46 m. ago Man, 28, who raped women he met on Tinder and Snapchat after inviting them to his house is jailed

The 28-year-old was sentenced in the Bristol Crown Court last Wednesday to two charges of rape and one charge of sexual assault.

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1 hour ago Owner of two XL Bully dogs that savaged a father to death was 'dismissive' when concerns were raised over hounds, court hears

James Trimble-Pettit, 31, has admitted being the owner of two XL bully dogs which were out of control when they attacked Ian Price, 52, in Stonall, near Sutton Coldfield in September 2023.

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1 hour ago Tragedy as mum, 34, and baby die after home birth as chilling warning 'not passed on'

Jennifer Cahill's husband Rob said his wife’s medical notes never stated that her choice to have a home birth was 'out of guidance', a court heard

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2 h. ago Venezuela closes embassy in Oslo after opposition leader awarded Nobel peace prize

María Corina Machado has made downfall of Maduro regime in Venezuela her missionIn Venezuela’s ‘darkest hours’, will peace prize boost opposition or backfire?Norway’s foreign ministry has said that Venezuela has closed its embassy in Oslo without giving a reason, days after opposition leader María Corina Machado was awarded the Nobel peace prize.“We have been informed by the embassy of Venezuela that it is shutting its doors and no reason has been given,” the foreign ministry spokesperson, Cecilie Roang, told AFP. Continue reading...

Politics

2 h. ago Furious mother shouts out in court at 'weak' judge who has 'blood on his hands' after her son's killer and accomplices are jailed over 'execution' shooting

Gabriel Charles, 19, shot Jesse Lloyd-Smith, 20, five times in an alleyway next to his mother's home in Peckham, south east London, on July 10 last year.

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2 h. ago Teenage boy takes his parents to court after being enrolled at Ghanian boarding school over fears he would fall into gang violence in Britain

The boy, known as S, started a family court case after his parents left him in west Africa in March 2024 over concerns he was at risk of engaging in criminal activity or being killed due to knife crime.

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2 h. ago The Guardian view on the online scam industry: authorities must not forget that perpetrators are often victims too | Editorial

A lucrative sector is spreading fast as criminal enterprises force abused and trafficked workers to cheat othersA Chinese court last month sentenced 11 people to death over their roles in a illegal scam empire along the border with Myanmar. But it won’t end a noxious multibillion-dollar industry that devastates the lives of two sets of victims. The first are those cheated out of money, often by people posing as potential romantic or business partners in what are known as “pig‑butchering” schemes. The second are those who are forced to cheat them, working in conditions amounting to modern slavery.The recent study, Scam: Inside Southeast Asia’s Cybercrime Compounds, by Ivan Franceschini, Ling Li and Mark Bo, paints a terrifying picture of the sector. Workers are trafficked into heavily guarded, prison-like compounds, where they are routinely abused and tortured for failing to meet targets, or extorted for ransoms. Others take the jobs willingly, but find that they cannot repay ru...

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2 h. ago 'I'm a 70% DNA match for missing Maddie, you can't dispute the facts,' woman accused of stalking Kate McCann says in messages played to court

Julia Wandelt told Kate McCann: 'You are my mother, it's science no one can deny it', a court heard yesterday. She added: 'I am not a scammer, I am your daughter'.

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3 h. ago 'This Parliament has been spied on': Furious Speaker Lindsay Hoyle berates ministers over collapse of China spying court case amid questions for Labour

Sir Lindsay Hoyle warned that Parliament was not getting the 'protection it needs' amid a furore over the decision to drop charges against Chris Cash, 30, and Christopher Berry, 33.

Politics

3 h. ago Parents of Britain's biggest family taken to court over £52,000 Disney World trip

The family jetted off to Florida to enjoy the fun

Society

3 h. ago Trains between Waterloo and Clapham Junction cancelled with travellers told they’ll be disrupted till late

COMMUTORS have been hit with major disruption following an emergency incident. Brit sheading home will be severely set back as services deal with an incident between London Waterloo and Clapham Junction. "Major disruption to and from London Waterloo expected until 21:00 The emergency services are dealing with an incident between London Waterloo and Clapham Junction,"...

Politics

3 h. ago Owners of luxury £2.5m estate failed to properly train man crushed by quadbike, court hears

Nicholas Prest, 71, and his wife Anthea, 70, deny being to blame for the death of a groundsman

Events

3 h. ago Neighbours star Stefan Dennis’s future on Strictly revealed after being forced to pull out of last week’s show

STEFAN Dennis's future on Strictly Come Dancing has been revealed after he pulled out of the show due to illness. The Neighbours actor, 66, has been given a bye to this week's show and is relishing returning to the dance floor with pro partner Dianne Buswell. A source told The Sun: “Stefan is back this...

Culture

3 h. ago NHS Lanarkshire urges people with respiratory disease to get flu vaccine

In the 2024/25 winter season, the health board saw some of the highest numbers of acute admissions for flu since before the pandemic.

Politics

4 h. ago Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy ordered to go to jail next week

Sarkozy must go to La Santé prison in Paris after conviction over scheme to obtain election funds from Gaddafi regimeThe former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has been ordered to go to jail in Paris next week after a court last month sentenced him to five months in prison for criminal conspiracy over a scheme to obtain election campaign funds from the regime of the late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi.Sarkozy, who was the rightwing president of France between 2007 and 2012, was summoned to meet state prosecutors on Monday. They told him he must present himself at the entrance of La Santé prison in the south of Paris on 21 October to begin his sentence. Continue reading...

Politics

4 h. ago Alleged Islamic State fanatic accused of plotting murder of Jews told police 'I'm proud to be a terrorist'

Amar Hussein made admissions during his police interview, jurors told

Events

4 h. ago This is exactly how Britain has been infiltrated by our enemies. I can never fully disclose what MI5 told me

I knew something was seriously amiss the day a pair of grim-faced MI5 spooks marched into my office, shut the door and told me to sit down.

Politics

4 h. ago Holly Willoughby kidnap and murder plotter Gavin Plumb back in court in matter of days

Gavin Plumb, who has given a life sentence in prison over a plot to kidnap, rape and murder TV presenter Holly Willoughby, is set to have his appeal bid heard in court next week

Events

4 h. ago Man in court charged with discharging firearm and assault after incident at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary A&E

The emergency department at the Aberdeen hospital was evacuated on Friday.

Events

4 h. ago Tommy Robinson says Elon Musk is paying his legal costs as trial begins

Robinson allegedly failed to comply with officers who ‘became concerned’ by his behaviour at Channel TunnelTommy Robinson claimed Elon Musk was paying his legal costs, as he went on trial for refusing to comply with a request made by counter-terrorism police as he tried to leave Britain last year.The far-right activist, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley Lennon, refused to give police the pin for his phone because it had “journalistic material on it” after they stopped him at the Channel tunnel on 28 July 2024, a court heard. Continue reading...

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