THE Masked Singer fans are convinced character Sloth is a major reality TV star with a VERY famous partner after spotting a major ‘giveaway clue’.

Viewers have rushed to social media with their theories amid Sloth’s various performances, insisting the mystery celeb’s identity is in fact a very well-known Love Island star from series three.

Last week, Sloth sang Tubthumping by Chumbawamba on The Masked Singer.

He also previously got audiences hyped with his renditions of Green Green Grass by George Ezra and Flash Bang Wallop by Tommy Steele.

Dressed in neon attire, the Sloth’s mannerisms are very energetic and sometimes chaotic, with him often hugging those around him.

Based on Sloth’s voice and actions, fans are convinced they have sussed out their identity.

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Viewers believe Sloth is none other than Chris Hughes, with eagle-eyed fans claiming a clue has proven his identity beyond doubt.

The hint seems to link Chris to his Celebrity Big Brother co-star who he’s currently dating.

Taking to TikTok, one commented: “100% on Chris Hughes, said it since week 1, but the SW1A fully confirmed it for me (JoJo SIWA!)”

A Reddit user similarly agreed: “I think Sloth is Chris Hughes!! The postcode was SW1A which could be reference to JoJo siwa.”

“Sloth im flicking between jack whitehall or chris hughes,” penned another.

“Thought sometimes it sounded like him and the sw1a thing i thought jojo siwa.”

OTHER CLUES

Other clues from the show include lots of exercise visuals, a fitness studio with a boom box on the floor, filming themselves as if presenting something and a gym with various gym equipment.

Sloth has said various phrases as clues, such as “We’re hitting century reps today. This is a labour of love.”

He has also said: “Now I’m bringing Fitness, Fashion, and Fierceness to the competition. I know how to represent in the gym and on the world stage.”

However, some fans think Sloth could be another famous face, with guesses including chef Jamie Oliver, comedian Jack Whitehall, boxer Tommy Fury, Corrie’s Colson Smith and Made in Chelsea’s Sam Thompson.

CHRIS AND JOJO SIWA

Chris soared to fame on Love Island series three, where he coupled up with the girl who coined the phrase “the ick” – Olivia Attwood.

They finished as runners-up, with Kem and Amber winning the 2017 series.

Chris and Olivia then parted ways a few months after show filming.

More recently, Chris participated in the 2025 series of Celebrity Big Brother.

He found love after falling for JoJo Siwa during his time in the house.

They have been in a relationship since and frequently flaunt their love on social media.

The pair have been inseparable, and have made sure to have weekends away together and spontaneous holidays.

JoJo recently spoke out about how she wants kids with Chris in the near future.

And she horrified fans after sharing a series of AI-generated pics which gave fans a peek at what their future kids would look like.

She posted a picture of them with two adorable children – one girl and one boy.

Explaining how she had generated the pics, she wrote: “I asked ChatGBT to turn us into a family.”

Fans took to the comments to discuss the pics, with one saying: “This is so horrifying why is ai so good at generating children specifically.”

Another said: “Joelle i love you, but keep this relationship so close to your heart, it’s okay to keep your life private and your personal life intimate.”

A third said: “I love you but this is crazy.”

Militant group Isis claimed responsibility for Friday’s suicide bombing attack on a Shia mosque on the outskirts of Islamabad, which killed at least 31 people and wounded more than 170 others.

The attack marked a rare bombing in Pakistan’s capital, occurring as its Western-allied government struggled to contain a surge in militant assaults nationwide.

Television footage and social media images showed police and residents frantically transporting the injured to nearby hospitals. Some of those caught in the blast at the expansive Khadija Al-Kubra mosque are reported to be in critical condition.

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Isis also released an image that it said showed the attacker holding a gun, his face covered and eyes blurred, according to a statement on its Telegram channel. Reuters could not immediately verify the photo.

More than 170 others were wounded in the explosion, detonated after guards challenged the attacker as he made his way into the Khadija Tul Kubra Imambargah compound on the outskirts of the city, officials said.

Images from the site showed bloodied bodies lying on the carpeted mosque floor surrounded by shards of glass, debris and panicked worshippers. Dozens more wounded were lying in the gardens of the compound as people called for help. Survivors said they heard gunshots and seconds later the blast, soon after the prayers began.

