Three men arrested on suspicion of murder after man, 22, crushed to death by a train 'after argument at station'

A young man died when he became sandwiched between a railway platform and a departing train moments after a fight at a station.
It is understood that following a row with a group of men, Ryan Harrison either fell or was pushed down the side of the platform next to a  stationary train.
The 22-year-old was killed minutes later when the train moved away, trapping him between it and the edge of  the platform.
Three men are now being questioned on suspicion of murder in relation to the man's death.

Ryan Harrison

Mr Harrison died just before midnight on Saturday at Guildford station, Surrey. It is understood he had been on a night out with a friend.
A family friend said Mr Harrison, of Woking, Surrey, had moved with his dad to Spain to start a business but came back in September last year.

 Daloney Carlton, partner of Mr Harrison’s father Tony, said: ‘He came back in September because he missed his friends and moved in with his girlfriend.

‘I don’t know what happened but I think he was with his girlfriend at the station.
‘He was a lovely lad and his father is in pieces. He is flying back in a couple of days but can’t even talk at the moment.’

A spokesman for British Transport Police confirmed the death was being treated as suspicious, though reports that he had been stabbed appeared unfounded.
He said: ‘BTP officers are appealing for witnesses after a man died at Guildford rail station around 11.40pm on Saturday.
‘The man, a 22-year-old from Woking, was involved in an altercation at the station shortly before being fatally injured by a train.
‘Detectives are working to establish the full circumstances surrounding the death, which is currently being treated as suspicious.’
‘We’ll be checking whether the incident was captured by CCTV cameras, but we know there were a number of other people at the station at the time and want to hear from them.’

Two men, both aged 19 and from Guildford, were arrested at the scene. A third man later handed himself in at a police station.
The railway station was closed for most of the night following the incident, only re-opening fully at around 9am yesterday.
Friends of Mr Harrison last night posted emotional tributes to him on Facebook.
Lesley Ann Penistone said: ‘The world is a sadder place without you Ryan Harrison. God bless you, Jamie, Tony and all your family and friends. RIP little love xxxxx’
Jake Lund wrote: ‘Can’t believe this has happened to such a nice person, rip Ryan.’
Nicola Fuller added: ‘RIP Ryan, lovely lad.’
Grant Marsh posted: ‘What a legend of a lad. RIP.’

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Family of British bride left brain damaged after freak wardrobe accident at £10,000 a night Abu Dhabi hotel fear she will die unless they can raise the millions needed for her treatment

Natalie Creane, who was recently put in a coma for the seventh time, desperately needs an operation

The family of a British woman who was left brain damaged after a wooden panel fell on her head in a seven-star hotel in Abu Dhabi fear she is 'dying before our eyes'.
Natalie Creane, 34, had to be put in a medically induced coma this month for the sixth time to protect her against the severe seizures she has suffered since the freak accident in 2008.
However, her family say without treatment costing millions of pounds her next seizure could be her last.
They say she urgently needs specialist surgery at a neurological hospital in New York but they cannot afford to pay for the treatment after receiving only £36,000 in compensation.
Mrs Creane, who has been intensive care more than 20 times in the past four and a half years, has recently come out of her latest coma at the Rashid Hospital in Dubai but her friends say 'every day she runs the risk of another major seizure.'
Her parents Angie and Derick Smith said today they and Mrs Creane's husband Trevor have been left 'devastated' by her decline.
Mrs Smith, 63, told the Sunday People: 'We've seen things no parents should see their child go through. I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy.'
Mrs Creane's four-and-a-half year battle for justice after she was injured at the Emirates Palace hotel ended in Abu Dhabi Higher Claims Civil Court last month when she was awarded just a fraction of the £3.5million claim she lodged to cover the impact on her life.
Since the accident, Mrs Creane struggles to walk and talk and cannot be left alone after the blow to her head left her suffering epileptic seizures and a traumatic brain injury. She has also had to give up her career in human resources.

Mrs Creane can no longer work and her family fear she is 'dying before our eyes'

Mrs Creane, from South Weald, Essex, was staying at the Emirates Palace in July 2008 to celebrate her engagement to husband Trevor, 43.

She was alone in the room unpacking when a 2.2kg wooden panel, which was not fixed properly to the top of the wardrobe, fell on her head.
She was found unconscious on the floor by a room attendant and was taken to hospital by car instead of an ambulance.
Mr Smith, 65, said the impact of the panel, which fell 8ft, was equivalent to three bricks falling on Mrs Creane's head.
Mr Creane, who has stayed in Dubai with his wife, said her 'injuries were horrific'.

