Andy Coulson says he will 'vigorously contest' perjury charges

Counsel for the former head of communications will fight accusations PM says "if you give a judgment

Andy Coulson said he "vigorously contest" the allegations of Strathclyde police that he lied under oath about his knowledge of hacking at the News of the World.

His lawyers in London, DLA Piper, said: "Andy Coulson vigorously contest the allegations of perjury against him yesterday by Strathclyde Police, if they ever lead to a lawsuit have any other comments that moment .. "

• Coulson, 44, former Prime Minister's chief of communications, has been charged with perjury Wednesday night, about 15 hours after being arrested at his home in south London and taken to Glasgow for be questioned by police in Strathclyde.

was arrested in connection with the investigation of force in Operation Rubicon alleged perjury of witnesses in the trial of Tommy Sheridan, the socialist politician who was convicted by the High Court in Glasgow December 2010 of lying under oath when he won £ 200,000 libel victory Coulson old newspaper, the News of the World.

Coulson, who left Govan police station in the back of a pickup truck last night to avoid the cameras, has not been given a hearing date.

previously informed by the lawyer Paul McBride QC famous before his sudden death in Pakistan this year, Coulson is understood to have maintained a small law firm in Scotland for criminal perjury.

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Suspect held in case of New York boy missing since '79

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Chinese couple bury woman alive after car accident

Men who raped 11-year-old have sentences doubled

Court of Appeal raises

imprisonment for seven years and Ruben Monteiro Roshane Channer, both 21

Two men convicted of raping a girl of 11 years had their sentences doubled by the Court of Appeal.

Roshane Channer and Ruben Monteiro, both 21, were initially sentenced to three years and four months in February after he admitted raping a schoolgirl in a block of flats in Luton, Bedfordshire July.

Three judges in London agreed Wednesday to Attorney General Dominic Grieve, the initial conditions of detention imposed on Luton crown court were "too lenient." - And she brought seven years

Channer, homeless, and Monteiro, Luton, will also be on the sex offenders register for life.

The Grieve said in a statement after the verdict. "It was a horrible case in which two men, aged 20, raped a young girl of 11 years, while two other young men saw

"A videotape of the incident was taken on a mobile phone, but add to the distress of the victim.

"I am very pleased that the Court of Appeal gave clear guidelines on sentencing sex crimes of this nature.

"The law is clear that children under 13 are incapable of consenting to sexual activity, and I hope that today's sentence sends a clear message to anyone committing such terrible crimes as them - you can expect to spend considerable time in prison. "

• Baljit Ubhey, the chief prosecutor of the Thames and Chiltern service Crown Prosecution said. "We support the Attorney General's decision to refer this case as one that had attracted sentences were too lenient

"I welcome today's decision of the Court of Appeal to increase penalties.

Chen Guancheng at Beijing airport waiting to leave for US

blind activist in the center of the diplomatic storm says he and his family hope to fly once the Chinese authorities bring passports

Chen Guangcheng, a blind Chinese activist whose escape from a rural village sparked a diplomatic row between Washington and Beijing, said, in an airport waiting to leave for the United States.

Chen told the Associated Press that he had left the hospital and was at the airport in Beijing. He was waiting to go to the United States later Saturday.

said that his wife and two children were with him, but have not yet received their passports. Also with him were hospital staff and border control.

Chen escaped to his illegal arrest last month rural village and sought the protection of American diplomats. He had waited for permission to travel to the United States to study.

The United States Department of State

U.S. visas Chen said, his wife and children are ready for them to go to the United States.


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Chen and his family marked the withdrawal of a point of friction in already strained relations between the United States and China, which were marked by manipulation of China's human rights . The U.S. embassy was not immediately available for comment.

Nicholas Bequelin Human Rights Watch said Chen departure would not be cause for celebration that his family was always under pressure and there may be less incentive for the central government to investigate crimes committed by local authorities. More importantly, Bequelin said, raised questions about the overall environment for the militants.

• "This reflects the fact that there is no room for the defenders of human rights in China. This will become a temporary or exile, but in any case, it is the questions of why someone like Chen can not operate freely in China. What prevents authorities tolerate or even embrace someone like Chen? "
• Chen told Reuters by telephone: ... "I'm at the airport now and I left the hospital, but there are many things that are not clear

"Yes, could be heading for a flight to the United States, but I said, and who have not received the passport, so I'm not sure yet. We expect to hear what happens. "

development came about three weeks after his arrival at the hospital Chaoyang Chen of the U.S. Embassy, ??where he had taken refuge after a dramatic escape 19 months under house arrest in his village kindergarten .

