Sophie Nyweide, an actress, was 24 years old when she was discovered dead. Police are still looking into her death at this time, but they have no rule out foul play.
When Mammoth star Sophie Nywedie passed away at the age of 24, she was “pregnant.”
Actress Sophie Nyweide was found dead at the age of 24, with police investigating the death of the star not ruling out foul play. She was best known for playing the daughter of Michelle Williams and Gael García Bernal ’s characters in the 2009 romantic drama Mammoth and in a moving statement, her family paid a heartbreaking tribute to Sophie.
Sophie was a compassionate and reliable woman. She was frequently left vulnerable to being taken advantage of by others as a result. Much of the art depicts the depth she had and the pain she endured, and she wrote and drew voraciously. They said in a statement that many of her writings and artwork represent her struggles and traumas.
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Sophie was reportedly pregnant at the time of her death(Image: shellythegibson/Instagram)
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“Her closest to her, as well as therapists, law enforcement officers, and other people who tried to help her, are heartbroken that their efforts couldn’t save her from her fate,” she said.
She self-medicated to remove all the trauma and shame inside, which led to her death.
She repeatedly said she would “hand it” on her own and felt compelled to reject the treatment, which “possibly could have saved her life.”
Her family paid tribute to the ‘kind and trusting girl’(Image: Getty Images)
Autopsy results would reportedly take six to eight weeks but an initial report, obtained by TMZ, showed she was pregnant when she died. Additionally, police have not ruled out foul play.
Shelly, Sophie Nyweide’s mom, told TMZ after her tragic death: “We are very distraught and mourning. All I can say is her time acting was brief but very happy.
She was not a child star in the least and did not suffer in those movies. On those sets, she was always safe. Please allow her to now rest peacefully.
Beyond her years, her father referred to her as “creative, athletic, and wise.”
The star’s body was discovered in the town of Vermont in the early hours of April 14 according to the publication, which was reported by Bennington Police. At the scene, she was declared dead.
Nothing has been ruled out in relation to Sophie’s death, according to authorities, who discovered her body close to a lean-to.
A man is said to be cooperating with police while Sophie died, but he is not regarded as a suspect or an intruder.
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The F1 heiress learned that the insurance policy for their mansion included an exemption for watches and jewelry, and that she and her husband could not recover any money for the stolen goods.
Tamara Eccleston’s ‘lesson’ after break-in at home saw £25m in jewels nicked(Image: Dave Benett/Getty Images)
Tamara Ecclestone and her husband, Jay Rutland, were unable to recoup any of the £25million lost in their burglary due to an insurance catch, it is reported. The F1 heiress learned she and her husband weren’t able to claim any money back for the stolen items, including jewellery and watches, as the insurance policy for their sprawling mansion in Kensington, west London contained an exemption clause for watches and jewellery, which had previously gone unnoticed.
International jewel thieves had ransacked the family’s property while they were on holiday in Lapland in late 2019. It left Tamara, 40, traumatised and so the socialite had to take extra security measures to protect her family. Insurance lawyer Peter Mansfield, Partner at RPC, discussed the insurance policy and urged people to “read your policy and understand it”.
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Insurance partner Peter Mansfield, RPC, offered his two cents on the subject.
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Tamara Ecclestone and Jay Rutland lost £25 million as a result of an exclusion in their insurance policy, he said, “Very sadly for them, but there are lessons to be learned from this oversight.
Read your policy and comprehend it, the message is clear. Although they can be lengthy, most policies today are written in plain English.
You should at the very least check the policy schedule, which provides a breakdown of the cover. Instead of checking the small print, the big print is used here.
International jewel thieves had ransacked the family’s property while they were on holiday in Lapland(Image: Instagram)
“Many home and contents policies will cover valuables up to a certain value, like £5, 000,” according to the policy. However, you will be asked to disclose any particularly pricey items in the proposal form, such as expensive jewelry and watches. Your insurers and you would almost certainly want those valuables to be separately insured if they total £25 million.