He told the Sunday People that immediately after the accident her eye was totally closed and her face was completely swollen.

The 34-yer-old was celebrating her engagement to husband Trevor when she was injured. Since 2008 she has had to give up work and struggles with  speaking and reading and has been in intensive care 20 times

He said the hotel promised to investigate the accident after senior management met the couple in the days after her injury.

He said: 'They were shocked. They sent flowers and assured us the incident would be investigated thoroughly.'
But, despite the assurances, the family say the compensation is not enough and are appealing to the verdict.
The first appeal hearing will be held on April 17.
The family set up a Facebook page called Justice for Natalie to highlight their story.
An update on the page said Mrs Creane is beginning to recover after her latest coma.
It said: 'It has been a slow recovery, probably as a result of her heart issues and auto immune disease.
'We are waiting to see about her surgery and the Radiation therapy she needs and the costs involved.

A luxury bedroom at the Emirates Hotel. The Creane family are appealing their compensation award next month

'We are desperately trying to keep her from catching another infection after her three bouts of Pneumonia this year, but her immune system is so bad now, it is extremely hard - this means visitors now are practically non existent with all the bugs going around.
'Her cognitive problems aren't good and she is struggling to eat, feed herself and has her usual problems with memory and walking/talking.
'As always she has good days and bad days. More recently since her deterioration this last year, she has much more bad days. Please continue to share this page and her story, we are so scared that we are running out of time for our Nat.'
Mrs Smith said every day her daughter goes without the operation, the worse it becomes.
She said: 'I'll do anything to get Natalie the help she desperately needs, to stop her from dying. But we are running out of time.'

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Power cut interrupts Jonathan’s Easter message in Lagos

President Goodluck Jonathan had a good dose of the epileptic state of the nation’s power supply as his Easter message during a service at Our Saviour’s Church (Anglican Communion), Tafawa Balewa Square, Lagos, was punctuated by an outage on Sunday.

 Power supply to the church auditorium went off about six minutes into the President’s speech and lasted till he ended the message.

The President used battery-powered microphone to continue his speech which lasted for nine minutes, 40 seconds.

The service which ex-Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon, also attended had earlier been interrupted by an outage for few minutes before the President mounted the podium to deliver his message.

Jonathan, however, made a joke of the situation, saying the power was deliberately put out in order to remind him of the urgent need to tackle the problem in the country.

“They know that I’m here; that’s why they took light, at least to remind me that I must not sleep until we stabilise power. God willing, next year they will not take light,” Jonathan said.

The President assured Nigerians that the country would survive the incessant terrorists’ attacks and other challenges facing it.

He thanked Christians for their prayers which he said had helped to keep Nigeria united as a nation.

Jonathan said, “I sincerely thank all of you and all the Christians in Nigeria for your prayers. It would have been worse if you have not been praying. This country has passed through a lot. I know all those last days of military transition to the regime that handed over power to Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo at the time the country was drifting, it didn’t know where it was going.

“We had political environments that we didn’t even know where we were transiting to. But with the persistent prayers by you, Christians, God stabilised the country. God will continue to stabilise this country. God will continue to keep us together. I promise you as a mortal, I will do my best.”

He urged Nigerians to “live within peace and love,” while reiterating Gowon’s famous civil war quote, saying “to keep Nigeria as one is a task that must be done.”

He said the deluge of terrorists’ attacks facing the country would not divide it, adding that his government was working tirelessly to overcome the challenges.

Jonathan said, “We have our challenges as a nation in these days of terrorism. It’s quite sad. I can assure you that we are working very hard and we will continue to work very hard and God willing terror attacks will not divide this country.

“We have our challenges as a nation but we must go to where we want to go. As the president, by the grace of God and your good will, I promise, I will do my best. I will not disappoint Nigerians within limitations of our resources. We will fix our infrastructure.”

Speaking to journalists after the service, Gowon urged Nigerians to continue to live in peace. Gowon backed Jonathan’s stand on not granting amnesty to Boko Haram members.

He said, “If it is something that can bring about the peace and understanding, then why don’t we pursue it. It is an opportunity, but as Mr. President says, let us know who are the leaders that will come out to accept the amnesty on behalf of other people.”

