Facebook is to enable members to trigger its Safety Check service themselves if a dangerous event occurs near them.

Until now, it could only be activated by Facebook staff.
Safety Check lets people notify their friends and family that they are safe in the aftermath of a natural disaster or human conflict in their area.
The recent earthquake in Italy marked the 25th time this year that it has been triggered.
Safety notifications have reached one billion people in 2016 alone, the firm said. In the previous two years combined (2014 and 2015) it had only been activated 11 times.
The Safety Check Facebook team uses three criteria to decide whether the tool should be switched on - how many human lives are affected, the extent of that impact and the duration of the event.
The tool itself is one simple button.
"Sometimes people on the ground know much better when this tool is relevant to them and their friends than we do," said Katherine Woo, product lead at Facebook.
"We are only able to bluntly target people in a broad city or broader region but the community will know which of their friends will be closer."
The tool was developed following the Japanese tsunami in 2011 and was initially restricted to natural disasters only. This changed after the Paris terrorist attacks last year.
During the community test trial, which began in June, one particular bombing in Baghdad triggered Safety Check.
"It was a case where even though it's an area that sees a lot of turmoil, this event was noteworthy enough," said Facebook software engineer Peter Cottle.
However, Facebook is clear that it is not able to provide physical assistance.
"We are not a first responder and we are not in the position to actually save people," said Ms Woo.
"Some people say we should have a 'mark not safe' button or an 'I need help' button - but we want to direct people to official local emergency numbers."
Colleagues Janet Robinson and Hugo Malim were having a drink together in London when the terrorist attack at the Bataclan, in Mr Malim's home city of Paris, occurred.
"As soon as I heard about the attacks, I posted a public update stating that I was safe and currently in London," he said.
"However, as I wasn't aware that Facebook was running the safety check, I didn't mark myself as 'safe' on the Friday. This created panic amongst some of my relatives with a cousin calling me on the Saturday to make sure I was fine."
"Once you have a group of friends that are accounted for you start to get more concerned about those who haven't checked in," said Ms Robinson.
Janet Robinson, who used to live in Turkey, said she had used the tool during the terror attacks on the airport and in the city of Istanbul.
"Obviously the airport attack in Istanbul made the news internationally, but the one that worried me was the one on Istiklal street, which is the main shopping street. That made the news briefly but it worried me more because I knew that my friends were more likely to be in that area.
"But would that have been considered a significant event for Safety Check? I would quite like to have more control over it."
Mr Malim agrees.
"I feel that with these attacks happening globally, it would be easier to let users inform their relatives and friends that they are safe rather than wait for Facebook to trigger an application," he said.


Three Scottish police forces allowed specialist officers to routinely carry guns before the launch of the new single force, Kenny MacAskill has said.

The justice secretary told MSPs that Strathclyde, Tayside and Northern had officers who were routinely armed.
He said Police Scotland had adopted the approach across the country since its launch in April last year.
Lib Dem justice spokeswoman Alison MacInnes said Holyrood should have been told of the routine arming of police.
A political row over specially trained officers routinely carrying side arms started earlier this month when Independent Highlands and Islands MSP, John Finnie, raised concerns.
Mr Finnie said there had been a change of policy from firearms officers having to retrieve their weapons from locked safes in armed response vehicles with permission from a senior officer.
He said there had been occasions when firearms officers had supported unarmed police on routine duties, such as dispersing late night crowds from outside pubs and clubs.
Mr MacAskill told the Scottish Parliament that Police Scotland took a decision to follow an example previously set by Strathclyde, Tayside and Northern Constabulary.
He said it was necessary for trained firearms officers to be readily available to respond quickly to "urgent and unexpected threats".
Mr MacAskill said Police Scotland has 275 firearms officers - 1.6% of Police Scotland's personnel - and they were deployed on a shift pattern basis.
He added: "Consequently, only a small number will actually be deployed across our communities at any one time."
The justice secretary also said that the police authority and police investigation and review commissioner could review the deployment of firearms officers.
Ms MacInnes said the routine arming of officers represented a "substantial change of direction" and parliament should have been informed.
Police Scotland's Assistant Chief Constable Bernard Higgins told BBC Scotland: "They are police officers first and foremost and it's only right that they contribute to the policing plan in addressing the greatest concerns of the community.
"The fact that they are carrying firearms and a Taser, to this point, there has been no negative public reaction to it."


The South Korean government has ordered carmakers Hyundai and Kia Motors to recall about 240,000 cars, after a tip off from a whistleblower.

The ex-Hyundai employee raised concern about defects which affected 12 different car models.
It is the first time the country's transport ministry has issued a compulsory vehicle recall.
Hyundai and Kia had earlier refused to act voluntarily, saying there was no safety risk.
Kia is an affiliate of Hyundai, and officials are reportedly asking the country's prosecutor to look for any evidence of a cover up at the carmakers.
The models affected include Hyundai's i30 hatchback, its Sonata midsize sedan, the luxury Genesis and Kia's Mohave as well as its Carnival minivan. These models and others were found to have issues with vacuum pipes, fuel hoses, parking brake light issues and several other faulty parts.
The planned recalls will add to the 1.5 million cars which Hyundai and Kia offered to fix last month in South Korea and the US over possible engine stalling.
In a statement Hyundai Motor said it accepted and respected the recall, but that there had been no "reported injuries or accidents from the cited issues".
"Safety is always Hyundai-Kia's number one priority and we make decisions on recalls or any other customer protection steps in compliance with regulators around the world and stringent internal procedures."
Whistleblowing is rare in South Korea, and rarer still when the country's big family run conglomerates - or chaebols as they are known - are involved.  The corporate culture and obeisance to the top bosses means that very few speak out of turn.
But they do exist. Last month I met Kim Gwang-ho, the 55-year-old man behind this specific Hyundai recall. He told me he'd decided to expose what was happening at the firm, because he couldn't - in good faith - allow passengers to travel in vehicles he knew to be faulty.
Mr Kim had worked at Hyundai for more than 25 years, and it was obvious to me that he cared deeply for the firm and was very proud of the work that he'd been involved in.
But he also pointed out that his decision to speak out was calculated. He was nearing retirement, and didn't have as much to lose as his younger colleagues.
A job in a chaebol is often seen as the only path to success in South Korea. And because getting one can be extremely competitive, many employees end up just toeing the line.
But Mr Kim's story, though, seems to have a positive ending.  Just this month, Hyundai Motor dropped its lawsuit against him, reinstated him to his old job, and reimbursed him for the lost years of employment.
It was what South Korea's Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission ruled years ago, but it took Hyundai until now, perhaps amidst the changing political environment, to heed it.


Coventry lost ground on League One leaders Burton after Billy Sharp sealed victory for Sheffield United.

Blades keeper George Long twice saved well from Adam Armstrong and made a flying stop from a Ruben Lameiras shot.
John Fleck also failed to connect with an Armstrong pass and when Long spilled a cross it was adjudged not to have gone over the line.
Substitute Sharp headed home a Paul Coutts corner from close range before Sam Ricketts was sent off late on.
Sheffield United manager Nigel Adkins:
"We played against a very good footballing side and we had a game-plan. The lads worked very hard and we were solid, resolute and committed, which is great to see.
"The players were disciplined and organised. We want to be competitive and there is a resilience about the players.
"We want to be attack-minded, especially at home, but we've been punished before when teams have caught us on the counter-attack so we need to be nice and solid. We want to have that platform of being hard to beat and keep clean sheets."
Coventry manager Tony Mowbray:
"You've got to take your opportunities when they come along. It wasn't a game with lots of chances.
"The boys were saying in the dressing room that the ball was definitely over the line (Murphy shot). Joe Cole span away celebrating when he probably could have put it in himself.
"The referee had a difficult day. He got some right and he got some wrong so we have to accept that.
"The nature of the goal we conceded was frustrating. It's always disappointing and frustrating to concede a goal from a corner-kick. Reice has decided to come for the ball and missed it. It happens and I'm not sure whether the boy who scored knew much about it.
"Credit to them because I thought they set up well and defended well. We have to take it on the chin and move on to the next one."
Match ends, Sheffield United 1, Coventry City 0.
Second Half ends, Sheffield United 1, Coventry City 0.
Attempt saved. Ryan Flynn (Sheffield United) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Second yellow card to Sam Ricketts (Coventry City) for a bad foul.
Chris Basham (Sheffield United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Sam Ricketts (Coventry City).
Foul by Paul Coutts (Sheffield United).
Chris Stokes (Coventry City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Paul Coutts (Sheffield United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Chris Stokes (Coventry City).
Corner,  Sheffield United. Conceded by Chris Stokes.
John Fleck (Coventry City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Stefan Scougall (Sheffield United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by John Fleck (Coventry City).
Attempt missed. Billy Sharp (Sheffield United) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses the top left corner.
Attempt missed. Ryan Kent (Coventry City) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top right corner.
Substitution, Sheffield United. Ryan Flynn replaces Matt Done.
Billy Sharp (Sheffield United) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by Matt Done (Sheffield United).
John Fleck (Coventry City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Dean Hammond (Sheffield United).
Ryan Kent (Coventry City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Coventry City. Marc-Antoine Fortuné replaces Romain Vincelot.
Goal!  Sheffield United 1, Coventry City 0. Billy Sharp (Sheffield United) header from very close range to the high centre of the goal. Assisted by Paul Coutts with a cross.
Corner,  Sheffield United. Conceded by Aaron Martin.
Foul by Billy Sharp (Sheffield United).
John Fleck (Coventry City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Sam Ricketts (Coventry City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Stefan Scougall (Sheffield United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Sam Ricketts (Coventry City).
Corner,  Coventry City. Conceded by John Brayford.
Attempt blocked. Ryan Kent (Coventry City) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.
Attempt saved. Aaron Martin (Coventry City) header from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner,  Coventry City. Conceded by Dean Hammond.
Corner,  Coventry City. Conceded by John Brayford.
Attempt missed. Stefan Scougall (Sheffield United) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Billy Sharp (Sheffield United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Aaron Martin (Coventry City).
Substitution, Coventry City. Ryan Kent replaces Ruben Lameiras.
Attempt saved. Billy Sharp (Sheffield United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.


