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Colonel Gaddafi aide cannot challenge PC Yvonne Fletcher ruling (BBC News)

A former aide to ex-Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi has lost a bid to challenge a judge's conclusion he was jointly responsible for the killing of police ...

Mr Justice Martin Spencer ruled in November that Mr Mabrouk, who denied any wrongdoing, "clearly assisted in the commission of the shooting", although he was not alleged to have been the gunman. Mr Mabrouk was a member of the pro-Gaddafi Libyan Revolutionary Committee that ran the embassy at the time. A former aide to ex-Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi has lost a bid to challenge a judge's conclusion he was jointly responsible for the killing of police officer Yvonne Fletcher in 1984.

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Trainee pilot from Suffolk died after mosquito bite, inquest hears (BBC News)

A trainee commercial airline pilot died after she was bitten by a mosquito and developed an infection that spread to her brain, an inquest heard.

"She had met someone she loved, she was training to be a commercial pilot and was fulfilling her dreams," he added. Mr Parsley, recording a narrative conclusion, said Miss Pepper died "as a result of a serious infection caused by an insect bite to the forehead". A trainee commercial airline pilot died after she was bitten by a mosquito and developed an infection that spread to her brain, an inquest heard.

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