A memorial of the Grenfell Tower disaster earlier this summer. Photograph: Vuk Valcic/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/ShutterstockThe final evidence sessions have heard unflinching accounts of how victims died, panicking and desperate in horrific conditions
by Robert Booth Social affairs correspondentThe public inquiry into the Grenfell Tower disaster is ending as it began: with a shocking reminder of the human cost. It opened in May 2018 with elegies to the 72 victims. Its final evidence sessions have been unflinching accounts of the violence of their final moments. Read More...
Oklahoma This article is more than 1 year oldHandwritten letter casts doubt on key testimony in Oklahoma death row caseThis article is more than 1 year oldSelf-confessed killer Justin Sneed gave only implicating evidence at Richard Glossip’s trial, later writing ‘things are eating at me’
A handwritten letter has come to light casting doubt on the critical testimony of a self-confessed murderer who provided the only implicating evidence at the trial of Richard Glossip, a death row inmate in Oklahoma who is to be executed in six weeks’ time. Read More...
JD SalingerJD Salinger: Excerpts of his workPassages from some of the US novelist's best known worksThe Catcher in the Rye (1951)"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. Read More...