Gruesome moment UFC legend Michael Bisping removes his EYEBALL during interview with MMA star
MICHAEL BISPING removed his EYEBALL during an interview with UFC star Shara Magomedov.
Bisping suffered an optical injury after his retina detached following a kick by Vitor Belfort in 2013.
Michael Bisping removed his eyeball during an interview with UFC star Shara Magomedov[/caption] Bisping wears a cosmetic eye[/caption] Magomedov is without 60 per cent vision in his eye[/caption]The British legend had to get a cosmetic eye and even fought with it in during his iconic career.
Russian Magomedov also suffered a similar injury earlier in his career which left him with just 60 per cent vision in his right eye.
Bisping, 45, discussed his glass eye in an interview with Magomedov and even took it out.
He said: “Hold on, I’m going to take this out. There we go, now we’re brothers!”
Bisping then asked: “Did you ever think about getting on of these?”
But Magomedov opted against it – with his effected right eye now becoming a synonymous part of his character.
Bisping then said: “It doesn’t matter, you look good, you own it.
“I’m a p****, everybody was bullying me online, saying mean things, they hurt my feelings so I tried to hide it.”
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Bisping formerly held the UFC middleweight title and retired in 2017 on the back of two losses and now works as a commentator and pundit.
Magomedov, 30, is meanwhile undefeated at 15-0 and tipped for a big future in the UFC.
He returns in Saudi Arabia on Saturday against London’s Michael Venom Page, 37.
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Secret recording could hold the key to solving cold case of mum-of-two, 39, who vanished after row with her husband
MUM-OF-TWO Patricia Hall vanished without a trace after a bitter row with her husband 33 years ago.
Patricia, who was 39 at the time, became the victim of a cold case when she disappeared from her semi-detached home in the suburb of Pudsey, West Yorkshire, in the early hours of January 27, 1992.
It has been 33 years since Patricia Hall’s disappearance after a row with her husband Keith, her family is still seeking answers[/caption] Patricia and Keith on their wedding day in 1982[/caption]Shockingly, the missing woman’s spouse Keith confessed to a covert cop that he had “strangled” her and dumped the body.
In another bizarre twist, a trial judge would not allow a secret recording of his confession to be used as court evidence after he was cleared of any crime.
Keith was found not guilty by the jury but the judge of the case made the surprise decision of allowing Keith’s confession to be aired publicly.
Following the not-guilty verdict, the judge decided to make the revelation public.
Now, The Sun can reveal that West Yorkshire Police have opened a cold case review in a bid to discover what happened to Patricia.
This second look at Patricia’s disappearance is, like all cold case reviews, not a reinvestigation.
It is understood that detectives are going over witness statements taken at the time, and liaising with forensic scientists to discover if improved technology can unearth some fresh clues.
A case becomes cold when all viable leads have been exhausted and the senior investigating officer considers nothing further can be done.
“Our Major Investigation Review Team is currently conducting a ‘cold case’ review into the disappearance of Patricia Hall, which is a process that we carry out periodically as standard procedure for unsolved cases,” Assistant Chief Constable Pat Twiggs, West Yorkshire Police lead for Specialist Crime and Criminal Justice, said.
“That review is likely to conclude in the next few months.
“We are maintaining contact with Patricia’s family and doing everything we can to support them and keep them informed, and we would still welcome any new information that could assist in getting her family the answers they need.”
The case has been the subject of media attention, including the Amazon Prime documentary “The Confession,” which explores the circumstances surrounding Patricia’s disappearance.
SISTER’S AGONY
Patricia’s younger sister, Christine Weatherhead — who believes her sibling is dead — has welcomed news the case will be re-examined.
The 63-year-old, who helps husband Robert on their North Yorkshire farm, : “I want to get justice for Pat before I die.
“I cannot accept that she remains a missing person when she has never contacted me or her lads, who she adored, and has never touched her bank account or passport. Nothing.
“Only a fool would believe she was still alive, so for me it is important to have on record how she died and who was responsible for that.
“Without a doubt, Pat’s disappearance has taken its toll emotionally and mentally on me. But while I can keep finding the strength to fight on, I will, for Pat.”
