THE NSW town of Leeton is today preparing not for a wedding but for the funeral of much-loved local teacher, Stephanie Scott.
Stephanie, 26, was due to marry her sweetheart this weekend, but police are instead searching for her body, after arresting a cleaner from Leeton High School and charging him with her murder.
In her typically giving fashion, Stephanie went to the school on Easter Sunday to prepare a lesson plan for the substitute who would take her classes while she was on her honeymoon in Tahiti.
Police allege she was killed that day.
The school cleaner, Vincent Stanford, 24, is said to have been at the school on Easter Sunday, although he wasn’t rostered to clean. Police further allege that Stephanie’s keys were found in his car, and that photographs of her body have been found on his mobile telephone.
Stephanie’s fiancé yesterday visited the memorial set up at Leeton High School. He knelt before the flower and candles and wept.
THE father of three children killed when a car plunged into a Victorian lake has defended his wife, saying he was sure the tragedy was an accident.
Joseph Tito Manyang, who came to Australia from Sudan, said his wife, Akon Guode, was a ‘very good mother’ and she loved her children.
“I’m still believing she’s innocent,” he said.
Akon was released from police custody last night. A video has emerged of her car being driven past the lake on the opposite side of the road, doing a U-turn, coming back, before veering across the grass verge and into the water.
Three of the four children in the car – Bol, 1, Madit, 4 and his twin, Anger, also 4 – died.
AUSTRALIA’s own Ruby Rose stars – okay, can be glimpsed – in the new trailer for Orange Is the New Black.
Rose, who also features in the latest Bonds undies anniversary campaign, tweeted out pictures of herself winking at Piper, and she reTweeted a message saying she was ready for a whole bunch of straight girls to become ‘rubyrose-sexuals’ after she makes her debut on the hit show in July.
WOMEN who develop eating disorders struggle to find financial independence in adulthood.
That is the conclusion of a study published in the International Journal of Eating Disorders which says women with disordered eating patterns are “at a distinct disadvantage when trying to achieve socioeconomic independence in early adulthood.’
They earn less and are less likely to own their own home, perhaps because they are also more likely to need time off school, college and work, as they struggle to survive.
KURT Cobain’s daughter doesn’t like his music and remains angry about his suicide.
In an interview with Rolling Stone, Frances Bean, who was still an infant when the Nirvana rocker shot himself, said she couldn’t escape her father as a child, ‘even if I was in a car and had the radio on, there’s my dad. And our culture is obsessed with dead musicians.’
“We love to put them on a pedestal,” she said, but in reality, her Dad was “just … another guy who abandoned his family in the most awful way possible.”
AN American teenager accused of murdering of her mother in Bali and stuffing the body into a suitcase has appeared in court in Denpasar with her newborn baby.
Heather Mack,19, gave birth to baby Stella last month. She is protesting her innocence, saying: ‘I haven’t murdered anybody. I didn’t murder my mother.’
Prosecutors say her mother was killed by Heather’s boyfriend, Tommy Schaefer, who used a steel fruit bowl to hit her on the head, and that Mack sat on the suitcase, to allow Tom to close it with her mother stuffed inside.
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