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Fire blazing, @phemmiie @chappierichy we are back!!!

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https://youtu.be/rf_sLUND7fM

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An Indonesian domestic flight carrying 54 passengers and crew has gone missing. The plane, said to be about 27 years old, lost contact with air traffic control in Papua province around 2.55pm local time

The Trigana Air Service flight carrying 44 adult passengers, five children and five crew members, left Sentani Airport at 2:22 p.m. and was supposed to land at Oksibil airport at about 3:05 p.m but disappeared 10 minutes before it was due to land. Indonesia Transport ministry said no distress call was made from the plane. 

Search and rescue have begun though it has since been called off because of bad weather. Search for the plane, believed to have crashed in the steep mountains, will continue tomorrow. Quite sad!

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Tony Maddox, CNN’s global Executive Vice President and Managing Director on Thursday Aug 13th flew from Atlanta to Nairobi to personally apologize to President Uhuru Kenyatta and Kenyans over the undermining report.
A day before President Barrack Obama's arrival in Kenya, for his first official visit, the news channel had referred to Kenya as "terror hotbed” The comment sparked public outcry and angry reactions on social media. Kenyans called out CNN over the comment, hurling abuses and sarcastic humour under the hashtag #SomeoneTellCNN.

The hashtag quickly spread and in no time became the number trending topic. The Kenyan government however went further to reprimand the station by withdrawing its advertising campaign in the station for what the country’s Tourism Board describe as the “misrepresentation of the country’s status.”
President Kenyatta expressed his deep disappointment at the report. He reiterated that the war on terror was a global threat and not unique to Kenya. He further added that CNN's report was unfortunate and ill-timed, since it came at a critical moment in Kenya's history and made a mockery of the sacrifices of Kenyan's men and women in uniform.
According to reports, Tony Maddox who oversees CNN’s global editorial policy admitted that CNN’s description of Kenya as a “hotbed of terror” was both undeserved and ill- conceived during a meeting at the Kenyan presidential villa.

“We acknowledge there is a widespread feeling that the report annoyed many, which is why we pulled down the report as soon as we noticed. It wasn’t a deliberate attempt to portray Kenya negatively, it is regrettable and we shouldn’t have done it" Maddox said. "There is a world at a war with extremists; we know what a hotbed of terror looks like, and Kenya isn’t one,” he added.

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2 young people were killed early Friday after a limb from an oak tree fell on their tent as they slept at a popular campground in Yosemite National Park.The names and ages of the minors were not released, and their deaths remain under investigation, according to park spokesman Scott Gediman. Tuolumne County sheriff’s officials said they will not release the young people’s identities.

"Our thoughts are with the families as they grieve this tragedy," park Supt. Don Neubacher said in a statement.

The youngsters were sleeping in their tent at the popular family Upper Pines Campground in Yosemite Valley. Then at about 5 a.m., a limb from a black oak collapsed on them, Gediman said.

The park’s dispatchers received numerous 911 calls for medical assistance. When they arrived to the campground, the youngsters were dead.

It is unclear why the tree limb fell, but officials said it wasn’t windy that morning, Gediman said.
“Fallen branches like this one are a common occurrence across the park,” he said.

Situated at 4,000 feet in the Yosemite Valley near Curry Village, the campground with views of the park’s most iconic rock formation Half Dome is the chosen destination for families site.The youngsters’ deaths add to what appears to be a long history of tree-related fatalities at the park.
Two tourists were killed and nine were injured in 1985 when a 25-foot oak branch fell 15 feet onto an open-air tram carrying 50 passengers.
The same series of events happened in 1992, when a branch from an oak tree fell onto another touring bus, injuring seven people. The visitors were stopped on a main road near the Merced River to observe Yosemite Falls. The large branch came crashing as the tour guide spoke.

In Friday’s incident, drought may have played a role but it’s too early to say, Gediman said. Bark beetles steer away from oak, so he said that likely didn’t cause the limb to fall.

