Jasveen Sangha initially denied the charges but agreed to change her plea in a signed statement last year, just a few weeks before she had been due to stand trial. In a victim impact statement submitted ahead of the sentencing hearing, Perry's stepmother Debbie described Sangha as "heartless" and called for the judge to give her the maximum jail time. The Friends star and Emmy-nominated actor died in October 2023, aged 54. He had struggled with addiction for years, but released a memoir a year before his death during a period of being clean. He had been using ketamine through his regular doctor as a legal, but off-label, treatment for depression, but in the weeks before his death had also started to seek more of the drug illegally. His dependence on the drug was "spiralling out of control" in his final months, prosecutors said. Five people, including doctors and the actor's personal assistant, have pleaded guilty to various charges connected with his death. Sangha, who has dual British-American nationality, is the third person to be sentenced. In December last year, Salvador Plasencia, a doctor, was jailed for two-and-a-half years for illegally supplying ketamine to Perry in the weeks before his death. Another doctor, Mark Chavez, was sentenced to eight months home confinement after admitting selling ketamine to Plasencia. Sangha, who has been in custody since her arrest in August 2024, pleaded guilty in September to five federal charges, including distributing ketamine resulting in death. She is the only defendant whose plea deal included an acknowledgment of causing Perry's death. She also admitted to selling drugs to another man, Cody McLaury, 33, who had no connection to Perry, before his overdose death in 2019. Prosecutors wrote in March that after Sangha found out she had sold the drugs that caused Perry's death, "she didn't care and kept selling". Her conduct showed a "cold callousness and disregard for life. She chose profits over people, and her actions have caused immense pain to the victims' families and loved ones". But before sentencing, Sangha told the judge she wears her shame "like a jacket", admitting her actions "were not mistakes. They were horrible decisions" which "shattered people's lives and the lives of their family and friends". Keith Morrison, Perry's stepfather, said the judge delivered "a highly reasoned sentence", NBC, Sky's US partner, reported. He added: "We miss Matthew dreadfully, of course, and I feel badly for the perpetrator here as well. Nobody won today." Perry's role as Chandler Bing on NBC's Friends in the 1990s and 2000s made him one of the biggest television stars of the era. The actor was found dead in the hot tub at his Los Angeles home. He was lying face down in the water, NBC said. Read more on Sky News:RSPCA denies using AI dogs in pictureWhy Bake Off episode was droppedDeath penalty possible after guilty plea He died from an accidental overdose of ketamine, the Los Angeles County medical examiner's office said. Sangha sold him 25 vials of ketamine, including the fatal dose, for $6,000 (£4,482) in cash four days before his death, prosecutors said.

Local media said Orla Wates was involved in an accident on the Ha Giang Loop, a popular route in northern Vietnam that winds through mountains near the border with China. Viet Nam News reported she died at the Viet Duc Friendship Hospital in the capital, Hanoi, on 2 April. Her parents, Andrew and Henrietta Wates, told the outlet she "lived life to the full". "Orla was beautiful, independent and very funny, with a sharp wit," they said. Her mother thanked the hospital's Dr Trịnh Van Dong and its emergency team for caring for Ms Wates – and said her organs had been donated to save others. The family met doctors at a "gratitude ceremony" on Wednesday morning, according to the hospital's Facebook page. Ms Wates' mother told Viet Nam News that donating her organs is "what Orla would have wanted". "Knowing that she is living on through them brings us great comfort," she said. In an interview on the hospital's social media, she added: "It is our way of thanking you." Ms Wates' organs saved three Vietnamese patients in end-stage organ failure, said Vietnam's health minister. In a letter to the family, Dao Hong Lan wrote: "Your daughter's legacy will continue to live through those who received her organs and in the hearts of the Vietnamese people." The minister said it was one of the country's first cases of multi-organ donation from a foreigner. Read more from Sky News:Man stabbed to death in LondonBill Gates to testify in Epstein probe The UK Foreign Office confirmed its consular staff are supporting the family. "Our thoughts are with the family and friends of Orla Wates, following her tragic death in Vietnam," said a statement. "We are in touch with the local authorities, and our consular staff are doing all they can to support Orla's family at this hugely difficult time."

