61 h. ago What will happen to people arrested at Palestine Action demonstration?

After more than 500 arrests on Saturday, anyone convicted under s12 of the Terrorism Act could get up to 14 years in jailThe consequences of being arrested for expressing support for Palestine Action could be “life-changing”, one of those detained during Saturday’s protests, Jonathon Porritt, has admitted.While the former government adviser said he had carefully deliberated over a decision to take part, the road ahead for the more than 500 people arrested on Saturday involves possible criminal charges, court cases and convictions. Ultimately, custodial sentences of as much as 14 years could be imposed. Continue reading...

Events

3 d. ago The Guardian view on attacking the ECHR: the real target is judicial independence and the rule of law | Editorial

The populist right sees the European convention as a soft target in a longer campaign to degrade democratic checks and balancesMost British citizens have little contact with human rights law, which is as it should be in a mature democracy. Widespread anxiety about basic freedoms is a feature of more repressive regimes.Many people will only have heard of the European convention on human rights (ECHR) in the context of the last Conservative government’s failed attempts to dispatch asylum seekers to Rwanda, or in a handful of incidents where convicted criminals or terrorist suspects have avoided deportation to jurisdictions where they might face inhumane treatment. Such cases are amplified by politicians who are hostile to the whole apparatus of human rights law. The Strasbourg court that adjudicates on breaches of the ECHR is denounced as an enemy of British sovereignty. Continue reading...

Events

3 d. ago Woman gets criminal conviction for not insuring motorbike when hospitalised with mental health crisis

The woman says she was in hospital with a mental health crisis when the insurance wasn’t paid

Events

4 d. ago Woman receives criminal conviction for uninsured motorbike when hospitalised with mental health crisis

The woman says she was in hospital with a mental health crisis when the insurance wasn’t paid

Events

4 d. ago Foreign criminals convicted in UK to be deported immediately under new plans

Deported offenders will be barred from re-entering UK and measures will apply to those in custody too to cut costsMost foreign criminals convicted by a UK court will be deported immediately, instead of 30% of the way through their prison sentences, under plans announced by the government.The justice secretary, Shabana Mahmood, has proposed a change in legislation that will give the government the power to deport most foreign prisoners as soon as they are convicted and incarcerated. Continue reading...

Events

6 d. ago Pensioner with cancer gets criminal conviction over £27 of unpaid tax on dead husband's car

The grieving widow mistakenly didn’t pay the tax as she also battled cancer

Economics

7 d. ago The US supreme court paved the way for Texas’s gerrymandering mess | Steven Greenhouse

In a 2019 case, John Roberts said federal courts shouldn’t intervene in such matters. Trump’s team is taking advantageWith Texas Republicans rushing to fulfil Donald Trump’s wish to gerrymander to the max, many Americans are no doubt wondering why there isn’t some referee to stop this hyperpartisan race to the bottom that is poisoning our democracy. The supreme court should be the referee that puts a halt to this ugly, undemocratic mess, but in a shortsighted, 5-4 ruling in 2019, the court’s conservative majority essentially told state legislatures that anything goes when it comes to gerrymandering. Their message was: no matter how extreme the gerrymandering, we’ll look the other way.Writing the majority opinion in that case, Rucho v Common Cause, chief justice John Roberts declared that gerrymandering was a political matter that federal courts shouldn’t intervene in (unless it involves racial discrimination). Many legal experts said the conservative justices were defaulting on the ...

