16 h. ago Couple bag huge £125m lottery jackpot only to be jailed a few days later

James Farthing, 50, and his girlfriend, Jacqueline Fightmaster, 42, were arrested following a barfight at a Florida oceanfront resort, just days after he won a £125m jackpot

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6 d. ago Drunk sex offender died after falling down stairs day after he got out of jail

At the time of Anthony Payne's death a warrant for his arrest was outstanding

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8 d. ago Mirror's Daily Digest: Our top stories from jailed footballer to soap stars getting engaged

In this Thursday's Mirror Daily Digest, we've pulled together the biggest stories of the day from an EFL footballer jailed for killing a cyclist to Emmerdale stars' surprise engagement

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1 week ago Scotland's 'most prolific catfish' sent victim creepy message days after prison release

Adele Rennie breached a non-harassment order by contacting the woman while pretending she thought she was someone else - just 11 days after being released from jail.

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1 week ago Violent nightclub thug poses in smiling jail pic days after being locked up

Sebastian Jones was sentenced to seven years in prison after he launched a horror attack on his 41-year-old victim.

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1 week ago Smiling thug poses in jail selfie DAYS after being locked up for brutal attack

Thug Sebastian Jones was sentenced to serve seven years in prison following an attack against his 41-year-old victim during a night out in Oldham, Greater Manchester

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1 week ago Smiling thug poses from jail DAYS after he's locked up for sickening attack

Sebastian Jones is locked up in Forest Bank but has still been posting on social media

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2 w. ago Ringleaders of attacks on French jails will be punished, Macron says

Wave of assaults ‘declaration of war’ by drug gangs after crackdown on bosses operating from jail, French media sayEmmanuel Macron has warned that those behind a wave of apparently coordinated attacks on French prisons and staff will be “found, tried and punished”.The president’s comments came after at least a dozen assaults on French jails in the past three days. In one attack, gunmen using automatic weapons fired at the entrance to Toulon prison in the south of France. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago French prisons hit by wave of attacks after clampdown on drug traffickers

Terrorism office launches investigation into assaults including gunmen opening fire on entrance to Toulon jailFrance’s national terrorism office has launched an investigation into a wave of apparently coordinated attacks at multiple prisons across the country believed to be linked to a government clampdown on drug traffickers.Gunmen with automatic weapons opened fire on the entrance to Toulon prison in southern France in the early hours of Tuesday, while in recent days cars have been set alight outside four other jails, and in Marseille a residential building housing prison guards was attacked. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Two American college students jailed in Denmark for allegedly fighting with Uber driver

Owen Ray’s mother fears for her son, as she claims he and his friend are being ‘locked up 23 hours a day’ in a Copenhagen jail

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2 w. ago Convicted murderer John Mansfield, 63, is 'killed by another prisoner' in high

A convicted murderer has been killed by another prisoner in another jail security failure just a day after three prison officers were brutally attacked.

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2 w. ago Prisoner of war, 34, who was held captive in Russian jail for 1,000 days reveals how he survived the constant hunger and endless beatings

Ukrainian journalist Oleksandr Gudilin was captured by Russian soldiers on April 12, 2002 during the siege of Mariupol while fighting as a reservist against invading Russian forces.

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4 w. ago Teenagers jailed for brutal daylight shotgun and machete attack in Dagenham

All three had their sentences reduced by between a third and half because they were under 18 when they committed the offences

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