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The Sun
08-05-2025
- General
- The Sun
Foxes will RUN from your garden thanks to £4 Asda buy – cats will find it ‘repulsive' too
HAVE you got foxes in your garden that just won't leave? Well, if you're on a mission to get a fox-free garden in time for summer, then you've come to the right place. 3 3 We've found a super simple, yet highly effective tip that instantly repels the pests from your garden in no time at all. Not only this, but cats and dogs will find it 'repulsive' too. Fox cubs will dig in soft soil, often in borders, and to mark their territory you might find foxes leaving excrement on your lawn. But thanks to a bargain buy from Asda, you'll soon be able to say goodbye to these nocturnal animals and their mess. And don't worry, this hack doesn't involve any harsh methods that could harm or injure these wild animals. What's more, you won't have to go out and spend loads of money on any fancy tools either. With this method, you'll need a £3.97 buy from Asda. It turns out that cat repellent also works to stop foxes entering your outside space. While several retailers sell a cat repellent, the Doff STOP Cat and Dog Scatter granules, which you can buy from Asda for just £3.97, £4 from Wickes or £3.99 from Wilko, promise to repel and prevent not only cats and dogs from 'fouling' in your garden, but also foxes too. This bargain buy also 'helps reduce fouling, digging and scratching in garden areas". Top Pest Control Tips for Your Yard To use it effectively, all you'll need to do is 'scatter the product' over your grass and fox entry points. Thanks to this supermarket buy, such animals will avoid entering and fouling in the areas treated. Common garden pests Common pests in the garden don't need to be a cause for alarm. If you can identify them, you can work on getting rid of them and preventing them from returning. Aphids (Greenfly, Blackfly) Aphids are extremely common and can impact plant growth. They have tiny soft pear-shaped bodies, and are usually green or black. You may spot them clustered on the stem of soft shoots – look under leaves in particular – or may find a sticky substance on your plants that gives away aphids have been there sucking at the sap. Whitefly These small white-winged insects are related to aphids, at just 1 or 2 mm in length, and look very much like white moths as adults. They can be found on the underside of leaves, preferring younger, fresher leaves. They fly in clusters when you disturb them. Their lifecycle is only three weeks long, which means an infestation can occur very rapidly. Slugs An unmissable, squashy-looking body plus small sensory tentacles on its head. Slugs move along on one muscular foot. They range in scale from surprisingly small to terrifyingly large; limax cinereoniger species can grow comfortably beyond 20 cm in length. Cabbage Moth Caterpillar Cabbage moth caterpillars happily make their way into the heart of the vegetables, The caterpillars are distinguished in shades of yellow or browny green with no hair. Mealy Bug Mealybugs are tiny oval-shaped insects that have a white, powdery wax coating. There are several different species, many of which have what looks like legs coming from their sides and back end. In their earliest stage of life, it's entirely possible to mistake them for fungus and not recognise them as insects at all. According to the product listing, the granules 'release a strong highly perfumed odour that lasts over several days. 'The goal is to mask odours left by previous fouling so the animals do not recognise the area.' Not only this, but the product description continued: "Cats and dogs also find this smell repulsive. Tips for keeping pests from your garden Plant companion plants such as peppermint to repel rats. Place Garden Netting Pest Barrier, over your flowerbeds. Fill open-top containers with beer and place in soil to repel slugs. Spray plants with Neem Oil, to repel ants, flies, and spiders. Dust your flowerbeds with Diatomaceous Earth. Mix 1 tablespoon dish soap, 10 drops peppermint oil, and 4 cups water and spray on flowerbeds. Place eggshells around your plants to protect from slugs and snails. 'This safe and handy scatter bottle has natural scatter granules containing natural plant extracts. 'They quickly mask the odours but also slowly release a scent that cats and dogs do not like." Foxes operate in a similar way as cats and dogs - they will mark territory and use the smell as a flag to return to fertile hunting grounds. Remove the smell with these purse-friendly granules and you'll find foxes running away from your garden, as they will be unable to find their way back. Not only this, but according to the RSPCA, other options to deter foxes from your garden include planting shrubs closely together, with prickly plants or small pebbles that make it difficult for the creatures to enter.