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Letters: Fair play at the Leveson inquiry

Rhodri Davies QC, counsel appearing in The Times and The Sunday Times before Lord Justice Leveson on his advisers and six (report, May 15), complained that Robert Jay QC, counsel to the Leveson inquiry acted "against the rules" for a public inquiry into making statements of a witness (Rupert Murdoch) after giving evidence at the inquiry. I know of no rule that defines the role and function of lawyers is responsible for submitting the name of a public inquiry. Investigations Act 2005 (in which Lord Justice Leveson conducts research) provides in Article 17 that the procedure and the conduct of the investigation "must be such that the Chair may order" and any decision he or she "must act fairly." if - what appears to be the case - Mr. Jay was but a spokesman for Lord Justice Leveson and an opinion expressed by the prosecutor of the court could question the impartiality of the survey
But in my experience to lead and participate in public consultations, the lawyer of the court always has a discretion as to how it fulfills its task of providing the testimony of witnesses and observations to assist the process of obtaining the true facts considered. Counsel for Mr Rhodri Davies QC appears as a 'key player' Lord Justice Leveson to exercise their right to a hearing to answer the criticisms of Mr. Jay (if applicable). It is quite right. But Mr Davies is, in my opinion, wrong to protest Mr. Jay acting inappropriately.

Louis Blom-Cooper QC

London

. take Rebekah Brooks defends himself with the sword of truth and the protection of legitimate British game fair?

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Fourth genocide case file sent to Rwanda court

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Afghanistan child bride's in-laws sentenced for torturing her

Three parents

15, Sahar Gul each receive 10 years in prison. Two others are still in the race

laws of a child bride who became bruised and bloodied face of women's rights in Afghanistan have been sentenced to 10 years in prison for torture, abuse and human rights violations.

The plight of Sahar Gul 15 years has triggered a storm of international condemnation when he appeared at the end of December. The authorities told the family of her husband kept her in a basement for six months after her arranged marriage, pulling nails, breaking fingers and tortured with hot irons, in an attempt to force her into prostitution.

was rescued by police in Baghlan province north-east after a man alerted the authorities. Sahar husband father, mother and sister were sentenced to 10 years in prison by a court in Kabul on Tuesday, the president said Sibghatullah Razi.

were also convicted Sahar husband, a member of the Afghan army, and his brother, both of which have been on the run since his case was made public, said Razi. He said the men would be condemned when they were captured.

Sahar was present at the decision, told the court that he wanted her parents "severely punished" for what had happened, Razi said. She called for a longer sentence, with the aid of Women for Women in Afghanistan, a group working for women's rights in the country and took care of the adolescent and his rescue.

• "Of course you are not satisfied with the decision of the court," said Huma Safi, a spokesman for the group.

case Sahar has led calls for more efforts to strengthen women's rights and end the marriage. The legal age for marriage is 16 years in Afghanistan, but the United Nations agency UN Women estimates that half of all girls are forced to marry under age 15.

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Watergate: did Ben Bradlee doubt Woodward and Bernstein? | Oliver Burkeman

book suggests Jeff Himmelman crusade editor of the Washington Post had a crisis of faith in its journalists. Page 'Deep Throat'

If the dog focused exclusively on what passes for presidential scandal today want something more substantial, that everyone suddenly again Watergate may seem strange, pleasant. Thomas Mallon has a new novel, Robert Redford has announced it is working on a new documentary Watergate - and draw a book recently published in the New York, former research assistant Bob Woodward, Jeff Himmelman made some statements that raise the eyebrows of any former employer.

Like everything that has to do with the Watergate scandal, the details are quite complex, the central claim - contained in a note from 1972 Himmelman discovered in an old box of documents - is that one of the main sources of Woodward and Bernstein, called - inevitably - "Z" was in fact a grand jury in the case burglarly, a fact disguised

All the President's Men

. (Go to a grand jury might well have landed in prison.) But the most striking is the suggestion that Himmelman Ben Bradlee, editor of Crusade couple in the Washington Post, had doubts about their accounts to meet famous Deep Throat in an underground garage, organize meetings with a secret system of signals involving a flower pot on the balcony of the apartment Woodward. Bradlee request:

Is [factory] Problem pot never happened? Meeting ... and a garage. A meeting room in the garage? Fifty meetings in the garage? I do not know how many meetings in the garage ... There is a residual fear in my soul that is not easy.

