A former rubbish collector convicted of the "Grim Sleeper" serial murders in Los Angeles has been given the death sentence.

Lonnie David Franklin Jr killed nine women and a 15-year-old girl between 1985 and 2007, before dumping their bodies, often in alleyways.
The sentence against the 63-year-old was decided by a jury. Franklin was convicted last month.
He will be formally sentenced at a later hearing.
Prosecutors said Franklin stalked vulnerable young black women before shooting or strangling them.
He began by targeting drug addicts during LA's crack cocaine epidemic.
He was also convicted of the attempted murder of an 11th victim who survived being shot, raped and pushed out of a car in 1988.
He was dubbed the Grim Sleeper because of an apparent 14-year gap in attacks after that incident.
Franklin was eventually caught after detectives began working on the final killing in 2007 when DNA from his son, who was in prison, showed similarities to genetic evidence found on some of the victims.
A detective posing as a worker in a pizza parlour later collected utensils and crusts from Franklin while he was attending a birthday party. DNA tests connected him to evidence found on several of the bodies.
The jury called for the death penalty on all 10 murder counts.


High-flying Mansfield were forced to settle for a drab 0-0 draw against bottom side Cambridge in difficult conditions at Field Mill.

The first half was a dull affair with neither side taking control in the wind and rain. Cambridge did have the ball in the net after only four minutes, but an offside flag was raised before Luke Berry headed home from six yards.
On 32 minutes it took a superb sliding tackle by Stags defender Mal Benning to stop Conor Newton in his tracks as he shaped to finish.
Mansfield's three best goal attempts all came from Mitch Rose. The midfielder volleyed over on 11 minutes, forced Will Norris to block his 20-yard snapshot on 24 minutes and saw Norris well-placed for his ambitious 35-yard dipper just before the break.
The second half was no better, though Newton wasted the chance of the game for Cambridge on 61 minutes. Unmarked, and only eight yards out, he turned Berry's cross wide of the far post.
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Match ends, Mansfield Town 0, Cambridge United 0.
Second Half ends, Mansfield Town 0, Cambridge United 0.
Foul by Pat Hoban (Mansfield Town).
Brad Halliday (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Luke Berry (Cambridge United) is shown the yellow card.
CJ Hamilton (Mansfield Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Brad Halliday (Cambridge United).
Krystian Pearce (Mansfield Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Krystian Pearce (Mansfield Town).
Luke Berry (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Adam Chapman (Mansfield Town) right footed shot from a difficult angle and long range on the left is too high.
CJ Hamilton (Mansfield Town) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Leon Legge (Cambridge United).
Foul by Adam Chapman (Mansfield Town).
Adam McGurk (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Cambridge United. Max Clark replaces James Dunne because of an injury.
Substitution, Mansfield Town. Pat Hoban replaces Mitch Rose.
Corner,  Mansfield Town. Conceded by James Dunne.
Attempt blocked. CJ Hamilton (Mansfield Town) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Foul by Mitch Rose (Mansfield Town).
James Dunne (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner,  Cambridge United. Conceded by George Taft.
Foul by Ashley Hemmings (Mansfield Town).
Brad Halliday (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Rhys Bennett (Mansfield Town) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
Corner,  Mansfield Town. Conceded by Piero Mingoia.
Attempt missed. Piero Mingoia (Cambridge United) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left.
Substitution, Cambridge United. Adam McGurk replaces Conor Newton.
Rhys Bennett (Mansfield Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Greg Taylor (Cambridge United).
Substitution, Mansfield Town. Ashley Hemmings replaces Kevan Hurst.
Matt Green (Mansfield Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Tom Dallison (Cambridge United).
Substitution, Cambridge United. Ben Williamson replaces Joe Pigott.
Attempt missed. Conor Newton (Cambridge United) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Corner,  Cambridge United. Conceded by Krystian Pearce.
Corner,  Cambridge United. Conceded by Krystian Pearce.
Foul by George Taft (Mansfield Town).
Piero Mingoia (Cambridge United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Substitution, Mansfield Town. CJ Hamilton replaces Darius Henderson.


A former member of the Monetary Policy Committee, Adam Posen, has predicted that the Bank of England will not change interest rates this month.

The MPC will publish its regular decision on borrowing costs at midday.
Mr Posen, interviewed on the Today programme on Radio 4, said rates may not rise until next year.
"I think they are not going to vote for a rate hike at this time and probably not until at least November and maybe not even until 2018", he said.
The Bank last changed interest rates in August last year when it cut its bank rate from 0.5% to 0.25% in the immediate aftermath of the UK's referendum vote to leave the European Union.
Mr Posen was asked why the Bank should not raise rates now, given the worrying rise in consumer borrowing and the past year's rise in inflation to 2.6%.
He said the Bank's role was to judge where inflation might be in two to three years time - and he said that the Bank's current forecast was "too high".
"It is pretty clear the economy is slowing... it's a credit-fuelled expansion and so it's likely to come to an end soon," Mr Posen said.
"There's no good reason for the pound to appreciate further right now, particularly against the euro," he added.
He also disagreed with the widespread view that the Bank's policy of low interest rates had stoked up excessive consumer borrowing and that this problem should be dealt with by raising rates.
"The big lesson of the financial crisis is that the one interest rate the central bank controls doesn't have that much implication for the whole range of financial products and borrowings that exist in a modern economy," he said.
"We were unable to stop [the crisis] solely by moving down the interest rate and we've been unable to reflate the economy just by moving the bank's interest rate also," he added.
Instead, he argued, the Bank's Financial Policy Committee (FPC) should use its powers to limit the lending of commercial banks where it thought this had got out of hand.
In recent months members of the MPC, including the Bank Governor Mark Carney, have differed publicly over whether or not rates should rise soon.
For instance, in June Mr Carney said the time was not right for a rate rise.
The next day the Bank's chief economist, Andy Haldane, said he favoured increasing the cost of borrowing later this year.
Then a week later the Bank's deputy governor, Sir Jon Cunliffe, publicly suggested that now was not in fact the right time for such a move.
That flurry of debate reflected the unusually divided vote at the last MPC meeting in June, when its eight members voted by only 5-3 to keep rates at their current level.
Mr Posen, who was an MPC member from 2009 to 2012, said there was nothing wrong with close votes as it indicated that active debate was taking place within the committee.
And he said there was "no mistaking the fact" that following Brexit, the UK economy would suffer a shock and that in two years' time it would be in "much worse shape" than it is now, with higher inflation.


Leyton Orient have signed striker Armand Gnanduillet from Chesterfield for an undisclosed fee.

The 23-year-old, who spent three years at the Spireites, has penned a two-and-a-half-year deal.
The former Ivory Coast Under-20 international made 82 league appearances for Chesterfield, scoring 10 times for the League One side.
Meanwhile, first-team coach Kevin Nugent has left the O's after the arrival of Kevin Nolan as player-boss.
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What is thought to be the UK's first degree-level course solely for caring for and rehabilitating native wildlife is due to launch in Cumbria.

Kendal College already operates an animal rescue and rehabilitation centre within its teaching department.
Animal care students can now spend a third year at the University of Cumbria to gain a full degree in British animal management and wildlife rehabilitation.
If there are enough applicants, the course could start in September.
Students will spend two years at Kendal College, which has an operating theatre, and an intensive care room, as well as a cattery, aviary and hedgehog houses.
The third year will be studying at the university's campus in Ambleside, looking at conservation issues.
Tutor Sarah Neil said: "The course is one of a kind. There will be a British focus, so it will be animal management, ecology, conservation management and the rescue and rehabilitation of British species."


In the film The Godfather Michael Corleone is asked about Sicily: "Why is such a beautiful country so violent?"