For centuries, people have been lured in by the thundering power of surf.

Surfing began somewhere in the distant past of Polynesian culture and by the mid eighteenth century, Captain James Cook sailed to Hawaii and saw locals climbing onto wooden boards and speeding along the waves.
Eventually, a craze for wave riding spread and now it's thought at least 36 million people worldwide identify themselves as surfers.
They all, however, face an inescapable truth: perfect, surfable waves don't always show up where and when they're wanted.
"Most of our good surfing waves around the world are adjacent to big expanses of ocean," says Dr Mark Davidson of Plymouth University, an oceanographer with a special interest in waves and surfing.
The best surfing waves start life in stormy seas far from shore. Winds whip the surface into peaks which race away from the storm centre and over time transform into swell that rolls along under its own steam.
Like fine wines, the best waves take time to mature.
These water-borne pulses of energy continue their long journey towards land, sorting themselves out as they go, becoming less choppy and more refined - and bigger.
That's why world-class surf rolls to shore in spots like Hawaii, Bali and Portugal. Elsewhere, where there isn't a wide ocean delivering well-matured swell, people are attempting to improve the waves.
The aim of artificial surfing reefs is to enhance smaller waves into a surfable break.
"There's no magic here, you don't create waves," says Dr Davidson. "The idea is that you can focus waves, a bit like light travelling through a lens," he says.
A reef - natural or otherwise - acts as a magnet for swell, concentrating the waves' energy and making a bigger, more powerful break. That's the theory, anyway.
One of the newest artificial surfing reefs was installed on England's south coast, at Boscombe close to Bournemouth.
Here in the English Channel, where long-distance swell is distinctly lacking, waves are driven by local winds which produce choppier, smaller surf.
In a bid to improve the quality and consistency of Boscombe's waves, Bournemouth Borough Council paid Â£3.2 million to install an artificial surf reef.
The football pitch-sized reef consists of sand-filled geotextile bags that were designed to raise the seabed and magnify existing waves.
But when the reef opened in 2009, it was a crashing disappointment for local surfers.
"It didn't produce the right shape of wave," says Mark Davidson.
He was brought in to assess the reef's performance, which he did by surfing it with a GPS unit fitted inside his wetsuit.
"That allowed me very accurately to evaluate my ride length, the peel angle of the waves and how fast the wave was breaking," he says.
Dr Davidson concluded that the reef was no good for surfing.
It kicked up steep, dumpy waves that collapsed over his head rather than breaking gradually, peeling from one side to the other.
Boscombe's surf reef is not the first to fall short. According to Davidson, of the 12 artificial surf reefs built worldwide, none have worked.
"As yet we still don't have a successful example in generating a quality wave for recreational surfing," he says.
The flaws could come down partly to the turbulent sea shifting the sandbags until they lose their original shape.
It's also clear that scientists still haven't yet got to grips with the complex mix of ingredients that go into sculpting natural waves.
"We're still learning," Mark adds.
Another wave-making team has taken things a step further by removing their waves entirely from the unfathomable ocean.
I encountered some of these artificial waves in a most unlikely location - a peaceful lagoon many miles from the sea, at the foothills of the Cantabrian Mountains in northern Spain.
This is the prototype Wavegarden, the upshot of a decade's research and development and the brainchild of Josema Odriozola.
He was inspired to build the surfing equivalent of skate parks; a space for wave-riders to congregate and practise their sport.
Lying on my board in the purpose-built lagoon, it's a radically different experience to surfing at sea. There are no currents to battle or unwanted waves splashing in my face.
All I have to do is wait and a perfect wave will come my way.
Still, I'm nervous at first, unsure if I'll be able to catch the huge wave that rises up out of nowhere like a sea monster from the flat lagoon and races towards me, a wall of glassy, green water.
The secret to the Wavegarden's success lies along the midline of the oval lake, hidden beneath the surface.
Key engineering details are carefully guarded but Josema tells me the device is essentially a blade, shaped like an aeroplane wing, known as the "wave foil".
A winch adapted from a ski lift drags the wave foil through the water, creating a wake behind it.
Josema explains how they've honed the wave foil's shape to minimise energy consumption while making the biggest possible wave - the Wavegarden can generate 1.2m-high waves and 2-metre giants.
As for the length of the ride, there's no limit: build a longer pool and you'll get a longer wave.
All that matters is that the pool is the right shape.
"There must be a certain angle between the swell and the shore, and these conditions don't happen so often in the sea," says Josema. "This is what we're recreating here, these special conditions."
On my first ride at the Wavegarden (admittedly with some assistance from Josema) I'm amazed when I catch the wave and get to my feet.
I find myself hurtling along, trees whizzing by, and suddenly I grasp the whole point of these artificial waves: they're truly exhilarating, but they are also the fast-track to getting better at surfing.
For years I've struggled to be in the right place at just the right time to catch an awesome wave like this. After a few more goes I begin to get the hang of these artificial waves which sweep up and down the lagoon, one every minute.
Now that Josema and his team have perfected the technology, surfers will soon be riding waves in various other unexpected places.
Wavegardens are due to open to the public in the inland reaches of Dubai, the US and even wave-pounded Australia. The first opened recently in the last place you'd expect to find a decent surf break, among the craggy peaks of Snowdonia.
So, will landlubbing, artificial waves take off?
I put that question to Boscombe-based surfer, Sean Taylor.
"Every surfer will be curious about a manmade wave and everyone will want to try it," he says. "But ultimately you're always going to want to come back into the ocean."
That's clearly the case for the hardcore surfers who still flock to Boscombe whenever breakers appear - next to the pier, but not over the reef - even if the waves are few and far between.


The Northern Ireland Prison Service has announced the appointment of a new director general.

Sue McAllister is the first woman to hold the most senior position within a prison service anywhere in the UK.
The 51-year-old mother-of-two will take up the post at the beginning of July and be paid an annual salary of Â£100,000.
She replaces Colin McConnell, who is leaving to take up a post as head of the Scottish Prison Service.
Mr McConnell announced his departure in March, after just over a year in the job.
Mrs McAllister, oringally from south Yorkshire, has 25 years experience in the prison service, including working as a governor of both a prison and young offenders centre.
She is familiar with the challenges the she faces as she was part of a review team which produced a
          highly critical report on Northern Ireland Prison Service after the suicide of Colin Bell
.
Mr Bell he took his own life in Maghaberry Prison in July 2008.  He was on suicide watch at the time.
Justice Minister David Ford has welcomed Mrs McAllister's appointment.
"Sue joins the Northern Ireland Prison Service at a crucial stage of the reform programme," he said.
"She brings a wealth of experience to this demanding post and I know that she is committed to driving forward the change agenda."
Mrs McAllister said: "It is a great privilege to be appointed the Director General of the Northern Ireland Prison Service and to lead this proud service through a period of fundamental reform.
"I do not underestimate the scale of the reform programme that will be delivered over the next few years, one of the most challenging undertaken by the public sector anywhere in the United Kingdom."


Sepp Blatter's resignation from Fifa is good for football, Irish Football Association (IFA) chief executive Patrick Nelson has said.

Reports from the US suggest that Mr Blatter is being investigated by the FBI as part of a corruption inquiry.
He resigned in a surprise news conference on Tuesday night, but strongly denies any wrongdoing.
Mr Nelson said it was time for people within Fifa to begin to bring reform to the organisation.
US prosecutors launched a criminal inquiry last week, with seven Fifa officials arrested in Switzerland, part of a group of 14 people indicted.
Two days after the arrests, Mr Blatter was re-elected president of Fifa.
"We felt it was time for change last week, we feel it's time for change this week and the fact that Mr Blatter has actually seen that at last - I'm not quite sure why's it's happened this quickly - but the fact that it has happened this quickly, I think is a cause for us to think positively."
Mr Nelson said it had been made clear to Fifa that change was needed.
"I think what we need to focus on now is how Fifa does reform itself and what sort of new president it actually chooses," he said.
"The eyes of the world are on Fifa at the moment. There was a clear enough message last week that change is required.
"Now it's up to people like ourselves as members and voters within Fifa to make it very clear that Fifa cannot be run in that way."
Mr Nelson said that while outside help could be a benefit, it was important that Fifa reformed from within.
"If Fifa started to bring on independent members to the global executive, I think that would be very helpful," he said.


A bid to scrap a controversial law aimed at tackling sectarian behaviour at football has been officially lodged at the Scottish Parliament.

Labour MSP James Kelly has brought forward a Member's Bill to repeal the Offensive Behaviour at Football Act.
The law came into force in 2012 after the SNP used its majority in the last Scottish Parliament to pass the Act.
But after losing its majority at the last Holyrood election, the government faces defeat on the issue.
All of the other parties at Holyrood have called for the bill to be scrapped, with MSPs uniting in November to back a motion calling for its repeal by 64 votes to 63.
Opponents of the law say it is poorly written, unnecessary in light of existing legislation and unfairly targets football fans, with the Fans Against Criminalisation campaign group staging protests against it.
But the Scottish government has defended the law, arguing that opponents have not put forward any viable alternatives and that scrapping it would send out the wrong message on prejudice and offensive behaviour.
It has also insisted the legislation has "delivered real improvements", with a decrease in crimes of offensive behaviour at, or in relation, to football matches in Scotland.
But Mr Kelly said he was confident that next season will be the last one with the legislation in place.
He added: "Every other party opposed it. Academics, lawyers, football clubs and football fans opposed it, yet the SNP wouldn't listen and used its majority in the Scottish Parliament to railroad the Football Act through."
Parliament officials will next week agree a timetable for debating the Member's Bill next week, with the first vote likely to happen before the end of the year.


More than 200 of Australia's senior cricketers will be "unemployed as of 1 July", says Australian Cricketers' Association president Greg Dyer.

