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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the proposed laws, to be tabled in parliament next week, were aimed at mitigating the "harm" social media was inflicting on Australian children.

He said the teenager had had an "unconscionable" childhood with years of abuse, which was a "significant" mitigating factor, but it did not excuse his actions.

Michael Cranmer-Brown, mitigating, said Wood had "severe mental health anxieties" and "thought he was never going to get out".

These are the mitigating circumstances, but for Arteta and his players in the ruthless business at the top of the Premier League, the league table now bears a worrying look.

Scotland appeared to have all the momentum in search of a remarkable comeback, but Emma Orr was shown a yellow card for making head-on-head contact in a tackle with Stewart, before it was upgraded to red, with the officials deciding there were "no mitigating circumstances".