"History," he replies simply.
The two main players in the current Greek crisis are Greece and Germany. History has taught the two countries different lessons and has complicated the search for compromise.
Even as the clock counts down towards default the shadow of the past still falls. Greece's chief negotiator Euclid Tsakalotos warned Germany against taking Europe back to the "politics we had in the 1930s".
Another Greek minister demanded €278bn ($315bn; £199bn) in reparations for Germany's wartime occupation.
Politicians in Berlin called that "'stupid" and a Bavarian MP accused the Greeks of "behaving like clowns at the back of the classroom".
It has largely been that way since the Greeks revealed in 2009 that their accounts were as good as fakes and that their real deficit was close to 13%.
The Germans, initially, were against rescuing Greece. One of the conditions Germany had insisted on when it gave up its beloved Deutschmark was that countries would not have to take on the debt of others.
The German press was quick to discover a country riddled with corruption and political favours. Greece's swollen public sector had nearly a million workers, almost 20% of the working population.
There were irresistible details - more than 500 people receiving pensions would have been over 110 years old.
In a moment of candour the then Greek Deputy Prime Minister Theodoros Pangelos conceded: "We ate the money together."
In those early days of the crisis, in 2009 and 2010, Angela Merkel took to praising the wisdom and thrift of the Swabian housewife.
Her Finance Minister, Wolfgang Schaeuble, said that "Greece has to realise that when you break rules over a long period of time, you have to pay a high price."
It was Merkel's view too: "There are rules and they have to be adhered to," she said.
Merkel was against bailing out the Greeks, but the bond markets made it clear that the crisis went way beyond Greece. It threatened the entire single currency.
And the Americans demanded action. The United States Treasury Secretary, Timothy Geithner, told his European counterparts that "if Europe goes down, we'll go down with it".
The fear was that if Greece went bankrupt the crisis would spread to other heavily-indebted eurozone countries. It would be impossible to bail them all out and the markets would test what ultimately stood behind the euro.
The president of the European Central Bank, Jean-Claude Trichet, told Europe's leaders: "We have the worst financial crisis since World War Two."
In the face of such pressure Merkel gave way. Greece not only was bailed out but a giant fund was set up to demonstrate that Europe's leaders had the will and the means to stand behind any eurozone country with funding problems.
Greece was bailed out but it only piled debt on debt. The financier George Soros described the situation as "eerily reminiscent to the 1930s".
The rescue came with harsh conditions. Budget cuts of €30bn were demanded over a three-year period.
Many Greeks were outraged and took to the streets in a wave of protests. Some of the protests were anti-German.
There were placards with Angela Merkel dressed in Nazi uniform. The composer Mikis Theodorakis railed against debt servitude and what he called "the Germans' intention to impose on us a new Gauleiter".
Even though that was never the view of the majority of Greeks, the German press responded by portraying the Greeks as "lazy, profligate and irresponsible".
The best-selling tabloid Bild came up with the headline "sell your islands, you bankrupt Greeks. . . we give you cash, you give us Corfu".
The Greeks were slow to implement reforms and the medicine did not work. There were open doubts that it could work.  "It is impossible to cut wages and prices by 30% without major riots," said Hans-Werner Sinn, president of the Institute for European Reform in Munich.
Others pointed out that "you cannot reduce the debt burden by shrinking the economy".
Within a year Greece needed a second bailout. Other countries like Ireland and Portugal had had to be rescued. Merkel remained cautious and risk averse.
To much of Europe she was known as Frau Nein, a leader resistant to taking the big steps needed to save the single currency.
Some in Berlin began openly debating whether Greece should leave the euro.
And then Angela Merkel's language changed. She started describing the Greek problem as an existential crisis not just for the euro but for the entire European project: "If the euro fails, then Europe fails," became her much-repeated refrain.
She told her supporters that for Europe to survive it would have to integrate much more closely. That would mean "not less Europe but more Europe".
As part of the second bailout private investors took a haircut and the total of Greek debt fell but the economy was shrinking. It contracted by 25% in five years.
There were many who doubted that the policy could work. Former UK Chancellor Alistair Darling said that to impose on a country "something that would have been worthy of the Treaty of Versailles is absolutely ludicrous. It just isn't going to work."
In 2012 Angela Merkel took on the doubters inside Germany. "Some people," she said, "ask whether Greece isn't a bottomless pit. . . that the opportunities outweigh the risks of turning away from Greece. I believe those risks are incalculable and therefore irresponsible."
Chancellor Merkel threw her authority behind keeping Greece in the eurozone and for a period the crisis subsided.
It eased further when Mario Draghi, the president of the ECB, said he would "do whatever it takes to defend the euro".
But in Greece hardship was deepening. Suicides were up sharply. Middle-class families relied on soup kitchens.
The Greek prime minister told Bill Clinton that Greece was living through its "Great Depression".
It was out of this mood of resentment and despair that the left-wing coalition Syriza, led by Alexis Tsipras, came to power this January.
His party believed they could count on the support of the French and the Italians in insisting that austerity had to be eased.
But the German voters - and those in other countries - were not in the mood for further concessions to a country that had already been loaned €240bn.
The German position was summed up by Wolfgang Schaeuble: "You get assistance, but only if you agree to go for reforms."
He stressed the word "only" by wagging his finger.
And during this period Angela Merkel had learnt a powerful lesson.
After the second Greek bailout the then Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou had surprised everyone by saying he would put the deal to a referendum.
The German chancellor realised that any leader could throw the eurozone into crisis.
The currency was vulnerable to a political squall. That could not continue. Leaders had to be bound by their commitments. The eurozone would not survive if it kept breaking its rules.
So she has used much of the past three years ensuring that countries inside the eurozone do not exceed their deficits. Wider reforms have greatly reduced the risk that a Greek default would undermine the eurozone.
The risks have certainly diminished even if they have not disappeared.
But Angela Merkel and the other eurozone leaders have been steadfast in insisting that countries had to be bound by their commitments.
The new Greek government's miscalculation was to believe that the fear of a default would force the Germans to compromise.
€320bn
Greece's debt mountain
€240bn
European bailout
177% country's debt-to-GDP ratio
25% fall in GDP since 2010
26% Greek unemployment rate
But the mood in Germany had hardened; some 58% of Germans say they want Greece to leave the euro.
As to the Germans, they under-estimated what austerity had done to the Greek people. Yes the Greeks had backed off some reforms but no economy in the modern era had shrunk by 25%.  To the Germans it was about honouring commitments; to many Greeks it was about resisting further poverty and inequality.
If Greece defaults it will demonstrate that the eurozone is not irreversible. The day after it will be a different monetary union.
Angela Merkel's authority will be diminished. She has staked her legacy on insisting that "if the euro fails, then Europe fails".
No doubt a Greek departure would prompt a push for closer integration, for advancing fiscal and political union.
If a deal emerges then it will have to address the sustainability of Greece's debt. The country, which represents less than 2% of the euro-zone's economic output, owes over €320bn.
Greece will have to agree to more painful reforms but no deal will survive unless the country is given a route map to escape this crisis.
History shapes countries and, even now, nearly six years after Greece said it was in trouble, the past limits the room for compromise.


A prominent Arsenal fan who went missing three days ago has made contact with his family, police have said.

Claudio "Claude" Callegair, 53, from Broxted, Essex, became well-known after regular appearances on an Arsenal fan site. He disappeared on Thursday night.
In a statement, Essex Police said the taxi driver was no longer being treated as missing.
Mr Callegair frequently appears on ArsenalFan TV, which describes itself as "an online channel for all Gooners".
Police said they were "extremely concerned for his welfare" at the time he vanished.
The appeal to find Mr Callegair was widely shared on social media, with Arsenal supporter Piers Morgan tweeting to say: "Hope he's ok".


Lufthansa Group is to introduce a surcharge for customers who buy its flights through third-party websites.

The 16-euro ($17.80; Â£11.60) fee is likely to deter travellers from completing bookings on services including Expedia, Opodo and ebookers.
It marks the latest effort by the airline industry to steer customers towards its own websites.
One expert said this not only helped cut airlines' costs but also allowed them to them promote add-on services.
However, the booking services suggest their own platforms are often easier to use and help keep prices low.
Lufthansa Group's move will affect tickets bought for Lufthansa itself as well as Austrian Airlines, Brussels Airlines and Swiss from 1 September.
There are two types of travel price comparison sites on the net:
Lufthansa's move is expected to be damaging to the former, while allowing its own site to appear the most attractive option on the latter.
"The distribution cost charge will drive up the cost of tickets booked via so-called online travel agencies like Expedia or Opodo," Martin Riecken, a spokesman for the German airline, told the BBC.
"However, it is not about... trying to discourage anyone from comparing prices.
"We rather aim for more transparency. Our rationale is twofold.
"Firstly, to allocate the high distribution cost of global distribution systems [the flight inventory and fare databases used by online travel agents] - we are talking about a high three-digit million euro amount per annum for the Lufthansa Group - to those that are actually using the services, instead of evenly distributing these cost to all passengers.
"Secondly, to take advantage of greater degrees of freedom in our sales activities, providing customers with the exact tailor-made service that they are looking for."
Opodo said online travel agencies were opposed to the move and lawyers at the European Travel Agents' and Tour Operators' Associations (ECTAA) were looking into the matter.
"[This] is a global issue that affects all countries and worldwide travel agencies, traditional or online, corporate and leisure, and which is already being legally examined by the associations of European agencies," said a spokeswoman for the company.
"Lufthansa Group will clearly be the one whose most affected by this decision.
"The fact that they have not provided any automated alternative to the global distribution systems will cause Lufthansa, Austrian Airlines, Brussels Airlines and Swiss to suffer a severe lack of competitiveness against other companies that are present in these channels and don't have an extra cost for the travellers."
One industry watcher said Lufthansa might have felt it had to act to boost its earnings.
The company recently reported 55m euros of net profit for its last financial year, representing an 82% drop on the previous period.
Its services have also been disrupted by a series of pilots' strikes and the crash of one of its Germanwings flights in March.
"If you look at Lufthansa's recent performance, they have been through difficulties," said Laurie Price, an independent airlines consultant.
"So they've been looking at every way to increase their bottom line. There is only so much cutting you can do.
"A better way is to generate revenue. And if you can get sales direct and offer add-ons, then that's a much better way."
Lufthansa Group's stock traded slightly higher following the announcement.
But shares in Amadeus - the Spanish travel booking technology company that serves Expedia, Opodo and others - closed the day 10% lower.
Lufthansa's action represents the latest in a series of clashes between airlines and price comparison booking services.
Last August, American Airlines briefly removed its flights completely from the online travel agency Orbitz in a row over fees.
More recently, the US Travel Technology Association complained that Delta Air Lines had removed its schedule and fare information from more than a dozen online travel agencies, including TripAdvisor, Fly.com and Hipmunk.
It added that the UK-based metasearch service Skyscanner had lost access to Delta's flights as a consequence earlier this year.
Skyscanner now points customers directly to Delta's site, benefiting the airline.
"Heightened attempts to lead travellers away from online travel agencies and metasearch travel sites is likely to lead to higher average airfares, increase consumers' search costs, make entry into city-pair routes by smaller airlines more difficult, reduce transparency, and strengthen the market power of the major airlines," a report prepared by a Yale professor for the Travel Technology Association said.
Delta responded saying it had the right to determine who it did business with.


It's not just Iain Duncan Smith who's angry.

Senior ministers are "absolutely furious" about his resignation and departure from government.
Some ministers believe the claims in his letter are "just not true because he is well aware that the welfare changes have always clearly been about saving money as well as improving the systems".
It's suggested that his central motivation is the EU referendum, and, for others who are supporting him, a strategy to kill off George Osborne's hope of taking over from David Cameron.
IDS's team is adamant that his exit is entirely about the handling of PIPs (Personal Independence Payments) and nothing to do with the EU.
Whatever the truth, it is very dangerous for a political party to be so publicly divided, and, on a very simple level, for its members to be so angry with each other.


The Chinese transfer record has been broken for the third time in 10 days, with Jiangsu Suning spending £38.4m to sign Brazil midfielder Alex Teixeira.