A temperature of 26.6C (79.9F) was recorded at Kew Gardens, southwest London, making it the hottest day of 2026 so far, the Met Office said. It was the hottest day recorded in the first half of April since 1946, the forecaster added. Wednesday's temperature beat the 24.8C (76.64F) recorded in Mona on the island of Anglesey in Wales on Tuesday, which was also the "warmest 7 April on record". It was also hotter than temperatures recorded in some popular holiday destinations, including Ibiza and Rome. The current warm spell is "well above" the early April average of 12C to 15C (53.6F-59F), forecasters said. In a post on social media, the Met Office said: "For context, temperatures above 26C are very uncommon in early April. "Indeed, today has been the second warmest day on record during the first half of any April." The warmth is due to southerly winds, but it will turn much cooler on Thursday as a more westerly wind develops behind a cold front. Forecasters have also been warning people to be aware of high UV and pollen levels. The Met Office said: "It's the peak of the tree pollen season and levels of ash and birch pollen will remain very high across parts of England and Wales through the rest of the week." Find out the forecast for your area Many people have also been enjoying the weather for the school Easter holidays by heading to the coast. Sky News weather producer Jo Robinson said: "This is likely to be the warmest early April spell since 2020. "UV levels will be moderate - which may catch people out after the long winter, while the pollen count will be very high for most. "On Thursday, temperatures will be much lower just about everywhere, but southeast England will hold onto the warmth with temperatures into the low twenties." Read more from Sky News:Moon mission: The images that amazed NASAGreece to ban under-15s from social media The Met Office said daytime temperatures could fall by around 10C between Wednesday and Thursday ahead of "more unsettled" conditions later in the week. Despite the warm sunshine across many parts of England, there have been cooler conditions in Northern Ireland and northwest Scotland. The Met Office said there could also be outbreaks of rain.

The broadcaster's executive complaints unit (ECU) said the inclusion of the slur shouted by a Tourette's campaigner was "highly offensive" and "had no editorial justification". However, investigators said the breach made during the initial broadcast was unintentional. John Davidson, who suffers from the neurological condition and was at the BAFTAs ceremony in February to celebrate a film about his life, yelled out the offensive word as the first award of the night was presented by Sinners stars Michael B Jordan and Delroy Lindo. The BBC programme was edited down from the three-hour live show filmed two hours earlier that evening, and viewers were able to see the offending racial slur on BBC iPlayer for more than 12 hours before the show was pulled to be edited. The broadcaster received "a large number of complaints" about its coverage of the awards, the report said, and the ECU upheld those in relation to editorial standards on harm and offence. In an email to staff responding to the report, seen by Sky News, chief content officer Kate Phillips said she had written to Lindo, Jordan and Davidson since the incident to apologise. The corporation is now working to improve its planning and production set-up for live events, she said, to include better assessment of potential on-air risks and real-time monitoring of what goes to air. What went wrong? In its report, the ECU said members of the production team monitoring the ceremony in an outside broadcast vehicle said they did not hear or recognise the word. Investigators accepted their account, agreeing the word "was extremely indistinct, to the point where it might well not have been recognised". About 10 minutes later, there was another occurrence of the word which was recognised and "immediately edited out in accordance with the protocols on offensive language", the investigators said. "There is no reason to conclude they would have applied the protocols in one case while deliberately ignoring them in the other," the ECU report said. In response to further complaints that the slur should have been edited out of the programme available after the event on iPlayer, the investigators said there was "a lack of clarity among the team as to whether the word was audible", which resulted in a delay of several hours. This was "a serious mistake, because there could be no certainty that the word would be inaudible to all viewers", they said, adding that the the unedited recording remaining available "for so long aggravated the offence caused by the inadvertent inclusion" of the word during the initial broadcast. Complaints about speech cut The report also responded to complaints about a decision to edit out remarks in the acceptance speech of Akinola Davies Jr, which included the words "Free Palestine". Many complaints characterised this as an "instance of censorship," the ECU said. However, the investigation found the production team's decision "did not hinge on considerations of impartiality", but rather the main consideration was cutting out an hour of the three-hour show to fit the two-hour broadcast. "As is usual in coverage of events of this kind, cuts were made in some of the longer acceptance speeches, including that of Mr Davies," the report said. The ECU found the editing of the speech did not raise an issue of editorial standards. Read more from Sky News:Star's family want maximum sentence for 'Ketamine Queen'Greece to ban under-15s from social media from next year The ECU report noted that complaints about the broadcast "showed a high level of awareness that Mr Davidson's interjection was an involuntary result of his condition, and that no blame [was] attached to him". The backlash to the broadcast of the slur somewhat overshadowed I Swear's success at the ceremony, with relative newcomer Robert Aramayo, who plays Davidson in the film, taking home the best actor award over the likes of Timothee Chalamet and Leonardo DiCaprio. Davidson said afterwards that he was "deeply mortified" his involuntary tics caused him to blurt out the offensive language.