Himmelman note indicating that gives no reason to doubt Bradlee Deep Throat and pots - but face Himmelman Woodward is exciting about them:

• Bob
• read in silence for a moment. "Where is says:" There is a residual fear in my soul that it is very simple, "which is ..." He paused. I knew the news as soon as you saw. Seven minutes after starting to read, to the pages and looked at me. He was visibly shaken. "I'm not sure what ..." he said, all the strength of his voice was gone. Then, quietly: "What is the question"
Woodward interviewed

Himmelman account, and a splendid little Watergateness, now says another transcription Bradlee, unknown negation of any notion that the editor who led coverage of Watergate would have doubted its truth. However, the piece is worth reading Himmelman primarily for its generous portions of Ben Bradlee-organisms, such as:

"Why Woodward has his bowels in an uproar?" Ben groaned.

And, looking back on his life and career:

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U.S. Supreme Court immigration case weighs states' powers

Why the Olivier awards show up the West End's weak spots

Only a handful of Olives were rewarded for a derivative work of the commercial sector - which shows that the West End is just show interesting productions, not create

At least I have a good thing. Interviewed by Radio 2 to predict the headlines in the morning after Olivier Awards, suggested "Matilda waltzes win Olivier". I do not think anyone actually used this specific line (although one of the news agencies came close, but it was the general sense. Similarly artist has dominated the Oscars this year, so we went with Matilda seven Oliviers I have no problem with that - except maybe .. there is something vaguely surreal story by Roald Dahl is a hymn to the pleasures of solitary reading became a big market dazzling masses music

• But while this year's award are quite reasonable - I particularly appreciated the recognition given to Ruth Wilson and extraordinary revival of Anna Christie - I think the real story is lost. When Swet prices, as they were called, were created in 1976, had a simple reason. Commercial producers felt there was a strong bias in awards evening of drama standard available for the subsidized sector. They believe that the work of the West End has not been recognized and decided to create his own rival ceremony.
• Thirty-six years later, what do we find? The record is dominated by the production of the Royal Shakespeare Company, National, the Donmar Warehouse and the open air theater in Regent Park. It is true that most of the winning productions transferred to the West End, but from elsewhere. Scanning the list, I can find only three awards for the work they actually came from the commercial sector: Derren Brown Svengali for the best entertainment, Sheridan Smith for best performance in a supporting role in the production of Trevor Nunn Road Flare and Nigel Harman to support better performance in a musical for his turn in Shrek. Three price is not really a charge, and if the night proves anything, it is the constant failure of the West End to create, rather than simply highlight the exciting work.

That the Society of London Theatre (SOLT) has become really good at it is self-advertisement. I was not at the ceremony on Sunday night (not going to lose this country), but Julian Bird, SOLT chief executive, said it was "probably the most important one night without sleep nobody has ever done. "But, Olives why they feel compelled to compete with the Broadway Tony Awards or Oscars? I remember when they started these gala dinner consisted of a ceremony very nice and modest Café Royal: a very British, informal occasion. now they have become part of the standard showbiz razzmatazz., but that in itself shows how the West End has opted for a model to Broadway. less will shout, creatively, more noise feels compelled to do

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Mancini snubs Pulis after draw

. Manchester City disgusted by muscular approach

. Roberto Mancini refuses to shake hands with the leader of Stoke

Roberto Mancini refused to speak to the media after Manchester City lost two points at Stoke by sending the following message: "I was not happy and the time needed to calm down." City could be three points off the pace in the title race if Manchester United beat Fulham at home on Monday night, and Mancini was incensed by the aggressive approach with which hindered their opponents Stoke held to a draw 1 - 1.

City has fallen behind what could be the end of the season Peter Crouch before equalizing with a long-range shot deflected Yaya Toure. However, it was not football, but the furious physical approach. David Silva was left with his head bandaged after use forearm Dean Whitehead, who went unpunished by the referee, Howard Webb, Stoke and competitiveness renowned robust Mancini was not happy.