The 26-year-old, who was a target for Premier League side Liverpool, has become the Chinese Super League's latest high-profile recruit.
Ex-Chelsea midfielder Ramires was signed by Jiangsu Suning for £25m.
That was followed by Jackson Martinez's £31m move to Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao from Atletico Madrid.
The total outlay on those three players is just over £94m (122m euros).
According to the transfermarkt website, which tracks commercial dealings in the sport, they have spent £199.5m (258.9m euros) in their current transfer window, which runs until 26 February.
That could rise, with more big signings expected.
In contrast, Premier League clubs spent £175m (227m euros) in their window, which closed earlier this week.
Their costliest signing was the £18.3m Stoke City paid for Porto midfielder Giannelli Imbula.
Liverpool had been closely linked with a move for Teixeira during the January transfer window.
Shakhtar Donetsk claimed they rejected a £24m offer from the Reds for the attacking midfielder before agreeing to sell him to Jiangsu.
The CSL season gets under way in early March.
According to Rowan Simons, a Beijing-based football reporter, interest and investment in football has been "growing for five years".
He also says it is politically motivated, backed by the President of the People's Republic of China.
"President Xi is a big football fan," Simons told BBC World. "There has been a huge and unprecedented football revolution in China led by him, which has turned the game on its head."
Simons said schools were focusing more on football, adding: "It was seen that football was only useful if it was carried on into a profession.
"It's no longer just seen as a profession. It's an incredible transformation."
The recent spate of signings has started to attract attention in Britain.
Asked if the Premier League should be concerned about the CSL's spending power, Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger replied: "Yes, of course.
"China looks to have the financial power to move the whole league of Europe to China."
However, he wondered whether CSL clubs would continue to pay out huge sums of money on transfer fees.
"Will they sustain their desire to do it?" he asked. "Let's remember, Japan started to do it a few years ago but slowed down.
"I don't know how deep the desire in China is.  If it is a very strong political desire, we should worry."
China appears to be on the radar of Manchester City, who will play there this summer as past of their next pre-season tour.
They will feature in the International Champions Cup, an annual tournament series that features some of the world's top clubs.
Former England midfielder Paul Gascoigne and former ex-Chelsea strikers Didier Drogba and Nicola Anelka have all experienced football in China, which has a population of about 1.3 billion.
So has former Nottingham Forest and West Ham striker Marlon Harewood, who spoke to the BBC's World Service about his time there.
"China has a lot of wealth and they love their football," he said. "They want to make it even bigger and bring bigger names in.
"There's not many countries that can compete with the top names in Europe, but they are trying to compete.
"By bringing in players like Martinez and others, they are trying to bring the standard to that level. It's not far off.
"The experience I had was amazing. I would definitely recommend it, even if they just try it for an experience. I know they would love it."
He says the move "happened very quickly", adding: "I immediately wondered whether it would be good for me, my family, the club, and took the appropriate decision."
But not before a quick search on the world wide web. "I checked out the city and the location I am moving to on the internet," he said.
Teixeira also confirmed there was interest from Premier League clubs.
"Unfortunately, all the proposals that came from them were somewhat windy and did not contain anything concrete," he said.
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Society should be "ashamed" for not protecting a suicidal girl in secure custody, a senior judge has said.

The president of Family Division of the High Court said there would be "blood on our hands" if the 17-year-old did not now receive adequate supervision.
She is due to be released in 11 days, but a secure unit place has not yet been found for her - a situation Sir James Munby said was "utterly shaming".
NHS sources later indicated that three possible beds had been found.
Dr Mike Prentice, medical director for the NHS North Region, said: "A number of options have now been identified, with detailed clinical and social assessments taking place tomorrow (Friday) to ensure the right package of care can be put in place before her release date."
The girl, identified only as "X", has tried to kill herself several times.
The judgement in the case of X - who is in the formal care of Cumbria County Council - revealed she was convicted at a youth court and has been detained in custody for almost six months.
Sir James had previously noted the "enormity of the task facing the local authority" but stressed that the need for a final care plan was "overwhelming".
During the latest hearing in July, he emphasised this need further, adding: "On a large number of occasions... X has made determined attempts to commit suicide".
Staff at the unit where she is being held have said sending her back to her home town would be a "suicide mission to a catastrophic level".
The judgement said: "Staff do not think it will take more than 24 to 48 hours before they receive a phone call stating that X has made a successful attempt on her life."
An earlier ruling heard how unit staff had witnessed "a profoundly disturbing and distressing scene when X self-harmed by repeatedly banging her head and face against the wall".
Staff have said she has to be checked every 50 seconds when she is in the shower.
Earlier, Simon Rowbotham, the solicitor for the legal guardian of the teenage girl, told the BBC that X has a "determined wish" to kill herself and lives in a stripped-down room and is restrained "for hours on end".
By Mark Easton, home editor, BBC News
The problem of providing suitable services for disturbed children and young people has been flagged up to ministers before.
Two months ago, after complaints from police that cells were being used to accommodate youngsters who should have been in a mental health unit, the government introduced a law banning their use for such purposes.
Doctors are warning there is still a critical shortage of appropriate care beds.
A survey of child and adolescent mental health workers, conducted by the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 2015, found 62% had seen adolescent patients held in inappropriate settings, with 14% saying patients had attempted to kill themselves while waiting for a suitable bed.
The prime minister has promised a "revolution" in mental health care, and the number of mental health staff in the NHS in England is rising by 21,000.
But the agonies of a judge unable to help a suicidal young woman suggest the revolution still has some way to go.
When X was younger, she "was a child with poor school attendance, low-level criminality and periods of absconding", a previous judgement said.
In Sir James' judgement, delivered in private in the High Court family division sitting in Manchester, he said: "If this is the best we can do for X, and others in similar crisis, what right do we, what right do the system, our society and indeed the State itself, have to call ourselves civilised?
"The honest answer to this question should make us all feel ashamed."
He went on: "I feel shame and embarrassment; shame, as a human being, as a citizen and as an agent of the State, embarrassment as President of the Family Division, and, as such, Head of Family Justice, that I can do no more for X".
Liberal Democrat former health minister Norman Lamb told the BBC that the judgement reflected a "wholly unacceptable situation in our country".
"This is not a unique case, families are being let down routinely across our country and there is a moral imperative that we address this as a matter of real urgency," he said.
By Philippa Roxby, health reporter, BBC News
There are about 1,440 hospital beds for children and young people with mental health problems in the NHS in England.
But a recent review found that they were not evenly spread across the country - for example, some areas had no in-patient beds within a 50-mile radius.
The picture is also complicated by who those beds are for - some are in specialist units for children with eating disorders, others are in high dependency units for young people with complex needs.
And there are many more specialist beds than high dependency ones.
This means that children and their families often travel large distances to access in-patient treatment.
NHS England says it wants to change this by increasing the number of beds in badly-served parts of the country and by offering crisis help to children and young people in the community, at an earlier stage.
Mr Lamb said if investment was not made up front in the NHS, families would continue to be let down.
"The real problem is that the whole of the finances of the NHS are under such strain that the government's fine words about recruiting extra staff won't be delivered, because the money won't get through to mental health.
"Mental health always loses out whenever the money is tight and I fear that that will be the same again this time."
Earlier this week, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt announced that thousands more mental health workers were to be recruited by the NHS in England.
The government said an extra Â£1bn already promised for mental health services in England would fund the scheme - part of a pot of Â£1.3bn committed in 2016 to transform provision.
The judge said copies of the ruling would be sent to the chief executive officer of NHS England Simon Stevens, Home Secretary Amber Rudd, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, Education Secretary Justine Greening and Justice Secretary David Lidington.
Labour MP Luciana Berger, who previously served as shadow minister for mental health, tweeted that it was a "devastating" judgement, while Conservative MP and former children's minister Tim Loughton said it was "worrying".
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Professor Wendy Burn, president of The Royal College of Psychiatrists, said some mental healthcare units were "desperately short" of suitable beds.
She said the college urged the government in 2015 to prioritise investment in crisis care services for children and young people.
It had also called on NHS England, clinical commissioning groups and social services to ensure emergency care pathways were in place.
"It's alarming to see that two years later, children are still not getting the support they need," Prof Burn said.


Demonstrators have staged events across England in opposition to planned changes to legal aid.

Campaign group UK Uncut said hundreds had protested in town and cities such as London, Manchester and Northampton.
It said plans aimed at saving £220m from the criminal legal aid bill in England and Wales would "block access to justice for millions of people".
The Ministry of Justice says legal aid costs too much and can not be "immune" to efficiency commitments.
Proposals for possible savings include stopping defendants with a disposable income of more than £37,500 from automatically receiving legal aid, and curbing prisoners' right to legal aid.
Legal aid costs taxpayers about £2bn every year, with criminal defence making up more than half of the expenditure.
The government says the situation is unsustainable and wants to see fewer, bigger organisations providing legal aid as part of a streamlined system.
However, the Bar Council has argued this would result in the end of the long-standing right of a defendant to choose a legal aid solicitor, saying people would effectively be allocated a representative on the basis of cost.
Some groups have also expressed fears that the changes could deny justice to the poorest in society.
UK Uncut said protests had taken place in London, Manchester, Hull, Liverpool, Northampton, Cambridge and Norwich on Saturday.
In London, demonstrators gathered on the Strand at about 12:00 BST to set up a roadblock.
Many protesters sat on the road and others put their bicycles in the way of traffic.
The area was reopened around two hours later when the demonstration was contained in a smaller area.
Protesters also held a mock trial for Justice Secretary Chris Grayling, and attached a banner to the fence of the court building which warned: "No justice, no peace."
The Metropolitan Police did not comment when asked about the number of protesters.
But the City of London Police said it had warned the group they were stopping the emergency services from travelling around the capital.
UK Uncut said roadblocks had also been set up in Manchester, Northampton and Cambridge.
Spokesman David Conway said: "The government's plans will block access to justice for millions of people.
"We're blocking roads to make a stand against that and to make it clear how strongly people around the country oppose these outrageous plans.
"People will have to represent themselves in court and get compensation much later than they should."
An MoJ spokesman said: "We have one of the best legal professions in the world, but cannot close our eyes to the fact that - at around £2bn - legal aid is costing too much."
He said the government's planned reforms would create a sustainable legal aid system that would "still be one of the most generous in the world".
The spokesman added: "At a time when major financial challenges are being felt by businesses and households across the country, the legal sector cannot be immune from the government's commitment to getting better value for every penny of taxpayers' money we spend."
Plans to remove the right for defendants in criminal cases in England and Wales to choose their solicitor under the legal aid system were scrapped in July.
The government had planned to put the onus on lawyers competing for contracts, but has said it now recognises that choice is seen as "fundamental".


