82 m. ago The corrupt prison officers facing years behind bars: What life will be like for former jail staff as they become inmates themselves

Megann Gibson, 26, who became infatuated with dangerous inmate Ryan Horan while working at Wealstun Prison in West Yorkshire.

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2 h. ago Imran Khan's squalid life inside Pakistani jail where cricket legend who once united the nation is languishing

Imran Khan, one of Pakistan's greatest-ever cricketers, is incarcerated in a 'death cell' in the nation to which he brought so much joy.

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3 h. ago Brit grandad released from Dubai jail hell for Christmas after years of 'torture'

Albert Douglas has spent four years in a series of high-security jails where he was allegedly tortured by guards, deprived of food and water, following his arrest in Dubai

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6 h. ago Two Merseyside prisons rampaged by drugs and violence, investigation into the jails showed

A report by HM Inspectorate of Prisons in 2025 found both the HMP Liverpool and HMP Altcourse were battling violence, organised crime groups, drugs and failing infrastructure

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7 h. ago Knife thugs face jail under 'zero tolerance' justice plans by Scottish Labour leader

EXCLUSIVE: Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar said prison, rather than a "cuddly approach", was the best punishment for blade yobs.

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13 h. ago Postmaster who 'murdered' wife may be 'worst victim of Horizon scandal'

Robin Garbutt, 60, has served 15 years for the murder of his wife Diana but he maintains she was killed by a robber at their post office.

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17 h. ago 'Killer' postmaster 'may be worst victim of Horizon scandal' after Post Office murder

Robin Garbutt, 60, has served 15 years for the murder of his wife Diana. He says that she was killed by a robber at their post office in Melsonby, N. Yorks in 2010. A new documentary raises serious questions about the safety of his conviction

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19 h. ago Former Malaysian PM Najib Razak jailed for 15 more years in 1MDB graft scandal

New conviction over plunder of state fund substantially increases six-year term in separate case The jailed former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak has been sentenced to an additional 15 years after he was found guilty of abuse of power, in the biggest trial yet in the multibillion-dollar fraud scandal related to the state fund 1MDB.Najib’s conviction substantially increases the six-year prison term he is already serving for a separate case related to the 1MDB graft scandal, one of the world’s biggest financial frauds in which billions were plundered from the now defunct sovereign wealth fund. Continue reading...

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19 h. ago The protesters showing up every week to shut down ‘Alligator Alcatraz’: ‘We will end this’

Every Sunday, protesters from Florida and beyond go to the notorious immigration jail and advocate for its closureThey come on buses, in cars and RVs. Some ride on motorcycles. Every Sunday afternoon, convoys of protestors from all over Florida, and others from out of state, descend on the notorious “Alligator Alcatraz” immigration jail in the Everglades to stand vigil for those held inside.It is a ritual that began in August, a month after the opening of the remote detention camp celebrated by Donald Trump for its harsh conditions, and hailed by Florida’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, as a model for the president’s aggressive detention and deportation agenda. Continue reading...

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21 h. ago ‘A PR stunt’: Post Office scandal victims dismiss plans for museum exhibition

Many victims and families advising inquiry’s legacy project are highly suspicious of idea of Postal Museum exhibitionVictims of the Post Office Horizon scandal have dismissed a planned exhibition on the affair at the Postal Museum as a PR stunt that they are refusing to endorse.The inquiry into the wrongful convictions of hundreds of post office operators announced in September that it was working with the Postal Museum as part of a legacy project to commemorate the devastating impact of the scandal. Continue reading...

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24 h. ago Young mother who tried to smuggle £285,000 of cannabis from Thailand into UK avoids jail after saying drugs bosses threatened to kill her child

Poppie Kudiersky, 22, was arrested after customs officers at Manchester Airport stopped a companion she had been travelling with and seized two suitcases containing 28.5kg of the drug.

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26 h. ago Grange Hill stars now from jail, homelessness and sex assault to lonely death

Grange Hill tackled a range of hard-hitting topics from knife crime to heroin addiction - and the lives of some of the cast have been just as dramatic. Here, The Mirror takes a look at what came next for the stars...

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27 h. ago Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak convicted in trial over 1MDB corruption scandal

Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak has been convicted in a corruption trial tied to a multibillion-dollar looting of the 1MDB state investment fund

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28 h. ago Former Malaysian PM Najib Razak found guilty of abuse of power in latest 1MDB trial

Najib has been in prison since August 2022, when Malaysia’s top court upheld a corruption conviction. He denies wrongdoingJailed former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak has been found guilty of abuse of power, in the biggest trial yet in the multibillion-dollar fraud scandal related to state fund 1MDB.Najib had been charged with four counts of corruption and 21 counts of money laundering for receiving illegal transfers of about 2.2bn ringgit ($544.15m) from 1MDB. He has consistently denied wrongdoing. Continue reading...

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28 h. ago ‘It’s all about love’: how a Swiss photographer’s intimate honeymoon pictures caused a scandal

René Groebli took portraits of Charlie Chaplin and Walt Disney and pioneered new modes of photography. But it was his tender, erotic pictures taken in a Paris hotel room in the 50s that really caused a stirIn 1952, two young honeymooners checked into a small hotel in Montparnasse. An everyday story in the City of Light, perhaps. But the Swiss photographer René Groebli and his wife, Rita Dürmüller, spent their time in Paris cocooned in their room producing a series of photographs – sensual, intimate, enigmatic – that would first shock then beguile viewers, works that can now be seen in a new exhibition in Zurich.In the honeymoon pictures, Groebli’s camera traces Dürmüller’s movements – as a shirt drops from her shoulders, the turn of her neck – which, he explains, was a deliberate “artistic approach not only to intensify the depiction of reality but to make visible the emotional involvement of my wife and of me.” Dürmüller is often nude, but not solely, and never explicitly posed. It...

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34 h. ago Zimbabwean victims of sadistic sexual abuser John Smyth bring legal claim against Church of England after Justin Welby's resignation over scandal

Six men including Rocky Leanders who were abused as teenagers at John Smyth's  Christian holiday camps in the African country are among the seven claimants.

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40 h. ago Putin critic sentenced to six years in prison by Russian court

Sergei Udaltsov was sentence to six years in jail on Thursday

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40 h. ago Jailed former Brazil president Jair Bolsonaro undergoes hernia surgery

He is serving a 27-year prison sentence for an attempted coup

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41 h. ago ROBERT HARDMAN: The hidden message on royal's tawdry scandal I spotted in the King's speech. It's the great 'unmentionable'... but I was with Charles when he was moved to tears. He hasn't forgotten

His overarching theme was the joy of pilgrimage, writes ROBERT HARDMAN. This is, after all, a King who, in past years, would go off for a restorative retreat at a remote Greek monastery.

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45 h. ago Families lose thousands and cannot sell their homes in scandal 'that is going to be the next Post Office Horizon nightmare'

Scottish law firm WW&J McClure Limited (McClure) sold family protection trusts to couples across the country, usually offered as an add-on to a free will writing service.

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