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A FRENCH mum was sentenced to life in prison for starving her daughter to death after years of abuse.

The court in the southern city of Montpellier convicted Sandrine Pissarra, 54, of inflicting acts of torture and barbarity on her daughter Amandine, 13.

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A French mum was jailed for life after starving her daughter Amandine (pictured) to death[/caption]

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The 13-year-old girl tragically died in 2020 after years of abuse[/caption]

She must serve a minimum of 20 years behind bars before being eligible for parole, according to the terms of the sentence.

The verdict, the maximum sentence for the crime and in line with what prosecutors demanded, was agreed by a panel of three professional judges and six members of the public serving as a jury on Friday.

Pissarra’s ex-partner, Jean-Michel Cros, 49, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for depriving Amandine of care.

His sentence, which carried no possibility of parole, was more severe than the 18 years demanded by prosecutors although he could have faced up to 30 years.

“I want to apologize to my children, that’s all,” said Pissarra earlier in the afternoon in her final statement. “I have nothing to add,” said Cros.

When her daughter Amandine died on August 6, 2020, she weighed just 28 kilograms (62 pounds) and was 1.55 metres (five feet and one inch) tall.

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A DAD-of-one has told how he was left with six-inch weeping holes in his legs after suffering a deadly drug addiction.

Two decades ago, Paul Hannaford’s sores were so severe that he faced double amputation – but now he uses his injuries to stop children from following in his footsteps.

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Paul Hannaford dedicated his life to educating children on the real-life dangers of drug addiction[/caption]

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The sores on his legs were so extreme the hospital put maggots in them to avoid amputating them[/caption]

Last year, drug awareness advocate Paul, 55, celebrated 18 years clean of drugs and alcohol after his heroin and crack addiction nearly killed him.

He spent £2million on drugs over two decades and during his darkest days he was injecting himself 50 times a day.

Now Paul has swapped crack dens for schools across the country and has dedicated his life to sharing his harrowing life story in brutally honest workshops.

Paul told The Sun: “Kids cry in my workshops, they pass out. I’ve had thousands of kids faint.

“I show them pictures of me in hospital with maggots in my legs and tell them what it’s like to be brutally stabbed because I owed drug dealers money.

“I told them what it’s like to be locked up for 24 hours a day in a prison cell and become very lonely.

“I tell them about what it’s like to not see family at Christmas because I’m sat in drug dens sharing needles with other addicts.

“I’ve not just stepped out of an office or downloaded some rubbish from the internet to put on the screen for kids. 

“Kids these days are hardcore, they need evidence and I’m living evidence of the consequences of drug abuse and gang culture,” he explained.

Despite his brutal approach, he’s not received one complaint from a parent during his years of teaching.

Instead, he receives countless calls and emails from parents and school teachers in tears begging him to hold workshops for their kids.

Paul, from Essex, revealed: “I had a head teacher phoning me in tears an hour ago – she was so desperate. She wanted me to visit her school in Kensington.”

“We’ve got problems. I went to a college in Middlesborough recently and I spoke to 200 16 and 17-year-olds across four different workshops. My talk with them about drugs, gangs, county lines and addiction was their first-ever talk.

“I then went to a prison, also in Middlesborough, and sat in front of 60 murderers who are coming to the end of their prison sentence.

“They’ve all been locked up since they were teenagers and all their murders were drug related. My talk with them on drug addiction was their first-ever talk. 

“These men have cost the taxpayer £60million,” he added.

Despite being clean from drugs for 18 years, the life-changing effects still haunt him. 

He has to bandage his legs every day as they still ooze blood and puss.

He carries the scars from the seven times he was stabbed, spent years behind bars and was cut from his daughter’s life after he left her mum just two weeks before she gave birth.

Stressing the importance of giving children the hard facts from the mouth of someone who has experienced the chaos and devastation of drug addiction, Paul made the point: “How many ten-year-olds are in prison now for murder? None.

“How many 10-year-olds are there running a gang with knifes in their pocket? None.

“Every gang leader right now walking around with a big knife in his pocket and every man in prison for murder was once ten.”

Paul was introduced to cannabis when he was 13 and within six months he was smoking it every day.

His school work suffered, he quit his beloved football team and his behaviour worsened, resulting in him being sent to a Pupil Referral Unit in Romford.