Plans to "future proof" communities across Wales against economic and social decline are among new laws put forward by First Minister Carwyn Jones.

He said the renamed Sustainable Development Bill would create jobs, enable growth and tackle poverty.
Mr Jones told AMs reducing domestic violence and abuse of women was also a priority for the next 12 months.
Conservatives welcomed some of the plans but said they were not enough to "inspire confidence" in the government.
Announcing eight new bills altogether, Mr Jones said the Future Generations Bill was to ensure public services made key decisions with the long term well being of Wales in mind - "future proofing" communities from pressures that threaten their viability and survival.
"This bill is about how we tackle the generational challenges Wales faces in a more joined up and integrated way, we cannot afford to leave this burden behind for our grandchildren," he said.
The Ending Violence against Women and Domestic Abuse Bill would "tackle all forms of violence against women and domestic abuse", he said.
Legislation on the abandonment of horses and ponies and so-called "fly grazing" would give local councils the powers to "seize, impound and dispose of horses either through selling, re-homing or destruction in as humane a way as appropriate, and when circumstances dictate".
Local health boards will also be given the scope to break even over a three year financial period rather than the current one financial year.
Mr Jones said a housing bill aimed to strengthen homelessness legislation and would introduce a licensing system for landlords and letting agents.
It would also allow councils to charge higher council tax rates on long-term empty properties.
There are also bills to give the Higher Education Funding Council greater powers to maintain standards in colleges and legislation on planning matters to set out new roles and responsibilities for Welsh ministers, councils, developers, local authorities and communities.
There are limited details on the Public Service Workforce Bill, but it is expected to seek to bring about more consistency in the terms and conditions of public sector workers in Wales.
Mr Jones said: "At the heart of our legislative programme is a firm commitment to improve public services and create opportunities for everyone.
"I am confident the plans I have set out today will help transform our society and make Wales a better place in which to live."
Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies welcomed some of the proposed bills, but said the plans would "hardly inspire confidence" when education, the NHS and the economy were "getting worse by the day".
"While we support the proposals to give local health boards greater flexibility in finance planning to help them cope with Labour's record-breaking NHS cuts, fast-tracking the bill limits the ability for AMs to properly scrutinise the plans," he said.
"Announcing the decision to fast-track the NHS Finance Bill on the day the Welsh government is using an emergency procedure to rush through legislation on agricultural wages shows a reckless contempt for scrutiny and a slapdash and lazy approach to law-making."
Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood urged Mr Jones not to "water down" his commitment to sustainable development and questioned how the bill on ending domestic violence would work when the police and criminal justice system were not devolved to Wales.
She also urged Welsh ministers to meet opposition parties before bills were published to avoid what she called "thorny issues" with legislation over the previous 12 months.
Ms Wood said she wanted to ensure that "this Senedd uses its resources in the best way possible, to produce good, if not excellent, legislation that will improve the lives of people here in Wales".
Liberal Democrat AM Aled Roberts questioned whether some of the proposed bills were affordable and warned it was difficult to support legislation if it had not been given a "full financial assessment".
He also urged Welsh ministers to ensure that local health boards provided "greater assurance with regard to the robustness of their own financial controls" if they were to be given greater financial flexibility.


Over the last three decades, governments of various stripes have promised radical change to solve England's housing crisis and today's White Paper is no exception.

The problem is that so many of the initiatives and ideas sold to the country as ground-breaking prove to be business as usual.
So the Communities Secretary Sajid Javid went out of his way to sound no-nonsense and tough today. He accused some English councils of "fudging" the numbers on housing need in their area and warned them that he was not going to allow that to happen anymore.
But the response to the government's proposals has been decidedly mixed.
Labour's shadow housing minister John Healey described them as "feeble beyond belief".
"Re-treading old ground" was how the National Association of Commercial Finance Brokers described the White Paper.  "Kicking the can down the road," one big investment fund said.
The chief executive of the housebuilder Inland Homes, Stephen Wicks, bemoaned the failure to relax rules on green belt development.
"Brownfield in itself can't possibly sustain the long-term housing requirements of the UK," he said.  "It can go an awful long way but there needs to be a relaxation of some green belt to enable us to deliver the numbers that we are required to do."
The White Paper does include measures to encourage developers, housing associations and councils to build more affordable homes more quickly, both to rent and to buy.
But this government seems to speak with two voices on housing: the communities department wants to shift the balance of power firmly towards new development in places people want to live, but Number 10 and some influential Tory backbenchers are sympathetic to the passionate concerns of those who wish to protect the countryside and particularly the green belt.
The real question that lies behind all the rhetoric and policy bullet-points is whether the balance of power between development and local opposition has fundamentally changed.
Ministers now accept England needs 250,000 new homes every year, they have described the housing market as "broken" and they agree that radical change is the only way to mend it.
But many have yet to be convinced that this White Paper amounts to a "realistic plan" to achieve that.


Sri Lankan Kumar Sangakkara scored the 100th century of his career in Surrey's One-Day Cup quarter-final win.

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The 39-year-old made 121 in the 24-run victory over Yorkshire at Headingley, his 39th limited-overs hundred to go with 61 first-class centuries.
Sangakkara, who retired from international cricket in 2015, says he will quit first-class cricket after this season.
The left-hander has scored 45,529 runs in all forms of cricket.
He brought up his hundred - his eighth of the season in all formats - with a single to third man off Matt Fisher as Surrey posted 313-7. Yorkshire managed 289-9 in reply.
Sangakkara has enjoyed a stellar summer in County Championship Division One, averaging 90.60 in six matches.
Last month he fell 16 runs short of becoming only the fourth player to make six consecutive first-class centuries.
The former Sri Lanka captain is fifth on the all-time list of leading Test run scorers with 12,400 in 134 Tests, and only India legend Sachin Tendulkar has made more than Sangakkara's 14,234 runs in 404 one-day internationals.


EU nations have been unable to reach agreement on proposals to ban the use of three pesticides that have been linked to the decline of bees.

The European Commission had called for a two-year EU-wide moratorium, but a number of nations opposed the plans.
A recent report by the European Food Safety Agency (EFSA) concluded that the pesticides posed a "high acute risk" to pollinators, including honeybees.
The commission is expected to redraft its proposals ahead of another vote.
Member states were unable to reach a qualified majority in order for the proposals to be adopted.
The news of the stalemate has angered groups that had been campaigning in favour of the ban.
Unknown consequences
A spokeswoman  for Defra, the UK's environment department, said 14 out of the 27 EU nations - including the UK and Germany - had not supported the commission's proposals as they currently stood.
"Bee health is extremely important but decisions must be based on sound scientific evidence and rushing this through could have serious unintended consequences both for bees and for food production," she added.
"We are currently finalising studies that will give us the evidence on which to base a proper decision. But as we do not have the evidence yet, it is impossible for us to vote either way."
Global web-based campaign group Avaaz condemned the UK's and Germany's decision to abstain, saying the governments had "caved in to the industry lobby".
"Today's vote flies in the face of science and public opinion and maintains the disastrous chemical armageddon on bees, which are critical for the future of our food," said Avaaz senior campaigner Iain Keith.
In a YouGov poll commissioned by the campaign network, 71% of almost 2,000 people questioned in the UK supported the commission's proposals to impose the moratorium on the insecticides.
Avaaz said that it, along with other groups, would be taking legal advice as to whether the outcome of the vote could be challenged in the courts.
The chemicals in question - imidacloprid, thiamethoxam and clothianindin - belong to a class of insecticides known as neonicotinoids.
The insecticides work by affecting the central nervous system of insects, causing paralysis and death.
'Data shortcomings'
A report published by EFSA scientists in January identified a number of risks posed by the three insecticides.
It assessed the possible threats to the pollinators from exposure to residues in pollen and nectar, dust and guttation fluid (some plants exude sap in the form of droplets).
However, it added that in some cases it was "unable to finalise the assessments due to shortcomings in the available data".
Bee expert Prof David Goulson from the University of Stirling said he was disappointed that the proposals had not been adopted.
"The panel of independent experts at EFSA spent six months studying all the evidence before concluding that current use of neonicotinoids posed an unacceptable risk to bees," he observed.
However, Prof Lin Field, head of crop protection at Rothamsted Research, said she was pleased with the outcome of the vote.
"In my view there is still is not enough clear evidence supporting a ban on neonicotinoids," she explained.
"Of course they can kill bees; they are insecticides. But whether they actually do this or whether sub-lethal effects occur and damage the colonies on any important scale has not been proven."
A number of EU countries, including Italy, have imposed a ban on the use of the chemicals at a national.
Arable farmer Mark Leggett echoed Prof Field's comments, adding: "We must be careful not to remove a product from the marketplace which is proving itself of massive worth in terms of controlling pests.
"We would be forced to go back and use old chemistry and less environmentally friendly alternativesâ€¦ and if the aphids have resistance, we might not be able to control the aphids," he told the BBC's Farming Today programme.
In a statement, pesticide manufacturer Bayer CropScience said the failure to reach agreement showed that there was "no convincing argument against the continuing use of neonicotinoid-based products".
"Not only had the commission incorrectly based their rationale on recent EFSA reviews of these products, they had failed to make the appropriate impact assessments of any decisions they proposed on the broader interests of European stakeholders," it added.
Friends of the Earth's head of campaigns Andrew Pendleton said that there was "more than enough evidence that these chemicals are linked to bee decline to place immediate restrictions on their use".
"This is a cop-out by a significant number of European governments, including the UK - it means yet more dither and delay while our bee populations plummet," he added.
Chris Hartfield, head of bee health for the NFU, the UK's largest farming organisation, said: "We maintain that the proposed ban is not a proportionate response to the evidence we have available."
Dr Hartfield added that bee health in the EU was "challenged by a range of different factors".
"Since there is no evidence to pin the widespread declines of bee populations on any single factor, a proposed ban on neonicotinoids is unlikely to deliver any benefits that will halt or reverse these declines," he suggested.
Professor Jim Iley, executive director of science and education at the Royal Society of Chemistry told BBC News that gaps in data meant there was still a "degree of uncertainty" about the impact of the chemicals.
"If the cause is wrongly diagnosed, the precautionary action taken may be inappropriate," he said.
Following the vote, EU officials said that EU Health Commissioner Tonio Borg would "consider the next step".