Peter continued, “It’s important to understand the exclusion and conditions in your policy.”
Before choosing their final targets, the thieves spent many days scouting the mansions of London’s wealthy and famous, including the estates of Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, the late Leicester City owner, and of course, the Ecclestone mansion on Billionaires’ Row.
Three Italian men pleaded guilty to conspiracy to burgle in three raids at Isleworth Crown Court two years after the crimes were committed.
Art investor Jay, 43, recently opened up about the incident and claimed to have been held accountable for the lack of diligence. He claimed that “our total insurance claim was for the doors in the house, which were literally smashed down by about 25 or 30 doors.
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Every door to every room was locked, if you can imagine. Therefore, they had to crowbar each door that was open. So we demanded that those doors be replaced on the insurance, but that is all I can recall. Nothing else was covered by the insurance. Don’t get me wrong, we are responsible for that, and it demonstrates to you the importance of checking the small print. However, one of the policy’s exclusions was “watches and jewelry, very specifically.”
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The Benue State Governor, Hyacinth Alia, has appointed Innocent Idibia, a popular musician from Nigeria, as the technical advisor for entertainment and community outreach.
The governor and the music icon’s meeting held a public hearing about the appointment.
Governor Alia praised 2Baba’s unwavering support for his state of origin, Benue State, and praised his contributions to Nigeria’s entertainment sector in the clip.
People dance even without a song when you say “Face.” Governor Alia made a comment at the meeting that “we are happy you are here.”
You can do even more, according to the Benue State Government and our very good people, so we want to give you some more responsibilities in addition to what you’ve already been doing.
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You can help us chart the course so that we can both benefit from your insight and guidance as we go forward, he continued. Therefore, I’m pleased to let you know that the Governor will designate you as their technical advisor for “entertainment and community outreach.”
On April 23, 2025, 2face Idibia was appointed as the governor of Benue State’s office’s technical adviser for entertainment and community outreach.
The governor expressed hope that efforts to promote community development will be influenced by 2Baba’s experience in the state’s creative industry.
The singer’s recent personal changes, which have caused controversy, led to the appointment.
Actor Annie Idibia, who is 2Baba’s ex-wife, and he confirmed their separation in late January.
Days later, he openly acknowledged his ties to lawmaker Natasha Osawaru of the Edo State House of Assembly.
He claimed that their relationship was independent of his separation from Annie by the time he proposed to Osawaru in February.
Megan Jones, England’s vice-captain, has agreed to join the Tigers of Leicester for the 2025-26 Premiership Women’s rugby season.
Jones has previously represented the Bristol Bears and Wasps, and has previously played for the Tigers and Bristol Bears. He can play as a center or fly-half.
As England neares a second Grand Slam, the 28-year-old has scored three tries in three games and has been capped by the Red Roses 24 times.
Jones claims she is looking forward to “challenging” herself in the club’s new setting in Ealing.
Jones, who was born in Cardiff, has also won bronze at the 2018 Commonwealth Games and competed at the Olympics in Tokyo and Paris.
Before the start of this spring’s Six Nations, head coach John Mitchell appointed her vice-captain of the squad after making her England debut in 2015 as an 18-year-old.
“Megan has a remarkable rugby pedigree,” said Trailfinders head coach Barney Maddison.
“Here, both at the domestic and international levels, will provide our squad with invaluable leadership,” she said.
Vatican City – Pope Francis’s funeral will be held in the Vatican on Saturday at 10am local time (8:00 GMT), with hundreds of thousands of guests and mourners expected to attend the late pontiff’s final ceremonies.
US President Donald Trump and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will be among the dozens of dignitaries travelling to the Vatican for the ceremony, which will be a simpler affair than previous papal funerals.
Last year, the Argentine pope amended the funeral rites to show that he was a “disciple of Christ” rather than “a powerful man of this world”.