Yahoo
01-05-2025
- Yahoo
MANDEL: 'Scourge' of domestic violence nets killer life without parole for 15 years
She had to speak to her sister's killer one last time. So hours after Kadeem Nedrick, 34, was sentenced to life in prison with no parole eligibility for 15 years for the brutal murder of his former partner, Brittany Doff, she waited for her chance to face the man she once loved as a member of their family. It's conversation Miranda Doff would like to keep private but in broad strokes, she says he expressed his remorse and she told him the destruction he wreaked on their family by killing her 30-year-old sister can never be undone. 'I just wanted to see him for closure and for myself,' she explains. But in her broken heart, there is no end to this tragedy, no closure, especially not when she'll be facing him again at a parole board hearing in a future that is far too close. 'It is not just; it is not enough,' Doff says after returning home from the downtown courthouse. 'The fact that we call this a life sentence has to stop. It's not. People don't understand that you're not going to go away for life.' Because since Nedrick's parole eligibility began counting from his arrest for Brittany's murder on Jan. 3, 2021, her sister's killer can now apply for release in 12 years. On the eve of his first-degree murder trial in April, he pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of second-degree murder, which carries an automatic life term. The only issue Superior Court Justice Michael Brown had to determine was the length of parole ineligibility and Brittany's family was hoping he'd accept the higher end of Crown attorney Mary Humphrey's submission of a stiff 18 to 20 years. 'While all murders are by definition violent, this murder involves a measure of brutality. It was a murder by Mr. Nedrick of an unarmed, vulnerable female victim using a large knife,' Brown said in his ruling. 'The parole ineligibility period imposed in cases of second-degree murder of an intimate partner must reflect the reality that despite years of jurisprudence condemning such acts, the problem has not abated,' the judge continued. 'Intimate partner violence is a pervasive scourge on society with often devastating consequences for those who experience it, as well as their loved ones.' Her family felt Brown said all the right things about domestic violence, but then fell short in his sentencing. 'I thought he was going to have more courage than where he ended,' Doff said. This is a man who was on bail after being charged a year earlier with choking Brittany and threatening to throw her off the balcony in front of their three-year-old autistic son. He'd been diverted to the Partner Assault Response program where he had three more sessions of the 12-week program for anger management before his charges would have been withdrawn. 'He should not have been recommended there,' Doff insists. 'That program was supposed to be for low-risk offenders. Strangling somebody and threatening death is not low risk.' This is a man who refused to leave her Grace St. home despite Brittany repeatedly asking him to pack up and go, who told his friend on New Year's Eve as 2021 became 2022, that 'I think about killing her every day' and 'I think about poking her up (stabbing her) and burying her in the backyard.' And who then came home and told her 'You are lucky that you are still alive.' But not for long. This is the man, who three days later, met Brittany's attempts to pack her belongings and leave herself by twice plunging a kitchen knife so viciously into her chest that the blade snapped off, killing her almost instantly in her own home with one of the stab wounds puncturing her heart. Again, in front of their son. Brittany was failed, her sister says, all the way along. And now, once again. 'Brittany's case just really exemplifies how you can reach out for help, and you can call police and you can do all the right things, you can even leave, but no one's coming (to help). And that's what happened to her. 'And then here we are with this 15 years (of parole ineligibility),' she sighs. 'It's like even after you're gone, you're not respected.' mmandel@
Global News
30-04-2025
- Global News
‘A pervasive scourge on society': Ontario man handed sentence for girlfriend's murder
