43 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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52 m. ago Care home boss who abused young females then fled to India blames his victims

Naijil Paul fled to India before he was due to stand trial in 2019 accused of sex offence charges. Now he has been jailed for nearly eight years after being extradited back to the UK

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65 m. 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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3 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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5 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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5 d. ago Revealed: How a British businessman was mocked in court over his desperation to be reunited with the daughter

Mark Gibbon was in a relationship with Jasmine Wyld who had previously been engaged to his son when their furious argument in a Florida swimming pool led to his arrest.

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6 d. ago TfL passenger to stand trial after she's charged with walking wrong way on escalator

Michaela Copeland, 21, will stand trial after she was charged with walking the wrong way on an escalator - a little-known offence outlined on Transport for London byelaws

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6 d. ago Watch live: Luigi Mangione due back in court ahead of trial on CEO murder charges

Watch live from outside the courthouse where Luigi Mangione, who is accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, will appear on Monday (1 December) for hearings on the admissibility of key pieces of evidence at his murder trial.

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7 d. ago British businessman is back in the UK... and into the arms of the daughter

Mark Gibbon, 62, was freed by a US court this month after a plea deal in which he admitted one count of battery against Jasmine Wyld, 33, mother of his two grandchildren.

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1 week ago California labor leader pleads not guilty to misdemeanor over immigration protest

The leader of a major labor union in Southern California who was arrested while protesting an immigration raid earlier this year has pleaded not guilty to a misdemeanor charge and will face trial in January

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1 week ago Paul Doyle admits deliberately hitting Liverpool parade crowd as dashcam shows why

Paul Doyle appeared at Liverpool Crown Court to face trial today but dramatically pleaded guilty to the charges against him

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1 week ago Husband accused of 'repeatedly raping his wife over many years' says he was suffering from sexomnia

The 62-year-old defendant - who cannot be named as it would identify his ex-wife - is on trial charged with 'repeatedly raping and sexually abusing' her on a monthly basis between 2006 and 2017.

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1 week ago Former marine Paul Doyle pleads guilty to mowing down crowds in Liverpool victory parade crash that injured more than 130 people

Paul Doyle, 54, appeared in the dock at Liverpool Crown Court where he was charged with 31 offences related to the incident on May 26.

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1 week ago Liverpool parade crash trial – latest: Paul Doyle in court accused of driving into crowds of football fans

Paul Doyle, 54, is standing trial at Liverpool Crown Court charged with 31 offences over the incident at Liverpool FC’s victory parade

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1 week ago Liverpool parade crash trial – latest: Tearful Paul Doyle in court accused of driving into crowds of football fans

Paul Doyle, 54, is standing trial at Liverpool Crown Court charged with 31 offences over the incident at Liverpool FC’s victory parade

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1 week ago Paul Doyle trial LIVE updates as Liverpool crash suspect cries and denies charge

The 54-year-old faces a series of charges after more than 100 pedestrians were injured when a car collided with fans in Liverpool city centre

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1 week ago Driver who killed student and her dog while going more than double to speed limit is jailed for five years

Lucy Atkins died after being struck by a car on West Boulevard in Quinton on 24 June last year. The family's Lakeland Terrier, Simba, was also killed in the collision.

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2 w. ago UN warns world losing climate battle but fragile Cop30 deal keeps up the fight

Reaching agreement in divisive political landscape shows ‘climate cooperation is alive and kicking’, says UN climate chiefThe world is not winning the fight against the climate crisis but it is still in that fight, the UN climate chief has said in Belém, Brazil, after a bitterly contested Cop30 reached a deal.Countries at Cop30 failed to bring the curtain down on the fossil fuel age amid opposition from some countries led by Saudi Arabia, and they underdelivered on a flagship hope – at a conference held in the Amazon – to chart an end to deforestation. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Chomsky had deeper ties with Epstein than previously known, documents reveal

The philosopher and the sex trafficker were in contact long after Epstein was convicted of soliciting prostitution from a minor, documents revealThe prominent linguist and philosopher Noam Chomsky called it a “most valuable experience” to have maintained “regular contact” with Jeffrey Epstein, who by then had long been convicted of soliciting prostitution from a minor, according to emails released earlier in November this month by US lawmakers.Such comments from Chomsky, or attributed to him, suggest his association with Epstein – who officials concluded killed himself in jail in 2019 while awaiting trial on federal sex-trafficking charges – went deeper than the occasional political and academic discussions the former had previously claimed to have with the latter. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Democrats investigating Epstein decry Andrew ‘silence’ over interview request

Mountbatten-Windsor ‘continues to hide’, US lawmakers say, after deadline they set to receive response passesTwo Democratic lawmakers involved in the US congressional investigation into the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein on Friday condemned Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s “silence” in response to their request that he sit for a deposition.Robert Garcia, the ranking member of the House oversight committee, and Suhas Subramanyam, a member of the panel, were among the Democrats who earlier this month sent the former British prince a letter seeking his cooperation in their inquiry into Epstein, who died in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges. Continue reading...

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