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Daily Mirror
7 days ago
- Daily Mirror
Rachel Booth's family share tragic update on her three young sons after body found
Rachel Booth, who was a mum of three, went missing on Saturday before her body was tragically discovered on Monday Friends and family of Rachel Booth have set up a fundraiser to support her family following the mum-of-three's tragic death. Her body was recovered from a lake in Oakmere on Monday after a days-long search by Cheshire Police, who deployed underwater divers and sniffer dogs in a desperate effort to find the 38-year-old. Rachel was last seen by her family in the early hours of Saturday morning in the Barnton area of Northwich. Now, those close to her have set up a GoFundMe, "to honour her memory and ensure the future and safety of her remaining family". A tribute on the fundraising site says: "Rachel tragically leaves behind her loving husband, Carl, and their three beloved sons — Alfie, Archie, and Ronnie. In this time of deep sorrow, we are reaching out to ask for your support in helping her family. "Any funds will be placed into a trust fund for her three young boys. In addition, the family has expressed their wish to donate a portion of the proceeds to a charity close to their hearts — one that supports individuals and families affected by ADHD. "Your generosity, no matter how big or small, will make a lasting difference and is deeply appreciated. Thank you for helping us give Rachel the beautiful farewell she deserves and for supporting her family during this heartbreaking time." The Gofundme page has raised £1,853 so far.
Daily Record
22-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Record
Netflix's Amy Bradley documentary is missing one major detail as brother breaks silence on show
Netflix documentary Amy Bradley is Missing follows the mysterious disappearance of the 23-year-old who vanished while on a cruise ship with her family but the show 'left out quite a lot of information' according to Amy's brother. Netflix's latest documentary Amy Bradley is Missing has been a huge hit with viewers since it's release on July 16 with the three part docuseries sitting in second place in the top UK TV show charts on the streaming platform. The show follows the story of 23-year-old Amy Bradley who disappeared while onboard a Royal Caribbean cruise ship with her parents and brother in 1998. Her disappearance remains a complete mystery as a body has never been found in the 27 years she has been missing. Her brother, Brad has since broken his silence on the documentary that dropped on the streaming platform earlier this month. Brad, who was 21 when Amy disappeared, was the final person to see Amy in the flesh and have a conversation with her. In the hours before she vanished, the siblings had sat outside on their family cabin's balcony after a night of partying at the ship's nightclub. Amy had chosen to stay up on the balcony after Brad went to bed and she was never seen by her family again. Sharing his thoughts on the Netflix show, Brad said that his family 'supported' the documentary and praised the producers for doing an 'awesome' job. Amy's heartbroken parents, Ron and Iva Bradley, both starred in the documentary alongside Brad. A handful of Amy's childhood friends also appeared on the programme, sharing their memories of Amy and recounting the aftermath of her disappearance. Despite Brad's praise for the three part show, he did issue one complaint, stating that the documentary 'was not a complete account and left out quite a bit of information'. In a post on X, he wrote: 'Yes, we support it, but it was not a complete account and left out quite a bit of information. 'It would have required 10 seasons to tell it all, but we thought the producers did an awesome job overall and are happy with the response so far." In a follow-up post, he wrote 'For 27 years, my family has searched for Amy. We will not stop. 'The Netflix docuseries Amy Bradley is Missing is shining a light on her story and we need your help to follow leads and find answers.' He shared a Gofundme to 'raise funds to pursue credible leads, consult with experts, obtain legal support if needed, and travel wherever necessary to uncover the truth' behind Amy's whereabouts. Viewers discussing the show on Reddit believe they have worked out the major left out detail which Brad is referring to. A subreddit titled r/TrueCrimeDiscussion which discussed the documentary was filled with positive remarks. However, one popular comment on it read: 'I disagree about the doc being fantastic. A good documentary would look at all scenarios. These guys obviously had a favourite narrative to sell.' This led to another user chiming in: 'Yep and tons left out (like