4 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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46 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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48 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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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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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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1 week 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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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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4 w. ago Judge addresses ‘elephant in the room’ as former NYC aide to Eric Adams avoids prison

Bahi, 41, pleaded guilty to helping solicit illegal donations from employees of a construction company

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