Family express concerns about William Chapman’s contact with mental health services before his death

A man who was killed by a tiger at a South Yorkshire zoo had bouts of psychosis, his family told an inquest opening, as they expressed concerns about his contact with mental health services before his death.

William Chapman was mauled to death by the animal at Yorkshire Wildlife Park in Doncaster on Saturday, after climbing into its enclosure.

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Donaldson was found guilty in June of 18 counts of sexual abuse including one rape between 1985 and 2008

Jeffrey Donaldson has been sentenced to a total of 15 years for sexual offences against two women who were children when he abused them three decades ago.

The sentence at Newry crown court on Thursday completed the downfall of a former Democratic Unionist party (DUP) leader who once dominated unionism in Northern Ireland.

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Demonstrators are demanding resignation of Edi Rama after three days of clashes in Tirana

Albania’s prime minister, Edi Rama, has said he will not resign over student-led demonstrations, as protesters and police clashed in the country’s capital for a third consecutive day.

Police used teargas and water cannon to disperse demonstrators marching along several main roads around Tirana, while protests spread to other cities.

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The Back to Black singer’s books, shoes and jigsaw puzzles have gone on display. Elsewhere, a leaky Barbican and some gloriously gloopy sculptures can be viewed in London galleries this week

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Donaldson has been found guilty of 18 counts of sexual abuse against two women when they were children and has been told he faces a lengthy jail term

Jeffrey Donaldson, the former leader of the Democratic Unionist party (DUP) in Northern Ireland, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for historical sexual offences against two women when they were children.

Donaldon, who led the DUP from 2021 until 2024, was convicted in June of one count of rape, 13 counts of indecent assault and four counts of gross indecency for crimes committed between 1985 and 2008.

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Het gaat bij RTV Rijnmond inmiddels alweer om belangrijkere zaken: Mo en Daisy openen een oliebollenkraam, er vloog een busje uit de bocht en er zit een auto met een enorme haspel muurvast in een tunnel. Het echte probleem is naar beneden geschoven bij het overige nieuws: "Nacht vol explosies in de regio." In Berkel en Rodenrijs, Rotterdam-Crooswijk, Rotterdam-West en Dordrecht was het biem bam boem bim. En dat is dan alleen nog maar Rotterdam, want het knettert de laatste tijd ook in Amsterdam, Arnhem, Ede, Vlaardingen, Spijkenisse, Hoogeveen, Kampen, Veenendaal en op nog tientallen andere plekken. Trouwens, Daisy is ook zwanger!

In de Britse stad Sheffield is een zestienjarig meisje opgepakt voor het in brand steken van een politieauto. Volgens kennissen is het tienermeisje geradicaliseerd na het lezen van Normal People van bestsellerauteur Sally Rooney. “Dit soort incidenten zijn precies waarom we alles op alles zetten om Rooney’s boeken uit de schappen te halen”, zegt James McDingey, woordvoerder van de Britse inlichtingendienst MI5. “Normal People bijvoorbeeld. De manier waarop die twee Ierse vrienden verliefd op elkaar worden is pure opruiing. Of Intermezzo, waar twee jongens na de dood van hun vader op verschillende manieren omgaan met rouw en liefde. Als je het mij vraagt is dat niet minder een oproep tot geweld.” Volgens McDingey kan iedereen die met haar boeken in contact komt extremistisch worden. “Als je een van haar boeken ziet keer dan om en ren weg. Het ene moment lees je de achterkant vanConversations with Friends, maar voor je het weet ben je aanslagen aan het plegen in naam van Hamas.”

Welcome, once again, to PWNED, the weekly column where we gawk at organizations that have made serious security mistakes. Normally, we’re talking about businesses or maybe the odd school that messes up, but today we’re writing about a serious IT screwup in the world’s most powerful military. Have a story about someone leaving a gaping hole in their network? Share it with us at pwned@sitpub.com. Anonymity is available upon request. Today’s tale comes from Justin Henkel, the CISO of IT monitoring and service company SolarWinds. Henkel previously worked in IT security for the Air Force and one day in the early 2000s saw a practice that just wouldn’t fly today. Before USB drives became popular, burning CDs with mission data was the modus operandi, and those discs were put in both unclassified and classified systems. “They would write a CD, and then they would take that CD and then put it in a classified system and do the remainder of the mission planning,” Henkel told us. “Then they would take that disc and then put it in the airplane.” Inside the airplane, the data on the CD would help the pilot navigate and contain information about threats they might encounter. Later, when thumb drives became a thing, pilots used them instead of discs. “They didn't really think about the overall impact of classified versus unclassified systems,” Henkel said of the pilots. “Using the same device for both, they didn’t understand that you could read and write onto a USB drive with malware. [They were] not really understanding the overall threat picture.” According to Henkel, Air Force personnel would buy their flash drives from local vendors rather than sourcing them from official military contractors. If they were in Afghanistan, those drives could literally come from a store in Kabul. And it wasn’t exactly the equivalent of Best Buy. “It was more difficult to bring a US-based computer into the nation than it was just to buy local,” he said. “So they were just going out into the local market in Kabul or whatever city that they were out [in]. And I used to do this: go out, make relationships with the local vendors. ‘Hey I need 100 USB sticks.’” Unfortunately, enemies of the US noticed and soon started selling infected USB drives to local vendors in the Middle East. Henkel knew that using a sneakernet with classified systems was a recipe for disaster. It’s just that no one would listen to him. “It was just a shock,” he told us. “I was a young 22-year-old guy, very junior in the overall rank system, trying to tell colonels and majors that what they’re doing is a violation.” In 2008, the US Department of Defense was infected by malware after somebody attached an infected USB flash drive to a laptop with access to US Central Command. The worm, dubbed Agent.BTZ, could collect information from infected computers and communicate with remote servers. A 2016 report from the FBI and DHS attributed the malware to one or more Russian groups. It took the Pentagon 14 months to scrub it from its systems. It took this attack for the Pentagon to wise up in 2008 and ban the use of USB drives, instead forcing data transfers to go through more secure systems. Eventually, in 2010, the drives were allowed again under certain circumstances. ®