the PI scamming them- which points to the family looking desperate for any answer).' Someone else agreed: 'Yes! I couldn't believe they left such a big piece out!' These comments are referring to Frank Jones, a man who claimed to be a former U.S Navy Seal in an email to the Bradley family in 1999. He also lied that he had a team of ex-Navy Seals and ex-Army Rangers at his disposal who could help him locate Amy. It came after rumours that Amy had been trafficked to Curaçao by Columbian mercenaries. The family understandably jumped at the opportunity for someone to take a team to the Caribbean and search for her while the FBI were making little progress with her disappearance. Jones unfortunately turned out to be a fraud, collecting regular payments from the Bradley family and insisting that he needed more funds to surveil the island and keep tabs on her. He told the Bradley's he had men who had seen her regularly, even going as far to send a fake photograph to them, claiming he was set to carry out an 'operation' to save Amy and that they should await his call. Join the Daily Record WhatsApp community! Get the latest news sent straight to your messages by joining our WhatsApp community today. You'll receive daily updates on breaking news as well as the top headlines across Scotland. No one will be able to see who is signed up and no one can send messages except the Daily Record team. All you have to do is click here if you're on mobile, select 'Join Community' and you're in! If you're on a desktop, simply scan the QR code above with your phone and click 'Join Community'. We also treat our community members to special offers, promotions, and adverts from us and our partners. If you don't like our community, you can check out any time you like. To leave our community click on the name at the top of your screen and choose 'exit group'. If you're curious, you can read our Privacy Notice. One of Jones' guys who he had been paying to watch a random house in Curaçao overheard the phone call and informed the Bradley family, who had been waiting for a phone call to tell them that their daughter was alive and was coming home safe. Jones took over $24,444 of the Bradley's personal savings and $186,416 from a fund set up by a nonprofit called the Nation's Missing Children Organization. He was found guilty of mail fraud in 2002 and was sentenced to prison for five years with an order to repay the money. Amy's father Ron previously opened up about the scam, saying: 'If there's a chance — I mean, what else do you do? If it was your child, what would you do? So I guess we took a chance. And I guess we lost.'
New York Post
21-07-2025
- Health
- New York Post
Man who died in freak MRI accident was jammed in machine for almost an hour, never told to remove 20-pound chain: family
The Long Island man killed in a freak MRI accident while wearing a massive 20-pound chain was led into the machine room by a forgetful technician and wound up attached to the machine for an hour before he could be released, his family claimed. Keith McAllister, 61, was fatally injured in the bizarre incident, which unfolded Wednesday afternoon inside Nassau Open MRI in Westbury while his wife, Adrienne Jones-McAllister, was at the center to have an image of her knee taken. 3 Keith McAllister suffered multiple heart attacks and died after he was sucked into an MRI machine. Gofundme Advertisement 'While my mother was laying on the table, the technician left the room to get her husband to help her off the table. He forgot to inform him to take the chain he was wearing from around his neck off when the magnet sucked him in,' daughter of Jones-McAllister, Samantha Bodden, wrote in a GoFundMe for burial costs. 3 McAllister was attached to the MRI machine for an hour before he was released. Brigitte Stelzer 'My mother and the tech tried for several minutes to release him before the police were called,' she wrote. Advertisement 'He was attached to the machine for almost an hour before they could release the chain from the machine.' 3 McAllister's family said the Nassau Open MRI technician knew her husband was wearing the chain. Brigitte Stelzer Bodden added that McAllister was led into the room by an MRI technician who did not inform him to take off his chain. 'Several news stations are saying he wasn't authorized to be in the room when in fact he was because the technician went and brought him into the room,' the statement said. Advertisement The strong magnetic field created by an MRI machine can cause metal objects to be pulled in with force. They can also heat up metal objects, potentially burning a patient. Jones-McAllister said her husband suffered several heart attacks as a result of the incident, which ultimately led to his death.
