Sriganesh also failed to declare he had six or more penalty points on his licence before joining the force in June 2023.
He did not tell his insurance provider he had points on his licence.
Sriganesh admitted conspiracy to pervert the course of justice, conspiracy to commit fraud by false representation, fraud by failing to disclose information, and unlawfully obtaining personal data.
A couple from Australia has been stuck in Scotland for months after their baby was born prematurely at just 23 weeks.
Dani Thomas and her partner Michael recounted in an interview with Australian network 9Now how they were traveling through Scotland together in November while Dani was just five months pregnant when Dani suddenly went into labor.
Their son Anderson was born at Edinburgh Children’s Hospital on Nov. 29, weighing just 600 grams, or roughly 1.3 pounds, they said. The premature baby was taken into intensive care and has been hospitalized ever since — and now the couple say they are stuck thousands of miles away from home as they wait for their son’s health to improve.
Without being able to return home to Australia, Dani and Michael have said that they have been staying at a room for families with a pull-out couch and bathroom at the hospital.
The Calton Hill in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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“If it wasn’t for Edinburgh Children’s Hospital offering them a room, my daughter, her husband — they would be on the streets,” Dani’s mother, Carina, told the outlet.
The couple also claims that a lengthy battle with their travel insurance company, U.K.-based InsureandGo, has made their stay in Scotland much worse, as the insurer has allegedly argued that they cannot cover the cost of accommodations for them because they are able to fly home.
“I said no reasonable person would leave their baby overseas,” Michael told 9Now. “And they basically said, ‘No, no, we’re not saying that, but you can go home. So that’s why we’re not covering you.’ ”
The outlet reported that InsureandGo has offered the couple a one-time payment of $3,000, but still says that the baby’s medical bills and the cost of accommodations are not covered under the couple’s insurance plan.
InsureandGo did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.
The insurer wrote in part in a statement shared with 9Now: “After being informed of the circumstances in November, our teams have remained in close contact with Ms. Thomas and her partner. Their claim for additional accommodation costs related to their newborn’s hospital stay has been carefully assessed in accordance with our Product Disclosure Statement (PDS).”
“While Ms. Thomas’ care is covered under Section B1 (Medical and other expenses outside of Australia), coverage only applies to the insured persons named on the policy,” the statement continued. “Travel insurance policies, including ours, typically cover only individuals named on the policy schedule. Newborns born overseas are not covered under our policies, as outlined in the General Definitions section of the PDS.”
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The insurer added that they have an internal dispute system and noted that customers can escalate issues to an independent third party.
“We recognize how difficult this time is for Ms Thomas and her family and therefore a few weeks ago our team reached out to Ms. Thomas and offered an ex-gratia payment of $3000 to provide additional support to the family,” the statement continued in part. “While this payment is not related to the benefits available under the PDS, we empathized with the difficulties they are facing and wanted to extend additional assistance.”
According to the couple, they haven’t acquired adequate travel documents for their now nearly four-month-old.
“You can’t remove the ventilator from his face to take an adequate passport photo,” Dani shared with the outlet.
Dani and Michael added that they’re desperate to get back to Australia soon.
“We’re still keeping life back in Australia running, we just paid our council rates,” Michael told 9Now. “We’ve got lives at home. We’ve got a mortgage to keep up.”
POP singer Alesha Dixon has confirmed her 12-year relationship with her partner is over — and recently flew to Jamaica for a break amid their separation.
The Britain’s Got Talent judge, 46, told friends she was no longer with dancer Azuka Ononye, 44, but said they were still living together for the sake of their two children.
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Alesha Dixon has confirmed her 12-year relationship with her partner is overCredit: ITV
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Alesha told friends she was no longer with dancer Azuka OnonyeCredit: Getty
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The BGT judge recently flew to Jamaica for a break amid their separationCredit: Louis Wood / The Sun
The former Mis-Teeq singer travelled to the sun-soaked Caribbean Island earlier this month to take time out following the split and relax with her girlfriends.
