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Daily Mail
5 days ago
- Business
- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE What happened to Roxy's 'clones': They were gossip fodder for years... now PR insiders reveal some won't speak to her after bitter feuds - while others have overshadowed her completely
For someone whose fondness for headlines earned her the nickname 'The Publicity-Seeking Missile', it's unsurprising PR supremo Roxy Jacenko liked to choose staff who style and appearance perfectly matched her upmarket personal brand. During her years as Sydney's most in-demand lifestyle, fashion and beauty publicist, Roxy famously hired an army of 'clones' to work at her Paddington-based firm Sweaty Betty PR.
BreakingNews.ie
7 days ago
- General
- BreakingNews.ie
Richard Satchwell: What the jury did not hear
Richard Satchwell's trial was initially scheduled to sit in his home county of Cork but, due to the "intense publicity" surrounding the case, his lawyers applied late last year to move the trial to the capital. The move was resisted by the State, who pointed out that much of the publicity was generated by Satchwell himself. Advertisement In November last year Brendan Grehan SC, for Satchwell, said that as the media attention was concentrated in Cork, it would be "impossible to retain an impartial jury" there who had not heard of the case and formed "adverse views of Mr Satchwell". Mr Grehan said that most trials can be held in local venues but some generate media attention that can be "macabre" and lead to "greater hostility than it is possible to imagine in an ordinary case." Satchwell's preference, Mr Grehan said, was for the trial to be held in Limerick so it would be closer to the prison where he was being held. "He has a position of responsibility there, which enables him to be a productive prisoner," counsel told the court. Gerardine Small SC, for the Director of Public Prosecutions, opposed the change of venue, arguing that publicity around the case was national, not local. Also, she said, much of that publicity was generated by Satchwell who "sought the attention of the media" by appearing on radio and television shows. Advertisement Ms Small pointed to Satchwell's appearances on RTÉ's 'Prime Time', TV3's 'Ireland AM', the Ray D'Arcy Show and the numerous interviews he gave to journalists. She added: "It is an unusual factor that it [the media attention] can be attributed to the accused man while he was aware the body of his wife was buried where it was." Mr Justice Paul McDermott agreed to change the venue to Dublin, due to the significant risk of an unfair trial. He said: "The high degree of local coverage and engagement with the case takes it out of the ordinary". 'Cryptic reply' During the trial and in the absence of the jury, Mr Grehan applied to exclude Satchwell's "cryptic" reply of "Guilty or not guilty, guilty" when he was formally charged with the murder of Tina on October 13th, 2023. Advertisement Counsel said a second part of the application - which was "somewhat of a side show" - was connected to the fact that a member of the press - Paul Byrne, formerly of Virgin Media News - tweeted that Satchwell was going to be charged before gardaí had actually done so. He said Superintendent Anne Marie Twomey had received directions from a legal officer at 7.28pm to charge Satchwell with the murder of his wife and he was formally charged at 8:07pm on October 13th. Mr Grehan said Mr Byrne had tweeted at 8.03pm that "a man in his 50's had been charged with the murder of Tina Satchwell" - four minutes before his client was formally charged. Counsel said Michael O'Toole, of The Irish Daily Mirror and Irish Daily Star, had "retweeted" at 8:09pm from the handle @mickthehack that "Richard Satchwell had been charged with the murder of his wife". Advertisement A number of gardai who were called to give evidence in the voir dire denied that they had contacted anyone in the media but accepted that Mr Byrne had tweeted about it several minutes in advance and that Mr O'Toole had named Satchwell as being charged two minutes after it occurred. Mr Grehan said it was "implicit" that contact was made with a number of people in the media "to enable them to do their job". Counsel also submitted that Satchwell should have been informed that he could consult with his solicitor before the charging process took place and was entitled to legal advice "at this critical juncture". "It vitiated the process and the court should not permit the fruits of the charging to be now available to the prosecution," he added. He said the defendant's solicitor Eddie Burke had left the garda station at 7:07pm that evening and didn't arrive back until 8.10pm - three minutes after the charging took place. Advertisement The lawyer said his client's reply after caution was more prejudicial than probative and would create difficulties in terms of how the jury could be properly directed. In reply, Ms Small said Satchwell, who was interviewed by gardai on ten separate occasions, had a "full appreciation of his entitlement not to say anything" in reply to the caution and was acutely aware of this. The defence, she said, was claiming there is an entitlement to have a solicitor present on charging and she wasn't aware of any such entitlement. She said the entitlement was to legal advice, which Satchwell had received "in abundance". She called the media tweets "completely irrelevant". In his ruling, Mr Justice McDermott said the defendant's reply was fully voluntary and found that the absence of a solicitor in