Katie Barnfield
North of England Correspondent at Sky News
Reporter for @BBCNWT roaming around the North West. Formerly @skynews and @itvnews. Got a story? DM me
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1 week ago |
news.sky.com | Katie Barnfield
The family of a man who committed murder during an escape from a secure mental health unit have told Sky News they were "failed" by the trust that was meant to be caring for him. Joshua Carroll is currently waiting to be sentenced for the murder of Headley Thomas, known as Barry, after beating him to death in a park in Trafford, Manchester, in September 2022. At the time of the attack, Joshua was in the care of Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust (GMMH).
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1 week ago |
msn.com | Katie Barnfield
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3 weeks ago |
msn.com | Katie Barnfield
Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.
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3 weeks ago |
news.sky.com | Katie Barnfield
The justice secretary has not ruled out shortening the sentences of violent offenders in a drive to create more space in an over-stretched prison system. Speaking to Sky News, Shabana Mahmood MP said the government wanted to follow the example of Texas in the US, where she said a "good behaviour credit scheme" allows offenders to earn an earlier parole hearing.
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1 month ago |
news.sky.com | Katie Barnfield
A 103-year-old Second World War veteran has been sharing his stories of the frontline with primary school children in Salford - as part of a new project to celebrate the anniversary of VE Day. Bombardier Tom Jones was called up to serve in the Royal Artillery as the war broke out in 1939 - when he was aged just 17. He spent time defending the Liverpool Docks and was later posted to Myanmar, also known as Burma, for four years until the end of the war in 1945.
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At this Scunthorpe pub - everyone we spoke to was either a current or former British Steel worker, or knew people who work at the plant Everyone wanted to see full nationalisation ASAP. Without the plant they say, Scunthorpe will be ‘destroyed’. Latest updates @SkyNews https://t.co/KRdRSwxtIg
RT @realBenBloch: 🚨 BREAKING: Parliament is being recalled to discuss British Steel in Scunthorpe, Sky News understands. Parliament will s…
The Justice Secretary told me she would not rule out shortening sentences of violent offenders to tackle prison overcrowding Her message to their victims is “we all have an interest in making sure the country doesn’t run out of prison places” https://t.co/t7lnwYjfEd