The man blew “himself up in the last row of worshippers”, defence minister Khawaja Asif wrote on X.

He said the bomber had a history of travelling to Afghanistan and blamed neighbouring India for sponsoring the assault, without providing evidence.

India’s foreign office condemned the attack and dismissed Pakistan’s statement as “baseless”.

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“It is unfortunate that, instead of seriously addressing the problems plaguing its social fabric, Pakistan should choose to delude itself by blaming others for its home-grown ills,” it said in a statement.

At Islamabad’s largest public hospital, family members waited outside and in crowded corridors for news.

Sarfraz Shah, 46, said he had gone to the mosque with his younger brother Manzar, 39, as he did every Friday.

“I heard the gunshots and I was just trying to make sense of what had happened when there was a massive explosion,” Mr Shah said at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences hospital.

“It threw people here and there. There was smoke. No one knew what had happened. Then there was blood everywhere.”

He added through tears that there was no sign of his brother anywhere but when he came to the hospital he discovered that Manzar was among those killed.

The attack was the deadliest suicide bombing in Islamabad in more than a decade, according to conflict monitor ACLED.

Shahid Malik, a police official who was involved in shifting the injured people and dead bodies to hospital, said what he had witnessed was a nightmare.

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“I have seen many crime scenes. But this was horrible, very horrible,” he said, adding there were between 600 and 700 people at the mosque.

Shi’ites, who are a minority in the predominantly Sunni Muslim nation of 241 million, have been targeted in sectarian violence in the past, including by Islamic State and the Sunni Islamist group Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). Bombings are rare in the heavily guarded capital, although Pakistan has been hit by a rising wave of militancy in the past few years, particularly along the border with Afghanistan.

Afghanistan’s foreign ministry condemned the attack.

Kabul has repeatedly denied charges that it provides safe haven to militants carrying out attacks in Pakistan.”A total of 31 people have lost their lives. The number of wounded brought to hospitals has risen to 169,” Islamabad’s deputy commissioner, Irfan Memon, said in a statement.

The capital was already on high alert on Friday for the visiting president of Uzbekistan, Shavkat Mirziyoyev, with roads around the capital blocked by checkpoints and security forces posted across the city.

Pakistan has also blamed India for assaults by militants in the restive Balochistan province over the weekend, accusations that have fanned smouldering tensions between the nuclear-powered neighbours who engaged in their worst conflict in decades in May.

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Delhi has denied any involvement in the violence in Balochistan where Pakistan’s military has battled a decades-long insurgency.

That region was brought to a standstill after separatist militants stormed government buildings, hospitals and markets in a coordinated attack, killing 58 civilians and security officials. The military said it killed 216 militants in targeted offensives across the province. The military said earlier on Friday that another 24 militants linked to the TTP were killed in the northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

The last major attack in Islamabad was a suicide bombing on 11 November that killed 12 people and wounded 27 others. Pakistan said it was carried out by an Afghan national. No group claimed responsibility for that attack.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Alberto Castañeda Mondragón says his memory was so jumbled after a beating by immigration officers that he initially could not remember he had a daughter and still struggles to recall treasured moments like the night he taught her to dance.

But the violence he endured last month in Minnesota while being detained is seared into his battered brain.

He remembers Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pulling him from a friend’s car on Jan. 8 outside a St. Paul shopping center and throwing him to the ground, handcuffing him, then punching him and striking his head with a steel baton. He remembers being dragged into an SUV and taken to a detention facility, where he said he was beaten again.

He also remembers the emergency room and the intense pain from eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages.

“They started beating me right away when they arrested me,” the Mexican immigrant recounted this week to The Associated Press, which recently reported on how his case contributed to mounting friction between federal immigration agents and a Minneapolis hospital.

Castañeda Mondragón, 31, is one of an unknown number of immigration detainees who, despite avoiding deportation during the Trump administration’s enforcement crackdown, have been left with lasting injuries following violent encounters with ICE officers. His case is one of the excessive-force claims the federal government has thus far declined to investigate.

He was hurt so badly he was disoriented for days at Hennepin County Medical Center, where ICE officers constantly watched over him.

