Teacher guilty of sexual abuse and murder of 13-month-old baby boy he adopted with his partner bbc.in/4uCuOs4

CCTV footage from 2023 captures Barnaby Webber and Grace O'Malley-Kumar just seconds before they were stabbed to death by Valdo Calocane in Nottingham. He also went on to kill 65-year-old Ian Coates. Calocane, a migrant from Africa, was given an indefinite hospital order. 🇬🇧

This footage from Afghanistan cuts deep into the soul. A father stands there saying he is willing to sell his seven year old twin daughters for marriage to adult men or for domestic work. He is poor. He is in debt. He cannot feed his family. He claims it breaks his heart but sees no other way. Media voices rush to frame these fathers as victims of drought failed aid and harsh rules. They paint the sellers as tragic figures forced by circumstance. That misses the real horror. The little girls are the ones being handed over. Their childhoods. Their bodies. Their futures. Sold to ease the burden on everyone else. This is not poverty alone at work. This flows from a regressive Islamic practice that has long treated girls as property rather than human beings with rights. Teachings and traditions that permit grown men to take child brides. Precedents that still shape minds in places where daughters are the first to be sacrificed when money runs out. Why the girls and never the sons. Why marriage to older men becomes the solution instead of every other path. That pattern does not appear by accident. It reveals a worldview that devalues female life from the start. Poverty reveals what people already believe is acceptable. It does not invent the belief. These children are not bargaining chips or livestock to trade for a few years of food. They are innocent lives who deserve protection safety and the chance to grow up whole. Sympathetic coverage that humanizes the men doing the selling while soft pedaling what happens to the girls only adds to the damage. It normalizes the unthinkable. This regressive practice of viewing and treating young daughters as disposable assets must be confronted without excuses or cultural cover. No faith no tradition no hardship justifies auctioning off seven year old children into the hands of adult men. If this outrages you too then share it. Silence protects the rot. Speaking up is how it ends.

British right-wing politician Tommy Robinson was in Moscow ahead of anti-immigration protests in Belfast, where he met Errol Musk, who is now working with the Kremlin. A video of their meeting in a Moscow bar at the Metropol Hotel has appeared online. Robinson said he had come “to see Russia” and believes it is “not an enemy of Britain.”