Forward Vadaine Oliver has joined Mansfield Town on an emergency one-month loan from Crewe Alexandra.

His signing follows the news that the Stags could be without injured striker Alex Fisher for four weeks.
Oliver, 23, signed his first professional contract with his hometown club Sheffield Wednesday.
He left the Owls in 2012 and made an immediate impact at Lincoln City, scoring 14 goals in 41 matches, before joining Crewe last summer.
Oliver could make his debut at York on Saturday.


A health board is to carry out a review after a patient absconded from a Dumfries mental health unit.

It sparked a major police operation in the town last week before the man was eventually traced in Scunthorpe.
The public was warned not to approach the missing Midpark hospital patient and children kept in some schools.
NHS Dumfries and Galloway said it would be looking at the circumstances of the incident and aim to "minimise the likelihood" of it being repeated.
A statement from the health board confirmed it would be looking into how the patient had been able to abscond.
"NHS Dumfries and Galloway have well established processes for undertaking reviews of incidents that occur," it said.
"As per these guidelines, a review of the event will be undertaken."
However, it said that there had been no immediate changes to operations at the unit.
"NHS Dumfries and Galloway have well established standard operating procedures in place that are regularly reviewed in line with national legislation," said the statement.
"However, no known changes have been made to the procedures following the event."
The health board added that it would make every effort to avoid any similar incidents.
"NHS Dumfries and Galloway can give assurance that standard operating procedures are in place and regularly reviewed to comply with national legislation around the treatment offered to patients, while maintaining a person-centred approach," concluded the statement.
"The procedures will aim to minimise the likelihood of such an incident re-occurring."


Indonesian anti-smoking groups have threatened to take legal action against a government minister for distributing free packets of cigarettes to members of an indigenous tribe.

They say the social affairs minister's actions breached government regulations on tobacco promotion.
However, Khofifah Indar Parawansa said she distributed the cigarettes as a goodwill gesture, reports said.
Indonesia is estimated to have more than 50 million smokers.
It is thought to be the world's fifth-largest tobacco market.
High levels of smoking among children in particular have added to concerns about the state of the nation's health.
Ms Khofifah is reported to have handed out gifts, including cigarettes, on a recent visit to an under-developed part of central Sumatra.
Campaigners have threatened Ms Khofifah with legal action unless she apologises within two weeks.
"The social affairs minister was deliberately ignoring public health by distributing free cigarettes," Tulus Abadi, operational manager at the Indonesian Consumers Foundation, was quoted as saying by the Jakarta Globe.
The newspaper said the minister was visiting the indigenous tribe to express her condolences for the death of 11 people who had died of starvation.
"Whatever the reasoning was, it is incomprehensible that a high official would distribute cigarettes to her own people," Mr Tulus said.
"It would have been more becoming if money spent on the cigarettes had instead been used to buy basic necessities or other useful things."
But Ms Khofifah is reported to have argued that the free cigarettes were "just a way to get on the good side of the locals".
"I don't want to argue but you'd better go there yourself. Greet them and ask them about their culture. Do not see things from a Jakarta-centric perspective," she was quoted by Merdeka.com as saying.
The foundation argues that her actions in distributing the cigarettes are "in direct violation" of 2012 government regulations on tobacco control, which disallow free distribution and discounts for tobacco products.
The BBC's South Asia editor Jill McGivering says that pictures of the cigarette distribution sparked a heated debate after they began circulating on the internet.


The chief of Nest - the internet-connected home tech specialist - has been attacked in a blog by the founder of Dropcam, the video camera start-up it acquired less than two years ago.

Greg Duffy accused Tony Fadell of "insulting" Dropcam employees who had joined Nest as part of the takeover.
He also suggested Mr Fadell had "fetishised" some of the worst traits of Apple's Steve Jobs.
Neither Nest nor its owner Alphabet - Google's parent - have responded.
But in an interview published by the Information news site last week, Mr Fadell was quoted as saying: "A lot of [Dropcam's] employees were not as good as we hoped. It was a very small team and unfortunately it wasn't a very experienced team."
The article said Nest later clarified that this only referred to Dropcam employees who had left the business following the merger.
Mr Duffy is among their number.
One expert called the affair "embarrassing".
"American corporates are usually surprisingly discreet and manage to keep grief hidden behind their walls," commented Matthew Gwyther, editor of Management Today.
"You've obviously got an enormous personality ego clash between the two men.
"But I bet this kind of thing is far more common than we normally hear."
Mr Duffy said he posted his thoughts to Medium's site to "set the record straight".
"The 50 Dropcam employees who resigned did so because they felt their ability to build great products being totally crushed," he said.
"All of us have worked at big companies before, where it is harder to move fast. But this is something different, as evidenced by the continued lack of output from the currently 1,200-person team and its virtually unlimited budget.
"According to LinkedIn, total attrition to date at Nest amounts to nearly 500 people, which suggests that we were not alone in our frustrations."
He also challenged Mr Fadell to publish Nest's accounts to reveal how well its internet cameras were faring compared to its smart thermostats and net-connected smoke alarms.
And he attacked Mr Fadell's management style.
"The current leadership of Nest... seems to be fetishising only the most superfluous and negative traits of their mentors. For the sake of the customers and for the talented employees that remain there, I hope they find a way through these struggles."
This appears to be a reference to Mr Fadell's time working alongside Apple's late chief executive Steve Jobs. The two - along with others - developed first the iPod and then the iPhone.
"I've built a lot of my success off finding these truly gifted people and not settling for B and C players, but really going for the A players," Mr Jobs said in an interview.
Apple's co-founder famously added that settling for B players risked creating a "bozo explosion... that kind of company never ever succeeds".
According to the Information, Mr Fadell and Mr Duffy repeatedly clashed in the brief time they worked together.
Mr Fadell recalls telling Mr Duffy he had not "earned" the right to report directly to him.
In turn, Mr Duffy says he told Nest's co-founder that he was running the division like "a tyrant bureaucrat".
It is also reported that Mr Duffy tried and failed to convince Alphabet's chief executive Larry Page to sack Mr Fadell and let him take charge.
Mr Duffy says he now thinks it was a "mistake" to have sold his firm to Nest for $555m (Â£385m).
"Larry Page is said to be a friend of Fadell, but he would do very well to stay completely out of it," remarked Mr Gwyther.
"It looks terrible to appear to be taking sides against people in your organisation.
"But the wider affair is a reflection of the incredibly high expectations that there are of these tech companies - that you think stuff will happen very quickly and work pretty fast.
"But it's a reminder that it's not always straightforward, and there can be stumbles along the way when trying to create new products."


Japanese stocks ended lower as investors took a cautious approach ahead of the latest US jobs figures.

The unemployment figures, due out later, are seen as one of the main factors affecting the timing of any rate rise by the US Federal Reserve.
US companies are expected to have created 175,000 jobs in June after a disappointing 38,000 in May.
The benchmark Nikkei 225 index fell 1.11% to end at 15,106.98, while the Topix index lost 1.3% to 1,209.88.
"The Fed is likely to keep its cautious stance. More jobs data will be necessary to ensure that the recovery of the labour market is entrenched," said Cynthia Jane Kalasopatan from Mizuho Bank.
"Overall, if non-farm payrolls continue to point to solid job gains in coming months, then the Fed may be comfortable to hike policy rate once this year especially if there is more clarity as regards to Brexit risks."
Japan's share market also had to digest weaker-than-expected data, with figures showing Japan's wage growth turned negative in May.
Labour cash earnings, a measure of worker pay including bonuses, fell 0.2% from a year earlier.
That is the first time the measure has contracted in a year. Estimates were for a 0.5% rise.
Japan also reported disappointing trade data. Its current account surplus narrowed to $18bn in May, which was below economist expectations.
However, shares in Nintendo jumped nearly 9% on hopes its Pokemon GO smartphone game will prove a success.
Other Asian markets also fell on Friday. In South Korea, the benchmark Kospi index ended 0.6% weaker at 1,963.10.
Hong Kong's Hang Seng index finished 0.7% lower at 20,564.17 while the Shanghai Composite closed down 1% at 2,988.09.
Australia's ASX 200 edged up 0.05% to close at 5,230.50.


A family from Carmarthenshire has called for easier and quicker access to mental health treatment for men.

