Daily Mirror - 24.07.2019

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Hack targets

student data

HACKERS targeted one of

Britain’s top universities in

a “sophisticated and

malicious” cyber attack.

Fake invoices were sent

to undergraduate appli-

cants and a “small number”

of students had record and

ID documents accessed.

Lancaster University

said it set up an incident

team after learning of the

breach last Friday and was

contacting those affected.

It said compromised

data included names,

addresses and telephone

numbers from undergrad-

uate applicants for the

2019 and 2020 intakes.

Ex-judge

dragged

off to jail

SHOCKING video captures the

moment an ex-judge had to be

dragged out of a US courtroom.

Tracie Hunter, 52, who worked

in juvenile courts, got six months

in jail after being found guilty of

trying to pass secret documents

to her brother Stephen, who was

facing the sack from his job as a

youth jail guard.

On Monday, her appeals ran

out and she went limp with

shock as a court in Hamilton

County, Ohio, sentenced her.

Her supporters accused staff

of treating her “like an animal”.

Killer in cuffs

BY MATTHEW YOUNG

I KILLED HER

Suspect’s astonishing

confession to Mirror

Valerie died after 2013 attackVICTIM, 55

Cristian Sabou at court yesterday IN THE DOCK

A BURGLAR yesterday admitted to the Mirror he killed gran Valerie Graves as he appeared in a Romanian court over the “Midsomer Murder” case.

to be extradited to the UK to face trial for the hammer death during a 2013 raid. He told us: “She woke up, I Cristian Sabou’s shock confession came after he agreed

panicked. I never meant to kill anybody. I am really sorry.”FULL STORY: PAGE 5

FROM JEREMY ARMSTRONG in Court 155, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Picture: ANDREW STENNING

EXCLUSIVE

Picture: ADAM GERRARD

Claw hammer attack

accused’s court date

A MAN accused of bludgeoning a grand-

mother to death will “not dispute” he

delivered the fatal blows, a court heard.

Valerie Graves, 55, was killed with a claw

hammer at a property in Bosham, West

Sussex, in December 2013.

Romanian Cristian Sabou, 27,

was arrested in his home

country last week.

Sabou, who earlier

this month confessed

to The Mirror, appeared

at Lewes crown court

to confirm his name.

Defending, George

Hepburne-Scott, said

the defence team was also exploring possible

psychiatric issues in the case.

A provisional trial date was set for January.

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CONFESSED Our story from July 12

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