A source said: “Alesha confirmed she’s split from Azuka and is navigating that as best she can.
“They are still living together for the sake of their family and are co-parenting.
“Alesha headed to Jamaica with her friends to get some sunshine and have a break from her hectic schedule.
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“It was a great tonic and she had a fantastic time.”
The Sun told last November how Alesha had told pals she believed the relationship was over and they would likely separate.
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Alesha is a judge on TV show Britain’s Got TalentCredit: ITV
The star has called Jamaica her “favourite spot” and said she had “left a piece” of her heart there after a visit a year ago.
During her trip, she stayed at the GoldenEye resort on the north coastline, where she posted pictures of herself taking a dip in the crystal-clear seawater.
The resort, which is on the island’s Oracabessa Bay, is where Ian Fleming wrote all 14 of his James Bond books.
The idyllic cluster of whitewashed cottages is surrounded by a lagoon, which also has a swim-up spa.
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A one-bedroom lagoon hut costs over £1,000 per night.
Our source added: “Alesha feels at home in Jamaica.
“She can easily relax there because no one bothers her.
“Jamaica is known as the place where celebrities are not celebrities, because it is just not that culture.
“No one is bothered by fame.”
The video for Alesha’s single Ransom, released last year, was also filmed there.
The mother of murdered teenager Brianna Ghey called for a ban on social media for children under 16, calling it an “absolute cesspit”.
Esther Ghey was speaking at the screening of a new ITV documentary, Brianna: A Mother’s Story, which explores the death of Brianna, 16, who was murdered by classmate Scarlett Jenkinson and her friend Eddie Ratcliffe.
Jenkinson and Ratcliffe, who were both 15 at the time of the murder, lured Brianna to a park in Cheshire where she was stabbed 28 times with a hunting knife, on February 11 2023.
On her campaigning work on online safety and trolling, Ms Ghey said: “Even if, say, if I do an interview, and I’ll try not to look at comments, but I can never help myself, and I’ll look at the comments, and you’ll see people saying about my child, trying to tell me what gender my child was, and also really, really horrific comments too.
“And it’s mentioned in the documentary as well, that when you report things, the support isn’t there.”
Esther Ghey called social media an “absolute cesspit” (PA)
Speaking at the screening in west London, Ms Ghey said one of the reasons she had chosen to take part in the documentary was to “get answers” from social media companies about safety.
She said: “At this point, I really do not believe that any social media company will put lives before profit.”
Ms Ghey has previously met prime minister Sir Keir Starmer, and his predecessor Rishi Sunak, to discuss the issue, and has criticised the Online Safety Act, saying it does not go far enough.
She has campaigned for an age limit on smartphone use, stricter controls on access to social media apps, tougher action on knife crime and for mindfulness to be taught in schools.
She added: “I’ve reported so many comments, and I always get the response that they haven’t done anything wrong, that it’s not something that they can take down, and our children have access to those comments.
“No matter how much love and compassion you pump into your child when you’re bringing them up, and how much empathy you can teach them as well, they will then go online and they’ll see the way that other people are speaking about other people, and they might think that that’s right.
“And that’s without even going into the amount of harm that’s online, like the dangerous challenges where young people are losing their lives due to these sick challenges that people are uploading, misogyny, hate, misinformation, and that is just the tip of the iceberg.”
Brianna was murdered by classmate Scarlett Jenkinson and her friend Eddie Ratcliffe (PA)
The 75-minute film celebrates Brianna’s life and features interviews with three of her friends, who describe the schoolgirl as kind, chatty and funny. It also explores her death and issues around online safety.
Brianna, who had thousands of followers on TikTok, struggled with her mental health, which was worsened by accessing eating disorder and self-harm content on X.
From the age of 14, one of her killers, Jenkinson, enjoyed watching videos of real killing and torture on the dark web, fantasised about murder and developed an interest in serial killers.
