Tear-jerking moment dad 'marries' critically ill daughter so she can have fairy tale wedding of her dreams

Tear-jerking moment dad 'marries' critically ill daughter so she can have fairy tale wedding of her dreams

marriage   9:29:00 PM

A doting dad 'married' his critically-ill little girl so she could have her very own fairy tale wedding.
Dad Shi Xinzhan said his 6-year-old daughter Shi Haiqing had always dreamt of marrying her Prince Charming, so he played the part himself.
Donning a white outfit Xinzhan walked 'down the aisle' hand-in-hand with his daughter, who had put on her favourite Snow White dress.
They walked into her hospital ward to the tune of Felix Mendelssohn’s "Wedding March".

Dad Shi Xinzhan said his 6-year-old daughter Shi Haiqing had always dreamt of marrying her Prince Charming (Photo: Asia Wire)

Nurses, doctors and other patients acted as guests for the hospital 'wedding' in Tai’an City, East China’s Shandong Province.
The symbolic ceremony also means that he will get to see his daughter get married - something he and his wife may never witness if she does not win her battle against nephrotic syndrome.
The kidney disease has seen the family’s life turned upside down since April this year, and in the eight months that followed Haiqing’s appearance has also changed dramatically, making her unrecognisable.

Shi Haiqing and her dad walking through the hospital (Photo: AsiaWire)

The hormones she takes to counter the illness have caused her to put on 6 kilogrammes (13 lbs), which now sees her face swollen like a little balloon.
During the onset of the disease, Haiqing also suffered serious adrenal crises and her parents received two "critically ill" notices in the space of 10 days.
Besides the large amounts of money spent on Haiqing’s treatment - sometimes up to 10,000 RMB (£1,160) per day - there is very little the girl’s mum and dad can do.
But Haiqing has given her parents optimism, because she does not seem to fully grasp the severity of her disease and therefore seems to remain happy and cheerful every day.

Barack Obama warned against taking revenge on Russia for cyber attack

Barack Obama warned against taking revenge on Russia for cyber attack

USA   9:15:00 PM

Britain's former top soldier has warned Barack Obama not to wage “tit-for-tat” cyber warfare against Russia.
The outgoing US president vowed to take revenge at a “time and place of our choosing” over the hacking of Democratic officials’ e-mails during this year’s bitter White House race.
Experts have blamed the Kremlin for the web attack saying Vladimir Putin wanted his pal Donald Trump to beat rival Hillary Clinton.
Britain’s former ambassador to Russia, Sir Andrew Wood, said the President-elect had a “case to answer”.
It is “almost impossible” he would not have known about Russian hacking during the election, the ex-diplomat claimed.
Mr Obama told NPR News he confronted Mr Putin over the allegations.
Whenever a foreign government tried to interfere in US elections, the nation must take action - “and we will”, Mr Obama revealed.
He added: “Some of it may be explicit and publicised, some of it may not be.
“But Mr Putin is well aware of my feelings about this, because I spoke to him directly about it.”

The Kremlin rejected suggestions President Putin was involved in the hacks.
Spokesman Dmitry Peskov claimed it was “laughable nonsense”.
Ex-Chief of the Defence Staff General Lord Richards cautioned Mr Obama against launching a revenge attack.
He told the BBC: “Taking President Obama at face value - and I assume he has good evidence to substantiate his claim - then I imagine they are going to have to think very carefully about getting into some tit-for-tat operation with the Russians.
“You never really quite know where it’s going to end up; are they going to start having a go at our financial system, electricity?
“You have got to be very, very careful and that is why he has been rather cagey, I think, in choosing his words the way he has.”
Mr Trump faced accusations he knew about the Kremlin targeting the Democratic campaign.

Hillary Clinton (Photo: Getty)

Sir Andrew, who was Britain’s ambassador to Russia from 1995 to 2000, said: “I don’t see how Donald Trump could not have known something.
“I think that’s almost impossible. What he actually said to Hillary Clinton in the debates was, essentially, ‘You can’t prove it - you don’t know’.
“He never said ‘This is serious, it must be investigated’.
“He did have people around him who had quite a lot to do with Russia or Ukraine. So I think there is a case to answer.”
But the incoming President’s senior adviser, Kellyanne Conway, claimed it was “breathtaking” and irresponsible for the White House to suggest Mr Trump knew Russia was interfering to help his campaign.
In London, No 10 faces questions over whether Russians had used hacking to try and influence UK elections.
A Downing Street spokesman said: “There is no evidence that our elections have been interfered with in this way.
“Obviously, the reports from the US about allegations of cyber-activity by Russia are a concern.”