The current agreement between Cricket Australia and the country's top players expires on 30 June and no new deal has been struck.
"It is extremely likely that as of 1 July we'll be jumping over the cliff together," said Dyer.
"The fundamentals of the deal are nowhere near to being resolved."
Former Test wicketkeeper Dyer added: "We will be assisting in whatever way we possibly can in that but they're unemployed."
In March, Cricket Australia proposed salary increases for men and women as part of a revised memorandum of understanding, but that meant players would no longer receive a percentage of the organisation's revenue.
This was rejected by the Australian Cricketers' Association, who also turned down a recent revised pay offer.
The dispute has put a question mark over the Australian men's team playing a two-Test series in Bangladesh scheduled for August, while they are scheduled to host England in the Ashes from 23 November to 8 January, 2018.
The women's team is currently in England for the Women's World Cup and are under contract until the end of the tournament.


At least four people have been killed in South Korea in an explosion at a chemical plant in the city of Ulsan.

Owners Hanwha Chemical Corp said the blast happened during welding work to expand a waste water disposal facility.
"Gas from the waste water, which had piled up inside the tank, was apparently ignited by the welding torch", a fire official told AFP.
An investigation into whether negligence was the cause of the explosion is under way.
The plant makes polyvinyl chloride used in wide range of products, such as cling film.


Scientists say they have a clue that may enable them to find traces of the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs in the very crater it made on impact.

This pointer takes the form of a nickel signature in the rocks of the crater that is now buried under ocean sediments in the Gulf of Mexico.
An international team has just drilled into the 200km-wide depression.
It hopes the investigation can help explain why the event 66 million years ago was so catastrophic.
Seventy-five percent of all life, not just the dinosaurs, went extinct.
The UK-US led team gave an update on its research here at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco.
The group is currently running all manner of lab tests on the hundreds of metres of core pulled up from under the Gulf in April and May.
One tantalising revelation is that the scientists observe a big nickel spike in the sediments immediately above what has become known as Chicxulub Crater.
This is an important marker that could lead on to the discovery of asteroid material itself.
The presumed 15km-wide space object would have been vaporised in the impact. But some portion of it would have condensed into small spherules in the sky to then rain back down on the bowl.
It should be stressed that the nickel is not in itself an identification of asteroid material.
To have real confidence, the scientists would prefer to see the element iridium.
This is extremely rare on Earth but is frequently associated with meteorites.
Iridium is apparent in the geological layers around the globe that mark the dinosaur-killing event at the end of the Cretaceous Period, but to find it in the actual crater would be an exciting observation. It could result in further insights on the nature of the asteroid that smashed into Earth. One theory is that its metals could have made the environment toxic for many lifeforms.
Four labs are currently testing for the presence of iridium. Prof Philippe Claeys from the Free University in Brussels says finding the Nickel is a very good sign.
"Nickel behaves chemically in a way that is very similar to iridium; it loves to make strong chemical bonds with iron, just like iridium," he told BBC News.
"So we treat nickel as what we call a proxy for an elevated concentration of iridium. If we see high nickel, it's very likely that we're going to have high iridium."
Chicxulub Crater - The impact that changed life on Earth
The project to drill into Chicxulub Crater was conducted by the European Consortium for Ocean Research Drilling (ECORD) as part of the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP). The expedition was also supported by the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP).
Rock was recovered from more than 1,300m below the modern seafloor in the Gulf of Mexico.
What has thrilled the team is the quality and abundance of material now in the labs.
"Why this is a jackpot core is because we have an expanded section. We have an amount of material that turns into a resolution that allows us to ask lots of questions," said Prof Sean Gulick, the co-chief scientist from the University of Texas at Austin, US.
"For example, if we do see iridium especially in dust, it's not just a tracer for the impactor, it could also tell us something about when this material left the atmosphere and things (the likely dark sky conditions following the impact) started clearing up."
Prof Tim Bralower from Pennsylvania State University is studying the core rocks for the fossils of tiny organisms that lived in the seawater above the crater - from the immediate aftermath of the impact to millions of years hence.
What sort of species are present and how they change up through the sediments should tell him something about how long it took for "normal conditions" to return.
"It's unusual to see such a beautiful record of recovery in this exact location where the mass extinction originated. Basically, 'ground zero'," he said.
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A French woman who enslaved and abused her ex-boyfriend for more than a year has been jailed for 18 months.

Zakia Medkour, now 43, met Maxime Gaget, 37, over the internet in 2007 and he moved into her Paris studio flat some months later.
But within months he had lost his job and she had taken away his credit and identity cards.
Cigarettes were stubbed out on his skin and he was forced to swallow sponges and window-cleaning fluid.
The case, seen in France as helping to lift a taboo on domestic abuse suffered by men, came to prominence when Mr Gaget wrote about his experiences in a book, My partner, my torturer.
French campaign groups say abuse by men against women is three times more common, but say as many as 7,000 men complain of abuse every year.
Domestic abuse claims the lives of one woman ever three days and one man every 13 days, they estimate.
Mr Gaget described how his life soon turned into a nightmare when he moved in with Medkour, who lived with her two children in a 25 sq m (270 sq ft) flat.
Threatened with being labelled a paedophile by his partner if he complained, he was forced to sleep on the floor near the front door and barred from using the bathroom as well as being burned with a white-hot knife.
Prosecutors had called for a five-year jail term for Medkour, describing her actions as "beyond violence".
She was given 18 months in prison with another 18 months suspended and a fine of â‚¬200,000 (Â£140,000).
Mr Gaget was eventually rescued by his parents after his partner's brother raised the alarm and later had eight hospital operations because of his injuries
He said he had expected a longer sentence than 18 months but accepted his ex-partner's sentence.
"I'm finally going to be able to turn the page," he said.
Medkour's lawyers blamed her addiction to alcohol and she apologised for her actions. "I'm not heartless," she was quoted as saying.


Scientists who first linked chronic fatigue syndrome, also known as ME, to a virus have withdrawn some of their findings.

They have said some of their findings were based on "contaminated data".
Meanwhile, a study in Science claimed the virus could not be reliably detected in ME patients, even in the labs which originally made the link.
Understanding of chronic fatigue syndrome is poor. It may be many diseases and the causes are uncertain.
There was a sense of hope for many patients when a study published in Science in 2009 showed that DNA from a mouse virus, XMRV, was present in 67% of patients with the illness, but only 4% of the general population.
Yet other scientists around the world could not find evidence of the virus. Many researchers began to argue that the most likely explanation was contamination of the laboratory samples.
It led to Science asking the authors to withdraw their findings and it published an editorial "expression of concern" saying that the validity of the study was "seriously in question".
The authors have now issued a partial retraction after some of the scientists involved reported contamination, but this only calls into question the information in one table and two diagrams, not the rest of the paper and not the final conclusion.
One of the labs involved, the Whittemore Peterson Institute in Nevada, is standing by the conclusion. One of its lead researchers, Dr Vincent Lombardi, said it was "participating" in the retraction but: "We want to make it very clear that we are continuing the important work of studying retroviruses in association with ME/CFS and other similarly complex illnesses.
"WPI's more recent retroviral work, although still in the early stages of discovery, continues to warrant additional investigations."
Dr Jonathan Stoye, virologist at the Medical Research Council National Institute of Medical Research in the UK, said: "I don't think this partial retraction has any meaning, it would have been nice to have a complete rather than a partial retraction.
"They're saying the rest of the paper still stands, but that is becoming increasingly difficult for them to maintain."
A fresh study on XMRV published in Science, which the researchers behind the original study participated in, again questioned the link.
Samples of blood were collected from 15 patients who had previously tested positive for XMRV, 14 of whom also had chronic fatigue syndrome, and from 15 patients without XMRV.
These samples were sent to nine laboratories, including two which had found the link previously. No lab knew which samples were from which patients.
Only two laboratories, the two which initially proposed the link, detected any cases of XMRV. However, the virus was detected at "similar rates" in both groups of patients, the study said.
The results from the two laboratories were also "inconsistent" even when testing blood from the same patient.
Dr Charles Shepherd, medical adviser to the ME Association said: "These are very emphatic negative or inconsistent findings from the Blood Working Group study, along with the retraction of some of the original supporting data that was published in Science.
"So it is now looking extremely unlikely that XMRV is either linked to ME/CFS or that it has a disease-causing role.
"Having had their hopes raised that a treatable component to ME/CFS had been identified, it's not surprising that people are becoming increasingly disappointed at the way things are turning out.
But it's too early to send out the scientific jury to make a final definitive decision on XMRV and ME/CFS - we still need the results from the other major multi-centre study on XMRV and ME/CFS being carried out in America by Prof Ian Lipkin."


Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin has vetoed a bill that would make abortion a criminal offence in the US state.

Although she opposes abortion, she said the measure was vague and would not withstand a legal challenge.
The state senate on Thursday backed the bill that would have punished doctors who terminate a pregnancy with up to three years in prison. They would also be barred from practicing medicine.
To override the veto, lawmakers require a two-thirds majority in each chamber.
Abortion is legal in the US, and abortion rights activists have already described the bill as unconstitutional.
Two abortion clinics remain open in Oklahoma after the state recently enacted a number of new regulations affecting the facilities.
Ms Fallin, a rising star in conservative circles, has been mentioned as a potential running mate for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.
Anti-abortion groups said they hoped to use the bill to trigger a legal case that would overturn Roe v Wade, the Supreme Court verdict that made abortion legal in 1973.
Legislation similar to that in Oklahoma was enacted in Utah and Louisiana in 1991 - but the laws were later ruled unconstitutional.
In recent years, conservatives have sought to tighten restrictions on abortion clinics and doctors rather than seek an outright ban.
Abortion rights advocates say these measures are meant to restrict women's access to abortion.
The new laws are particularly widespread in conservative southern states.
This week, South Carolina's legislators passed a bill that would bar abortions after the 19 weeks of pregnancy.


A huge blaze has engulfed a partly built block of flats in Manchester.

Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (GMFRS) said the top two floors of the high rise block in Gorton were well alight when it arrived at the scene on Sunday evening.
The fire quickly spread through the timber framed building, it said, and nearby homes were evacuated and roads closed.
GMFRS said no-one was hurt and was investigating the cause of the fire.
Five fire engines attended the blaze at its height.
Incident commander Ben Levy said the fire service received more than 40 calls about the blaze.
"The fire involved a large timber frame building and upon arrival our crews found the top two floors well alight.
"Given the fact it's timber framed and open to the elements the fire spread quite quickly."


Murdered MP Jo Cox's assistants, who were with her when she was killed, have spoken about coping with the "surreal" loss of both a colleague and friend.

Fazila Aswat and Sandra Major were leaving a car with the MP ahead of a surgery in Birstall, West Yorkshire, in June when the MP was shot and stabbed.
Mrs Major said the MP tried to protect them, even while she was under attack.
Ms Aswat, Mrs Cox's office manager, said witnessing such an incident "can't not change your life".
On Wednesday, a man was jailed for life after being convicted of the 41-year-old Labour MP's murder.
Speaking to BBC Look North, Ms Aswat said: "I think in the aftermath of what happened it was very difficult to find anything good about that situation, but actually what I take away from that is Jo wasn't on her own.
"That's a massive thing for me now, where I console myself with, 'she wasn't on her own, she was with two people that very much loved and cared for her'".
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Mrs Major, her senior case worker, said: "I think the fact that Fazila and I were both with Jo on the day and have that shared experience has been a great help and comfort to us.
"She went to all those war-torn places of the world, and then she got killed in Birstall. That's why it's all so surreal and so hard to believe that it ever happened."
Ms Aswat said: "On a personal level, you're coping with the loss of a friend.
"On a professional level, you're mourning the loss of a woman that, in no doubt in anybody's mind, was going to be a minister."
During the attack, her colleagues attempted to intervene, along with passer-by Bernard Kenny, 78, who suffered stab wounds.
Ms Aswat continued: "When you see something like that, it can't not change your life.
"It wasn't just me and Sandra on the day, it was Bernard Kenny, it was multiple people that were in that little village.
"The sense of grief people felt on that day was not just at the horror of what we saw, but it has that ripple effect where it affected all of Birstall, Batley and Spen and also wider implications about our political state."
Mrs Major said one positive was the "love, support and community spirit" which had risen in the wake of the murder.
A charity fund set up in memory of the former Batley and Spen MP has now raised more than Â£1.9m, with 45,000 people donating to organisations close to Jo's heart.
She said: "I think the fact that Jo was killed as an act of hatred has changed my life and made me want to help to carry on with Jo's legacy.
"I think that he was a very evil person for what he did, and Jo was an amazing person. They were polar opposites."
Ms Aswat said she would not allow the situation to "consume" her.
"It is an opportunity for me to be stronger, bolder and to take forward some of Jo's mentality which is to look at the positives in a very negative situation," she said.
Her office manager said she would be remembered as an MP who came into politics "to change it".
"She was a bundle of energy and would fill her diary from nine in the morning to 10 at night," she said.
"Even if there was 100 people in a room, she would want to talk to every single person."
Mrs Major concluded: "Jo wasn't just our boss, she was our friend and we loved her."


Former BBC Radio DJ and Crackerjack presenter, Ed "Stewpot" Stewart has died at the age of 74, a few days after having a stroke.

Tributes have been pouring in for the DJ. Here is a selection.
Gareth Williams sent in this photo via WhatsApp: "So sad to hear about Ed Stewart's death. Here I am on stage during a Radio 1 roadshow in Caswell Bay, the Gower in August 1976. I was taking part in a yes/no game which I was lucky enough to win! Ed gave me my radio debut that day. Thanks Ed!"
Ed was involved in several charities, including PHAB. Simon Haskew was at an awards ceremony at the House of Lords in May 2012 and took this photo of his friend Maxim Lowe.
Alfie Bedborough in Jersey has fond memories: "Always a main stay on Christmas Day with Junior Choice. Such a loss. 'Ello darling!"
Clint Ritchie Stark in Edinburgh says he was fantastic with children on his Saturday morning show: "I remember him at the children's ward at the Princess Margaret Rose Hospital. The kids just loved him. He was so kind to them."
"I will never forget his kindness," says Sharon Ward in Sheffield. "In 1982 he was going out to the Falklands to record his Christmas radio show.  My husband was based out there. I was based at RAF Brize Norton.  We had only been married 10 months. Ed very kindly took an anniversary card, Christmas card and a cake to him."
Ed's sister, Sue Mainwaring, who lives in Swanage, told us the news hadn't quite sunk in: "He was such a good brother. I have loved him for nearly 70 years. He has been there for me all my life. I went to some of his shows but I didn't get a Crackerjack pen! We had a lot of fun. I will miss him."
Dominic Dalton says he met Ed several times back in the 1980s when he worked for Radio Mercury but his son Tyler met him for the first time in August 2014 at Cranleigh Car Show. "He was still the loveable 'Stewpot' that I remembered from those meetings in the 80s and still happy to be stopped to have a picture taken. RIP Ed you have left me with some fond memories."
Barry Lester in Spain: "I had the pleasure of meeting him about 15 years ago in southern Spain while he was working with Spectrum FM. He was a gentle man with a big heart. He will be sadly missed by the people who loved his style and manners."
Compiled by Sherie Ryder


Huddersfield Town captain Mark Hudson has signed a three-year contract extension, which will eventually see him join the club's coaching staff.

The 34-year-old defender has made 78 league appearances for Town since joining from Cardiff in September 2014.
Boss David Wagner said: "It is a great move to keep him here as a coach in the long-term, but I believe he still has a big part to play on the pitch.
"He is a 100% professional and has a winning mentality."


Máiría Cahill, who has accused the IRA of covering up a sexual attack on her by one of its members, is favourite to become an Irish senator in a by-election.

This is despite criticisms of her past links to a dissident republican group.
Catherine McCartney, whose brother Robert was murdered by the IRA in 2005, is against her election.
She had called it an "appalling abuse of the Oireachtas (Irish Parliament)".
Miss Cahill has admitted to a very brief association with the Republican Network for Unity (RNU), a small dissident group that was formed after Sinn Féin voted to accept the PSNI in 2007.
However, despite that, Miss Cahill said she had "repeatedly stated her support for peace, for the Good Friday Agreement, and for the rule of law."
She said she was national secretary of the group in 2010, but has had no links since then and would not even describe herself as a republican any more.
She said that she left because of "outside influences", saying proof of her support for the police is that she went to them about her alleged sexual abuse.
The man accused of her rape has denied the allegations and was later acquitted in court.
Miss McCartney, who is taking civil proceedings against Miss Cahill for alleged harassment, said in a letter that has been sent to all TDs (Irish MPs) and senators that "it appears" that the Irish Labour party candidate in the Seanad by-election was associated to the RNU.
This, Miss McCartney claimed was the political wing of a dissident terrorist group until as recently as 2011.
In October, Miss Cahill joined the Irish Labour Party and was nominated by its leader as the party's candidate for election to the Seanad Éireann, the upper house of the Irish parliament.
A spokesman for the Labour party said the claims were libellous and Labour was taking legal advice.
Over the last few days, Miss Cahill has come under attack from another by-election candidate, Jerry Beades.
He said that while her account of her sex abuse was "credible",  there were " too many questions " surrounding her suitability to be a member of the Oireachtas.
Miss Cahill described the attacks on her as "smears".
Mr Beades is a former property-developer and a former member of the Fianna Fáil national executive. He is standing as an independent.
The two other candidates in the by-election are Keith Swanick for Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin's Sinead Burke.
The attacks on Ms Cahill are unlikely to have any impact on the outcome of the result, according to a Labour party source.
Because it is a Seanad by-election, only members of both houses of the Irish parliament can vote and all have already done so.
Fine Gael and Labour have a large parliamentary majority and all are expected to support Miss Cahill. The result will be announced on Friday.


A police officer has been charged with a string of fraud, false accounting and forgery offences.

Supt Andrew Carr, 47, currently suspended from his job at Wiltshire Police, appeared before magistrates earlier.
The 11 charges relate to his role as treasurer for the 7th Swindon Scouts and Orchid Vale PTA in Swindon between January 2014 and September 2015.
Mr Carr has been bailed to next appear at Bournemouth Crown Court on 26 May.
He was charged with four counts of fraud relating to the scouts and PTA where the proceeds of various fundraising events were not paid into bank accounts as required.
Another two counts of theft relate to falsifying documents for accounting purposes and five counts of forgery relate to writing out cheques in another person's name.
A 12th charge of forgery has since been withdrawn by the prosecution.
In October 2015 the matter was referred to the police watchdog, the IPCC and an independent investigation was undertaken by Dorset Police.


Deportivo La Coruna have made an offer to re-sign Arsenal striker Lucas Perez, says the Spaniard's agent.

Perez, 28, joined the Gunners for £17.1m last summer after two seasons at Spanish side Deportivo.
He has made 21 appearances for Arsene Wenger's side in all competitions, scoring seven goals, but has not played since March.
"Arsenal know we want to go, that there are no opportunities here," said Rodrigo Fernandez Lovelle.
Lovelle said the uncapped Perez wanted to leave in order to get more playing time in an attempt to break into the Spain squad for the 2018 World Cup in Russia.
He added his client was "angry and sad and upset" that Arsenal had given the number nine shirt to new record signing Alexandre Lacazette without Perez "being asked".
Deportivo's offer is believed to be in excess of the reported £7.9m La Liga rivals Sevilla paid to sign Nolito from Manchester City.
"Deportivo made an offer a week ago - it is a permanent deal and worth more than Nolito's move to Sevilla," said Lovelle.
"Of course [he was told he would play more]. Lucas signed for Arsenal and was the happiest person in the world and with all of his dreams to fulfil.
"Every time he played he did well, but after every time he got fewer and fewer opportunities."
Perez suffered a thigh injury in March but was fit again before the end of the season, with Wenger saying in May that he felt "a bit sorry" for him.
"He's a top quality striker but I couldn't give him the games he wants and deserves," said the Frenchman.
Perez joined Deportivo on an initial season-long loan from Greek side PAOK in 2014 before signing a permanent deal in 2015.


