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Married PwC worker, 28, accused of raping girl, 18, says she ‘begged him for sex’ A married PwC worker accused of raping an 18year-old woman in an alleyway has claimed she repeatedly ‘begged him for sex’. Sanjay Naker, 28, approached the woman after she was thrown out of Number 1 club in London Bridge for being too intoxicated. Inner London crown court heard how he slung her over his shoulder and dragged her away from the busy street on March 11 last year. In a 30 minute attack he forced her to perform sex acts before raping her in the alleyway, it is claimed. Naker was found by a passerby at 4.45am, standing over her and zipping up his trousers, as she lay unconscious, half naked, covered in urine and vomit. When he was interviewed by police last
year, he said: ‘I was quite upset about the ordeal since it happened when I was with my wife and I was like “how can I do this to her?”.’ Naker reportedly told police that he saw the 18 year old having sex with another man on a bench before he left her to go back inside. He said: ‘I asked her if she was alright and she said: “Do you want to f*** me?” ‘Then she just kept saying “f*** me”. That was the only conversation I remember having with her. ‘She honestly just seemed to be very horny at that time. I would not have had sex with her if I had known how drunk she was.’ He added: ‘I was like “what the f**k am I doing, why am I going out and kissing another woman
Sanjay Naker
when I don’t need to”. Naker told police he told a white male to call an ambulance and gave him his number and told him to give it to the girl too. The court heard how he and his wife have been best friends since they were 17 years old but that he had cheated on her
before. Jurors heard how the last thing the victim remembered was standing in the smoking area with her cousin at the club and they staring at a brick wall in the alley. She learnt the next day how she had been kissing a man from the party on the sofas in the VIP area later that night, but had no recollection of it. The jury watched CCTV, which showed she appears to be slumped over his back, not really maintaining any grip, before she fell and hit her head on the ground. Naker, of Wood Green, north London, denies one count of attempted rape, one charge of assault by penetration, and a count of sexual assault. The trial continues.
Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies Celebrates 20 years This Monday, the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies celebrated its 20th anniversary. Since its modest beginnings in 1997 with just 3 students, it has managed to establish itself as a leader in the field of Hindu studies, consolidating and bringing together a global web of scholarship. The Centre’s astounding growth is possible thanks to the support of its backers and well-wishers; the 20th anniversary celebration is a chance for the OCHS community to celebrate the fruits of its hard work and consider the future. A celebration dinner was held at the Oxford Town Hall on July 2nd,
Some of the invited guests
2018 and was attended by over 250 guests, including business people, political figures, scholars, students, religious leaders, and other key members of our community. An address was given by Prof. Louise Richardson, ViceChancellor of the University of Oxford. Other speakers included
Man banned from every Asda in the UK after fabric softener row
A man has been banned from every branch of Asda in the country after a row over fabric softener. Mulkh Chumber visited his local branch of the supermarket chain after spotting an advert for his favourite brand of Comfort Creations. But when he tried to buy 10 bottles he got into a row with the cashier and police were called. Asda has now banned him from ever stepping foot in any branch, reports StokeOnTrentLive Mulkh, 53, went to the store after spotting a national advert saying bottles of Comfort Creations had been slashed from £3 to £1. But at the till he was told the price was actually £2. Mulkh said: “I went to the customer service desk and told one of the workers about this issue and
Prof. Francis X. Clooney, S.J, Harvard University, Prof. Keith Ward, University of Oxford, and Mr Ajay Piramal, Indian industrialist and philanthropist. In two decades, the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies has grown into an institution serving as base to world-class scholars. It has hosted over 2000 lec-
Grenfell firefighter says residents should have been evacuated earlier Senior fire officers responding to the Grenfell Tower blaze wanted the building to be evacuated well before the decision was finally made, the public inquiry into the disaster which claimed 72 lives has heard. Dan Egan, a senior fire safety officer with 25
Mulkh Chumber holding up the Asda advert
was told they were £2. I showed her the advert, which stated they were £1, and she said it was subject to availability, even though the shelves were full. “Then I was told it was selected stores only. But they could not tell me where the offer was available and I was told I would have to put them back.” Mulkh has now shifted his shopping allegiance to Morrisons. Police are not taking any action against the customer.
tures at Oxford and engaged in international conferences and collaborative research with top universities in Asia, Europe, and North America. The twentieth anniversary was an opportunity to step back and take stock of where the organisaation is and where it’s headed. It’s aims have always been dual: to fuel the academic study of Hinduism, and to take this scholarship from its high perch and make it responsive to the needs of everyday Hindus and the wider community. Their publishing, conferences, and visiting student opportunities have accomplished the former, and their burgeoning online courses and outreach projects, the latter.
years’ experience, said he believed the tower should have been evacuated when he arrived just before 2am on 14 June 2017. He said station manager Pete Wolfenden and group manager Tom Goodall, senior firefighters overseeing the response, agreed.