The documentary follows Ms Ghey as she travels to the US and meets Arturo Bejar, a former engineering director at social media giant Meta, who testified before Congress about child safety on the company’s platforms.
He tells her that people are “defenceless” against harmful algorithms.
The film also features officers from Cheshire Police, who speak about the investigation into Brianna’s murder, and videos of custody suite interviews with both killers, who were caught within 28 hours.
Brianna: A Mother’s Story, will air on Thursday March 27 at 9pm on ITV1, ITVX, STV and STV Player.
Meta, X and TikTok have been contacted for comment.
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The parents criticised the MMR vaccine (Picture: Getty / Children’s Health Defense)
The mum and dad of a six-year-old girl who died from measles have no regrets about refusing to give their children the MMR vaccine.
Kaylee, the young daughter of the Texan parents, became the first measles death in the US for a decade on February 26.
Despite their heartbreak, the couple insisted measles ‘is good for the body’ and suggested parents shouldn’t give their children the vaccine because the disease ‘wasn’t that bad.’
The measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine, which reduces the risk of catching measles 97 percent, is first given to children around the 12 month mark.
The parents were upset by their child’s death but defended their choice not to give their children the MMR vaccine(Picture: Children’s Health Defense)
The parents, who belong to a Mennonite community in west Texas, spoke with Children’s Health Defense (CHD), an anti-vaccine group founded by controversial US health chief Robert F Kennedy Jr.
All five of their unvaccinated children became ill with measles a few weeks ago.
While four of the kids were not seriously ill, six-year-old Kaylee died from ‘complications’ related to the virus.
She developed pneumonia in her left lung and died soon after being put on a ventilator.
Their other children then became ill with measles days after Kaylee’s funeral, but all survived.
Despite the family tragedy, the visibly upset parents were happy with their decision not to vaccinate their children.
Kaylee’s mother, who was unnamed, told the CHD: ‘We would absolutely not take the MMR [vaccine].
‘The measles wasn’t that bad. They got over it pretty quickly.’
Two doses of the MMR vaccine provides roughly 97% protection from measles (Picture: Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP via Getty Images)
The parents also claimed it is good for young children to be infected with measles.
Speaking partly in English and partly through a German dialect translator, they added: ‘There are doctors who can help with measles, it is not as bad as they are making it out to be.
‘The measles is good for the body, because the measles helps to build the immune system in the long run.’
Measles is currently ripping through areas of Texas and neighbouring New Mexico, with more than 300 people infected.
Cases are surging in particular in Gaines County, where the large Mennonite community has low childhood vaccination rates.
The vaccination rate in the area is 82 percent, which is far below the 95 percent benchmark needed to maintain herd immunity.
Vaccination rates in England for the first dose of MMR at age 5 were 92.5%, but above 95% in Wales and Scotland.
A measles outbreak is sweeping Texas (Picture: Getty Images)
Mennonites are a devout Christian group known for their distinctive traditional clothing and tight-knit community.
Measles is a highly contagious virus, with up to a 90% chance of transmission for those not previously infected or vaccinated.
The standard two doses of MMR provides approximately 97% effectiveness against measles.
Robert F Kennedy Jr., Donald Trump’s pick as Health Secretary, is known for his vaccine scepticism.
A week ago he appeared on Fox News and suggested cod liver oil and other alternative treatments had been ‘miraculous’ in combatting measles.
He did then later say the vaccine was ‘recommended’ for the Texas Mennonite community.
Steve Russell, NHS Director of Vaccinations and Screening, has previously said of the MMR vaccine: ‘Measles is one of the most infectious diseases in the world and can cause serious harm to adults and children of all ages.
‘But the NHS MMR vaccine gives life-long protection against becoming seriously unwell, so with cases of measles on the rise, it is not worth the risk of going without this vital protection.
‘Measles, mumps and rubella are preventable, but catching them is easy when people are unvaccinated, so I urge people to come forward and get the MMR vaccine sooner, rather than later.’