David Platt, who was sent to deal with the press in place, said: "This is a case of Robbie too angry to speak, but it is not happy at the moment and needs time to calm down. "

• Tony Pulis
• Mancini confirmed that he refused to shake hands after the match, but Platt took care not to speak of himself in his main work has sought to avoid. He said: "Do not make much sense says Robbie and me and have a go at the referee, is it"
• attitude to the aroma of green grapes left the impression that Mancini has lost the psychological battle with United, who had been brought in midweek by the declaration of Patrick Vieira, the return of Paul Scholes felt "despair." Sir Alex Ferguson said that Scholes was the best midfield player of 20 years and retired from the City of Carlos Tevez was desperate, after saying he would never play for the club. The United manager said he had "more ammunition" if it was a war of words.

threat was the real reason why Mancini was silent? "It has nothing to do with mind games," said Platt. "Words will not win the league, it's points. If we have more points than United in the final of the season, people perceive that Robbie won the war. "

Pulis has categorically denied that there was nothing wrong on the play of his team is struggling mightily. "I thought it was a good match, competitive," he said. "If Mancini says otherwise, I guess I gotta do what you have to do, but if they complain Dean Whitehead, I suggest taking a look at Gareth Barry Whelan Glenn mistakes. "

". Crouchy for England" The Stoke manager prefers to focus on the performance Crouch, which earned him the man-of-price-match and had the fans chanting Pulis said "His goal was fantastic, he is a talented young player was the best player on the field today. ".

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Hindu woman in forced marriage row

rinkle Kumari, 19, says he was kidnapped, converted to Islam and married against their will

The fate of a Pakistani Hindu woman says she was kidnapped, forcibly converted to Islam and marry against their will is to be decided this week, after weeks of struggle of the Hindu minority.

The case of 19-year-old Kumari rinkle outraged Hindus small town in the south, where the leaders of the Muslim community accused of exploiting Indian girls of marriageable age.

Some cases of similar complaints help fuel a steady stream of small Hindu community in Pakistan, families choose to live in Hindu majority India instead.

Initially

Monday's hearing, the Supreme Court in Islamabad to try to get to the bottom of odds versions of events.

Muslims in the city, supported by a powerful local politician, said Kumari freely converted to Islam to marry his neighbor, Naveed Shah, February 24. But his father, a primary school teacher, is convinced she was abducted in the middle of the night at his home in Mirpur Marthelo in the province of Sindh.

"These people are Hindu girls and beautiful fighter," said his uncle Raj Kumar. "For 15 days rinkle Naveed Shah shouted, threatened to kill his only brother."

His case gained the support of members and has attracted much attention in the Pakistani media. According to The Frontier Post, rinkle was captured "for reasons based on pure lust and debauchery."

long the voice of the whole saga rinkle barely been heard, even if both parties say he has made clear statements to support their conflicting claims.

• His family says that during his appearance in a magistrates' court last month to the weeping woman said he had been forcibly converted and wanted to return to her parents. But the court has not recorded his statement and placed in custody after hundreds of Muslim protesters surrounded the courtyard.
• At a subsequent hearing - the family say they were banned - Kumari said was now free

In a sign of the tensions created by the massive case, the Hindu minority only managed to force the authorities to investigate the issue of stopping the protests, with traders on strike and protesters blockading a road. The intervention of President Asif Ali Zardari, has forced the police to act, say protesters.

Mian Mitto, the local MP has accused the family Kumari to be intimately involved in the abduction and conversion, rejected his opening statement to the court. "She may have been emotional, it is natural to be angry after seeing his parents in court," he said.

Mitto family to control a Sufi shrine neighbor who has a long history as a place where people come to convert to Islam.

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PAKISTAN - Lahore: fear and angst among relatives of a woman arrested for blasphemy

MPs call for new law to make stalking a criminal offence

Increased pressure to track

be recognized as a crime in England and Wales, and longer sentences to protect victims

stalking victims could earn a new protection after the conclusion of a broader survey, which this week is recommended that a specific offense of harassment was created to fight against the problem.

A group of parliamentarians from all parties is to publish a report on its six-month investigation, calling for a change in legislation to convicted offenders to prison for substantial abuse or psychological or physical, which was sustained by the victims. The results advance an independent investigation into the Ministry of the Interior, who completed his consultations on how to protect victims of harassment today.

support of a new law in England and Wales is growing. David Cameron has already recognized that there is a gap in the current protection of victims of harassment, while the Ministry of Interior, Theresa May and Lynne Featherstone ministers means conducive to the requirements of the new legislation.

