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Man who stabbed his neighbour to death in horrific case of mistaken identity where he wrongly believed he was a sex offender is detained indefinitely in hospital Richard Matthews killed Paul Wells after wrongly believing he raped him as child He was
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A BBC journalist who was detained during the ongoing military crackdown in Myanmar has been freed, the corporation said today. Aung Thura had been led away by men in plain clothes while reporting outside a courthouse in the capital Naypyitaw last Friday.