Real Madrid striker Gonzalo Higuain has completed his £34.5m move to Napoli.

The Argentina international, 25, has been heavily linked with Arsenal this summer, but has signed a reported five-year contract with the Serie A club.
A statement on Napoli's website said: "Napoli have made the signing of Gonzalo Higuain official."
Liverpool's 30-year-old goalkeeper Pepe Reina has also passed a medical as he prepares to link up with former Reds boss Rafael Benitez at Napoli on loan.
Benitez has been looking to replace Edinson Cavani, who has joined Paris St-Germain.
He said: "We have signed a player who comes from Real Madrid and we have signed a striker who has scored a hatful of goals and who will adapt very well to our system - an attacking system. We needed a player like this.
"We are all working together to ensure the players we want arrive. We have to sign players who will do well for Napoli for the next three or four years."
Higuain joined Real from River Plate in 2006 and scored 107 league goals in his seven seasons at the Bernabeu.
Napoli, last season's Serie A runners-up, have already signed Real Madrid striker Jose Callejon and defender Raul Albiol, in addition to winger Dries Mertens from PSV Eindhoven, this summer.
"Players who come from clubs like Real, PSV and Liverpool can only do us good," Benitez said. "For Napoli these signings represent a quantum leap."


Leigh secured promotion to the Super League following an 11-year absence after hanging on to beat Huddersfield.

They become the first Championship side to earn a place in English rugby league's top tier since the introduction of the Super 8s format.
Matty Dawson ran in a first-half hat-trick as Leigh led 42-10 at the break.
Mitch Brown grabbed Leigh's eighth try as they earned an 18th successive win, despite Giants scoring 30 unanswered points in a late fightback.
Defeat leaves Huddersfield third in the Qualifiers table, four points adrift of Leigh and Leeds and needing to win their remaining two matches to guarantee their Super League status.
Greg Worthington's first-minute try gave Leigh the ideal start and Dawson touched down twice, before the Giants responded through Michael Lawrence and Aaron Murphy.
Dawson then went on to complete his treble, Martyn Ridyard crossed for a brace on the way to contributing 24 points and Corey Paterson and Mitch Brown both grabbed tries.
Jake Connor came up with Huddersfield's third try with less than 30 minutes remaining to make the score 48-16.
Leroy Cudjoe and Jamie Ellis then grabbed two tries each as a Huddersfield side who won the Super League Leaders' Shield three years ago set up a tense finish against a Leigh team who have topped England's second-tier competition for the past three seasons.
The Centurions, relegated from the Super League 2005 after a solitary season that yielded just two wins, return to the top flight under Neil Jukes, who took charge of the side just 10 days before the season following head coach Paul Rowley's resignation because of personal reasons.
Leigh captain Micky Higham:
"I'm still a bit emotional. It's right up there with all I've achieved in my career.
"I watched Leigh as a kid and to live the dream and captain my home-town team into Super League is a special moment. I am absolutely ecstatic."
Leigh head coach Neil Jukes:
"It's just brilliant - it's crazy, isn't it?
"Who would have said after five games we'd be up without having to go into the Million Pound Game.
"My last words before we went out, I told them it had to be their best game in a Leigh shirt and from one to 17 they did.
"In the second half, the momentum was always going to change, but what we got was the gutsiest performance we've ever had."
Huddersfield coach Rick Stone:
"After a performance like that, you've got to apologise to the supporters because that was totally unacceptable.
"At 42-10 down, you've got to ask yourself if you are really a Super League side.
"I told them at half-time we needed some reaction if they had some pride in what they do and we got that which gives us a little bit of something to take away from the game, because the way things were going was pretty scary to be honest.
"But you can't take too much away from the winners, they deserve the win and they deserve their elevation into Super League."
Leigh Centurions: McNally; Higson, Worthington, Brown, Dawson; Ridyard, Drinkwater; Hock, Higham, Weston, Maitua, Paterson, Tickle.
Replacements: Hood, Hansen, Hopkins, Dixon.
Huddersfield Giants: Connor; McGillvary, Cudjoe, J Wardle, Murphy; Brough, Ellis; Ikahihifo, Hinchcliffe, Huby, Ta'ai, Lawrence, Roberts.
Replacements: Leeming, Johnson, Rapira, Mason.
Attendance: 5,934.
Referee: Robert Hicks.


Michael van Gerwen has become only the second player in history to throw two nine-dart finishes in one match.

The Dutchman achieved the perfect leg twice as he beat Ryan Murray 6-2 in a UK Open Qualifier third round in Wigan.
World number one Van Gerwen, 27, scored 180, 177 and 144 to win the fourth leg, before sealing victory with scores of  177, 180 and 144 in the eighth.
Sixteen-time world champion Phil Taylor is the only other player to achieve the feat in 2010.
Van Gerwen won his second PDC World Championship in January and followed that with his third successive Masters title.


Fe all agweddau gwleidyddol presennol arwain at "erydiad araf" mewn hawliau dynol, yn ôl un arbenigwr ar hawliau dynol, lloches a mewnfudo.

Daw sylwadau'r fargyfreithwraig Mona Bayoumi wrth i Bwyllgor Cydraddoldeb y Cynulliad gynnal ymchwiliad i hawliau dynol yng Nghymru.
Dywed y pwyllgor fod eu hymchwiliad yn hanfodol wrth baratoi'r Cynulliad ar gyfer unrhyw newidiadau yn y dyfodol.
Dywedodd llefarydd ar ran y Weinyddiaeth Gyfiawnder fod llywodraeth y DU yn parhau "wedi ei hymrwymo" i adolygu fframwaith hawliau dynol ym Mhrydain.
Wrth siarad ar raglen Sunday Politics Wales, dywedodd Ms Bayoumi: "Er mwyn ei roi mewn cyd-destun, roedd 'na'n amlwg ddeddfwriaeth Brydeinig oedd yn bodoli ers y 70au oedd yn amddiffyn hawliau gweithwyr yn erbyn gwahaniaethu, felly mae'n bwysig i gofio hynny.
"Ond rwy'n credu y bydd na erydiad araf o hawliau presennol sydd yn cydfynd gyda'r ddadl yr ydym wedi ei chlywed."
Wrth i Brydain baratoi i adael yr Undeb Ewropeaidd a llywodraeth y DU yn argymell disodli'r Ddeddf Hawliau Dynol 1998, allai docio ar waith Llys Iawnderau Dynol Ewrop, mae Pwyllgor Cydraddoldeb y Cynulliad yn edrych ar sut y gallai hyn effeithio ar Gymru.
Rhaid i holl ddeddfau'r Cynulliad gydfynd gyda deddfwriaeth hawliau dynol, ac fe allai termau'r ddeddfwriaeth yma newid os bydd Theresa May'n bwrw 'mlaen gyda'r bwriad o ddisodli Cytundeb Ewrop ar Hawliau Dynol.
Mae cadeirydd y pwyllgor ac aelod y Cynulliad dros Ddwyrain Casnewydd, John Griffiths yn dweud fod "llawer o bryder fod y trefniadau cynhwysol yr ydym wedi eu hadeiladu yng Nghymru dan fygythiad ar hyn o bryd o achos digwyddiadau ar draws y byd ac o fewn y DU", ac "mae'n rhaid amddiffyn yn erbyn hyn".
Un arall sydd yn poeni am effaith unrhyw newidiadau posib i ddeddfwriaeth hawliau dynol ydi Mabli Jones o fudiad Stonewall.
Mae hi'n poeni y gallai newidiadau ddadwneud y cynnydd mewn hawliau pobl LGBT.
"Ers cyflwyno'r Ddeddf Hawliau Dynol mae nifer o benderfyniadau yn llysoedd y DU a'r UE sydd wedi cynyddu amddiffyniadau cyfreithiol i bobl LGBT.
"Ein pryder yw, heb yr amddiffyniadau hyn, fe allem weld y cynnydd yn mynd yn ôl degawdau."
Dywedodd llefarydd ar ran y Weinyddiaeth Gyfiawnder: "Mae llywodraeth y DU yn parhau wedi ei hymrwymo i adolygu fframwaith hawliau dynol ym Mhrydain.
"Byddwn yn ystyried ymhellach Bil Hawliau unwaith y byddwn yn gwybod beth fydd trefniadau gadael yr UE gan ymgynghori'n llawn gan fod yn ymwybodol o'r tirlun cyfansoddiadol newydd y bydd hyn yn ei greu."


A five-year-old girl who was fined Â£150 by a council for selling 50p cups of lemonade has received dozens of offers to set up stalls at other events.

Andre Spicer, a business school professor, had let his daughter set up a stall to sell refreshments outside Lovebox Festival, east London.
However, four council officials fined the pair for trading without a licence.
Tower Hamlets Council has since apologised for issuing the fixed penalty notice and cancelled the fine.
Mr Spicer said his daughter had received offers to set up lemonade stands at festivals and at Borough Market in Southwark.
The family tweeted: "We have been overwhelmed by the kind response from people across the world.
"Dozens of festivals, markets and businesses have offered us the opportunity to set up a lemonade stand.
"We hope they will extend this invitation to others who'd love to make a stand."
Borough Market tweeted the girl's father: "In all seriousness, would your daughter like to sell some lemonade at Borough Market? We'd love to make that happen for her."
LeeFest: Neverland has also invited the pair to sell lemonade at its August festival in Kent.
Mr Spicer told how his daughter had "burst into tears" after enforcement officers "began reading from a big script explaining that she did not have a trading licence".
He said: "My daughter clung to me screaming 'Daddy, Daddy, I've done a bad thing.' She's five.
"We were then issued a fine of Â£150. We packed up and walked home."
A council spokesman said: "We are very sorry that this has happened. We expect our enforcement officers to show common sense and to use their powers sensibly.
"This clearly did not happen."


A County Durham castle which is home to a collection of 17th Century religious paintings has reopened.

