24 h. ago QPR star opens up on attack that left him with prison sentence and victim with broken skull

QPR star Ilais Chair admits a fight involving him in Belgium, which saw an individual left with a fractured skull after being struck by a rock, was the darkest day of his life

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30 h. ago Ex marine Paul Doyle's 'family are lovely' as Liverpool parade crash driver's neighbours speak

Paul Doyle's neighbours have been spoken after he is told a prison sentence is 'inevitable'

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36 h. ago Mum who murdered her two children, 8 & 6, and hid bodies in suitcases in storage unit for months jailed

A NEW Zealand mum who killed her two young children and hid their bodies in suitcases has been sentenced to life in prison. Hakyung Lee, 45, was ordered on Wednesday to serve at least 17 years behind bars before becoming eligible for parole.  The High Court in Auckland heard she allegedly killed eight-year-old Yuna Jo...

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37 h. ago 'Calculated' mum murdered kids and hid bodies in suitcases before grim discovery

Hakyung Lee was sentenced to at least 17 years in prison for the murders of her children Minu Jo, 6, and Yuna Jo, 8, whose bodies were found in suitcases in 2022

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41 h. ago A woman who murdered her 2 children and left them in suitcases is jailed for at least 17 years

A New Zealand woman has been sentenced to at least 17 years in prison for murdering her two children and leaving their bodies in suitcases

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49 h. ago MoJ considering ‘extreme’ proposal to scrap jury trials for all but the most serious cases

The radical plan from David Lammy has been criticised by senior lawyers, who say it could ‘destroy justice as we know it’Jury trials for all except the most serious crimes such as rape, murder and manslaughter are set to be scrapped under radical proposals drawn up by David Lammy.In proposals that drew a swift backlash from senior lawyers, who said that they would not reduce court backlogs and could “destroy justice as we know it”, the justice secretary has proposed that juries will only pass judgment on public interest offences with possible prison sentences of more than five years. Continue reading...

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49 h. ago David Lammy considers scrapping jury trials for all but the most serious cases

Senior lawyers criticise justice secretary’s radical plan, saying it could ‘destroy justice as we know it’Jury trials for all except the most serious crimes such as rape, murder and manslaughter are set to be scrapped under radical proposals drawn up by David Lammy.In proposals that drew a swift backlash from senior lawyers, who said that they would not reduce court backlogs and could “destroy justice as we know it”, the justice secretary has proposed that juries will only pass judgment on public interest offences with possible prison sentences of more than five years. Continue reading...

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59 h. ago Labour MP's powerful speech on surviving male rape praised for breaking shame cycle

Labour MP Josh Newbury has said in a moving Commons speech that he is a survivor of male rape, with charity SurvivorsUK stressing that thousands of men face sexual violence each year

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64 h. ago Daughter settles legal claim against Government over father’s ‘degrading’ death

Alpha Kalay died in 2021 after multiple opportunities to care for him were missed by staff at HMP Hull, where he was serving a prison sentence.

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2 d. ago Suspected killer faces second murder charge over woman's death in south London

Simon Levy has been charged with a second count of murdering a woman

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3 d. ago Paul Pogba is a footballer again after two years out, a ban and a kidnap case | Luke Entwistle

Frenchman has never been far from the headlines since 2023 but he is finally back gliding across a football fieldBy Get French Football NewsHow much can you learn from Paul Pogba’s nine-minute cameo? Perhaps just that he does indeed exist and not only in columns, fitness updates and social media posts. That is where he has existed for the past 26 months, since his final game for Juventus in September 2023: equally at the centre of our gaze and absent from it.Between his four-year doping ban, reduced to 18 months on appeal, his release from Juventus, and the extortion and kidnapping case that led to his brother being sentenced to three years in prison, his name has been constantly uttered but his face has been rarely seen – at least not on a football pitch. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Married teacher who paid students for sex and plied them with drugs jailed

Carissa Jane Smith, 30, was sentenced to 10 years in prison following 19 charges of sex-related crimes - after she paid students for sex and supplied them with drugs and alcohol

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4 d. ago Bolsonaro claims after arrest he tampered with ankle tag from ‘curiosity’

Ex-president says he used soldering iron on device and is now in custody because of fears he was going to abscondBrazil’s former far-right president Jair Bolsonaro has claimed he tried to damage his electronic ankle monitor “out of curiosity” after he was arrested at his villa owing to suspicions he was poised to abscond.In a video released by the supreme court, Bolsonaro – who was recently sentenced to 27 years in prison for masterminding a military coup – can be heard admitting to a security official that he had used a soldering iron to tamper with the black tag. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Rapper's wife who dismembered him with hacksaw and fed fingers to rats is jailed

Marina Kokhal was sentenced to over a decade in prison after she killed her rapper husband, dismembered him and desecrated the remains, even throwing some parts in the washing machine

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5 d. ago Why is Ghislaine Maxwell getting the Club Fed treatment? | Arwa Mahdawi

Her privileges in America’s two-tiered legal system reportedly range from from unlimited toilet paper to puppy playtimeI don’t know what, if anything, keeps Ghislaine Maxwell up at night. But it’s certainly not the prospect of running out of toilet paper in the minimum-security prison where she’s residing. Maxwell is serving a 20-year-sentence for her role in Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking operation. Rather than doing hard time, however, it seems Maxwell is having a relatively easy go of it. While most inmates get an allocation of two rolls of toilet paper per week, for example, CNN reports that Maxwell gets an unlimited supply.Arwa Mahdawi is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Rapper’s wife who chopped him up with hacksaw while still alive before putting body parts in washing machine is jailed

THE wife of a popular rapper has been jailed after being found guilty of killing and dismembering her husband. Marina Kokhal, 41, was sentenced to 12 and a half years in prison, for hacking her partner's corpse and shoving his body parts in a washing machine. Ukrainian-born singer Andy Cartwright, whose real name is Alexander...

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5 d. ago Four guards sentenced in beating death of handcuffed Black man at New York prison

Brooks had been serving a 12-year sentence for first-degree assault

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5 d. ago Oscar Pistorius' return to sport, new girlfriend and changed appearance

Oscar Pistorius has begun rebuilding his life following his release from prison after serving more than half of his sentence for murder

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5 d. ago Police raid that uncovered mysterious locked safe sees five gang members behind bars

Five people have been sentenced to 19 years and two months in prison after police raided a property and pulled a man over

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6 d. ago Germany to classify date rape drugs as weapons in attempt to ensure justice for survivors

Classification will create basis for ‘significantly stricter’ prosecutions, minister saysGermany plans to treat the use of date rape drugs like the use of a weapon in prosecutions as part of measures to ensure justice for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault.“We classify date rape drugs, which are increasingly used as a widespread tool in crimes, as weapons. This creates the basis for significantly stricter prosecutions,” , Alexander Dobrindt, the interior minister, said on Friday. Continue reading...

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