Ex-soldier Dylan Jones, 37, from Llansawel, who had post-traumatic stress disorder, was awaiting treatment when he died, according to his sister.
Amanda Jones believes his life may have been saved had he been treated sooner.
A total of 274 men took their own lives in 2015, an increase of 27% compared with 2014, according to ONS figures published in December.
The Welsh Government said, while it could not comment on individual cases, mental health treatment, support and prevention services were among its "priorities".
Speaking on BBC Radio Cymru's current affairs programme, Manylu, Ms Jones, said her brother had been told in March 2015 he had to wait five months to be treated for PTSD.
But four months later the father to twins took his own life.
"He suffered with terrible nightmares and insomnia and it affected his everyday life very much," she said.
"Dylan did seek help in March 2015 and he was told there was a five months waiting list.
"If he had been seen sooner, would he still be with us here today? I think, yes.
"I think it's important that men in general know that it's important to be able to talk to someone who can help you about mental health issues."
A Welsh Government spokesman said: "Our suicide and self-harm strategy for Wales, Talk to Me 2, focuses on groups of people known to be most vulnerable to suicide.
"For veterans, we continue to make Â£585,000 available each year to fund the Veterans' NHS Wales Service, providing therapeutic interventions from dedicated veteran therapists in each local health board."
The spokesman said since its inception in 2010, the service has seen over 1,800 veterans, according to figures up to December 2016.
"The expectation for this service is the same as with other mental health services - individual patients, whatever their background, are seen according to clinical need."


An assisted suicide bill has been put before Canada's Parliament that legalises euthanasia but will exclude foreigners from coming to die.

People with mental illness and psychiatric disorders are excluded too.
Last year, the Canadian Supreme Court struck down a law banning doctors from helping someone die.
This bill, which is backed by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, must now be studied by committee and then voted on by both House and Senate.
It seeks to protect "the conscience rights of medical practitioners", said Canadian Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould.
Asked why foreigners would be excluded from the new legislation, she refused to answer.
"We have considered this question in the context of Canada and Canadians," she said at a press conference.
Cases brought on by the families of two deceased British Columbia women spurred last year's decision by the court to strike down the law.
The court said outlawing assisted suicide deprives people of dignity and autonomy. Prior to that, counselling, aiding or abetting suicide was illegal in Canada.
The Liberal government had four months to come up with a new law, a time period that was extended.
Last year Quebec's top court ruled that the province can allow terminally ill patients the right to die with medical help.
Currently, assisted suicide is legal in Switzerland, Germany, Albania, Colombia, Japan and in US states Washington, California , Oregon, Vermont, New Mexico and Montana.
What different countries say about assisted dying
More US states introduced aid-dying legislation last year, but only California's became law.


Great Britain achieved their best gold medal haul in an Olympics for more than a century on Tuesday as they surpassed their achievements in Beijing four years ago.

Triumphs for Sir Chris Hoy and Laura Trott at the London Velodrome, coupled with success for the dressage team and Alistair Brownlee in the triathlon, took Team GB's tally to 22 golds at London 2012 - ahead of the return of 19 in 2008 with five days of competition still to come.
It is now Britain's best medal haul since the 1908 Games, which were also held in London, when the team secured 56 gold medals, although that was far from a modern Olympics, with events such as the tug of war and motor boating contested.
Great Britain have also bettered their overall Beijing medal haul of 47 following high jumper Robbie Grabarz's bronze - Team GB's 48th of the Games. They also look certain to add to that tally in the coming days - UK Athletics had set a target of a minimum 48 medals at London 2012.
Here, BBC Sport looks back at Britain's best and worst performances at previous Games.


A man thought to have been murdered in Oxford has been formally identified by police.

Jack Phipps, 53, was admitted to hospital on 22 June after an incident in Harefields in north Oxford. He died from his injuries on 1 July.
Police have carried out a post-mortem examination but are still continuing to establish the cause of death.
A 48-year-old man from Oxford arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of murder is still in custody.
Senior investigating officer, Acting Ch Insp Ailsa Kent, of the major crime unit, said: "Our thoughts are with the family of Mr Phipps at what must be a very difficult time for them, and we are offering them support."
She said her team were "still investigating the circumstances of this incident" but appealed for anyone with information to come forward.


AMs have agreed that the National Assembly for Wales should change its name.

The assembly's presiding officer Elin Jones has told AMs that there are several possible choices.
Welsh Parliament has been proposed previously but one AM said the name Senedd should be considered.
But UKIP AM Gareth Bennett said some organisations with Welsh-only names were only known in the "Welsh-speaking colony" of Pontcanna in Cardiff.
First Minister Carwyn Jones said some would find his comments offensive.
No new name was agreed at an assembly debate to discuss the issue on Tuesday, but the presiding officer and assembly commission will now consider the implications of such a change.
AMs unanimously approved, without a vote, a motion which said the assembly "should change its name to reflect its constitutional status as a national parliament".
The assembly will soon get the power under the Wales Bill, which is passing through the UK parliament, to rename the National Assembly of Wales with agreement of two thirds of the chamber, with calls for the name change to reflect its growing powers.
The Welsh Government had planned a vote calling for the assembly to be known as the Welsh Parliament unofficially before a legal change could be made, but the vote was pulled.
Ms Jones said the next step "will be to consult soon on what the name should be".
"There are several possibilities and many associated terms which would stem from that choice," she said.
"The name should continue to inspire confidence and pride among the people of Wales."
She added she will notify the assembly of the next steps at the "outset" of the autumn term.
Bethan Jenkins, Plaid Cymru AM for South Wales West, has proposed that the Welsh word Senedd, which is used to refer to the assembly building, is used to refer to the institution itself.
"Let us be self-confident enough to discard our mental baggage and take this opportunity to be unique by adopting an official Welsh name for our Senedd," she told the debate.
She said some AMs wish to retain the name National Assembly, but added Senedd is already used widely on the ground.
Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies, who suggested the Assembly was renamed to the Welsh Parliament back in 2012, said: "I couldn't see why we couldn't have Senedd and Parliament, because obviously for people there is a complete understanding of the word Parliament, in the way UK democracy works."
"Over time I think the word Senedd could be readily taken on board," he added.
UKIP group leader Neil Hamilton wondered whether the public at large would regard the debate as "pretentious navel gazing".
"As an when the Wales Bill passes and tax raising powers are devolved to this institution there is, of course, a serious argument for calling ourselves a Parliament," he said.
He said he was personally attracted to the idea of the Senedd as a name. "I wonder whether that would make us Senators", he added.
But Gareth Bennett, UKIP AM for South Wales Central, called for the term Senedd to be "kicked into the long grass" and said it would distance the assembly "from the majority of the people of Wales".
"Bethan is from a Welsh speaking background, or a bilingual background, and in her social circle Senedd may be a well used term," Mr Bennett said, to laughs and derision from Ms Jenkins.
"In the Wetherspoons pub in Canton few people would know what I was talking about if I started talking about the Senedd, and I can tell you that from experience."
Referring to a list of organisations with Welsh-only names, including the Urdd and Chwarae Teg, that Ms Jenkins had read out Mr Bennett said: "The problem is most people outside the Welsh speaking colony of Pontcanna, most people in Cardiff don't know what these things are."
First Minister Carwyn Jones said: "If someone stood up in this chamber and described people in Ceredigion or in Gwynedd who are English speakers as a colony there would be uproar."
"It makes it sound as if people in Wales who speak a certain language don't belong in our capital city, and that is a wholly wrong remark," he said, adding it would be "highly offensive to a number of people" although he wasn't sure Mr Bennett meant it that way.


At least 17 people are now known to have died when a building collapsed in the southern Indian city of Chennai.

Some 22 survivors have so far been pulled from the rubble, and 40 others are feared trapped in the debris.
More than 70 workers were in the 11-storey building which was under construction when it toppled in heavy rain late on Saturday.
India has seen frequent building collapses, many blamed on lax safety and substandard materials.
At least six people, including construction company officials, have been arrested in connection with the collapse in Chennai (Madras), the capital of the southern state of Tamil Nadu.
"It appears they have not adhered to approved plans. The building appears to have serious structural defects," Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa said.
Hundreds of rescue workers, including personnel from India's National Disaster Response Force, are working with cutters, shovels and other equipment to search for survivors.
"Clearing the debris is a huge challenge. This would take almost two to three days and we are hopeful of saving many lives, going by our previous experiences in other places," senior police official SP Selvan told the NDTV news channel.
While the cause of the latest collapse is still under investigation, a lack of construction codes, leading to lax safety, is one reason for frequent collapses of buildings and other infrastructure projects in India.
There is also a high demand for housing, pushing up costs and forcing less affluent people to risk their lives in decrepit or badly constructed buildings.
Earlier on Saturday, a four-storey building came down in the capital Delhi, killing 10 people, including five children.
In January, at least 14 people died when a building under construction came crashing down in the western state of Goa.
At least 42 people died after a four-storey building collapsed in Mumbai last September.


Americans who want to influence the new US government should learn Russian, US ex-Secretary of State John Kerry says.

He was speaking at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.
He strongly criticised President Donald Trump and his team, who are being investigated over alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Russia's Foreign Ministry responded by saying the former US administration should have read the poems of Soviet propagandist Vladimir Mayakovsky.
Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova singled out a Mayakovsky poem which glorified Russian as the language of VI Lenin, who led the communist revolution in 1917.
Russia is marking the centenary of the revolution, which resulted in Cold War rivalry between the USSR and the US.
"I'm often asked what the secret is to have a real impact on government. Well, it's recently changed. I used to say, either run for office or get a degree from Harvard Kennedy School. With this White House I'd say, buy Rosetta Stone and learn Russian," Mr Kerry said on Wednesday.
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In a Facebook post, Ms Zakharova said it was a mistake that Russia had not given the US state department under ex-President Barack Obama a collection of Mayakovsky poems.
She quoted a verse from Mayakovsky's long poem from 1927 called To Our Youth, which translates as:
"Even if I were an elderly black man I would learn Russian, without being despondent or lazy, just because Russian was Lenin's language."
The poem suggests that Russian can serve as a lingua franca binding the diverse nations of the Soviet Union in a new communist order.
Mayakovsky is still much-admired in Russia for his poetry and avant-garde Socialist realist posters.
He made searing criticisms of the US after touring North America in 1925, comparing its cultural diversity to the Tower of Babel.
"I don't know which Russian language textbooks should be bought for 'this' US administration, but for the 'last one' it would be best to get a little volume of Vladimir Vladimirovich [Mayakovsky], on the eve of the 1917 centenary," Ms Zakharova wrote.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has revived some elements of Soviet life, including pro-Kremlin youth movements and displays of military hardware.
In 2005 he called the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 "the greatest geopolitical catastrophe" of the 20th Century.


