Married teacher, 35, is found guilty of sex with her 15-year-old pupil

 

A married teacher faces up to five years in jail after being found guilty of having sex with a 15-year-old pupil she spotted at a school sports day and added on Snapchat to send flirty texts.

 

Kandice Barber, 35, was found to have taken the underage boy to a field, kissed him on the neck next to a bale of hay and whispered, 'What do you want to do now?' before having full intercourse with him.

 

The mother-of-three's lawyer had claimed she was too short at just 5ft tall to have sex with the boy standing up as the teacher lied that her packed calendar meant she was 'too busy' to have slept with him.

 

She had bombarded him with messages including one where she asked him 'Do you like boobs or bum?', and sent him a photo of herself on a bed surrounded by sex toys.

 

But Barber - who has now been bailed prior to sentencing - was found out after a topless pictures she had sent her victim was circulated around so much it ended up being passed to the head teacher of their school.

 

This was Barber's second trial, after she was convicted in September of sending the boy topless pictures of herself on Snapchat between September and October 2018 but acquitted of causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity while in a position of trust.

 

Today, the supply teacher, of Wendover, Bucks, was found guilty of one count of causing or inciting a child under 16 to engage in sexual activity, as the judge warned her 'custody is inevitable'. She was found not guilty of two further counts of the same charge.

 

Barber showed no emotion when the verdicts were announced following 10 hours and 39 minutes of jury deliberation, staring blankly across the courtroom.

 

Her delivery worker husband, Daniel, who was watching proceedings remotely in a side room, fumed after the guilty verdict: 'It's a joke.' When Barber emerged at the court entrance he gripped her hand the moment he saw her.

 

The two then walked hand in hand to a court office where the judge ordered them to wait until a date is set for her sentencing on Friday or next Monday.     

 

Nadia Chbatt, Barber's barrister, was carrying out a different professional commitment today, and the judge gave the teacher bail and let her walk free from court before her sentencing.

 

Barber's husband, Daniel (left) and his wife at the court.

The judge told Barber: 'I am not going to proceed to sentence immediately. I totally accept that you should have Ms Chbatt, who was your trial counsel, present.

 

'I am going to bail you until the next occasion that will either be tomorrow morning or indeed Monday morning and you must attend Aylesbury Crown Court.

 

'If you fail to attend you will commit a second offence of failure to surrender and what follows from that is that the police can then arrest you and bring you by force.'

 

Earlier the court heard how Barber, a supply teacher at the Princes Risborough School in Buckinghamshire, had approached her victim at a sports day event when she added him as a 'friend' on social media.

 

She then started texting the boy - said to be 'obsessed' with her - and would tell him when she was 'hopping into the shower' or 'taking a bath'.

 

By then Barber had arranged to meet him and had sex with him behind the back of her devoted delivery firm worker husband Daniel.

 

In court she had lied her busy schedule on that day meant it would have been impossible.

 

She also told the boy she would 'bring him down with her' if the relationship was discovered, and that she was pregnant with his child, the court heard.

 

'Do you like boobs or bum?'

 

'You have a bigger penis than my husband'

 

'When I'm teaching, let's see if we can make each other the horniest we can without the others knowing'

 

In a previous trial in September last year at Aylesbury, Barber was convicted by a majority verdict of 10 to two of sexual communication with a child between Sep 27, 2018, and October 20, 2018, relating to topless pictures she sent to the same victim.

 

She was also convicted by the same majority verdict of causing a child to watch a sexual act by a person in a position of trust, from October 20, 2018, to January 31, 2019, where she sent the victim a video of herself performing a sex act while surrounded by sex toys at a time when the victim was aged 16 years.

 

Barber had been acquitted of one count of causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity by a person in a position of trust during the same dates.

 

Jurors at Aylesbury Crown Court heard previously how the teacher, who has school-age children of her own, had later met up with the boy for two other illicit trysts and sent him pictures of herself topless, which were then widely shared around the Princes Risborough School.

 

 

Travellers to UK may be forced to pay N800k for 2-week stay in quarantine hotels

 

Travellers to the UK could be forced to pay for their own two-week stay in quarantine hotels as government officials mull new plans to stop new variant of Covid-19 from entering the UK.

The system reportedly being discussed with some hotel groups is already in operation in Australia. It will see new arrivals in the UK staying in their hotel rooms for up to a fortnight at their own cost.

This arrangement may cost travellers up to £1,500 (about N800,000).

The UK Daily Mail reports that the British government dreads a situation that a new Covid-19 variant that is resistant to the currently available vaccines may be imported.

Similar systems have been used in Australia, which recorded just 204 new Covid-19 cases in the last 14 days, and New Zealand, which recorded just 81 cases in the last fortnight.

The Australian Government initially covered the quarantine hotel costs at the start of the pandemic.

But those entering Australia since July have been forced to pay up to £1,500 for the two-week quarantine stay in some parts of the country.

