Gabby Petito appears bruised and bloodied in new photo

Aphoto of killed blogger Gabby Petito has been released by her family’s lawyers, revealing cuts, bruises and smeared blood on her face.

Lawyers say it was taken moments before police stopped her and her fiancé, Brian Laundrie, in Utah in August 2021 on a domestic disturbance call.

Ms Petito was found dead weeks later in a Wyoming campground. Mr Laundrie later shot himself. Her family is suing Utah police over negligence.

The photo was released on Monday by her family’s lawyers and was previously described in a lawsuit the family filed against the Moab City Police Department in November.

The family have accused the police of negligence in its hiring and training practices. They also allege negligence against the officers who handled the domestic violence report.

The city of Moab issued a statement denying responsibility for Ms Petito’s murder and said it would contest the lawsuit.

Ms Petito, 22, and Mr Laundrie, 23, had been on a cross-country excursion in a van during the summer of 2021. Ms Petito posted several images of her picturesque road trip on social media. But at some point, things turned terribly wrong.

Ms Petito’s family reported her missing in September, not too long after her distressed selfie was taken.

A witness who saw the couple at a grocery store in Moab, Utah, on 12 August 2021, called police and reported that Mr Laundrie had hit Ms Petito and attempted to take her mobile phone and leave her stranded outside the store.

Moab City Police Department officers later encountered the couple and interviewed them for almost an hour. Bodycam footage showed Ms Petito crying and complaining about her mental health to officers. She also said the couple had been arguing more frequently.

A police report of the incident said Mr Laundrie claimed Ms Petito hit him after an argument. The officers recommended they spend the night apart, but did not file any charges.

Ms Petito allegedly revealed her injuries to Moab police, who the family’s lawyers say ignored her “and did nothing more to investigate or document the injury”.

Ms Petito’s body was found on 19 September at a campground near Grand Teton National Park in north-western Wyoming. The coroner ruled her death a homicide.

On 20 October, Mr Laundrie’s body was found with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head in a Florida nature preserve near his parents’ home.

Source: BBC attack at a checkpoint in the occupied Ukrainian town of Kadiivka, some distance from the frontline.

Russian reports said he had been shot at close range with a 9mm bullet fired into the top of his head at an angle of 45 degrees. Russian authorities are investigating the killing and have so far said nothing about the circumstances.

The bullet had reportedly lodged in his brain. Before he died, pictures showed him lying in a hospital bed.

Another extreme Russian nationalist, Pavel Gubarev, said everyone knew who was behind the shooting and observed that Prigozhin had for the moment gone quiet.

The 11-month war in Ukraine has energised the murky world of extremists in Russia and sparked rivalries between them.

After the attack, Russia expert Mark Galeotti said it demonstrated that Russia was sliding back towards aspects of the 1990s, “when murder was a business tactic, and the lines between politics, business, crime and war became nearmeaningless”.

MH17: Putin likely to have supplied missile that downed plane - investigators

Thereare strong indications that Russian President Vladimir Putin decided to supply the missile that downed flight MH17 in 2014, international investigators say.

The passenger aircraft was hit by a Russian-made missile over Ukraine, killing nearly 300 people.

Prosecutors said there was evidence that Mr Putin decided to provide heavy weaponry to Moscow-backed separatists.

There is no suggestion that Mr Putin ordered the aircraft be shot down.

The conclusions of the Joint Investigation Team - made up of investigators from five countries - follow a Dutch court ruling from last year which found two Russians and a Ukrainian guilty of murder in absentia.

Moscow - which has denied all involvement in the downing of the plane - dismissed those verdicts as “scandalous” and politically motivated.

The international team, charged with looking into those responsible for launching the missile, said on Wednesday it had exhausted all leads and could not continue with any more criminal proceedings.

The Boeing 777 was flying from the Dutch capital to Kuala Lumpur when it was hit by a Russian-made surface-to-air missile in July 2014 during a conflict between pro-Russia rebels and Ukrainian forces in the Donbas region of Ukraine.

Of the 298 passengers and crew, 196 were Dutch while many of the other passengers came from Malaysia, Australia, the UK, Belgium and other countries.

The Joint Investigation Team cited the Dutch court which last year ruled that Moscow had “overall control” over the Donetsk People’s Republic, which controlled the area in July 2014. It described recorded telephone conversations where Russian officials said the decision to provide military support “rests with the President”.

“There is concrete information that the separatists’ request was presented to the president, and that this request was granted,” it said.

But it added it was not known whether the request “explicitly mentions” the system used to shoot down MH17.

“Although we speak of strong indications, the high bar of complete and conclusive evidence is not reached,” investigators said.

“Furthermore, the President enjoys immunity in his position as Head of State.”

The Joint Investigation Team (JIT) is made up of members from the Netherlands, Australia, Belgium, Malaysia and Ukrainethe countries worst affected by the shooting down of MH17.

The team wanted to prove the identities of the missile’s crew members, and who was in the chain of command, but admitted that was not possible for now.

Ukraine’s Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin said: “We will seek to employ all the existing international legal mechanisms to bring [Mr Putin] to justice” over MH17.