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Yahoo
28-06-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Hoops promotion winner makes return to club
OXFORD City have announced the return of midfielder Latrell Humphrey-Ewers ahead of the 2025/26 season. The 22-year-old was formerly part of the Reading academy and represented the England Under-16s alongside the likes of Liverpool attacker Harvey Elliott and Burnley goalkeeper James Trafford. After being released by the Royals, Humphrey-Ewers joined the Velocity Football programme at the Hoops, breaking into the first team during the 2022/23 campaign. READ ALSO: Youngest ever player signs first professional U's deal Humphrey-Ewers played his part as the Hoops won promotion to the Vanarama National League that season, and was then rewarded with his first professional contract in June 2023. The midfielder was offered a new deal to stay with the Hoops last summer, but moved to Bath City in National League South, spending the latter part of the campaign on loan at Taunton Town. Humphrey-Ewers told the Hoops website: 'I'm really happy to be back. I feel like it was the right time to come back, and I'm really happy to be here. 'I learnt a lot about my game whilst on loan with Taunton Town last season, and I'm ready to show that here under the gaffer and with the new players.' Hoops manager Ross Jenkins added: 'I'm delighted to see Latrell back in an Oxford City shirt. He's someone we as a club have worked with for a number of seasons, and he's a player who's worked his way through the Velocity programme and into first team football. I'm looking forward to seeing him step up again.'
Irish Times
24-06-2025
- Irish Times
Family ‘ghosted' by dementia patient's carer must pay €1,600 in unlawfully withheld wages
The nephew of a dementia patient who said her former live-in carer walked off the job in the middle of the night and 'ghosted' the family has been ordered to pay her over €1,600 after a ruling that he unlawfully withheld her final pay. The worker, Catarina Cardoso, secured the award under the Payment of Wages Act 1991 against Ross Jenkins, who had employed her to care for his aunt at her home in Galway starting in July 2024. Mr Jenkins told the Workplace Relations Commission his elderly aunt suffered from advanced dementia, required 'pretty severe antipsychotics', and had been alone for 24 hours after Ms Cardoso quit on August 23rd, 2024. Ms Cardoso said she was 'ashamed' that she 'felt the need to run' when she left the employment, but said she was suffering from anxiety when she was left alone with the patient and that she had come to the point of 'carer burnout'. READ MORE She said she got a payslip detailing all of her working hours in August 2024. 'I have yet to see that pay or an explanation on why I don't have it,' she told a WRC hearing in March this year. Cross-examining his former employee, Mr Jenkins said: 'One of the biggest questions I had was: why were we ghosted?' 'Immediately after Catarina gave in her notice – as she calls it, from the family's perspective, we were caught completely off notice – she left at 9pm at night, left a vulnerable adult who has advanced dementia,' he said. 'Why did you stop communication immediately after leaving?' he asked. 'I believe at the time I was very anxious. I would call it carer burnout. I couldn't do it any more, and I was extremely ashamed. I failed to face you because I knew what I was doing,' Ms Cardoso replied. Ms Cardoso told the tribunal that she informed the family she wanted to leave four days before she went. The family's position was that she had agreed to stay on until they found a new carer, the tribunal heard. 'I had to leave, I couldn't continue doing that any more. I was afraid, because I did leave a vulnerable adult, I did,' Ms Cardosa said. In his own direct evidence, Mr Jenkins said his aunt had 'pretty advanced dementia' and the fact that Ms Cardosa left at such short notice 'put a vulnerable adult at risk'. 'She ceased to exist once she left … I tried calling, emailing, she'd dropped off the face of the planet. When we understood that she'd not been giving medication to a vulnerable adult, we weren't exactly keen on paying someone for doing that,' Mr Jenkins added. Adjudicator Monica Brennan wrote in her decision that the family seemed to be relying on Ms Cardosa's actions as a basis for withholding her pay. However, there was no contract clause providing for pay deductions, nor any evidence the employer had written to Ms Cardosa with 'particulars of the act or omission' in advance of making the deduction from her wages as the law required. 'I find that the deduction from the properly payable wages is unlawful and the complaint is therefore well founded,' she concluded. Ms Brennan directed the family to pay Ms Cardosa the sum of €1,650.78 within six weeks of her decision.
Glasgow Times
02-05-2025
- Glasgow Times
Couple accused of keeping children in animal pen in Glasgow
READ MORE: Arrest made after reports of 'voyeurism' at swimming pool changing area The girl was also stated to be forced to sit on the floor when eating and forced to eat food that she did not like. A second girl, aged nine, was claimed to have been forced to drink out of a cup which had been spat in. The girl is further alleged to have been seized by the arm and forced to bathe outside. A third girl, aged seven, is claimed to have been forced to stand at a wall for a long period of time as well as locked in a bathroom. Another seven-year-old girl is stated to have been forced to sit on a sofa with her back straight and arms crossed for a long period of time. The charge goes on to say she was "repeatedly put in an animal pen in the back yard." A girl, aged 13 to 14, was allegedly made to sit on the stairs at night without a pillow or blanket and stopped from falling asleep. READ MORE: Paramedic accused of crashing ambulance into motor in Glasgow A nine-year-old boy is alleged to have been forced to stand outside in the sun for a long period of time. Allegations further allege that he was made to stand while holding a glass bottle and face a corner. An eight-year-old boy is claimed to have been "forced to sit in a dog cage" and was "inadequately fed." All the charges are stated to have caused the children "unnecessary suffering and injury to their health." The allegations span between August 1986 and March 1991. Ross Jenkins, defending Douglas Daniel, told a hearing Glasgow Sheriff Court that his client was unable to attend today. He said: "The defence are considering whether he is able to stand trial, as after a consultation there were concerns raised about his ability to properly follow the discussions that were being had. "There were concerns about him understanding the nature of the charges. "There is also an ongoing heart condition, and we are trying to get information about that. "I cannot say whether he has dementia or Alzheimer's." Stephen Dryden, defending Barbara Daniel, also stated that his client was also unable to attend court. He said: "There is a problem with her physical health - around Christmas and New Year she contracted a bacterial infection. "She was in hospital until mid-January, and then she was discharged with medication. "They thought she would not be able to survive but she did survive. "I am unaware of the likely prognosis of her medical situation." The matter was continued to trial by Sheriff Joan Kerr with a date set for August. The sheriff also set a pre-trial hearing for July for an update on the medical issues. The Daniels, now of Kent, remain on bail for the matter.