Designated quarantine hotels apply strict Covid-19 protocols, including kitting their staff in full Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).

Currently all travellers coming to the UK must provide a negative test before travel, before isolating for up to 10 days at a fixed address. They can leave if they test negative after five days.

Journalists roast in the sun to report new baby

Journalists in front of St. Mary's, London

It an unfair world! These journos have been camping in front of St. Mary’s Hospital, London, awaiting the birth of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s first baby, since July 1.

The instruction from their bosses is simple: Don't miss anything relating to this baby under any condition. And so in the rain and sun, these professionals must be here until the baby is born.

But quite frankly, I think these oyinbos overdo things. Shouldn’t there be some teeny-weeny bit of privacy left for the parents-to-be? We know the mother-to-be has been admitted, and is in the first stages of labour. We know they opted for natural birth. We know the ward the mother-to-be is in, the names of her doctors etc?

Shouldn’t there be a limit to the standard of transparency the royal family should be held to? Can this happen in Africa?  Certainly not. Probably we wouldn’t even know the hospital until the baby is born, lest the association of ‘winch’ send delegates to go and join the crowd camping in front of the hospital!

Couple in trouble for having sex in the street

 

Overtaken by passion: Catherine Hughes and Kevin Naylor
Image: Mirror

 A police control room employee has been arrested on suspicion of downloading steamy CCTV footage of a young couple having sex in the street onto his mobile phone.

 

Kevin Naylor, 25, and girlfriend Catherine Hughes, 19, were caught in the act just metres from their home in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, after they returned home from the pub.

 

The couple were caught having sex in Shrewsbury town centre

The romp was captured by CCTV operators in the town centre, who alerted officers and the red-faced couple were arrested.

 

But yesterday it emerged one operator did more than simply view the x-rated footage.

 

West Mercia Police confirmed a man in his 40s was arrested over allegations the video clip was shared inappropriately.

 

A police source revealed the member of staff was suspected of downloading the footage onto his mobile phone.

 

He was suspended from his post after an investigation by professional standards officers into a possible breach of the Data Protection Act.

 

Rachel Anstee, spokeswoman for West Mercia Police, said: "A man in his 40s was arrested on August 8 in relation to a data protection offence.

 

"He is currently on police bail."

 

Kevin and Catherine were spotted having a late-night bonk by CCTV operators at 1.15am on June 12.

 

John Barnett, prosecuting, told the court at the time: "Police were called to say a man and a woman were having sex in public in an area monitored by CCTV in the middle of Shrewsbury town centre.

 

"Mr Naylor was arrested 100 metres from his home. He gave no thought that others would see his actions."

 

The court heard the couple had been out drinking in Shrewsbury town centre to watch England's opening Euro 2012 game against France, which ended in a 1-1 draw.

 

During the evening the couple had spent £120 on booze - including beer, shots and spirits.

 

Defending Naylor, Stephen Scully said: "This is a fairly unusual one to put before the court.

 

"He is extremely embarrassed by the situation and that embarrassment will continue.

 

"They were young and foolish and got caught in the act."

 

Naylor, who was charged with drunk and disorderly behaviour, was given a nine month conditional discharge at Shrewsbury Magistrates Court on June 28 this year.

 

Hughes had been charged with the same offence but the court was told she had been let off with a caution.

Nigerian couple jailed in UK for beating their kids

Haringey Civic Centre in Wood Green had allowed the sixth child of the couple to stay in their home. It was almost a fatal mistake. Credits: Dailymailonline

A Nigerian couple have been sentenced to seven years in prison each for a decade long campaign of abuse against their six children. They face deportation after their sentence.

The Nigerian couple, who claimed their kids were possessed by evil spirits, beat them with brooms, hoovers and wires and even gave their baby a morphine overdose just days after her first birthday.

The plight of the children was so bad that Coronation Street actress Michelle Collins, who met them at a church lunch, took them to the cinema 'because she felt sorry for them'

Five of the children were finally rescued after their eldest daughter threw a heart-wrenching SOS note out of a window.

But it wasn't until their one-year-old baby was given a morphine overdose over a year later that police reopened the case which led to their prosecution.

But the parents, both 40, who cannot be named to protect their six children, claimed they were victims of a conspiracy - and even alleged Miss Collins was involved in a witch hunt against them and wanted to‘steal’ their children.

One of the youngsters, a baby at the time, had been allowed to stay in the home by Haringey council, who were involved in the Baby P and Victoria Climbie cases, despite the fact the five other children had to be rescued.

Sentencing them to seven years behind bars each, Judge James Patrick described it as 'shocking mistreatment' that they had tried to cover up with a 'web of deception'.

Judge Patrick said: 'No-one who sat through this trial could help but be moved by the fact that these intelligent, charming, fun, lovable children continue to love you despite what you put them through.'

