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Gypsy Rose Blanchard reveals she was once locked in solitary confinement — because of a fan

Convict-turned-influencer Gypsy Rose Blanchard reveals her abusive past and time in prison via letters, phone transcripts and photos in her new e-book, “Released: Conversations on the Eve of Freedom,” out Tuesday.The 32-year-old — who was released from a Missouri prison on Dec. 28 after serving seven years of a 10-year sentence for her role in the murder of her mother, Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard, in 2015 — details alleged abuse by her mother and grandfather but says she is remorseful for her crime.Blanchard also reveals a battle with opioid addiction while in prison — and claims she served a stint in solitary confinement after a super fan wanted to break her out.“I want you to know that I know now you were mentally and emotionally unstable when raising me,” Blanchard says in an open letter to her mother, written from Chillicothe Correctional Facility in Missouri.
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Benjamin Mendy 'constantly late for training' at Man City, rape trial hears
Manchester City footballer Benjamin Mendy was constantly late for training because he overslept, a court heard today.The 28-year-old defender was also said to have had "questionable professionalism" during his time at the club, which he signed for in 2017. The French International is on trial accused of raping and sexually assaulting a total of six different women on five different occasions at his home in Mottram St Andrew between October 2018 and August last year.Mendy denies seven counts of rape, one count of attempted rape and one count of sexual assault.Chester Crown Court previously heard Mendy went clubbing “two or three times a week” and regularly invited people back to his mansion for after parties. Giving evidence today, Marc Boixasa, former head of first team operations at the Premier League side, said Mendy was “the nicest person he had met in football” but admitted he was “not the perfect professional.”Jurors heard Mendy became injured during his first season with the club and was sent to Barcelona for treatment. Mr Boixasa said: “When he came back from Barcelona, sometimes the medical team reported he was late for treatment. “The attitude was always the same in the sense that he was not like the perfect professional in the sense he was arriving late many times in the morning because he overslept. And that was constant during his stay with the team.“On one side he was really liked by everyone on the team.
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‘Lock This Animal Away’: Club Q Mass Shooter Sentenced to Over 2200 Years in Prison After Killing Five at LGBTQ Nightclub
Club Q, a Colorado LGBTQ nightclub, and wounding 19 others with an AR-15 style assault rifle last year has been sentenced by a judge to life in prison, including over 2200 years behind bars.“Anderson Lee Aldrich, 23, was sentenced Monday to five consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole for the 2022 massacre at Club Q in Colorado Springs, Colorado,” CNN reports.“Judge Michael McHenry also sentenced Aldrich to an additional 2,208 years in prison for the attempted murder charges. Aldrich also received a four-year sentence for bias-motivated charges, which are akin to hate-crime charges in other states.”RELATED: Watch: Club Q Owner Testifies Before Congress About ‘Hundreds’ of Messages of Hate He Received After Anti-LGBTQ AttackColorado does not have the death penalty.Unarmed patrons in the club took Aldrich down.Cheryl Norton, whose daughter Ashtin Gamblin survived after being shot nine times, urged Judge McHenry, “Please your honor, I’m pleading with you: Lock this animal away to the depths of hell.”Extremism expert Mark Pitcavage on Monday noted Aldrich “had prominently featured on his website an accelerationist white supremacist video urging killings and terrorist attacks.”Calling it “one of the worst mass killings in Colorado history,” NBC News adds that “Aldrich, 23, who identifies as nonbinary and uses Mx.
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