Officers claimed he ran headfirst into a wall

The officers told nurses Castañeda Mondragón “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall,” an account his caregivers immediately doubted. A CT scan showed fractures to the front, back and both sides of his skull — injuries a doctor told AP were inconsistent with a fall.

“There was never a wall,” Castañeda Mondragón said in Spanish, recalling ICE officers striking him with the same metal rod used to break the windows of the vehicle he was in. He later identified it as an ASP, a telescoping baton routinely carried by law enforcement.

Training materials and police use-of-force policies across the U.S. say such a baton can be used to hit the arms, legs and body. But striking the head, neck or spine is considered potentially deadly force.

“The only time a person can be struck in the head with any baton is when the person presents the same threat that would permit the use of a firearm — a lethal threat to the officer or others,” said Joe Key, a former Baltimore police lieutenant and use-of-force expert who testifies in defense of police.

Once he was taken to an ICE holding facility at Ft. Snelling in suburban Minneapolis, Castañeda Mondragón said officers resumed beating him. Recognizing that he was seriously hurt, he said, he pleaded with them to stop but they just “laughed at me and hit me again.”

“They were very racist people,” he said. “No one insulted them, neither me nor the other person they detained me with. It was their character, their racism toward us, for being immigrants.”

The Department of Homeland Security, which includes ICE, did not respond to repeated requests for comment over the last two weeks on Castañeda Mondragón’s injuries.

It is unclear whether his arrest was captured on body-camera footage or if there might be additional recordings from security cameras at the detention center.

In a recent bid to boost transparency, DHS announced a broad rollout of body cameras for immigration officers in Minneapolis as the government also draws down ICE’s presence there.

ICE deportation officer William J. Robinson did not say how Castañeda Mondragón’s skull was smashed in a Jan. 20 declaration filed in federal court. During the intake process, it was determined he “had a head injury that required emergency medical treatment,” he wrote in the filing.

The declaration also stated that Castañeda Mondragón entered the U.S. legally in March 2022, and that the agency determined only after his arrest that he had overstayed his visa. A federal judge later ruled his arrest had been unlawful and ordered him released from ICE custody.

Video shows him stumbling during arrest

A video posted to social media captured the moments immediately after Castañeda Mondragón’s arrest as four masked men walk him handcuffed through a parking lot. The video shows him unsteady and stumbling, held up by ICE officers.

“Don’t resist,” shouts the woman who is recording. “Cause they ain’t gonna do nothing but bang you up some more.”

“Hope they don’t kill you,” she adds.

“And y’all gave the man a concussion,” a male bystander shouts.

The witness who posted the video declined to speak with AP or provide consent for the video’s publication, but Castañeda Mondragón confirmed he is the handcuffed man seen in the recording.

At least one ICE officer later told staff at the medical center that Castañeda Mondragón “got his (expletive) rocked,” according to court documents filed by a lawyer seeking his release and nurses who spoke with AP.

AP interviewed a doctor and five nurses about Castañeda Mondragón’s treatment at HCMC and the presence of ICE officers inside the hospital. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss patient care and feared retaliation. AP also consulted an outside physician, who affirmed the injuries were inconsistent with an accidental fall or running into a wall.

Minnesota state law requires health professionals to report to law enforcement any wounds that could have been perpetrated as part of a crime.

An HCMC spokeswoman declined to say this week whether anyone at the facility had done so. However, following the Jan. 31 publication of AP’s initial story about Castañeda Mondragón’s arrest, hospital administrators opened an internal inquiry seeking to determine which staff members have spoken to the media, according to internal communications viewed by AP.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz posted a link to AP’s prior story about Castañeda Mondragón, but his office has not said whether state authorities would pursue answers.

“Law enforcement cannot be lawless,” Walz wrote in the post on X. “Thousands of aggressive, untrained agents of the federal government continue to injure and terrorize Minnesotans. This must end.”

Castañeda Mondragón’s arrest came a day after  the first  of  two fatal shootings of U.S. citizens in Minneapolis by immigration officers, triggering widespread public protests.

Elected officials call for accountability

Minnesota congressional leaders and other elected officials, including St. Paul Mayor Kaohly Her, called this week for an investigation of Castañeda Mondragón’s injuries.

