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‘Girl in the Picture’ review: Netflix doc makes sense of a senseless, complex crime
It was just a pair of months ago that HBO produced the documentary “Mind More than Murder,” which explained to the tale of six people today who confessed to a killing they didn’t dedicate, and I explained to you it was it’s possible the most mind-blowing of all the correct-crime collection and movies we’ve noticed in the very last number of yrs. Now arrives an additional contender for that difference. The Netflix documentary “Girl in the Picture” is an astonishing, horrific, intriguing and intricate true-crime story that commences with a brutal act of murder in the late 20th century and winds its way effectively into the 2000s and 2010s. It’s…
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‘Beautiful’ girl, 2, died two days after being discharged from hospital with ‘complex medical needs’
A two-year-old girl tragically died from natural causes after suffering an “acute event” in a taxi with her mother, an inquest has heard. Lilly-Mae Woodall had “very complicated medical needs” and was admitted to University Hospital Lewisham on February 24, 2020, with a high temperature. The infant was a well-known patient to the paediatric unit, as she required a gastric tube for all feeding and medicine, had slow development and required home oxygen to maintain breathing. Giving evidence of her condition when she had been admitted to the emergency unit, consultant paediatrician Dr Sarmad Kalamchi explained that Lilly-Mae had a background of “severe neurological disability” from birth which included an…
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A beautiful young adult novel that explores the complex themes of anxiety and neurodiverse brown girls
An energetic, beautifully imperfect young heroine steals the show in Kiki Kallira Breaks A Kingdom by beloved British author Sangu Mandanna. 12-year-old Kiki has a good life. She and her mom are close, and her best friend totally gets her. There is one thing, though, that troubles Kiki, and that is anxiety. She is a constant worrier and the only way she can escape worrying is through drawing in her sketchbook, where she can lose herself in the fantastical creatures and magical stories that pour out of her active imagination. With Kiki Kallira Breaks A Kingdom, Mandanna gives children struggling with anxiety and symptoms of OCD an authentic protagonist who…