内容摘要：Prosecutors had previously shown a photo of a bruise on Ms Bongolan's leg, with a timestamp of 26 September 2016 in the metadata. Ms Bongolan said that she took the photo of the bruise the day after Mr Combs allegedly threw her into balcony furniture.

Prosecutors had previously shown a photo of a bruise on Ms Bongolan's leg, with a timestamp of 26 September 2016 in the metadata. Ms Bongolan said that she took the photo of the bruise the day after Mr Combs allegedly threw her into balcony furniture.

The government is struggling to cut the amount of foreign aid it spends on hotel bills for asylum seekers in the UK, the BBC has learnt.New figures released quietly by ministers in recent days show the Home Office plans to spend £2.2bn of overseas development assistance (ODA) this financial year - that is only marginally less than the £2.3bn it spent in 2024/25.

The money is largely used to cover the accommodation costs of thousands of asylum seekers who have recently arrived in the UK.The Home Office said it was committed to ending asylum hotels and was speeding up asylum decisions to save taxpayers' money.The figures were published on the Home Office website with no accompanying notification to media.

Foreign aid is supposed to be spent alleviating poverty by providing humanitarian and development assistance overseas.But under international rules, governments can spend some of their foreign aid budgets at home to support asylum seekers during the first year after their arrival.

According to the most recent Home Office figures, there are about 32,000 asylum seekers in hotels in the UK.

Labour promised in its manifesto to "end asylum hotels, saving the taxpayer billions of pounds".In 2020, a total of 7,484 prosecutions collapsed because of lost, missing or damaged evidence. In 2024, that had risen by 9%, to 8,180.

When Kiera was just nine years old she gave an interview on camera to Lancashire Police describing the harrowing details of the sexual abuse she had been subjected to over several years.But a few months later, she says, police officers told her mother they had lost the recording.

"It was really hard, because I sat there for hours and hours telling people what had happened to me and for that to be lost, I just thought like what's the point in doing it again?" said Kiera, now 19."They did want me to do it again, but I just couldn't go through with it at the time."