this is bbc news. the headlines... the former us president donald trump says he expects to be arrested on tuesday and has called on his supporters to protest. it's not yet clear what charges, if any, he is facing. a court in islamabad cancels a hearing into the charges of former pakistan prime minister imran khan following clashes between his supporters and police. mr khan faces corruption charges which he says are politically motivated. a deal allowing the export of ukrainian grain from black sea ports which was due to expire has been renewed. ukraine says the agreement will continue for four months, but russia claims it agreed to just 60 days. scottish national party's chief executive peter murrell has resigned with immediate effect.

the move comes after the snp were forced to reveal a massive drop in party membership this week. next here on bbc news, it's time for our world: jessica and austin: when murder goes viral. in june 2020, three friends found a suitcase washed up on a beach, accidentally defining the story of a murdered couple. wait, open it. laughter open it. as the videos went viral, people started speculating — the clicks and shares complicating the investigation. it might even be linked to a network of serial killers in the dark web. - this is where they found the two suitcases. they're notjust entertainment. and theories on social media impacted what would end up being a two—year trial and changed

the lives of two families. it's not suitcases that washed up. it was my son and it was jessica. they were human beings. when your loved one's death has gone viral, how do you remember their life before the headlines? happy mother's day, mum. give me a call. i love you. my name's gina jaschke, and jessica lewis is my niece. she wasjust, like, angelic. she had the brightest blonde hair and she was just gorgeous. what was she sort of into? like, was she into books, was she into sports? she was into mud. she was a very outdoor kind of kid. they lived out in the country. and jessie was always playing outside, playing with bugs and nature.

and, yeah, it was... it was a great life. he was a little dickens sometimes, always wanting to get out of the house. we had to put lots of locks on the front door so he couldn't escape. but he'd always like to be outside and playing underneath the rhododendron, with the dirt and his cars. and he had a belly laugh that was contagious. he did do some football injunior high. he did baseball when he was young and he did some soccer. and they called him thunder foot because he could kick from one goal to the next goal. she wasn't able to be a teenager very long because we got the news that she was going to have a baby. and it was kind of a big shock

to all of us in the family because of how young she was. she was a natural. she was always taking care of people and animals and babies. and she met this guy and his name was austin, and she was head over heels over this boy. austin and jessica met in auburn. there was a garage sale going on in the neighbourhood and somebody was bothering her, and so he stepped in to help her out. and then theyjust became friends from then, and then they ended up living together. theyjust did everything together. they did everything together. and some of it wasn't so good. and, you know, they had the struggles with their drug use. meth is such a trickster. it's the most trickster drug out there.

i'm really impressed withjessie, though, because a lot of times, these drugs will take away people's souls. you know, they'll take away their moral compass. she was just trying to get back on track somehow. after living in a van for some time, they both got help for their addictions. in 2019, the couple moved in with a man introduced to them by a relative. so they were living at mike dudley's house. we had to get permission to go visit. it didn't look scary, but it was definitely very controlled. and so they were trying to move. so this was the voice mail from him on mother's day, may tenth, 2020 at 7:04pm. happy mother's day, mum. give me a call.

i love you. so i listen to it more thanjust on mother's day now. whenever i need to hear his voice, this is what i go to. so, yeah, very thankful that i have that. 0njune i9, 2020, three friends are using an app, popular at the time, that sends you on a random journey. they're led to a pier in west seattle and notice a suitcase on the rocks. the friends film what they find. distorted voices and laughter bro! wait, open it. laughter open it! sweet. it stinks, y'all. it washed up. a couple of hours later, the police

arrive and cordon off the scene. later, they confirm the bags contain dismembered human remains wrapped in plastic. the three friends then edit and post their videos on tiktok, which quickly go viral. within days, there are thousands of comments on the clips and other people begin uploading their own videos about the discovery. these tiktokers - accidentally found a body. i was at my boyfriend's house at the time, and the news came on about these kids that had found suitcases down at alki with... they believed that there were bodies in them. and i said, "turn this off, turn this off. "i don't want to watch this kind of stuff. "turn it off, turn it off." i told you guys this i was about to get wild. this true crime case puts me off