NHS 'a political football' around UK Serious problems facing the NHS are not being tackled because politicians too often use it as a "political football," a think-tank has warned. The four nations of the UK are failing to learn from each other, with the NHS instead used "to batter each other over the head". Helen Howson, director of the Bevan Commission, said each nation is missing opportunities to share ideas. These include tackling a surge in care demands from an
ageing population. Ms Howson said each nation and its health service had "a bit of the answer" but there needed to be a way of sharing the best ideas and approaches. Ms Howson said the NHS had "tended to be used as a political football and that is to nobody's advantage". There was a row only last week when Theresa May challenged the spending per head on the health service in England and Wales.
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Plot to kill Theresa May was 'fantasy', Old Bailey hears A man accused of plotting to kill Theresa May has told the Old Bailey his alleged plans, including an attack from the edge of space, were a fantasy. Naa'imur Zakariyah Rahman, a 20-year-old originally from Walsall, denies preparing acts of terrorism last year. Speaking at the start of his defence, Mr Rahman said he faked support for attacks when he spoke online to a man. That man - who Mr Rahman thought was a commander from the Islamic State (IS) group was an undercover officer. Earlier in the trial, the jury saw a secretly recorded video of Mr Rahman meeting an undercover officer, who was posing as an IS organiser, and asking for a bomb and suicide vest so that he could fight his way into Downing Street to kill the prime minister. On Monday, Mr Rahman told the jury his life had been turned upside down when he was arrested for sending a sexually explicit text message. He said that, after being thrown out of home, he was desperate to leave the UK. Mr Rahman was also grieving for an uncle who had died fighting alongside IS in Syria.
Naa'imur Zakariyah Rahman
He told the court: "My uncle had said that if you join a sleeper cell, Islamic State will pay for your accommodation. "I was desperate. When you're homeless, you're just thinking about a place to stay." The jury heard that during the first online exchanges with the purported commander, Mr Rahman allegedly hoped to car-bomb Parliament, even though he could not drive. He then said: "I learned in science, when I was younger, of a kafir [disbeliever] who went into space in a high altitude hot air balloon. "If you sent hot air balloons above the altitude planes could reach, and have brothers with missiles above, God willing you can drop them." The undercover officer replied: "That is a good idea, we never thought about that before." The trial continues.
Third man charged with murder after Bristol flat death A third man has been charged with murder after a man died at a flat in Bristol. Jordan Lee Parker, 23, from Bedminster, Bristol, was also charged with two counts of causing grievous bodily harm. Yasin Salah Ahmed, 21, from Islington, London, was attacked at a property in Prewett Street, Redcliffe, on 25 June. Korie Hassan, 25, from Croydon, and Leon Eaton,
37, from Lambeth, were charged with murder and inflicting grievous bodily harm last week. Mr Parker is due to appear at Bristol Magistrates' Court later. Two other men, who were taken to hospital with serious injuries, were discharged and then arrested. They are both aged 22 and from London and have since been released under investigation.
A school where pupils allegedly chained a black student to a lamppost and whipped him in a "mock slave auction" has been rated as inadequate by Ofsted. Police investigated a racially aggravated safeguarding incident at Beechen Cliff School in Bath in January and interviewed seven boys. Ofsted found staff failed to report the incident and their response to it was "insufficient and too slow". The chair and deputy chair of the board of governors have resigned. The Ofsted report follows an unannounced inspection in May which
found safeguarding at the school was "not effective". Inspectors said the language used by leaders and governors during the inspection to describe the incident gave "serious cause for concern". "They still do not appreciate its true gravity and little appears to have been learned from the way that this issue was handled, as the ongoing poor practice with regard to referrals demonstrates. "The school's current plans to improve safeguarding are weak." The school, which has over 1,300 pupils, was previously rated outstanding in 2014.
'Mock slave auction' school rated inadequate