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A former Cuban citizen who says she was tortured with drugs and electricity as a political dissident filed a £5m (€7.3m) lawsuit against Cuban President Fidel Castro and others in his government in Tampa, Florida.

The wife of a Scottish teacher who shot and killed a 19-year-old girl and then killed himself said she had no idea her husband loved the girl so much that he would take both of their lives, reports said yesterday.