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2 days ago | channel103.com | Adam Parsons

Depardieu, 76, was convicted by a court in Paris of groping the women during the filming of the 2021 movie Les Volets Verts (The Green Shutters). Both victims had been working on the film in behind-the-scenes roles. Following his convictions, Depardieu was fined €29,040 (about £24,000) and the court requested that he is registered in the national sex offender database. His lawyer Jeremie Assous said the star, who denied assault and did not attend Tuesday's hearing, will appeal against the verdict.

2 days ago | channel103.com | Adam Parsons

Depardieu, 76, who has appeared in more than 200 movies, was convicted by a court in Paris of groping the women during the filming of the 2021 film Les Volets Verts. Both of his victims had been working on the film in behind-the-scenes roles. Both women claimed they were scared to speak out at the time and intimidated by Depardieu. "I was petrified", said one of the women, a set designer named Amelie.

6 days ago | channel103.com | Emma Birchley

Sharon Miller and Wayne Birkett were among three people who survived when Valdo Calocane ploughed into them with a van he'd stolen from 65-year-old Ian Coates, after stabbing him to death. Calocane had already killed Grace O'Malley-Kumar and Barnaby Webber as they walked home in June 2023. They were just 19. "I thought I was dying. I just wish he had taken me instead of the students," said Sharon of the teenagers, who had "their whole lives ahead of them".

6 days ago | channel103.com | Ashna Hurynag

Warning: This article contains references to strangulation, domestic abuse and distressing images. It comes as a woman whose former partner almost strangled her to death in a rage has advised anyone in an abusive relationships to seek help and leave. Bernie Ryan, chief executive of the Institute for Addressing Strangulation, has been running the charity since its inception in 2022 after non-fatal strangulation became a standalone offence. "It's the ultimate form of control," she said.

1 week ago | channel103.com | Dominic Waghorn |in Kyiv

He will be looking on with envy as Vladimir Putin parades both in Moscow today, with Chinese leader Xi Jinping flying in to join Victory Day events in Red Square. European allies of Ukraine will be watching nervously, wary of anything that could upturn the delicate quest for peace. President Trump's patience with peddling his much vaunted "peace deal" has been wearing thin and allies had feared Ukraine could be punished for it. That would have been grotesquely unfair, of course.