Elfyn Llwyd MP

, chairman of the parliamentary group - which heard testimony from lawyers, psychologists, academics and parents of the murdered victims harassment - said: "We are very strongly that there must have a change in the. law. Have seen in other countries, such as how Scotland has done, and they have a law that has resulted in hundreds of successful prosecutions in the first year "

• Llwyd, a former lawyer, said it was essential that changes in legislation, accompanied by an awareness campaign to ensure that prosecutors, police and services probation begin to take seriously this matter. Of the approximately 120,000 cases of bullying each year, 53,000 are recorded as crimes by police and only one in 50 of these cables to an offender being jailed. High profile cases include Clara Bernal, killed by her stalker in 2005 while working at Harvey Nichols store. Her killer was due in court next week to harass her.

"We need a commitment from the government that the police are aware of how insidious and dangerous stalking is" Llwyd said. Recently, researchers have found that two thirds of the victims, said police and prosecutors do not take their complaints seriously.

one of the organizations that drive the campaign for a new law on harassment was the Napo freedom, whose research indicates that thousands of authors, mostly men, are not dealt with in sufficient seriously by the criminal justice system.

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John Terry racism allegations: prosecutors to make announcement

Service . Crown Prosecution Service to issue statement on Wednesday

. Case relates to an incident involving Chelsea captain in October

The Crown revealed that will make an announcement on the case of alleged racist remarks against Anton Ferdinand John Terry on Wednesday afternoon.

New

following confirmation of the PSC last received new evidence, said new video of the incident that took place during Chelsea's defeat at Queens Park Rangers on 23 October.
Terry categorically denies the allegations. Shortly after the allegations were made, issued a statement saying: "I saw that there are many comments on the internet about some video footage of me during the game

"I'm disappointed that people have leapt to the wrong conclusions about the context of what was seen saying to Anton Ferdinand. Never say something like that, and I'm sad that people believe it. "

development following the decision Tuesday by the Football Association to ban Liverpool striker Luis Suarez for eight matches and fined £ 40,000 after being found guilty of misconduct in relation the use of "insulting words" towards Evra of Manchester United Patrice.

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What is it like to be buried alive?

A woman told Leeds Crown Court this week was buried alive in a box. This is a scenario that evokes our most primal fears

Michelina Lewandowska

paralyzed Leeds Crown Court this week, he described clawing your way through 10 cm or more above the ground after being buried alive in a cardboard box. No wonder: the fear of premature burial or alive is, despite its rarity, one of our most powerful fears and amplified by the tales of Edgar Allan Poe as The Premature Burial and The Fall of the House of Usher and widespread want your own name doctor taphe-(o-tapho) phobia.

According to Jan Bondeson's Buried Alive: The terrifying story of our fear most primitive, direct burial always used particularly cruel method of execution: in medieval Italy, murderers who have refused to repentance were buried alive, a practice mentioned in Dante's Inferno. Women convicted of murdering her husband suffered the same fate - known as "The Pit" -. 17th century in Russia, and there are pictures of Chinese civilians were buried alive by Japanese soldiers during the Nanking Massacre

But it is the fear of being buried after being pronounced dead wrong that concerned us. Until recently, more than 100 years, medical science meant that there was a concern quite irrational among the recommended methods for the diagnosis of death in the 18th century were tickled with a feather, flogging with nettles, mouthwashing with needles sticking in urine and nails. The rich pay their doctors to cut the throat or pierce his heart before the funeral.

Horror stories abound

: pregnant women who gave birth six feet underground, open coffins to find corpses with torn fingers itch when desperate, an aristocratic lady woke up in his grave by a grave robber trying to cut his hand rings. In 1905, the social reformer William Tebb documented 219 cases of burial live near, and 149 actual cases (horrified Tebb London founded the Association for the Prevention of Premature Burial and specified before his death, in 1917, that " clear evidence of decomposition "to be visible before being incinerated).

To allay the fears of the population, Victorian England and inventors also patented boxes with snorkels as the periscope and fragile glass panels fanfare associated above ground and automatic warning devices that detect movements chest. And even today, almost errors occur: last year alone, a beekeeper of 76 years, Polish, Josef Guzy, declared dead after a heart attack, narrowly escaped being buried alive in a weak pulse been regarded as his coffin was sealed. Be warned.

