The Foreign Office said the case had been adjourned until 25 May

The Foreign Office said the case had been adjourned until 25 May.. The women arrived in court with their feet in shackles for the second day of the hearing, dressed in traditional black Muslim robes. Although the confessions have been filed with the three judges, their lawyers said the women had withdrawn them, and one of them had retracted a statement that she had a lesbian relationship with the victim. The source said they claimed they were forced to admit the killing after their arrest. Lucille McLauchlan, 31, from Dundee, and 41-year- old Deborah Parry, from Alton in Hampshire, who deny murdering Yvonne Gilford, 55, in December, were calm as they appeared before three judges at a two-hour hearing in the city of Khobar. Two British nurses charged with the murder of an Australian colleague in Saudi Arabia insisted yesterday that they were forced into confessing, a legal source said. Neil Dudgeon, Trevor Peacock and Crispin Bonham- Carter, who appeared in Pride and Prejudice, will also star in the film..

The girl in the film has good memories of her mother, memories that I did not have even though I grew up knowing I was loved, which is the greatest gift a mother can give her child.”The Gift will star Amanda Burton, who teamed up with Ms Gannon on the set of Peak Practice. The Gift, a pounds 1m-film, recounts the experiences of a young mother, ravaged by cancer, who faces the prospect of leaving behind a seven-year-old child.
Ms Gannon, 48, was herself only six when brain cancer claimed her mother and left her father, a soldier, to bring up three children.The writer, a housewife in Derbyshire before she took to scripting nine years ago, said: “The project is very important to me.”When my mother died I was much the same age as the little girl in The Gift. Lucy Gannon, creator of the television hits Soldier, Soldier and Peak Practice, has drawn on the traumatic experience of her mother’s death for a new BBC drama. I hope that in this day and age we won’t have to resort to that.”Mr Colbung, 66, will make an appeal in Liverpool today to the relatives of the children.. He said: “I want that head to be with me when I leave the shores of England next week.”I want an appointment with Jack Straw, it is in his court. In my tradition if we were to deal with this, Mr Jack Straw and myself would be engaged in a spear fight to resolve this. .According to Aboriginal beliefs, Yagan’s spirit cannot find peace until his head is re-united with his body.

But the Home Office has refused exhumation because relatives of 20 stillborn children buried in the grave have refused consent.Mr Colbung, MBE and a JP, arrived in Britain yesterday determined not to go back empty- handed. The head ended up in Liverpool’s City Museum but it was buried in the 1960s. He hopes the Government will allow the head, currently buried in a Liverpool cemetery, to be returned home after 164 years.
The head used to belong to Yagan, the leader of a people who made a desperate stand against white settlers in the early 19th century Western Australia.Yagan was shot by a farm-hand, William Keats, and his severed head brought back to England by Lt Robert Gale. Thankfully for the new Home Secretary, Ken Colbung (right) is not going to insist on the traditional Aboriginal trial by combat. No amount of briefings by the Sir Humphreys of Whitehall could have prepared Jack Straw for this one – a spear fight with an Aboriginal leader over the pickled, buried head of an ancestor.