Friday evening news briefing: Lady Gabriella Windsor’s husband died from ‘catastrophic’ head wound

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Good evening. Thomas Kingston was found dead at his parents’ home with a “catastrophic head injury”, a coroner has said.

Elsewhere, crowds in Moscow chanted anti-Ukraine war slogans as they paid their respects to Alexei Navalny.

Lady Gabriella Windsor’s husband Thomas Kingston died from ‘catastrophic’ head wound, inquest hears

Thomas Kingston, the husband of Lady Gabriella Windsor, was found dead at his parents’ home with a “catastrophic head injury” and a gun close to his body, a coroner has said. Kingston, 45, died at the property in a Cotswold village on Sunday.

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