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A YOUNG Irishman has been killed in the US.

The man, who was a native of Co Donegal, was struck by a car in the early hours of yesterday morning (local US time) in a suburb of California.

The man is in his mid 30s and has been living in America for a number of years.

He has a partner and is also a father of young children.

His immediate family in Co Donegal have been informed of his death.

However, his name has not been released publicly until all family members have been informed of his tragic passing.

The Department of Foreign Affairs has been contacted for a comment on the tragic incident.

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A WOMAN has shared the grim side effect from Mounjaro that’s so bad she’s thinking of stopping the drug altogether.

Kelly, from the UK, took to social media to share how her journey on the weight loss jab was going.

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Kelly is on Mounjaro but hs found it’s stopped working[/caption]

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Now she’s constantly hungry but unable to eat[/caption]

Kelly is currently on 10mg of Mounjaro a week, but she said it wasn’t working as it was supposed to.

She said the drug had stopped suppressing her appetite but that all food now tasted horrible so she was struggling to eat.

Sharing a clip of what she consumed in a day, Kelly started with a peppermint tea.

She revealed she needed it to help soothe the side effects of having a takeaway the night before while on Mounjaro.

She then had a small portion of spaghetti bolognese she had made which was the only thing she managed to eat that day.

After her lunch, Kelly had a snack which consisted of sushi and a pepperami snack box and an iced coffee.

But as soon as the food touched her lips she grimaced and couldn’t stand the taste of it.

After her failed lunch, Kelly tried to eat a protein bar and strawberries but was again put off by the taste.

“This was also disgusting and I was just over it all,” she penned.

When she went home, Kelly made a bowl of cheesy pasta, but as soon as she made it, she couldn’t bring herself to eat it.

She left over half, adding that she should have just ‘ordered a pizza’.

“I feel like this is the side of Mounjaro people don’t see!” she captioned the post.

“I’m starving but don’t fancy anything!! It is such a struggle! I might actually come off Mounjaro at this point!”

She went on to explain that the drug hadn’t suppressed her appetite but had made her taste buds change.

She added: “I don’t think people understand my situation, I don’t have suppression, I’m not not eating food because of my dose, the Mounjaro has changed my taste buds.

“I AM HUNGRY and I am able to eat how I used to – I just have different tastes now but I can’t stomach anything.”

The clip has gone viral on her TikTok account @keprazy with over 214k views and 2,400 likes.

People were quick to share their own experiences in the comments.

One person wrote: “I came off weight loss injections after having lost 3st on them and lost a further 4st… My appetite was forever changed.”

Another commented: “I can’t eat eggs, dairy, meat and fried foods now!”

“Omg this!! I do have the suppression, but even when I feel hungry I can’t like any food,” penned a third.

Meanwhile a fourth said: “Everything tastes so ordinary now.”

“Yes Mounjaro has definitely changed what foods I used to like,” claimed a fifth

Someone else added: “I was the same! Could eat takeaway all day long but couldn’t eat anything normal.”

WHEN it comes to the gym, you should wear whatever makes you feel your best and most confident – and of course, fits the gym etiquette.

But now people have vowed to ”never go to the gym’‘ after one woman left them open-mouthed with her workout attire.

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The fitness lover sported teeny shorts she had pulled well below her waist[/caption]

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The curvy beauty also showed off her twerking skills[/caption]

Fitness lover Veronica Obando came under fire after sharing a clip of herself proudly showing off her curvy figure on TikTok.

In the now-viral clip, which has more than 22million views, the short-haired stunner could be seen in teeny shorts sitting well below her waist.

The content creator, thought to be from Brazil, had completed the ensemble with a gym bra that said ”My body, not yours”, as well as a bright lippy.

As she walked past the row of the treadmills, Veronica also flaunted her toned figure by twerking, before she turned away and gave horrified TikTokers a view of her backside.

The young woman has clearly amassed a huge fanbase thanks to her content, with close to 2million followers.