Auckland Castle was saved last year by a Â£15m donation from businessman Jonathan Ruffer, after Church Commissioners tried to sell it.
It was then handed over to a new charitable trust, The Auckland Castle Trust, who have redeveloped the site into a heritage tourist attraction.
The revamp coincides with Durham County Council's redevelopment of the town.
Paintings by Spanish artist Francisco Zurbaran, which hung in the castle for 250 years, were also included in the deal.
The former home of the Bishops of Durham now has guided tours, a children's trail for younger visitors, a new tearoom and an exhibition of religious artwork.
Chief executive Rowena Hackwood, said: "We can't wait to welcome visitors from Country Durham and the wider region and to showcase some fantastic new features which kick-start our major development plans.
"Auckland Castle offers something for everyone and is not just a destination for art aficionados and lovers of history, culture and architecture."
Over the next five years, work will be carried out to give public access to new areas of the site and its grounds and the 17th Century walled garden and the 14th Century Scotland Wing will be restored.


Ten people, including a number of children, have died in a fire at a travellers' site in the Republic of Ireland.

Emergency services were called to the Glenamuck Road in Carrickmines, County Dublin, at about 04:00 local time on Saturday.
Among those who died were a husband, wife and their five children. The children were all under 10 years old.
Police said one child who died was a six-month-old baby girl.
One of the children died in hospital.
It is understood that most, if not all, of the victims were members of two families.
Two adults injured in the blaze are being treated in hospital for the effects of breathing in smoke.
Dublin Fire Brigade said early indications suggest the blaze broke out at a pre-fabricated building and quickly spread.
Six fire appliances from several areas had been sent to the scene.
The fire service said paramedics had risked their lives to rescue children from the fire.
Police said there was nothing to suggest arson at this stage, but the area has been sealed off for a forensic examination.
One travellers' rights group said it was concerned that overcrowding at the site may have been a factor in the incident.
Another organisation, the Southside Traveller Action Group, said the families had been living on the site for about eight years.
In a statement, it said: "The traveller community in south Dublin [is] in a state of shock at the devastating loss of lives."
It is understood three generations of one family were living on the site.
Enda Kenny, the Irish prime minister, said he gave sympathies on behalf of the Irish people to the friends and relatives of those who died.
"It's such an unspeakable tragedy to have an entire family wiped out in a horrific inferno," he added.
Irish President Michael D Higgins said the deaths in the blaze had been "a most dreadful tragedy".
"My thoughts at this time are with the families and friends of those who have lost their lives and those who have been injured," he added.
Independent parliamentarian Shane Ross, who lives close to where the fire happened, said there was a "numbness and silence" at the scene.
Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams said the deaths had been "horrific news to wake to".


A funding bid for a £4.9m flood prevention scheme is being drawn up after areas of south London and Surrey were flooded earlier this year.

Homes had to be evacuated and areas of Croydon, Whyteleafe and Woldingham near the A22 were under water when the Caterham Bourne flooded in February.
A "major incident" was declared in Kenley, Purley and South Croydon.
Sandbags and pumps had to be installed to divert flooding away from water treatment works in Godstone Road.
Tandridge District Council said it was working with Surrey County Council to submit a joint £4.2m funding bid to the Coast to Capital Local Enterprise Partnership, with the county council providing £700,000 match funding.
The money will pay for new drainage from junction six of the M25 via Wapses Lodge to the Croydon border.
It will also pay for resurfacing the A22 between Oxted Road and Wapses Lodge and footpaths from Wapses Lodge to New Barn Lane.
During the floods four emergency reservoirs were built on fields in Woldingham to slow and divert the Caterham Bourne river.
Two permanent water storage areas have now been installed with control sluice gates and a third is planned between Stuart Road and Bug Hill subject to agreement with the landowner.
Woldingham Road has been resurfaced and a new flood relief pipe system installed under the road.
The councils will find out if their funding bid has been successful in February 2015.
If so, work on the scheme will start next summer.


Gateshead boss Neil Aspin has urged his side maintain their form as they push for a National League play-off spot.

The Heed beat Eastleigh 2-1 on Tuesday to move up five places to sixth and to within a point of the play-off places.
"With 14 games to play you've got to make sure that for those games, and as many as possible, you play at your best," Aspin told BBC Newcastle.
"To be successful you have to be solid at the back. You won't get any success if you're conceding all the time."
Gateshead have lost just three National League matches since Aspin's appointment in November, but have a challenging set of league fixtures ahead.
Aspin's side face leaders Cheltenham and promotion rivals Tranmere and Forest Green Rovers in their next five games.
"We know that if you have an off day and make mistakes you get punished in this league and you've got to be on your game every week," he said.
"There's not going to be many chances this season where you can look at the league table and three points could put you in the top five."


A victim's charity says growing court delays are damaging "the public's confidence in the criminal justice system".

When the BBC probed courts data last year, some magistrates warned their courts were "on the cusp" of breakdown.
One year on, the average time taken to complete magistrate cases in England has risen 6% from 151 days to 159 days.
The Ministry of Justice said £1bn was being spent improving courts.
The BBC's findings come amid the closures of 47 of 186 English magistrate courts. And earlier this year, the Public Accounts Committee found the court system to be "bedevilled by long standing poor performance including delays and inefficiencies".
The ministry publishes quarterly statistics, which break down how long the various stages of the criminal justice system take.
In 2014-2015, four justice areas - Sussex, North Hampshire, Central, Oxfordshire and South West Staffordshire - took more than 200 days on average to deal with cases from the day an offence was committed.
This year, seven justice areas - Oxfordshire, Central and South West Staffordshire, Chorley, Bedfordshire, Wellingborough, North Essex and Gateshead - have taken 200 days or longer to finish cases.
The biggest rises were seen in the Isle of Wight, up 54% from 67 days to 104, Corby, up 47% from 136 days to 199.8 and St Helens, up 33% from 104 days to 138.
Meanwhile Kettering, Wigan and Leigh, North Hampshire and Sussex (Western) justice areas have all seen the speed of justice improve by more than 20% in the past year.
The MoJ figures show while there has a been a small increase in the average time courts take to deal with cases, the amount of time between a defendant being charged and being listed for court has risen by two days.
Essex defence lawyer Caroline Woodley said despite some improvements in her county's judicial system, issues in other service areas - such as prisons and the police service - were causing knock-on problems.
She said magistrate court appeals were often delayed because of a shortage of a judge or magistrates (appeals involve one judge and two magistrates) and claimed a decision to house female defendants from Essex at HMP Peterborough meant prison transport officers were unable to get them to court for a 10:00 start.
Ms Woodley said many defence lawyers were nervous about "virtual courts" because they would end up being managed by police, prison or private sector staff rather than court employees and could erode the connection between defendants and justices.
Lucy Hastings, director of the charity Victim Support, said: "Our research shows that waiting a long time to receive justice can be extremely stressful for victims and witnesses, preventing them from moving on with their lives.
"The court's failure to process criminal cases within a reasonable time frame, damages the public's confidence in the criminal justice system itself."
159 days
The average time to complete a magistrates' court case in 2015-16
8 days more than the previous year
460 court and tribunal buildings in England and Wales
86 have closed or are in the process of closing
Responding to the BBC's findings, a spokeswoman for the Ministry of Justice said: "We want a justice system that works for everyone. That means creating a system that is just, efficient and simple."
The ministry confirmed tests have been carried out on the use of mobile courts, in which defendants can get into the back of a van and attend court by video rather than having to go to the building.
The trial involved a court van being deployed at HMP Thameside which linked into hearings at Thames Magistrates' and Snaresbrook Crown Court.
The ministry did not say if or when the mobile court scheme would be extended elsewhere in the country.
"We are investing £1bn to reform and digitise our courts," a spokeswoman said. "That will give users access to new technology and simpler processes designed to resolve disputes more quickly."


The Holyrood election campaign has resumed after the Easter weekend with the parties focused on the future.

Five political leaders campaigned in and around Edinburgh before their second televised debate.
The Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats concentrated on education, while SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon unveiled her plans to help more young people into work.
The Scottish Greens announced plans to reform income tax and end council tax.
The leaders are due to go head-to-head in a second televised debate broadcast on STV later.
Last week they clashed on the issue of income tax during a BBC Scotland debate ahead of the Holyrood election.
During a visit to a community cafe in Edinburgh, Ms Sturgeon outlined her plan for a £100 jobs grant to 16-24 year olds who have been unemployed for more than six months, with a larger grant available to young couples.
She said: "We will use the new powers coming to the Scottish Parliament to support Scotland's young people and to grow our economy.
"I want to see all our young people start their working lives with the best possible opportunities and an equal chance of success."
Labour's Kezia Dugdale focussed on education, highlighting a drop in probationer teachers since the SNP first came to power.
She said: "Nicola Sturgeon claims that education is the defining priority of her government, but reality of her record just does not reflect that.
"Labour will ask those earning more than £150,000 a year to pay a bit more in tax so we can stop the cuts and invest in our schools."
Conservatives leader Ruth Davidson set out her early years education commitments during a nursery visit.
She said: "The SNP has singularly failed to make any progress on narrowing the attainment gap, despite having sole control over education for almost a decade.
"Standards of literacy and numeracy in Scotland among young people have been allowed to slip - the Scottish Conservatives would place reversing that trend at the absolute heart of education policy."
The Liberal Democrat's Willie Rennie took his penny on income tax for education pledge to the streets.
He said: "Liberal Democrats have set out clear plans for education, with a transformational investment of half a billion pounds a year for nurseries, schools and colleges.
"My challenge to the other parties ahead of this debate is clear: they need to match our ambition and build a Scotland that is fit for the future."
Ahead of the latest debate, Patrick Harvie of the Scottish Greens unveiled proposals for new income tax rates for Scotland's highest earners.
The party's plans would see income tax reduced for those earning under £26,500 once Holyrood gets power over rates and bands in April 2017.
He also set out his party's plans to scrap the existing council tax and replace it with a residential property tax based on up-to-date values.
A Scottish Green spokesman said: "With new powers over income tax rates and bands, now is the time for Holyrood to be bold and raise revenue to reverse cuts and tackle inequality.
"Our plans will show that for that bolder Holyrood, more Green MSPs are essential.


