17 h. ago Man who set fire to his home narrowly avoids being sent to prison

Firefighters didn’t believe his claim that a chip pan had caught fire.

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58 h. ago Matthew Perry's ketamine doctor avoids jail in shock ruling as court hears he now drives Uber for a living

One of the doctors caught up in the criminal fallout surrounding Matthew Perry's ketamine death has narrowly avoided prison time.

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60 h. ago Doctor who helped provide ketamine to Matthew Perry avoids prison for role in Friends’ star death

Perry died in October 2023 from a drug overdose

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64 h. ago John Swinney 'looking closely' at security of Scotland's only Jewish school

Conservative MSP Jackson Carlaw raised the concerns of parents at Calderwood Lodge Primary School

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3 d. ago Damning Liverpool crash evidence that 'made Paul Doyle change his plea'

The man who stood accused of ploughing his car into a crowd of football fans - injuring 134 people, including children - has changed his plea to guilty in an unexpected U-turn

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5 d. ago Drug mule Brit Bella Culley reveals she’s had baby just weeks after being freed from ex

PREGNANT drugs mule Bella Culley has given birth to the baby boy conceived on her disastrous Far East backpacking trip. Bella, 19, posted TikTok pictures of her cradling a tiny tot with the caption: “My little 5lbs baba.” Bella walked free thanks to a plea bargain deal after pleading guilty to importing a huge stash...

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6 d. ago Man who opened fire outside his former Jewish school avoids prison with guilty plea

A Tennessee man who fired a gun at a contractor outside his former Jewish school in Memphis in 2023 has pleaded guilty

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8 d. ago Man accused of shooting NFL star Kris Boyd pleads not guilty to attempted murder

The man charged with shooting New York Jets star Kris Boyd last month appeared in court on Tuesday

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1 week ago Community outraged after California high schoolers form a human swastika

A student at a San Jose high school posted a photo of eight students lying in the shape of a swastika on a football fieldA photo of eight students lying in the shape of a swastika on a high school football field in San Jose, California, has caused shock and outrage among the Bay Area Jewish community.A Branham high school student posted the photo to social media on 3 December, and included an antisemitic quote from Adolf Hitler in the caption. A screenshot of the post began circulating on Reddit last Thursday and garnered over 500 comments. The post and the account were removed by Instagram by Friday morning, according to J., the Jewish News of Northern California. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Alex Murdaugh court clerk sentenced for leaking graphic crime scene photos and lying about it

The judge said the former court clerk was ‘attracted by the siren call of celebrity’ status

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1 week ago Former England midfielder Joey Barton handed suspended prison sentence for 'offensive' posts

The former Premier League star was convicted over posts about broadcasters Jeremy Vine, Lucy Ward and Eni Aluko

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2 w. ago Undertaker with hundreds of child abuse and necrophilia images avoids prison

WARNING - DISTRESSING CONTENT: Gary Williams, 45, was found to have hundreds of child abuse images and some showing 'sexual interference with corpses'

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2 w. ago Matthew Perry's family get their wish as doctor who sold him fatal ket is jailed

Perry's doctor has been handed a two and a half year prison sentence, following his earlier guilty plea for supplying the actor with drugs

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2 w. ago 'I know why Paul Doyle changed his plea and tragic motive for Liverpool crash'

In dramatic scenes, Paul Doyle changed his plea to guilty after ploughing his car into crowds at the Liverpool victory parade, injuring 134 people including children

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2 w. ago Paul Doyle's life in jail after Liverpool crash from 'protection to inmate fury'

Paul Doyle changed his plea to guilty on all 31 charges after driving into a crowd of Liverpool fans in the city centre and causing injuries to more than 100 people in the process

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2 w. ago Investment adviser facing jail over Ponzi scheme swindling clients including Catholic priests group out of $94M

Andrew Hamilton Jacobus faces up to 20 years in federal prison on each count

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3 w. ago Former Royal Marine pleads guilty to injuring 29 people at Liverpool FC parade

Paul Doyle, who drove into a crowd of celebrating football fans in May, changes plea unexpectedlyA former Royal Marine has pleaded guilty on the first day of his trial to injuring 29 people, including two babies, by ploughing his car through the crowd at a Liverpool FC victory parade.Paul Doyle, 54, deliberately drove his Ford Galaxy at football fans after tailgating an ambulance down a packed road that was closed to non-emergency service vehicles on 26 May. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago How cult leader ‘Commander Butcher’ plotted to sow mayhem across US

Guilty plea by far-right activist lays bare plans for bombings, school shootings and Santas handing out poisoned candiesMichail Chkhikvishvili, a self-described cult leader who called himself “Commander Butcher”, did not look like a Hollywood vision of a contemporary terrorist, despite the bizarre, almost made-for-TV extremist actions he planned, such as having people dressed as Santa Claus hand out poison candies on the streets of New York.Chkhikvishvili appeared in a Brooklyn court last week as one might find an office IT tech: close-cropped hair and black-rimmed glasses, attentive, clear-spoken and cooperative as he was questioned about his understanding of a plea that could see him imprisoned for up to 18 years at his March sentencing. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Man who took fake gun to McDonald’s and stole food avoids prison

David James Vauls was handed a six-month suspended sentence for the “error of judgment” while attempting to buy a chicken nugget meal deal.

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3 w. ago Brazilian police arrest Bolsonaro amid suspicions he was about to flee

Move comes after fears the far-right former president was about to seek refuge at a foreign embassy to avoid prisonBrazil’s former far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, has been arrested at his villa in the capital, Brasília , amid suspicions he was poised to abscond to a foreign embassy to avoid going to prison for masterminding a military coup.In a brief statement, federal police confirmed officers had executed a preventive arrest warrant at the request of the supreme court. The 70-year-old politician was taken to a federal police base, 7 miles from the presidential palace he occupied from 2019 until 2022, when he lost the election and tried to launch a military coup. Continue reading...

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