The former Radio 2 DJ, who was sacked by the BBC over an accusation relating to his "personal conduct", appears on the Channel 4 show. A spokesperson for the broadcaster said: "Having carefully considered the circumstances, we've taken the decision not to air the final episode of the 2026 series of The Great Celebrity Bake Off For Stand Up to Cancer, featuring Scott Mills. "Acknowledging the seriousness of the accusations that have been made against Scott, we don't believe it would be appropriate to air the episode at this time." Channel 4 has confirmed that an alternative episode of the show, which has been airing weekly since 22 March, will be broadcast instead. It emerged after his BBC sacking that the Metropolitan Police had launched an investigation into Mills in 2016 over "allegations of serious sexual offences against a teenage boy" between 1997 and 2000. Mills was not charged, according to police, as the Crown Prosecution Service determined that the "evidential threshold had not been met". BBC News reported that the presenter had been dismissed after it emerged that the alleged victim was under 16. On Tuesday, it was revealed that Mills was "stepping back" from his role as an ambassador for a multiple sclerosis charity over the historic allegations. Read more from Sky News:UK weather: Temperatures set to reach 26CBBC breached editorial standards over BAFTAs racial slur He has also been dropped as the host of the BBC's new Race Across The World spin-off podcast. In his first public statement since his sacking, Mills said: "The recent announcement that I am no longer contracted to the BBC has led to the publication of rumour and speculation." He went on to say: "An allegation was made against me in 2016 of a historic sexual offence, which was the subject of a police investigation in which I fully cooperated and responded to in 2018. "As the police have stated, a file of evidence was submitted to the Crown Prosecution Service, which determined that the evidential threshold had not been met to bring charges. "Since the investigation related to an allegation that dates back nearly 30 years and the police investigation was closed 7 years ago, I hope that the public and the media will understand and respect my wish not to make any further public comment on this matter."

