Killer Adrian Ernest Bayley will be 76 before he is eligible for parole for the murder of Irishwoman Jill Meagher.

Even Adrian Bayley himself told police he should never have been let out of jail.

San Francisco’s mayor is to seek counselling for alcohol addiction following the disclosure that he had an affair with the wife of a veteran aide.

The former chairman and chief executive of bankrupt US energy giant Enron has resigned from the company’s board of directors, cutting his last tie beyond stock ownership to the firm he nurtured for 16 years.

Former Enron chairman Kenneth Lay pulled out of this week’s scheduled congressional testimony as members of Congress suggested he and other company executives engaged in widespread criminality.