23 h. ago 'I'll kill you, you c**t': Dad walked up to girl, 15, on beach and punched her

Dad-of-two Dean Devonald left the teenager bleeding on the ground after he targeted her believing she had been bullying his daughter

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25 h. ago Dad punched teenage girl from behind and said 'touch my daughter again and I'll kill you'

Dean Devonald, 46, drove to the beach in Port Talbot, South Wales, to confront one of the girls he believed had been bullying his daughter and stuck her from behind, a court heard

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31 h. ago Father, 46, stormed up to teenage girl at beach and punched her from behind because he thought she was bullying his daughter, court hears

Dean Devonald, 46, ran towards the 15-year-old girl at Aberavon beach, in Port Talbot, Wales, and floored her with the blow before bellowing: 'Touch my daughter again and I'll kill you you c***.'

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32 h. ago Dad who punched girl to ground said 'touch my daughter again and I'll kill you'

The violent incident unfolded when Dean Devonald drove to the seafront and targeted one of a group of girls he believed had been bullying his daughter.

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36 h. ago Man punches girl, 15, to ground and says 'touch my daughter again and I'll kill you'

Dean Devonald, 45, drove to Aberavon beach in Wales and and punched a 15-year-old girl in the face whom he believed to have been bullying his daughter, a court heard

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1 week ago Girl, four, targeted in attempted abduction at church before hero women 'wrestled him to the ground'

The man reportedly entered Holy Trinity Church in West Bromwich, West Midlands at pace and attempted to abduct the child on Sunday.

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1 week ago Dad punched by MP Mike Amesbury says 'he could've killed me and should be in prison'

Former Labour MP Mike Amesbury was initially jailed for 10 weeks before he was given a suspended sentence on appeal after he punched a man several times, including to his head

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2 w. ago Needle drop! The world’s first sewing machine orchestra takes Munich

This weekend, a symphony of Singers (not that kind) will lead an experimental performance that stitches together feminism and fashion – and offers the audience free repairsStepping into the studio of the Brazilian-born artist and performer Lisa Simpson – no relation to the cartoon character – feels like entering a crossover between the Mad Hatter’s workshop and a postindustrial steampunk landscape with a colourful girl-power twist. The ground floor space in Berlin’s southern district of Neukölln is filled with shelves laden with old sewing machines and coat racks brimming with hats, bags and fabric scraps. Even more sewing machines propped on two tables might suggest that this is a tailor’s workshop, were it not for the tangle of cables and synthesisers connected to them. Toy sewing machines in candy colours have a purple phone receiver attached; colourful cables with knitted covers sneak out of household sewing machines and seam overlockers; pins and needles are connected to microp...

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