"I say he is innocent, " the boy's attorney, Mark Reichel, said.

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Local boy Conor Cummins came in fifth and Mark Parrett was sixth.

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When he questioned Ms Shuttleworth about the mark, she told him Luke Southerton had bitten the boy.

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Mark Topping, prosecuting, said since his arrest the boy had been detained under the Mental Health Act in secure accommodation in the West Midlands area.

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The motley cast of characters includes a dodgy, pockmarked contractor (Mark Lee), a hopelessly unhip coffee-shop boy (Henry Thia) and tattooed loan sharks, all of them relentlessly chasing money.

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Fellow co-founder Mark Britto, born in Singapore, came to America as a boy as well.

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Family and friends of a five-year-old boy who was killed by a hit-and-run driver 10 years ago will mark his 16th birthday by releasing lanterns later.

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