Porn model admits smuggling £18m of cocaine on cruise ship - and she put the whole trip on Instagram

Porn model admits smuggling £18m of cocaine on cruise ship - and she put the whole trip on Instagram

instagram   8:26:00 PM

An ex-porn model has admitted trying to smuggle more than £18 million of cocaine from Britain to Australia.
Canadian Isabelle Lagace, 28, took the class A drug on board the £11,000-per-head Sea Princess cruise ship that sailed into Sydney.
She documented her journey with dozens of social media posts taken at stunning locations including the US, South America and Pacific.
But Australian Border Force officers were waiting when the ship docked in Sydney on the 51st day of the 68-day cruise.

Isabelle Lagace has appeared in many racy photoshoots

Police alleged Lagace, her travelling companion Melina Roberce, 23, and and 64-year-old fellow passenger Andre Tamine were part of a "very well-organised syndicate" to smuggle drugs.
Australian federal police said the illegal shipment was one of the largest ever of its kind, reports the Sydney Morning Herald .
The former porn model's lawyer Louis Ialenti entered the guilty plea at a courthouse in Sydney on her behalf.

The action-packed cruise took them across the world (Photo: instagram/belliszaa)

They posed in bikinis in many stunning locations (Photo: instagram/belliszaa)

The 95kg of drugs were worth $31 million in Australian dollars and were spread across four suitcases.
The cruise began in Southampton and the social media posts show Lagace and Roberce at locations including New York, Bermuda, Ecuador, Tahiti, Colombia, Peru and New Zealand.
The maximum penalty for smuggling cocaine in Australia is life imprisonment.
Roberce and Tamine have not entered pleas yet.

Couple fed pills to four-year-old daughter so she would not disturb their sex

Couple fed pills to four-year-old daughter so she would not disturb their sex

United Kingdom   7:52:00 PM

Little Poppy

Little Poppy Widdison died on the sofa of the flat in Grimsby, Lincolnshire, after ingesting a variety of drugs in the lead up to her death.

Pyke and Rytting encouraged Poppy to eat sedatives because they felt she was getting in the way of their relationship, the trial at Hull Crown Court heard.

She died in June 2013 after suffering a cardiac arrest at drug dealer Rytting's "squalid" home in Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire.

Tests carried out after she died found that Poppy had ingested a variety of drugs for a period of up to six months before her death, including sedatives, heroin, methadone and ketamine.

Text messages between Pyke and Rytting talked about Poppy having a "blue Smartie" - believed to be a reference to the sedative diazepam in the form of a blue tablet - and going to sleep.

David Gordon, prosecuting, told the jury earlier in the three-week trial:

 "We say Pyke and Rytting, the defendants, are just wanting to get on with their love life, wanting to enjoy each other's company and it may be this young girl was something of an encumbrance.

"It's apparent from the text messages that Miss Pyke viewed Poppy as an inconvenience, who she felt was in the way with regards her relationship with Mr Rytting."

An ambulance was called to Rytting's home in Oliver Court on June 9, 2013 where Poppy was found to be "unresponsive, blue and not breathing".

Police found these in their home

She was taken to hospital but died the next day.

A post-mortem examination could not establish a cause of death but toxicology tests carried out on her blood and hair found various drugs and showed the young girl had been exposed to and had ingested significant amounts of heroin and methadone for a period of between two and six months before her death.

The drugs did not contribute to Poppy's death but experts agreed there was a "long period of ill-treatment and neglect by the grossly inappropriate administration of various drugs to the child by the defendants". 

The trial was told that Pyke was in the process of moving into Rytting's home, where prescription and controlled drugs were "left lying around".

Both defendants pleaded guilty to child cruelty by allowing Poppy to be accommodated in a house where prescribed and controlled drugs were unsecured and within reach of the child.