It was at the unit that he met 16-year-old gang members who forced him into carrying knives for them.

He said: “I got bullied a little bit by the gang to hold the drugs and go out and commit crime, then the violence started and I was carrying knives.

“I never stabbed anyone but I’ve seen a lot of stabbings. And slowly that was all I knew. I knew nothing else. I was a kid.”

He moved up the gang ranks and eventually became one of the leaders.

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Paul Hannaford vowed to educate over a million children on the horrors of drug abuse, and has succeeded[/caption]

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He believes kids need brutal honesty and delivers that in his workshops[/caption]

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Paul entered a rehab in Weston super-Mare and managed to turn his life around[/caption]

When he was 21 years old, Paul tried heroin for the first time.

“I never thought I’d get into class A drugs but I did. I was injecting heroin and it destroyed me,” he said.

He spent 10 years living in crack dens where he’d inject heroin into his hands, legs, feet, neck and groin.

“I’d also started to inject crack, which makes your veins thrombosed. Some days blood would squirt everywhere and I’d have large clots and open wounds,” he grimaced.

His mum later told him that every time she got a knock at her front door, she thought it would be the police telling her that he was dead.

By the time he was in his mid-thirties, he was holding dealers at gunpoint and stealing their supplies.

Paul admitted: “I knew that it was only a matter of days that I would be dead.”

With the police hot on his heels, Paul’s health had deteriorated so dramatically that he was hardly able to walk.

“I was in such a poor state with open wounds in my legs, I was terrified so I handed myself in.

“I know now that by doing so it saved my life,” he said.

After walking into his local police station he was arrested and was admitted to Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford, Essex where he was handcuffed to a bed.

The 35-year-old’s health was in such a dire state that he spent his entire 12-week prison sentence at the hospital.

“The hospital was going to amputate both my legs but they put hundreds of maggots in them instead,” Paul said.

Larvae therapy involves applying live maggots to an open wound to help it heal.

They eat away at the dead tissue and bacteria, leaving behind healthy tissue.

“I also had 22 skin grafts and then after that, they took the handcuffs off and released me. I had nowhere to go, the only thing I owed that day was an old blood-stained tracksuit in a carrier bag,” he said.

Paul was offered a slot at a rehab centre in Somerset, but he wasn’t able to check in for another week.

With no family support and nowhere to go, Paul said: “I had a choice that day in the hospital, which was either go to rehab or back to a drug den and probably die.”

During his time at the hospital he’d befriended the staff so one of the nurses let him stay until he could go to the rehab in Weston super-Mare.

“For five days they fed me, showered me and clothed me. That nurse saved my life,” he said, still in awe of the staff member’s kindness.

After the grueling stint in rehab purged his body of the toxic substances and he worked towards getting clean, Paul decided he wanted to give back and try to stop as many young people making the same mistakes he did.

“The bottom line is if we continue not to give the kids in our care education on these harmful situations that grow in every community, then I strongly believe that things will just get worse moving forward.”

Despite hitting his target of holding workshops for one million children, Paul has decided to keep going.

“I’ve got about 10 years left in me for work, legs pending. I go to the gym every day. Life is ok today. My mental health is ok. I keep to myself, pay my bills, pay my taxes – life is decent.

“But, I had a goal to educate 1 million kids and I got there last year. So now I said I’ll do another million. That will take me another 10 years.”

During one of his school visits he had a chance encounter with his daughter, who was in year 11 at the time.

After slowly building a relationship and making amends, Paul beamed as he told us that he now sees his daughter “all the time”.

To find out more about Paul’s incredible story and his work, visit his website here.

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Using his injuries and harrowing life story he hopes to prevent kids getting into similar situation[/caption]

 

A 33-YEAR-OLD woman and a man, 35, are being treated for “life-threatening injuries” after a horror double stabbing.

The pair were knifed in the neck and stomach following the horrific attack in Hull.

The man, who also suffered a head injury, was found with a stab wound to his stomach in Buckingham Street area at around 2am today, said cops.

Just an hour later, at 3am, a 33-year-old woman was found in nearby Rosmead Street, with a stab wound to her neck. 

Humberside Police said the incidents appear to be connected.

Detective Inspector Mark Skelton from the Major Crime Team said: “We believe these incidents to be connected and I would like to offer my reassurance that the individuals are believed to be known to each other. There is no wider risk to the public.