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A Florida woman who faces DUI charges after crashing her car into an apartment building told police her dog was to blame and that they should arrest her pet instead of her but of course, it didn't work.

Christina Anne Marie Lamoreaux, was stopped by police last week after fleeing the scene of the crash. Officers said Lamoreaux smelled of booze and was acting confused when they found her in her apartment after the accident.


Although Lamoreaux admitted to having been behind the wheel during the incident, she said her dog was responsible for the crash. She was jailed after refusing a sobriety test and resisting arrest, according to the Examiner. 

Pets get blamed for car crashes quite a bit. Sometimes, drivers say their dog hit the wheel. Other times, a dog allegedly jumps on the driver's feet etc.


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Hundreds of men, women and children lost their lives yesterday after a rubber fishing boat carrying around 600 migrants capsized off Libya. According to reports, the boat capsized when the people on board rushed to one side when the LE Niamh got close to it.


"Those that were on deck would have managed to jump, some of them drowned and some of them were saved," said Martin Xuereb of the Migrant Offshore Aid Station in Malta.

Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) Dignity I vessel was one of the rescue boats.

"It was a horrific sight, people desperately clinging to lifebelts, boats and anything they could to fight for their lives," (MSF) project co-ordinator said.

The rescued migrants have been taken to Italy where they will undergo normal entry procedures. 25 bodies has so far been recovered from the sea. The Mediterranean Sea is the world's most deadly border area for migrants.

Switzerland-based International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Tuesday that more than 2,000 migrants have died so far this year trying to cross the sea to reach Europe, confirming this as the deadliest route for migrants in search of a better life.

Image Credit: Marta Soszynska /MFS Sea/Christopher Miller

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A Pennsylvania man stabbed his ex-girlfriend and then beat her 72-year-old to death after getting upset that his ex-girlfriend wouldn’t name their newborn son after him, according to police.

Cesar Mazza, 25, of Pittsburgh was ordered held without bail on Wednesday on 2 counts of criminal homicide and a charge of kidnapping his 11-week-old son. Court records didn’t list an attorney for him.

Police found the bodies of the child’s mother, 19-year-old Tionna Banks, and Banks’ grandmother, Valorie Crumpton, at Crumpton’s home May 7. Banks had failed to return to a group home for at-risk woman and girls after she was given a weekend pass to visit Crumpton.

Mazza’s mother contacted Allegheny County’s Office of Children Youth and Families on May 6, the day after he came to her home to drop off the baby, who was in foster care, according to the criminal complaint.

Mazza's mother couldn't reach her son or Banks. Another witness, whom police haven't named, became concerned because Mazza had been charged with threatening to kill Banks last year, the complaint said.

At the time of the women’s deaths, Banks had a protection-from-abuse order against Mazza that required him to stay away from her. He was also awaiting trial on charges that he punched Banks, stomped on her abdomen and dragged her down steps in November.

"The dispute reportedly arose from Banks' unwillingness to name their unborn child after Mazza," police said in the complaint. Banks named the baby Vaughn, police said.

Police received a warrant for Mazza on May 8 after he had failed to appear to his May 6 trial on the assault charges. He was arrested on May 15 in Newark, New Jersey, and police filed the homicide charges late Tuesday.

Two other unnamed witnesses told police they saw blood on Mazza and the baby May 4, when Banks was due to return to the group home, according to the complaint.

Mazza had a small cut on his palm, but it was "unbandaged and did not seem in proportion with the large amount of blood on Mazza and the baby," one of those witnesses told police.

Mazza explained away the blood by claiming Banks tried to stab him because he forgot to bring her a pack of cigarettes when he was visiting and picked up their baby, the complaint said.

The other witness had seen Mazza leave Crumpton's house about four hours earlier with a cut on his hand and red liquid on his clothes. That witness assumed the red liquid was paint because that's how Mazza made a living, police said.