Events

7 d. ago Inmate who staged rooftop prison protest cleared after using ‘cruel’ indefinite jail term as defence

Joe Outlaw was acquitted of 12 counts of criminal damage to HMP Frankland, but convicted of two counts, after telling jurors he was stripped naked and being 'starved’ in segregation

Events

8 d. ago US sports lobby Home Office for travel exemption after golf caddie refused UK entry

Criminal conviction meant Eric Larson was barredNFL teams play in UK and have been alerted to situationSports organisations in the US will press the Home Office to apply exemptions to new travel rules for American citizens entering the UK after the caddie of golfer Harris English missed out on around £130,000 by being denied access for the Scottish Open and Open Championship.The case of Eric Larson has alerted the likes of the NFL and NBA, which stage games in London, that sportspeople or staff can be prohibited from entering the UK under Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) rules if they have a criminal conviction. Larson was sentenced to 13 years in prison in 1995 for involvement in drug dealing and rebuilt his career as a caddie for several leading PGA Tour players after serving 10 years. Continue reading...

Society

1 week ago Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins viewers issue complaint as convicted criminal joins competition show

The seventh series of Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins kicked off on Sunday, August 3

Events

1 week ago Sydney Sweeney’s Republican voter registration revealed amid jeans ad controversy

Revelation comes amid public fixation on American Eagle’s jeans ad featuring the star and a pun about her genesSydney Sweeney registered as a Republican voter in Florida a few months before Donald Trump won a second US presidency, it has been revealed, as the public continues fixating on a new jeans ad campaign featuring the actor and a pun about her genes.The Euphoria and White Lotus star registered to vote in Florida on 14 June 2024 – shortly after buying a mansion in the Keys – and listed her party affiliation as Republican, according to publicly available records reviewed by the Guardian on Sunday. That was about two weeks after Trump, another registered Republican Florida voter, was convicted in New York City of criminal falsification of business records and before he secured a return to the White House in November’s presidential election. Continue reading...

Politics

1 week ago Trump says Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’s past comments make pardoning him ‘more difficult’

They partied together and called each other friends in the past, but in 2020 Combs said Trump should be ‘banished’Donald Trump says he considers Sean ‘“Diddy” Combs “sort of half-innocent” despite his criminal conviction in federal court in July – but the president called pardoning the music mogul “more difficult” because of past criticism.Trump spoke about Combs during an interview on Friday night on the friendly environs of Newsmax. Combs was found guilty on 2 July of two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution, with each leaving him facing up to 10 years in prison – but he was acquitted of more serious sex-trafficking and racketeering conspiracy charges. Continue reading...

Politics

3 w. ago Pranksters fill Trump Tower gift shop with merch featuring pictures of Epstein with the president

The prank comes as the Trump administration is embroiled in controversy surrounding files in the criminal investigation of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein

Politics

3 w. ago First criminal conviction linked to Capture referred to Court of Appeal

An application was made on behalf of Patricia Owen to the Criminal Cases Review Commission.

Events

3 w. ago I just got my first conviction in my 50s for driving 4mph above the speed limit while rushing my ill father to hospital. This is the cynical reason hard

Earlier this week I found myself in the dock of a London court receiving the news that for the first time in my 50-something years I now had a criminal conviction.

Science

4 w. ago Bizarre story of Sycamore gap duo and moment that 'tipped them over the edge'

Former friends turned enemies, Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers, were convicted of criminal damage to the immensely popular Sycamore Gap tree, which they claimed was felled in a 'drunken prank'

Politics

4 w. ago Pair who felled Sycamore Gap tree jailed for over four years

Daniel Graham, 39, and Adam Carruthers, 32, were convicted of criminal damage to the much-loved tree.

Events

4 w. ago Men who cut down Sycamore Gap tree in act of 'drunken stupidity' jailed for four years

Daniel Graham, 39, and Adam Carruthers, 32, were convicted of criminal damage to the beloved tree

Events

4 w. ago Two men who cut down Sycamore Gap tree jailed for more than four years

Former friends Daniel Graham, 39, and Adam Carruthers, 32, were convicted of criminal damage to the much-loved tree in Northumberland.

Events

4 w. ago Sycamore Gap tree was cut down 'because of drunken stupidity', defence lawyer says

Daniel Graham, 39, and Adam Carruthers, 32, were convicted of criminal damage to the beloved tree

Politics