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Former footballer Medi Abalimba has admitted plundering the bank accounts of Thierry Henry's model ex-wife in a £160,000 scam A former footballer has admitted plundering the bank accounts of Thierry Henry's model ex-wife in a £160,000 scam. Medi Abalimba, who dated Love Island's Georgia Steel in 2019, used other people' cash to splash out on luxury stays at five-star hotels under fake identities. The 32-year-old fleeced Claire Henry out of more than £50,000 earlier this year after raiding her bank accounts to stay at the Corinthia Hotel in Westminster. He also used Ms Henry's bank card to spend £839 at the Al Habtoor Polo Resort in Dubai. Ms Henry - also known as Nicole Merry - is the mother of Arsenal legend Thierry Henry's first child and their five-year marriage ended in 2008. She was said to have accepted £8million from the assistant Belgium coach following a messy divorce battle. Former Derby County midfielder Abalimba plundered the model's bank accoun

Amy Cooper sued Franklin Templeton Investments in May 25, one year after she was caught on video calling the cops on birdwatcher Christian Cooper in Central Park The financial firm where the 'Central Park Karen' worked wants a federal court to throw out her wrongful termination lawsuit in a filing that includes more 100 news articles of the white woman's now-infamous May 2020 encounter with a black birdwatcher. Franklin Templeton Investments asked the Southern District of New York to dismiss Amy Cooper's May 25 lawsuit, in which she alleged that the company 'legitimatized' the Karen narrative by failing to properly investigate the incident. Last year, Amy Cooper was walking her dog when she was filmed telling Christian Cooper that she was going to call the cops and 'tell them there's an African-American man threatening my life' in New York City's Central Park. Christian Cooper, who is not related to the woman, had repeatedly asked her to leash he

Extinction Rebellion has vowed to return to the streets as protesters who were found guilty of obstructing roads in Whitehall and Parliament Square had their convictions overturned.    The environmental campaign group has won  a slew of victories after the Crown Prosecution Service dropped the cases.   The group says that 2,500 people have been prosecuted since April 2019 and that 'potentially hundreds if not thousands of the resulting convictions could be unsafe'.  Four more Extinction Rebellion activists had their convictions overturned at the Old Bailey today.  Andrew James, 70, Lou Ferns, 30, and Neil Traynor, 38, were previously found guilty of wilful obstruction of highways in central London. Charles Hey, 33, was found guilty of unlawful public assembly in Parliament Square, opposite the Houses of Parliament. But Bill McGivern, for the prosecution, said the Crown would not resist the appeals made by the defendants. The Supreme Court overturned the convictions of four dem

A six-year-old girl was found curled up asleep in a field after vanishing from her home in the middle of the night, police footage has revealed. The child's 'terrified' parents called 999 after realising their daughter was missing from her bed at their farm near Chittlehamholt in Devon at 9.30pm on Saturday, August 7. Incredible footage taken from a police helicopter showed the moment the girl was found by officers an hour later - at 10.40pm. The National Police Air Service described the situation as 'every parent's worst nightmare' as it shared the video on social media. In a tweet the force wrote: 'Missing from a farm in a rural setting at night, she was located in the pitch dark by our helicopter crew using their infra-red camera system. The child's 'terrified' parents called 999 after realising their daughter was missing from her bed at their farm near Chittlehamholt in Devon 'She was found asleep in a field, over a half a mile away f

Facebook's own oversight board has overturned the platform's decision to remove a 'racist' post in Myanmar which was critical of the country's coup and ties to Beijing. The post was removed for being anti-Chinese, but the Oversight Board, Mark Zuckerberg's 'Supreme Court' which upheld the ban on Donald Trump, has decided that its language was acceptable because it was critical of the government in Beijing and not Chinese people in general. The Silicon Valley giant's all-powerful algorithm had 'automatically selected' the widely-shared post in April and sent it to moderators, with a crude literal translation of the original Burmese, despite no complaints from human users. 'Hong Kong people, because the f***ing Chinese tortured them, changed their banking to UK, and now (the Chinese) they cannot touch them,' the translation of the post said.   Moderators found it guilty of 'Tier 2 hate speech' but the user appealed the ban, clai

An alarming 91 new venues from across NSW have been added to the state's skyrocketing exposure sites list, including more than a dozen busy supermarkets across Sydney.  Twenty two grocery stores extending from the Hunter Region to the Illawarra have been placed on alert as fears grow the highly infectious Delta outbreak will continue to spread its tentacles into regional towns.  More than 25 of the new sites are outside of the state's capital city, including 16 venues in Byron Bay where an infected Sydney traveller is feared to have spread the virus. There were also five new venue alerts in Dubbo, in the state's west, as NSW recorded a further 344 locally-acquired cases on Wednesday and the deaths of two men aged in their 30s and 90s. A worrying 91 new venues have been added to NSW's exposure sites list as Sydney's outbreak seeps into the regions (pictured, a masked woman ventures out in Sydney's locked-down southwest suburbs) The venues include more than a doze

A jar of human remains which sparked a police search was a historical medical specimen, a force has said. Merseyside Police officers discovered the preserved remains at a house on Wordsworth Street in Toxteth, Liverpool, after they were called to a report of suspicious circumstances shortly after midday on Monday. Police remained on the street on Tuesday and were seen searching the unoccupied house with sniffer dogs. Merseyside Police scene in Toxteth, Liverpool, after preserved human remains were found in a jar Police made the shocking discovery after receiving a report at 12pm yesterday afternoon Following inquiries to establish the provenance and age of the remains, a spokesman for Merseyside Police confirmed no further action would be taken. The spokesman said: 'We can confirm that a jar containing preserved human remains found at a property in Wordsworth Street in Toxteth on Monday has been confirmed as being an historical medical specimen. 'No further action has been take

Wally the Walrus appeared to be 'steering' a luxury motorboat after clambering aboard off the coast of West Cork in Ireland in the latest sighting of the gallivanting sea beast.   The marauding mammal, who has been on a 4,000km solo trip for months and recently spent more than six weeks off Cornwall, was filmed by passersby appearing to drive a boat along the Irish coast.  Wally is believed to be from Svalbard, north of Norway, and to have travelled by himself between Wales, England and France. But the wandering walrus is has now made a home for himself off the Irish coast. And recent footage shows Wally seemingly cruising along the coast on a luxury motorboat, belonging to Clonakilty Distillery in West Cork. Posting the video online, the distillery said: 'One of our team had an unexpected Arctic visitor on their boat this evening. 'Wally the walrus spotted in Clonakilty today... We reckon he must have stopped by on his travels for a refreshing Minke G&T.' mo

A key measure of inflation remained unchanged in July from its June level, spurring fears that price increases will continue to hit Americans in the wallet. Federal data released on Wednesday showed that for the 12 months through July, the consumer price index rose 5.4 percent, unchanged from June and at the highest level since the Great Recession in 2008. On a monthly basis, consumer prices jumped 0.5 percent from June to July, down from the previous monthly increase of 0.9 percent.  Excluding food and energy prices, so-called core inflation rose 4.3 percent in the past year, down from 4.5 percent in June.  It follows the Senate passage on Tuesday of President Joe Biden's $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill, which some Republican critics have dubbed an 'inflation bomb'.  Federal data released on Wednesday showed that for the 12 months through July, the consumer price index rose 5.4 percent, an unchanged level from June Customers shop at a supermarket in a file photo. Risin