Source: AP

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Two children aged 4 and 2 died and 25 others rescued after a passenger boat with 25 passengers collided with a fishing boat on Lake Victori, Kenyaa. According to regional police chief, Willy Lugasa, the passenger boat was headed for Kiwa Island from Remba Island when the incident happened at about 2 a.m. today. He revealed that the bodies of two children who died have been recovered and 21 people from the passenger boat, rescued...

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At least 31 people have been confirmed dead after two Indian passenger trains derailed. The trains derailed within minutes of each other on flooded tracks on a bridge in central India in Madhya Pradesh. The Kamayani Express was en route to Mumbai when it derailed around midnight on Tuesday night near the town of Harda in Madhya Pradesh state while the second train, the Janata Express, was travelling in the opposite direction and derailed soon after. 25 people were injured and another 300 rescued.

The railway spokesperson, Anil Saksena told BBC, "This unfortunate accident took place because of the flash floods on the tracks and the track caved in and resulted in the derailment of the last six coaches of the Kamayani Express"
Madhya Pradesh railway Police Chief told AFP that the death toll is expected to rise as it was not clear if all passengers have been accounted for.

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4 year old Martaisha Thomas, (left) was shot in the 700 block of Ridgeway Avenue in Avondale, Cincinnati last Thursday around 8:15 p.m in a drive-by shooting. She is in critical condition at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and presently fighting for her life.
According to the Cincinnati Police, the gunman (pictured right) Darnell Hicks, 20, was targeting someone in a group sitting outside the block but the little girl got hit. According to a news release from the police, Darnell is wanted for felonious assault in connection with the shooting. He's currently on the run.

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Three people have been found dead inside of a home on Deerfield Drive in Pensacola.
Officials say when Deputies responded to the home for a welfare check on Friday, they discovered the bodies.
The victims have been identified as 77-year-old Voncile Smith, 47-year-old John William Smith and 49-year-old Richard Thomas Smith.

Officials believe the three may have been victims of a horrific witchcraft ritual.

Authorities said all 4 bodies were found with their throats slit, beaten with a claw hammer. Officials also said the crime may have occurred on the night of a blue moon.

The mother, officials said, was also found with a gunshot wound to her head or neck area.

The family was reportedly extremely reclusive, to the point where there own neighbors said they never spoke to or saw the three

Those gruesome details have neighbors like Ken Lester, who recently moved to the neighborhood, on edge.

“It’s frightening to think about. Especially when you have small children," said Lester, "to find out that it was this weird, satanic cult, witchcraft whatever, is just really unsettling.”

There was no evidence of forced entry to the home, nor were any valuable items stolen.

Officials mentioned only one person of interest in the case, who they said is a man "with ties to witchcraft."

Officials also said that they had spoken with a person of interest - a white male who was known to 'practice witchcraft' - though it is not known what came of that or if an arrest was made.

 

He would not further explain this witchcraft aspect of the killings, saying; 'There are different factions of [witchcraft]. While it doesn't bother me to release that particular thing, I most assuredly do not want to defame or demean any particular practice.' 

No arrests have been made as of yet.

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Media caption The 'devastating' scene after the jet plane crash near Blackbushe Airport was captured on film

Family members of Osama Bin Laden were killed in a private jet crash in Hampshire on Friday, the Saudi Arabian embassy in the UK has said.

