Claims extracted
23
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
9%
2 of 23 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
not political
takes no side on a contested political question
Publisher signals
64/100
Daily Mail's corrections and
hedging, across everything collected from it. Not a measure of accuracy.
Outlets on this story
1
Crime & Law
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articles that frame the event the way this one does
A man who killed his biological father on Christmas Eve just hours after discovering that he was his son has been jailed for six years.
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he → kill → years
Martin Greensmith, 37, had never met his father until a chance encounter during a Christmas drinks party.
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Greensmith → meet → party
While at the festive evening at the Queen’s Head pub in Willington, County Durham, Greensmith’s mother pointed out Steven Shevels, 61, and revealed that he was in fact his father.
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he → point → fact
Greensmith, of Crook, County Durham, did not want to talk to Mr Shevels and even told him: ‘You’re my dad but I don’t want to know you,’ a trial at Teesside Crown Court heard last month.
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trial → want → Court
They had a number of exchanges and Greensmith eventually went outside to get away from his father, who followed him when he was asked to leave the pub because he was drunk.
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he → have → pub
Another argument ensued prompting Greensmith to deliver a ‘powerful and aggressive push’ to Mr Shevels’ upper body, causing him to immediately fall and hit his head on the concrete floor.
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him → ensue → floor
CCTV footage showed the push and Mr Shevels falling backwards.
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Shevels → show → ?
One witness described the sound as ‘like dropping a coconut on concrete.’
Greensmith and others tried to resuscitate Mr Shevels and when emergency services arrived they worked on him for more than an hour before pronouncing him dead at the scene.
Martin Greensmith, 37, of Crook, Co Durham, was convicted of manslaughter following the death of his father
He was jailed at Newcastle Crown Court for six years after a judge said he could have avoided the situation
His father, Steven Shevels, 61, died when he hit his head on concrete in a pub beer garden having been pushed by Greensmith
Greensmith told his trial that he had only used a ‘gentle push’ in ‘self-defence’ but this was rejected by jurors and he was convicted of manslaughter.
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he → describe → manslaughter
At Newcastle Crown Court on Friday he was jailed.
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he → jail → Friday
Judge Jonathan Carroll said Greensmith had been ‘immediately angry and aggressive.’
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Greensmith → say → ?
‘You were with your family on what should have been a convivial Christmas drink, sadly that was not to be,’ he said.
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he → say → family
‘Mr Shevels entered the pub and it is clear he had been drinking earlier and was under the influence, there were minor exchanges before he came to sit near your party.
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he → enter → party
‘You were told by your mother that Mr Shevels was your father, you did not know this before.
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you → tell → this
‘He said something that you objected to and having viewed CCTV footage I am satisfied so I am sure that you were immediately angry and aggressive
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you → say → footage
, your face, body language and hand signals make that clear.’
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that → make → ?
Greensmith told his trial that he ‘didn’t want to know his father’, adding: ‘In 36 years he's never made an attempt to do anything.’
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he → tell → anything
Paul Rooney, defending, said he was ‘genuinely remorseful’, while a pre-sentence report found that Greensmith may have felt ‘overwhelmed’ by the discovery that Mr Shevels was his father.
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Shevels → defend → discovery
In a victim impact statement read in court, Mr Shevels’ daughter Chloe Shevels said her father was ‘a quiet and timid man’ who loved nature and rock music.
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who → read → nature
She said: ‘He died on Christmas Eve.
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He → say → Eve
I found out through gossip from other people when I was opening presents.
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I → find → presents
‘I now dread the thought of Christmas.’
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I → dread → Christmas
Mr Shevels’ sister Angela Thompson said he was ‘the victim of an unprovoked and selfish act of violence, which took his life and took him from us far too soon’.
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which → say → us
‘It’s bad enough this happened, but for it to have happened on Christmas Eve makes it a lot worse,’ she added.
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she → ’ → Eve
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