SAD DAVID JETS OFF AFTER SPLIT UNHAPPY David Walliams is flying round the world to distract himself with work after his split from Lara Stone.
Comic David, 43, is going global to promote his children’s books after The Sun revealed three weeks ago that he had separated from model Lara. David said: “The books have been translated into lots of different languages. I was just in Dubai doing an event there and I’m going off to Australia and New Zealand.” He also hinted that he would be making further jaunts as Lara, 31, reportedly prepares to file for divorce next week.
Book plan . . David
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He said: “I have interest from Spain, Italy, France — all around the world.” David also revealed at a talk for a literary festival in London on Friday that his favourite children’s book is Roald Dahl’s The Twits, about “a couple that hate each other”. And he bristled when host Konnie Huq spoke about enjoying a “family Christmas” before his next festive special for the BBC, which will be based on his book Billionaire Boy. David revealed that he had been inspired to write a future book about Zayn Malik’s shock departure from One Direction this week.
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Anorexia wire ‘cure’
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A WOMAN has had electrodes placed in her brain in an experimental op to try to cure her anorexia. Wires carrying electricity register her feeling of “reward” when she eats. The signals are designed to trigger a change in the way the patient feels about food. Prof Tipu Aziz, of John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, said the study could transform how patients with anorexia are treated.
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More than one school staff have false allegation by an ATL union poll
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Tribute . . . Norman at spot where Luke died
By SHARON HENDRY, Senior Feature Writer, in San Antonio, Ibiza
A DISTRAUGHT dad has flown to Ibiza seeking justice for his son — allegedly killed by a rogue band of cops terrorising British holidaymakers.
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JUSTICE FIGHT ON HOLS ISLE
BALCONY FALL BRIT ‘KILLED BY IBIZA COPS’
Left in coma YOUTH worker Samuel Kennish was beaten and put in a coma by cops after falling ill and seeking help outside San Antonio’s Amnesia nightclub. Samuel, below, said of last August’s incident: “It was brutal. It started at the side of the road in daylight. “Nobody intervened as I was beaten unconscious. I had double pneumonia and I needed help, but they hit me and I woke from a coma three days later in hospital. “I was in intensive care for a week, I still have physical scars and I get flashbacks. I had two pairs of handcuffs put on me and my hands are still numb. “My parents flew to Ibiza not knowing if I would be alive when they got there. “Ibiza is an amazing place, but British tourists need to be really, really careful. “There are some highly corrupt police officers out there. Luke Rhoden died, but it could have been me.”
Badly beaten
Norman Rhoden’s son Luke, 25, died in the street during a struggle with police officers after falling from a balcony.
SHOCK VIDEO OF FINAL MOMENTS
Luke had drugs in his system but his dad insists they were not responsible for his death — and he has been backed up by the doctor who tried to save Luke’s life. Norman said: “My son needed medical help — what he got was police brutality. There is a dark side to the bright lights of Ibiza’s clubbing scene.” Luke’s case follows two other alleged victims of police brutality on the island — Samuel Kennish, 25, of Stroud, Gloucs, and Oliver Sebastien, 27, of Faversham, Kent, see panels, far right. Norman has pieced together his son’s final hours after Luke flew to Ibiza on August 31 last year for a stag do he had organised for best pal Mike Rutter, 25.