Pyke, 37, also pleaded guilty to child cruelty by emotional abuse after neighbours heard her shouting at Poppy, threatening her and calling her a "little bastard".

On Friday, a jury took just over two hours to find both defendants guilty of one count of child cruelty by encouraging Poppy to ingest prescription and or controlled drugs.

Rytting, 40, who admitted one count of importing drugs and two counts of supplying controlled drugs, was also convicted of possessing cannabis with intent to supply.


They will be sentenced next year.

A count of child cruelty by assault causing bruising against both defendants was dropped by the prosecution during the trial.


Speaking after the verdicts, Detective Superintendent Umberto Cuozzo, who led the investigation for Humberside Police, said:

"Poppy was betrayed by the very people who were entrusted to keep her safe from harm.

"They put their relationship, lifestyle and drugs before her and I hope they now come forward and tell the truth about the events that led to Poppy's death in June 2013."

Mr Cuozzo described the three-and-a-half year investigation as "meticulous" and "complex".

An NSPCC spokesman urged anyone concerned about a child's welfare to contact the charity.
On the Poppy case, he added:

"It defies belief that anyone would purposefully feed class A drugs to a young child who would have been looking to the adults in her life for love and attention.

"Their priority should have been keeping Poppy safe from harm but instead she was growing up in shockingly dangerous conditions.

"The distressing evidence from this trial paints a picture of a young girl who was tragically viewed as an inconvenience."

Man charged with murder of driver who gave him THE MIDDLE FINGER while stuck In traffic!!!

Man charged with murder of driver who gave him THE MIDDLE FINGER while stuck In traffic!!!

USA   2:55:00 AM

A Denver man was arrested for allegedly shooting dead a motorist who flipped him off.
David Garcia, 28, is accused of stealing an Audi TT sports car and using a gun he found in it to shoot at the car of the motorist, Miguel Baray, whom he got into the road rage incident with.

Denver police say Garcia told them he thought the bullet would go over Baray’s Honda and had not aimed at him.

Garcia was arrested and held on suspicion of first-degree murder.

Teacher 'had sex with students and rated them on their performance'

Teacher 'had sex with students and rated them on their performance'

Foreign News   2:14:00 AM

A female teacher allegedly seduced two students - and it is claimed even rated them on their sexual performance.

Kelsey Leigh Gutierrez, 25, engaged in a variety of sex acts with the teenagers over 18 months, according to police .

She was sacked from her job as an English teacher at Santa Fe High School in Texas, USA, on November 18 after the claims emerged.

She now faces three charges of having an improper relationship with a student.

Local TV station KPRC 2 News said court documents alleged Gutierrez met with an 18-year-old Santa Fe High School student at about midnight on November 12 in the car park of the male student's residence.

It is claimed they kissed in the front seat of her car before climbing into the back seat to have sex.

Four days later Gutierrez went to the student's residence and they had sex in his bedroom, court records allege.

Investigators said the teacher admitted to having a sexual relationship with the student, adding they had found evidence on both of their phones about meeting times and the student's sexual performance.

The court documents also detail a 2015 relationship with another school student.

In May last year, the teacher is said to have picked up the second student in her car and they drove him to a petrol station car park, where they kissed.

A few weeks later Gutierrez picked up the teenager and parked on the side of the road, where they kissed in her car, it is claimed.

The two met again at the student's residence, investigators said.

The teacher started working at the school at the beginning of the 2014 school year.

She was held in custody in lieu of payment of a $45,000 (£36,000) bail but has since been released.



In a statement, the school said: "Santa Fe Independent School District became aware that a former high school teacher was arrested Monday, Nov. 28, 2016, in connection with allegations that she may have engaged in an improper relationship with a student.

"As soon as the District learned of the allegations, an internal investigation began including campus administrators and the District police department, and the teacher's employment with the District ended.

"We want you to know that we take very seriously any concerns that relate to the well-being of each of our students and our first priority is the safety and education of our students in our district.

"We will continue to work in cooperation with law enforcement and the District Attorney's office. Inappropriate actions by teachers will never be acceptable in this district."

The allegations against Gutierrez emerged following a tip-off to authorities.