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Man pours hot water on 13-year-old housemaid

Edu

A 13-year-old girl, Precious Edu, has accused the brother-in law of her employer of pouring hot water on her.

Edu, who said she was denied the opportunity of attending school after she was brought to work with Esther Amunde and her brother-in-law, Papa, in Calabar, Cross River State, said Papa poured the water on her after accusing her of splashing water on him.

She said after the hot water left some burns on her neck, shoulder and chest, she was left to wallow in pains for two days until neighbours took her to the hospital for medical attention.

Narrating her ordeal to PUNCH Metro on Saturday on her sick bed, Edu, who is currently being treated at the Calabar General Hospital, said she was brought to Ekorinim area of the state from Obudu in the northern part of the state to work as housemaid on the agreement that she would continue her secondary education.

But the situation changed as she was allegedly denied schooling by Amunde, who insisted that Edu must not be distracted from taking care of her little son.

Edu said, “Sometime in 2012, one woman, Amaman appealed to my mother to release me as a housemaid to her sister, Esther Amunde, residing in Calabar because she needed somebody to stay with her.

“When my mother accepted, it was with the understanding that I would continue my schooling. I initially stayed with Amunde’s mother in Obudu for three months before Amunde came during Obudu new yam festival in August 2012 to take me to Calabar.”

Edu said on getting to Calabar, she worked full time as housemaid until September when she expected that she would resume school with other children.

She said she reminded Amunde to register her in a school in Ekorinim, but she turned down the request, saying her work was to take care of her son.”

Edu said, “Amunde refused to register me in school insisting that my duty in her house was to take care of her (Amunde) son.

“I was attending Girls Secondary School in my village and I was in JS-1. Even when I was with her mother (Amunde) briefly before coming to Calabar, she allowed me to go to school. But my boss said because of her son, I cannot attend school.”

Edu alleged that in the course of carrying out her duties, she was maltreated and abused by Papa.

She alleged that it was Papa that poured the hot water on her after a slight misunderstanding.

She said, “In the morning of March 9, I unplugged a kettle and was turning the water in it into a bucket when Papa said the water splashed on him. He soon brought a smaller bowl, dipped it into the bucket of hot water and poured it on me.

“When I told my boss about the incident, she neither reacted nor did anything to the burn. It was after my skin had had started peeling because of the burn that Amunde gave me two tablets of Panadol to use.

“However, when I went to fetch water from the borehole five days later, some neighbours saw my peeling skin and screamed. One of them took me to the general hospital.”

At the hospital, a nurse, who identified herself as Alice, said a child rights activist, Mr. James Ibor, was called and he, in turn, alerted the police.

Ibor said, “We have made written requests to the Cross River State Commissioner of Police to effect the arrest of Amunde and Papa to face the law because what they have done amounts to felony.”

The activist said what they did by taking Udu from her mother to serve as housemaid was human trafficking.

He said Udu would thereafter be taken to an orphanage where she would eventually be taken back to her parents after the wound had healed.

Efforts to get Amunde and Papa to speak on the issue proved abortive.

When contacted, the state Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. John Umoh, said he was yet to be briefed of the incident.

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One killed, many injured as PDP, ACN clash in Ekiti •They attacked themselves – ACN

Tension has enveloped Erijiyan in Ekiti West Local Government Area of Ekiti State following the shooting to death of a man said to be a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the community, Mr Ayodele Jeje, by people alleged to be Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) thugs on Saturday night.
It was also gathered that the mother of another member of the party in the community, Mr Segun Adewumi, as well as Adewumi’s younger brother were also shot and injured in the attack and that they are now receiving treatment in undisclosed hospital in the state capital.
But the ACN said it had nothing to do with the incident, saying it was a case of a group in the state chapter of PDP attacking another.
Ekiti State chapter of the PDP claimed in a statement by its chairman, Mr Makanjuola Ogundipe, that Jeje, Adewumi and others were attacked where they were meeting to fine-tune their preparation “for a programme where Mr Segun Adewumi wants to lead over 1,000 members of ACN to PDP.”
Ogundipe, in the statement signed on his behalf by Femi Omolusi, said “many were injured and cars were damaged,” with sources saying a leader of the PDP in the state, Senator Clement Awoyelu was not spared as his cars were vandalised in the attack.
The Ekiti PDP chairman called on the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Mohammed Abubakar, to intervene and also urged the state Commissioner of Police, Mr Sotonye Wakama, to bring the perpetrators to book.
But the ACN in reaction denied that its members attacked the PDP members, saying it was rather a clash between members of two factions in the PDP in the area.
Denying the incident, the chairman of ACN in Ekiti State, Chief Olajide Awe, who hails from the community said it had nothing to do with his party, claiming that the build up to the crisis had started since Thursday when some PDP members, who belong to a former governor’s group clashed with members of another group in the party over a planned rally by the former in the community.
According to Awe, the community had been tense since Thursday following the arrival of Chief Bolu Adewumi, who he said was the financier of the group and his younger brother, Mr Segun Adewumi, who was also coordinating the affairs of the group.
The ACN chairman, who denied that Segun Adewumi was a former member of his party, however confirmed that Adewumi had once indicated interest to contest for the House of Assembly under the ACN in the 2011 general election, claiming that “since he was not allowed to contest based on the fact that he is still a serving civil servant in Lagos State, he has not been working with the ACN in the town.”
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As a mortal, I’ll try to stabilise power from 2014 —Jonathan •Says terrorism has eroded trust among Nigerians