copying any tiktok viral trends. there's been an app going viral for all the wrong reasons, - and people have been warning against using this app. - i went to tiktok and saw it. and i knew... ..i knewjessie�*s kids were seeing it, too. i knew they were seeing it, too. this is where they found the two suitcases. so after a group of teens found a dead body through this app, i i thought it'd be a good idea to download it. _ we're doing a video about it. it'll be on my youtube channel. make sure you check it out. not knowing... not knowing that that was my own son. even then, i didn't want to see it. i didn't really know that anything had happened until the police showed up at my door. and i didn't know that that's why they were showing up at my door either. i had no idea why they were there.

some breaking news. seattle police are investigating after several bags filled with human remains were found near the water... theories as to how they ended up there run amok. the most dangerous app in the app store. it might even be linked to a network of serial killers in the dark web. #fyp, #viral... it was here they - discovered a suitcase... overlapping voices let's dive in. i'm shocked how many stories there are of it. if you go to youtube, there's... everybody�*s talking about it. itjust takes one piece of misinformation and there's a domino effect. multiple bags were found in the waters around seattle. not all ofjessica and austin's remains were recovered. after the police publicly identified the couple,

the families tried to get the videos and any copies removed from tiktok. i would beg them like, "look, you know, please take it down." you know, "their identities have been revealed now. "there's no need to keep it up. "there's no need to keep that up there like that, man." it's like, you know, everybody saw it, ok? that was just like a slap in the face to us. it was plastered everywhere. i tried emailing them. i tried calling them. and when i was reading what their rules were regarding videos, it says that they will not show anything that is disturbing. well, i'm sorry. this is disturbing. it was disturbing to me. it's disturbing to people who don't even know them. my niece's friends were seeing this and it traumatised people. tiktok said the videos didn't show

excessive graphic content and therefore hadn't breached their guidelines. they're not just bags. they're not smelly bags. they're not, you know, drug addicts who had it coming to them. they're notjust entertainment. although it isn't clear by who, the original uploaders or tiktok, the videos are removed in late august 2020, ten weeks after the murders. michael dudley, jessica and austin's landlord, has been arrested. no—one knew the couple had died until ten days after their murder, when a group of teens discovered a suitcase washed up on the shores of alki beach and posted a video of their discovery on tiktok. the suspect accused of murdering them is 62—year—old michael dudley. and new court documents say

the couple was renting a room inside this house you see behind me. and apparently at least part of the conflict was over rent. we're also learning the night of the shooting, a neighbour heard gunshots from inside the house and someone yelling, "please don't do this, just let me leave." this is the matter of state of washington versus michael lee dudley. mr dudley, you are charged in count one with murder in the second degree, that you did cause the death ofjessica d lewis, who died on or aboutjune nine, 2020, that you did cause the death of austin wenner, who died on or about june nine, 2020. as preparations for the trial begin, people trawl through the life of michael dudley, but also jessica and austin. i was afraid. we put up no trespassing signs. i was trying to protect jessica's son from being able, you know, because i didn't know how much media

was going to show up. i didn't know if they were going to figure it out. cos i have a different last name than austin. so i didn't know how long it was going to take them to find me. i knew austin's parents were very upset with the media. you know, theyjust didn't want to say anything. they were busy mourning and rightfully so. they should have been able to have their peace at that time. you know? everybodyjust kept saying, you know, "these suitcases. these suitcases washed up." "these suitcases washed up." and it's like, you know what? they're more than suitcases. that's not suitcases that washed up. it was my son. it was my son and it was jessica. and theyjust kept calling it "the suitcases", "the suitcases", and it was making me so mad. there's real people behind these stories. and that's why i'm talking today, is because i want other people who watch these videos and who watch these things to realise

