He said Ms Andrews 34 must be acquitted if she was acting

He said Ms Andrews, 34, must be acquitted if she was acting in self-defence or if the death was an accident.But she was guilty of murder if she had deliberately stabbed Mr Cressman with the intention of killing or seriously injuring him. The judge added that the jurors ­ 10 women and two men ­ could consider a verdict of manslaughter if they believed Ms Andrews was provoked or was suffering from diminished responsibility.Ms Andrews denies murdering Mr Cressman, 39, in their bed at their £400,000 home in Fulham, south-west London, early on 17 September last year. The prosecution alleges that Ms Andrews stabbed Mr Cressman with a kitchen knife after he refused to marry her. Ms Andrews claims she was defending herself after he raped and threatened to kill her The jury will resume its deliberations today.. A man rescued on Tuesday from a disused mine shaft may have been trapped underground for 11 days, police said.

A man rescued on Tuesday from a disused mine shaft may have been trapped underground for 11 days, police said.
Cave rescuers pulled the man out before dawn, after a walker reported hearing cries for help coming from a shaft on the Mendip Hills in Somerset.Avon and Somerset police said a man in his twenties was being treated at Weston General Hospital for back and leg injuries and hypothermia. A hospital spokesman said his condition was satisfactory.Police said they believed the victim was a man reported missing by his family 11 days ago.”It appears that he may have been down there for 11 days,” said a police spokesman. “What we do know for certain is that he had been down there for some considerable time.”. A man was jailed for life yesterday for killing his ex-girlfriend while her father was asleep in the house.

A man was jailed for life yesterday for killing his ex-girlfriend while her father was asleep in the house.
Daniel Edmunds, 23, admitted murdering Greer Lawrance, 20, at her family home in Edgerton, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, in October.Several hours after the murder, Edmunds, of Brighouse, West Yorkshire, telephoned the police to confess, Bradford Crown Court heard. When detectives arrived at the house, Simon Lawrance, Greer’s father, answered the door and was unaware his daughter was dead.Edmunds and Ms Lawrance enjoyed a year-long relationship after meeting in 1999. When she ended the relationship Edmunds was devastated, the court heard. He had told some of Ms Lawrance’s friends that he would kill her if he could not have her to himself.On the night of the murder they met at a bar in Huddersfield. After being told again that the relationship was over, Edmunds left in a taxi, telling the driver he was going to kill her but “in a nice way”.

Later he climbed some scaffolding on Ms Lawrance’s house to get into her bedroom, where they had sex before he strangled her.Andrew Dallas QC, for the prosecution, said Edmunds then tried to kill himself by slitting his wrists and then phoned the police to tell them he had killed Ms Lawrance.Roger Thomas QC, for the defence, said Edmunds was not a cold-blooded killer.”He took no weapon with him,” he said.. The UN’s special representative in Kosovo called the province’s first election for self-government in a public broadcast last night. The UN’s special representative in Kosovo called the province’s first election for self-government in a public broadcast last night.
Hans Haekkerup said the election to decide the 120 members of the provisional self-government would be held on 17 November. The move follows the determination of a constitutional framework after considerable debate and wrangling among representatives of the UN and the various ethnic groups in Kosovo.The election will be a big test of stability in the Balkans as it will in effect hand power from the UN, which has been administering the province since the Nato bombing campaign, to the predominantly ethnic Albanian Kosovar population.”The assembly will have a seven-member presidency with representation of the principal political parties and communities The assembly will elect the president of Kosovo … [who] will nominate a prime minister who has to present his government to the assembly,” Mr Haekkerup said.The UN will retain a presence after the election and has promised to ensure compliance with UN Security Council Resolution 1244, which rather ambiguously affirms Yugoslavia’s sovereignty while calling for “substantial autonomy and meaningful self-administration for Kosovo”.Mr Haekkerup promised that the Government would have one member of the presidency representing the minority Kosovo Serb community and another to represent such minorities as the Roma and Turkish.