Ms Bannister did not regain consciousness and died in hospital six days later. Injuries recorded at the hospital in addition to the devastating brain injuries included a nasal fracture and fractured eye socket, two black eyes, multiple rib fractures and a collapsed lung.
Helen Bannister. Picture: South Wales Police Campbell will have to serve a minimum tariff of 18 years in jail. After the defendant’s sentencing, Abul Hussain, a senior crown prosecutor in CPS Cymru-Wales, said: “Everyone has the right to feel safe in their own home and there’s no excuse for domestic violence. “The strong case prepared and presented by the CPS resulted in a guilty plea to murder.
Teenage boy critical in hospital after Fishponds stabbing
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A 17-year-old boy is in a critical but stable condition in hospital today after he was subjected to vicious attack last night in Bristol.
Initial investigations with hotel staff confirmed that John had remained at the Banyan restaurant, an outdoor dining area, after his wife returned to the room alone.
It was clear, assistant commissioner Yoosoof Soopun would later say, that the young accountant must be ruled out as a suspect. An immediate order was given for his release.
As news filtered through to Ireland that Michaela, the daughter of Mickey Harte, one of the most famous figures in modern Gaelic football history, was dead, John was alone on a paradise island thousands of miles from home.
It fell to hotel manager Bruce Lunot to ferry him home from Piton that night, back to Legends hotel to spend the third night of his Mauritian honeymoon not with his wife, but under the watchful eye of a nurse. “She was able to give me a relaxing tablet,” he would later recall in a Mauritian court. “I can remember waking at 6 in the morning.”