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Scottish Sun
18 hours ago
- Scottish Sun
Ex-Ministry of Defence worker who groomed boy, 14, jailed for three years
McKee claimed he thought the victim was 18 BEHIND BARS Ex-Ministry of Defence worker who groomed boy, 14, jailed for three years A FORMER Ministry of Defence employee who groomed a teenage boy was jailed today for three years. Fionn McKee, 52, preyed on his victim at his home in Glasgow's Govan between March 2020 and March 2022. 2 McKee was jailed at Glasgow Sheriff Court today Credit: Alamy Film and TV logistics manager McKee plied the boy from the age of 14 or 15 with alcohol, cigarettes and money. McKee was also romantically involved with the victim, whom he claimed he thought was 18. McKee - who worked with complex warships in his MOD role - was found guilty of arranging to meet a total of three teenage boys for the intention of sexual activity. He was also convicted of engaging in sexual activity with one of the boys as well as possession of indecent images of children. Sheriff Paul Reid put McKee on a strict sexual harm prevention order for five years at today's sentencing. McKee will be prevented from being in the presence of children under the age of 16. He has been told not to enter Glasgow city centre without the permission of his sexual offences police officer. McKee cannot delete his internet search history and must hand over his usernames and passwords to the authorities. He also has to inform the police of any new relationships or friendships. The sheriff told him previously: "The evidence suggests that your behaviour was predatory and devious. BBC Comedian Susan Riddell Charged After Defence Factory Incident in Edinburgh "You are a danger to young vulnerable boys and the custodial threshold has been passed for the offences." The trial heard that McKee - who worked for Humanitarian Disaster Relief - met the first boy from a social media app in March 2020. McKee claimed that he believed the boy to be 18 when in fact he was 14 or 15 years old. He said: "To me, he didn't appear to be the age that he turned out to be." McKee claimed that the boy was "broad-shouldered" and had a moustache on his face. He stated that their "friendship" turned sexual and claimed that it was consensual. The evidence suggests that your behaviour was predatory and devious Sheriff Paul Reid McKee told his defence counsel Lewis Kennedy that he also bought the boy cigarettes and would drink alcohol in his house. He further stated that the boy also smoked cannabis in his house, but did not provide it. McKee also gave him money by online bank transfer. Prosecutor Sean Docherty quizzed McKee on his claim that he was unaware of the boy's true age until his arrest. He directed McKee to a cybercrime report on McKee's phone calendar, which had an entry with the boy's name and "17th" after it. McKee claimed that it was a typo when keying in the number. You are a danger to young vulnerable boys and the custodial threshold has been passed for the offences Sheriff Paul Reid Evidence was heard that the boy's age was also written on the card given to him by McKee. Mr Docherty said: "If you had a conversation before his 17th when he was 16, then you have known for the last year you were engaged in a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old boy, surely that's something that sticks in your mind?" McKee replied: "No and it didn't." McKee also met two other boys and had them over to his house. He encountered the 15-year-old at a McDonald's in Glasgow city centre and offered to buy him food. This led to the boy introducing McKee to his friend, who was 13 years old. The pair would visit McKee's home, but he claimed that there was no sexual interest towards them. It was revealed that McKee has one previous conviction for drink driving from two years ago. Lewis Kennedy, defending, told the sentencing judge that his client has shown some remorse for his offending.
USA Today
2 days ago
- Sport
- USA Today
Eagles are finally adopting a QB strategy developed over the years
Eagles are finally adopting a QB strategy developed over the years If you're like most, you're probably indoors or enjoying some shade, and you can't help but think about some Philadelphia Eagles football. Week 1 brings a date with the hated Dallas Cowboys. Long before we arrive, we'll have seen three preseason games. Four quarterbacks are on the roster. The depth chart will need to be trimmed to three before that game vs. Dallas. Too bad for Dorian Thompson-Robinson. The writing has been on the wall since the NFL Draft. His training camp and preseason are about his audition for another professional franchise. Say what you will about Jalen Hurts, and believe us. Everyone has joined the conversation. Ask several teams, however, and they'll tell you they'd take him in a heartbeat. This is Philadelphia, though, and we're discussing the fans and the media. The reigning Super Bowl MVP is constantly under fire. No worries. Hurts will do what he has always done: prove the doubters wrong. In 2025, he'll take his cues from a new offensive coordinator (Kevin Patullo) and QB coach (Scot Loeffler). The guys joining him in the meeting room are uber talented. The Eagles seem content with employing the strategy everyone hoped they would For the past few offseasons, the Eagles have employed the same offseason strategy: find a backup quarterback in the free-agency pool. They rolled the dice on Joe Flacco and Gardner Minshew in 2021. They stuck with Minshew in 2022. During the 2023 and 2024 offseasons, they ran with Marcus Mariota and Kenny Pickett, respectively. Those past two names are interesting for a similar reason. In both instances, Philadelphia had Tanner McKee on the roster. No one will confuse him with Jalen Hurts, nor will they mistake him for Mariota and/or Pickett. Truth be told, he isn't as mobile as either of the players. McKee is as surgical as they come, though, with his right arm. The day he stepped on the same preseason surface as Mariota and Pickett, he looked better than both of them. Philadelphia gave up on its two most recent quarterback backups in as many offseasons. So far, they have yet to add another. That signals that McKee is slotted in as the backup. That is precisely the news fans and the media have awaited. Third-string duties could be handled by recently drafted Kyle McCord. Hurts is, again, the reigning Super Bowl MVP. McKee enters his third year with the franchise and has proven his mettle. Someone of McCord's pedigree gives Philadelphia the best QB room in the NFC East, if not the entire conference. That's good news as the Eagles enter training camp.
