A 29-year-old asylum seeker from Afghanistan raped a 15-year-old schoolgirl after spotting her alone in Falkirk city centre, a court has heard.

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Megan Skye Blancada, 39, has been jailed for more than five years for sexually abusing a 14-year-old boy in Australia as a court heard her sick encounters with the teenager

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Lawyers for Brad Sigmon said he chose a death by firing squad because he thought lethal injection would be tortuousSouth Carolina’s supreme court has rejected what is likely the final appeal of convicted murderer Brad Sigmon, clearing the way for his execution by firing squad on Friday.Sigmon’s lawyers wanted to delay his death so they could get a fuller hearing in court to learn more information about the drug South Carolina uses in lethal injections. Sigmon said that lack of information forced him to choose to be shot to death. The state also has an electric chair, but Sigmon said he didn’t want to suffer being cooked alive by electricity. Continue reading...

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A court has heard how a trio of 'Nazis' allegedly amassed hoards of weapons in preparation for terror attacks on religious sites which they hoped would 'start a race war'.

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Girl A told the court 'there was that many it was hard to keep count'

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Alexander Isak, of Newcastle United, was burgled along with two other people over a few days last spring, a court heard

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Daniel Parker had a serious mental health condition and fatally shot his mum with a crossbow, as well as using it to attack his sister and a neighbour, a court heard

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The court also heard how Stuart Harding first contacted and began talking to one child victim, who was under the age of 13, on Snapchat.

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Jurors at Leicester Crown Court also heard claims that the youth charged with murdering Bhim Kohli, 80, said ‘it is what it is at the end of the day’.

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The Newcastle United and Sweden forward was not in the house at Darras Hall, Northumberland when a family of thieves broke through his glass door last April.

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The Labour Party donor says the Daily Mail publishers misused his personal data in a 2023 article.

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Newcastle United star Alexander Isak had jewellery, cash and his car stolen when burglars broke into his home in Northumberland in April last year

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Striker Alexander Isak was targeted when he was out of his home last April, a court was told.

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Alexander Isak was targeted by a gang of burglars who carried out a string of high-value break-ins, Newcastle Crown Court has heard.

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Antony Demetriades, 24, lured the bikini wearing girl and her teenage friend into an alleyway behind the Oceanarium attraction after they had spent the day sunbathing on the beach, it was heard.

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Thomas McDonagh, 22, and Martin Stokes, 23, wore specially modified jackets to steal £23,000 worth of high end products including Victoria's Secret perfume, a court heard.

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Mum Melissa Wilband, 28, is on trial accused of the manslaughter of four-month-old baby Lexi Wilband, alongside her then-partner Jack Wheeler, 31, after the infant collapsed at home

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Clifford is accused of raping ex-girlfriend Louise in a 'violent, sexual act of spite' during an attack which saw him murder her, her sister and their mother in Bushey, Hertfordshire.

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Caroline Martinsson lost control of her car and ploughed into a wall whilst driving to demand an explanation from her partner over claims she was being cheated on.

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Clifford is alleged to have become 'angry' when ex-partner Louise Hunt, 25, ended their relationship before he 'carefully planned and executed' the murders last July.

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