Former world champion Stuart Bingham faces a disciplinary hearing after it was found he has "a case to answer" in relation to betting on snooker.

Bingham admitted to breaking World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA) rules on betting on matches involving other players.
The world number three is now awaiting the conclusion of the investigation before he discovers his penalty.
"This was just a case of me not being clear on the rules," said Bingham.
"I did not know I was not allowed to bet on other players' matches. I thought it was just my own I could not bet on, and I have never done that.
"I have nothing to hide on the matter and have co-operated fully with the investigation and I now await the outcome."
The WPBSA confirmed that there was "no suggestion of any match manipulation or corruption in this case".
Bingham was informed in December that allegations were being investigated by Nigel Mawer, the chairman of the WPBSA's disciplinary committee.
And in a follow-up meeting with Mawer in January, Bingham confirmed he had placed accumulator bets on the outcome of other matches, stating he did not know it was against the governing body's rules to do so.
A WPBSA statement said: "Following an investigation into an alleged breach of the WPBSA betting rules by Stuart Bingham, a decision has been taken today that there is a case to answer.
"The matter has now been referred to the WPBSA disciplinary committee where a formal hearing will take place at a venue and date to be confirmed."
It is unlikely that the hearing will take place before this year's World Championship, which gets under way on 15 April, due to the length of the WPBSA's disciplinary process.
Bingham, 40, won the world title in 2015 and claimed his first victory since that Sheffield triumph at last month's Welsh Open.
In January, Alfie Burden was given a six-month ban - suspended for a year - and fined £5,000 for placing bets totalling £25,000 on matches including his own.


Milton Keynes' famous concrete cows could be permanently moved after recent vandalism turned them into skeletons.

The three cows and calves in Bancroft were painted as skeletons overnight last week, The Parks Trust, the charity which maintains them, said.
The charity said it was going to cost Â£2,000 to repaint the sculptures and in the long-term believed they might have to be moved if the vandalism continued.
A spokeswoman said it had reported the recent damage to the police.
The cows were made in 1978 as a leaving present from the Milton Keynes Development Corporation - which oversaw the building of the "new town" - and The Parks Trust was put in charge of maintaining them.
Since they arrived they have been stolen, beheaded, painted pink and had pyjamas and "BSE" painted on them.
Bryony Serginson, The Parks Trust's head of community engagement, said: "We'd rather they stayed where they were - that's where they live and people see them and associate them with that particular park.
"But in the long term if they do continue to be vandalised, then we might have to consider that.
"We are taking it seriously as an act of vandalism. It's going to be costly to us to get the cows back into the proper state that they should be in.
"We want people to respect the pieces of art for what they are."
Ms Serginson said she did not think the cows were specifically targeted due to Halloween as the dinosaur sculpture on Peartree Bridge was also painted as a skeleton in July.
Milton Keynes resident Fiona Norrie said: "I don't know if I should be angry, because they've done a really good job. It's very detailed.
"We don't condone graffiti obviously, but it's pretty awesome. It's art."


Only three days left until British voters head to the polls, and the outcome of the 2015 general election is still very much up in the air.
Just about a month ago, Campaignspotting took a break from the start of the long - oh, so long - US presidential race to spend a week observing the kickoff of the blessedly short UK campaign. Now we're back for the furious race to the finish line.
In the hours and days after Parliament was dissolved and the politicians hit the campaign trail, pundits and prognosticators described what they saw as the lay of the political landscape.
Labour and the Conservatives were neck and neck, but neither party appeared anywhere near garnering enough seats to obtain the majority necessary to form a government.
The Liberal Democrats, the darlings of the 2010 campaign and the coalition-forming key to Downing Street for David Cameron and the Tories, were on the ropes - staring at sizeable losses.
The UK Independence Party, fresh off impressive wins in elections to the European Parliament, were polling in the mid-teens but appeared destined to capture only a handful of seats.
Meanwhile Scottish voters, who had rejected independence in 2014, seemed more than willing to back Scottish National Party candidates en masse, turning a former bastion of Labour support into a free-agent faction.
Now, after debates, the interviews, the speeches, the billboard slogans and the door-to-door electioneering, it looks like ... almost nothing has been settled. If the polls are to be trusted, the fundamentals of this election are baked into the cake, as US political analysts like to say. A hung Parliament, where no one can form a governing majority, could be in store - and the possible political permutations arising from that outcome makes one's head spin.
Will anything shift the balance in the last days of the campaign? And, if not, what does the future hold?
In this last week of Campaignspotting, UK style, we're starting in Scotland, which could play kingmaker come next Friday.
Then we'll head toward London where, in back rooms after the votes have been cast, the next leader of the UK could emerge.
There's little time left and so much on the line.


A Wrexham man who stabbed himself as police tried to arrest him later died while on remand, an inquest has heard.

Gary Douglass, 20, tried to cut his own throat and also stabbed himself in the stomach in October 2013.
Two days after being discharged from hospital and while being held at Liverpool's Altcourse prison, his condition deteriorated.
Mr Douglass, who was facing an attempted murder charge, died on 12 October during emergency surgery.
The inquest heard Mr Douglass had Asperger's Syndrome and had a fascination with knives.
He was arrested on 2 October after a 19-year-old man was stabbed in Wrexham.
Mr Douglass was armed with two knives and had been seen threatening people in the town.
On Monday, his father, Christopher Douglass, told the inquest he was "very surprised" his son was released from hospital and into custody.
"He looked like he was in pain?" asked the coroner.
"Definitely," said Mr Douglass.
Christopher Douglass said he believed, but had no evidence to prove, police had put pressure on the hospital to release his son.
The inquest continues.


The regulatory body set up after the scandal over MPs' expenses has lost a Court of Appeal challenge against an order that it must release copies of receipts submitted by politicians.

The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) had asked judges to rule on the issue.
IPSA had argued that it was sufficient to disclose a summary of the information contained in receipts.
It follows a Freedom of Information request by a Sunday Telegraph reporter.
During proceedings in March, Master of the Rolls Lord Dyson, sitting with Lord Justice Richards and Lord Justice Ryder, heard that the outcome of the case could have wide and "enduring" consequences, not only for IPSA, but for all other public bodies.
Tribunal hearings
Proceedings were prompted by Ben Leapman, then a Sunday Telegraph journalist, who requested in 2010 that IPSA disclose three specific receipts submitted by MPs in support of expenses claims.
The reporter wanted copies of the originals, but was given a typed-up transcript.
He made a complaint to the Information Commissioner, who ruled in his favour in 2012 and ordered that the receipts be disclosed.
However, following that decision, IPSA failed with two challenges at tribunal hearings.
After dismissing the latest appeal on Tuesday, Lord Justice Richards said the order that copies of the original documents should be released would be put on hold pending any move by IPSA to the Supreme Court.
But an IPSA spokesman said it would "carefully" study the judgment in what was an important test case.
MPs' jailed
"We were right to test the point of law through an appeal to see whether images of receipts add anything additional to all the information about MPs' expenditure that we already release," he said.
"We remain completely committed to openness and transparency and already publish a detailed breakdown of every claim made by every MP."
ISPA was set up to restore public confidence following the 2009 expenses scandal, which led to the jailing of a number of MPs.
In that same year, parliamentary authorities published more than a million receipts online, but with details such as addresses and account numbers hidden.
In 2010, IPSA decided not to publish receipts routinely, restricting its regular releases to a summary of each claim, saying there was "insufficient public benefit" in publishing receipts and invoices.
Cost implications
In a letter to the Information Commissioner, it said: "Primarily, a trial of extracting and redacting receipts and invoices for the purposes of publication showed that the cost would be in excess of £1m for additional staffing and IT costs alone, compared to the approximate £250,000 cost under the chosen model."
It said "on balance" it took the view that providing images of receipts or invoices would be "disproportionate in terms of costs, insufficiently beneficial in terms of transparency and represented a higher risk in terms of data protection".
But the newspaper argued there was a public interest in viewing the requested receipts in their original form as extra details could be seen which would not be known from a summary.


Sacked Aston Villa manager Roberto di Matteo says he is "deeply disappointed" not to be given enough time by the struggling Championship club.

The Italian, 46, was sacked on Monday after only 124 days in charge.
Speaking for the first time since, he said: "My coaching staff and I have worked tirelessly to rebuild the squad.
"I have seen enough over the opening games of the season to suggest that the team we built will start converting draws into wins and climb the table."
Villa are sixth from bottom, having won only one of their opening 11 league games.
In a statement issued via the League Managers Association, Di Matteo added: "I fully expect the players we have brought in to start delivering results in the weeks and months to come.
"I am sure that the work we have done over the past four months will contribute to seeing Villa back in the Premier League in the near future."
Whoever succeeds Di Matteo will be Villa's fifth man to pick Villa's team in 12 months.
Former Villa left-back Alan Wright, 45, who played under only three managers in eight and a half years at the club, says whoever is appointed needs time.
Tim Sherwood spent 250 days in charge, Remi Garde 148 and caretaker boss Eric Black 65 before Di Matteo's appointment.
Wright told BBC WM: "It needs to be the right fit, but then we've said that of the last three or four managers.
"They've just got to give the guy time. It needs some sort of philosophy at the club. We've had too many managers coming in with their own philosophy.
"To get any sort of continuity, the manager needs a bit of time first and foremost. Then, with the philosophy in place, bring in the manager that suits the philosophy.
"Then nothing else changes. You get an idea of what's expected of you, rather than six months on another new manager, they change things and try to start from afresh.
"With all due respect to the club, they've possibly been a bit trigger happy this time. But we all know it's a results-based industry and he just hasn't got the results, so I'm not too surprised."
The latest contender reportedly linked with the Villa job is much-travelled former Cheltenham Town, Stoke City, Burnley. Notts County, Portsmouth, Nottingham Forest and Bristol City manager Steve Cotterill, who is currently topping the bookmakers' odds as favourite to replace Tony Mowbray at League One neighbours Coventry City.
But Wright believes it will come down to a choice between former Birmingham, Sunderland and Hull boss Steve Bruce, Huddersfield Town manager David Wagner, or Tim Sherwood, sacked by Villa a year ago after only eight months in charge.
"Villa need some sort of name. Steve Bruce fits that bill," said Wright.
"I'm pretty sure Villa aren't going to go up this season unless they go on some sort of amazing run but he is someone who knows how to get out of the Championship, having done it four times. He'd be the obvious one.
"But I also believe Tim has shown interest in the job again, which tells me that he probably feels his job was not finished there.
"He wasn't given the chance to be allowed to bring in the players he wanted. They were sort of thrown at him and he was told to work with them. And the fans liked him. He was honest.
"David Wagner is fresh to the English game and has done outstandingly well.
"It's probably going to be one of those three and, if I was a gambling man, which I'm not, I'd go with Steve Bruce."
Alan Wright was talking to BBC WM's Adrian Goldberg.


