Paedophile football coach Barry Bennell is branded 'the devil incarnate' as he is jailed for 30 years

The former football coach Barry Bennell was branded “sheer evil” and the “devil incarnate” on Monday after being sentenced to 30 years in prison for subjecting junior players from Manchester City and Crewe Alexandra to hundreds of sexual offences.

Bennell, now facing complaints from another 86 former players, stared at the floor as the judge, Clement Goldstone QC, gave him prison sentences totalling 454 years, to run concurrently.

There were cries of “yes” from the public gallery at Liverpool crown court as he was sentenced to serve the longest individual term of 30 years, with another year on licence. He will be eligible for parole after 15 years.

The judge told Bennell, 64, he had considered imprisoning him for life because of the “trail of psychological devastation” suffered by the victims and said the severity of the sentence was, in part, because the former coach and talent-spotter had shown no remorse for the 12 former players he had raped and molested over several years.

“In one of your [police] interviews you said that, while it might be fair to describe you as manipulative, cunning and even predatory, you were not evil,” Goldstone told him. “You could not have been more wrong. Your behaviour towards these boys in grooming and seducing them to, in some cases, the most serious, degrading and humiliating abuse was sheer evil.

“You knew that to each of these boys football was their life – the career for which they would give anything. And it was the career for which you would take anything and everything they had to offer. You appeared as a god who had it in his gift to help fulfil their ambitions and realise their dreams. In reality, you were the devil incarnate. You stole their childhoods and their innocence to satisfy your own perversion.”

Winter Olympics PYEONGCHANG, South Korea 2018: Latest results

Last Updated Feb 19, 2018 10:23 PM EST

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea -- Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, who already have helped Canada win gold in the figure skating team competition, head into the ice dance free skate at the Pyeongchang Olympics in first place. Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron are in second after overcoming a wardrobe malfunction in the short program Monday.

The three American teams are right behind them. American champions Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue are in third, siblings Maia and Alex Shibutani are in fourth, and Madison Chock and Evan Bates are in seventh.

20 US presidents who belonged to shadowy secret societies

Secret societies always get the ominous treatment in fiction.
Are there any movies with remotely benevolent secret orders? Most fictional secret societies are usually more bogged down with dressing in outdated robes, chanting ominously, doing sacrifices, or hatching nefarious global plots.

So, to the paranoid mind, it probably sounds somewhat startling that 20 out of 45 US presidents have been affiliated with some kind of secret group. Just keep in mind that many of these societies function a bit like social clubs, charitable organizations, and business networks. In many cases, beneath the secret handshakes and mysterious rituals, they're kind of like adult frats (or actual frats, in the case of the college groups on this list).

Here are the presidents who have belonged to a secret society at some point:

Skydiving instructor plunged 1,600 feet to his death trying to save student

  

A skydiving instructor plummeted 1,600 feet to his death as he saved a student whose parachute failed mid-air.

Carl Marsh, 46, helped Dominic Leeds when a piece of equipment snapped as they emerged through clouds during a training drill.

When the dad-of-one aided Mr Leeds in releasing his reserve parachute, he became entangled in the student's principal chute.

Although he was able to cut himself free, it is thought Mr Marsh lost consciousness when his own parachute began spiralling to the ground at high speed and was unable to steer himself to safety.
He suffered multiple fatal injuries in the ensuing impact and died at the scene. His teenage son was working on the ground at the time.

As many as 17 killed as mountain of garbage collapses

Heavy rains triggered the partial collapse of a huge mound of garbage in Mozambique's capital on Monday, killing as many as 17 people who were buried by debris.

Authorities believe more bodies could be buried at the Hulene garbage dump on the outskirts of Maputo, and a search was underway. The garbage in the poor, densely populated area where the disaster happened rose to the height of a three-story building, according to the Portuguese news agency Lusa.

Twelve people died, Lusa reported. Radio Mocambique put the death toll at 17. Half a dozen homes were destroyed and some residents in the area fled for fear of another collapse.

Dublin's dead men walking: 29 on death list in brutal gangland war

    

In the most violent gangland feud in Irish criminal history they are Dublin’s dead men walking.

As one international crime gang headed up by a Dublin drug smuggler seeks to annihilate its rival in the Irish capital, at least 29 men have been told they are on death lists.

Fifteen people have already died, with many more injured and dozens of families have been driven from their homes by fear and intimidation during two years of gang warfare between master criminals Christy Kinahan and Gerry “The Monk” Hutch. There is seemingly no end in sight to their fight over the Dublin drug trade, which has intensified and become ever more personal.

  

Baftas 2018: Three Billboards scoops Best Film as its stars Frances McDormand and Sam Rockwell collect awards

  

(18 February) saw the 71st Bafta film awards take place at London's Royal Albert Hall for an event which saw Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri emerge the evening's big winner.

Joanna Lumley replaced Stephen Fry as the ceremony's host which also saw wins for The Shape of Water and Darkest Hour.

