Dark week for America stirs emotions locally
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These men had their conviction for attempted child abduction overturned - here"s the bizarre reason why
Two men have had their conviction for attempting to abduct a child from a school overturned after a judge decided it was just a ‘stupid prank’ and had no ‘sinister motive’. Tariq Alsamaan and Carlton Tebbs dressed as security guards in a plan of ‘crass stupidity’ at Wellacre Academy in Flixton, Trafford, in 2016. They told staff they had been hired to take a pupil home because he was being bullied, and wanted to speak to him. Alsamaan told reception staff the boy needed to be escorted to and from school by security officers from now on. Tariq Alsamaan But their plan unravelled when the school’s headteacher became suspicious and called police. A court heard Alsamaan, then 21, was the ringleader and met Tebbs, then a 22-year-old shelf stacker from Scotland, through online gaming. Read More Alsamaan claimed he liked to play heroic versions of himself in fantasy games to escape his ‘low self-image’ in the real world. The pair w...
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