there is family connected to them. they were more than suitcases. they were human beings that didn't deserve this. at the start of the investigation, police don't have a lot to go on besides the remains ofjessica and austin. there is no crime scene that reflects how the bodies were found. no weapon has been located and the motive is unclear. family and friends of the couple are looking for clues, relaying information they've heard from social media that investigators dismiss as rumours. gina is trying to find some answers. seeing my brother, the look on his face and his voice on the phone, is something that breaks my heart. and i had to find out what happened to his daughter. i had to do something

to try to help him. when dudley was arrested in august 2020 and his property searched, police found that austin and jessica's room had recently been redecorated. they also discovered rounds matching dudley's gun embedded in the drywall. bullet strikes marked the bedside table and bed frame, and a smear of blood was found. what was going through my mind every night was that i could see myself going over there, because it was right down the street from me. and i saw myself going over there and walking up his driveway and confronting him... to tell him, "i know you did it."

two years after the murder, the trial finally begins. the prosecution admit the trail of clues is complicated and not easy to follow. 0njune nine, 2020, this man, michael dudley, shot and killed austin wenner and jessica lewis. then, in an attempt to avoid detection for what he had done, he dismembered their bodies, put their pieces into garbage bags, and stuffed those garbage bags into suitcases and a duffle bag. at times, you may be confused and uncertain of the purpose of any detail or testimony or exhibit. but the state assures you that the trail will lead you to one person, and one person

alone, as the killer — mr dudley. michael dudley's defence lawyers said the few witnesses in the case were unreliable, the police were under pressure due to social media interest... there was a live—streamed tiktok video and that led to further global headlines. ..and that investigators were unable to find any conclusive forensic evidence consistent with dismemberment. you'll hear how they went through these rooms, swabbing drains, combing through beds, walls, floors and anything else that might have some sort of dna evidence linking my client, mr dudley, to this crime, coming up with nothing. there might not be direct evidence, but there was a large amount of circumstantial evidence pointing to dudley, like the 911 calls made by his neighbours on the evening ofjune nine, 2020. the first was at 7:15.

ten minutes later, they called again. when the police went to his home, michael dudley didn't answer the door despite later admitting to officers he was in. please raise your hand. right hand. do you swear and affirm any evidence you provide in this| matter will be the truth, the whole truth, and - nothing but the truth? the teenagers who found the suitcases have never spoken publicly, but in court, they had to testify about what happened that

afternoon on alki beach. do you recall when you posted that video? and when was that? right, so i guess my point is, you knew at that point it was definitely human remains you found? yes. parts of michael dudley's interview with the police are played in court. so, technically, to bring you in here, you're under arrest. for what? for the... related to their death. investigation of homicide. are you out of your mind? you're saying i killed them? well, that's what i want to talk to you about. if you didn't do it, then...

i didn't do it. 0k. they're my friends. ok then. he never testifies or provides an alibi. the trial lasts five weeks before the jury are sent to deliberate. alki beach has become a place to remember the couple. the beach is somewhere that i love to be. i was afraid that, you know, that it was going to be tainted now by death. god brought my son and jessica back to us in a place of beauty. it's a miracle that they were found. charleen comes here to prepare herself for the outcome of the trial and to be close to her son, austin, and jessica. austin had a good heart.

he's always had friends. even with his struggles, he still cared about other people. none of us really have a normal life. but they had ambitions. they had dreams. they hoped the trial would bring more about what happened to light. but with the lack of evidence, some things might never be known. nothing's going to bring back my son and i know he is in heaven now. i know he's no longer suffering. and i pray that he didn't suffer that day. i don't know what questions i have. ijust know i don't have the answers and i probably never will. please be seated, everyone.

