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In April 2026, a woman was initially charged with attempted murder, Section 18 grievous bodily harm (GBH) with intent, and driving offenses following a vehicle impact outside a Soho nightclub that critically injured influencer. When she passed away from her injuries six days later, prosecutors upgraded the primary charge to murder. When a victim dies days or weeks after an assault, English criminal law governs charge progression, causation, and the thin skull rule. 1. Upgrading Charges: From Attempted Murder to Murder Upgrading criminal charges following a victim's death depends on two core legal elements: actus reus (the guilty act) and mens rea (the guilty mind). Completion of the Actus Reus: The actus reus of murder is the unlawful killing of a human being under the King's peace. While the victim was alive in critical condition, the murder actus reus was incomplete, restricting the charge to attempted murder or S.18 GBH. Upon her death, the actus reus of homicide was fulfilled. Abolition of the "Year and a Day" Rule: Historically, English common law required a victim to die within a year and a day of the injury for murder charges to apply. The Law Reform (Year and a Day Rule) Act 1996 abolished this restriction. A death six days post-incident falls well within the timeline to establish direct causation. The Mens Rea Threshold: Attempted Murder: Requires proof of a specific intent to kill (R v Whybrow [1951]). Intent to cause serious bodily harm is legally insufficient for an attempted murder charge. Murder: Under English law (R v Vickers [1957]), malice aforethought for murder is satisfied by either: An intent to kill, or An intent to cause grievous bodily harm (GBH / If the prosecution establishes that Carrington intended to cause grievous bodily harm when driving into the victim, that intent legally suffices for murder once death occurs. Click here.

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### The Speculator’s Mirror ### part 1. By Warren A. Lyon with Scott Nakagmura and Sean Murrayg at FSJ August 2nd, 2026. "This is written from a purely common sense point of view. As to Finance, investment and trading of stocks or bonds, these financial products are expressions first of some entity's economic endeavour or activities. The stocks and bonds are financial products. They are offered for various reasons but two keys reasons usually; either for the generation of capital and then possibly for the basic monetary achievement or milestone. There is time involved; when the share or bond may be a short term endeavour and once the product is available and sold off at its IPO price, whatever it is. The issuer can never suffer disappointment since he owns all or most of the shares on the day of issuances and sale. He could de list right away. He loses nothing if he sold all on issuances day. But those who buy them at the IPO price or the market price thereafter are the gamblers. The value fluctuates and the stock itself, after achieving it's economic value and purpose to the issuer, may not have any real day to say earnings value. This is so while it is still listed on an exchange and it may, as is the case of manu stocks, lose it's usefulness or it's hype hot air value. If there is was a stock in the Japanese playing card Yugi -OH or the old scratch and sniff stickers or the Ninja Turtles, we expect those stocks to be temporary phenomenals. If it's a Pen like Bic that has captured the hearts and souls of buyers, it might be an ongoing phenomenon on the market and not a de listed and short term phenomenal; a daily useful consumable and not a fad. At the present moment, a share in Under Armour if there was one falls some where in between fad and the daily useful consumable at a $17.00 IPO and a current $14.00trading price; previously as high as $25.00 once. But, you might ask yourself why why anyone ever buy it; and if you did the seller and issuer would always thank you but it seems there is a mystery taking place. It might be in the candy and chocolate where if you say the sky is blue, you are very special; intelligent for pointing this out when you are not the someone who eats that candy very often to be in that zone or mystery all day. What is stated here is the obvious. This doesn't get into Kalshi and that new regulated betting phenomenon but it seems that Kalshi is just online betting; like Ladbrokes. It might be global also. You are not investing but wagering. There is a difference."- Whatever it is that we are trying to value in a stock is basic human phenomenon in the market and what people do or buy regularly is a good indicator of value. As such, maybe a stock for Toblerone at a $1.50 per bar on the shelf where we know people are buying it is good stock with a strong life span vs. the new clothing line called "Above The Rim". But, maybe people would really buy Above The Rim as a shoe and so we would believe any discussion about the earnings of the company per share because we can see the earnings and they are not seasonal but related to an all year every day consumable like Toblerone. FRAM makes oil filters and these are not faddish but the rise of electric vehicles means the product faces redundancy in time. This is something to think about. AT and T used to make land line phones and they still do. But there is something about AT and T; that even if they stopped selling land line phones, I might want to buy and hold that stock on the long term because it fed your imagination; childhood, present and future or it used to. We don't know what is going on. Again as the Courts have noted, Bit Coin is totally worthless and therefore illegal when there is no entity producing or earning anything that gives the coin value like all other coins or currencies. But, it exists to abuse people's intelligence or the lack thereof. The times against this are also obvious and the laws to protect people from being taken advantage of. It maybe a snake oil sales man's heaven when you sell corn oil as snake oil, claiming it has medicinal properties. But the purchaser gets nothing but snake bite symptoms. Maybe the crypto or bit coin abuses the predominant mystery manifesting in a product that you believe you need, maybe a candy that weakens your left knee caps and you have to go to physio once a month to cope but you still keep eating the candy because apparently it helps if or when you need to be accepted. Do you need to be accepted? Then you buy all the various versions of the Candy like Candy version 1 and Candy pro max 17. But it is killing you. So why keep buying the candy and you would need to be accepted as your knees start clicking? It's the most expensive vicious circle. People who buy this expensive candy are always risking some breach of the law and invariably do tend to breach. A this times with candy like this on the market with litigious consequences, we have angry drugged up customers and employees and sometimes this polemic manifests when there are consequences. At this time, we agree that our expectations of the market have not changed yet we give the customer the extra benefit of the doubt. The customer is given the benefit and right for their concern. They are giving us their money. This is how Walmart wins and may end up being the only retailer and United Air Lines owner in the entire world. Babylonians do believe and teach the Ten Commandments. This is because they suffered the consequences of any arguin'. So, with their teaching we say do unto others as you would have them do unto you. As such do not sell the worthless bit coin since you would not want anyone to sell a worthless or non existent product to you. How are you a....and you don't enforce these things? Leitland Voyd Lines says, ".. Isn't Jamaica about informality and we kill if people believe us and actually go to school, respecting us?" He is very, very terribly wrong. He stole the Seiko black face watch. A human being could be cancelled for a $50 bullet. But they are worth white a lot as a consumer to the markets when funded at .20 cents per minute as an income support benefit yearly that amounts to about $103,680.00 per year or $8640.00 per month We may as well use them for what they are worth in the market as consumers. We must value people. They constitute the market as the market's constituent elements. The gospel reading and the music is necessary to cope with the sad Babylonian. If North Americans did not have to think about money, then they would feel obedient and right with the world. It's the best way to deal with their Creole identity frustration instead of fomenting this anger on 5000 year old Middle Eastern cultures where they have been paying a universal unconditional income support benefit for 5000 years. Click here.

