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Flashy money launderer gained notoriety after his name was tattooed on homeless man’s face

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Jamie Blake, 38, was caught after police searched his North Shields home for drugs in February 2017 A flashy money launderer who erected an illegal back garden pub once gained notoriety when his name was tattooed on a homeless man’s face for a prank, it emerged tonight. Jamie Blake, 38, was last week ordered to … Read more

MARTIN SAMUEL: Diego Maradona was the people’s footballer whose genius will outlive his notoriety

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That rage, that insatiable, brilliant, magnificent, rage, is at last calmed. Diego Maradona is gone. Nine ambulances, called to his home in San Andres, north of Buenos Aires, could not save him. Three days of national mourning were immediately declared. ‘He leaves us, but does not leave,’ wrote Lionel Messi, ‘because Diego is eternal.’ And … Read more