“Enquiries remain ongoing, including house to house enquiries, and trawling CCTV to establish the full circumstances and identify those involved.

“A 35-year-old man and 33-year-old woman remain in hospital for treatment to injuries which are thought to be life-threatening at this time.

“Members of the public can expect to see an increase in police presence and there are multiple scene guards in place on Barnsley Street, Buckingham Street, and Rosmead Street as our investigation continues and Crime Scene Investigators carry out their enquiries.”

A POPULAR streaming app used by 15million people worldwide has finally landed on Sky TVs.

Although the app is paid-for to get the most of it, there is some content available to watch for free too.

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New app is available on Sky Glass and Sky Stream[/caption]

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Crunchyroll caters to some 15million anime fans worldwide[/caption]

Crunchyroll specialises in all things anime, with big names like Dragon Ball and Demon Slayer in the mix.

There’s almost 2,000 series and films available to stream.

Users will also find more than 3,500 music videos and concerts available to watch.

Gamers can access the Crunchyroll Game Vault as well – though you’ll have to play these on an iOS or Android device.

Subscriptions start from £4.99 per month but there is a limited free option as well as a seven day trial of premium too.

The entry level Fan plan allows just one device to watch at a time and no offline viewing for mobile devices.

Above that is the Mega Fan plan which is £5.99, allowing four devices to access the service at the same time and the ability to download content for offline viewing.

There’s also an annual Mega Fan subscription costing £59.99 for the year.

Alternatively, viewers can sign up for free for limited access to the service, which will allow you to watch the first series of some shows with ads.

For now, Crunchyroll is only available on Sky Glass and Sky Stream.

But there are plans to roll it out to Sky Q next over the summer.

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The move comes after a big update to Sky’s streamed TV services, allowing viewers to finally use AirPlay.

Having AirPlay means you can play even more streaming content than what Sky offers.

While you now have most apps available on your TV, there are many others out there – and some are free.

Using AirPlay, you can launch them from your iPhone or iPad and beam them to your Sky Glass or Sky Stream as long as you’re connected to the same Wi-Fi network.

One of the apps worth trying is Tubi, which launched in the UK last year.

The platform hosts a number of big Hollywood blockbusters for free, supported by ads.

This includes the Hunger Games series starring Jennifer Lawrence, psychological thriller Doonie Darko, Rambo: Last Blood and Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, to name a few.

Another free one is Pluto TV, where you can find movies and TV shows including Big Daddy, Magic Mike, Click, Geordie Shore, Most Haunted and Catfish.

LEGEND Raymond van Barneveld has hinted that he only has two or three years left in the sport.

The five-time world champion showed his class to beat Chris Dobey in the Dutch Masters with a wonderful 144 finish on Friday night.

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The 57-year-old beat Chris Dobey in a Dutch Masters thriller on Friday night[/caption]

Barney, 57, then revealed after the clash that he might be ready to quit again, six years after retiring and then returning to the sport two years later.

He said: “Maybe only two or three years left in me.

“Don’t get me wrong. [it’s a pleasure] to play in your own country.

“Germany, United Kingdom, it doesn’t matter. They all support the Barney Army.

“But here, I’m looking forward to tomorrow night. It’s going to be mental, sold out already.”

Barney was an underdog heading into the contest with World No. 10 Dobey, but sealed the match with a stunning three-dart checkout.

He continued: “Wow, what a game. I’m so over the moon with this win.

“I was struggling for a year now and finally [things paid off]. I said 144, trip, trip and then double 12 went in.

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“I could have taken the first leg and that was worrying me. Then 3-1 down, then 3-3.

“I thought ‘Come on Ray I can do this’. Chris was a semi-finalist at the Worlds but I can do this if I keep putting him under pressure.

“But he was playing really good. He took his moments. That last leg.

“I started well with the 140. I’m thinking never give up.

“Just before I hit that 144 in my country, I’m thinking I’m going to do this for everyone here. And wow it went in.”

Barney now faces old pal Stephen Bunting in the quarter-finals tonight in Den Bosch.

He added: “I love Stephen, we get along fine together for long years.

“It’s going to be a great game.

“But for now I’m going to enjoy this, I’m really proud of myself.”

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