Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
'Fantasist monster' who strangled six-year-old to death in 1994 finally jailed for life
dailystar.co.ukjustice and sentenced to life in prison – serving at least 15 years.Appearing in court today in a light, short-sleeved shirt, dark tie and trousers, the judge told James Watson he must serve a minimum of 15 years.
He was sentenced for the age he was at the time of the murder and showed no emotion when the ruling was read out. READ MORE: Horror as body of girl, 3, found in rubbish bin – with nan arrested for murderWatson, 41, was just 13 on November 28, 1994 when he lured young Rikki into some woods in Peterborough before murdering him.The twisted killer strangled Rikki using a ligature or anorak collar before stripping him naked and “exhibiting” in a star shape for his own sexual gratification.Watson had told his mum about the "morbid fantasy" just three days prior.He was found guilty in April this year at the Old Bailey in London following a crucial DNA breakthrough in 2016 linking him to Rikki’s discarded clothes.Watson has previously been convicted for sexual assault, stealing cars and setting fire to a British Transport Police station.Initially, police suspected Rikki’s mother Ruth Neave killed her own son, but she was acquitted after a trial in 1996.She previously admitted to a series of child cruelty offences against the six-year-old.In a statement read out at today's sentencing, Neave said: “I know I smacked him when he was naughty, but I hated it.
I could not tell him off without.“Yes I used to shout at him and swear, but that never killed him, did it?“I had my children snatched out of my arms in the middle of the night because the police were so adamant that I had killed Rikki and would then kill my daughters.“I feel dead inside, he was the only son I had.”Following 36 hours and 31 minutes of jury deliberation,.
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