The Sunday Post (Inverness)

Killer’s stepson tried to keep sex crimes secret

Millennial­s pay £44k more rent

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MILLENNIAL­S face paying £ 44,000 more for rent by the time they turn 30 than the baby boomer generation.

The Resolution Foundation said a combinatio­n of falling home ownership levels among those born in the 1980s and early 1990s and rising costs in the private rented sector have fuelled the increase.

The report said that close to two- thirds ( 63%) of baby

Sex attacker Jordan McKeown will be sentenced this week. his mother banged on his door other people in this town, demanding why it had been they’re untrustwor­thy.” locked for 40 minutes. But the jury didn’t believe

He attempted to rape his sechim. ond victim after she came to His stepfather Imran “Baldy” visit. Shahid became one of the UK’s

A tape recording was played most wanted men after he fled to the jury of McKeown’s police Scotland following the murder interview after he was detained of Kriss Donald. on September 25 last year. The 15-year-old was selected

His legal advisor told him to at random by Shahid and his make no comment, but he gang as revenge after they were answered the o f f i c e r s’ attacked at a nightclub. questions.

Kriss was taken on a 200-mile When the officers questioned

terror drive from Glasgow to him about the allegation­s, McKeown denied five times Dundee and back before being he’d done anything wrong, stabbed repeatedly, doused in adding: “It’s a complete petrol and set alight while still shock to me. They’re lying. alive. No clue why they would, His killers – ringleader Imran, you’ll need to ask his brother Zeeshan Shahid and them that. Mohammed Faisal Mushtaq – “They’re tryfled to Pakistan but were ing to ruin my brought back 19 months later. life. They were jailed for life at the

“Like all the High Court in Edinburgh. boomers – those aged over 50 and up to 70 years old – owned their home by the time they were 30.

It said: “Decades of falling housebuild­ing and rising house prices have reduced home ownership for subsequent generation­s.”

The foundation looked at Office for National Statistics data as well as figures from Halifax to make the findings.

The calculatio­ns were made in today’s prices and the figures used cover the UK.

It said the extra money spent on renting has made it harder for young people to save to buy a home of their own.

The £ 44,000 extra typically spent on rent by millennial­s eclipses the £ 33,000 average deposit that a first- time buyer needs to get on the property ladder today, the report found.

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