According to her page, she recently attended the gym wearing figure-hugging jeans, which surprisingly didn’t get in the way of weightlifting.

The content creator, who posts under the username @veronicaobando9, also regularly shares racy bikini content on the beach.

Although she hasn’t spilled the beans on how she’s achieved her hourglass figure, Veronica has also been seen sporting a teeny corset.

But while the Brazilian beauty may look incredible, her tiny gym attire hasn’t proven to be a major hit amongst millions of viewers.

Many admitted that they have been put off to continue their fitness journeys.

One horrified social media user said: ”Makes me want to never go to the gym.”

Another, meanwhile, thought the skimpy shorts and bra were better suited for a different occasion.

”That’s not the way to dress at the gym you’re there to work out it’s not a strip club.

”It goes for men and their lycra shorts also. If you want to dress like that, that is what the public beach is for.”

A European viewer commented: ”That this is actually normalized in a gym is tragic.

”I’m so grateful that Norway is trying to ban this kind of behavior from gyms.”

However, there were also some of those who didn’t have an issue with her barely-there clothing, as they hit back at the critics.

”absolutely breathtaking,” a keen Romeo commented.

”God forbid a girl celebrates her body,” a supportive viewer slammed the harsh trolls.

”Holy Moly,” another was mesmarised.

A 20 year old Lao national has been detained for producing and distributing online child sexual abuse material in Surin province. The man allegedly managed covert groups on a widely used chat application, charging fees for access to explicit videos featuring underage boys. The suspect, Chaipol, was apprehended at a resort in Mueang district on July …

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THE thrills and spills of the summer transfer window are well underway with some huge deals in the pipeline over the next few weeks!

Tottenham remain locked in talks with West Ham over a potential move for Mohammed Kudus, according to reports.

In other news, Chelsea are said to be holding out for a fee of around £35m for Christopher Nkunku amid linked to Manchester United.

Meanwhile, City would reportedly part ways with Jack Grealish this summer if his £40million valuation is met.

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OF ALL the serial killers and mass murderers who have blighted Britain’s history, Ian Brady is considered by many to be the most evil.

Even fellow serial killer the Yorkshire Ripper was horrified at the way he tortured and murdered children before callously dumping their bodies – crimes so twisted that bosses at Broadmoor refused to accept him as a patient.

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Ian Brady is considered to be one of Britain’s most twisted killers[/caption]

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Brady and his partner Myra Hindley tortured and murdered children in the early 60s[/caption]

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Top amateur criminologist Alfie James exchanged letters with Brady for a decade[/caption]

Most people would recoil at the idea of delving into the dark recesses of the Moors Murderer’s mind – but that’s exactly what Britain’s top amateur criminologist Alfie James did, for a decade.

He swapped scores of letters with Brady as he tried to work out the motivation for his unspeakable crimes, just as he has done with a string of other murderers on both sides of the Atlantic.

And he gained a unique insight into what made one of Britain’s most notorious ever serial killers tick.

Speaking exclusively to The Sun as part of our Meeting a Monster series, Alfie said: “He was very self-centred and had this over-inflated sense of his own superiority.

“He thought he was more intelligent than everyone, and he never took responsibility for anything.

“He was always trying to shift the blame onto others and could never accept that what he had done was wrong.”

Brady and his lover Myra Hindley sexually assaulted, tortured and murdered five children in Manchester in the 1960s in a series of crimes which shocked Britain.

At their trial in 1966 a horrific tape recording they had made of one of their victims screaming and begging for mercy was played.

The couple’s relationship had been crucial to the crimes, and Brady was convinced they would remain close even after they were convicted and jailed for life.

But Alfie revealed how Brady became furious at what he saw as Hindley’s lack of “loyalty” over her attempts to secure parole and also when she struck up a relationship with a female prison warder.

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Brady and Hindley burried the bodies of their victims in the moors surrounding Manchester[/caption]

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Brady became furious when Hindley attempted to secure parole[/caption]

Bizarrely, he claimed he could have freed her from prison after just 15 years and was so angry with her he refused to use her name in letters he sent Alfie, instead referring to her as ‘M’.