Scottish Championship strugglers Alloa Athletic have appointed Jack Ross as their new manager following the resignation of Danny Lennon.

Ross, 39, has agreed a deal that runs initially until the summer of 2016.
The former St Mirren defender has coaching experience from stints at Dumbarton and Hearts, where he departed in October.
Ross will be in the dugout for Saturday's home match against the Buddies.
Alloa are bottom of the Championship, three points adrift of Livingston, who they beat 1-0 on Saturday.


The captain of the sunken South Korean ferry has been charged with manslaughter, reports say.

Lee Joon-seok, 68, is accused of leaving the ship as it was sinking while telling passengers to stay put, reports Yonhap news agency.
He was among the first to be rescued by coast guards at the scene.
The Sewol ferry disaster on 16 April killed 281 passengers, most of whom were high school students. Another 23 are still missing.
Besides Mr Lee, three crew members - the chief engineer, the chief mate and the second mate - are also being charged with manslaughter. If convicted, they could face life imprisonment.
"The [four people charged] escaped before the passengers, leading to grave casualties," prosecutor Ahn Sang-don told journalists.
Prosecutors have indicted another 11 crew members for negligence.
Only 172 passengers survived the sinking of the ferry, including 22 of the 29 crew members.
Meanwhile, the results of an interim investigation has found that a sharp turn was the main cause of the sinking, Yonhap said.
The Sewol "made a sharp turn at a 15 degree angle before tilting and capsizing", Yonhap reported, quoting police and prosecution officials.
The overloading of cargo and the lack of water in ballast tanks to balance the load made recovery from its sharp turn difficult, officials added.
The captain of the ferry was not on the bridge when the ferry capsized, with a third mate at the helm.
The authorities have also arrested several people who were not on the ferry at the time of the sinking.
These include five officials of the ferry owner, Chonghaejin Marine Company, and an employee of a private safety device inspection company.
The latter is suspected of conducting poor inspections of the ferry's safety equipment.
South Korea is looking to reform its safety and emergency response system in the wake of the ferry's sinking.
President Park Geun-hye said on Tuesday that the government would soon release details of this move, said Yonhap.
She has previously apologised for the way the government handled the incident, amid questions over the initial rescue effort.
Following the recent death of a civilian rescue diver, Seoul also plans to provide psychological help for rescue workers "suffering from physical and mental agony", said local media.
It comes amid reports the ship, submerged for nearly a month, has begun to deteriorate, making it even more difficult for divers to search for bodies.
Officials said that divers had spotted walls "getting weaker and about to collapse". Rescue workers are now plotting new routes through the hull.
Earlier reports said that some bodies had floated away from the ship, prompting workers to deploy nets around the site.


A leading drinks and restaurant chain is to open a bar in the Marischal Square development in Aberdeen.

All Bar One has agreed a deal to establish its first presence in the city.
It will be the chain's fourth Scottish outlet, with two already in Edinburgh, and one in Glasgow.
Marischal Square is expected to open in the summer of next year. Offices and a hotel are being built on the site of the former council headquarters.
It is a Â£107m development.
Protestors failed in their bid to get the development halted last March.
Councillors voted by 22-21 to continue with the project.


Mali is in the grip of an unprecedented political crisis, one of the most serious since the landlocked West African country gained independence from France in 1960.

It was hit by a coup in March 2012 - and a rebellion in the north that has caused alarm around the world.
The former colonial power has now deployed troops after an appeal from Mali's interim president.
Here is a guide to some of the main players:
The five main Islamists groups in Mali are Ansar Dine, Movement for Unity and Jihad in West Africa (Mujao), al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), the Signed-in-Blood Battalion and the Islamic Movement for Azawad (IMA).
Ansar Dine is seen as a home-grown movement, led by renowned former Tuareg rebel leader Iyad Ag Ghaly.
Its objective is to impose Islamic law across Mali and its full name in Arabic is Harakat Ansar al-Dine, which translates as "movement of defenders of the faith".
In contrast, AQIM - the north African wing of al-Qaeda - has its roots in the bitter Algerian civil war of the early 1990s, but has since evolved to take on a more international Islamist agenda.
It emerged in early 2007, after the feared Algerian Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) aligned itself with Osama Bin Laden's international network.
The group has since attracted members from Mauritania and Morocco, as well as from within Mali and its neighbours, such as Niger and Senegal.
AQIM says its aim is to spread Islamic law, as well as to liberate Malians from French colonial legacy.
The movement is known for kidnapping Westerners, and ransom money is believed to be a key source of revenue for AQIM, alongside drug-trafficking.
The third Islamist group, Mujao, is an AQIM splinter group, formed in mid-2011.
It says its objective is to spread jihad to West Africa rather than confine itself to the Sahel and Maghreb regions - the main focus of AQIM.
But Mujao's first major operation was in Algeria in October 2011, when it kidnapped three Spanish and Italian aid workers in the town of Tindouf.  The hostages were freed in July 2012, reportedly after a ransom was paid.
Although it has many Malian Tuaregs within its ranks, Mujao is believed to be led by a Mauritanian, Hamada Ould Mohamed Kheirou.
Before France launched a military offensive on 11 January 2013 to drive out the militants, Mujao's sphere of influence was mainly in north-eastern Mali, where it controlled key towns such as Kidal and Gao, regarded as the drug centre of Mali.
Ansar Dine's influence was mainly in the north-west, where it captured the historic city of Timbuktu in May 2012.
The group split in January 2013, when the IMA - led by Alghabass Ag Intalla, an influential figure in Kidal - was formed.
Mr Intalla was a high-ranking member of the Ansar Dine team which negotiated with Mali's government until late 2012.
He says he split from Ansar Dine because he opposes "terrorism", and favours dialogue.
The IMA says it champions the cause of the people of northern Mali, who say they have been marginalised by the government based in far-off Bamako since independence in 1960.
AQIM operated freely across the north since its formation in 2007, and helped Ansar Dine and Mujao to seize power of key northern cities in 2012.
Its recruits were said to have been part of the police force which imposed Sharia in Timbuktu.
The Arabic TV channel Al Jazeera reports on its website that its correspondent saw top AQIM commander, the Algerian Abdelmalek Droukdel who is also known as Abu Musab Abdel Wadoud, touring Timbuktu's main market last year.
There are unconfirmed reports that AQIM has also given training in the vast Malian desert to Boko Haram, the Islamist group which has carried out a wave of bombings and assassinations in Nigeria.
The Signed-in-Blood Battalion, led by the Algerian Mokhtar Belmokhtar, also has strong ties with Ansar Dine and Mujao.
It was formed late last year as an AQIM offshoot after Belmokhtar fell out with the group.
According to Mauritania's Sahara Media website, which has strong contacts among the militants, Belmokhtar joined the administration of Gao after it was seized by Mujao.
All these militants follow the Saudi-inspired Wahhabi/Salafi sect of Islam, making them unpopular with most Malian Muslims who belong to the rival Sufi sect.
They have tried to impose their version of Islam, amputating limps of people convicted of crimes and and destroying Sufi shrines, which they claim promote idolatry.
The UN Security Council has warned that that the destruction of shrines in Timbuktu, a world heritage site, could amount to a war crime.
According to a report in India's The Hindu newspaper, Ansar Dine and Mujao have expanded the rebellion beyond the Tuaregs by incorporating a number of other ethnic groups like the Bella and Songhai (who have historically opposed the Tuareg) into a multi-ethnic force, motivated by religious fervour.
The National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (known by its French acronym of MNLA) is ethnically driven, fighting mostly for the rights of Mali's minority Tuareg community.
It was formed by Malian Tuareg in 2011, as a successor to previous rebel groups.
During Col Muammar Gaddafi's rule in Libya, many Malian Tuareg joined his army, in a move that was welcomed by Mali's government to end conflict within its borders.
After Col Gaddafi's overthrow in 2011, they returned to Mali, swelling the ranks of the MNLA as it spearheaded an uprising against the Malian army, in alliance with the Islamists.
The Tuareg who were in Libya - described by some analysts as an "arms bazaar" - also brought with them weapons, including surface-to-air missiles which the MNLA said it had used to shoot down a Malian Air Force MIG-21 jet in January 2012.
By April of that year the MNLA-led fighters had routed government forces and the group declared the north an independent state, named Azawad.
However, no other country recognised the state, showing the MNLA's isolation in the global arena.
At the same time, its alliance with the Islamists collapsed and Ansar Dine and Mujao drove its forces out of the main northern towns.
Some analysts believe that the MNLA's influence waned after it ran out of money, causing many of its fighters to defect to Ansar Dine and Mujao.
The Islamists are far richer, earning money in recent years by kidnapping Westerners for ransom and trafficking cocaine, marijuana and cigarettes.
The MNLA has come out in support of France's military intervention, hoping that this will help it regain control in the north.
Two important figures in the MNLA are the general secretary Bila Ag Cherif and Mohamed Ag Najim, the head of the movement's military wing.
At the same time, the group has watered down its demand for independence, saying it will settle, as a first step, for autonomy.
Last year, the MNLA endorsed mediation efforts by Burkina Faso to end the Malian conflict.
Ansar Dine - the home-grown Islamist movement - also expressed support for the initiative.  It had announced a ceasefire in November to give peace talks a chance.
But in early January, the ceasefire broke as Ansar Dine and the Malian army accused each other of resuming hostilities.
As the rebels were gaining ground in the north in early 2012, Malian soldiers staged a mutiny at the Kati military camp located about 10km (six miles) from the presidential palace in Bamako.
It culminated in a coup, led by a mid-ranking army officer Capt Amadou Sanogo, one of the few officers who did not flee the Kati camp when the rank-and-file soldiers began rioting and then headed for the seat of government.
Having overthrown President Amadou Toumane Toure, he promised that the Malian army would defeat the rebels. But the ill-equipped and divided army was no match for the firepower of the rebels, who tightened their grip over the north in the immediate aftermath of the coup.
Capt Sanogo, who is in his late 30s, is from Segou, Mali's second largest town some 240km (150 miles) north of Bamako, where his father worked as a nurse at Segou's medical centre.
Former Mali-based journalist Martin Vogl describes the army officer as a forceful, confident and charismatic man, friendly but with a slightly abrupt manner.
In the army all his professional life, Capt Sanogo received some of his military training in the US - including intelligence training.
Ironically, Mali was until recently seen as a relative success story in terms of US counter-terrorism efforts.
The US had trained Malian forces to tackle Aqim, but these soldiers - led by Capt Sanogo - staged the coup in Mali.
US Africa Command head, Gen Carter Hamm, has said he is "sorely disappointed" with the conduct of some of the US-trained Malian soldiers.
Some of the elite US-trained units are also said to have defected to the Islamist rebels, who they were originally trained to fight.
Capt Sanogo has since handed power to a handpicked civilian government, but was recently named the head of a committee to oversee reforms in the military and is believed to be paid about $7,800 (Â£5,250) a month.
Dioncounda Traore had long harboured presidential ambitions - but he had hoped to come to power in elections originally scheduled for April 2012.
He was born in 1942 in the garrison town of Kati, just outside of the capital Bamako.
He pursued his higher education in the then Soviet Union, Algeria and France, where he was awarded a doctorate in mathematics.
He returned to Mali to teach at university - before getting involved in politics.
He was a founding member in 1990 of the political party Alliance for Democracy in Mali and between 1992-1997 he held various ministerial portfolios including defence and foreign affairs.
In 2007, he was elected as speaker of the National Assembly.
He was an ally of the deposed President Amadou Toumani Toure, who had become deeply unpopular.
As a consequence, many Malians are wary of Mr Traore, who is not seen as charismatic, says former Bamako-based journalist Martin Vogl.
This boiled over in May 2012, when supporters of the coup attacked Mr Traore in his office, forcing him to seek medical treatment in France.
When Ansar Dine ended its ceasefire and entered the central town of Konna on 10 January, the interim president appealed to France - the former colonial power - for military help.
He declared a state of emergency, arguing that the rebels wanted to expand "criminal activities" across the country.
France agreed to his request, saying it could not allow a "terrorist state" to emerge in Mali.
Amadou Toumani Toure - the army general widely credited with rescuing Mali from military dictatorship and establishing democracy in Mali - fled to Senegal after the March 2012 coup.
At first, forces loyal to him resisted the military junta, but he eventually accepted that his rule was over.
Known as ATT, Mr Toure himself first came to power in a coup in 1991 - overthrowing military ruler Moussa Traore after security forces killed more than 100 pro-democracy demonstrators.
He handed power back to civilian rule the following year - gaining respect and the nickname "soldier of democracy".
He went on to win presidential elections in May 2002, and was re-elected in 2007.
Born in 1948, ATT had no official party - and had always sought the backing of as many political groupings as possible.
His critics repeatedly accused him of being soft on militant Islamists, diverting US-supplied money and weapons to fight the MNLA, whom he saw as a bigger threat.
Analysts doubt that Mali will have another democratically elected president anytime soon.
At first, the West African regional body, Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) - of which Mali is a member - spearheaded initiatives to resolve the complex Malian conflict.
Alongside Burkina Faso's mediation effort, it was drawing up plans to send troops to Mali.
But a UN-approved deployment was expected to take place only in September, so that the mediation effort could be given a chance to succeed and troops could be given training.
African leaders did not seem confident that a regional force could win a war against the rebels and appealed for help from Western powers.
In early January, the African Union chairman - Benin's President Thomas Yayi Boni - called for Nato to lead an Afghanistan-styled intervention in Mali.
Of the Western powers, the US was said to be most reluctant to support military action.
In contrast, France was a staunch advocate of intervention soon after the rebels' 2012 gains, but wanted an African force to be in the forefront of battle.
Following the new rebel advance in January this year, France felt it could no longer wait for African troops to be deployed and declared war on the rebels.
Now, Ecowas has started to deploy troops, which are expected to number more than 3,000 troops. Nigeria will form the backbone of the force, contributing 900 soldiers.
Other countries that have pledged troops include Ghana, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso and Niger.
Chad, which is not part of the regional body Ecowas, has also sent a large number of soldiers to work in co-ordination with French troops.
Among North African states, Egypt has condemned France's intervention and has pushed for peace talks to end the conflict.
Algeria was known to have privately argued against military intervention when the idea was first mooted, fearing that the rebels would retreat to its side of the border in the face of a military assault, destabilising its territory even further.
However, it has since changed its position, allowing France to use its air space to launch strikes in northern Mali.


