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  • Jun 26, 2024 | theguardian.com | Maeve McClenaghan

    On 22 January 2022, 11 boys entered a CCTV blind spot at the intersection of two roads in Stretford, Manchester. Only 10 left alive. Sixteen-year-old Kennie Carter was stabbed, his last words heard by his older brother to whom he was on the phone at the time: “They’ve stabbed me in my heart, bro.”Kennie’s mother, Joan Dixon, later described how her family had been shattered by his death.

  • Jun 26, 2024 | theguardian.com | Maeve McClenaghan

    The number of people facing murder and manslaughter charges despite not being the principal offender has risen significantly, amid official warnings about the use of joint enterprise laws. Nearly 1,000 people have been charged and more than 600 convicted in the past five years in England and Wales even though they may not have been physically responsible or present at the crime scene.

  • Jun 26, 2024 | theguardian.com | Josh Halliday |Maeve McClenaghan

    Four teenagers have been found guilty of killing a 16-year-old boy who was stabbed in the chest in what prosecutors described as a “cowardly” revenge attack in Manchester. Kennie Carter died after he was attacked as he walked home near Manchester United’s Old Trafford stadium on 22 January 2022. A 16-year-old boy, who cannot be named because of his age, admitted fatally stabbing Kennie but claimed he had acted in self-defence.

  • May 22, 2024 | romulans.net | Maeve McClenaghan

    Exclusive: Potentially thousands of signed works from Currency series were mass-produced by artist’s team after 2016, sources sayAt least 1,000 paintings that the artist Damien Hirst said were “made in 2016” were created several years later, the Guardian can reveal.Hirst produced 10,000 of the paintings, each comprising colourful hand-painted dots on A4 paper, as part of a project called The Currency that was born from the idea of creating a form of money from art.

  • May 22, 2024 | theguardian.com | Maeve McClenaghan

    At least 1,000 paintings that the artist Damien Hirst said were “made in 2016” were created several years later, the Guardian can reveal. Hirst produced 10,000 of the paintings, each comprising colourful hand-painted dots on A4 paper, as part of a project called The Currency that was born from the idea of creating a form of money from art. The year 2016 was inscribed on the works beside the artist’s signature.

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Maeve McClenaghan
Maeve McClenaghan @MaeveMCC
23 Dec 24

What Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey have been through to get the truth out is horrendous and truly scary for British and Irish journalism. Hear McCaffrey talk about their amazing investigation ⁦@TipOffPodcast⁩ https://t.co/oj90ISl5WT https://t.co/amrCoZCuHM

Maeve McClenaghan
Maeve McClenaghan @MaeveMCC
4 Dec 24

I will be joining my colleagues at the Guardian and Observer who are on strike for 48 hours over the sale of the Observer. For more information please follow @GoNUJ93 and @NUJofficial or visit https://t.co/tjh3ELXCoq

Maeve McClenaghan
Maeve McClenaghan @MaeveMCC
17 Nov 24

Joined the cool kids. I’m now on @maevemcclenaghan.bsky.social