the garda station had not impaired the fairness of the process. He refused to exclude the reply to charge. Direction to remove murder charge from indictment When the prosecution's case was at an end, Mr Grehan applied to the judge to withdraw the charge of murder against his client, submitting there was no evidence of an intention to kill or cause serious injury, which he said was "a huge lacuna" in the State's case. "It is one of the elements of the offence of murder which the prosecution have to adduce evidence of, which they have singularly failed to do," he argued. He said Assistant State Pathologist Dr Margaret Bolster could not give a cause of death due to a very long post mortem period and had confirmed there were no broken bones in Tina's body. He said she wasn't able to conclude anything about the state of the organs due to the lapse of time. Mr Grehan said there was an explanation available to the jury as to how death was caused in the case without the evidence of the pathologist or anthropologist and that explanation was given by his client, where Satchwell said the belt of Tina's bathrobe had been held up against her neck until she collapsed. Counsel said this was the only account available as to what happened to Tina and was of "immense importance" as there was no evidence of violence discovered in the post mortem. Counsel said it was significant that Tina's hyoid bone was un-fractured. He said there was also no medical evidence to say that his client's account of holding Tina off with a restraint against her neck before she collapsed suddenly was not possible. In reply, Ms Small submitted that there was "a wealth of evidence" from the surrounding circumstances in the case from which intent could be inferred. Counsel said the deception began on March 20th, 2017 very shortly after Satchwell killed Tina and the plethora of lies were an acknowledgement of guilt. Ms Small said a limited post mortem examination was conducted because the defendant had buried his wife in a manner to ensure the cause of death wasn't available. She added: "There is also motive on his own account, Satchwell says she is threatening to leave him. She has wasted 28 years of her life, that is all part of the evidence for the jury to accept or not". Mr Grehan said the lies told were not sufficient to show intent for murder. Referring to motive, he said there was also clearly a basis for which Tina might have wanted nothing further to do with her husband and attacked him in that manner. In his ruling, Mr Justice McDermott said Satchwell's immediate response was to create a false impression that Tina was alive and he had taken every conceivable step to protect himself. He said Satchwell told lie after lie "to any journalist who'd indulge him" and portrayed a scenario that his wife had deserted him suddenly without any explanation. Mr Justice McDermott said Satchwell had shown a degree of malevolence towards his wife and the defendant was totally focused on protecting himself from discovery. There had been, he said, a period of six prolonged years before Tina's body, of which Satchwell had disposed of, was found and this was relevant to the issue of intention. He said it was a matter for the jury as to whether Satchwell had formed the requisite intent and whether he was guilty of his wife's murder. He rejected the application to withdraw the murder charge. Application to discharge the jury At the very end of the trial, when Mr Justice McDermott had finished charging the jurors, Mr Grehan said on foot of instructions from his client he "regrettably" had to seek the discharge of the jury. Counsel voiced his opposition to the tone of the charge, which he said was intended to "nudge" the jurors towards a guilty verdict. Counsel said he became increasingly concerned as the charge proceeded that it was not resembling a charge but a "second prosecution speech" in terms of the emphasis the court was placing on the State's case to the detriment of the defence. Mr Grehan told the judge he had not put the defence case in full at all to the jury. He said the two separate tasks of directions on the law and a summary of the evidence had become "intermingled" and submitted there was no balance in what had been said to the panel. "The whole emphasis of what was said to the court seemed to be to reiterate the prosecution case," he argued. Mr Grehan said the facts of the case "shouted and screamed for themselves" in terms of what Satchwell did and didn't do. "They are not facts that need to be nudged or pushed for the jury in any particular way". Ireland Jason Hennessy Jnr jailed after confronting armed... Read More Counsel said it was beyond remedy at this stage and the court should discharge the jury. Ms Small called Mr Grehan's application "wholly inappropriate", describing the charge as balanced, fair and extremely comprehensible. "The criticism is unfounded, a court will rarely outline all the evidence, that is a matter for the jury". In his ruling, the judge said this was a difficult case in which to sum up the evidence for the jury and he didn't accept that his charge was "so wildly unbalanced". He disagreed that the absence of references to certain parts of the evidence in any sense justified the jury being discharged. Mr Justice McDermott refused the application but did give the jury further directions in relation to two matters of which complaints were made, one relating to the detailed evidence of Lorraine Howard concerning her half sister Tina, the other to evidence that Satchwell loved or was "besotted" with his wife.
