1 week ago International manhunt underway for Rochdale grooming gang 'coward' who fled the country

Kasir Bashir, 50, was convicted in his absence - jurors weren't told he had fled the country

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2 w. ago Constance Marten’s partner tells court prosecution case is ‘like a movie script’

Mark Gordon, 51, told jurors: ‘The whole prosecution in this case is like a script from a movie, indeed a fictional novel’

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2 w. ago Cassie Ventura’s friend testifies Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs dangled her from balcony

Bryana Bongolan tells Manhattan jurors that the hip-hop mogul held her off Cassie’s 17th-floor apartment in 2016A woman testified on Wednesday in Sean “Diddy” Combs’s federal racketeering conspiracy and sex-trafficking trial that thehip-hop mogul dangled her from the balcony of a 17th-floor apartment in 2016.Bryana Bongolan, a longtime friend of Combs’s former girlfriend, singer Casandra “Cassie” Ventura, told jurors in Manhattan federal court that in September 2016 Combs showed up unannounced one morning at Ventura’s Los Angeles apartment, where she was staying at the time, and began banging on the door. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Diddy trial recap: Cassie’s longtime friend testifies about abuse and balcony fight with Combs that has left her traumatized

Bryana Bongolan, a friend of Cassie’s, told jurors Combs threatened to kill her and dangled her over a 17-story balcony

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2 w. ago Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs dangled Cassie’s friend off balcony, jury hears

Bryana Bongolan tells Manhattan jurors that the hip-hop mogul held her off Cassie’s 17th-floor apartment in 2016Hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs dangled a friend of his former girlfriend Casandra Ventura off the balcony of a 17th-floor apartment in September 2016, the friend testified on Wednesday at Combs’s sex-trafficking trial.Bryana Bongolan, Ventura’s friend, told jurors in Manhattan federal court that Combs then came up to her from behind on the balcony of Ventura’s Los Angeles apartment, lifted her up, and placed her on top of the balcony’s rail. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Diddy trial live updates: Cassie’s longtime friend details trauma after Combs allegedly dangled her from balcony

Bryana Bongolan, a friend of Cassie’s, told jurors Combs threatened to kill her and dangled her over a 17-story balcony

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2 w. ago Diddy trial live updates: Combs allegedly told Cassie’s friend ‘I am the devil and I could kill you’

Bryana Bongolan, a friend of Cassie’s, told jurors Combs threatened to kill her and dangled her over a 17-story balcony

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3 w. ago Stylist testifies that ‘frightened’ Cassie Ventura wanted to jump off hotel balcony to escape Diddy

Deonte Nash told jurors about how the music mogul threatened, abused and controlled Ventura’s life and career

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4 w. ago Diddy's former assistant Capricorn Clark breaks down in tears as she recalls terrifying threats by his staff

Diddy's former personal assistant told jurors at his trial that she was forced to take lie detector tests for five days and was threatened with being thrown in the East River if she failed.

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4 w. ago Amputee, 92, sprayed and tasered by police was ‘suffering delirium’, jurors told

The care home called police after Donald Burgess, an amputee and wheelchair user, grabbed a knife and threatened to stab staff, jurors heard.

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4 w. ago Police who sprayed and tasered amputee ‘used force first, asked questions later’

A care home had called 999 after Donald Burgess, a single-leg amputee and wheelchair user, reportedly grabbed a knife and threatened to stab staff.

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