In one letter he said of her: “Now, of course, I couldn’t care less. All sense of obligation departed when she began lying against me to secure parole. Had she remained loyal, I could have had her out in 15 years.”

Alfie said: “He never explained how he was going to secure her freedom, and in reality he never would have been able to, of course.

“But that was typical of him. He thought he was so intelligent that he could secure her release. It was another one of his superior boasts.

“He did like to reminisce about his earlier life with her, though. He used to talk about going on motorbike trips with her, riding over Shap in Cumbria on the Great North Road, heading from Manchester to Glasgow where he was from.

“He said, ‘We would sit on a wall and have a couple of drinks, something to eat. I would discard a bottle and it would smash on the ground. That bottle will still be there now and will be for hundreds of years as a reminder that we once walked here.’

Brady was very self-centred and had this over-inflated sense of his own superiority. He thought he was more intelligent than everyone, and he never took responsibility for anything

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“It was like ghost talk, about things linked to him that would be around long after he was gone.

“He would describe how they would get to Glasgow as morning was breaking with the streets all quiet. He liked that.

“And whenever he was travelling around he liked visiting churches, not for any religious experience, he liked the smell of them.

“As he was telling me these things I couldn’t help but think about the things he had done and thought, ‘You of all people should not be in a church.’

“Meeting Hindley was obviously crucial to their crimes but he even passed off any sort of responsibility for that, blaming it on ‘circumstances’ that led him to have to get a job at the chemical distribution company where she later got taken on as a typist.

“If circumstances had not led him to get that job he would never have met her and the murders would not have happened, he said.

“As if he didn’t have any free will. I would think – you say you are so clever, then why couldn’t you stop it happening?”

‘Sick in the head’

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Even serial killer Peter Sutcliffe despised Brady, branding him ‘sick in the head’[/caption]

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Brady was considered by Broadmoor bosses to be too evil to be let in as a patient[/caption]

Alfie and Brady swapped around 150 letters over the years they were writing to each other, part of an incredible library of true crime material that factory worker Alfie, 49, has built up.

It includes a trove of letters and other material acquired over nearly 20 years from Peter Sutcliffe, which he turned into the definitive biography of the killer, I’m The Yorkshire Ripper, written with Sun reporter Robin Perrie.

It was during those conversations that Sutcliffe disclosed to Alife just how much he despised Brady.

Sutcliffe said: “Ian Brady seems to actually enjoy people’s suffering, but then that’s the trademark of a psychopath.

“He had an air of… like he thought he was… like a snob, like very important.

“He’s just a psychopath, an idiot, full of himself and he’s shallow, very shallow and stupid, he’s not intelligent really in the real sense of the word. Thinks he’s the bee’s knees. He’s sick in the head.”

Sutcliffe wasn’t the only one who thought Brady was beyond help.

Dr Pat McGrath, one of the medical experts who gave evidence at the Yorkshire Ripper’s trial, was the medical superintendent at Broadmoor when the authorities considered transferring Brady there after he was diagnosed as a psychopath in 1985.

He’s just a psychopath, an idiot, full of himself and he’s shallow, very shallow and stupid, he’s not intelligent really in the real sense of the word. Thinks he’s the bee’s knees. He’s sick in the head

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But Dr McGrath refused to accept him, saying he was one of only two people he had met who he thought were evil, not sick, and therefore could not be treated.

Instead he was sent to top security Ashworth Hospital on Merseyside, which is where he was when he and Alfie started corresponding.

Those held at places such as Ashworth and Broadmoor are treated as patients, not prisoners, and have more freedom than criminals held in jails.

Alfie saw that first-hand thanks to the content of the letters Brady sent him.

He said: “He poured out all of his hatred for the system on these pages of the letters he sent me. He said of the staff, ‘I don’t speak to any of the maggots’.