The faithful queue to enter St Peter’s Basilica to pay respects as Pope Francis lies in state, as seen from Rome on April 23, 2025 [Hannah McKay/Reuters]
Who will be there?
As well as being a major religious event, papal funerals also have an important diplomatic dimension.
The pope is the head of the Roman Catholic Church, but he also leads the Holy See – a sovereign juridical entity with a seat at the United Nations – and the Vatican city-state. There are some 1.4 billion Catholics worldwide, concentrated above all in Europe, the Americas and increasingly in Africa.
For this reason, papal funerals tend to attract large numbers of political figures. When Pope John Paul II died in 2005, his funeral attracted some 70 presidents and prime ministers – making it one of the largest gatherings of world leaders in history.
Among those to have already confirmed their attendance for Francis’s funeral on Saturday are US President Trump, the UN chief Guterres, and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has no plans to attend, according to the Kremlin, but there will be a delegation from China.
Alongside these political figures, there will be large numbers of Catholics and other well-wishers.
The Italian government said on Tuesday that it expected at least 200,000 foreigners to travel to Rome for the funeral. Although the Vatican is a sovereign state, it is located in the heart of the Italian capital, and Italy will help manage some elements of the logistics.
There is, however, some reason to think that the eventual turnout will be higher than the Italian government’s estimate – the last funeral of a sitting pope, John Paul II, attracted some four million attendees.
That said, the number of mourners on Saturday might not quite reach that high. While both popes enjoyed high levels of popularity, John Paul had served for 26 years, compared to Francis’s 12. Moreover, John Paul’s native Poland – where he had a huge number of admirers – was close enough to Italy to facilitate large-scale travel.
What will happen at the funeral?
In 2024, Pope Francis simplified the Rite of Burial for Roman Pontiffs, which lays out the rubrics for papal funerals.
According to the new rites, Francis will be buried in a single coffin, rather than the three used by previous popes.
Different language will be used, too – during the funeral, the pope will be called “Bishop of Rome”, “Pope”, “Pastor”, or “Roman Pontifex”, with grander titles such as “Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church” now avoided.
Mirticeli Medeiros, a Catholic Church historian and Vatican correspondent for Brazil’s GloboNews, told Al Jazeera that “Francis’s simplification of the funeral rituals reflects not only his humility, which was well known, but also his revolution of the institution of the papacy”.
“He always said that he did not feel comfortable with the idea that the Vatican was the last absolute monarchy of Europe,” Medeiros said. “That is why, from the very beginning, he presented himself as ‘Bishop of Rome’, which for him was the most dignified title – he was a bishop, a pastor and a Christian like any other.”
Explaining the changes, Archbishop Diego Ravelli, master of Papal Liturgical Ceremonies, said that the aim was to highlight that the pope’s funeral is “that of a shepherd and disciple of Christ, and not of a powerful man of this world”.
Archbishop Ravelli added that it was Francis himself who had stressed the need to “adapt certain rites, so that the celebration of the funeral of the Bishop of Rome might better express the Church’s faith in the risen Christ”.
Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, the 91-year-old Italian who is currently dean of the College of Cardinals, is expected to preside over the pope’s funeral mass.
He will lead those present in prayers and Bible readings, and will deliver the final commendation and valediction, entrusting the pope’s soul to God.
The funeral will be held in a variety of different languages, reflecting the Catholic Church’s international nature and the varied backgrounds of those present.
It is likely that – as is the case for most masses of this kind at the Vatican – the main prayers will be said in Latin and Italian, with Bible readings in Italian, Spanish, and English, and a number of shorter prayers in other languages such as Arabic, Polish, and Chinese.
A Catholic Christian holds up a portrait of Pope Francis during a procession in Jerusalem’s old city ahead of a memorial mass for the late pontiff at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem on April 23, 2025. (AFP)
What happens after the funeral?
