6 h. ago Firebug started blaze at Wishaw McDonalds one week after finishing jail sentence for similar crimes

Alan Beck set a towel alight after placing an order and calmly left with his food as the flames took hold.

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33 h. ago Main suspect in Madeleine McCann's disappearance is released from prison

Christian Brueckner, 48, was released from prison in Germany after serving a sentence for an unrelated sex crime in Portugal’s Algarve region where McCann disappeared

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51 h. ago Colombia peace court sentences former FARC leaders for their role in thousands of kidnappings

Colombia’s peace tribunal has issued its first sentence on war crimes from decades of conflict

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3 d. ago Aristocrat Constance Marten and rapist partner jailed for 14 years for killing newborn daughter

The parents were found guilty of gross negligence manslaughter of Victoria, who perished in a tent after they recklessly went on the run in winter

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3 d. ago Aristocrat Constance Marten and rapist partner jailed for combined 28 years for killing newborn daughter

The parents were found guilty of gross negligence manslaughter of Victoria, who perished in a tent after they recklessly went on the run in winter

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3 d. ago Constance Marten LIVE: Aristocrat and lover Mark Gordon jailed for 14 years each for killing newborn baby

Constance Marten, 38, and Mark Gordon, 51, have been sentenced at the Old Bailey over the death of baby daughter Victoria

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3 d. ago Constance Marten and Mark Gordon jailed for killing baby daughter while on the run

Constance Marten and Mark Gordon were convicted of the gross negligence manslaughter of their baby daughter

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3 d. ago Judge admonishes Constance Marten and partner for passing notes during sentencing

The pair face prison time for the manslaughter of their baby girl, Victoria

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3 d. ago Constance Marten LIVE: Judge slams aristocrat and lover's 'complete lack of respect' at sentencing hearing

Constance Marten, 38, and Mark Gordon, 51, are being sentenced at the Old Bailey for the manslaughter of baby daughter Victoria

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3 d. ago Constance Marten LIVE: Aristocrat and lover Mark Gordon face sentencing for killing newborn baby

Constance Marten, 38, and Mark Gordon, 51, have returned to the Old Bailey to be sentenced over the death of baby daughter Victoria

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3 d. ago Constance Marten LIVE: Aristocrat and lover face years in prison for killing newborn baby

Constance Marten, 38, and Mark Gordon, 51, are returning to the Old Bailey to be sentenced over the death of baby daughter Victoria

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3 d. ago Runaway aristocrat Constance Marten and Mark Gordon to be sentenced for killing baby

Constance Marten and Mark Gordon face a jail term when they are sentenced at the Old Bailey

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8 d. ago United Nations to investigate ‘national scandal’ of prisoners trapped on indefinite jail terms

Exclusive: A complaint being lodged with the UN claims IPP prisoners are being arbitrarily detained as a bombshell letter proves David Lammy agrees the jail terms are a ‘grave injustice’

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1 week ago Glam Brit law student in peril as GoFundMe to escape Dubai prison removed

Mia O'Brien is being held in a Dubai prison, having been handed a life sentence for an undisclosed crime, and a GoFundMe set up by her family has now been removed for violating guidelines

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2 w. ago Detroit man sentenced for ‘senseless’ killing of roommate after argument over Taco Bell

Mark Newsome told the court that Dale Francis Mitchell had tried to punch him in the face in the days preceding the deadly encounter

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2 w. ago Minister to get power to overrule sentencing guidance after ‘two

The justice secretary intervened following a row over guidelines over pre-sentence reports for criminals from ethnic minorities

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2 w. ago End scandal of indefinite jail terms, Britain’s probation chief urges Starmer

Exclusive: Martin Jones said it will be an ‘affront to justice’ if people are still trapped on IPP jail terms for minor crimes in 20 years as he urged ministers to consider new proposals

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2 w. ago How distant relatives, DNA markers and a water bottle helped sentence a cold case killer to 22 years in prison

Eugene Gligor pleaded guilty to the 2001 killing of Leslie Preer, his ex-girlfriend’s mother, after he was arrested last year

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3 w. ago Prisoner trapped on abolished indefinite jail term took his own life after government refused to resentence him

Keith Gadd, 60, died in prison 13 years over his original tariff with no friends or family left to contact

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3 w. ago Family of British man detained in India without trial urge UK Government to act

Christian Michel, 63, has been held in an Indian prison for seven years, the maximum sentence for the alleged crime he was extradited for.

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