“I was amazed at the things he said about the staff. The letters were checked as they all had a little slip of paper confirming that the postal monitor had read them.

“But they never crossed anything out. They let all his hatred spill out from beyond the hospital walls, which I was surprised at. 

“There were things crossed out in some of Sutcliffe’s letters, so the post monitors seemed stricter in Broadmoor than Ashworth.”

Missing remains

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Keith Bennett was murdered by the pair when he was just 12 – but his body was never found[/caption]

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Keith’s mother Winifred kept up the search for his remains until her death in 2012[/caption]

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Brady was let out of prison in the late 1980s to pinpoint where he’d buried those he’d killed[/caption]

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Further searches for the body of Keith Bennett were undertaken in 2022[/caption]

Alfie repeatedly quizzed Brady over the enduring mystery at the heart of the Moors Murders case – the location of Keith Bennett’s body.

Brady and Hindley killed the 12-year-old in 1964 and buried his body on Saddleworth Moor, but despite repeated searches the police have never found him.

The pair were even taken back to the moor on a number of occasions but were unable to pinpoint the spot.

Brady later told Alfie he would never help the police to look again – for fear that others would take the credit.

Alife said: “I asked him again and again. He said, ‘It’s history. I’ll never repeat my offer to help.’

“He blamed the police for messing up the searches when he did go to the moor. So the fact that Keith’s family couldn’t have a proper funeral wasn’t his fault, it was ‘the police’s fault’.

Brady blamed the police for messing up the searches when he did go to the moor. So the fact that Keith’s family couldn’t have a proper funeral wasn’t his fault, it was ‘the police’s fault’

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“It was another example of him refusing to accept responsibility.

“A few years later I asked him again, and this time he said he would be willing to help.

“But then he changed his mind, saying they messed it up and would be squabbling about who’s going to get the publicity over it, who would get the glory if Keith was found.”

In one letter Brady wrote: “Politicians, police and this penal warehouse spent their only effort on squabbling for the most PR for themselves. I won’t repeat the offer.”

Dodged questions

In the early years of their relationship, Alfie keenly anticipated receiving one of Brady’s letters, looking forward to fresh insights into his motivation for the crimes.

Alfie said: “He was a good letter writer. He was intelligent, his punctuation was always spot on and he had a good memory for detail.

“His letters would be front and back, sometimes four pages, with really small writing, so there was a lot of detail. But he often dodged questions.

“Serial killers sometimes start out by hurting animals, and I had read about him throwing a cat off a roof, so I asked him about it.

“But instead of saying whether he had or had not done it, and if he had why, he ranted about the Royal Family killing animals by going shooting. Again, avoiding responsibility for his own actions.”

The letters were also becoming hate-filled rants.

He branded support for missing Madeleine McCann as “hypocritical hype” and accused people of “whining” about the 7/7 attacks which killed 52 people in London in 2005.

It was all me, me, me – which I guess speaks volumes about how the mind of a serial killer works

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He also branded the UK as “the a***hole of Europe.”

The letters became so bitter – and so boring – that Alife eventually called time on their relationship a few years before Brady died in Ashworth in 2017, aged 79.

He said: “The letters were getting more and more repetitive and were all about the hardship he claimed he was suffering because Ashworth wouldn’t let him starve himself to death.

“There was not a single word of remorse for his victims or their families.

“It was all me, me, me – which I guess speaks volumes about how the mind of a serial killer works.”

‘I’m The Yorkshire Ripper’ by Robin Perrie and Alfie James is published by Mirror Books and is available in paperback and as an ebook. Buy it on Amazon now.

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Brady’s letters reveal a man who is egotistical and self-obsessed[/caption]

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The killer ended up at Ashworth high-security hospital in Merseyside[/caption]

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Brady branded support for missing Madeleine McCann ‘hypocritical hype’[/caption]

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Brady passed away in 2017 after becoming unwell[/caption]

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Police search areas of the moors for Brady and Hindley’s victims[/caption]

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