7 h. ago Man who fled to Scotland to avoid US rape charges jailed for at least five years

Nicholas Rossi will return to court next month, when he will be sentenced for a second rape conviction.

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12 h. ago American man Nicholas Rossi who faked his own death and fled to Scotland to escape rape charges is jailed

Nicholas Rossi (pictured), 38, from the US state of Rhode Island, has been sentenced to at least five years behind bars for raping two women in northern Utah in 2008.

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13 h. ago Imposter Nicholas Rossi jailed at last after fleeing justice to Scotland and faking his death

Nicholas Rossi has been jailed on rape charges stemming back 17 years, after he faked his own death and started a new life in Scotland

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14 h. ago Man who fled US to avoid rape charges jailed for at least five years

He will return to court next month, when he will be sentenced for a second rape conviction, having been found guilty in September.

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32 h. ago Man who appeared to fake his death and flee to the UK faces sentencing for Utah rape

A U.S. man who authorities say faked his death and fled to the United Kingdom to avoid rape charges is scheduled to be sentenced in Utah on Monday

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4 d. ago Punish Prince Andrew? This is no meritocracy, I’m afraid – you get the royal family you didn’t vote for | Marina Hyde

After years of drip-fed revelations, we might as well face it. This is a family elevated by birthright: they’re stuck with him and so are weReading the extract from Virginia Giuffre’s tragic memoir in the Guardian this week, I was struck again by the fate of each of those people involved in that infamous photograph taken at Ghislaine Maxwell’s London house.The teenage girl at the centre of the picture is dead, having taken her own life at a remote Australian farmhouse earlier this year, unable to outrun her trauma. The person who took the photograph is dead, having somehow killed himself in a New York jail while awaiting trial on charges of sex trafficking. The grinning woman in the background is in prison herself, exalting Donald Trump’s impeccable purity in the hope of getting moved to a nicer jail or even pardoned. And the smiling lunk with his arm round the teenage girl – who he denies he had sex with later that evening – is living in a 30-room mansion on a 98-acre estate (which...

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4 d. ago Man jailed after disorder faced discipline charge before he died, inquest hears

Peter Lynch, 61, died in HMP Moorland, near Doncaster, after he was jailed following the disorder outside a hotel housing asylum seekers in Rotherham.

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7 d. ago ‘Locked up for 24 years’: joy and sorrow as Palestinian prisoners and detainees return home

Nearly 2,000 people, including about 1,700 seized from Gaza and held without charge, set free from Israeli jailsGaza ceasefire – live updatesThe police could not hold the crowds back. As soon as they saw the Palestinian prisoners through the windows of the bus, hundreds of people gathering in front of a theatre in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank rushed forward, chanting the names of loved ones they had not seen for years and in some cases, decades.The prisoners were gaunt, the sharp angles of their faces decorated by freshly scabbed-over wounds. Loved ones hoisted them up on their shoulders with ease. One prisoner, swaddled in a Palestinian keffiyeh and splaying his fingers into a V for victory, was dropped before his mother, whose feet he began to kiss. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago ‘Locked up for 24 years’: release of Palestinian prisoners and detainees sparks joy and sorrow

Nearly 2,000 people, including about 1,700 seized from Gaza and held without charge, set free from Israeli jailsGaza ceasefire – live updatesThe police could not hold the crowds back. As soon as they saw the Palestinian prisoners and detainees through the windows of the bus, hundreds of people gathering in front of a theatre in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank rushed forward, chanting the names of loved ones they had not seen for years or, in some cases, decades.Their faces were gaunt, the sharp angles decorated by freshly scabbed-over wounds. Loved ones hoisted them up on their shoulders with ease. One, swaddled in a Palestinian keffiyeh and splaying his fingers into a V for victory, was dropped before his mother, whose feet he began to kiss. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago 6 things about Ian Watkins stabbing – who did it and reason why to copycat fears

Fellow inmates Rashid Gedel, 25, and Samuel Dodsworth, 43, will appear before magistrates today charged with the murder of the disgraced Lostprophets frontman, who was jailed for sickening sex crimes

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1 week ago Daniel Twigg's parents jailed after boy, 3, savaged to death by dog on farm

Daniel Twigg's parents Joanne Bedford and Mark Twigg have been jailed after being found guilty of being a person in charge of a dog dangerously out of control causing injury

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2 w. ago RAF chief’s daughter faces up to 5 years in jail after GBH charge ‘for glassing fellow Brit woman in Cyprus’

THE daughter of a top RAF chief has been warned by a judge she faces up to five years in prison after being charged with GBH. Jessica Cloke is accused of glassing a fellow British woman, leaving her with a nasty cut “from eye to neck” in a bar in Cyprus. Cloke, 20, is the...

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2 w. ago Former NFL star Mark Sanchez could face six years in jail after being stabbed by 69

Quarterback lands felony battery charges on MondayIncident left truck driver with ‘very severe’ injuriesDetectives reviewed video footage of incidentFormer NFL quarterback Mark Sanchez could face jail time after he was charged with felony battery on Monday.The charge is in addition to three others he was handed on Sunday after a violent confrontation earlier in the weekend. Those charges were for battery with injury, public intoxication and unlawful entry of a vehicle during the incident early on Saturday morning that left Sanchez, who has worked as a Fox Sports analyst since his retirement from playing, hospitalized with stab wounds. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Emmerdale icon avoids jail after pleading guilty to two charges

Emmerdale actress Lesley Dunlop appeared in court last week as she faced two driving charges and was hit with a fine and points on her licence

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2 w. ago Emmerdale icon avoids jail after pleading guilty to two charges after soap exit

ITV Emmerdale actress Lesley Dunlop, who played Brenda Walker on the ITV soap before she exited earlier this year, is facing two driving offences in court

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2 w. ago Man charged over Marcus's death: Family's agony after British teenager who was jailed for holiday romance in Dubai with girl, 17, dies in crash three months after prison release

Marcus Fakana, 19, tragically died after a car he was a passenger in smashed into another vehicle while it was being tailed by the Metropolitan Police in Tottenham, north London.

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2 w. ago Kansas deputy charged with murder kneeled on inmate for 1 minute and 26 seconds

Court records show that a white Kansas sheriff’s deputy charged with murder in the death of a Black jail inmate shoved his knee into the cuffed man’s back for 86 seconds after he was wheeled back to his cell from the infirmary

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3 w. ago Carla Bruni parties like she hasn't got a care in the world at Paris fashion show just days after Nicolas Sarkozy gets five

The former First Lady was photographed smiling and chatting with guests at the Saint Laurent event while her husband, 70, prepares to appeal against his conviction.

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3 w. ago Brit mum detained in Iran with husband on spy charges ‘put on drip in jail’ as son begs UK to fight to free couple

A BRITISH mum detained in a hellhole prison in Iran has been put on a drip - sparking fears for her health, her son has revealed. Lindsay and Craig Foreman, both 52, were arrested and charged with spying while travelling through the country on a dream round-the-world motorbike trip. The married couple - who appeared...

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3 w. ago British woman held in Iranian jail on 'spy charges' is put on drip in her cell as family fears for her health

Lindsay and Craig Foreman, both 52, were arrested in Kerman, southern Iran, on January 3 as they embarked on a motorcycle trip around the world to Australia.

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