Former nurse Christine told how, once a week, she would meet Patricia in Leeds for a catch up with their brother, Brian, over a cuppa.
The Saturday before, she and her children had spent the day at Christine’s farm with her family.
Christine said: “She told me she was planning to start a new life with the lads in Scotland, one of her favourite places.
“She had decided to divorce Keith due to his volatile temper.
“She was happy and I just thank God that is my final memory of her.”
Keith has said that on the evening of January 26, Patricia told him she wanted a divorce.
He feared losing half their home, his sons and his grocery business.
We are maintaining contact with Patricia’s family and doing everything we can to support them and keep them informed, and we would still welcome any new information that could assist in getting her family the answers they need
Assistant Chief Constable Pat Twiggs
The sisters were due to meet on January 28, but Christine rang Patricia that morning to cancel their regular get-together.
She said: “I left a message but Pat, unusually, never called me back. Keith rang me that evening and told me she had left their home the day before and he did not know where she was.
“I asked if he’d reported her missing to the police, but he hadn’t.
“I knew Pat would never leave her boys with him, so my brothers and I were suspicious from the start.
“A police officer cousin reported her missing the next day.”
The family car, a blue Ford Sierra, was found abandoned a mile from her home.
A witness told officers that, on the night Patricia disappeared, he saw a man lifting something into or out of the car on the same road, climb over a fence into a field and walk towards a nearby pond.
Police were convinced that man was Keith Hall.
Months earlier, Christine had had a heartbreaking chat with Patricia.
She recalled: “She said, ‘If anything happens to me, will you look after the boys?’.
“I said of course, and thought she meant anything happening due to the depression she had previously suffered — but had recovered from.
“How those words haunt me to this day.”
Patricia’s younger sister, Christine Weatherhead — who believes her sibling is dead — has welcomed news the case will be re-examined[/caption] Keith Hall made a chilling confession to an undercover policewoman about his missing wife[/caption] Keith Hall beams as he is driven away from Leeds Crown Court after he was acquitted of murdering his wife Patricia in 1994[/caption]Dramatic moment armed cops smash secret Breaking Bad-style pink cocaine lab allegedly run by John Gilligan in dawn raid
THE inside of a pink cocaine lab allegedly run by gangster John Gilligan in his Spanish home has been revealed by cops.
Police seized up to €8million worth of drugs when they raided the Costa Blanca pad in December 18, 2024.
Heavily-armed officers used battering rams to smash into the property where the secret Breaking Bad-style lab was discovered.
And outside the gaff, cops found a weapon wrapped in plastic and stashed in a bricked-up hideaway
Thug Gilligan, 72, was arrested and remanded in prison.
Spanish police released the first images of the operation leading to his takedown.
And detectives accused the Dublin mobster of flooding the region’s streets with illegal narcotics — including toxic pink cocaine — with the help of a North Macedonia criminal gang he allegedly led.
Tragic One Direction singer Liam Payne had pink cocaine in his system when he fell to his death from a hotel balcony in Buenos Aires, Argentina, last year.
The deadly substance — also known as tusi — is a mix of several drugs including meth, ketamine, MDMA and others.
Gilligan’s latest arrest came 15 months after he admitted running
a Spain-to-Ireland cannabis and sleeping pill smuggling ring.
He also copped to the illegal possession of a firearm after a gun initially linked to crime reporter Veronica Guerin’s murder was found buried in his back garden near the Spanish holiday resort of Torrevieja in October 2020.
However, Gilligan agreed a plea bargain deal in September 2023 with prosecutors as his trial got underway and was handed a suspended 22-month jail sentence.
Detectives specialising in fighting organised crime revealed they detected an “increase” in the brute’s criminal activity just nine months after he avoided prison.
And they went public for the first time on the huge scale of his latest alleged drugs trafficking op.
Sources revealed most of the narcotics seized — including more than 16kg of pink cocaine — was discovered at the clandestine drugs lab Gilligan was “running”.
They put a price tag on their street value of between €4million and €8million after the Operation Overlord bust last month.
