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PM urged Australian envoy to visit Assange in UK prison

Australia's new high commissioner to the UK, Stephen Smith, is the first consular visitor jailed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has received since 2019.

AAP

High Commissioner Stephen Smith visits Julian Assange in prison as NGO Reporters Without Borders turned away

Australia's High Commissioner to the UK visits Julian Assange inside Belmarsh Prison as the WikiLeaks founder asks what the Albanese government is doing to secure his release.

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A second autopsy has been done in a probe of an unsolved South Carolina death

The autopsy was completed this weekend on the exhumed body of a teenager found dead nearly eight years ago on a South Carolina road, according to the family's lawyer.

WEKU

Second autopsy done in unsolved South Carolina death probe

A lawyer for the family of a teenager found dead nearly eight years ago says a second autopsy of the exhumed body is complete

The Independent UK

New UK envoy says Australian republic 'inevitable'

Becoming a republic is "inevitable" but Australians are still proud to have King Charles as head of state, Australia's new high commissioner to the UK says.

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Stephen Smith’s body is exhumed after murder near Murdaugh home – as family offers $35k reward to catch killer

Exhumation comes just weeks after SLED announced Smith’s death was officially ruled a homicide and after Buster Murdaugh issued a statement denying any involvement

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Australia will 'inevitably' cut ties with monarchy, says high commissioner

IT is "inevitable" Australia will ditch the monarchy, the country's new high commissioner has said.

The National (Scotland)

King Charles will 'inevitably' be AXED as Australia's head of state, warns top diplomat

Just weeks before the Coronation, Australia's new high commissioner Stephen Smith says Aussies have respect for the monarchy but a change is "inevitable"

Daily Mirror

‘Glimmers of hope’: Australian envoy to visit Julian Assange in prison

High Commissioner to the United Kingdom Stephen Smith is to visit jailed Australian, Julian Assange, in custody. The Wikileaks founder continues to face

The New Daily

Australia's new High Commissioner to the UK, Stephen Smith, speaks on Julian Assange, AUKUS and climate change

Stephen Smith reveals he will be the first Australian High Commissioner to visit Wikileaks founder Julian Assange in prison, as he sits down with the ABC upon commencing his new role in London.

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‘His body is a crime scene’: Exhumation plans proceeding in Stephen Smith’s 2015 killing

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Plans to exhume Stephen Smith’s body are proceeding rapidly and will involve a team of state and national experts, one of the attorneys for Stephen Smith’s mother said Friday.

Tribune News Service

Stephen Smith homicide investigators say witnesses could be ‘more willing to speak freely’ after Murdaugh case

SLED opened a new investigation into Stephen Smith’s death in June 2021 – days after Alex Murdaugh murdered his wife and son

The Independent UK

Mom of teen found dead near Murdaugh home warns killer: ‘I don’t care what your name is, you need to be punished’

Stephen Smith’s mother spoke out after SLED announced that her son’s death was finally being investigated as a homicide

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Stephen Smith died 8 years ago. More people than ever want to know why

State agents say Smith was murdered. Interest in his case has spiked in part because of where he died: about 8 miles from where Maggie and Paul Murdaugh were shot to death.

Daily Mirror

Death of teen exhumed near Murdaugh murders mansion investigated as homicide

A new investigation into the death of Buster Murdaugh's fellow student, Stephen Smith, who was found dead aged 19 near the Murdaugh mansion, has opened as his body is exhumed

The Independent UK

Murdaugh trial gives unsolved death investigation a boost

A mother whose son was found dead in the middle of a South Carolina road eight years ago is opening a private investigation into his death after raising almost $90,000 amid the publicity surround the murder trial of Alex Murdaugh

Tribune News Service

SLED investigating Stephen Smith’s death as a murder, says teen did not die by hit-and-run

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina Law Enforcement Division Chief Mark Keel confirmed Tuesday night that his agency is now investigating the 2015 death of Hampton County teen Stephen Smith as a murder.

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Good riddance to the work capability assessment, the cruellest social policy of modern times

Thousands of people have died after wrongly being found ‘fit for work’, but benefits campaigners aren’t celebrating yet, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

The Independent UK

Stephen Smith’s death declared a homicide days after Buster Murdaugh denied involvement

Family says it is a major development and ‘a chance to right eight years of wrongs’

The Independent UK

Stephen Smith’s mother flagged Buster Murdaugh as a potential suspect in his murder in 2016 letter to the FBI

In the letter, Sandy Smith said an individual had come forward to the family claiming to have witnessed Stephen being beaten to death with a baseball bat

The Independent UK

Alex Murdaugh’s attorney slams leak of jailhouse phone call

Colleton County Sheriff’s Office said the call was released due to ‘human error’ after a podcast filed a FOIA request for Murdaugh’s jailhouse calls

Tribune News Service

‘This has gone on far too long.’ Buster Murdaugh speaks out on Stephen Smith’s death

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Buster Murdaugh on Monday publicly denied being involved in the death of a teenager hours before Stephen Smith’s mother and her attorneys held a news conference.

The Independent UK

Alex Murdaugh’s son Buster breaks silence about ‘vicious rumours’ around Stephen Smith’s death

Stephen Smith was found dead in the middle of a road in Hampton County in 2015 and his family now plans to exhume his body for an independent autopsy

The Independent UK

Stephen Smith family says he was killed ‘somewhere else’ before body was ‘placed’ in road near Murdaugh home

Family of Stephen Smith plan to exhume his body for an independent autopsy as they insist: ‘This is not Alex Murdaugh 2.0’

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