Daily Mirror - 05.03.2020

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FAREWELL Shirts at funeral

Footy shirts

a fine tribute

to Jordan

More than 800 shirts

from around the world

were displayed at the

funeral of a footballer.

The family of Jordan

Sinnott, 25, had appealed

to clubs to donate shirts,

backed by Steven Gerrard

and Gareth Southgate.

Yesterday 826 shirts

were displayed at Bradford

City’s Valley Parade ground

for the funeral of the

midfielder who played for

Matlock Town.

Some were sent from

places such as Bahrain,

Qatar, Thailand and the

Philippines, and will be

donated to Sport relief.

Around 800 people

attended the service. His

brother Tom, 29, said: “It’s

the perfect send off.”

Jordan had a suspected

fractured skull following

an assault in retford,

Notts, on January 25.

By STEPHEN WHITE

JAIL Jablonskaite & Repsas

Cruel couple

used pair as

their slaves

A CoUPLe have been

jailed for trafficking people

into Britain to be slaves.

rita Jablonskaite, 34,

and robertas repsas, 31,

organised the smuggling of

a man, 50, and a woman,

51, from Lithuania.

Police were alerted after

the man, who slept under

the stairs at the traffickers’

home in Warrington,

Cheshire, found a phone

and called the embassy.

Prosecutor Nicola Wyn

Williams said the victims

“were used as slaves” by

the cruel defendants.

Jablonskaite admitted

three counts of arranging

or facilitating the travel of

another person with a

view to exploitation, and

was jailed at Liverpool

crown court for 28 months.

repsas, who pleaded

guilty to one count of the

offence, got 15 months.

By STEPHEN WHITE

STRESS Time is a key issue

GPs ‘unhappy’ as appointments squeezed

GPs are “dissatisfied” with the

amount of time they get to spend

with patients, a poll suggests.

The Health Foundation said just

one in four UK GPs is satisfied with

the length of appointments.

The health think-tank surveyed

family doctors from 11 high-income

nations, including more than 1,

working in Britain, who were found

to be the least satisfied with the

amount of time they get allocated

to help their patients.

Many GP surgeries in the UK

have rules on how many problems

people can present to their doctor

in a single appointment, which

usually lasts around 10 minutes.

Just 29% feel satisfied with the

amount of time they spend.

GPs from other nations, including

France, Germany, the US and

Canada, said they spend around 19

minutes with each patient and were

found to be more satisfied.

The survey found 60% of British

GPs find their job “extremely” or

“very” stressful and almost half

plan to reduce their hours in the

next three years. Just 6% of UK

GPs report feeling “extremely” or

“very satisfied”, the lowest polled.

One of the report authors, Dr

Rebecca Fisher, said: “These

findings illustrate the pressures

faced by general practice.”

Top lawyer: CPS

clearing itself

over Caroline

is a disgrace

“outrageous the report will not be made

public. If this is just ticking a box, based

on the existing way of doing things,

then it’s likely to be an expensive waste

of time. We need radical reform.”

High-profile lawyer Nick Freeman,

known as Mr Loophole, said an inde-

pendent panel should have carried out

the report, otherwise it is a case of the

“CPS marking its own homework”.

He said: “This matter has been in the

public domain for a long time. All

aspects of it should be

in the public domain.

“People will inevitably

conclude that there has

been a whitewash. I am

not saying that but had

there been an inde-

pendent review we

wouldn’t be having this

conversation.”

Caroline, 40, killed

herself the day after

learning the CPS was pursuing charges

that she attacked partner Lewis Burton.

Caroline denied the charges and

Lewis, who received a head injury

during the alleged incident at her

London flat, insisted he “never

supported” a prosecution.

After she died, her managers rapped

the CPS for conducting “a show trial”

that caused her “significant distress”.

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By Tom bRyANT

Head of Showbiz

Fury at case review ‘whitewash’

LEADING lawyers have branded

the CPS a disgrace, after it

effectively cleared itself over the

decision to charge Caroline Flack.

Prosecutors faced fierce claims that

they had been pursuing a “show trial”

against the Love Island star, who killed

herself on February 15.

Yesterday the Daily Mirror revealed

the CPS was reviewing

its decision to prosecute.

Now the CPS says the

review is over and found

it acted “appropriately

and in line with our pub -

lished legal guidance.”

experienced criminal

barrister Chris Daw QC

has attacked the secrecy

surrounding the review

and the CPS’s lack of

transparency over its process.

He said: “It’s a disgrace. It’s an oppor-

tunity to take a fresh look at mental

health in prosecution decision-making.

“Instead they have had a behind-

closed-doors review which, let’s be

honest, if it has been done in this time-

frame can’t have considered the wider

picture at all.”

Mr Daw thinks Caroline’s mental

health struggles meant she should not

have been charged. He said it was

PR obE Yesterday’s front page

mental

issues

Caroline

Flack out

and about

last year