Daily Mail - 13.08.2019

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Russia admits

nuclear blast

at missile site

RUSSIA has admitted that an

explosion at a remote missile

base last week involved sci-

entists developing new

nuclear weapons.

Radiation levels spiked in

the town of Severodvinsk in

Russia’s far north west after

the blast last Thursday.

But the authorities have

only just admitted it involved

‘nuclear engine’ testing. Rus-

sia’s nuclear agency chief

confirmed that five scientists

had been killed.

US experts believe the blast

could be linked to testing of

the Burevestnik cruise mis-

sile which president Vladimir

Putin has been promoting.

Hospital, where it was discov-

ered that her brain had shifted

15mm, causing it to swell and

pressure to build.

The baby died from a bleed

on the brain caused by a sig-

nificant use of force on Octo-

ber 5, 2017.

Prosecutor Hugh Davies QC

said: ‘The death of any child is

likely to be emotive, most espe-

cially where an adult on whom

they were wholly dependent is

said to have caused it.’

He added: ‘What caused this

death was traumatic and con-

sistent with Tina having been

shaken with a significant

degree of force or a blow to her

left-hand forehead.

‘[Pham] may have momen-

tarily have lost control and in

£30 a day and had looked after the baby ten

times. But on the penultimate day, the baby

was unwell with a running nose, a cold and

teething, wanting to be carried most of the

day, the Old Bailey heard.

‘It was a long day for you because Tina’s

mother did not come to collect her because

she was running late,’ Mr Justice Martin

Spencer told her. Pham was left on her own

with Tina for a second day after her boy-

friend left the house, the court heard. ‘That

must have annoyed you because it was

going to be an onerous day looking after

Tina because it had been the other day,’ Mr

Spencer said.

‘Tina vomited on two occasions necessi-

tating you to clean up after her. Shortly

before midday, you shook Tina’s head and

probably also threw her.’

Tina was taken to Queen’s Hospital in

Romford, east London, before being trans-

ferred to Great Ormond Street Children’s

Daily Mail Reporter

Nanny who shook

baby to death was

in the UK illegally

A VIETNAMESE nanny working

illegally in the UK when she shook
an 11-month-old girl to death has

been jailed for six years.
Anh Pham was seen holding Tina
Nguyen asking neighbours to ‘help me’
after running out into the street for help.
The 27-year-old, who speaks little English
and who had no right to remain in Britain,
had begun babysitting for Tina’s mother,
Huong Nguyen, a month earlier. She earned

‘Significant

degree of force’

frustration shaken Tina or hit

her in a way that caused the

movement of the brain that

caused this injury.’

In a victim statement, Ms

Nguyen, of Barking, described

her daughter as ‘a gift from

God’ after she had left her

husband and two other chil-

dren after fleeing Vietnam.

‘I felt as if everything had col-

lapsed on me,’ she said. ‘I

wanted to hold her in my arms

to hold her hands.

‘I was allowed in to hold Tina

at about 8pm. I was praying

and I was crying, I wished for a

miracle to happen. I said to

Tina, “Don’t leave.”’

Pham, of Barking, was con-

victed of manslaughter last

month. Yesterday, she was

sentenced to six years in jail.

She was told she was likely to

face deportation proceedings.

Facing deportation: Pham

Compiled by ETAN SMALLMAN

and ADAM JACOT DE BOINOD

DAY

ON THIS

August 13, 2019

FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE

AUGUST 13, 1964

THE gang with £2.6 million in its kitty spent

£100,000 yesterday springing Great Train

Robber Charles Wilson from Winson Green

prison, Birmingham. Police believe Wilson’s

escape is the first in an underworld plan to

release the gang’s key men. [Wilson was

recaptured in 1968 and jailed until 1978].

AUGUST 13, 1966

THE Beatles admitted they had been

worried by the outbreak of record burning in

the U.S. following John Lennon’s remarks on

the comparative popularity of The Beatles

and Christianity. On their arrival in Chicago

last night, Lennon gave a semi-apology. ‘I

wasn’t saying whatever they are saying I was

saying,’ he declared. ‘I was sort of deploring

the attitude towards Christianity.’

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

ALAN SHEARER, 49. The

striker-turned-TV pundit from

Newcastle, who captained

England 34 times, remains the

Premier League’s top

goalscorer, with 260 goals, and

won the title with Blackburn

Rovers (right) in 1995.

Forty-six of those goals

came from headers,

and he used to do 150

a day in practice,

leading Shearer to say he is

concerned he may have been left with an

increased risk of dementia.

PAUL GREENGRASS, 64. The Surrey-born

director worked on ITV’s World In Action

and co-authored the book Spycatcher with

Peter Wright, the former assistant director

of MI5, before helming big-budget Holly-

wood films, including three Jason Bourne

movies and Flight 93, about one of the planes

hijacked by the 9/11 terrorists. He said he

was thrown out of Gravesend Grammar

School for ‘being a huge pain in the a**e’.

BORN ON THIS DAY

ANNIE OAKLEY (1860-

1926). The 5ft-tall American

sharpshooter made her name

in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West

Show and performed for

Queen Victoria. The king of

Senegal even invited her to

come to his country to help

control the tiger population.

Oakley inspired the Broadway musical Annie

Get Your Gun, turned into a 1950 film

starring Betty Hutton and Howard Keel.

SIR ALFRED HITCHCOCK (1899-1980).

Born in Leytonstone, the director of Psycho

and The Birds had his own fears despite

making scary films. ‘I’m frightened of eggs,’

he admitted. ‘They revolt me. That white

round thing without any holes... Have you

ever seen anything more revolting than an

egg yolk breaking and spilling its yellow

liquid? Blood is jolly, red. But egg yolk is

yellow, revolting. I’ve never tasted it.’

ON AUGUST 13...

IN 1964, The Supremes recorded Baby Love,

which would become their first UK No 1.

IN 2016, 3ft 8in actor Kenny Baker, who

played R2-D2 in Star Wars, died aged 81.

WORD WIZARDRY

GUESS THE DEFINITION: Grimoire (c 1850s)

A) A dancer’s belt. B) A book of magic.

c) A song sung at a banquet. Answer below

PHRASE EXPLAINED

Balling the jack — Meaning dancing wildly,

doing something at top speed, or risking all

on a single attempt such as gambling. From

a popular song of the early 1900s.

QUOTE FOR TODAY

BleSSed is the man who, having

nothing to say, abstains from giving

us wordy evidence of the fact.

George Eliot, English novelist (1819-1880)

JOKE OF THE DAY

WHY did the quarry go out of business?

It hit rock bottom.

Guess The definition answer: B.