Alfie Franco Murder Trial Defence

This week I covered a murder trial in Leeds. A man accused of stabbing a 16-year-old Syrian refugee to death said he only intended to cut his cheek and "didn't believe it" when police told him he’d died. Alfie Franco from Kirkburton, denies the murder of Ahmad Al Ibrahim, who was stabbed in the neck in a crowded shopping street in Huddersfield on the afternoon of the 3rd April this year. 

Alfie Franco has since been found guilty of Ahmad Al Ibrahim's murder.

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Flooded home revisit

I've been to revisit a story that was really shocking when I first covered it. Back in January this year Lavina Raywood was flooded just as she was about to move into her home, five years after it originally flooded. Lavina has discovered that a "man-made dam" was partly responsible for the latest flooding. A new council report has confirmed that a man who blocked a nearby drain with soil was a factor in the incident.

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Ovarian Cancer

It took nearly 18 months for a young woman from Sheffield to be diagnosed with ovarian cancer despite regularly going to see a GP with of symptoms of the disease. 23-year-old Natasha Reynolds was only diagnosed after she went to A&E in agonising pain. It comes as new NHS data shows 40% of women were diagnosed with ovarian cancer only once they'd reached emergency care - as happened with Natasha. I've been filming with Natasha and made the TV story below and wrote this story for the BBC News Website.

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