Yahoo
5 days ago
- Sport
- Yahoo
PFL Cape Town Main Card Preview
The PFL has their first African card this Saturday as they head to Cape Town, South Africa. They are bringing a really strong card with them as the event will feature a middleweight title fight between Johnny Eblen and Costello Van Steenis as well as a flyweight showcase featuring the biggest star in the promotion, Dakota Ditcheva. That said, the rest of the main card is really solid. Kicking things off on the main card is a matchup between last year's PFL heavyweight champion Denis Goltsov (36-8) and former Bellator light heavyweight champion Corey Anderson (18-6). Anderson had been begging for a fight and now he gets a big one. Anderson moves up to heavyweight after winning the vacant Bellator title in March 2024. Bellator is obviously no more and Anderson has decided to move up and he's going right to last year's champion. Denis Goltsov is a very impressive 9-1 in his last ten fights. His lone loss was in the 2023 heavyweight finals where he was stopped by Renan Ferreira. Last year, he went 4-0 with four stoppages on his way to becoming the 2024 heavyweight champion. PFL Cape Town The next matchup on the card will be a lightweight showcase between Artur Zaynukov (16-4) and Takeshi Izumi (6-3). Zaynukov enters the bout having won five fights in a row including his PFL debut last October against Dedrek Sanders. Izumi will be making his promotional debut after spending his entire professional career in Japan. His last fight was back in March against Spike Carlyle in RIZIN where he won a unanimous decision. The next featured matchup will feature the featherweight return of AJ McKee (22-2). The former Bellator featherweight champion is returning to the weight class where he became a star as he takes on Akhmed Magomedov (11-1). McKee rose to stardom in Bellator where he made his professional debut back in 2015. McKee won his first 18 fights which included a first round finish over Patricio Pitbull to become the featherweight champion. After losing the rematch to Pitbull by decision, McKee moved to lightweight. At 155, McKee won his first four fights before falling short to Paul Hughes last October by split decision. Following that loss, he returns to featherweight at PFL Cape Town. He will be taking on Akhmed Magomedov. Magomedov suffered his first professional loss back in 2023 against Henry Corrales in Bellator. After nearly two years away, he returned back in January where he submitted Nathan Kelly in the second round. That submission got him this fight against AJ McKee. Related Headlines Yankees' blockbuster deadline deals could include front-line starter and elite power bat The Yankees are keeping their eyes on All-Star closer at the deadline Mets are reportedly 'frontrunners' in race for Pirates star pitcher Knicks 88, Pacers 91: Good news and bad news as comeback effort falls short
USA Today
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- USA Today
Lynch: With Open returning to Royal Portrush, tales of redemption sweep aside reality
(Editor's note: The column originally ran in 2019, prior to the Open at Royal Portrush won by Shane Lowry.) Golf nourishes itself with low-hanging narratives, those saccharine, feel-good tales about lives redeemed or neighborhoods rejuvenated thanks to the royal and ancient game. Stories of golf as a power for good often hold a seed of truth that eventually reaps an acre of corn. Eighty-seven days from now, folks who peddle this kind of claptrap will have a field day as the 148th Open Championship kicks off at Royal Portrush Golf Club in Northern Ireland. The parables are so predictable that they write themselves long before a single shot is struck. Golf as a unifying force in a bitterly divided land. Major-winning players from differing religious traditions in whose success warring neighbors found common cause. The mother of all majors as a richly deserved reward for the good people of this benighted little place who moved beyond conflict and toward reconciliation. It's an optimistic yarn as condescending as it is contrived. Since the intersection of golf and politics is usually fraught terrain, a redemptive slant on things has obvious appeal. With the Open cast as a post-conflict milestone, there's no need to untangle the internecine threads of Northern Irish politics. Focus on the future, not on the past! And if you wouldn't mind ignoring the present as well that would be super helpful, because it ain't ideal for marketing purposes. It seems ordained that the Open will be a success. It will be the largest sporting event ever held on either side of the border in Ireland. Tickets sold out last year, and the stunning Dunluce Links at Royal Portrush is superior to most other venues on the Open rota. Such a rousing triumph may make it necessary to