A Toronto man has been sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 15 years after pleading guilty to the second-degree murder of his girlfriend, less than a year after she called police to report he had assaulted her and threatened to kill her. On April 3, on the eve of his trial for the first-degree Murder of Brittany Doff, Kadeem Nedrick pleaded guilty to the lesser offence of second-degree murder. Doff was stabbed to death on Jan. 3, 2022, inside the Little Italy apartment she shared with Nedrick in front of the couple's four-year-old son. Crown prosecutors had asked for a parole ineligibility period between 18 and 20 years, arguing there were elements of planning and deliberation, while the defence's position was a period of 12 to 13 years was appropriate, calling it an impulsive act. Superior Court Justice Michael Brown told court he was unable to find beyond a reasonable doubt that the evidence established planning and deliberation, though he found there was evidence of ongoing hostility and animus between Nedrick and Doff. Story continues below advertisement Court heard the couple had a tumultuous history during their eight year on-and-off again relationship. 2:09 Sentencing hearing for man who admitted to fatally stabbing girlfriend According to an agreed statement of facts, in the early morning hours of Jan. 3, 2022, the 30-year-old mother fled her Grace Street apartment because Nedrick was being verbally aggressive. Doff texted one friend and reported that she was afraid that Nedrick would physically abuse her and asked her friend to come over. Get daily National news Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day. Sign up for daily National newsletter Sign Up By providing your email address, you have read and agree to Global News' Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy Doff then called another friend and said Nedrick had woken her up and was questioning why she wasn't in the same bed. Doff told her friend Nedrick was scaring and freaking her out and said she wanted to leave. Her friend called her a rideshare and Doff went to her mother's house. Later that evening, after asking the second friend to accompany her home, Doff went downstairs to retrieve her belongings and tuck her son in. She was stabbed twice in the chest. One stab wound perforated her heart. The friend was also threatened with a knife. Story continues below advertisement After the friend called 911, she went downstairs and found the couple's child, who is autistic and non-verbal, standing over his mother, moaning and crying. Nedrick, who also called 911, was arrested in front of the home. On the phone to 911 operators and again to police officers who took him into custody, he confessed to stabbing his 'wife.' At the time of the fatal stabbing, Nedrick was out on bail for a previous assault against Doff. According to the facts, Nedrick physically assaulted Doff in February 2021 and threatened to throw her off the balcony. Their son, who was three at the time, was present. On Oct. 6, 2021, Nedrick was accepted into the Partner Assault Response Services (PARS) for anger management and was told if he completed the program, the charges would be withdrawn and he would enter into a peace bond. Nedrick had three sessions left at the time of the murder. According to the facts, just three days prior to the fatal stabbing, Nedrick also threatened Doff with an object and told her 'she was lucky to be alive.' A friend of Nedrick's, whom called police after the murder, said that on New Year's Eve, Nedrick told him 'I think about killing her everyday … I think about poking her up and burying her in the backyard.' Poking her up is a slang for stabbing her. Story continues below advertisement Brown said the murder involved a measure of brutality and shocking violence in front of the couple's son. He also noted that Nedrick had a dated record from 2014 for drug trafficking and breaching court orders. The judge said the guilty plea was a mitigating factor, which he accepted was an expression of remorse. 'Intimate partner violence is a pervasive scourge on society with often devastating consequence for those who experience it along with their loved ones. Everyone is entitled to live their lives free of harm and violence. Ms. Doff experienced both at the hands of Mr. Nedrick in her own home,' said Brown. Crown prosecutors asked for a non-contact order between Nedrick and the couple's son, who court heard is now in the care of the Children's Aid Society, until the completion of Nedrick's sentence. Nedrick will be eligible to apply for parole on Jan. 3, 2037. 'On the limited record before me on this issue, I'm not in the position to say that between today and 2037, it will be in his best interest not to have contact with Nedrick. That is more appropriate to leave that determination to a family court to make the determination about the child's best interest in terms of his future contact with Nedrick,' said Brown. Nedrick was also given a lifetime weapons prohibition, a DNA order and a non-communication order with the family of Doff.