It came down near Blackbushe Airport, close to the Surrey border, killing the pilot and all three passengers.
In a statement, the Saudi ambassador to the UK, Prince Mohammed bin Nawaf Al Saud, offered condolences to the Bin Laden family.
The embassy said it was in contact with the British crash investigators.
The statement said: "His Royal Highness Prince Mohammed bin Nawaf Al Saud... has paid his condolences to the family and relatives of Mohammed bin Laden at Blackbushe airport in Britain for the great loss they have suffered as a result of the crash of the plane that was carrying the family."
The embassy added that it was working with the British authorities to ensure the speedy handover of the bodies for funerals and burials in Saudi Arabia.
The plane - an Embraer Phenom 300 - is reported to have belonged to an aviation firm owned by the Saudi-based family of the former al-Qaeda leader.
The plane, which was arriving from Milan, Italy, crashed into a British Car Auctions site at the airfield shortly after 15:00 BST, exploding on impact.
Eyewitnesses at the scene said there had been a "ball of flames" and "several explosions".
The pilot and all three passengers were killed but no-one on the ground was injured, Hampshire Police said.
In a statement, the force said: "We do believe three of the deceased to be the mother, sister and brother-in-law of the owner of the aircraft, all of whom are from the Bin Laden family, but formal post-mortem examinations are ongoing.
"They were Saudi Arabian nationals and visiting the UK on vacation."
It is carrying out a joint investigation with the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) and has urged anyone with pictures and videos to get in touch on 101.
A spokeswoman for AAIB said a team had been deployed to the site.
In a statement, Blackbushe Airport, in Yateley, which is currently closed, said the jet had crashed near the end of the runway while attempting to make a landing.
Phil Giles, a former air accident investigator, said: "It suggests that the plane either landed too late or tried to take off again when the pilot realised it wasn't going to make the end of the runway.
"Or it may have been a problem with the brakes."

The Bin Laden family tree

• Osama Bin Laden's father Mohammed was originally from Yemen and moved to Saudi Arabia in the 1910s
• He became the head of a construction empire that is behind some of the biggest building projects in Saudi Arabia
• Mohammed Bin Laden, who died in a plane crash in 1968, had many wives, and is estimated to have had at least 50 children
• His eldest son, Salem Bin Laden, also died in a plane crash in Texas in 1988
• The Bin Laden family - many of whom live in the US - severed ties with Osama before disowning him after the 11 September attacks

A spokeswoman for Milan Malpensa Airport confirmed the plane had left at 13:30 BST on its way to Hampshire.
The Saudi General Authority of Civil Aviation tweeted that the plane was a Saudi-registered private aircraft, and said it would support the UK's AAIB in its investigation.
Geoff Pierce, an aviation enthusiast from Fleet in Hampshire, was at Blackbushe airfield and saw the plane come down.
He said: "I've seen that type of aircraft land a number of times at the airport. At first I didn't realise what was happening, I was taking photos at the time."
He said the plane did not seem to make a normal approach and appeared to be going at high speed.
"The next thing I knew the siren was wailing on the control tower and then I saw a big plume of black smoke."
The Bin Laden family image is very different in Saudi Arabia compared to the West.
In Saudi Arabia, they are known as philanthropists and as successful business people that have been in the country since 1910, when the father, Mohammed Bin Laden, from Yeoman, first arrived.
He started a large construction empire which still operates today.
The connection between the wider clan and Osama Bin Laden is very distant, even non-existent, since the 911 attacks.
A large part of the Bin Laden clan is living in the West, mainly in the United States, including in Boston.
So, it wouldn't be surprising to see other members of this family travelling all over Europe.
Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service said it sent 24 firefighters to the scene following the crash.
Barry Wright said there was a "huge bang" followed by an explosion.
"It started off instantly with smoke coming up, then there was a small flame from the top of the air craft, then...it just literally went into a ball of flames within a minute."
Jennie Cole's garden backs onto the runway, with only a small amount of woodland between.
"To think that is was that close is quite scary," she said.
Another resident, who did not want to be named, said he saw the plane come down while he was repairing his chimney.
"I was on the roof and I heard the jet and thought I would watch it land," he said.
"I saw it going past, then it was about 20 feet off the ground and I thought, it's not got enough runway to land here.
"I could hear cars exploding over at the market."

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The new leader of the Afghan Taliban, Mullah Akhtar Mansour, has called for unity in an audio message, saying that the group will continue fighting.