The Ramsey County Attorney’s Office, which oversees St. Paul, urged Castañeda Mondragón to file a police report to prompt an investigation. He said he plans to file a complaint. A St. Paul police spokesperson said the department would investigate “all alleged crimes that are reported to us.”

While the Trump administration insists ICE limits its operations to immigrants with violent rap sheets, Castañeda Mondragón has no criminal record.

“We are seeing a repeated pattern of Trump Administration officials attempting to lie and gaslight the American people when it comes to the cruelty of this ICE operation in Minnesota,” Sen. Tina Smith, a Minnesota Democrat, said in a statement.

Rep. Kelly Morrison, another Democrat and a doctor, recently toured the Whipple Building, the ICE facility at Ft. Snelling. She said she saw severe overcrowding, unsanitary conditions and an almost complete lack of medical care.

“If any one of our police officers did this, you know what just happened in Minnesota with George Floyd, we hold them accountable,” said Democratic Rep. Betty McCollum, whose district includes St. Paul.

A native of Veracruz, Mexico, Castañeda Mondragón came to Minnesota nearly four years ago on a temporary work visa and found jobs as a driver and roofer. He uses his earnings to support his elderly father, who is disabled and diabetic, and his 10-year-old daughter.

On the day of his arrest, he was running errands with a friend when they suddenly found themselves surrounded by ICE agents. They began breaking the windows and opening the doors of the vehicle. He said the first person who hit him “got ugly with me for being Mexican” and not having documents showing his immigration status.

About four hours after his arrest, court records show, Castañeda Mondragón was taken to an emergency room in the suburb of Edina with swelling and bruising around his right eye and bleeding. He was then transferred to the Minneapolis medical center, where he told staff he had been “dragged and mistreated by federal agents,” before his condition deteriorated, court records show.

A week into his hospitalization, caregivers described him as minimally responsive. As his condition slowly improved, hospital staff handed him his cellphone, and he spoke with his child in Mexico, whom he could not remember.

“I am your daughter,” she told him. “You left when I was 6 years old.”

His head injuries erased past experiences that for his daughter are unforgettable, including birthday parties and the day he left for the U.S. She’s been trying to revive his memory in daily calls.

“When I turned 5, you taught me how to dance for the first time,” she reminded him recently.

“All these moments, really, for me, have been forgotten,″ he said.

He showed gradual improvement and, to the surprise of some who treated him, was released from the hospital on Jan. 27.

Long recovery lies ahead

He faces a long recovery and an uncertain future. Questions loom about whether he will be able to continue to support his family back in Mexico. “My family depends on me,” he said.

Though his bruises have faded, the effects of his traumatic brain injuries linger. In addition to the problems with his memory, he also has issues with balance and coordination that could prove debilitating for a man whose work requires going up and down ladders. He said he is unable to bathe himself without help.

“I can’t get on a roof now,” he said.

Castañeda Mondragón, who does not have health insurance, said doctors have told him he needs ongoing care. Unable to earn a living, he is relying on support from co-workers and members of the Minneapolis-St. Paul community who are raising money to help provide food, housing and medical care. He has launched a GoFundMe.

Still, he hopes to stay in the U.S. and to provide again someday for his loved ones. He differentiates between people in Minnesota, where he said he has felt welcome, and the federal officers who beat him.

“It’s immense luck to have survived, to be able to be in this country again, to be able to heal, and to try to move forward,” he said. “For me, it’s the best luck in the world.”

But when he closes his eyes at night, the fear that ICE officers will come for him dominates his dreams. He is now terrified to leave his apartment, he said.

“You’re left with the nightmare of going to work and being stopped,” Castañeda Mondragón said, “or that you’re buying your food somewhere, your lunch, and they show up and stop you again. They hit you.”

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Biesecker reported from Washington. Mustian reported from New York, and Attanasio reported from Seattle.

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Brook is a corps member for The Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues.

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Three generations of family members of a youngster who abused her from the age of six have been convicted for the sexual offences they carried out in their family home

A young girl was sexually abused by three generations of her own family during years of abuse, a court heard. A dad, grandad and two brothers have been convicted for the offences against the girl, who can’t be named for legal reasons.

The abuse took place in the West Sussex family home, where the mother allegedly turned a blind eye. Hove Crown Court heard that the girl’s younger sister also suffered physical abuse from the family members.

