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Justice is done but our hearts are broken, reads the headline on the front page of the Metro on Friday. The paper is quoting the family of 15-year-old Elianne Andam, after her killer was convicted of her murder “in a row over a friend’s teddy bear”. Hassan Sentamu, 18, “clutched a stress ball as the verdict was delivered”, it adds, “then wiped away tears and refused to sit down as he gripped the dock”.
Elianne’s parents have said they “are crippled with pain” following her death, but promised that “her legacy will live on”, the Daily Mirror writes. It adds that they have “vowed to honour her memory by fighting knife crime”.
The Middle East is “on tenterhooks”, the Financial Times says, as a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas “nears [the] finish line”. Featured is an image of Palestinians jostling for food aid in Deir al-Balah, Gaza, as “the world waits for Israel to approve” the agreement.
The Guardian warns that there will be no Israeli vote on a ceasefire deal “until Hamas agrees to all terms”. The paper says the delay “prompts fears [that] last-minute disputes or hardliners could scupper” the ceasefire before it is due to come into effect on Sunday.
First-time home buyers “will find it easier to get on the housing ladder”, according to the Times. Financial regulators are considering “looser loan rules”, the paper writes, as part of a “reform of the mortgage market”.
The Sun is calling for convicted killer Jake Fahri to be returned to jail with the headline: “Lock him up again”. Fahri was sentenced to life in prison in 2009 for the murder of teenager Jimmy Mizen, and was released on licence in 2023. The paper says he “faces a return to jail after apparently breaching his licence”.
And Friday’s Daily Star says the band Village People hope their iconic song, the YMCA, “will save the world”. The song has become an unlikely anthem for US President-elect Donald Trump, and the band hope their performance at his inauguration “will help heal the world”.
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