News about Ryan Thompson

Shopkeeper, 59, who illegally sold a firework that killed a grandmother, 88, to a boy who posted it through her door avoids jail

www.dailymail.co.uk, June 5, 2024
A shopkeeper who illegally sold a firework that killed a grandmother to a boy who posted it through her door has avoided jail. Former shopkeeper Mark Vardy, 59, was handed a suspended sentence after pleading guilty to two counts of selling fireworks to Callum Dunne, then 15, from Southend. Dunne, with the help of his then 18-year-old accomplice Kai Cooper, posted the firework through the door of 88-year-old Josephine Smith's home and she died from smoke inhalation as a result. Both were convicted of manslaughter at the Old Bailey last year.

According to the court, a gang of 'food fraudsters' sold cheap waste meat that was 'unfit for human consumption.'

www.dailymail.co.uk, July 13, 2023
A court heard four alleged food fraudsters sold cheap waste meat that should have been used in pet food to the public despite being 'unfit for human consumption' in the search of'massive gains.' During the Covid lockdown, animal parts, such as lamb testes, cows feet, and tongues, were banned from being used in pet food and sold to customers. The jury heard that the Food Safety Team of Southwark Council's Food Safety Team took an unhygienic, little-known, illegal 'cutting room', where 1.9tons of meat and poultry were confiscated, exposed the fraud. Anthony Fear, 61, and his company Fear Animal Products Ltd, have been charged with conspiracy to defraud, Ali Afzal, 44, and Azar Irshad, 37, respectively. Between June 1, 2020 and September 22, 2020.

MLB ROUNDUP: The Mets make a dramatic comeback to shock the Rays 8-7, while the Yankees face the Yankees in extras to Toronto

www.dailymail.co.uk, May 18, 2023
Francisco lvarez had two outs in the ninth inning and Pete Alonso scored a game-ending three-run shot in the 10th, giving the New York Mets a improbable 8-7 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays on Wednesday night. Before Mark Vientos, a rookie brought up from the minors for his season's debut, tied the score with a two-run homer in the seventh off side-arm pitcher Ryan Thompson, New York trailed 2-0. Brandon Lowe came back from the Rays behind a two-run homer off Adam Ottavino in a three-run eighth that gave the Rays a 5-2 lead.

An Argentine woman tells the story behind the photo that was included in the viral 'Girl Explaining' meme

www.dailymail.co.uk, August 22, 2022
The Argentine college student who is featured in the 'Girl Explaining' meme has now revealed how the viral image came about. During a beachside side festival in the Buenos Aires town of Claromecó in February 2019, Denise Sánchez appears to be yelling into her ex-boyfriend's ear and holding her arm extended forward. According to DailyMail.com, the 21-year-old said that her boyfriend was actually tired because it was getting late and that she was actually rhyming along with a song as a young woman standing in front of them posed for a picture that they unknowingly photographed.