44 h. ago Italian influencer Chiara Ferragni could face prison time over Christmas cake collaboration

The Kim Kardashian of Italy has already forked over €3.4m as a result of complaints over fraudulent charity collaborations. Now, the influencer is facing her day in court

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3 d. ago Manchester Christmas markets brought to halt as rival Travellers brawl near shoppers

Manchester's Christmas markets were disrupted when Dougie Joyce, recently released from prison, and his long-time foe Simon 'Simey' McGinley were involved in a fight

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1 week ago Shamed prison nurse speaks out for the first time about being 'caught' in Britain's biggest jail smuggling racket... and being 'infatuated' with a career criminal

Amy Hatfield, 40, used her trusted role as a mental health support worker to flood HMP Lindholme with £1million worth of contraband after becoming 'infatuated' with criminal Joseph Whittingham.

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1 week ago 'A man abused his partner during the time he was cheating on her with me – I didn’t know and feel physically sick'

This week, Lala offers advice to a reader who found out a man she was dating was in a relationship the whole time and has now been sentenced to prison for domestically abusing his partner. She didn't know and feels physically sick (TW: this column contains mention of abuse)

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1 week ago A puppy and unlimited toilet paper? Legal experts say Ghislaine Maxwell’s alleged prison life is uncommon

Maxwell is serving a 20-year sentence for her role in Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking of teen girls – and her treatment is prompting speculationSince Ghislaine Maxwell’s controversial transfer to a low-security prison camp this summer, her time at Texas’s FPC Bryan has prompted uproar over alleged favorable treatment – including claims this week that she was provided custom-made meals, access to a puppy and as much toilet paper as she wants.Some of the recent accusations were in a 9 November letter thatJamie Raskin sent to Donald Trump. The Democratic representative’s letter, which cited whistleblower information, demanded answers about Maxwell’s conditions – including whether Trump directed anyone in his administration to give her special treatment. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Oklahoma death row inmate’s life spared moments before scheduled lethal injection

Republican Kevin Stitt commuted Tremane Wood’s death sentence to life in prison for 2002 murder of Ronnie WipfAfter a controversial trial, an Oklahoma man makes a final plea to avoid executionTremane Wood, the 46-year-old death row inmate who faced execution today in Oklahoma, has had his life spared just minutes before he was set to receive a lethal injection.Kevin Stitt, the state’s Republican governor, accepted the Oklahoma pardon and parole board’s recommendation that Wood’s sentence be commuted to life in prison without parole. It is just the second time during Stitt’s nearly seven years as governor that he has granted clemency. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Oklahoma inmate’s life spared moments before scheduled lethal injection

Republican Kevin Stitt commuted Tremane Wood’s death sentence to life in prison for 2002 murder of Ronnie WipfAfter a controversial trial, an Oklahoma man makes a final plea to avoid executionTremane Wood, the 46-year-old death row inmate who faced execution on Thursday in Oklahoma, has had his life spared just minutes before he was set to receive a lethal injection.Kevin Stitt, the state’s Republican governor, accepted the Oklahoma pardon and parole board’s recommendation that Wood’s sentence be commuted to life in prison without parole. It is just the second time during Stitt’s nearly seven years as governor that he has granted clemency. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Oklahoma governor spares life of death row inmate just before scheduled lethal injection

Republican Kevin Stitt commuted Tremane Wood’s death sentence to life in prison for 2002 murder of Ronnie WipfAfter a controversial trial, an Oklahoma man makes a final plea to avoid executionTremane Wood, the 46-year-old death row inmate who faced execution today in Oklahoma, has had his life spared just minutes before he was set to receive a lethal injection.Kevin Stitt, the state’s Republican governor, accepted the Oklahoma pardon and parole board’s recommendation that Wood’s sentence be commuted to life in prison without parole. It is just the second time during Stitt’s nearly seven years as governor that he has granted clemency. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Smallville actress Allison Mack who went to prison for role in sex cult speaks out for the first time: ‘I was mean and I was forceful’