Daily Mail
26-05-2025
- Daily Mail
Glamorous television presenter left mortified after her 'messy' mugshot is released to public
A stunning television presenter is dealing with some regrets after her unflattering mugshot was released online. Gloria Torres encountered legal problems after police responded a loud noise complaint in the northeast Mexican city of San Nicolás de los Garza on May 20 around 2am local time. The 35-year-old model was in the process of being questioned by the cops on Cerro de Mamulique Street when she attempted to flee the scene in her vehicle and was immediately placed under arrest. The Multimedios Television host was taken to a local police station, where she spent five hours before a judge saw her and released her on a bail bond of $206. She seemed a bit embarrassed after her legal woes were made public and her arrest photo was released by the San Nicolás de los Garza Municipal Police Department. 'If I had known that they were going to leak that photo,' Torres joked in a social media post, 'they would have let me know so I could retouch it, because my hair comes out very messy.' Torres also took to Instagram Story, where she vowed to reveal the facts that led to her arrest. 'I will give my version because obviously this is not going to stay like this,' she claimed. 'People with bad intentions want to damage my image.' In a separate post, she claimed that her run-in with the law may have benefited her. 'There is no such thing as bad publicity, I think this has worked to my advantage,' she said. Torres is the second Multimedios Television presenter who has had a brush with the law in three months. Gisselle Sampayo and her boyfriend were arrested at their home in San Pedro Garza García on February 17 after a neighbor heard the couple arguing loudly and called the police. According to local outlets, Sampayo's boyfriend is the alleged leader of street drug gang that operates in Monterrey, San Nicolas de Garza and Apodaca. Sampayo was eventually released after the Nuevo León state prosecutor's office found that she did not have any links to her boyfriend's illicit dealings.
Entrepreneur
21-05-2025
- Business
- Entrepreneur
Publicity, Marketing and Branding — Which One Drives Success?
Think of publicity, marketing and branding as the three legs of a tripod. They all work together to hold up your business's success — here's how. Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Business owners, entrepreneurs and hustling startups, gather 'round: Today, we're tackling a question that I hear all the time, and I'm here to coach you through it. Publicity, marketing, branding — they all sound like buzzwords thrown around at networking events, right? But trust me, knowing the difference between these three is key to building a successful business. By the end of this, you'll know exactly where to focus your energy (and your dollars). Here's the easiest way to explain it. Think of publicity, marketing and branding as the three legs of a tripod. They all work together to hold up your business's success. Remove one and boom, the whole thing wobbles. Related: Should You Start With PR or Marketing First? Publicity means getting seen Publicity is all about buzz. It's the press releases, media features, blogs, podcasts, events and influencer shout-outs that put your name out into the world. It's about making people talk about you. The goal? You're seen, you're credible and people start connecting your name to your space (whether that's coffee shops, tech gadgets or niche consulting). Example: You author an article for a major publication explaining trends in your industry. Boom! Publicity. You host a smashing launch party that's covered by three local blogs. Publicity again. Publicity is about building awareness and getting eyes on your business. It's a hustle, but it can make waves if you play it right. If you have it added to your budget, hiring the right PR company can make a huge difference and help you get seen. Marketing means spending to attract customers Marketing is where the money flows. Marketing involves budgets, ad campaigns and anything that puts your business directly in front of potential customers. You're paying to capture attention and drive sales. Think of marketing like this: You're planting seeds. Billboards, Google Ads, Facebook or Instagram campaigns, podcasts, etc., these are all ways of telling people, "Hey, I exist, and you need my product or service." Here's the catch, though. Great marketing doesn't just sell your product; it should create the need for your product. When it's done well, marketing generates results that are measurable, whether that's clicks, conversions, email sign-ups or purchases. Example: Your business runs a Facebook Ads campaign offering a 20% discount for first-time buyers. That's marketing. You purchase ad space on a major podcast to shout about your new app. Marketing again. If publicity is about awareness, marketing is about