内容摘要：All photos courtesy of Sony World Photography Awards 2025.

All photos courtesy of Sony World Photography Awards 2025.

The details of his previous convictions were read to the jury at a retrial of separate charges at the Old Bailey in London.Gordon and his partner Constance Marten are standing trial on charges of the manslaughter by gross negligence of their newborn baby Victoria and of causing or allowing the death of a child. They both deny the charges.

Victoria's decomposing body was found in a shopping bag in a shed in a Brighton allotment in March 2023.The jury were told of the details of Gordon's prior offences in the United States.On 29 April 1989, he broke into the house of a next door neighbour wearing a nylon stocking over his face, armed with a knife and hedge clippers, the court heard.

He demanded that the woman inside the house undress and attempted to rape her, before orally raping her and committing other sexual assaults.Gordon then held her for four-and-a-half hours against her will.

On 21 May of the same year, he broke into another property carrying a flat-headed shovel and beat a male occupant about the head with the shovel.

He was sentenced in the US to 40 years in prison, of which he served 22 years.Indeed, when work on this review began, the US - under President Joe Biden - was still the UK's closest and most reliable military partner. Now that's less clear.

There are also questions over the price tag. The review's terms of reference assumes that defence spending will be capped at 2.5% of the UK's national income, or Gross Domestic Product (GDP). But few in defence believe that'll be enough.One of the independent experts leading the review, General Sir Richard Barrons, has already said the UK should be spending at least 3% of GDP on its armed forces. Meanwhile, Nato's Secretary General, Mark Rutte, is pressing allies to increase defence spending to "north of 3%". President Donald Trump has gone even higher, urging Nato countries to spend 5%.

The government's "ambition" is to boost spending to 3% at some time in the next parliament - which will have the added bonus of boosting growth, ministers say. Just last week Sir Keir said that extra investment will create a "defence dividend" for jobs and prosperity.Others think the review is too narrow in focus. A former military chief told the BBC that a review should first identify threats to the UK, and then work out how to shape the Armed Forces. It was "bonkers", they added, to conduct a defence review without it being "nested" in a broader cross-government security review.