The married couple denied the allegations claiming they were victims of a racist witch-hunt but were found guilty of cruelty to a person under 16.

They argued the children had been 'brainwashed' into making the allegations by the police, the London Borough of Haringey and Miss Collins who they said 'wanted to steal' them, Wood Green Crown Court heard.

But Judge Patrick noted: 'You alleged a conspiracy involving a well-known actress, who had done nothing but show your family generosity and kindness, a member of a housing charity, social workers and foster carers.

'Those who had taken the trouble to support you were repeatedly accused of dishonesty, lying, and conspiracy to rob you of your children when the reality was that both of you were lying - in fact they were simply seeking to give your children stability.'

The abuse came to the attention of police in April 2010 when their nine-year-old wrote an SOS note and threw it out of her bedroom window.

The heart-breaking plea read: 'My mum is the worst mum ever because she can’t cope with five of us, her broken hand and being pregnant. She always leaves me out so I always starve and I am forced to work.

'If I don’t get enough house work done, I am beaten without mercy with the wooden end of a broom. I have scars all over me to prove it. I can’t stay here. I would like a new mum.'

It was found by a neighbour who called the police, and when officers attended the address they found the children living in messy conditions with 'dirty' and 'dishevelled' clothing.

Revealing scars the eldest said her mother had hit her with a cable, a broom, and a hoover and her father had dangled her by her feet down the stairwell of the house, tied her hands behind her back and her legs together 'to get the devilish spirits out', prosecutor Emma Smith said.

Her sister, who was seven at the time, had a stick shaped bruise of her thigh and after a few months in care, she drew a series of pictures showing her dad beating her and her being left home alone and including a speech bubble saying ‘I’m hungry.’

The children were left home alone for hours, sometimes days on end, with the elder kids forced to look after the others.

They had even been forced to lie to a charity and social services that they were living alone with their mother in one room and had no idea who their dad was so they could scam benefits.

Even during the trial the eldest feared she had torn her family apart with her 'devastating cry from the heart in the form of a letter which she threw from the window', the judge noted.

There was an investigation but no further action, and the five children remained in care until the parents once again came to police attention on 28 June last year, when they gave their baby an overdose.

'But for the events of June 28 you would have gotten away with your crimes because of a merciful decision not to prosecute you', Judge Patrick noted.

The couple's sixth child, a baby girl, was also initially taken into care but then returned to her parents. They took her to St Thomas’s Hospital just days after her first birthday last year.

Without treatment she could have died but doctors managed to save the youngster, who it is believed was given morphine orally that morning.

Jurors rejected the parents conspiracy theories.

When they are released they face deportation back to Nigeria- despite pleas from their legal team that they have been 'punished enough' by having their children taken into care.

As they left the court they wailed: 'We are innocent, this is a miscarriage of justice.'

Why people struggle to migrate to UK

 The house. 

You can be penniless and jobless and still live in a £1.3 million (about N325million) and earn weekly stipends all paid for by the government.

If truth be told, only few countries still look after penniless immigrants like the UK does.

The outrage generated among UK citizens by the news of an immigrant family who trashed an upscale residence allocated to them in London seems quite justified. And many prospective immigrants are seething with rage at the apparent frittering of golden opportunity by the controversial family.

Mother-of-seven Manal Mahmoud moved into the upmarket Fulham address almost three years ago, but have since been branded the 'family from hell' by neighbours.

The owner of the property says doors are missing, wallpaper has been ripped off, driveway tiles have been smashed, walls written on and furniture has been left strewn in the garden.

Mrs Mahmoud, who is in her late 40s, moved to the UK 12 years ago to escape fighting and political problems in her native Palestine.

But since she's settled in west London, neighbours have complained about their antisocial behaviour to the council and police. 



The upscale neighbourhood

'I deserve to live in a nice house and get benefits. I deserve this house because I am human. In this country, it is our right to live here. It is important for my kids to have space to play,' Mrs Mahmoud said.

All of her seven children, including five young daughters live at the address apart from her oldest son who is in prison for drug dealing.

But now she could face eviction after the landlord of the three-bedroom property, Sue Cummings, apparently found the home had been 'trashed'. 

'I am entitled to live in a house like this, even if I don't pay for it. It is fair that the government houses us,' she said.

'My family gives something back to the community. I know I have a son who makes trouble but that does not mean all my children are the same.

She added: 'All the neighbours are just complaining because the landlord rented the house to council tenants. They don't want a foreigner to come and live in this street.

 Hammersmith and Fulham Council said it may fight to evict the family at a court hearing on Thursday.

Deputy council leader Greg Smith said: 'We have warned this family that they face eviction if their appalling behaviour does not improve.

'There is a court hearing fixed for Thursday and we are working hard to resolve this matter.'

Why people struggle for asylum in the UK? It is because it is a society where the weak and poor are catered for by the strong and the rich. It is unfortunate that some elements are abusing the privilege.