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A BRIT teen held in Georgia on drug smuggling charges could face a gruelling nine-month wait in a brutal ex-Soviet prison as she awaits trial.

A woman who died in a skydiving accident in County Durham has been named as 32-year-old Jade Damarell.

Emergency services hurried to Wreford’s Farm in Shotton Colliery, County Durham, over the weekend after a woman was injured during a skydiving session - she has been pronounced dead.

Prison officers are urging the Justice Secretary to permit the use of electric stun guns in the UK’s most dangerous jails.

Abedi has been moved to the only available highly-controlled ’suite’ cell in the country - a standalone self-contained unit monitored by a minimum of five people at any one time, and a prison dog. There are only four such cells across England and Wales.

The barbaric assault on three prison officers by Manchester Arena terrorist Hashim Abedi – brother of suicide bomber Salman Abedi, who murdered 22 people in 2017 – has shaken the already strained criminal justice system.

Three prison officers were hospitalised after being attacked by Hashem Abedi, brother of the Manchester Arena bomber, it’s been reported.

Dozens of emergency responders and members of the public have been enlisted to comb the wild moorlands in County Durham following 23-year-old Jenny Hall’s disappearance last week