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Telegraph
8 hours ago
- Telegraph
80-year-old murderer handed third life sentence for prison stabbing
An elderly convicted killer who slit another prisoner's throat in a revenge attack has been handed his third life sentence. Brian Wade, 80, told a judge he was 'quite happy' to receive another maximum sentence and was 'too old to worry about it' as he accepted that he would die in jail. Wade was serving a life sentence for the manslaughter of a young man in 1998 when he attacked fellow inmate Robert Kendrick. He cut his throat with an 'improvised shank' made from a matchstick cutter. Kendrick, 40, was airlifted to hospital but survived. Wade denied attempted murder but admitted wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, stating he wanted to leave a mark 'for him to remember me by'. Judge William Mousley KC said Wade was 'clearly a dangerous offender, even at the age of 80'. Previous convictions Simon Jones, prosecuting, said: 'He has a number of previous convictions for serious violence – a grievous bodily harm in 1965, a life sentence for murder in 1966, a section 18 wounding with intent in 1972 and a life sentence for manslaughter in 1998. 'That sentence is the one he was serving at the time of this offence.' His first killing is believed to have been a neighbour called Edwin Cardwell, 21, in Rotherham, South Yorks, whom he bludgeoned to death with a sledgehammer. The 1998 killing is thought to be Johnathan Abell, a 22-year-old in Nottingham whom Wade killed with a machete and a knife before handing himself in to police. Relationship had turned sexual The court heard that Wade and Kendrick had known each other for about 10 months at the time of the attack at HMP Guys Marsh in Shaftesbury, Dorset, on Oct 28 2022. Kendrick said they had 'bonded' over their mutual love of art and their relationship had turned sexual at one point for about two months. But by October Kendrick was in a relationship with someone else and he told the other prisoner about the previous relationship with Wade. Wade lured Kendrick to his cell. Once there, he tied his hands and feet with shoe laces before cutting his throat with three deliberate movements. The wound came within a centimetre of a main vein in the neck. Mr Jones read a victim impact statement from Kendrick, who has since been released from prison. He said: 'I suffer awful night terrors and replay the incident in my mind. I see Brian on top of me slitting my throat while I lay in a pool of my blood, Brian giggling to himself and rubbing his hands together.' Wade, who represented himself, wrote a letter to the judge before the sentencing hearing to explain the motivation for the attack. He wrote: 'He put a mark on my name and good reputation so I put a mark on his neck as a reminder of what he had done.' Wade told Bournemouth Crown Court: 'I'm quite happy with a life sentence. I'm too old to be worrying about these things, I place myself at your mercy. I will die here in prison, which is fine by me.' Judge Mousley gave Wade another life sentence with a minimum term of 10 and a half years before he can be considered for parole. The court heard that Wade's letter also said that he knew who had stolen his watch and had 'now marked time on him'. The judge asked for the prison to be notified about this threat.
Yahoo
21-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Untold Scenarios DLC for Ara: History Untold Launches June 18, 2025
New DLC pack includes unique Scenario play that features both historical and alternative history settings for more event-driven strategic challenges PLYMOUTH, Mich., May 21, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Stardock Entertainment and Oxide Games, in partnership with Xbox Game Studios, today announced the upcoming release of the Untold Scenarios DLC for the historical strategy game Ara: History Untold. Untold Scenarios will be available on June 18, 2025, for SRP $9.99. Untold Scenarios includes several different situations to choose from, which place you right in the center of critical moments in human history as well as some hypothetical "what-if" scenarios that explore interesting alternative historical settings! Key features of Ara: History Untold - Untold Scenarios include: Historical Scenarios: Players will experience detailed recreations of significant historical periods, such as the Bronze Age Collapse, the Clash of Hemispheres, and Europe at the Crossroads. Hypothetical Scenarios: The DLC introduces "what-if" scenarios designed to explore alternate histories. Custom Gameplay: Each scenario features uniquely crafted maps, distinct national characteristics, and event-driven gameplay designed to provide varied strategic challenges with every playthrough. Untold Scenarios will be available on Steam and the Microsoft Store. Untold Scenarios content requires the Ara: History Untold base game product. Ara: History Untold is available on Steam and with Xbox Game Pass for PC. For the latest information on updates, community initiatives, and future content, visit the official website at Click HERE for assets. About Stardock Entertainment Stardock is a pioneer in the strategy gaming genre headquartered in Plymouth, Mich. that has been in operation since 1991. Starting with Galactic Civilizations on IBM OS/2, Stardock's influence on strategy game design is found in every new release in the genre. The company has created multiple iterations of the beloved Galactic Civilizations series and established Sins of a Solar Empire, Ashes of the Singularity, The Political Machine, and Elemental as tentpole strategy franchises that have garnered critical and commercial success. Learn more at About Oxide GamesOxide Games is a video game studio founded in January 2013 by a group of veteran strategy game developers, including Dan Baker, Brian Wade, Marc Meyer, Tim Kipp, and Brad Wardell. Leadership at Oxide Games previously worked on ground-breaking strategy titles, such as Sid Meier's Civilization V & VI. Oxide Games developed the Nitrous Engine to support the release of Ashes of the Singularity, which continues to set GPU benchmarking standards. Oxide Games released 4X grand strategy title Ara: History Untold alongside Xbox Game Studios in 2024. Media Contact: Colin Regan Colin@ Partners View original content: SOURCE Stardock Entertainment Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
National Geographic
18-02-2025
- General
- National Geographic
The epic journey of Canada's last (and only) reindeer
As Canada's last free-ranging reindeer herd drives forward, just north of the Arctic Circle, the animals carry with them a link to a legendary experiment. It began about a hundred years ago, after the number of local caribou that the Inuvialuit long depended on began to decline and a bold plan was hatched to address food scarcity by importing reindeer. (Caribou and reindeer are the same species, but the latter have been domesticated.) Something similar had been tried at the turn of the century in nearby Alaska, when waves of reindeer boarded boats and trains to make improbable journeys from Siberia and Norway to North America. In late 1929, a chunk of what was then a burgeoning Alaska reindeer population—some 3,500 reindeer—set off for Canada under the care of Sami and Inuit herders. The arduous, zigzagging 1,500-mile journey ended up lasting more than five years, marking a difficult beginning to what came to be known as the Canadian Reindeer Project. (To save caribou, Indigenous people confront difficult choices.) Now, decades on, a group of Inuvialuit stakeholders is taking the project further into uncharted territory. The herd, which has been cared for with the help of the Inuvialuit but family owned, was formally purchased in 2021 by the Inuvialuit Regional Corporation. Under the watchful eyes of Esagok and his colleagues, the herd has more than doubled, to nearly 6,000 reindeer, making possible an ambitious plan to build a sustainable path to self-reliance for Inuvialuit people living on their ancestral lands. In March 1898, a shipment of reindeer makes its way north from Seattle, Washington, toward Alaska. Three decades later, as Alaska's reindeer population swelled, the Canadian government purchased its own herd and had it sent to the Northwest Territories. Photograph by PICTURE ART COLLECTION/ALAMY STOCK PHOTO 'The ultimate goal is to have reindeer abundantly available for Inuvialuit—that's goal number one,' said Brian Wade, director of the Inuvialuit Community Economic Development Organization. 'There's the food security component to this herd, but there's also job creation and the economic component to it.'
