71 m. ago Brit law student 'jailed for life' to be freed from Dubai jail after cocaine charges

Mia O'Brien was arrested in the Middle East in October and pleaded not guilty to drug offences in court, but was convicted by a judge after just a day-long hearing on July 25

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94 m. ago Brit student jailed 'for life' over cocaine charges in Dubai set to be freed

Mia O'Brien was arrested in the Middle East in October and pleaded not guilty to drug offences in court, but was convicted by a judge after just a day-long hearing on July 25

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1 hour ago Brit, 23, jailed for life in Dubai after 'very stupid mistake' released from prison

Mia O'Brien was detained in Dubai's central prison after allegedly being found with 50 grams of cocaine in October last year in what her mum described as a "very stupid mistake"

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2 h. ago Brit, 23, jailed for life in Dubai after 'very stupid mistake' is released from prison

Mia O'Brien was detained in Dubai's central prison in September after making what her mum described as a "very stupid mistake"

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4 h. ago British law student jailed in Dubai over 'single line of cocaine' is set to be freed after spending a year in 'hellhole' prison following one

Mia O'Brien, 23, was arrested in the Middle Eastern city in October 2024 after 50g of cocaine - worth around £2,500 in the UK - was allegedly found in a flat stormed by police during a party.

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6 h. ago British law student jailed for 25 years in Dubai 'hellhole' prison over cocaine charges after trial held in Arabic to be freed

Mia O'Brien, 23, was arrested in the Middle Eastern city in October 2024 after 50g of cocaine - worth around £2,500 in the UK - was allegedly found in a flat stormed by police during a party.

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6 h. ago The Curious Case of Mike Lynch by Katie Prescott review – the extraordinary story behind the Bayesian tragedy

A meticulously researched account of the controversial businessman’s rise and shocking demiseAt least two terrible ironies surround the death of Mike Lynch. One lies in the name of his superyacht, which sank off the coast of Sicily in the early hours of 19 August 2024. He had named the boat Bayesian to honour Bayes’s theorem, a mathematical rule that helps you weigh up the probability of something given the available evidence, which served as Lynch’s guiding light over the course of a tempestuous career. The theorem was “a beautiful key to our minds”, Lynch believed. But it was entirely incapable of predicting the outcome that morning, when the yacht capsized during a storm, killing seven people, including Lynch, his 18-year-old daughter Hannah and his US lawyer, Chris Morvillo.A second irony lies in the fact that Lynch had just come through the trial of his life, one he felt was bound to end in jail, where he thought he could die. Somehow, to everyone’s astonishment, an American ju...

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3 d. ago EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Joy at last as Kiera Chaplin gets engaged after heartache

I hear the silent film star's granddaughter has got engaged, almost two decades after her life was 'ruined' by her last fiance, who was jailed for money laundering through her company.

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5 d. ago Brit ‘drug smuggler’ told he faces DEATH for ‘bringing £300k

A BRIT faces the death penalty, accused of smuggling 1.3 kg of cocaine worth £300,000 into Bali. Landscape gardener Kial Garth Robinson, 29, of Littlehampton, West Sussex, appeared in court today charged with three counts of importing more than one kilo of cocaine into Indonesia on September 3. Indonesian prosecutor Made Dipa Umbara told the...

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9 d. ago Paul Doyle's life in jail after Liverpool crash from 'protection to inmate fury'

Paul Doyle changed his plea to guilty on all 31 charges after driving into a crowd of Liverpool fans in the city centre and causing injuries to more than 100 people in the process

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9 d. ago Murderer who calmly told police 'I've killed someone', is jailed for life after stabbing sleeping woman to death and sexually assaulting her corpse

Sitting cross-legged on the pavement with his head in his hands, Ernestas Juska appeared chillingly calm as he told police: 'I've just killed someone.'

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9 d. ago Man who 'deliberately drove at' girlfriend's brother and killed him jailed for life

Stephen Bates, 42, murdered Martin O'Donovan, 47, after a drunken birthday party brawl

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1 week ago Man 'excitedly' slaughtered woman before vile sex act on corpse

Depraved Ernestas Juska has been jailed for life for the brutal murder of Nina Denisova, a family friend who suffered a horrific fate at the hands of the killer

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1 week ago Robber jailed for life after murdering pensioner in north London to steal his shopping

Peter Mackey was attacked for his shopping as he left his local Co-Op in Manor House

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1 week ago Thug who threw boy, 6, off Tate Modern balcony 'clawed' nurse in terrifying attack

Jonty Bravery, 24, was jailed for life in 2020 for throwing a six-year-old from Tate Modern's 10th-storey balcony - now he's been found guilty of assaulting nurses

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1 week ago Mother who hid children’s bodies in suitcases jailed for life in New Zealand

Hakyung Lee was found guilty of murdering her children and concealing their remains in a storage lockerA mother who murdered her two children and hid their bodies in suitcases stored inside a rented locker has been sentenced to life imprisonment in New Zealand.Hakyung Lee, a New Zealand citizen originally from South Korea, was found guilty earlier this year of killing her children in a crime that has become known as the “suitcase murders”. Continue reading...

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1 week ago ‘He’ll control your life’ – Scots rape fiend’s victim warns his new jail bride after Barlinnie wedding

RAPE fiend Kenneth Quinn’s victim has warned his jail bride the “psychopath” will control her from behind bars. Carolyn Quinn urged relatives of the 51-year-old’s new wife Brogan, 29, to protect her from him. Mum Carolyn — who suffered 27 years of sadistic abuse when married to the brute — warned: “He will play on...

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1 week ago Gardener facing life in jail after a jury took less than 27 minutes to find him guilty of breaking the neck of his teacher lover after she threatened to leave him

Trudi Burgess, 57, was left paralysed from the chest down when Robert Easom, 56, flew into an 'uncontrollable' rage and attacked her.

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2 w. ago South Korean rapist jailed for life over online blackmail ring that shocked country

Kim raped or assaulted 16 victims, including 14 minors, and recorded videos of his crimes

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2 w. ago Former local election candidate in Stockport murdered his ex

Martin Suter - a former Green Party member in Stockport - has been jailed for life

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