Gabby Petito This article is more than 1 month oldKiller’s family allegedly knew Gabby Petito was dead weeks before discoveryThis article is more than 1 month oldBrian Laundrie’s parents expressed hope his fiancee would be found despite call from him saying Petito was ‘gone’, lawsuit claims The fiance and killer of the domestic violence murder victim Gabby Petito desperately called his parents and told them that she was “gone” weeks before she was discovered dead – yet they later shared messages expressing hope that search efforts for her would end in success, her family has alleged.

The Observer's faces of 2021TelevisionInterviewMurray Bartlett: ‘Filming The White Lotus in lockdown felt like a TV summer camp’Michael HoganThe Australian actor on creating his character Armond, the magic of Tales of the City and that meme-inspiring suitcase scene Bake-Off contestant Jürgen Krauss: ‘I had to call three families with crying kids to comfort them’ See the Observer’s faces of 2021 in full Sydney-born actor Murray Bartlett, 50, made his screen debut aged 16 in medical soap The Flying Doctors.

Yann MartelWe ate the children lastThe first human trial was on Patient D, a 56-year-old male, single and childless, who was suffering from colon cancer. He was a skeletal man with white, bloodless skin who could no longer ingest even clear fluids. He was aware that his case was terminal and he waived all rights to legal redress should the procedure go wrong. His recovery was astounding. Two days after the operation, he ate six lunch meals in one sitting.

The other sideTelevisionJaime Winstone and Samantha Spiro are on the money as far as the performances go, but this docudrama makes little sense I so wanted to love Babs (7 May, 8pm, BBC1), the BBC’s biopic of Barbara Windsor, the British national treasure best known for her rocket-propelled bikini in Carry On Camping and steady stream of bitch slaps as Peggy, the brassy matriarch in EastEnders. In the end, though, I was just baffled.

IrelandIrish police investigate fire at disused pub set to house homeless familiesBlaze in Dublin comes less than fortnight after suspected arson attack on vacant Galway hotel earmarked for asylum seekers Irish police have been investigating a second fire in less than a fortnight at a building local people reportedly believed would be used to accommodate asylum seekers. The emergency services were called to the scene at the Ringsend area of Dublin in the early hours of New Year’s Eve.