Mullah Mansour was named as the new leader on Thursday, after the death of former head Mullah Omar was confirmed.
But a Taliban spokesman told the BBC he had not been appointed "by all Taliban", going against Sharia law.
The audio message said fighters should unite as "division in our ranks will only please our enemies".
It also said that the Taliban would "continue our jihad until we bring an Islamic rule in the country".
The 30-minute recording - in which a crying baby is heard at some points - was released to journalists by Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid on Saturday.
Some Taliban figures have accused pro-Pakistani circles of imposing Mullah Mansour, who is known for his support for peace talks, on them.
But in the audio message, Mullah Mansour dismissed peace talks as "propaganda campaigns by the enemy".
At least one Taliban faction would have preferred Mullah Omar to be succeeded by his son.
Another Taliban spokesman, Mullah Abdul Manan Niazi, said those who elected Mullah Mansour had not followed the rules.
"According to Islamic rule and principles, when a leader dies, a Shura (council) is called, then its leader is appointed," he added.
It is the first time we have seen such differences among the group's leadership.
Finding a unifying leader like Mullah Omar will be almost impossible for the Taliban, so a split is likely.
Mullah Mansour's supporters have dispelled reports that military commander Qaum Zakir is opposing his election.
Zakir is an ex-Guantanamo prisoner, who has a base of support in Helmand province and will play a crucial role in the group's future.
The side which manages to gains the support of military commanders will win the majority share of Mullah Omar's movement.

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A Yazidi mother has told how her four-year-old son was taken from her to join an ISIS terror training camp where he was forced to learn passages from the Koran, Sharia Law and even given a sword and taught how to behead his own mother.

 

Bohar, not her real name, could do little but watch as her young son was handed a sword by their captors, who told him 'this is to kill your mother'.

Later, he revealed they were training him to chop people's heads off, shoot guns and hate his own people, at an age when most children around the world are just learning to read.

Her son was never forced to carry out the perverted act, but his mother is adamant if her son had stayed he would have been forced to kill for ISIS.

 

In an exclusive interview, Bohar, 35, said: 'ISIS trained my son to learn the Koran, how to speak Arabic, how to pray and how to use a sword.’

 

Speaking from a refugee camp in Dohuk, northern Iraq, Bohar said: 'They told him that Yazidis are Kafir, Arabic for ‘non-believers’ and told him he had to fight them.

‘This one time the ISIS man gave him a sword and said this is to kill your mother.'

Bohar, her son Hamo, not his real name, and her three other children were captured by ISIS last August, just south-east of Sinjar Mountain.

 

Unable to flee, they were imprisoned with 2,000 other Yazidi, from where they were shunted between prisons in Tal-Afar and Badush in Mosul - as evil ISIS militants decided their fate.

'In Badush prison ISIS took my eldest daughter and my eldest son who is 12. They took them to Syria,' she said.

'Some friends later told me my daughter and son were taken to Raqqa, where I believe they still are,' she added. 

Bohar managed to keep her two youngest children - a daughter, 14, and the little boy, Hamo - with her as they were shunted between the two cities.

But keeping them safe from the warped acts of their captors was almost impossible.

'In Tala-Afar prison, ISIS put urine in the water tank, and food with glass in it. They wanted to hurt us,' she said.

 

In August, when the coalition airstrikes began, things got far worse.

'ISIS fighters there beat us very badly, especially when they saw the US airplanes,' she explained.

At one point, the mother of four was moved to an abandoned village, where they got one hot meal a day – but the food was laced with morphine to make them feel drowsy and prevent them from escaping.

 

Those who managed to attempt an escape - or even use a mobile phone - were killed mercilessly.

Bohar watched as one man was murdered in front of her by ISIS soldiers who then paraded his body in the street and demanded to know if anyone knew him.

 

In November the prisoners were moved to the ISIS de facto capital of Raqqa, in Syria.

There, in the prison camp for the first time in months, Bohar caught a glimpse of her eldest son.

The boy, 12, was with around 250 other children being forced to learn the Koran, taught about ISIS's enemies and trained up as soldiers.

However, Bohar's son was rebelling.

She said: 'I saw him on this military base. I saw them beat him because he did not accept the rule of ISIS,' she recalled.

In Raqqa Bohar and her two remaining children were put up for sale at an ISIS people slave market. 