Photographer Olivia Acland has been documenting the barber shops that line nearly every busy street in Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown.
Most people will tell you that they have a trusted hairdresser who they visit on a regular basis. Geoffrey, a 29-year old tour guide, said:  "Appearance is very important in Sierra Leone, people want to make sure their hair looks good."
Barbers also take on the role of counsellors, listening to clients agonise over their love lives or confide in them about family crises. The barber shop provides a safe space for people to sit back and unwind - after all, it's important to feel relaxed as someone takes a knife to your chin or a pair of scissors to your head.


The US Secretary of State has called for all planes to be grounded in key areas of Syria to save the truce there, following an attack on an aid convoy.

In a blistering speech at the United Nations, John Kerry said the future of Syria was "hanging by a thread".
He said Monday's attack, which killed 20 civilians, had raised profound doubt over whether Russia and the Syrian government would live up to the terms of the ceasefire deal.
Moscow has denied being involved.
The Russian defence ministry now says a US drone was in the area where the aid convoy was struck.
Gen Igor Konashenkov said a Predator strike drone appeared above the convoy several minutes before it caught fire, and left the area 30 minutes later.
"We are not jumping to unfounded conclusions. Only its owners know why the drone was in the area at the right time and what kind of tasks it was pursuing there," the general said.
He did not directly accuse the US of firing on the aid convoy from a drone but pointedly said that such a drone could carry out high-precision strikes against targets on the ground.
His comments follow Mr Kerry's declaration that Russia should stand up and take responsibility for air strikes, criticising Russia's defence ministry for changing its story.
He said he felt like Russia was in "a parallel universe" after listening to his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov address the council.
The UN says it has resumed preparation for convoys of aid to Syria and hopes to deliver aid to besieged and hard-to-reach areas as soon as possible.
Monday's attack prompted the UN to suspend all aid convoys to those areas.
Mr Kerry said flights should stop "in order to de-escalate the situation and give a chance for humanitarian assistance to flow unimpeded".
The attack had "dealt a heavy blow to our efforts to bring peace to Syria," he said.
A further attack on Tuesday night killed five medical workers for an international aid agency.
A partial truce brokered by the US and Russia lasted just a week.
Heavy air raids have continued in Syria, especially in and around Aleppo.
A senior US official told the Associated Press that the US believes "with a very high degree of confidence" that the strike was carried out by a Russian-piloted aircraft.
Speaking after the UN Security Council meeting, UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said "the overwhelming responsibility for the breaches in the ceasefire that we have seen lies with the Assad regime and indeed its sponsors".
But he said, the peace process that led to the truce could be revived.
The Syrian ambassador to the UN Bashar al-Jaafari said the future of Syria would be decided by its people.
"Syria will not become another Libya or Iraq," he said. "We will never allow this."
A spokeswoman for the Syrian opposition delegation at the UN in New York told the BBC she was pessimistic about the future of the ceasefire.
"What are the Russians doing to enforce the regime or to pressure the regime to comply and not violate this agreement?
"The Russians themselves are violating this agreement," she claimed.
Syria's five-year civil war has left more than 250,000 people dead and displaced more than 11 million others.
Secretary of State John Kerry's proposal that all aircraft should be prohibited from flying over certain areas of Syria so that humanitarian aid can be delivered unhindered probably falls short of a formal no-fly zone.
Who for example might police such a zone?
Would aircraft intruding into it be shot down, and if so by whom? Managing such small parcels of air space could also be a problem - any aircraft flying into them could be many miles away in a very short space of time.
Mr Kerry's idea though is probably to be seen more as a declaratory policy: an attempt to get the Russians and Syrians - the only people likely to fly aircraft that might strike targets in these zones - to formally acknowledge that they will not do so.


Russian police have arrested a surgeon suspected of stealing heroin he removed from the stomach of a drug courier in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia.

Officers who checked drug containers removed from the courier believed one was missing and carried out a search.
Five grams were found in the clothing of the surgeon, who was himself found to be in a state of narcotic intoxication, police say.
The suspect told police he would not comment without his lawyer.
The unnamed surgeon was arrested in Bogotol, a town of 21,000, about 3,100km (1,930 miles) east of Moscow.
He has been charged on two counts: with illegally acquiring and possessing a large quantity of drugs, and stealing a large quantity of drugs.
If convicted, he faces a sentence of up to 15 years.
In 2009, Russia announced that it had become the world's biggest consumer of heroin. Cheap supplies of the drug enter the country from Afghanistan by land via the former republics of Central Asia or by air.
Police video shows the hospital where the alleged crime took place and also the suspect himself in custody.
Vladimir Yourchenko, police press secretary for the Krasnoyarsk region, said that the drama had begun when a passenger aboard a train from the city of Krasnoyarsk to Bogotol had become ill.
Police had information that the passenger, a national of one of the former Soviet republics, was carrying several containers of heroin in his stomach.
Removed from the train, the man was taken to a district hospital where an operation was performed to extract the containers.
Police then received information that the surgeon had taken one container for himself, Mr Yourchenko said. He added that the suspect had been investigated for illegal possession of drugs in the past.