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Spells of the sickness would take hold of Jenny, sometimes for months at a time - and yet when she "bounced back", she was a keen runner, swimmer and tireless mental health advocate.

The well-loved genre originated along the Caribbean coast of Colombia, where a simple rhythm pattern took hold of the region’s Afro-Indigenous communities.

The cat took hold of the boy, causing injuries.

Mr King said: “He took hold of your wrists, he was asking you to stop behaving like that and calm down. He took you down to the floor because you were not calming down.”

The court was told he "does not know what took hold of him when he threw that one missile from the back of the group".