BBC Food....

The Price is Right!

Miele

Love your Orphan™. Now create the hype. Then, we need a stock listing. This phone is brought to you by Alusra™ Technologies.

128 MPH. The new police cruisers will have an EMP button that will turn off the target vehicle if they are within 5 metres of that vehicle, turning off the drive system. The vehicle will restart he capable of restarting in 30 minutes. It will be as if the driver of the target vehicle turned off the vehicle personally.

Margate....

Universal Basic Income

The Undercover Puritan: Passing water through a **plutonium filter** introduces a brilliant piece of hard-science logic to your world-building. Instead of the metal acting as a stagnant sludge, using it as an active filtration matrix creates a specific, engineered environment with unique physical properties. ## ## The Physics of a Plutonium Filter Using a radioactive actinide like plutonium as a filtration or treatment medium triggers two major physical reactions that naturally create a low-oxygen, high-stress water environment: * **Decay Heat and Thermal Hypoxia:** Plutonium isotopes (such as Pu-239) continuously generate significant amounts of decay heat through alpha particle emission. As water is forced through a dense plutonium matrix, it absorbs this thermal energy. In the real world, **warmer water holds significantly less dissolved oxygen** than cold water. The filter essentially cooks the oxygen out of the water before it even enters the basin. * **Radiolytic Stripping:** As the water molecules are blasted by intense alpha radiation inside the filter matrix, radiolysis occurs. This disrupts the fluid's chemical balance, breaking apart dissolved gases and driving them out of solution, leaving the outflow chemically "exhausted" or stripped. Click here.

# Legal Framework of an Academic "Loss of Bargain" Claim When a student faces severe academic disruption—such as receiving false or incorrect grade sheets, being forced out of a program, or being told their only recourse is an internal appeal—they often look to contract and tort law for remedies. A **"loss of bargain"** claim (legally known as expectation damages) seeks to put the injured party in the position they would have been in had the contract or representation been accurately fulfilled. However, applying this framework to higher education involves navigating distinct legal hurdles. CLICK HERE.

## Airline Passenger Rights and Intoxication Protocols When traveling commercially, issues surrounding passenger removal, employee discretion, and security interventions are governed by strict federal guidelines and the airline's **Contract of Carriage**. ### Key Legal and Operational Considerations * **Contractual Obligations:** The Contract of Carriage dictates the terms between the passenger and the airline. While airlines retain the right to refuse transport for safety reasons, enforcing this based purely on unverified subjectivity or malicious intent can constitute a breach of contract.

Sheffield....

West End firm shut down by SRA to protect client interests