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Christopher Trybus found not guilty of rape and manslaughter after wife Tarryn Baird took her own life | UK News

Christopher Trybus found not guilty of rape and manslaughter after wife Tarryn Baird took her own life | UK News

Published by Sam Flores

A man has been cleared of the rape and manslaughter of his wife, who took her own life. Warning: This story contains descriptions some readers may find distressing, including references to suicide. Christopher Trybus, of Swindon, Wiltshire, stood trial accused of causing the death of Tarryn Baird, who died aged 34 in November 2017. The 44-year-old defendant also faced charges at Winchester Crown Court of controlling and coercive behaviour and two charges of rape. He has been cleared of all charges. Image: Christopher Trybus arrives at court on Wednesday. Pic: PA It was the first case of its kind in England and Wales. Mr Trybus, who denied the offences, claimed his wife made the allegations as a result of mental health issues, including a probable diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after she witnessed violent car-jackings in South Africa, where the couple grew up. The defendant, who runs an IT business, also said he was out of the country when some of the incidents were alleged to have taken place. The judge, Mr Justice Linden, …

A century ago, John Logie Baird achieved a landmark moment in television history. The viewers weren’t convinced

A century ago, John Logie Baird achieved a landmark moment in television history. The viewers weren’t convinced

Published by skeptic

In 1926, the West End of London offered a dazzling range of evening entertainment. Choices included watching Fred Astaire and his sister Adele on stage at the old Empire theatre in Lady, Be Good!, or experiencing The Big Parade silent movie at the Tivoli on the Strand with a full live orchestra. But on a damp Tuesday evening 100 years ago, around 40 members of the Royal Institution – one of the UK’s most influential science research and education charities – chose instead to visit a makeshift laboratory on an upper floor at 22 Frith Street in Soho. Reportedly all attired in evening dress, they were responding to an invitation from the then little-known Scottish inventor John Logie Baird. The event became a landmark moment in television history. Baird successfully demonstrated an experimental prototype that could augment broadcast radio with live moving pictures. It was the world’s first demonstration of a mechanical television system able to show human faces. At the time, Baird called the display a “televisor”. John Logie Baird’s 1926 Televisor machine. Copyright: …

God of the Gaps | Robert P. Baird

God of the Gaps | Robert P. Baird

Published by Jenni Sidey

There’s a view of the human situation that goes something like this: 14 billion years ago, give or take, the universe exploded into being. The Big Bang didn’t create everything, but it did provide everything necessary to create everything else: a collection of immutable physical laws, a hot soup of subatomic particles, an unthinkably vast quantity of energy. After 10 billion or so years of expansion and cooling, the universe contained some trillion trillion stars, and at least as many planets. Around that time, on one of those planets orbiting one of those stars, a random series of chemical reactions produced self-replicating molecules. Chemistry made way for biology as four billion years of further chance developments generated a bewildering diversity of living organisms. Eventually one of those organisms, a bipedal primate with small teeth and a prominent chin, developed the capacity for complex language and abstract thought. This species called itself Homo sapiens, the wise man, but this was only puffery, the illusory boast of an apex predator at the extremely temporary peak of its …