Kevin Spacey’s civil sex abuse trial will go on after one of Spacey's lead lawyers tested positive for COVID-19, a judge said Thursday. U.S. District Judge Lewis A.
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The trial of Manchester City footballer Benjamin Mendy has been adjourned again after a second juror has tested positive for Covid.
The hearing was scheduled to resume tomorrow (Tuesday) after one juror fell ill and tested positive on Wednesday of last week. Today (Monday) it emerged that a second juror has also now tested positive.
Judge Steven Everett, the Recorder of Chester, has decided the trial will resume on Monday, October 17. Before today's development, the trial had been due to sit tomorrow, Wednesday and Thursday but was not due to sit on Friday or the following week.
Mr Mendy, 28, denies seven counts of rape against four women, one count of attempted rape and one count of sexual assault.
The offences are alleged to have taken place at his mansion between October 2018 and August last year, relating to seven women. Mr Mendy's co-accused Louis Saha Matturie, 41, from Eccles, Salford, denies six counts of rape and three counts of sexual assault, relating to seven women.
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Kevin Spacey’s civil sex abuse trial will go on after one of Spacey's lead lawyers tested positive for COVID-19, a judge said Thursday. U.S. District Judge Lewis A.
pic.twitter.com/lmniGLE9dZA post shared by Ringo Starr (@ringostarrmusic)The devastating news comes just weeks after Ringo's verified Instagram account announced on Oct. 3 that Ringo contracted COVID and, as a result, the tour would be on hold «while he recuperates.» At that point, seven tour dates were affected in Michigan, Minnesota and throughout Canada.Also earlier this month, Ringo announced he and his band recorded a live album at the Greek Theatre.
Ringo Starr has pulled the plug on his tour after testing positive for COVID-19 for the second time in less than two weeks.
The future of Anthony Rapp’s $40 million sexual misconduct trial against Kevin Spacey suddenly became very uncertain this morning.
Kevin Spacey in his sexual misconduct trial tested positive for COVID-19. Jennifer Keller, who has handled much of the defense team’s cross-examinations, will not be allowed to return to court until she gets a negative result from two diagnostic tests that she takes two days apart. When she comes back, she must wear a mask, Judge Lewis A. Kaplan said. Keller was symptomatic on Thursday morning. “We will resume this morning and go as far as we can go,” Kaplan said. Spacey is accused of making unwanted sexual advances in 1986 against Anthony Rapp when Rapp was 14-years old. Rapp, who is an actor on “Star Trek: Discovery” and appeared in the original Broadway production of “Rent,” is suing Spacey for $40 million in damages. Keller has attempted to find inconsistencies in Rapp’s testimony, focusing on details that he may have gotten wrong, such as the layout of Spacey’s studio apartment. She has pushed the idea that Rapp lied about Spacey’s alleged misconduct out of professional jealousy.
Sir Ringo Starr and his All-Starr band have cancelled further shows in the US after the former Beatles drummer tested positive for Covid. On Sunday night, the 82-year-old cancelled performances at the Four Winds Casino in New Buffalo, Michigan, and Mystic Lake Casino in Prior Lake, Minnesota, citing illness.
A pre-inquest review has opened into the death of a prisoner at Strangeways who may have died after taking spice.
The number of patients admitted to hospital with Covid-19 has jumped in the biggest rise since the peak of the last wave of infection, sparking fears that a new wave could be upon us in time for a potential "twindemic" of both coronavirus and flu.
Ringo Starr has tested positive for Covid, a day after the former Beatle was forced to postpone a concert in Minnesota because of illness.
The trial of Manchester City footballer Benjamin Mendy has been adjourned until at least Tuesday next week after one of the jurors tested positive for Covid.
Dancing with the Stars is having a little shake up. On Monday, it was announced that Joseph Beana’s partner, Daniella Karagach, tested positive for COVID-19 and would have to sit out of week two. “Unfortunately, Daniella Karagach tested positive overnight for Covid. She is completely asymptomatic and is self-quarantining.
Daniella Karagach will not be participating in week two of Dancing With the Stars after testing positive for COVID-19.
Daniella Karagach will be missing from the ballroom floor on tonight’s episode of Dancing With The Stars.
Emily Longeretta Along with four crew members, “Dancing With the Stars” pro Daniella Karagach has tested positive for COVID-19. The pro dancer, who is partnered with Joseph Baena, will not be in attendance during Monday’s “Elvis week.” “She is completely asymptomatic and is self-quarantining. Everyone who has been in close contact with her has tested negative,” a Disney+ spokesperson tells Variety. “Dance troupe member Alexis Warr will step in and dance with Joseph in Daniella’s place tonight. Following our strict protocols, those considered close contacts to Daniella will be masked on tonight’s show.” Karagach is married to “Dancing With the Stars” pro Pasha Pashkov, who is paired with Teresa Giudice.
Pro Daniella Karagach tested positive for Covid and will miss tonight’s performance of Dancing with the Stars.
A 'hugely naive' businesswoman who sold illegal 'self-defence kits' including CS gas and a knife designed to protect women from would be attackers has narrowly avoided jail. Renea Thorn-Jones, 21, set up an online business called Brat Boutique advertising 'self-defence kits' for £11, which included a CS gas canister and a concealed knife stored within a key.
Fleeting through towns on the guided busway and flying past snaking queues of cars in the bus lane was still not enough to get to Manchester within 45 minutes on the V1. The infamous purple bus that goes from Leigh to Manchester via Atherton, Tyldesley and Salford was launched back in 2016 and has come under fire in recent months.
Hundreds of items of children's jewellery containing a chemical which can cause cancer were seized from a shop in Strangeways. A businessman and the company he runs have now been fined thousands of pounds after the trading standards raid.