22 h. ago Man is awarded £35,000 after he was held in hellhole South African jail for rape for two months despite not having a penis

The wrongly arrested man, who was 21 at the time, had been kidnapped when he was 12 and brutally attacked and had his left ear, penis, testicles and scrotum cut off.

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65 h. ago East Kilbride tax worker who stole nearly £200,000 is jailed for two years

Joanne Connell used taxpayers' details to create fake credits and then transferred money to her personal bank account.

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3 d. ago Female prison officer jailed after sending lag more than 4,000 sexual messages

Prison officer Toni Cole, 29, sent thousands of messages to the lag and took part in 18 videos calls while engaging in 'contact which was sexualised or flirtatious', a court heard

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3 d. ago Railway trespasser jailed after causing 1,000 Waterloo trains to be cancelled or delayed at cost of £1.2m

Man evaded police for several days but now faces 18 months in prison

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3 d. ago Female prison officer jailed after sending 4,000 racy messages to lag behind bars

Toni Cole, 29, was sentenced to 12 months in jail, after she was found to have engaged in a series of intimate trysts with a prisoner at HMP Five Wells in Northamptonshire

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3 d. ago Female guard jailed after sending 4,000 flirty messages to inmate at new 'super

A female prison officer has been sentenced to one year behind bars for having an inappropriate relationship with an inmate at Northamptonshire's new 'super-prison'.

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5 d. ago Inside the human slaughterhouse: I visited the hellhole jail where 13,000 Syrians were tortured to death, and met one prisoner who survived daily beatings for TEN years, writes DAVID PATRIKARAKOS

Pain floods his body. It spits and crackles like electricity. Every day for three months, the guards have hung him by his arms from the ceiling.

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