Stabbing horror girl is locked up for 25 years

ing to investigators. Leutner survived after she crawled out of the woods to a path where a passing cyclist found her.

Both Weier and Geyser told detectives they felt they had to kill Ms Leutner to become Slender Man’s “proxies”, or servants, and protect their families from him. All three girls were 12 years old at the time.

Weier apologised in brief comments before her sentencing.

She told the judge: “I do hold myself accountable for this and that I will do whatever I have to do to make sure I don’t get any sort of delusion or whatever again.

“I want everybody involved to know I deeply regret everything that happened that day. I know that nothing I say is going to make this right and nothing I say is going to fix what I broke.”

Leutner family spokesman Steve Lyons said they were pleased with the sentence. He said: “They believe that justice was served.” A WHITE Zimbabwean farmer evicted under the government of Robert Mugabe has returned to a hero’s welcome as the first to get his land back under new President Emmerson Mnangagwa.

Darryn Smart’s return to his farm, with military support, is a sign that the new leader is reforming an issue that had hastened the country’s international isolation.

Hundreds of farmers were evicted, often violently, under a programme Mr Mugabe called a righting of colonial wrongs.

Now Zimbabwean officials are reaching out to other white farmers who lost their land, including those who have moved to neighbouring countries.

Mr Mnangagwa is desperate to revive the once-prosperous southern African nation’s economy after years of international

Darryn Smart was welcomed back to the farm.

sanctions. He has months to win public support before elections scheduled for August at the latest.

Mr Smart made his way into Lesbury farm, about 120 miles east of the capital, Harare, to cheers and songs from dozens of workers and community members.

Such scenes were once unthinkable in a country where land ownership is an emotional issue with

political and racial overtones.

“We have come to reclaim our farm,” sang black women and me.

Two decades ago, their arrival would have meant that Mr Smart and his family would have to leave.

Ruling ZANU-PF party supporters, led by veterans of the 1970s war against white minority rule, evicted many of the country’s white farmers. driver of a car driven at pedestrians in Melbourne, injuring more than a dozen people including an Irish citizen, attributed his actions to the “treatment of Muslims”, police said.

However, officers stressed no terrorist links had been found during their initial investigations.

Some 19 people were wounded, three of whom remain in a critical condition, after a car was driven at pedestrians outside Flinders Street station on Thursday.

The area surrounding the major transport hub was busy with Christmas shoppers during the first week of the school summer holidays.

Police have said the suspect, reportedly named Saeed Noori, a 32-year-old Australian citizen of Afghan heritage, had a history of mental illness and drug abuse.

Nine of the victims were