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Brazil tells its
farmers: No
more blazes
BRAZIL’S president yesterday
banned the majority of agri-
cultural burning for two
months amid global criticism
over the Amazon’s wildfires.
Jair Bolsonaro has refused an
offer of £16million in aid from
the G7 unless Emmanuel
Macron withdraws ‘insults’ –
which were prompted by Mr
Bolsonaro’s mockery of Mr
Macron’s wife Brigitte online.
Another 1,044 blazes in the
Amazon began on Monday and
Tuesday, taking this year’s total
to 83,329 – the highest since- Mr Bolsonaro’s handling
of the crisis has raised fears of
an international boycott of
Brazilian products.
By Jemma Buckley
Crime Correspondent
Arrested in plane seat,
rapist f leeing Britain
POLICE arrested a paedo-
phile with moments to
spare as he attempted to
flee to Ethiopia on a one-
way ticket.
Bodycam footage shows
officers entering the plane
and approaching a seemingly
stunned Diiriye Ali-Jamac.
The 34-year-old has now been
jailed for six years for having sex
with a 14-year-old.
The victim was reported miss-
ing by her mother on April 28.
She was found by officers at
Hounslow train station in west
London the following day.
The youngster revealed she
had arranged to meet Ali-Jamac
- who she knew only as ‘Diddie’
- over WhatsApp, before being
taken to a hotel to have sex.
Surrey Police yesterday told
how the investigation unfolded,
starting with the discovery of a
selfie recently taken with the
victim’s phone. This showed the
hotel in the background – allow-
ing officers to identify the loca-
tion. The suspect had paid in
cash and given a false name –
but police found CCTV footage
of the car he had used.
The vehicle was found later
that day – but it was being drivenby someone else. Officers then
worked through the night,
searching for variations of the
rapist’s nickname, Diddie.
They eventually identified their
suspect as Ali-Jamac, of Feltham,Middlesex. Police added a
‘wanted’ marker to the police
national computer under his
name – and within three hours
the system flagged the pur-
chase of a one-way plane
ticket to Ethiopia.
Surrey informed Metropolitan
Police officers at Heathrow,
who duly swooped on the sus-
pect’s plane on May 2.
When they examined his
phone, they saw the driver
stopped by police had tipped
off Ali-Jamac that they were
looking for him.
The attacker was sentenced
to six years last week after
pleading guilty at Kingston
Crown Court to three counts
of sexual activity with a child.
Detective Constable Sally
Michail, from Surrey’s child
exploitation unit, said: ‘I would
like to commend the victim for
her bravery in [re-living] the
horrendous ordeal she had
suffered all over again when
she provided her statement.
‘She was completely taken in
by this man, who was 20 years
her senior and someone she
thought she could trust.’
‘I would [also] like to thank
the team who worked on this
investigation for the sensitive
way they dealt with the victim
and for their relentless pursuit
of Ali-Jamac, with officers
working a 28-hour shift... to
ensure that he was identified
as quickly as possible.’Nick of time: Police bodycam footage shows the moment Diiriye Ali-Jamac is capturedCompiled by ETAN SMALLMAN
and ADAM JACOT DE BOINODDAY
ON THIS
August 30, 2019
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE
AUGUST 30, 1930
THE last inhabitants of the now-deserted
Atlantic isle of St Kilda tonight had their
first taste of the modern world. HMS
Harebell had taken the 35 survivors of the
1,000-year-old island race to a new life on
the mainland and a rousing cheer of
welcome was raised as they set foot there.
AUGUST 30, 1986
A LOrry driver who smashed his way
through the Berlin Wall with his girlfriend
and baby said last night: ‘Thank God we
made it uninjured.’ The East Berliner, 32,
knocked down two steel barriers and a
metal gate during his dash through Check-
point Charlie. The windscreen was shat-
tered by gunfire from Communist guards.HAPPY BIRTHDAY
CAMErOn DIAz, 47. The
American star (right) made
her name in 1998 comedy
There’s Something About
Mary. She became only the
second actress to earn
$20 million per movie (after
Julia roberts) when she
appeared in Charlie’s
Angels: Full Throttle, a role
which made her an avid surfer, though she
later broke her nose surfing in Hawaii. She
raves about her love of cleaning, ‘scrubbing
her Hollywood home scrupulously’, and
calling it a life-changing experience.
SIr AnTOny GOrMLEy, 69. The London-
born, Turner prize-winning sculptor created
Gateshead’s Angel of the north statue
(below) — with a 54 metre-wingspan and
built to withstand winds of over 100mph —
plus cast-iron figures of his 6ft 4in naked
body planted on rooftops and beaches.
For his sculpture, Bed, he made a mattress
out of 8,640 slices of bread — before
eating his own body shape out
of it. Sir Antony has
been compared
to Henry
Moore and
been hailed
as ‘Mr British
Sculpture’.BORN ON THIS DAY
SAMuEL WHITBrEAD (1720-1796). The
brewer from Bedfordshire became a house-
hold name after installing one of the first
steam engines at a brewery. It was designed
by engineer James Watt and visited by King
George III, who was ‘wonderfully pleased’
with it. Whitbread subsequently went into
politics, becoming Tory MP for Bedford.
SIr ErnEST ruTHErFOrD (1871-1937).
The new zealand-born nobel-prizewinning
‘father of nuclear physics’ was responsible
for the first artificially induced nuclear
reaction. In 1997, the ‘rutherford’, a unit of
radioactivity, was named in his honour. He
once said: ‘All science is either physics or
stamp collecting.’ON AUGUST 30...
IN 1968, The Beatles released the first
record, Hey Jude, on their Apple label.
IN 1976, clashes at London’s notting Hill
Carnival saw at least 100 police injured.WORD WIZARDRY
GUESS THE DEFINITION: After-wit (1579)
A) Stupid. B) Wisdom after the event.
C) Smell of rain. Answer below
PHRASE EXPLAINED
Feeling blue: Meaning to feel melancholy.
Derives from the days of sail when, if a ship’s
captain died at sea, the crew would fly blue
flags from the vessel and paint a blue band
along its hull as a symbol of mourning.QUOTE FOR TODAY
WhAT is freedom of expression?
Without the freedom to offend, it
ceases to exist.
Sir Salman Rushdie, British novelistJOKE OF THE DAY
HOW do you make a water bed more
bouncy? Add spring water.
Guess The Definition answer: B.