Tanner Horner pleaded guilty to capital murder on the opening day of his trial in Texas for the killing of Athena Strand on Tuesday. Horner, who abducted the girl while delivering a Christmas gift to her home in the town of Paradise, near Fort Worth in 2022, faces either the death penalty or life in prison. Her body was found several miles from her home two days after she was reported missing, following a search involving 200 people. Horner told investigators that he strangled Athena after accidentally hitting her with his van while making a delivery. Athena wasn't seriously hurt after he hit her while reversing, but he panicked and put her in his van, he said. Horner said he didn't want her to tell her father what happened, so he first tried to break the girl's neck and when that didn't work, he strangled her with his hands in the back of the van, an arrest warrant said. He later took investigators to where he'd left Athena's body, according to the warrant. Wise County District Attorney James Stainton dismissed Horner's version of events in his opening statement, saying the "only truthful thing that Tanner Horner told law enforcement was that he killed her". Mr Stainton told jurors it would be hard for them to keep up with the defendant's claims, as "it is lie upon lie upon lie upon lie". The prosecutor told the court the idea that Horner hit her with his vehicle and panicked was "an absolute lie", as the little girl was unhurt when Horner put her into the vehicle. Mr Stainton said: "The first thing Tanner Horner says to Athena when he picks her up and puts her in that truck... he leans down and he says, 'don't scream, or I'll hurt you'." "He says that twice." Jurors were shown a picture of Athena taken from a video inside the delivery truck. She was still alive and sitting on her knees behind the driver's seat. Mr Stainton said Athena fought Horner, and his DNA was found under her fingernails. He also said Horner's DNA was found "in places where you shouldn't find DNA on a seven-year-old girl". Ashley Strand, Athena's stepmother, told jurors that the package Horner had dropped off was a Christmas present for Athena - a box of "You Can Be Anything" Barbies. Read more on Sky News:Family demands maximum for 'Ketamine Queen'RSPCA denies using AI dogs in pictureWhy Bake Off episode was dropped Defence lawyer Steven Goble admitted the evidence against Horner was "overwhelming" and "terrible", but told jurors that Horner's mother drank while she was pregnant, that he has autism and suffered from "various mental illnesses throughout his life" in addition to being exposed to a "massive amount of lead". Jurors will decide whether he will be put to death or jailed for life without parole.

The animal charity said on its website that more than 250 poodle-cross dogs were found at one property earlier this year. The numbers and living conditions of the dogs had rapidly grown out of control during extenuating family circumstances, the RSPCA added, saying it took in 87 dogs while the rest went to the Dogs Trust. But after posting an image of the dogs crammed into a living room on Facebook last week, some commenters accused the charity of using artificial intelligence to generate it. "We can confirm that AI has not been used to create this image", the RSCPA said on 2 April. "As much as we wish this image wasn't real, sadly it very much is - and we are being called to more and more multi-animal reports like this. "We don't need to use AI as we have countless stories to share about the animals our frontline teams are helping." On Wednesday, RSPCA Superintendent Jo Hirst added: "This shocking image is the reality of many multi-animal cases, and the situation our frontline officers seem to be confronting more and more - with reports of cases involving 10, 20 and even 100 animals on the rise. "We understand that people are so aghast they don't believe what they are seeing. But this photo is not AI - it's real. This is the staggering reality of what can happen when even well-meaning owners become overwhelmed - over-breeding can take over, and conditions can spiral out of control." The charity said that in the last year, it had responded to 4,200 incidents which involved at least 10 animals at the same address across England and Wales. Read more from Sky News:Friends star's family want maximum jail time for 'Ketamine Queen'Trump's surprise claim in his call with Sky NewsThe AI delusion problem is bigger than we thought Meanwhile, it said it is dealing with a six-year high of animals in its care due to "rising cruelty and neglect", with almost half in emergency boarding as "many of the charity's centres are full to bursting point". The RSPCA's AI policy states: "We will be transparent about our use of AI-generated imagery, clearly labelling any content that has been (wholly or partially) created using this technology. "It also states that we will only use AI to accurately represent our work and our purpose. We will not use this technology to create misleading or deceptive images."

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Officers said the 21-year-old died at the popular viewpoint on Tuesday evening after reports of a fight. Another man, believed to be in his 20s, was found with stab wounds in nearby Regent's Park Road, but his injuries are described as not life changing. The Metropolitan Police said Mr Sullivan's family are being supported by specialist officers. No arrests have been made so far. Detective Inspector Andy Griffin, who is leading the investigation, said police were following several lines of inquiry. "This incident occurred in a busy, public park and there may be many witnesses who can help us piece together what happened," said DI Griffin. He added: "We are aware of footage circulating on social media around the time of the incident, and urge anyone who has any information, including photos or videos, which could support the investigation to urgently contact us." London Ambulance Service said in an earlier statement it was called at 6.41pm on Tuesday and sent multiple resources, including an air ambulance crew, but Finbar couldn't be saved.