Hannah McGuire's Killer Given 28 Years Jail & Latest Blow for Louvre Museum

Lachlan Young sentenced to 28 years' jail for murdering former partner, Hannah McGuire; A person died after their phone could not make calls to Triple Zero; Trump says he would sign to release the Epstein files; France's Louvre Museum has closed a gallery due to structural weakness; Former Prince Andrew has lost even more of his accolades; Danny Masterson, the former star of That '70s Show, is seeking to overturn his rape conviction.

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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to a Muma Mia podcast. Hi. I'm Cassandra
Green from Mamma MIA's twice daily news podcast, The Quickie
with Your Headlines for Tuesday, November eighteen. Lachlan Young was
just sentenced to twenty eight years jail for the murder
of his former partner, Hannah McGuire. Young twenty three, killed

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Hannah in April twenty twenty four, strangling her in their
Sebstaple home before placing her body in a ute and
setting it on fire in bushland outside of Ballarat. He
staged the scene to look like a suicide. The court
heard Hannah was finalizing plans to leave Young permanently in
the months before her death. Young has a non parole
period of twenty two years and four months. He will

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be eligible for parole in August twenty forty six, given
his pre sentenced to attention in Victoria. The standard sentence
for murder is twenty five years jail and the maximum
penalty is life behind bars. Hannah was described to the
courtroom as warm, special, talented and giving. She worked as
a teacher's aid at the Delacombe Primary School and loved
working with children, just as Elliott decided that because of

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Young's age and later remorse, his prospects for rehabilitation were good.
The twenty three year old has taken treatment for alcohol
and drug abuse. A Teleco customer has died after their
phone could not make calls to the emergency line on
Australia's third largest mobile network. TPG, which also operates the
Vodaphone and Lebarra brands in Australia, revealed a person had

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died on Thursday when their Samsung phone could not make
triple zero calls. The telecom CEO called it a tragic
accident and said customer safety is their highest priority. The
Sydney based caller tried to reach triple zero through Lebarra
and there were no outages at the time. Early investigations
allegedly suggest the calls failed because the person's aging Samsung
phone used software incompatible with making triple zero calls. Some

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older devices had been identified by Samsung as needing a
software update to be able to call the emergency line
on TPG's network. Though the death occurred on Thursday, TPG
Telecom was not informed until Monday, when it received advice
from New South Wales Ambulance. The company has since urged
customers with affected devices to update their phones, and anyone
that has not done so after five weeks will have

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their handset blocked. Other telcos have taken identical measures since
the Samsung specific issue with the voteraphone network was discovered
by Telstra and Optus in late October. The telecoms industry
has been under immense scrutiny in recent months after an
Optus outage that left hundreds of triple zero calls unable
to be connected was linked to three deaths. The US

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House of Representatives is poised to vote to force the
release of files related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
President Trump recently dropped his long standing opposition, saying he'll
release everything. He confirmed that if a bill to sign
the release of the documents is put on his desk,
he will sign it. He added that he feels that
Epstein files are detracting from Republican successes. Trump's versal on

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Sunday came days after a House petition gathered enough support
to force a vote, a rare instance of House Republicans
defying the president's wishes. Epstein was convicted on several Florida
State and federal charges related to his sexual abuse and
trafficking of teenaged girls. He died in a federal jail
cell in Manhattan in twenty nineteen in what was ruled
a suicide, a few weeks after he was arrested on

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new federal charges of sex trafficking children. If the House
passes the resolution, it would move to the Senate, which
would also need to vote on it before sending it
to Trump to sign. Republican Senate majority leader John Thune's
office declined to comment on what he planned to do
about the bill. Francis Louver Museum has closed a gallery
after a technical report showed weaknesses in the beams under

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the second floor of the Sally Wing, making it necessary
to close the Campana Gallery on the first floor and
relocate sixty five museum staff from the second. The Campana
Gallery is adjacent to the Apollo Gallery, home to the
French Crown Jewels, which were targeted in last month's heist.
Valery Board of the CFDT union called it a major deterioration,
saying they didn't realize it was this bad. The new

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setback comes less than a month after a daring heist
exposed its vulnerabilities. On October nineteen, two men parked a
movers lift outside the building, rode up to the second story,
smashed a window, and drove away on motorbikes with historical
jewels the equivalent of over one hundred and two million
US dollars, which is around one hundred and fifty million Australian.
The jewels have not yet been recovered, though four suspects

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are being investigated. The closure of the gallery is another
sign of the museum's dereliction, as highlighted by a state
auditor's report, which said the management had neglected security and
infrastructure in favor of artwork acquisitions and post pandemic relaunch projects.
The former Prince Andrew has lost even more of his
accolades weeks after being stripped of his royal titles over

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his connections to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, now known
as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor. UK media reports that several plarques
in the Falklands bearing his name in honour of his
military efforts during the nineteen eighty two conflict, have been removed.
During his twenty two years in the Navy, andrews So
served as a helicopter co pilot in active service. He

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returned to the UK in glory after helping defend the islands,
and was famously greeted in Portsmouth by his mother, the Queen.
He then went back to the Falklands a number of
times in the years that followed to unveil memorials and
public buildings. It's reported that plarques unveiled at Mount Pleasant
Airport and an infant school have both been removed. He
was allowed to keep his South Atlantic Medal, which he

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received for his service after the war. Danny Masterson, the
former star of That seventy show, is seeking to overturn
his rape conviction. Masterson, forty nine, was charged with forcibly
raping three women in twenty twenty in separate incidents between
two thousand and one and two thousand three. His first
trial ended in a mistrial, and he was later convicted
of two of those rapes in twenty twenty three. During

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his second trial. His habeas petition was filed on Monday
November seventeen. His lawyer claimed there was unfairness in the
second trial as a result of prosecutorial misconduct, judicial bias,
and the failure of the defense to present sculpatory evidence,
which is evidence that tends to prove innocence. They claimed
they have sixty five evidentiary exhibits of innocence that could

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have been presented but weren't. The Los Angeles County District
Attorney's Office has so far declined to comment. That's your
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