FB selfie showing murder weapon helped convict killer: Reports

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January 18, 2018

Toronto, Jan 18: A selfie posted on Facebook showing Cheyanne Antoine, 21, wearing a black belt eventually led to her being convicted for killing Brittney Gargol, reported the BBC.

Antoine pleaded guilty on Monday (Jan 15) to killing Gargol two years ago in the Canadian city of Saskatoon.

Gargol was strangled to death and she was found "unresponsive" by the side of a road, said CBC News. Antoine's belt was found near her body.

Just hours before the incident took place, a selfie was posted on Facebook showing both Antoine and Gargol together. A small detail in the photo also showed the belt that was found near Gargol's body.

Antoine was then identified as a suspect.

As part of her plea, Antoine took responsibility for Gargol's death, but said she did not remember killing her.

She added that Gargol had been her best friend and that they had been out drinking the night of the incident. They got into an argument that same night.

Antoine is also said to have then led the police on a wild goose chase by posting on Facebook asking where Gargol was, said CBC News.

She then told the police that the pair had gone to several bars, but security footage showed that neither of them were at Colonial Pub and Grill, a bar that Antoine claimed they had gone to.

However, Antoine is said to have shown up at a friend's house on the night of the murder and confessed to killing Gargol, said CBC News.

Antoine was sentenced to seven years in jail for manslaughter.

She later apologised in a statement through her lawyer, said the BBC.

"I will never forgive myself. Nothing I say or do will ever bring her back. I am very, very sorry ... It shouldn't have ever happened."

Members of Gargol's family also came forward with offer their statements, reported CBC News.

"Most days we can't stop thinking about Brittney what happened that night; what she must have felt fighting for her life," said Gargol's aunt.

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January 7,2020

New Delhi, Jan 7: The Delhi Police has filed an FIR against JNUSU president Aishe Ghosh and 19 others for allegedly attacking security guards and vandalising the server room of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) on January 4.

The police registered the FIR on January 5.

In the complaint filed by the JNU administration, the University alleged that the accused were involved in physical violence and pushed the women guards, verbally abused them and threatened them of dire consequences if they opened the lock of university's communication and information (CIS) office.

"They illegally trespassed the University property with the criminal intention to damage the public property. They damaged servers and made it dysfunctional. They also damaged fiber optic power supplies and broke the biometric systems inside the room," the University officials alleged.

This incident allegedly occurred a day before Aishe Ghosh, other JNU students and teachers were attacked by a masked mob inside the campus.

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July 20,2020

New Delhi, Jul 20: India's COVID-19 case tally crossed the 11 lakh mark with the highest single-day spike of 40,425 new cases and 681 deaths reported in the last 24 hours, informed the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry on Monday.

Total cases in the country now stand at 11,18,043 while the death toll is 27,497.
The Health Ministry said the total number of cases includes 3,90,459 active cases and 7,00,087 patients have been cured/discharged/migrated.

Maharashtra remains the worst affected state with 3,10,455 cases reported until Sunday.
Meanwhile, as per the information provided by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), 1,40,47,908 samples have been tested for COVID-19 till July 19, of these 2,56,039 samples were tested yesterday.

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February 19,2020

Beijing, Feb 19: The death count from China's new coronavirus epidemic jumped to 2,000 on Wednesday after 132 more people died in Hubei province, the hard-hit epicentre of the outbreak.

In its daily update, the province's health commission also reported 1,693 new cases of people infected with the virus.

This brings the total number of cases in mainland China past 74,000.

Most of the cases are in Hubei, where the virus first emerged in December before spiralling into a nationwide epidemic.

Wednesday's jump in the death count was an increase on Tuesday's figures, although the number of new cases reported in Hubei were the lowest for a week.

A study released by Chinese officials claimed most patients have mild cases of the illness.

Outside of hardest-hit Hubei, which has been effectively locked down to try to contain the virus, the number of new cases has been slowing and China's national health authority has said this is a sign the outbreak is under control.

President Xi Jinping, in a phone call with the British prime minister, said China's measures were achieving "visible progress", according to state media Tuesday.

However, the World Health Organization has cautioned that it was too early to tell if the decline would continue.

On Tuesday the director of a hospital in the central Hubei city of Wuhan became the seventh medical worker to succumb to the COVID-19 illness.

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