrew Muir were also in attendance, along with Ulster Unionist assembly member Diana Armstrong said: "Like everybody I want to show our support for the family and those most affected and the widespread community."DUP leader Gavin Robinson attended Maguiresbridge Primary School on stories he heard from people about Ms Whyte and her two children "just brings home how shocking, how tragic and how sorrowful this is", he told reporters.
BBC News
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Lori Daybell: Cult mum called 'coward' as she is sentence to life
Lori Vallow Daybell, the doomsday cult follower who killed her two children, has been sentenced to two additional life sentences for plotting to kill her estranged husband and her niece's ex-husband. At her sentencing hearing in Arizona on Friday, Daybell's family members described in court how she victimised them and their disgust."You are a manipulator, a parasite and a coward," she was told by Kay Woodcock, the grandmother of her murdered son. Vallow had already been sentenced to life in a separate trial for killing her son Joshua "JJ" Vallow, 7, and daughter Tylee Ryan, 16. The latest sentences are for plotting to kill ex-husband Charles Vallow, and ex-nephew Brandon Boudreaux. Her only-surviving son Colby Ryan was among those in court on Friday. He memorialised his father Charles Vallow, who "took care of our family, and he made sure we had a good life".Speaking to her mother, he said it "must be a very sad life to smile your way through all the pain you've caused"."Rather than being able to acknowledge the pain that she has caused, she would rather say that Charles, Tylee and JJ's deaths were a family tragedy and not her evil doing," he said. "Quite frankly, I believe that Lori Vallow herself is the family tragedy."Larry Woodcock, the grandfather of JJ, also lashed out, at times yelling at her."You murdered Charles, the best thing that's ever happened in your life, for your delusional, narcissistic ways," he said. "I will never speak your name again, murderess. You are nothing."Daybell was found to have conspired with her brother, who died of natural causes in 2019, to murder her ex-husband and cash in on his life insurance. Officials say she also conspired to kill Brandon Boudreaux, who narrowly avoided by shot in the head outside his trial, she argued that her late brother killed her former husband in self-defense. The so-called "Doomsday Mom" represented herself during trial, despite having no legal Daybell, her current husband, is awaiting a death sentence in Idaho for the deaths of the two children, and his wife from the time when his affair began with Lori Daybell. Chad Daybell is an author who has written several apocalyptic novels loosely based on Mormon religious teachings. The murders were committed as part of the couple's bizarre belief that people in their lives had come to be possessed by evil spirits. The sentencing on Friday comes at the end of her third and final trial. The case has gripped the US, after the two children went missing, along with Daybell and her husband. She was later arrested in Hawaii and the children's bodies were found on a property belonging to her husband in Idaho.