The girl, who is now in her teens, said she remembered being attacked from the age of six. The court heard that she was repeatedly raped by her father and two brothers and also sexually assaulted by her grandfather, according to the Sun.

The girl’s mum, dad, grandad and two brothers have been jailed for more than 100 years after being convicted of a string of offences, including rape, sexual assault and false imprisonment. The court heard that when the girl told her mum about the abuse she was enduring she was beaten, locked in a cupboard, had her mouth taped up and went without food for two days.

The girl was burnt with cigarettes, beaten with a horse whip and spat on, the court heard. She also had any money given to her on special occasions snatched by her mother.

At age 12, the girl bravely told her teacher about the abuse as she said she was afraid to go home. She told police: “I told how my parents keep abusing me and they’ve been doing it for years. Then I started explaining all the sexual stuff.”

Her father, 43, was convicted of five counts of rape of a child under 13; one count of sexual assault by penetration of a child under 13; three counts of sexual assault of a child under 13; one count of causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity and three counts of cruelty to a person under 16.

The mother, also 43, was found guilty of four counts of cruelty to a person under 16; two counts of false imprisonment and one count of perverting the course of justice.

The grandfather, 70, was convicted of one count of sexual assault by penetration of a child under 13 and two counts of sexual assault of a child under 13. The older brother, 23, was found guilty of four counts of rape of a child under 13; one count of causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity and two counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm.

The younger brother, 20, was convicted of four counts of rape of a child under 13; two counts of sexual assault of a child under 13; one count of causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity and one count of assault occasioning actual bodily harm.

The family members cannot be named due to legal reasons.

Detective Superintendent Andrew Harbour previously said: “This has been a complex investigation that has had a profound impact on the two victims. Our priority continues to be ensuring their welfare and safeguarding in this highly traumatic and distressing case.

“We have worked alongside partner agencies to ensure the ongoing safeguarding of the young victims. Tackling violence against women and girls is a top priority for Sussex Police. We encourage all victims of rape and serious sexual offences to report their experience to us.

“Our officers have been determined to get justice in this case, and we are pleased with the guilty verdicts returned by the jury. We urge the public not to speculate about the case online as this may jeopardise the victims’ legal right to anonymity.”

Rape Crisis England & Wales works to end child sexual abuse, rape, sexual assault, sexual harassment and all other forms of sexual violence.

Call the charity’s support line free 24/7 on 0808 500 2222 or visit 247sexualabusesupport.org.uk

ALICE Kavanagh’s double page spread ‘Food and drink at York cinema is just the ticket!’ had the spin-off benefit of making me focus on the building itself in all its Art Deco style magnificence.

Could the building [the Everyman cinema in the former Odeon in Blossom Street] be termed York’s second cathedral – the ‘Celluloid Cathedral’?

Several fine, disparate buildings vie for the title ‘York’s second cathedral’.

The Minster is in pole position in the league table of magnificence, of course, but York Railway Station is often cited as second-placed, with very good reason.

Another contender is the rather ‘tucked-away’ Leetham’s Mill by the Foss between Stonebow and Fossgate, once a hive of industry but now perhaps more of a hive.

Then more up to date, a possible claimant to the title, is the Aviva building, Tanner’s Moat by Lendal Bridge.

Really? Yes, really! However, some may contend it’s reminiscent of a secret government intelligence centre.

‘Aviva Castle’ is an impressive possibility for the ‘York’s second cathedral’ accolade.

My own vote goes to the station for ‘second prize’ but readers may have other candidates in mind.

It would be interesting to hear about them.

Derek Reed,

Middlethorpe Drive,

York

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Residents could help keep streets tidy

S ROBINSON in a letter to The Press comment’s on the state of the street’s after the refuse collectors have done their work, with items of rubbish blowing like tumbleweed down our streets.

Easily remedied by a few socially minded individuals who are proud of their streets and town and picking up rubbish.

The thing that I find more annoying is how the bins/boxes are abandoned on the walkways, I under understand that the refuse collectors are too busy to place them safely, but the thing that gets my goat is the able-bodied people who rather than move the obstructions to one side simply avoid them.

Don’t they have a thought regarding, people with wheelchairs, pushchairs, mobility scooters and people with limited visibility.

