Hugh Schofield

They'd stopped.

and then moved to this other clinic where he was at, and then he'd come back and they'd resumed at this first clinic, and then stopped when, in 2017, he was disbarred from acting pending this trial.

of patients, patients who have been looked after, not by him directly, but by fellow anesthetists.

And then he was able to intervene in many of them as the kind of savior.

His prestige was boosted.

That of his fellows was gravely damaged.

And that, the prosecution said, was his motivation.

He protested his innocence.

The defence said there was no tangible proof of any of this.

And obviously, it was quite hard to establish exactly what had happened in cases which were so old.

But the court believed that he was responsible in all these cases, 30 overall, 12 of them resulting in deaths.

And they've given him this very stiff punishment of imprisonment for life, basically.

So are you prepared to, when Russia says it wants the whole of the Donbass region, what do you say?

The Labour Tribunal is more used to settling complaints for unfair dismissal from shop assistants and office staff, but this is an affair in which phantasmagorical sums of money have been at stake.

Kylian Mbappe, who left the club in such bitter circumstances in June 2024, wanted €260 million, $306 million, from PSG.

PSG countersued for €440 million, $518 million.

In the end, the tribunal has found for Mbappe, but awarded him a smaller sum than what his lawyers were demanding.

Essentially, the €60 million, or $71 million, amounts to the salary and bonuses that he says PSG failed to pay him at the end of his time there when the club was furious at his refusal to extend his contract.

At around 9.30 this morning, so when the museum had already opened, the gang of three or four men armed with cutters, they broke into the Apollo Gallery, which is where what remains of the French crown jewels are kept.

There they opened two display cases and made off with several items of jewellery.