What a shocking holiday period it was for three young people, from the UK, all of whom received a henna tattoo. Three stories were published this week, in as many days, on 2 children and a teenager all of whom had severe reactions to henna (temporary) tattoos.

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A man who had a tattoo of his name and birth date on his neck was caught on CCTV breaking into a parked surveillance car. The police placed the car in a parking lot with a satellite navigation system as bait for thieves to break into. From the CCTV images, the police used the details to track down and convict Aaron Evans, 21 of the offence. Police said the camera clearly captured footage of a tattoo on the back of the offender’s neck reading: “Evans 19.9.87.”

Evans pleaded guilty to the theft and was sentenced to seven months in jail.

Angelina Jolie has added to her body art with two new tattoos which are the geographical coordinates of the French city Nice, where her three-month-old twins were born. The two lines on her upper left arm show the longitudinal and latitudinal location where Knox and Vivienne were born and sit below the global coordinates of where her four other children were born.

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