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Today β€” 1 July 2024The Guardian

Home secretary says Banksy’s Glastonbury migrant boat β€˜celebrated loss of life’

1 July 2024 at 04:19

Artwork holding dummies of migrants interpreted by some as commentary on continuing loss of life in Channel

The home secretary, James Cleverly, has condemned a Banksy artwork of an inflatable boat holding dummies of migrants at the Glastonbury music festival as a β€œcelebration of loss of life”.

The artist was confirmed to be behind the mock migrant boat being released into the crowd during a set by the Bristol punk band Idles. It was crowd-surfed above the audience during a song that began with the lyrics β€œMy blood brother is an immigrant. A beautiful immigrant”.

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Β© Photograph: Safi Bugel/The Guardian

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Β© Photograph: Safi Bugel/The Guardian

Before yesterdayThe Guardian

Zara Aleena murder: agencies’ failures contributed to death, inquest finds

26 June 2024 at 13:16

Jury finds β€˜multiple agencies’ contributed to death of Aleena, 35, who was attacked in east London in June 2022

Failures by the police and prison and probation services contributed to the death of Zara Aleena, who was murdered as she walked home from a night out in east London, an inquest jury has found.

Jordan McSweeney killed the 35-year-old aspiring lawyer as she walked home from a night out in Ilford in the early hours of 26 June 2022, nine days after he was released from prison on licence.

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