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This self-serving denial, Frecknall’s revival suggests, doesn’t bode well for Stella’s own future.

"This is amongst the longest X/Twitter outages we've tracked in terms of duration, and the pattern is consistent with a denial of service attack targeting X's infrastructure at scale," he added.

"Any denial of the entry of the necessities of life for civilians may amount to collective punishment," the United Nations human rights office said on Friday.

During the sentencing hearing, a statement on behalf of Mr Wilkin's family described the time since his murder as "an agonising journey filled with grief, denial and undoubtedly anger".

People you know and are close to will be in profound denial about the state of this country and society and the growing danger.