There, she was separated from her daughter when she was sold to a militant.

Her voice cracking with emotion, she said: 'They took my daughter, she was just 14-years-old, an ISIS man bought her.’

 

Bohar and her son were bought by a Syrian man, after being held in a 'prison that was under the earth'.

'He was very bad to us, he did not give anything to us, he never opened the fridge for us,' she recalled.

'I wanted him to sell me back to my family, but he refused…I asked him if he bring my other daughters and son here, but he [also] refused.'

 

After two months, Bohar and her son were sold once more, this time to an older Saudi Arabian fighter called Omar Al-Najde, a high-ranking ISIS commander.

Al-Najde made Bohar work as a servant with two other teenage Yazidi girls, and took Hamo to the jihadi training camp to indoctrinate him.

Al-Najde forced Hamo to learn the Koran, Arabic and to pray.

The boy’s training involved being taken to an ISIS military base, where he would learn fighting skills such as how to use a pistol, a hand grenade and a sword.

The indoctrination continued for four months, before Bohar and the girls, finally managed to flee across the border to Turkey. 

  

Even now, safely in a refugee camp where they are reunited with their father, he still refuses to talk about what ISIS made him do.

But he has given his family one chilling insight into his months under the control of the fighters: when asked what they taught him, he drew his finger across his throat.

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One of two men suspected of making off with a bag containing $150,000 in cash that was mistakenly left behind by ATM workers bought an SUV with the money few hours later, police said.
Alton Harvey, 42, of Hillside, was arrested on Wednesday after police traced a white van that was captured on surveillance video pulling up to the bag of cash that the ATM employees forgot outside a business in Mahwah, in northern New Jersey, on Monday.

The video showed a passenger in the van grabbing the bag.
Police said the van was seen in another video pulling into a nearby auto repair business and pilfering used tires.
After finding the van in Irvington, police arrested Harvey.

Harvey said he was driving the van and told detectives that a Chevrolet Tahoe was purchased with cash from the bag soon after it was grabbed, Police Chief James Batelli said in a news release.

The SUV, which has a starting sticker price of $46,000, was parked near the van.

Detectives identified the passenger as Jamar Bludson, 35, of Newark. Police issued a warrant for Bludson, who also is wanted for a probation violation, Batelli said.

Harvey was held on $125,000 bail, charged with theft of mislaid property. It was not known if he has a lawyer who can comment on the charge.

Investigators determined the ATM workers were not involved in the theft, the chief said.


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Osama Bin Laden's stepmother and sister are thought to be among 4 people killed after a private jet owned by the family crashed into a fireball after overshooting a runway while trying to land outside London.

The £7million Embraer Phenom 300 was owned by Salem Aviation in Jeddah, which is controlled by the dead terrorist’s family.

The Brazilian-built aircraft exploded after ploughing into a carpark killing the pilot and three passengers. Saudi Arabian media reported that Bin Laden's stepmother and sister were among the 4 people killed, as well as their Jordanian pilot.

The jet was completely destroyed after it overshot the runway while trying to land at the Blackbushe Airport on the Hampshire-Surrey border. 

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A teenage fraudster who dressed up as a judge in a mocking photograph after pleading guilty to swindling more than £100,000 has been jailed.

Sam Cook had boasted of turning a £2,000 investment into £21million to convince his parents' friends and business associates to hand over their life savings, a court heard.

Instead he pocketed the cash and used it to fund a lavish lifestyle which included a swanky waterside flat in Plymouth, Devon, a 'Ferrari' and expensive holidays.

He was only caught after police noticed his £165,000 supercar was in fact a fake.

Today he was jailed for more than two years after he admitted swindling £110,000 from six victims.

He had also pleaded guilty to driving without an 'L' plate while holding a provisional licence, at a time where he said he was driving his Ferrari.

But the judge warned that clams the 18-year-old was remorseful were belied by a mocking photograph which was posted on Facebook following his guilty plea.