juror number eight, are you the foreperson? more than two years afterjessica and austin were killed, the case comes to a close. the jury return after two days of deliberation, examining the trail of evidence that led officers to the couple's landlord. we, the jury, find the defendant, michael lee dudley, guilty- of the crime of murder in the second degree as charged in count one. - we, the jury, find the defendant, michael lee dudley, guilty- of the crime of murder in the second degree as charged in count two. - now we can reform. now we can start to heal. 0urfamilies have gotten brought together, ours and austin's family. sometimes tragedies like this would rip families apart, but it only brought ours stronger. we kept one focus — what jessica and austin would want. but austin and jessica's lives will always be linked with the tiktok videos made by henry

and his friends. you don't think about, when you post things on social media, how many people it could be hurting. and, you know, ithink he learned his lesson about that. i hope he did. but, really, if it wasn't for them, more of my son would have been lost. while the trial may be over, their deaths are still being used as content by others. we have an update in - the tiktok randonautica viral suitcase murder case.

hello there. it's been quite a wet start to the weekend with some heavy downpours around. and if we take a look at the month so far, it's also been wet. there are a number of places that have already seen more rainfall than we normally see in the whole of the month, even though we're only halfway through march, and looking at the weather picture over the next five days, it is going to stay very unsettled with further heavy outbreaks of rain. the weather particularly wet across western and especially north western areas of the country. now, on saturday, it wasn'tjust heavy downpours that we saw, but also this funnel cloud spotted over the west midlands looks really close to actually

being a full blown tornado here. and that funnel cloud fell from these showers that worked their way across the west midlands and then pushed the way eastwards across the east midlands as well. now we've got something of a change to the weather pattern on sunday. a few mist and fog patches, a ridge of high pressurejust with us for the morning. so probably the nicest part of the weekend. early sunday, with some sunny spells widely. .. out west, though it will cloud over. we're looking at outbreaks of rain spreading into northern ireland that will probably reach western scotland, wales and western areas of england right towards the end of the day. now temperatures for the most part, mild, ten to 13 degrees, so a little bit above average for most. and then through sunday night, we've got more rain on the cards. that rain sweeps its way into northern ireland, spreads to parts of scotland, england and wales. the rain and its most persistent, though, for northern ireland and northern england as well. with all that cloud around, as you'd imagine, it's going to be a frost free night. temperatures around about four to eight degrees celsius. now, into the early part of the new week.

low pressure is going to stay close to the north west of the uk, firing in pulses of fairly heavy rain and with brisk winds in the forecast as well. it is a particularly unsettled looking weather pattern. now, the heaviest rain will always be to the western side of the uk and i think for monday, particularly for western areas of scotland, eastern areas of england, well, probably not so much in the way of rain. i wouldn't promise it stays dry, but itjust won't be that much in the way of rain totals building up. temperatures still 13, 1a degrees, so mild again. now for tuesday, probably the worst of the rain clearing through for the morning, followed by sunshine and showers. some of those showers heavy with thunder. the next weather system working into western areas, though, as we go through tuesday afternoon. tuesday night looks like it's going to be a wet night for most of us. the rain band slow moving across scotland into wednesday, but elsewhere we're looking at a day of sunshine and heavy thundery showers. the showers look to be widespread. some of those heaviest showers could have some hail mixed in with them as well. but for the most part, temperatures staying into double figures.

the exception really northern most areas of scotland, low at six. well, that's a bit cold for the time of year. now for thursday, we've got cold air coming back in across scotland is still mild with south—westerly winds hanging on across england and wales. so there will be some rather larger temperature contrast building in later in the week. with that, some of the showers in scotland could start to turn wintry, especially over the high hills. but across england, wales and northern ireland it looks like it stays mild for the most part, with temperatures still 12 to 15 degrees celsius. but again, it's unsettled. so expect some further downpours at times friday. next weekend, it looks like it stays unsettled with further bursts of rain and for the most part, temperatures just coming down a little bit by a few degrees, probablyjust slipping below average. but i think those rainfall totals really mounting up in the week ahead. i think march is going to be a very wet month.

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