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Mexico activist in Juarez women killings wounded (AP)

Laurent Gbagbo faces murder and rape charges

Former Ivorian President

accused by the International Criminal Tribunal for the attacks against civilians in the post-election chaos last year

The International Criminal Court charged former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo with murder, rape, persecution and other inhumane acts, crimes allegedly committed as his supporters fought for remain in power last year.

Gbagbo is the first head of state arrested the former by the court since its inception in 2002.

• "Gbagbo is held responsible for his individual responsibility in the attacks against civilians committed by forces acting on his behalf," the prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo said in a statement. "It is innocent until proven guilty and given all the rights and opportunity to defend himself. "
Moreno-Ocampo stressed that both sides of the political divide in Ivory Coast committed crimes in the post-election chaos and that his investigation continues.

"We will collect evidence impartially and independently, and bring new cases to judges, regardless of their political affiliation," he said. "Leaders must understand that violence is no longer an option to retain or gain power. The time of impunity for these crimes is over."

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Ex-Blagojevich fundraiser Rezko faces sentencing (AP)

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Key witness takes stand in case of 5 NJ teens (AP)

AP - The family of five New Jersey teens who disappeared one summer night in 1978 Sat nailed to a court in Newark Tuesday as star witness for the prosecution testified against the man accused of killing their parents over three decades.

Occupy London faces renewed eviction attempt

City of London Corporation restarts legal proceedings after protesters reject proposal to leave the site of the Cathedral of St. Paul in 2012

The City of London Corporation restarts legal action against the group camped outside St. Paul's Cathedral, after talks with the demonstrators "came to nothing."

Occupy London arrived at the church on October 15 and the stagnation of eviction attempts to successfully engage with the institutions that wanted to eliminate.

But last week rejected two proposals to the Corporation - part of the field cut to allow access to fire and eliminate all lands Corporation stores in 2012 - and it is this position which led to today's vote, planning and the Société de transport committee vote to proceed with the eviction.

• Stuart Fraser, Chairman of Company policy, said: "We stopped a legal action for two weeks for talks with those in the camp on how to reduce the scope of tents and set a departure date -. everywhere but
• "So, unfortunately, now they have rejected a reasonable offer to stay until the new year, there must be courts. Yet would resolve this without litigation, but from now we will have discussions in parallel with court action -. rather not

"We receive reports on vulnerable people, cases of early drinking and other worrying trends, so it is time to act. It is clear that it will take time, but we are determined to see it.

legitimate protesters "who stand or walk are a regular part of London. But tents, equipment and now, increasingly, a lot of mess, is not a road and more news lose. "

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Conrad Murray jury to consider verdict

doctor denies manslaughter in the death of Michael Jackson in Los Angeles in 2009

A jury in Los Angeles will begin deliberations in the case of Michael Jackson's doctor on Friday after a six-week murder trial in the death of the pop star in 2009.

Finally, arguments prosecutors said Jackson "paid with his life" for the criminal negligence of Dr Conrad Murray. Defense lawyers said Murray was to be responsible for his own actions Jackson.

"For a crime must be proved, the prosecution must show that Dr Murray actually killed Michael Jackson," said defense attorney Ed Chernoff jury Thursday.

"They want to convict Murray for the actions of Michael Jackson," Chernoff said. "If it was none other than Michael Jackson, that the doctor be here today?"

Chernoff asked the jury to remember that the victim was a pop star. "If you're going to hold Dr. Murray responsible, do not do it because it's Michael Jackson. This is not a reality show. This is the reality."

Jackson was found dead at his home in Los Angeles June 25, 2009. It was then decided to have died from an overdose of propofol, which is normally used in surgery, and sedatives.

The defense argued that the singer was dependent on propofol. Desperate to sleep, probably gave a lethal dose of the powerful anesthetic, as well as swallowing a handful of sedatives, without the knowledge of Murray, defense lawyers argued.

Attorney David Walgren

refuted this theory in his argument, describing the situation presented in the trial by a key expert "junk science" defense.

Walgren said Murray abandoned Jackson on the morning of his death, delayed calling 911 and deceived medical personnel on the use of propofol in a bedroom. Murray violated the trust between doctor and patient, "and for that Michael Jackson paid with his life," Walgren said.

"The evidence in this case is very clear - that Conrad Murray acted with criminal negligence, that Conrad Murray caused the death of Michael Jackson, Conrad Murray let Prince, Paris and Blanket without a father, "the prosecutor said, referring to the singer's three children.

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