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As she spent yet another heartbreaking Christmas without her son, Denise Fergus took comfort from a government plan that Jon Venables would never be free – and from the words of a police forensic psychologist.
Professor Paul Britton, who was on the case in 1993, had recently shared details Denise had never heard before, revealing to her for the first time that he did not think Venables and Robert Thompson’s attack on two-year-old James was sexually motivated.
Prof Britton also told her their age – both were 10 at the time of the killing – was no excuse. They were murderers, plain and simple.
It was Denise’s first conversation with Prof Britton since her son’s murder and she said: “For 30 years, there were lots of details about James’s death that I have wanted to avoid, but I finally felt strong enough to hear it.
“He was clear that once Venables and Thompson were named as possible suspects, in the frame, he knew very quickly that they were guilty.
“And while others were blind-sided and distracted by the fact that they were such physically small children, which some thought meant that it was impossible they could have committed such a crime, his brain quickly defined them as murderers.
“Just hearing that fact alone, I felt something fundamental shift in me.
“That has been such a block over the years. The excuse that they were ‘only children’ themselves who didn’t deserve the adult labels of ‘murderers’ has always been hard for me to bear.
“Hearing it from someone trained and impartial was an important and healing moment.
“He also told me in no uncertain terms that Venables and Thompson had ‘no proper sexual involvement with James’. He said James was ‘injured in all sorts of different ways and whilst he might have been
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In the wake of the breathtaking Avatar: The Way of Water soaring past the $2 billion global gross mark, the James Cameron-directed epic scored a best picture nomination, along with noms for production design, sound and visual effects. The snub of Cameron’s monumental achievement in the best director category continues the franchise’s complex relationship with Oscar.
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of bare breasts and chests for all genders, following a decision from parent company Meta's oversight board.The panel—made up of academics, politicians, and journalists, per *—*overturned a decision by Instagram to remove a post from a transgender and non-binary couple, who must now be kept private due to the involvement of the oversight board, with their bare chests on show. The images showed the couple posing topless, but with their nipples covered, with captions describing trans healthcare and raising money for top surgery.In overturning the removal of the posts, that Meta change its current rules on censorship, “so that it is governed by clear criteria that respect international human rights standards.”Referring to Meta's “Adult Nudity and Sexual Activity Community Standard,” the report states that the policy “prohibits images containing female nipples, other than in specified circumstances, such as breastfeeding and gender confirmation surgery,” and is therefore based on a binary view of gender.It reads: “Such an approach makes it unclear how the rules apply to intersex, non-binary, and transgender people, and requires reviewers to make rapid and subjective assessments of sex and gender, which is not practical when moderating content at scale.”It adds that the restrictions and exceptions to these censorship rules—which include protests, scenes of childbirth, and other medical and health contexts such as top surgery—are not always clear for moderators and creates uncertainty for Facebook and Instagram users.“Here, the Board finds that Meta’s policies on adult nudity result in greater barriers to expression for women, trans, and gender non-binary people on its platforms,” the report states.
The mother of a man who died in the fatal Cameron House Hotel fire has shared her heartbreak for the victims and families of the New County Hotel blaze in Perth.
Based on the director’s childhood, James Gray’s Armageddon Time tells the story of 12-year-old Paul (newcomer Banks Repeta), and how his Jewish family reacts to his friendship with a Black student, Johnny (Jaylin Webb), in early ’80s New York. Both boys share a love of space flight, and their pre-teen dreams take their imaginations light years away from their mundane lives. But the backdrop is a moment of tension, as Ronald Reagan, seeking the Republican Party’s nomination for president, stirs up civil unrest in the country. Paul’s father, Irving, played by Succession’s Jeremy Strong, despises Reagan’s dog-whistle provocations and screams at his image when he appears on television. But, he wonders, being from a vulnerable minority himself, is it wise for him to allow his son’s friendship to continue?
SAG-AFTRA has told its members that they can’t work on hitman thriller Fast Charlie because the film’s producers are “in default of the SAG-AFTRA agreement for independent producers of theatrical motion pictures.” Directed by Phillip Noyce, the film stars Pierce Brosnan and James Caan in his final film role. Caan died in July.
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