Have people become so self-centred that they don’t consider others.

What a selfish society we are becoming.

D M Deamer,

Penleys Grove Street,

Monkgate,

York

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Kelly Somers: What’s been the toughest point in your career?

Granit Xhaka: I have two tough moments. The first one was when I moved for the first time away from my family at nearly 19 to Germany. It was very difficult for me. Everyone knows how close I am to my family and to be away from them was hard. I didn’t get the minutes I wanted [on the pitch] and I wanted to leave in January after six months, but I had my dad behind me. He said: ‘If you walk now, you will always walk away, so head down and just work.’ I did, and everything changed.

The second part is not a big secret. It was 2019 when I had this… I call it a misunderstanding… with the fans of Arsenal. Two moments where I think that I became stronger and better because it’s part of a process. It’s part of writing the whole history. On one side, very bad. On one side, I was lucky to have it.

Kelly: Now you’re back in the Premier League, have you had an opportunity to reflect on your whole period at Arsenal? Because you had some incredible highs as well as some really difficult moments…

Granit: In general, I think people just think about this moment in 2019. But I came in 2016, so to be part of a football club for seven years makes me proud… it’s not easy to be on this level for seven years. And, of course, when I left Arsenal it was a hard decision for myself and for my family because we were happy there. But I got another offer on the table where I was thinking more far [ahead] than in the moment. To be honest, I didn’t expect to be back in the Premier League after two years again. This was not the plan for myself, or for our family.

Kelly: So you never wanted to come back?

Granit: It’s not that I didn’t want to, but it wasn’t planned. When I moved from Arsenal, I signed a five-year contract at Leverkusen. So everything was planned around what happens after five years. But I always say in football, you never know where you are tomorrow.

Kelly: Why did you come back then?

Granit: Even the people closest to me were saying: ‘Why are you going back to the Premier League to join Sunderland?’ I came back because I love the challenge and I had the feeling I need a new challenge. After two years in Germany, where in the first year we won nearly everything… unbeaten in the Bundesliga, won the cup, lost the final of Europa League, which was very painful. I just had the feeling with the owner when I spoke with them – with the club, with the coach – this is the right club for me, because the people are very humble. It’s a small city like where I grew up. I just wanted to come back in a reality which I believe is the right direction for myself, for my family. I’m just happy that everything at the moment is going how I wanted it to.

Kelly: You must have expected it to go well because otherwise you wouldn’t have come here. But has it exceeded your expectations?

Granit: The first thing I said to the club was: ‘I’m not coming here to play in the Premier League for one year and to go down, because I’m leaving a Champions League club. I’m coming here to to push this project.’

Kelly: I find it fascinating, because you must have had other offers to come back to the Premier League…

Granit: It was a busy summer to be honest! I’m 33, I spoke with my brother and I said: ‘I never have had so many offers!’ The summer was very busy because every day someone else came. But I decided for myself – after 20 minutes on the call with the owner – I wanted to go to Sunderland. I was so sure.

John Wilson murdered his ex-girlfriend, 17-year-old Michelle Stewart, in 2008, and has been recalled to prison after being released on parole.

The family of a murdered teenager have said they were “right all along” after her killer was put back behind bars a year after he was paroled.

John Wilson, now 37, was given a life sentence after he ambushed his ex-girlfriend, 17-year-old Michelle Stewart, and stabbed her to death in Drongan in 2008.

Wilson was released in January 2025 after 16 years in prison, despite warnings from Michelle’s family that he would reoffend.

But he was locked up again last month for breaching his licence conditions.

In a letter to Michelle’s sister Lisa Stewart, the Scottish Prison Service confirmed that Wilson’s “licence has been revoked and the offender has been returned to custody”.

Lisa, 47, told the Daily Record the news was “music to her ears”.

She said: “When I heard, my overriding thought was that we had been right all along.

“He was never going to abide by any licence conditions that were imposed on him.

“We knew that, eventually, he would breach his licence conditions. It was just a matter of when.

“When he was first released, I said I’d give it a year before he did something. He’s made it just over a year.

“Any breach of his licence conditions – regardless of how small it may be – clearly shows that he is not reformed in any way and that he should not be released.