Officers from elite Spanish police anti-drug units, including one based in the province of Murcia, were involved in the operation.
‘IRISH MAFIA’
The National Police in Murcia issued their first statement on Gilligan’s arrest.
The pint-sized yob wasn’t named but was described as a member of the “Irish mafia”.
A spokesman said: “The National Police has dismantled a synthetic drugs lab. Nine people have been arrested including the leader of the criminal organisation, a man belonging to the Irish mafia who had expanded his criminal activities to several parts of the eastern Spanish coast and continually changed home between the provinces of Murcia and Alicante to hinder his localisation.
“More than 16 kilos of tusi, or pink cocaine have been seized along with two-and-a- half kilos of cocaine, 540 litres of precursors for synthetic drugs, and a 75-litre drum of methylamine, which is a key precursor in the manufacture of methamphetamines.
“Officers have also confiscated different instruments and machinery needed to produce drugs, as well as a revolver hidden among bricks.”
JOINT OP
The UK’s National Crime Agency was also involved in taking down Dublin mobster Gilligan.
Spanish cops added: “Thanks to the joint operation with the NCA, a family crime clan of Macedonian origin, based in the Murcian village of La Alberca, was identified. They allegedly operated under the orders of the Irish criminal with the aim of making and distributing different types of drugs in the region on a regular basis.
“The police investigation led to the arrest of the alleged leader at a villa in Orihuela Costa on December 18 last year. A clandestine lab had been set up inside to make and adulterate different types of drugs, mainly the narcotic known as tusi, or pink cocaine.
“An important increase in the consumption of this drug had been detected at nightspots and other ‘black spots’ in the city of Murcia.
“Two more raids were subsequently carried out in La Alberca at residential properties belonging to the organisation’s Macedonian clan where a significant amount of drugs of the same type as those found at the dismantled clandestine lab were also seized.
“With the substances seized in the lab it’s estimated the criminal gang could have produced between 300 and 600 kilograms of drugs.”
BEHIND BARS
Gilligan has been locked up at Fontcalent Prison, in Alicante, after his latest arrest, with the hood spending Christmas behind bars.
The two-bed pad near Torrevieja where police discovered the drugs laboratory reportedly belonged to Gilligan’s ex Sharon Oliver.
The British national, 61, is not among the nine people arrested in the latest operation and is said to have been unaware of Gilligan’s alleged drug activities.
She was cleared in September 2023 of two drug charges she was facing, along with her ex-boyfriend, over their October 2020 arrest.
Sharon declined to make the plea bargain deal Gilligan and seven other defendants had struck with Spanish prosecutors.
They were demanding a six-year prison sentence for the gangster’s girlfriend if found guilty of two charges — trafficking cannabis as well as supplying and exporting medicines without permission.
Sharon denied any knowledge of the drugs smuggling operation her partner confessed to masterminding a day before her one-day trial began 15 months ago and was acquitted of the two raps.
Gilligan, who said at the time he was planning to quit Spain, was ordered to pay fines of just over €14,000 on top of his 22-month suspended prison sentence.
GUN FIND
Prosecutors had wanted him to be jailed for more than eight years if convicted of four charges he was originally due to be tried on.
The seven other men accused alongside him in September 2023 included his son Darren, 47, and 51-year-old playboy pal ‘Fat’ Tony Armstrong.
They were all given suspended 18-month sentences.
The Colt Python revolver found in his back garden during his 2020 arrest was the same type as that used to kill Sunday Independent journalist Veronica Guerin.
The crime reporter was shot dead, aged 36, at a red traffic light on the Naas dual carriageway near Newlands Cross on the outskirts of Dublin on June 26, 1996.
She was shot by one of two men on a motorbike, with the gun never found.
Police carried out tests to check whether the weapon seized in the raid on Gilligan’s gaff was used in her murder.
However, it was subsequently found not to be the same weapon used in Veronica’s murder.
Gilligan was tried and acquitted of masterminding her murder in 2001.
However, he was convicted of importing two tons of cannabis resin and sentenced to 28 years in prison, reduced to 20 on appeal.
