The family of an Egyptian student who died after being assaulted by a group of teenagers in Britain was not told about a court hearing in which three women pleaded guilty to affray over the attack.
Mariam Moustafa, 18, who moved to the UK from Italy six years ago, fell into a coma after being attacked in Nottingham last February, before dying of a stroke.
Ms Moustafa was punched and kicked by the youths near a bus stop in Upper Parliament Street on February 20, 2018.
The engineering student suffered a stroke 10 hours after the attack and died on March 14, 2018.
The attack caused anger in Egypt and the country's embassy called on those responsible to be "brought to justice swiftly".
At Nottingham Crown Court in April, Mariah Fraser, 19, Britania Hunter, 18, and a 16-year-old girl admitted to their part in the attack but the victim's family was unaware of the court appearance.
"We should have been informed of that hearing date and time and we should have been given the opportunity to attend," said Mohamed Moustafa, Mariam's father.
"This very simple right was taken from us. I'm very upset. Nobody respects me and my family."
A spokesman for the British Crown Prosecution Service said: “We have worked closely with the police to make sure Mr Moustafa has been kept updated throughout this process and are deeply sorry this didn't happen on this particular occasion. We have contacted him to offer a full explanation.
"We were preparing for trial in this case. Two of the three guilty pleas were unexpected and we informed the family immediately.
"We have also met Mr Moustafa to explain the charge of affray. The CPS can only charge if the evidential stage of our tests for prosecution are met. Our thoughts remain with her family.”
Three other young women, aged 18, 17 and 16, pleaded guilty to affray at Nottingham Youth Court last year.
The six teenagers will be sentenced on a date to be confirmed.
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Conflict, drought, famine
Estimates of the number of deaths caused by the famine range from 400,000 to 1 million, according to a document prepared for the UK House of Lords in 2024.
It has been claimed that the policies of the Ethiopian government, which took control after deposing Emperor Haile Selassie in a military-led revolution in 1974, contributed to the scale of the famine.
Dr Miriam Bradley, senior lecturer in humanitarian studies at the University of Manchester, has argued that, by the early 1980s, “several government policies combined to cause, rather than prevent, a famine which lasted from 1983 to 1985. Mengistu’s government imposed Stalinist-model agricultural policies involving forced collectivisation and villagisation [relocation of communities into planned villages].
The West became aware of the catastrophe through a series of BBC News reports by journalist Michael Buerk in October 1984 describing a “biblical famine” and containing graphic images of thousands of people, including children, facing starvation.
Band Aid
Bob Geldof, singer with the Irish rock group The Boomtown Rats, formed Band Aid in response to the horrific images shown in the news broadcasts.
With Midge Ure of the band Ultravox, he wrote the hit charity single Do They Know it’s Christmas in December 1984, featuring a string of high-profile musicians.
Following the single’s success, the idea to stage a rock concert evolved.
Live Aid was a series of simultaneous concerts that took place at Wembley Stadium in London, John F Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia, the US, and at various other venues across the world.
The combined event was broadcast to an estimated worldwide audience of 1.5 billion.
UAE’s revised Cricket World Cup League Two schedule
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