With his Dad

The court was shown a picture of Cook and his father dressed up as a judge and a police officer.

'I hear today that you accept responsibility and that you are remorseful,' the judge told Cook.

'I have to tell you that that is not mirrored by this photograph. You should be ashamed of that photograph.'

In his defence, Michael Green said Cook 'deeply regrets' taking the image.

'He wasn't responsible for bringing the props or the photo booth, and was unaware that the photo would be shared online,' he added.

Detectives began investigating after an interview with Cook appeared in his local newspaper where he claimed to be a self-made, multi-millionaire.

Prosecuting, Kelly Scrivener said Detective Constable Dan Parkinson, of Devon and Cornwall Police, spotted the article entitled 'Meet the Plymouth teenager who turned £2,000 into £21 million in a year and still shops in Lidl' which showed off Cook's 'Ferrari'.

The teenager, who has dyslexia and left school with 2 GCSEs, claimed he had bought a £165,000 Ferrari F430 Scuderia, a £120,000 watch and holidayed in Barbados, saying: 'I want to have £2billion by the time I am 50'.

But when the officer researched the car and discovered it was in fact a £20,000 replica.

'The officer was concerned from the way the article portrayed the defendant that he was putting himself out to be somebody who had made a lot of money by investing in the stock market,' Ms Scrivener said.

'It amounted to an advert for people to approach him. The officer found at least six people who had invested £110,000 of their life savings and earnings.

'They parted with the money under the false impression they were making a legal financial investment with this defendant on the stock market.

'The defendant had been introduced to them by his parents. He provided them with paperwork.'

The court heard that Cook had presented himself as a successful investor and promised to invest his clients’ money into stocks and currency in an attempt to earn them more money.

Ms Scrivener added: 'He had a lavish lifestyle, he had what he said was a Ferrari that he was driving around in.

'They had no reason to disbelieve his assurances that he was legally investing their money.

'He said he had successfully amassed a fortune personally by doing so.'

'It is plain to me that this company that you set up was fraudulent from the outset. You used the money to fund a lavish lifestyle,' he said.

'You had an expensive flat, you had an expensive car - albeit it wasn't a genuine Ferrari.

'You used money that was not yours to have overseas holidays and to present yourself and represent yourself as a man of wealth and success to induce people into trusting you.'

'You are aware of the impact of your fraud on people who were friends and associates both of yourself and your family.'

Cook took £15,000 from his first victim, £35,000 from his second and £6,200 from his third - a woman who was saving to replace her car.

His 4th victim paid £5,000 to Cook after borrowing from family and friends, while his fifth victim also paid £5,000.

The 6th victim paid a total of £50,000 to Cook and had been left extremely 'stressed' following the deception, Ms Scrivener said.

After admitting the fraud to police, Cook told officers: 'This has had a big effect on my family and completely ruined my chances of getting a job in finance'.

Representing Cook, Mr Green said his client's father was already taking steps to repay the money to the victims.

'Whatever the impact, each thought they were undertaking in a business opportunity which involved some degree of risk.

'It was a bogus company, it was a bogus investment. It was inevitable that this would come to light, and so it did.'

He said the teenager, who lives with his wife at his parents' home, wished to work so he could begin paying his father back.

'This was a 17-year-old suddenly finding himself with a large amount of money in his bank account and he gave in to temptation,' Mr Green said. 

Cook was visibly pale and shaking as he was sentenced to 26 months in prison.

Appearing in court in a sharp blue suit with a yellow shirt and red tie, comforted by occasional glances of his father Peter at the back of the court, as the case was read out to him.

A Proceeds of Crime hearing will take place at a later date to recover money taken by Cook.

 Daily Mail

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Cagla Seven, 27, a medical doctor survived the deadly bombing but sustained serious injuries. She's pictured above holding hands with a friend immediately after the blast last week. Meanwhile, the identity of the suicide bomber has been confirmed by DNA tests. He is Seyh Abdurrahman Alagoz, a 20-year-old university student from Adiyaman province, Turkey.

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