A three-minute power outage punctuating his Easter message at Our Saviour Church, Onikan, Lagos, on Sunday, got President Goodluck Jonathan promising Nigerians stable power supply starting from next year.
Amidst giggles from the congregation, the president promised that from 2014, power supply would be stable in the country, adding that “I am not bothered by this (the outage). As a mortal, I will do everything possible in my capacity to stabilise power in the country starting from next year.”
The president, who made a surprise appearance at the church, with proximity to the State House, Marina, where he stayed, was in the middle of his Easter goodwill message and incidentally talking about the commitment of his administration to ensuring stable power supply when the Power Holding of Nigeria (PHCN) struck.
For over three-minutes that the outage lasted, an obviously unfazed Jonathan sustained  his delivery without any power-aided amplifiers, speaking directly to the congregation, by slightly increasing the tenor of his un-aided voice.
Jonathan also noted that he decided to spend Easter in Lagos to celebrate with Lagosians, adding that it was the first time he would so do as president.
He also touched on the issue of insecurity, assuring that the current spate of terrorism being unleashed on the country by the Boko Haram sect would not break Nigeria.
According to him, “by the grace of God, terrorism will not break up Nigeria. Nigerians should keep on praying as your prayers have kept this nation to the point it is now. I strongly believe that all nation, at one time or the other, experience difficulties, so Nigeria is also passing through it own difficult  moment.”
He added that due to the insecurity in the country, no one could trust anybody again in Nigeria, because of the evil being carried out almost on daily basis against  innocent Nigerians.
The president had initially turned down the request of the Vicar, Venerable Igein Isemede, to first mount the pulpit for his message, pointing out the presence of a former head of state, General Yakubu Gowon and insisting that his predecessor-in-office must address the congregation before him.
Gowon, who was in company with his wife, Victoria, admonished Nigerians to hold on to God, as He would solve the problems of the nation.
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JTF, boko haram in bloody battle in kano •15 killed

THE Joint Task Force (JTF) in Kano on Easter Sunday shot dead 14 suspected terrorists during a gun duel when they stormed their bomb factory hideout at Yan’Awaki area of Unguwa Uku quarters in Kano metropolis.
However, a source who preferred anonymity said the 14 terrorists were consumed by their own homemade Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) targeted at the JTF who raided the hideout
According to the source, when the JTF stormed the area and the terrorists felt that their time was up and there was no escape route, they then detonated the explosives which consumed them.
Our source further disclosed that security operatives also foiled a suicide bomb attempt when a bomb-laden Golf car was intercepted at Yan’Awaki area of Unguwa Uku during which they recovered a cache of arms.
It was also learnt that one  soldier was killed, while another one sustained injuries when the JTF operatives confronted the terrorists.
The JTF spokesman, Captain Ikedichi Iweha, confirmed that 14 terrorists were killed while 14 AK-47 rifles were recovered during the battle with the terrorists.
Captain Iweha also disclosed that one soldier was killed during the confrontation, while another one sustained injuries, adding that the entire the area had been combed by security agents in the early morning of Sunday.
The JTF spokesman further disclosed that several ammunitions and  improvised explosive devices (IEDs) were also recovered. The security agents demolished the hideout of the terrorists immediately after the gun duel.
His words:  “We are working very hard and security will not relent in its effort to ensure peace and stability in the state.” He also appealed to residents to continue supporting the security agencies in the effort to bring peace to the state.
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