Daily Record
18-07-2025
- Daily Record
Heartbroken dad of Aiden McLuckie pays tribute to "most loyal, loving wee guy"
Aiden McLuckie's dad David described his son as the "most loyal, loving wee guy" following his death on Wednesday, July 16 Teen boy who died in horror crash on Scots bridge pictured as mum left 'broken' An Ayrshire dad has paid a heartfelt tribute to his son after he died in a car crash. Aiden McLuckie, 14, from Hurlford, died on Wednesday, after he was involved in an incident on the A76 near Bargower, between Kilmarnock and Mauchline. Dad David has described Aiden as the "most loyal, loving wee guy" and thanked the people of Hurlford and others after a fundraiser was set up in Aiden's memory. Speaking to Ayrshire Live, David said Aiden was out in Galston playing football with his friends on Wednesday. Aiden had got the bus home and was walking back from the bus stop when the incident happened. David said: "The last thing I said to Aiden, I messaged him to say 'remember to watch that road'. "He was the most loyal, loving wee guy. "We are heartbroken. I don't know how or where we go from here." A fundraiser set up in Aiden's memory has raised more than £4,000 in under 24 hours. Yvonne Devlin started the Gofundme page which has £4,385 for the family. She said: "We are heartbroken by the sudden passing of Aiden following the tragic incident that happened yesterday. "David, Olivia and family have been absolutely devastated by this event and are looking for a wee bit support anything big or small is appreciated, thanks. "Forever 14, RIP wee man." Emergency services were called to the A76 at the bridge over the Cessnock Water near Bargower shortly after 5pm on Wednesday following a crash involving a pedestrian and a Vauxhall Corsa. Following the incident, Sergeant Brian Simpson from Road Policing said: 'Our thoughts remain with Aiden's family at this extremely difficult time, and we are providing them with specialist support as our enquiries continue to establish the full circumstances. 'I would again appeal to anyone with information to come forward. We are keen to speak to anyone who was driving in the area at the time and ask if anyone has dash-cam footage to please contact us.' Anyone with information is asked to call Police Scotland on 101 quoting incident number 2706 of Wednesday, 16 July, 2025.
New York Post
18-07-2025
- New York Post
Surrogacy scandal deepens as 6 women now claim they carried babies for Cali couple caught with 21 tots
For Kayla Elliot, the first red flag should have been the Facebook message inviting her to register with a little-known surrogacy agency in southern California. The Texas mother-of-four had been scrolling through surrogacy chat groups and said she wanted to carry a baby for a childless couple because 'I really enjoy being pregnant.' She found it strange that Mark Surrogacy Investment LLC reached out to her directly, but because she had little experience with surrogacy agencies — which match women with couples who want to have children — she agreed to go forward. 9 Kayla Elliot said she noticed a number of 'red flags' during her experience with Mark Surrogacy Investment LLC. Gofundme She did notice it was a little strange that the organization said they had already chosen a Chinese couple to be the parents of the baby she would eventually sign up to carry. 'I didn't have enough knowledge,' said Elliot in a YouTube interview posted earlier this month by the Center for Bioethics and Culture Network, a California nonprofit whose mission is to inform the public about ethical issues surrounding biomedicine and biotechnology. 'I didn't know [that as a surrogate], you're supposed to choose your family.' Unbeknownst to her, the family she was carrying the baby for was already a large one. A house in an upmarket Los Angeles city was raided by the FBI, leading authorities to rescue 21 small children, many of whom had allegedly been subject to abuse. Guojun Xuan, 65, and Silvia Zhang, 38, were initially arrested in May under suspicion of felony child endangerment and neglect, after a two-month-old baby in their care was brought to a local hospital with a traumatic brain injury. Doctors realized the injuries had occurred around two days previously, sparking a police investigation. 9 Fifteen children, most of them born by surrogate, were found in a sprawling $4 million home that was set up like a hotel, with an attendant at the front desk. The home is in Arcadia, a wealthy enclave known as the Chinese Beverly Hills. AP After obtaining a search warrant, detectives seized security cameras from inside the home which allegedly showed the hospitalized children being hit and violently shaken by a nanny, Chunmei Li, on May 5, resulting in the baby losing consciousness. Other children in the couple's care were abused emotionally and physically by at least six nannies, according to NBC, citing law enforcement sources. Police rescued 15 children from the sprawling 10,000 square foot home in Arcadia, California, an affluent community known as the 'Chinese Beverly Hills'. 9 Kallie Fell, the executive director of the Center for Bioethics and Culture Network, said that the recent rescue of children in Arcadia 'smells like trafficking.' 'We discovered numerous children ranging in ages from 2 months old to 13 years old,' Arcadia police Lt. Kollin Cieadlo said. 