Distress . . . cops restraining Luke, pictured left
‘It isn’t drugs alone that killed Luke’
Norman said: “He was excited about booking his best mate’s stag do. We heard of nothing else. “On Tuesday September 2 the stag party spent all day at the Ocean Beach Club. Later they went to watch the sunset at Café Mambo in San Antonio. “That’s where Luke’s friends lost him. They later found him walking back to their hotel, Ibiza Rocks. He was agitated and paranoid. “Mike took him back to the room. Luke promised he would stay in the room and sleep so they went back out clubbing. “We had always had open conversations about drugs and he knew my view they led to no good. “But it’s my belief that he got to Ibiza and thought, ‘When in Rome’. They found ketamine and cocaine in his blood. “I’m not denying he took an illegal substance. But it isn’t drugs alone that killed Luke.” Luke’s psychotic state intensified and he climbed off his hotel balcony on to the reception roof. He was cornered by security guards who alerted local police and the Guardia Civil, a military wing of Spanish law enforcement. A video taken by a tourist caught the ensuing shocking scenes. Police officers are clearly seen overpowering business consultant Luke
See the video at thesun.co.uk
and dragging him across the road as he screams in distress. In Ibiza, The Sun tracked down the first medic at the scene, Dr Santiago Akoskin, 57. He is adamant Luke was killed by police actions and not by the drugs he ingested. He said: “The hotel called me because someone had climbed from the first floor and fallen around two metres. “When I arrived the police were putting plastic wraps on his ankles and steel handcuffs on his wrists. “His heart rate was 160 beats per minute. I told the police I needed to give him an injection to lower his heart rate. They wanted to make him afraid. “They put a baton across his
neck so he couldn’t breath. He was fighting for his life — not fighting against the police. I said, ‘You are going to kill him’ but he replied, ‘I know what I’m doing’. Then an officer put another baton on his neck from behind. “That heart rate cannot be supported when something is obstructing breathing. There were three or four further policeman holding his legs and his hands were locked across the front of his chest, which made breathing even harder. “For the third time, I told police, ‘You are not leaving him to breathe’. Then Luke wasn’t breathing. It’s very sad.” Back home in Wigan, Gtr Manchester, British cops broke the news to recruitment consultant
Norman and Luke’s stepmum Janette, both 45. Norman said: “They said Luke had jumped from his hotel balcony, had a heart attack and died. So we thought it was all because of a fall. But then reports on social media started circulating talking about a beating.” Norman went to Ibiza to bring Luke home and confront cops. He said: “The chief of police stuck to his story about officers needing to restrain Luke. My son’s death has been swept under the carpet.” An inquest was opened and adjourned by a UK coroner in December. A further pre-inquest review will be heard on May 1. Greater Manchester Police is investigating the video footage.
Meanwhile, Norman has teamed up with human rights lawyer Nick Turner to launch a civil action against Spanish cops. Nick has also taken up the cases of Samuel and Oliver. He said: “Both had to spend a week in intensive care and both ended up in comas. “It could very well be a rogue unit operating but there might be a decision from the top to target young British tourists. We urge Brit holidaymakers to avoid Ibiza.” The Guardia Civil did not want to comment. HAVE you been attacked by police in Ibiza? Contact sharon.hendry@the-sun.co.uk
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OLIVER Sebastien was on a birthday night out in June last year when his drink was spiked in San Antonio’s Ocean Beach club. He became delirious and him restrained bouncers before handing him over unmarked in handcuffs to Guardia Civil officers. Oliver, right, said he was handcuffed to a hospital bed and badly beaten. He released was from hospital in July and is too to terrified return to Ibiza. recently He with up met Rhoden’s Luke dad Norman. He said: “I had a bit of a mini-breakdown as we talked over the details, but pulled myself together as I was in front of a guy who had lost his son. “We both want justice. We want to raise awareness of what is happening and to flush out these people who should not be in a position of power.”
TOLL OF TRAGEDY
SEVERAL young Brits have died on Ibiza, mostly in the clubbers’ resort of San Antonio. Lewis Robertson, 20, of Larkhall, Lanarkshire, died last August in unexplained circumstances. In 2013 Chris Biggs, 25, of Blackburn, was killed in a hotel fall and mum Janine Mallett, 31, of Thornaby-on-Tees, North Yorks, drowned. Four years ago David Scully, 23, of Stonehouse, Lanarkshire, was found dead in his hotel room. Samuel McCaughey, 23, of Manchester, and Jodie Taylor, 25, of Leicester, both died in third-floor balcony falls. Barry Hesford, 21, of Glasgow, and Christopher Barrington, 31, of Wirral, both died in Buzzing . . . San Antonio clubs swimming pool accidents.
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