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\nWho are Jim, Josh, Godfrey and Yanis and what did they do or say?
\nPresenter quits after BBC defends use of N-word in report
\nFrom The Guardian
\nA\u00a0BBC\u00a0radio presenter has quit his job after the corporation defended its decision to broadcast the N-word in a television news broadcast.
\nRadio 1Xtra presenter Sideman said he no longer felt comfortable working for the national broadcaster after it stuck by the decision to broadcast the language in a report on a racially motivated hit-and-run attack.
\nThe presenter, who had a weekly show on BBC 1Xtra, said he could not work with the BBC allowing \u201cthe N-word being said on national television by a white person\u201d.
\nHe said in a\u00a0post on Instagram\u00a0that the BBC\u2019s subsequent defence of the broadcast \u201cfeels like a slap in the face of our community\u201d.
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\n\u201cOn this occasion I just don\u2019t think I can look the other way. We live in a world that needs to change, systems that need to change, organisations that need to change.\u201d
\nMore than 18,000 people\u00a0have already complained\u00a0to the BBC about the decision to broadcast the word last month in a report that originally aired on the regional service Points West before being repeated on the main BBC News channel.
\nThe report, by the BBC social affairs correspondent Fiona Lamdin, repeated the language allegedly shouted during the attack on a young black man in\u00a0Bristol. The BBC has defended its decision, saying the inclusion of the racial slur was made with the approval of the victim and his family, who wanted to show the severity of the attack. They said the decision to broadcast the word followed discussions involving \u201csenior editorial figures\u201d and was preceded by a warning to viewers.
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\nRecklessly careless
\nEasy to infect 100 people directly or indirectly
\nMorbidity rate of 1%. High likelihood of killing someone.
\nWe convicted people for recklessly spreading Aids. Grievous bodily harm.
\nZaburoni case
\nA Gold Coast acrobat who was sentenced to more than nine years’ jail for intentionally infecting his partner with HIV has had his conviction overturned in the High Court.
\nKey points:
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\n* Zaburoni to be re-sentenced on lesser charge of grievous bodily harm
\n* High Court quashes conviction of intending to spread HIV
\n* Zaburoni lied to his ex-partner and had regular unprotected sex
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\nGodfrey Zaburoni, originally from Zimbabwe, had regular unprotected sex with his ex-girlfriend of two years and lied to her about his medical history.
\nWhile he admitted to infecting her, he argued he did not do so deliberately and was ignorant about how the virus was transmitted.
\nThe High Court ruled on Wednesday that other than the fact Zaburoni engaged in frequent unprotected sex, the jury in his 2013 trial could not infer from the evidence that he intended to give her HIV.
\nThe court found foresight that a result was possible or even certain was not a substitute for proof of specific intent.
\n“[There was not enough proof to safely exclude the hypothesis] that the appellant engaged in that sexual intercourse with the complainant not with an intention to transmit the disease … but selfishly for his own gratific...","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/085762e2-797c-4ef4-9b10-434ecde61c07/logo2018v2.jpg"}