“To be honest, it is music to my ears that he has been recalled and that he is off the streets.”

Michelle was just minutes away from her home in Drongan when Wilson, who was 20 at the time, carried out his brutal attack.

He had been stalking the schoolgirl since their break-up and stabbed her 10 times with a 10-inch blade in front of her friends.

Michelle’s brother Kenny Jnr, a nurse, performed CPR on his sister at the scene in a desperate attempt to save her.

Wilson went on the run and was caught hours later. He pleaded guilty to the murder in March 2009 and was sentenced to serve 12 years minimum jail time, discounted from 16 years due to his guilty plea.

Minutes from one of Wilson’s parole hearings showed the murderer had not undertaken any domestic violence work in the first 14 years he spent behind bars.

The revelation left Michelle’s heartbroken loved ones “speechless”.

Lisa, who has fought tirelessly to keep her sister’s killer locked up, said: “They said he’d had no rehabilitation work in 14 years.

“He hadn’t shown any remorse for what he did to Michelle. That’s not somebody who is rehabilitated, that’s not somebody who would be safe to be released back into the community.

“I thought, what if he started a new relationship? What if they have an argument or she rejects him or does something he doesn’t like?”

Wilson now faces a fresh parole hearing.

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Michelle continued: “Basically, it will go to a hearing now and the hearing will decide whether he is released or whether he is put back into the prison system.

“We are hoping he stays behind bars.”

Since 2019, the Stewart family have campaigned to see Michelle’s Law introduced, which would see changes to the justice system, including the setting up of ‘exclusion zones’ upon an offender’s release.

This was prompted by Wilson being spotted in and around Ayr numerous times while on supervised leave since 2018.

Speaking of her anguish at the sightings, Lisa previously said: “For John Wilson to be back in the local community is not only a kick in the face to us, but it speaks volumes about the current status of victims in the eyes of the SNP government.”

In a letter to first minister Humza Yousaf at the time, Lisa wrote: “On a daily basis Mr Yousaf, I have flashbacks of Michelle lying on the pavement, lifeless, a large gaping stab wound visible on her chest, blood pouring from her stab wounds inflicted on her and her blue eyes staring straight ahead lifeless.

“You have previously stated that is a matter for the local authority, however they are required to work within the legislation set by the Scottish Government.

“You, as well as Parole Scotland, do have the power to make that decision to relocate him.

“John Wilson has the rest of his life ahead of him – to forget what he done to Michelle.

“It is too much to ask that he be relocated outwith any proximity of Ayrshire?”

It is not currently known what conditions Wilson breached to trigger his recall to prison. However, it is understood he will remain behind bars for the next six to eight weeks until a hearing takes place.

A spokesperson for the Parole Board for Scotland said: “The Parole Board does not comment on individual cases.”

Yet Cash defies the diaristic lit-girl trope with her delightfully wacky debut novel, Lost Lambs. Everything in the small-town world of the novel is made up, from the names of prescription drugs which various characters ingest to the town’s church, Our Lady of Suffering, which is suffering from a gnat infestation. In a bit of typographical experimentation, the text is blighted by gnats, too — exterminate is written as “extermignate”; natural as “gnatural”.

“Small gestures are the best,” Anna from the South East says. She remembers receiving a bicycle bell for safer cycling as a student in Oxford: “He attached it in the early hours as a surprise.”

The most interesting gift that reader Pip, from the South East, has given were bright red socks. “My other half modelled them for me, but nothing else.”

What started out as an affordable gift is now becoming a serious commitment for Londoner Marie’s husband: “He always gives me roses, one more for every year. We have been married 50 years this year.”

Fiona, from the South West, also has a rose-giving tradition with her husband, whom she otherwise describes as “romantic as a slug”. The couple lived in Hong Kong for many years, where “it is customary to send eleven red roses because ‘you are the 12th and treasured one’. That was quite sweet,” she recalls.

“Years later, he realised he’d forgotten to buy me a Valentine card so set about designing and printing one. I was presented with a sheet of white paper with a black heart in the middle.

“Ever the engineer, he had also drawn an arrow pointing to the heart and written the word ‘RED’. It still makes me laugh today.”

Best: Loving memories

The best gifts sometimes cost nothing at all – but mean the world to these readers.