Ex-friend Brian ‘Tosser’ Meehan was convicted of her murder.
Mateo Kovacic wanted by Al-Nassr as Saudi giants plan £140MILLION Premier League raid on their deadline day
AL-NASSR are planning a £140million Premier League raid on the final day of the Saudi transfer window.
Aston Villa‘s Jhon Duran is expected to fly to the Gulf state on Friday to complete a £64m move to join Cristiano Ronaldo in Riyadh.
Jhon Duran is expected to complete a £64m move to the club[/caption] Brighton’s Kaoru Mitoma is also a target of the Saudi side[/caption]The Saudi Pro League side also lodged a £54m bid for Brighton’s Kaoru Mitoma.
Brighton rejected the first bid but are braced for an eye-watering offer with Al-Nassr prepare to pay £75m for the Japan international.
The Seagulls are adamant they will not sell but could find it hard to reject such an enormous fee for a 27-year-old.
Mitoma is settled at Brighton and is not thought to be overly keen on a move out of European football.
Al-Nassr have a delegation in London looking to seal the moves before their window shuts tonight.
They are also weighing up a stunning move for Manchester City’s Mateo Kovacic, who scored against Club Brugge on Wednesday night.
No approach has been made so far and a move for the former Chelsea man is complicated by the fact that struggling City would need a replacement.
City are interested in Juventus midfielder Douglas Luiz but the two clubs are currently struggling to agree terms over a loan.
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Al-Nassr are also looking to offload former Liverpool man Sadio Mane.
Mane started their league win over Al-Raed last night the club are open to letting him leave, though Al-Hilal have turned down the chance to sign him.
Al-Hilal are focusing on a move for Liverpool legend Mohammed Salah come the summer, with the Saudi Arabian sports minister saying he would love to see the Egyptian in the SPL.
Saudi sports minister, Prince Abdulaziz bin Turki Al-Faisal, said: “Definitely, because if he ticks all the right boxes, even for us, we’d love to have him.
“We feel like we are one with the Egyptians, from our culture and our history and so on.
“So to have Mo Salah or other players that are good role models would be a pleasure and a privilege to have in the Saudi League.
“Will it happen or not? That’s up to the clubs to decide and to see what negotiations go on.”
Mohamed Salah is a target for the summer[/caption]TRANSFER NEWS LIVE: STAY UP TO DATE WITH ALL THE LATEST MOVES FROM THE JANUARY WINDOW
Comedian aims cheeky joke at Meghan Markle and Harry at prestigious Netflix launch event weeks before her new show
PRINCE Harry and Meghan Markle have been poked fun at by a comedian at a glitzy Netflix event.
Stand-up icon John Mulaney made a cheeky joke about the couple at a major celebrity affair hosted by the streaming giant.
A cheeky joke was made about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle at a Netflix event[/caption] John Mulaney made the quip ahead of Meg’s new docuseries[/caption]He roasted the Duke and Duchess of Sussex in front of the A-lister audience and said: “This will be the one place where you [might] see Arnold Schwarzenegger sitting next to Nikki Glaser sitting next to a family therapist with music by Mannequin Pussy.
“This is a really fun experiment. Not since Harry and Meghan has Netflix given more money to someone without a specific plan.”
A source from within the audience told the Mail: “It was shocking to me that Netflix would seemingly allow Meghan and Harry to be ridiculed at such a prestige event.
‘”And how strange that a show by the couple who signed a multi-million dollar deal with Netflix barely featured – apart from one brief clip in a montage.”
The insider added: “It really felt like Netflix don’t give a d*mn.”
Harry and Meghan reportedly signed an £80 million five-year deal in 2020 with the streaming giant.
It comes as With Love, Meghan, is set to be released in March after it was postponed amid the LA fires.
Meghan said in a statement to Tudum, the official companion site to Netflix: “I’m thankful to my partners at Netflix for supporting me in delaying the launch, as we focus on the needs of those impacted by the wildfires in my home state of California.”
The show’s original release date was January 15.
Meghan’s new show will feature eight 33 minute episodes with a host of her various Hollywood friends trying her simple, yet “elevated”, food.