40 h. ago Infamous Netflix Fyre Festival sequel postponed as artist reveals talks to play event

Despite being sentenced to jail on fraud charges and grabbing the world's attention with an incredibly disastrous music festival, Billy McFarland decided to give it another shot

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40 h. ago Infamous Netflix Fyre Festival sequel postponed as fans 'pretend to be shocked'

Despite being sentenced to jail on fraud charges and grabbing the world's attention with an incredibly disastrous music festival, Billy McFarland decided to give it another shot

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2 d. ago 'Coward' driver left best friend to die in wreck after horror drug

Joshua Pearce was slammed by a judge while he was being sentenced to four years and four months in jail for ditching the godfather of his child after a car crash, in Wales

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3 d. ago Behind bars, trio of thugs who killed woman in car attack after travelling to Scotland for drug deal

A drug dealer and his two accomplices have been told they face 'significant' jail sentences for killing a woman in a deadly car attack.

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6 d. ago Italian police arrest 24 suspected mafiosi over Naples parking protection racket

Suspects charged for drug and weapon offences as well as scheme in which drivers felt compelled to pay feesItalian police have arrested 24 suspected members of the Camorra – the notorious Neapolitan mafia – on charges of drug trafficking, arms possession and running an illegal parking attendant scheme.According to investigators, several of those arrested on Monday were reportedly affiliated with well-known Camorra families operating in the Fuorigrotta and Chiaia districts of Naples. Some were already serving jail sentences. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Iranian directors of My Favourite Cake given suspended jail sentences for ‘spreading lies’

Makers of the acclaimed film, whose gentle romance depicts its heroine without a headscarf, were accused of ‘disturbing public opinion’An Iranian court has handed two Iranian film directors suspended jail terms over a film that angered authorities in its home country but was acclaimed in Europe and the US, rights groups said on Thursday.Maryam Moghaddam and Behtash Sanaeeha were convicted earlier this week by a revolutionary court for their film My Favourite Cake, the Human Rights Activist News Agency (HRANA) and Dadban legal monitor said in separate statements. The film, which competed at the 2024 Berlin film festival and won prizes in Europe and the US, shows the romantic awakening of a woman in Tehran who notably appears without the headscarf that is obligatory for women in Iran. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Tommy Robinson should have sentence reduced as jail ‘making him ill’, court told

Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, was jailed for 18 months for the civil offence of contempt of court in October last year.

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1 week ago Unruly Ryanair passenger assaulted two people while drunk on flight from Tenerife

Catherine Bellis, 44, was on board a flight from Tenerife to Liverpool when she assaulted two people while drunk - and has been warned she may face jail when she returns for sentencing

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1 week ago Man who kicked taxi driver to death after asking for cigarette in 'senseless attack' sentenced to jail

The taxi driver was pushed down a steep embankment before being kicked repeatedly in the head

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1 week ago US ballerina Ksenia Karelina is freed from Russian jail hell in prisoner swap months after she was sentenced to 12 years in penal colony for high treason

Russia has today released American ballerina Ksenia Karelina from her jail hell in an early morning prisoner swap between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump's respective intelligence agencies

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2 w. ago WATCH Joanne Sharkey sentencing LIVE as mum who killed newborn baby spared jail

Joanne Sharkey buried the infant near Gulliver's World in Warrington

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2 w. ago Woman whose rape lies got innocent man jailed receives disgustingly light sentence

A woman who admitted to lying about a man attempting to rape and kidnapping received an incredibly light sentence after an innocent man spent a month in jail.

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2 w. ago Rosie O'Donnell's estranged daughter sentenced after arrest on drug charges

The 27-year-old was sentenced to just six years probation during a hearing Monday in Oconto County, Wisconsin and faces a possible jail sentence if that probation is violated.

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2 w. ago Marine Le Pen's party calls on supporters to take to the streets amid fury over her presidential election ban and jail sentence

The leader of France's far-right party called Monday for a peaceful 'mobilisation', after Marine Le Pen was banned from running for office following an embezzlement conviction.

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2 w. ago Marine Le Pen is in 'fighting mood' and will appeal her four

France's hard-right leader will appeal her conviction for embezzlement of public funds, her lawyer said Monday, after a court handed her a five-year ban on running for office.

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3 w. ago Marine Le Pen banned from running for French president after embezzling EU funds

Le Pen handed jail sentence and immediate five-year ban from political office, excluding her from running in the French presidential elections in 2027

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3 w. ago Marine Le Pen banned from standing for office for five years

Far-right leader also sentenced to jail in ruling that jeopardises her ambitions to run for French presidency in 2027

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3 w. ago Marine Le Pen is sentenced to four years in JAIL and BANNED from entering presidential elections as she is found guilty of embezzlement and accused of 'undermining democracy'

Presiding Judge Bénédicte de Perthuis has sentenced Le Pen, 56, to a five-year ban from politics. She has also been sentenced to four years in prison with two under an electronic bracelet and a £84k fine.

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3 w. ago Criminals handed longer sentences 'will be let out of prison early to make room in jails'

Shabana Mahmood's remarks open up the prospect of offenders handed long jail terms getting less jail time as part of a sentencing review launched by Labour.

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3 w. ago Killers could serve shorter jail terms for good behaviour in radical overhaul of sentencing, justice minister signals

Shabana Mahmood warned ‘short sentence reform on its own isn’t going to be enough’ to ease the overcrowding crisis as she opened a new 1,500-cell prison

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