'Many of the children were birthed through surrogacy and then the male and female at the residence took legal guardianship of those kids.' One neighbor said the house was set up like a hotel, with multiple ensuite rooms and a front desk run by an attendant, per CBS. Another six children belonging to the couple had been moved out of the mansion but were located by authorities. Police told local outlets Zhang was able to show that she is the legal mother on all of their birth certificates. 9 Police arrested Guojun Xuan (left) and Silvia Zhang after a two month old in their care was taken to hospital suffering a traumatic brain injury. Police later discovered 21 children in a raid on two properties that were under their care. KTLA 'We believe one or two were born biologically to the mother. There are some surrogates who have come forward and said they were surrogates for the children,' said Cieadlo. Seventeen of the 21 are under three, according to local reports. They have all now in the care of the Department of Children and Family Services. The Chinese-born couple said they had wanted to have as many children as possible because of Xuan's advancing age. However, while in their care 'the discipline, both verbal and physical, was severe,' added Cieadlo, who said they immediately called the FBI in to help investigate. Two companies registered to the address of the $4 million property — Mark Surrogacy Investment and Future Spring Surrogacy — are no longer active, according to California business records. Kallie Fell, executive director of the Center for Bioethics and Culture Network, said the situation bares the hallmarks of a trafficking scheme. 'Everyone's spidey senses should go up. The danger of the fertility industry is that it is unregulated. Anyone can open an agency. The problem is way bigger than this small story.' 9 Future Spring Surrogacy, which was shuttered in May and registered at the mansion where police rescued the children, used a testimonial on its web site from Kayla Elliot. 9 The website for Future Spring Surrogacy outlines the steps for women who want to rent their wombs. In China, where infertility rates are high, surrogacy and the sale of human eggs are illegal, which is why many moneyed Chinese couples come to the US to contract surrogates to carry their babies, paying as much as $100,000 to rent a womb, according to a report. Police are still looking for Li, the nanny, who remains a suspect, with an arrest warrant issued, while Xuan and Zhang have been released without charges being filed at this point. A text message credited to Xuan by local media claimed 'any accusations of wrongdoing are misguided and wrong.' Six women have come forward to say they had babies for the couple, according to KTLA news. One surrogate in the Los Angeles area said she gave birth in March, while another had babies in 2022 and 2024 for them. 9 'Perla', 31, said she was was a surrogate for Silvia Zhang and Guojun Xuan, but the baby was, sadly, stillborn. KTLA A third woman in Florida, 'Perla', 31, said she went through a pregnancy for the couple but the baby was stillborn. 'I think what hurt me the most was that I feel like the baby was abandoned—and I was too,' she told KTLA. Shockingly, one surrogate in Pennsylvania and another in Virgina, who both asked to remain anonymous citing privacy issues, are both currently pregnant with children for the couple, according to the station. 9 Kayla Elliot in a picture when she as still pregnant with the baby she was carrying for Silvia Zhang and Guojun Xuan. TikTok/Kayla Elliot For Elliot, there were other red flags involved with the birth of her surrogate baby — a girl born in March in Texas. When she showed up for the embryo transfer in California — one of 15 US states where compensated surrogacy is legal — she was surprised to meet an elderly man who she was told was the father, who had provided his sperm along with eggs from a donor. She was told the mother had 'a stomach bug' and didn't want to infect Elliot. Fell said this is the same story repeated to other women who had acted as surrogates for Mark Surrogacy. Like Elliot, they never met the mother, Fell told The Post Thursday. Another red flag surfaced a few days after the birth of the baby girl when a young Chinese woman showed up to collect her. Elliot found it strange that the woman had no sense of joy and didn't even come equipped with a baby car seat for the child. 'Usually, you are overjoyed to meet your child, but there was nothing like that,' said Fell, adding Elliot's family then 'drove the woman to the airport with the baby, because she seemed totally lost.' 9 The $4m home of Silvia Zhang and Guojun Xuan in Arcadia, California. AP Fell also told how the woman handed $200 to Elliot's and each of her children, who were in the hospital room. Fell said it's not clear how much Elliot was paid to carry the child, but had told her that it was 'at the lower end' of the pay scale for the service, which ranges anywhere from $20,000 to $100,000, Fell said. As for Elliot, she was so distressed with the situation that she started a GoFundMe campaign to 'seek legal placement of the baby girl I delivered as a surrogate.' The child, along with the 20 other children rescued by police, has been placed in foster care. 'The little one deserves stability, love and a safe home,' she wrote. 'I am prepared and deeply committed to providing that for her, but the legal process to secure placement is complex and costly.' So far, the campaign has raised just over $7,000. Cieadlo says the FBI and his detectives are now working to 'see the origins of where these children were all born, contact those surrogate mothers, see what the backstory is on that,' adding the investigation will cover the rest of the country and possibly become international.
