Murder suspect sent home

A 17-year-old accused of murder in a death in September has been allowed to await his trial outside of jail. Some details about the homicide, the 19th of the year, are given in the second half of this item.

A small but significant difference in English and French usage: the French story here describes the incident as having taken place “en septembre dernier” which, to my anglo ear, sounded like September 2020. But in French there is, I think, no way to say “it happened in September” as you would in English, meaning the most proximate past September we experienced. I often find myself double‑taking at this in news stories.