They aim to provide a caring presence to everyone who ventures out on the streets in the North East and Cumbria over Christmas.

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22 December 2014 Last updated at 13:13 GMT
Street angels, or pastors, will be spending their evenings over the festive period helping everyone from revellers to the vulnerable and homeless.
In Cumbria and Tyneside, more people are needed to join their teams as the winter takes its toll on recruits.
Anne Connelly, founder of the Redcar Beacons, started the charity one month ago and said she "cares very much" about the community and wanted to help those in need.


A man who murdered his ex-girlfriend and new partner outside the Matalan store where they worked searched the internet for methods of killing in the days before the attack.

Zoe Morgan, 21, and Lee Simmons, 33, were found near the Cardiff central store in Queen Street at about 05:50 BST on 28 September, 2016.
Andrew Saunders, 20, of no fixed abode, admitted their murders in December.
Cardiff Crown Court heard he stabbed Mr Simmons first, then Miss Morgan.
Saunders and Miss Morgan had split up before she and Mr Simmons began a relationship in July 2016.
The court heard Saunders approached the couple outside the store as Miss Morgan was waiting to start work.
Witnesses saw him attack Mr Simmons first, stabbing him "four or five" times "in a frenzy" as he pleaded for him to stop.
Mr Simmons called for help and tried to get up but was punched to the floor by Saunders and did not move afterwards.
Miss Morgan tried to help her boyfriend but was pushed away by Saunders, who told her: "I'm coming for you next."
He chased her down the street and eventually caught up with her outside the Boots store where he stabbed her several times.
After the attack, Saunders phoned his mother and told her he had killed the pair. He also sent a text to his father saying "thanks for being a pathetic, useless father. Just killed two people, cheers".
The court heard Saunders returned to his family home and updated his Facebook profile with swear words, and later with the sentence "just a product of society".
Police traced him to the home where he answered the door with a rifle. He was arrested and told officers: "I'm sorry, you know sometimes, you just snap."
He added: "I'm really sorry for what I've done. I just lost control."
He pointed officers to one of the knives used in the attack which he had wrapped in tissue and left in the kitchen. The other had broken in the attack, he said, and he discarded it in Cardiff.
Philip Bennetts QC, prosecuting, told the court Saunders had been unhappy that his relationship with Miss Morgan had ended and he had made threats against her and Mr Simmons when he found out they were in a relationship.
He contacted her via Facebook, telling her he knew she was "chatting" to someone else, adding: "I will kill whoever it is."
Days after making the threats he searched YouTube for videos including "Top five people who took revenge to a whole new level" and "10 people who got revenge with cheaters".
He also searched for information on how to make a pipe bomb, how to rig a car so it explodes when started, how to illegally buy a gun, and how to inflict knife injuries.
The court heard he then bought two knives, some latex gloves, an air rifle and 500 pellets.
Winston Roddick QC, defending, told the court a doctor who examined Saunders after the attack found he may have been suffering from a "minor" mental illness called an adjustment disorder at the time of the killing.
Mr Roddick said Saunders was in "emotional turmoil" which "must have" had an impact on his behaviour.
In the years before the murders, Saunders was a good student with "excellent grades", Mr Roddick said, and had won a scholarship to play American football at a university in Canada.
But he had been deeply affected by the death of his grandfather and had then struggled to cope with his emotions following his breakup with Miss Morgan, which he said had left him "heartbroken".
Mr Roddick told the court Saunders was genuinely remorseful and wished he could turn the clock back.
The hearing has been adjourned, with sentencing to take place on Tuesday.


Doubts have been raised about some of the engineering behind Swansea's £1bn tidal lagoon project.

It comes after Prime Minister David Cameron admitted his enthusiasm for tidal had been "reduced" as the UK government tries to agree a subsidy.
BBC Wales has heard reservations relate to the proposed lagoon's modelling and turbine engineering.
But Tidal Lagoon Power said questions on the engineering and environmental impact had been addressed in depth.
The proposals are for 16 turbines, placed roughly a mile out to sea, to generate 320 megawatt of power - which would then be converted into electricity.
The turbines are key to this whole project succeeding - the engineering has to maximise the power generated without harming a precious inter-tidal environment.
It is a brand new technology on this scale and experts say it has to be spot on to be both cost effective and to avoid unwanted side effects ranging from plumes of water heading towards the Mumbles to sediment building.
Roger Griffiths lives in the marina and is a retired mechanical engineer with Swansea University and a former professor at the University of California.
He believes more testing of the turbines in the right conditions is needed before anyone could be sure they would work efficiently.
"What we don't have are some practical measurements of the performance of these turbines under difficult conditions - the lowest depth of water and the use of the turbines in reverse flow, when the tide is coming in, back to front. They're not suited in shape to cope with flows in that direction," he said.
Prof Griffiths added: "All these theoretical estimates are fine but they're guessing - intelligent guessing - about the efficiencies of these turbines."
Dr Bob Allen, a former tidal engineer at Swansea University has similar concerns, saying there has been an assumption the turbines would work to the same efficiency with the tide flowing in both directions.
"When the flow is going in the wrong direction the efficiency will be very low, but they've assumed that they're going to have the high efficiency for all the time - and that's just not going to happen," he said.
Others question the modelling to assess the wake of water from the turbines once they are in the bay.
Prof Roger Falconer, a water management expert from Cardiff University, said Wales had huge potential for tidal but he queried the modelling on tidal currents in Swansea's bay.
He supports building the Swansea lagoon but said it was important to ensure the location was right to minimise the huge, high-velocity wake which could be created by the turbines.
"The more you spread these turbines out, the more you can reduce this wake dramatically and any potential re-circulation effects," he said.
"It's a matter of getting this balance right and we need to get it right before we go on to build any more lagoons."
He said he hoped some of the design aspects could be improved so the project could go ahead.
Dr George Aggidis, an engineer at Lancaster University, is another supporter of tidal energy.
"Manufacturers are really moving very fast and coming up with new solutions for turbines to operate at very high efficiency so they can increase significantly the annual power that's generated."
But he said there still needed to be further research into modelling the turbines in Swansea.
"It's a new piece of research that has to take place worldwide - work that could easily take up to two years but results could start feeding into current projects immediately."
Tidal Lagoon Power said questions on the engineering and environmental impact had been addressed in depth by experts through a robust planning and validation process.
A spokesman said:  "The Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon is a world-first that employs proven technology in a new way.
"The project has been awarded a Development Consent Order and its design has been validated through independent technical adjudication on behalf of government and on behalf of the investors who are backing it.
"We are working in partnership with respected organisations in the fields of global engineering, industry and construction to prepare the project for delivery."
Source: Tidal Lagoon Power Ltd


It was always going to be an emotional night.

Not only was it the culmination of 13 weeks of hard work from the finalists and their partners to deliver the fun, fireworks and fancy footwork that has made this year's Strictly the most-watched in its history.
But it was also the last time Len Goodman wielded his scoring paddle - the last time we'd hear his "severrrrn!" or "it's a 10 from Len" - in the dance series, having been head judge since it began back in 2004.
Emotion was etched on the face of the professional dancers as they performed a ballroom tribute in his honour.
There wasn't a dry eye in the audience either, some of whom had been at Elstree Studios since 04:45 in a bid to get an elusive grand final seat.
And there were tears too from the judges, with Bruno Tonioli overcome by Louise Redknapp's showdance to One Moment in Time.
As he told the singer, it encapsulated the "joy of dance".
And that joy, as well as surprise, elation and stunned disbelief, were clear to see in Ore Oduba as his name was read out as the winner of Strictly 2016.
Goodman had called him the "spirit of Strictly", thanks to his journey from being a complete beginner with no dance experience.
And during the night, the atmosphere in the studio audience was electric as he performed his show dance, rising to their feet and stamping the floor in appreciation.
But part of that Strictly spirit is thanks to the show being one big family, as the contestants have repeatedly told me when I spoke to them throughout the series (not forgetting of course that two of the final professional dancers, Joanne and Kevin Clifton are actually siblings).
The Cliftons' parents were in the audience, with Joanne comforting her weeping mother after she lifted the glitterball trophy. Danny's proud family were also in the front row, as were Ore's beaming parents.
Louise's husband, ex-footballer Jamie Redknapp and his father, former West Ham boss Harry, were also watching alongside other members of her family. Former Strictly contestants were in attendance, too, to show their support.
They all hugged each other at the start of the show, whispering words of encouragement to each other - with no hint that this was actually a competition.
It was that closeness, as well as the feeling of celebration with ticker tape and glitter floating in the air, that truly made this grand final the family party to end all parties.


NASA has tested a motor for a powerful rocket booster for it's new deep space rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS).

29 June 2016 Last updated at 09:06 BST
The two-minute test of the booster's motor was meant to give NASA more information, that should help them when they blast, off in 2018 with a deep-space Orion capsule.
The SLS and the Orion spacecraft are designed to fly astronauts to the moon, asteroids and eventually Mars.