After Pope Francis’s funeral, his coffin will be transferred to the Basilica of St Mary Major, a church lying outside the Vatican’s walls that he was particularly fond of visiting.
Francis will be the first pope to be buried there since the 1600s, and the first in over 100 years to be buried outside the Vatican.
In his final testament, released on Monday, the pope asked that his tomb be “in the ground; simple, without particular ornamentation”, and specified that the only word should be his papal name in Latin: “Franciscus.”
A plain gravestone in a church that hasn’t held a pope’s remains in centuries – it’s a fitting final resting place for a man who will be remembered by many for his humility and his independence.
“After his election in 2013, the pope first appeared in public wearing simple white vestments, as a way to demonstrate his desire for a less ostentatious church”, Christopher White, Vatican correspondent for National Catholic Reporter, told Al Jazeera.
Former flame Daniel Lynch was imprisoned for planning the vile assault on the presenter, which led to severe burns and blindness in one life.
Fresh agony for Katie Piper over jailed ex Daniel Lynch(Image: Getty Images)
As the man who carried out her acid attack fights for her release from prison, Katie Piper is in a new agony. In order to discuss a potential release from jail, Daniel Lynch, a former boyfriend of the presenter, has been given a parole hearing in a few weeks.
He ordered the devastating acid attack on Loose Women star Katie, which left her with severe burns and needing 400 operations, and was jailed for life with a minimum of 16 years in 2009. Lynch will now appear before the Parole Board on June 3 and 4, a spokesman for the body confirmed. The news will devastate mum-of-two Katie, 41, who previously said she’d feared the release of her two attackers.
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Agony for Katie Piper after being told man behind her acid attack will get a parole hearing(Image: PA)
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Two years after missing, police are still looking for Stefan Sylvestre, the man Lynch instructed to throw the acid. When he was released on parole, he violated his license requirements, and he is now thought to be living abroad.
Katie expressed her thoughts on Lynch’s release during a 2023 interview. She said, “The people who attacked me will be freed.” Do they plan to murder me? I’m not sure”.
A private two-day parole hearing for Lynch was scheduled for July of last year, but the appeal was postponed and a new date has only recently been chosen because of the case’s complex issues. He is asking to be imprisoned in an open prison as a prelude to his eventual release if the panel decides against this. Lynch will remain imprisoned for another two years until he is eligible for a new hearing, which means the three-person parole board has the option to reject the appeal.
Daniel Lynch was jailed for life for arranging for acid to be thrown in Katie’s face(Image: PA)
Lynch gave the order for the vile act to occur after Katie and Katie’s relationship ended. When Sylvestre threw sulphuric acid in her face, she was walking down a street in Golders Green, north London.
In May 2009, Lynch was imprisoned for rape and telling an accomplice to throw acid on her in London’s Wood Green Crown Court. She was also given a maximum sentence of 16 years.
After admitting GBH, Sylvestre reconnected with his family for a minimum of six years. He was free in 2018 before going on the run in 2022.
Stefan Sylvestre, who threw the acid, is still on the run after breaching his parole conditions(Image: PA)
Katie was just 24 when the harrowing attack happened in March 2008. She needed 400 operations after being left with severe burns. The attack cost Katie the sight in one eye. Earlier this year, she decided to get an artificial one.
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Following the trial, Piper waived her right to anonymity as a rape victim, and her recovery featured in a Channel 4 documentary. Her experience led her to become a spokeswoman for other burns victims and she established the Katie Piper Foundation a year after her attack. In 2021, she was made an OBE for her services to charity and victims of burns and other disfigurement injuries.
Katie was stunned to learn Sylvestre was granted parole nine years into a life sentence for carrying out the horrific acid attack on her. When she heard he had won a bid to be freed, Katie spoke of how getting a place on Strictly Come Dancing would give her another focus. She said: “Whilst there is never a good time to hear this, I have this new journey to concentrate on.”
