4 h. ago Imam who illegally wed teens aged 16 handed sentence in first

Ashraf Osmani was handed a sentence for conducting an illegal wedding ceremony between two teens.

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2 d. ago David Lammy steps in to block Jimmy Mizen's killer from being moved to open prison after he boasted about the murder in drill rap music video

Jake Fahri, 36, was handed a life sentence in 2009 with a minimum term of 14 years for killing the 'blameless' schoolboy by throwing an oven dish at him.

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3 d. ago Husband who got away with murdering his wife after 'recruiting' child to back his alibi is jailed for life

Murderer Robert Rhodes, 52, refused to appear in court but said he maintained his innocence as he was handed a life sentence for killing wife Dawn with a knife at their family home in Surrey.

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3 d. ago Robert Rhodes gets LIFE for killing wife as child reveals 'plan to murder mummy'

Robert Rhodes was handed a life sentence today after a he was convicted of murdering his wife - he manipulated their child into helping him get away with it

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4 d. ago HSTikkyTokky avoids private jet costs after being dragged to UK over car crash

Harrison Sullivan, 24, known as HSTikkyTokky on TikTok, was handed a suspended custodial sentence last November after crashing his McLaren - he failed to attend court for 12 months after the crash

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4 d. ago John Alford's dark descent from London's burning heartthrob to jailed paedophile

WARNING, DISTRESSING CONTENT: Former Grange Hill and London's Burning actor John Alford has been jailed for eight and a half years after being found guilty of sexually assaulting two teenage girls aged 14 and 15

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5 d. ago Grange Hill star John Alford's fall from 90s heartthrob to paedophile on benefits

Former Grange Hill and London's Burning star John Alford was sentenced to eight and a half years in prison after being found guilty of sexually assaulting two teenage girls aged 14 and 15 in 2022

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5 d. ago Teenagers killed in horror Bolton crash pictured as hundreds attend funeral

The teens, two aged 18 and one aged 19, died in the crash alongside 54-year-old taxi driver Masrob Ali

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7 d. ago ‘A celebration of the carefree’: why Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is my feelgood movie

The latest in our series of writers celebrating their favourite comfort watches is an ode to John Hughes’s 1980s classicIt’s hard to ignore a film’s message when the main character is addressing you directly down the barrel of the camera. Granted, the first time I watched the 1986 teen comedy Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, I was the impressionable age of 11 and “Look people in the eyes when they’re talking to you” was on constant rotation in my household. So my green eyes met Ferris’s brown ones and I took it all in.Centred around Matthew Broderick’s playful turn as Ferris Bueller, a high school senior faking illness to skip school, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is certainly a celebration of the carefree, though the story is by no means languid. Made frantic by doing the thing you’re not supposed to do with the aid of a red Ferrari, the day speeds by in comparison to the fictional days of other American teen films, such as American Graffiti and Dazed & Confused – which, to be fair, featur...

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1 week ago David Coote's 'shattering' fall from grace as top referee avoids prison

David Coote has been handed a nine-month prison sentence after admitting to possessing an indecent image of a child, with Judge Nirmal Shant describing it as a “spectacular fall from grace”

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2 w. ago Girl, 16, and boy, 17, killed in horror crash as car 'swerves off country road'

Two teenagers, aged 17 and 16, have tragically died and a third has been injured after a car veered off a country lane near the Kent town of Sittingbourne

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2 w. ago Ten people who spread false claims France's First Lady Brigitte Macron was born a man are found guilty of cyberbullying in Paris

A Paris court handed the defendants suspended prison sentences of up to eight months for the 'particularly degrading and insulting' comments.

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2 w. ago Albanian murderer who posted TikToks from British jail begging to be sent home is FINALLY set for deportation

Eugert Merizaj was handed a 32-year sentence in May 2022 for the shotgun killing of rival drug dealer Hemawand Ali Hussein and has been locked up at HMP Manchester.

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2 w. ago Two schoolgirls sexually assaulted at busy shopping centre – as cops arrest three men over terrifying ‘attack’

THREE men have been arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting two schoolgirls in a busy shopping centre. Police were scrambled to Seacroft in Leeds, West Yorkshire, yesterday after receiving reports of men acting suspiciously. They located the two teenage girls and arrested two of the suspects, aged 38 and 44, on suspicion of sex offences....

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3 w. ago Brit student Mia O’Brien in 'Christmas miracle' release from Dubai jail despite drug charge

Mia O’Brien, a 24-year-old law student from Merseyside, was released from her "living hell" in a Dubai jail in what her mum calls a "Christmas miracle", despite her being handed a lengthy prison sentence

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3 w. ago The campaign to free murderer 'convicted on false evidence' from illegal Somalian migrant who cut a deal with prosecutors so he could avoid deportation

Mark Osborne was handed a life sentence with a minimum of 30 years in 2009 after he and two co-defendants were convicted of murdering Mark Tredinnick.

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3 w. ago Myanmar junta using ‘brutal violence’ to force people to vote in sham election, UN says

Prominent cultural figures have been handed harsh years-long prison sentences for questioning a state propaganda film

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4 w. ago Child rapist, 28, with the word 'survivor' tattooed on his face is jailed for 14 years

Thomas Green, 28, from Newcastle-under-Lyme, was handed a 14-year prison sentence after he forced himself on a schoolgirl before threatening to kill her if she told anyone.

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4 w. ago Ecuadorian court hands down max sentences to 11 soldiers in case of 4 disappeared minors

A court in Ecuador has sentenced eleven soldiers to 34 years in prison for the abduction and torture of four children last year

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4 w. ago 'Britain's angriest cyclist' Peter Abbott caged for horror new abuse of mum with newborn

Peter Abbott was handed the jail term as he was on a suspended sentence at the time for an infamous outburst against a woman in a Tesco car park

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