explain why the tournament hasn't visited here since 1951. Hence the need to present Northern Ireland today as becalmed, forward-thinking and free of the shackles of its past. None of which is entirely true. It has been two decades since the Good Friday Agreement nominally ended the 30-year conflict euphemistically known as 'the Troubles.' Ours was a grubby, low-intensity war characterized more by doorstep shootings than artillery fire. It claimed more than 3,500 lives, a total that may seem relatively insignificant unless your loved ones number among them. The pace at which Northern Ireland fills its body bags has mercifully slowed, but it has not completely halted. The most recent victim was Lyra McKee. She was a 29-year-old journalist killed when a gunman from an IRA splinter group fired on police lines during a riot in the city of Derry, 35 miles west of Royal Portrush. I didn't know McKee, save a long-ago exchange of emails. Friends of mine did and considered her a formidable voice among her "ceasefire babies" peers. 'We were the Good Friday Agreement generation, destined not to witness the horrors of war but to reap the spoils of peace,' McKee once wrote. 'The spoils never seemed to reach us.' The Open Championship is a spoil, of sorts. Just as the Claret Jug will be held aloft by the champion golfer of the year, the Open itself will be brandished as a symbol of normalcy and progress by the very politicians whose stone-age squabbles have left Northern Ireland without a functioning government for years, whose intransigence and bigotry sent generations of Lyra McKees fleeing for airports and ferry terminals. Self-congratulatory back-slapping by elected blowhards is so familiar a part of professional golf that it won't really register with those who travel to Portrush. But it will be a galling spectacle for the people who must continue to live with increasing tribal tensions, sporadic violence and diminishing opportunities long after the Open caravan leaves town. There are plenty of people who deserve plaudits for bringing the Open to Northern Ireland. Like Graeme McDowell, Rory McIlroy and Darren Clarke, whose successes and advocacy were key. And Wilma Erskine, the secretary of Royal Portrush, who fought this noble battle for more years than she cares to count. They ought to receive their due in July. But the Open shouldn't be a masquerade ball that presents Northern Irish society as something it is not. Much has undeniably improved in the 25 years since I emigrated, but not even the Open can obscure the melancholy reality that Northern Ireland remains a society hostage to those who are, in the memorable words of Belfast songwriter Paul Brady, "still trying to carve tomorrow from a tombstone."
Boston Globe
6 days ago
- Business
- Boston Globe
In new poll, R.I. Governor McKee's approval rebounds, remains among nation's lowest
On the other hand, McKee's approval rating is tied for second-lowest in the country with Indiana Governor Mike Braun. Only Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds, who announced earlier this year she isn't seeking reelection, ranked lower, at 42 percent. Morning Consult conducts its online surveys on a rolling basis over three months, and releases quarterly approval ratings for all governors and US senators. Advertisement Among New England's governors, Vermont Governor Phil Scott (72 percent) has the best approval rating in the country, followed by Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont (63 percent), Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey (59 percent), New Hampshire Governor Kelly Ayotte (50 percent), and Maine Governor Janet Mills (49 percent). Get Rhode Map A weekday briefing from veteran Rhode Island reporters, focused on the things that matter most in the Ocean State. Enter Email Sign Up Related : The bigger picture: As I wrote in McKee's surrogates will undoubtedly note that former governor Gina Raimondo had a 43 percent approval/47 percent disapproval rating in a Advertisement Then again, Raimondo didn't face the same kind of credible Democratic primary challenge that McKee is likely to face next year. Former CVS executive Helena Foulkes, who narrowly lost to McKee in 2022, is expected to report raising more than $600,000 in the second quarter of this year, and House Speaker Joe Shekarchi is also mulling a run. Still, if politics is the ultimate 'what have you done for me lately?' sport, McKee can at least use Morning Consult's numbers to assuage the fears of some of his donors and other supporters for the time being. This story first appeared in Rhode Map, our free newsletter about Rhode Island that also contains information about local events, links to interesting stories, and more. If you'd like to receive it via email Monday through Friday, . Dan McGowan can be reached at