Dee-Dee discovered she was pregnant last year and knew that the father was Joel Deering (Calum Lill) – her ex-fiance and an evil man who was guilty of horrific, violent crimes. Dee-Dee didn’t feel that she could bring up the child of such a man and planned to have an abortion.
She changed her mind when she discovered that Lauren Bolton (Cait Fitton)’s baby Frankie – also the child of Joel Deering – needed a bone marrow transplant. Her unborn baby could be a good match and could help to save Frankie’s life. Dee-Dee agreed for Frankie’s sake not to go through with the abortion, but planned to have the baby adopted soon after its birth.
Two huge things then happened to throw Dee-Dee’s plans up in the air. The first was the hospital finding a good bone marrow donor for Frankie, meaning that he would be fine without her baby’s help.
The second was the arrival back in Weatherfield of her brother James (Jason Callender). He suggested that he and his partner Danny could adopt the baby and raise it as their child.
Dee-Dee reacted angrily to this proposal and accused James of conspiring with their dad Ed (Trevor Michael Georges) to come up with the plan. She insisted that she wouldn’t be giving her baby to James and would be going ahead with an adoption outside the family, as planned.
When she went for a meeting with some prospective parents and took Sarah (Tina O’Brien) for support, James realised that her mind was made up.
In upcoming episodes Dee-Dee is still struggling with her decision, wanting to do the right thing for her baby.
Jason Callender now plays the role of Dee-Dee’s brother James (Picture: ITV)
She tells Sarah that she doesn’t think the prospective parents they talked to were suitable, and Sarah suggests that maybe James and Danny would be able to give the baby the loving home that Dee-Dee wants for it.
She agrees to join her brother for lunch, but suddenly she gets pains that feel like contractions and James helps her to get to the hospital. The midwife explains that it was false contractions and the baby isn’t ready to be born yet.
In a moment of closeness, James tells her that he and Danny previously looked into adoption and came very close to adopting a little boy. Things didn’t work out and the couple were left heartbroken.
Hearing how much being a dad means to her brother, Dee-Dee starts to consider whether the arrangement might work.
Federico Chiesa joined Liverpool last summer, yet it hasn’t taken long for exit rumours to emerge.
The Italian international has struggled with fitness since making the move to the Premier League, with Chiesa arriving at Anfield with no pre-season training and carrying three years worth of injuries picked up during his time at Juventus.
And heading into the summer, Chiesa’s father, former Serie A star Enrico Chiesa, has now shared if his son will be leaving Liverpool amid new reports that a return to Italy is on the cards.
Federico Chiesa ‘doing great’ at Liverpool despite limited minutes
Speaking to Tutto Sport, the former Parma star shot down any idea that Chiesa was unhappy at Liverpool, with the winger’s father saying that the Italy international is ‘doing great’ at Anfield.
Chiesa’s father said: “Federico is doing great in Liverpool, he is in a top club that is first in the league and now we hope they win the Premier League! He is there to play his cards, he has a great chance. This summer I told him what I have been telling him since he was little.
“Because, in reality, until he was 15 he didn’t play often and when he asked me: ‘What should I do?’ I told him to keep training, not to give up, to be ready when his time came.”
Liverpool would be crazy to let Federico Chiesa leave
Liverpool knew what they were getting themselves into with the signing of Chiesa, with the winger virtually given the season to get back into shape and to prove himself as a player who can perform at Anfield.
And although Chiesa has had numerous setbacks, the winger’s performances, as limited as they have been, have been solid, with the attacker showing last week in the English capital just how crucial he could be in big games.
Indeed, next season will be a big one for Chiesa, and the Italian international knows that the 2025/26 campaign will be the one where he needs to step up and to prove himself to the team.
The mother of the murdered teenager Brianna Ghey has said the under-16s should be banned from social media, describing it as “an absolute cesspit”.
Esther Ghey was speaking at a screening of an ITV documentary that explores the murder of her 16-year-old daughter by two schoolchildren.
