23 h. ago Five members of same family jailed for 17 years over £136,000 fake armed robbery plot at Post Office

Taxi driver Rajvinder Kahlon, 43, pretended to be an armed robber as part of the plot at the branch in Hounslow, west London on April 1 last year.

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31 h. ago Family and friends of three Brits locked up in Bali jail over '£300,000 Angel Delight cocaine smuggling plot' say they are in 'deep shock' as they face death penalty

Jon Collyer, 38, and Lisa Stocker, 39, were arrested at Bali's international airport in February after they were allegedly caught with the narcotics inside the sachets of powdered dessert mix.

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57 h. ago Former Arsenal star jailed for four years over £600k drugs smuggling plot

Former Arsenal striker Jay Emmanuel-Thomas has been jailed for four years over a £600k drugs smuggling plot after 60kg of cannabis was found in suitcases

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3 d. ago Rose West moved jails after 'most dangerous female killer' plotted her murder

Joanna Dennehy is considered one of the most dangerous prisoners in the UK - and she is one of only a handful of women who are serving a whole life order after murdering three people and injuring two others

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4 d. ago Suspect admits to posing as a migrant and sending threats to kill Trump and ICE agents, cops say

Demetric D. Scott was heard on a jail phone call describing the plot to frame Ramón Morales-Reyes, police and prosecutors say

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4 d. ago Britain's most dangerous inmate plotted to use guard's severed fingers to escape jail

Joanna Dennehy is one of only four women in the UK to be serving a whole-life order after going on a 10-day killing spree, during which she murdered three men and attacked two others

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4 d. ago Kristi Noem hailed the arrest of a migrant plotting to assassinate Trump. But a Milwaukee man may have framed him

Demetric Scott heard on jail phone call describing plot to frame immigrant, police say

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6 d. ago A killer driver, a predatory gymnastics coach and Just Stop Oil activists jailed this week in Greater Manchester

Prison terms are handed out to the worst offenders

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7 d. ago Undercover operation foils Just Stop Oil's plot to disrupt Manchester Airport

Four members of the Just Stop Oil (JSO) movement were stopped by police before they could carry out their plan to cause 'chaos' during the busy summer period

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1 week ago Four Just Stop Oil activists jailed for plotting to disrupt Manchester Airport

Indigo Rumbelow, Daniel Knorr, Leanorah Ward, and Margaret Reid had been convicted of conspiracy to intentionally cause a public nuisance

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1 week ago Screams in court as Just Stop Oil activists jailed over 'audacious' Manchester Airport plot

Three women and one man have been locked up

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1 week ago The Birmingham Four: terrorist masterminds – or victims of a police fit

In August 2017, four men were jailed for life at the Old Bailey for plotting a terrorist attack. They were caught in an undercover police sting, and their defence lawyers insist their case continues to raise troubling and pressing questions ...On Friday 26 August 2016, Naweed Ali drove to his first day of work at a delivery company in Birmingham. His next door neighbour and close friend Khobaib Hussain had already been working at Hero Couriers for a month. The name seemed appropriate. There was something heroic about the work they did. Ali and Hussain were hired to drive around the country reuniting airline passengers with lost property. The pay was great, too – £100 a shift, cash in hand. It seemed too good to be true.So it proved. Hero Couriers was a front for Operation Pesage, an undercover police operation. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Activists accuse major bank of suppressing protest over controversial African oil pipeline

The 11 activists, who are still detained in prison, are the latest arrests of protesters against the East African Crude Oil Pipeline

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2 w. ago Drug plot car chase crooks jailed for 33 years after young woman killed in crash

Arslan Sajid was behind the wheel of a Mercedes which hit the back of a Vauxhall Vectra driven by Amy Rose Wilson in Falkirk on July 29, 2023.

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2 w. ago Just Stop Oil activists boast of cushy treatment from prison guards after eight spared jail

Members of Just Stop Oil claim prison officers are more lenient, grant them special privileges and even support their efforts to combat the climate crisis - just days after eight members dodged jail

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3 w. ago Son of man jailed over botched plot to murder £54m Securitas robber faces extradition to Japan over £680k jewellery store heist in Tokyo

Ex-football prodigy Kaine Wright, 27, and Joe Chappell, 37, allegedly took 46 items from the Harry Winston Omotesando Hills Salon of Jewellery in the Shibuya district of Tokyo in 2015.

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3 w. ago Just Stop Oil activists free after ‘unprecedented disruption’ plan at Heathrow

The nine activists were sentenced for conspiracy to cause a public nuisance.

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3 w. ago Just Stop Oil eco zealots are spared jail over bid to cause mayhem at Heathrow Airport after plotting to glue themselves to the runway

A group of Just Stop Oil (JSO) protesters have been spared jail terms at their sentencing hearing at Isleworth Crown Court.

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3 w. ago Just Stop Oil activists sentenced over Heathrow runway glue plot

Just Stop Oil activists sentenced over Heathrow runway glue plot  BBC

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3 w. ago Desperate family of teen jailed abroad say she was 'taken advantage of over drug plot'

Distraught family members remain in limbo not knowing how the youngster came to be in Georgia saddled with drugs but suggested she had “obviously” been taken advantage of.

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