11 h. ago Brazilian police arrest Bolsonaro amid suspicions he was about to flee

Move comes after fears the far-right former president was about to seek refuge at a foreign embassy to avoid prisonBrazil’s former far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, has been arrested at his villa in the capital, Brasília , amid suspicions he was poised to abscond to a foreign embassy to avoid going to prison for masterminding a military coup.In a brief statement, federal police confirmed officers had executed a preventive arrest warrant at the request of the supreme court. The 70-year-old politician was taken to a federal police base, 7 miles from the presidential palace he occupied from 2019 until 2022, when he lost the election and tried to launch a military coup. Continue reading...

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26 h. ago Police raid that uncovered mysterious locked safe sees five gang members behind bars

Five people have been sentenced to 19 years and two months in prison after police raided a property and pulled a man over

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26 h. ago Police cleared of woman's death in custody after she spent 33 hours in the station

Helen Williams spent 33 hours in Caernarfon police station and was due to be returned to prison

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61 h. ago Rapist Met Police officer David Carrick already in prison for sex crimes is jailed for life

Metropolitan Police officer David Carrick has been found guilty of molesting a 12-year-old girl and raping a former partner at the Old Bailey. He was already a convicted sex offender before the allegations came to light

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61 h. ago Serial rapist Met Police officer David Carrick already in prison handed 37th life sentence

Metropolitan Police officer David Carrick has been found guilty of molesting a 12-year-old girl and raping a former partner at the Old Bailey. He was already a convicted sex offender before the allegations came to light

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8 d. ago Police appeal to find another prisoner wrongly released from prison while awaiting trial

William Wenham, 47, was released in error from HMP Rochester on June 3

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9 d. ago Drugs kingpin carried on running his business in Nottingham while on the run from the police and living a life of luxury in Thailand

Vejay Samuels, 30, from Nottingham, flew to the other side of the world in a bid to escape police and avoid prison - but was arrested when he returned to the UK and received a 14-year jail term.

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1 week ago She stepped out of prison to taste freedom, but police were waiting to arrest her again

A woman was arrested moments after being released from prison

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1 week ago Police warn 'do not approach' man with distinctive arm tattoo

Police are hunting Kevin McAteer, 34, who absconded from prison on September 22

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1 week ago David Lammy says 91 prisoners freed in error in England and Wales since April

Justice secretary tells MPs as many as four may still be at large and blames previous governments’ cuts for mistakesThe justice secretary has revealed that 91 prisoners have been released by mistake in England and Wales since April, of whom as many four remain at large.David Lammy gave details in a Commons statement of three mistakenly released prisoners the police are trying to trace. He said the Prison Service was also investigating a fourth inmate released in error last Monday who may still be at large. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Drug dealer granted clemency by Trump sent back to prison for violating terms of his release

A convicted drug dealer granted clemency by President Donald Trump has been sent back to federal prison for violating the terms of his release after being charged with several new crimes

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1 week ago Man accused of sexually assaulting boy at campsite dies in prison

John Bell, 44, had been charged over an incident at the Loch Ness Bay Campsite in July.

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2 w. ago Another foreign criminal on the run: Nigerian man serving 21 years for kidnapping and GBH is hunted by police after walking out of open prison

Ola Abimbola, a foreign national, allegedly walked out of the open prison HMP Ford on October 16 and has not been seen since.

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2 w. ago Wrongly freed Algerian migrant sex offender slams UK justice, tells cops 'do your job' and shouts 'it's not my fault I was released' in extraordinary tirade as he is re

Algerian sex offender Brahim Kaddour-Cherif, 24, has been rearrested after being accidentally freed from HMP Wandsworth over a week ago.

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2 w. ago Police arrest Algerian migrant sex offender who was released from prison by mistake

Algerian sex offender Brahim Kaddour-Cherif, 24, has been rearrested after being accidentally freed from HMP Wandsworth over a week ago.

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2 w. ago Another foreign criminal on the run: Man serving 21 years for kidnapping and GBH is hunted by police after walking out of open prison

Ola Abimbola, a foreign national, allegedly walked out of the open prison HMP Ford on October 16 and has not been seen since.

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2 w. ago British woman on Bali death row flies home on humanitarian grounds

Indonesia has some of the world’s toughest drug laws, but has moved to release more than half a dozen high-profile detainees in the last yearTwo British drug convicts including death row prisoner Lindsay Sandiford were repatriated from Indonesia on Friday, as part of a deal to return them on humanitarian grounds.Indonesia has some of the world’s toughest drug laws, but has moved to release more than half a dozen high-profile detainees in the last year. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Prison guard says convicted robber 'she was having sex with' threatened to kill her

Isabelle Dale denies allegations that she had a physical sexual relationship with convicted robber Shahid Sharif, and helped run his spice drug running operation

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2 w. ago Prisoner hands himself in after three days, as manhunt continues for migrant

Billy Smith, 35, handed himself back in after he was mistakenly released from HMP Wandsworth.

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2 w. ago UK police hunt two men accidentally released from same prison

Algerian man convicted of indecent exposure and British man sentenced for fraud were mistakenly freed from Wandsworth prison

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