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A biased test kept thousands of Black people from getting a kidney transplant. It's finally changing

时间:2010-12-5 17:23:32  作者:Culture & Society   来源:Australia  查看:  评论:0
内容摘要:She said that it had been "difficult to keep it together" over the past few festive seasons.

She said that it had been "difficult to keep it together" over the past few festive seasons.

“I said I don’t think that’s ever going to happen," Mr Stocks said.He said he had warned the boy not to cross a safety fence close to the cliff’s edge.

A biased test kept thousands of Black people from getting a kidney transplant. It's finally changing

Asked what he then heard, Mr Stocks let out a cry, before burying his head in his hands.Counsel for the defence, Martin Rutherford KC asked him: “Did you ever push him at all that day?”“No,” Mr Stocks replied.

A biased test kept thousands of Black people from getting a kidney transplant. It's finally changing

“Would that be something you would ever consider doing?” the barrister asked.Again Mr Stocks answered "no".

A biased test kept thousands of Black people from getting a kidney transplant. It's finally changing

The jury was told Mr Stocks was a one-time film extra who had appeared in the Star Wars franchise, along with JK Rowling’s Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.

When he was arrested police found thousands of pornographic pictures and videos on his phone, all of them “legal”, according to his counsel."My brother was a Royal Marines Commando, the other was a Spitfire mechanic, so I wanted to do something, too," she says.

Eileen, from Sewards End, near Saffron Walden, Essex, was sent to a farm at Takeley, near what is now Stansted Airport, where she lived in a hostel with 16 other girls."Growing up with two brothers, I wasn't used to being with a group of girls, but I absolutely loved it," she says.

Eileen had grown up in the East End of London and left school "with not much of an education" at 14."We lived near the River Thames. When the war broke out, nothing really happened for a few months, and then one Saturday we were sitting around the kitchen table and we heard the planes coming up the river. They started bombing us," she remembers.

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