Best Director winner Guillermo del Toro's fantasy drama led the pack with 12 nominations in total with Martin McDonagh's Three Billboards following up with nine.

   

Scandal hits Church of England as vicar is caught on video smoking crack, snorting cocaine & discussing prostitutes & Porn at his church-owned home (Photos)

The Church of England is reportedly investigating a vicar in East London after he was caught on video smoking crack, snorting cocaine and discussing prostitutes and pornography with a friend at his church-owned home.
In the video released by The Sun on Sunday, Rev Stennett Kirby, 64, the vicar of West Ham Parish Church in Stratford, smoked what was reported to be highly-addictive Class A drug and snorted cocaine in the shocking footage.

Fergie 'murders' the American national anthem at the NBA All Star game (Video)

Fergie confused the whole world after singing her version of the American national anthem at the NBA All Star game last night.

The singer, who performed in front of an all star crowd which included Beyonce, took to the court in a skin tight sparkling black dress with killer heels. Expecting a traditional version of the ballad, the crowd was visibly shocked with the Black Eyed Peas singer's version.


One basketball player was even caught on camera giggling.

Basketball fans and stars flooded Twitter with their responses to her hit =. One viewer quipped: "I played this for my dog and he died." Another added: "One of the most horrifying renditions I have ever heard. Did she think it was the 1920s or trying to seduce the flag? I'm not sure what just happened. Not just her ability.. but the arrangement was bizarre."

PHOTO: luxurious $92 million superyacht that has a sushi bar, a salon, Jacuzzi, and can sleep 16 people

One of the most luxurious of these yachts is the Fraser Perini Navi Grace E, which costs about $92 million to buy, according to Fraser's website. Spanning a length of more than 200 feet, the superyacht has seven staterooms and an entire wellness deck complete with a spa and gym.

Keep scrolling for a closer look inside the luxury yacht:

Built by Perini Navi, the Grace E superyacht measures about 240 feet long, and is priced at a whopping $91,931,000.

Russian Alexander Krushelnitsky fails doping test at Winter Olympics

 

The International Olympic Committee’s highly contentious decision to resist a blanket ban on Russian athletes at Pyeongchang 2018 backfired enormously last night after one of the nation’s medallists failed a doping test.

A spokesman for the Olympic Athletes from Russia confirmed to Sportsmail that they had been notified of an adverse finding and said the results of the B sample would be known today.

They would not confirm the identity of the athlete, but it is reported by Russian media to be Alexander Krushelnitsky, who won a mixed doubles curling bronze medal. He is said to have tested positive for meldonium - the same substance for which Maria Sharapova was banned in 2016.

according to Russian daily newspaper Sport Express.

Breaking News : Plane carrying 66 people crashes in southern Iran

Iran — An Iranian commercial aircraft carrying 66 people crashed on Sunday in southern Iran, a semi-official news agency reported. There was no immediate word on casualties.

The ATR-72, a twin-engine turboprop used for short-distance regional flying, went down near the remote mountain town of Semirom, some 620 kilometers (390 miles) south of the capital, Tehran, the semi-official Fars news agency said.

Fars said the plane was flying from Tehran to the southern Iranian city of Yasuj, some 780 kilometers (485 miles) south of the Iranian capital.

The legendary Dahomey Amazons are the real-life all-women’s army in Black Panther

Marvel Studios just released another Black Panther feature, this time spotlighting the all-female army whose role has been shown to be essential to the story being told in the film.

In the clip below, the Dora Milaje are paraded in scenes showing their valor and regalia as Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong’o, and Danai Gurira talk about their characters’ relation to the Dora Milaje, the women’s army in the fictional African nation of Wakanda in Black Panther.

Danai Gurira, the American actress of Zimbabwean ancestry, who also serves as the general of the Dora Milaje shares that, “the Dora Milaje are women who pledged their lives to the throne and to the security of the kingdom”.

#BlackPanther movie review.. (5 Stars)

  

There's a line at the end of Black Panther that I haven't been able to get out of my head in the weeks since I first saw the film. At the risk of being too spoiler-y (you will all complain anyway) I'll remove the context, but it goes something like this: "Bury me in the ocean with my ancestors who jumped from ships, because they knew death was better than bondage."

It's a powerful moment, one that's tragic and beautiful all the same. This is the moment when Marvel, for the first time, finally transcended the superhero genre. Never has a line in a Marvel movie carried this much weight; it's an idea reserved for great literature or essays, for something much bigger than a Hollywood tentpole.

How to get more followers on Instagram

Instagram’s algorithm is constantly changing.

They’re trying to make more money with updates to the way – and order – we see photos and adverts.

This is all well and good for the advertisers, but for us regular joes who might be trying to build a brand or business it can be frustrating.

Luckily, there are still some surefire ways to get more followers that don’t involve paying for ads. Here are our top tips.