6 h. ago Gunman who assassinated prison officer who exposed his relationship with female guard is jailed for 45 years

A criminal who shot dead the prison officer who found an illicit phone in his jail cell has been jailed for life with a minimum 45 years before parole.

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6 h. ago Man jailed for life with 45 years before parole for murder of ex

Elias Morgan shot former prison officer Lenny Scott, a ‘devoted’ father-of-three.

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3 d. ago Shirley Ballas admits she will 'never feel safe again' as she recounts the terrifying moment her stalker followed and confronted her 87

A stalker who made Strictly Come Dancing star Shirley Ballas' life hell over a terrifying six-year ordeal was spared jail earlier this year - after a court heard he believed she was his aunt. 

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3 d. ago Inside the dark life of Purple Aki: The underworld enforcer who was sent to jail for sexually assaulting rugby players

Many assumed he was an urban legend but when the age of the internet dawned it was revealed Purple Aki was real, and he had a trail of terror and even death in his wake.

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3 d. ago Killer's question to police as they discover his appalling secret

Christopher Barlow was jailed for life for the murder of Mariann Borocz

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5 d. ago Killer branded 'madman' jailed for life as victim dies after tree branch attack

Anthony Ellis was 23 in 2012 when he battered Igor Pavlov with a tree branch in a park whilst in a rage - his victim died from his injuries more than 10 years later

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5 d. ago British ‘Beatle’ terrorist’s bid to transfer to UK prison ‘should be rejected’

El Shafee Elsheikh, known as ‘Ringo’ is serving eight life sentences in a US jail for his involvement in a hostage-taking scheme.

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5 d. ago How a man was pinned for murdering stranger 13 years after brutal attack in park

Anthony Ellis was jailed for life for murdering Igor Pavlov in Manchester

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5 d. ago ISIS Beatle 'Jihadi Ringo' who was part of a gang that filmed the killings of hostages makes a bid to return to the UK

El Shafee Elsheikh - known as Jihadi Ringo - is currently serving life in a high-security US jail after he was convicted in 2022 of hostage-taking and conspiring to murder.

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6 d. ago Dark life of Akinwale Arobieke from boy's death to racist nickname and squeezing muscles

Bodybuilder Akinwale Arobieke was a modern day bogeyman who became infamous for his strange behaviour and as a larger-than-life figure in Liverpool who was engulfed in controversy after being jailed and then freed

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6 d. ago Prisoner trapped on abolished indefinite jail term took his own life after government refused to resentence him

Keith Gadd, 60, died in prison 13 years over his original tariff with no friends or family left to contact

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6 d. ago Art fraudster Inigo Philbrick's life after jail and reality TV legend wife

Inigo Philbrick, a British-born art dealer, was once hailed as a prodigy of contemporary art dealing. He was later jailed for orchestrating one of the most audacious art frauds in recent memory.

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8 d. ago Explosive new claims emerge about Erin Patterson's life in jail

Erin Patterson's former inmate has made shocking claims about the murderer's life behind bars.

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9 d. ago I found the love of my life in a jail cell on the other side of the world. Then we met

Jessica Silvey, 30, from Brisbane married her husband Craig, 34, while he was serving a 10-year prison sentence in Kansas for attempted aggravated robbery in the US.

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9 d. ago Michaella McCollum says being ordered to strip off in prison helped her on Celeb SAS

Michaella McCollum became notorious after she was arrested and imprisoned in Peru after attempting to smuggle 12kg of cocaine but she says life in jail made her stronger

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1 week ago Chemical castration laws are toughened in Kazakhstan with men guilty of 'lesser' child sex offences facing injections before release

Paedophiles in the central Asian nation who have committed rape and violent sexual assault causing severe injury already face 'life-means-life' jail sentences and chemical castration.

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1 week ago Grinning teen with an unhealthy obsession with knives is jailed for life for murder after plunging Rambo

Charles Hartle had a fixation with knives and killing people he believed to be opponents and a dangerous obsession with gang culture, a court heard.

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2 w. ago The GHOST that walks on Death Row: US prisoner jailed for murder he didn't commit reveals inmates saw a SPIRIT 'walk down the hallway' whenever there was an execution

In the fragile space between life and death, Florida prison inmates sit in a damp jail cell waiting to learn their fate. 

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2 w. ago "Merciless" puppy torturer jailed after attacking dog with iron and bottle

Sadistic Daniel Murphy hit Buster, a Staffie, 70 times in three hour torture session, making vet feel physically sick at torture footage. Murphy was jailed for nine months and banned for life from keeping animals.

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2 w. ago Play inspired by real life prisoners performed in Greenock jail on break from Fringe run

The play was taken to Greenock prison

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