attraction. You want those leads, clicks and sales — and yes, that takes an allocated budget. Related: The One Mistake Is Putting Your Brand Reputation at Risk — and Most Startups Still Make It Branding means identity Brace yourself, because branding is where things get deep. Branding is not just about what you're saying. Branding is about what people feel when they see your name, logo or product. It's your identity, your reputation and the little thread that connects everything you do. This isn't just about having a pretty logo (although that helps). Good branding answers deeper questions, like: What values does my business represent? How does my business make people's lives better? Does my business have a clear personality (fun and casual vs. serious and elite)? Successful branding happens when your business becomes recognizable. Think Nike. You don't even need to see the word "Nike" to know a swoosh means Just Do It. That happens when a company builds a rock-solid brand over time. Example: If your target audience is eco-conscious millennials, your branding might use earthy colors and focus on sustainability messaging. If your business is luxury, your branding might involve sleek black-and-gold designs and an exclusive tone. The best part? Branding works in the background. It influences how people perceive you before they even interact with your business. That's the magic. How they work together Here's the deal, my friend. You can't rely on just one of these to grow a thriving business. They're all connected and equally important. Still confused? Here's how they work hand-in-hand: Your branding defines your message and vibe. Who are you? What do you stand for? That branding flows into your marketing, which attracts new customers and gets them through the door (or onto your site). Meanwhile, publicity builds your credibility by showing people why you're worth paying attention to, often making your marketing efforts more successful. It's a cycle that feeds itself when done well. Where should you start? If you're a startup, you might be wondering where to focus first. Here's my advice: Start with branding. You need to know who you are and who you're for before putting yourself out there. If your branding is strong, everything else will feel seamless. Once your branding's locked down, focus on publicity. Reach out to local blogs and influencers, pitch yourself to podcasts or organize community events to get your name out there. Publicity is often the most cost-effective when funds are tight. And finally, when you have the budget, invest in marketing. Put your dollars into campaigns that will bring in measurable results. Related: I Gained Millions of Instagram Followers For My Brand With These 8 Expert Tips Final thoughts Publicity, marketing and branding might seem like business jargon, but I promise you, they're the key to crafting a well-rounded, booming business. These three are your power tools. Use them wisely and you'll see the magic happen. If you're ready to revamp your brand or step up your marketing game but don't know where to start, I've got complete faith in you to figure it out.
Malay Mail
18-05-2025
- Politics
- Malay Mail
Abdul Karim takes on new role as PBB's publicity chief, pledges alignment with party's direction
KUCHING, May 18 — Datuk Seri Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah has been appointed as the new publicity chief of Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB). Speaking to reporters after the Pre-State Legislative Assembly (DUN) Meeting and PBB Sarawak Supreme Council Meeting 2025 at the Borneo Convention Centre Kuching (BCCK) last night, the Asajaya assemblyman said the role was not entirely unfamiliar to him. 'In terms of responsibilities, I believe they are quite similar to what I undertook previously when I served as a vice-president. 'The role of publicity chief is almost parallel to that of a vice-president, as both positions hold the authority to issue statements. 'Now, serving as publicity chief, I believe this role will see me working more closely with the secretary-general and the party president to ensure that any statements issued are aligned with the party's direction and not perceived as too personal,' he said. Abdul Karim previously did not retain his position as vice-president during PBB's triennial delegates convention held in February. Nevertheless, he expressed his gratitude to the party President and Premier of Sarawak Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri Abang Johari Tun Openg for his appointment to the post. His appointment fills the vacancy previously held by Datuk Idris Buang. 'This reflects the trust that may still remain for me to continue contributing to the party's Supreme Council,' he added. Abdul Karim retains his state ministerial portfolios as Tourism, Creative Industry and Performing Arts Minister, as well as Youth, Sports and Entrepreneur Development Minister. — The Borneo Post
