‘Hubby killer’ is remanded
A WOMAN has appeared in court charged with murdering her husband.
Natasha Welsh, 43, allegedly attacked Martin Welsh, 47, on Friday night.
Metropolitan Police said he was found with a stab wound at a house in Hendon, North West London, and pronounced dead at the scene.
During a brief hearing, Willesden magistrates referred the case to crown court and Welsh was remanded in custody.
She will appear at the Old Bailey tomorrow. HOLLYWOOD icon Audrey Hepburn risked her life as a teenager to fight the Nazis, a new book claims.
The future Breakfast at Tiffany’s star lived in wartime Holland as a youngster and was driven to join the resistance by the brutal murder of her uncle, according to author Robert Matzen.
She even assisted a local doctor who was helping the Allies during the Battle of Arnhem in September 1944.
The brave attempt to seize the Dutch town ended in disaster and was immortalised in 1977 screen epic A Bridge Too Far, starring Sean Connery.
The actress, who died in 1993 aged 63, gave money from her work as a ballerina to those battling the Nazi occupiers.
She also occasionally ran messages for the underground fighters. Had she been discovered, she would have been shot or sent to a concentration camp.
In “Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II” Matzen writes of his proof about her forgotten wartime exploits.
Born in 1929 in Belgium and moving to Holland at the start of the war in 1939, Hepburn was traumatised by the fate of her uncle Count Otto van Limburg Stirum. He was taken hostage by the Germans and shot as a reprisal in 1942. his book, due out in April, Matzen reveals the discovery of a 188-page diary Otto wrote in the four months he was held captive before his death.
Hepburn’s son, Luca Dotti, says the book solves some mysteries surrounding her life. Luca wrote in the foreword: “I now understand why the words Good and Evil, and Love and Mercy were so fundamental in her own narrative.
“Why she was open about certain facts and kept so many others in a secluded area of her being.
“When my mother talked about herself and what life taught her, Hollywood was the missing guest.
“Instead of naming famed Beverly Hills locations, she gave us obscure Dutch ones. Red-carpet recollections were replaced by Second World War episodes she was able to transform into children’s tales.“
The book claims to have “Audrey’s own reminiscences, new interviews with people who knew her in the war, wartime diaries, and research in classiIn Hepburn, aged 57 fied Dutch archives.” Hepburn’s father, Joseph Ruston, who abandoned her when she was a little girl, and her mother, Ella, were members of the British Union of Fascists, who sympathised with Hitler. Ella was a Dutch baroness and her father was a British businessman. As a result, Hepburn spent her childhood between Belgium, England and Holland.
When war broke out, Ella moved the family back to Holland in the mistaken belief it would not be drawn into the war. By 1944 one of her brothers was in a labour camp, and the other in hiding.
Like most of the Dutch, Hepburn and her family endured terrible hardships.
Hepburn herself suffered respiratory illness, edema, and anaemia in the Dutch Famine over the winter of 1944.
When aid finally arrived, she witnessed the transforming impact international aid agencies can have.
Hepburn became devoted to the United Nations Children’s Fund UNICEF – and was appointed a Goodwill Ambassador in 1989. In 1991 she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America’s highest honour. Hepburn’s son Luca