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.
Two men jailed for planning to 'stomp out' 16-year-old boy in 'chilling' conspiracy
manchestereveningnews.co.ukTwo young men have been jailed for conspiring to assault a 16-year-old boy. Aaron Travers, of Great Howard Street, Liverpool, and Jamie Sheffield, of Langsett Avenue, Salford, both admitted conspiracy to commit assault occasioning actual bodily harm when they appeared before the courts.
A hearing at Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court on Friday afternoon, August 12, heard the two men, both aged 18, committed the offence in March of this year, when Travers was serving a sentence for an unrelated offence in a young offenders institution in Yorkshire.
Wayne Jackson, prosecuting, told the court that Travers had called one of his approved contacts to ask them to put him in touch with Sheffield, instructing them to set up a call forwarding system.
Over the phone, Travers asked Sheffield to assault a 16-year-old boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, saying he wanted the child to be “battered and broken” and “give it to him hard” before adding the youngster “doesn’t need a few hits, he needs stomping out and hurting”, instructing his associate to use as many people as he wanted for the assault, but no weapons were to be used in the attack.
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