The 43-year-old actor was released from federal prison after serving 21 months of her three-year sentence

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2 w. ago We Did OK, Kid: A Memoir by Anthony Hopkins review – a legend with a temper

The Oscar-winning actor’s autobiography combines vulnerability with bloody mindedness and belligerenceIt’s the greatest entrance in movie history – and he doesn’t move a muscle.FBI rookie Clarice Starling must walk along the row of cells until she reaches Dr Lecter’s reinforced glass tank, where the man himself is simply standing, his face a living skull of satanic malice, eerily immobile in his form-fitting blue prison jumpsuit – immobile, that is, until such time as he launches himself against the glass, making that extraordinary hissing-slavering sound. A billion true-crime documentaries have since revealed that actual serial killers are very boring, with nothing like Anthony Hopkins’s screen presence. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Bangor, Maine, swears in new City Council member who went to prison for manslaughter

A woman sworn in Monday as a city council member in Bangor, Maine, served time in prison for manslaughter

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2 w. ago Nicolas Sarkozy says life in prison is ‘gruelling’ and ‘a nightmare’

Former French president was talking to court via video link about his request to serve rest of sentence at homeEurope live – latest updatesThe former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has said his time in prison has been “gruelling” and a “nightmare” as he appeared via video link at a court hearing over his request to serve his sentence at home.Sarkozy, dressed in a navy blue suit, appeared on camera from prison on Monday, seated at a table with his lawyers beside him. He told the court: “I want to pay tribute to all the prison staff, who are exceptionally humane, and who have made this nightmare bearable – because it is a nightmare.” Continue reading...

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2 w. ago The British drug smugglers back in the UK after prison time abroad

Bella May Culley and Lindsay Sandiford have been released from prisons in Georgia and Indonesia respectively

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3 w. ago Meet the stunning Italian influencer at the centre of 'Lamine Yamal's love triangle'

Barcelona sensation Lamine Yamal appears to have found himself at the centre of a love triangle with his ex-girlfriend and an Italian influencer

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3 w. ago 'I was with Charles Bronson when inmate cried and will never forget what he did'

Noel 'Razor' Smith spent 30 years in prison after committing over 200 robberies and during his time behind bars he struck up a friendship with notorious inmate Charles Bronson

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3 w. ago Pregnant British teenager Bella Culley speaks for first time after being freed from Georgia prison

Bella Culley, a pregnant British teenager who was held in Georgia over drug smuggling charges, has spoken out for the first time after being freed from prison.

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3 w. ago Pregnant UK teenager Bella May Culley freed from Georgian jail

Culley, 19, who was arrested on drug-smuggling charges in May, is released after plea dealThe pregnant British teenager Bella Culley has been released from a Georgian prison, where she had been held for six months on drug-smuggling charges after a plea deal.Culley, 19, who is pregnant, was arrested in May at Tbilisi airport and accused of attempting to smuggle 12kg (26.5lbs) of marijuana and 2kg (4.4lbs) of hashish into the country. She was found guilty by a Georgian court on Monday and sentenced to five months and 25 days in prison, the total time she had already spent in custody. Her family also paid a 500,000 lari (about £137,000) fine as part of a plea deal. Culley and her mother, Lyanne Kennedy, both cried as the verdict was read out. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Lamine Yamal splits from girlfriend and addresses cheating rumours with Italian influencer

Lamine Yamal has split from his Argentinian singer girlfriend Nicki Nicole as the Barcelona sensation had to address rumours he cheated on her with an Italian influencer

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3 w. ago Lamine Yamal, 18, 'has split from pop star girlfriend Nicki Nicole, 25'

Lamine Yamal says he has split from his Argentinian singer girlfriend Nicki Nicole following rumours he had cheated on her with an Italian influencer.

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3 w. ago Diddy seen in prison for first time as he walks through yard with gray beard after starting new job behind bars

Photographs show Combs, 55, walking through the yard at Fort Dix Federal Correctional Institute during recreation time on Friday.

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