In the programme, which is to be broadcast on Thursday, Ghey travels to the US and speaks to an insider who tells her people are “defenceless” against the algorithms of social media companies.
Brianna was killed by Scarlett Jenkinson and Eddie Ratcliffe, who were both 15 at the time and had attended the same school as her. On 11 February 2023 they lured Brianna to a park in Cheshire where she was stabbed 28 times with a hunting knife.
Both were jailed for life with a minimum term of 22 years for Jenkinson and 20 years for Ratcliffe. The court heard the killers were partly motivated by Brianna’s transgender identity.
The 75-minute documentary celebrates Brianna’s life and features interviews with three of her friends, who describe the schoolgirl as kind, chatty and funny. It also explores her death and issues around online safety.
The 75-minute film celebrates Brianna Ghey’s life and features interviews with three of her friends. Photograph: Family Handout/PA
Brianna, who had thousands of followers on TikTok, struggled with her mental health, which was worsened by accessing eating disorder and self-harm content on X.
From the age of 14, one of her killers, Jenkinson, enjoyed watching videos of real killing and torture on the dark web, fantasised about murder and developed an interest in serial killers.
At a screening in London, Ghey said one of the reasons she had chosen to take part in the documentary was to “get answers” from social media companies about safety.
“It is an absolute cesspit,” she said of social media. “Even if, say, I do an interview, and I’ll try not to look at comments, but I can never help myself, and I’ll look at the comments, and you’ll see people saying about my child, trying to tell me what gender my child was, and also really, really horrific comments too.
“When you report things, the support isn’t there.”
Ghey added: “I’ve reported so many comments, and I always get the response that they haven’t done anything wrong, that it’s not something that they can take down, and our children have access to those comments.
“No matter how much love and compassion you pump into your child when you’re bringing them up, and how much empathy you can teach them, they will go online and they’ll see the way that other people are speaking about other people and they might think that that’s right.”
In the documentary, Ghey meets Arturo Béjar, a former engineering director at Meta, who testified before Congress about child safety on the tech company’s platforms. He tells her that people are “defenceless” against harmful algorithms.
At the screening Ghey expressed hope that any social media company would not put “lives before profit”.
Ghey founded Peace & Mind UK to raise funds to teach mindfulness in schools. Her recently published memoir on her and Brianna’s lives, which explores how deadly social media can be, was described by the Guardian’s Simon Hattenstone as “one of the most unflinching, inspirational autobiographies I’ve read, a remarkable cry of hope from the depths of despair”.
Meta, X and TikTok have been contacted for comment.
Liam McNeeley was born in a family of basketball players.
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The eighth seeded Connecticut Huskies took down the ninth seeded Oklahoma Sooners 69-57 in the First Round of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament on Friday, March 21. The game saw UConn forward Liam McNeeley finishing with eight points, six rebounds and one assist.
McNeeley is one of the top NBA draft prospects, who entered the season as a sharpshooter. While the Huskies have had a wavy season, McNeeley has shown his presence on the court and averaged 14.5 points, 6.1 rebounds, and 2.3 assists per game. He is shooting only 39.1% from the floor and has an average 5.2 threes from his 11.2 points per game.
He was named the Big East Freshman of the Year last week, and earned a spot in the McDonald’s All-American Boys Game in 2024.
Who Are Liam McNeeley’s Parents?
Born on October 10, 2005, in Richardson, Texas, Liam received his basketball skills in genes. His mother, grandfather and great-grandfather were basketball players. His mother is Ashley Elsey and father is Matthew McNeeley.
Liam McNeeley’s mother is Ashley Elsey, who played Division I basketball at Rice University. She is now an entrepreneur and the owner of Minerva Consulting, an integrated Marketing, PR and Production agency.
Who Is Liam McNeley’s Father?
Liam McNeeley’s father is Matthew McNeeley. However, no personal and professional information is available about Matthew on the internet.
What Nationality Are Liam McNeeley’s Parents?
Liam McNeeley’s parents, Matthew and Ashley, are Americans.
