5 h. ago Amanda Knox slams Matt Damon’s comments comparing cancel culture to jail time

Knox previously criticized Damon’s 2021 movie ‘Stillwater’ over its similarities to her case

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2 d. ago Australia news live: NSW dog owners face jail time for leaving pets in cars; flood warnings issued for Sydney

Under the proposals, offenders could be fined a maximum of $44,000 and sentenced to a year in prison. Follow updates liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast‘Brazen’ judge comments highlight family court failuresLegal experts have criticised the handling of abuse cases in family court, after a woman and alleged survivor of domestic abuse alleged a judge suggested she be taken to a park to “fight it out” with her former partner.The judge has evidence before them of family violence, which by definition is a pattern of violence, control and abuse of power, and yet has opted to collude with the alleged perpetrator, emboldening this person to continue his offences.The fact that these attitudes permeate the justice system does not surprise me but it is shocking how brazen (these comments) are.” Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Hero Iranian shopkeeper is still at 'high risk' of execution at any time and is probably being tortured in hell hole jail despite regime's vow not to put him to death, human rights group claims

The Iranian shopkeeper who was detained for taking part in an anti-government protest is still at 'high risk' of execution, a human rights group has warned.

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5 d. ago 'My teacher wife slept with student, 17, in our bed — but we're still married'

McKenna Kindred was able to avoid jail time after she was able to score a deal in court, but now her scorn husband has opted to stay with her after her heinous crime

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6 d. ago Teacher who refused to 'call a boy a girl' in trans row is freed from jail and vows to return to school despite warning he will be sent straight back to prison

Enoch Burke was jailed for contempt of court after repeatedly breaching an order banning him from entering his former workplace.

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7 d. ago South Korean prosecutors demand death penalty for former president Yoon Suk Yeol

Yoon is on trial for insurrection charges, after trying to declare martial law in late 2024South Korean prosecutors have demanded the death penalty for former president Yoon Suk Yeol over his failed martial law declaration in December 2024, in the first insurrection trial of a Korean head of state in three decades.Prosecutors characterised the case as the “serious destruction of constitutional order by anti-state forces”, telling Seoul central district court that Yoon had “directly and fundamentally infringed upon the safety of the state and the survival and freedom of the people”. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Notorious catfisher who targeted up to 100 women eventually unmasked by victims

Adele Rennie is currently in jail for the fourth time after a 15-year campaign of cyber stalking multiple victims and pretending to be a man called 'Dr David Graham'

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1 week ago Teacher's 'filthy conversations' with what he thought was a 12

The teacher sent the 'boy' - actually an undercover police officer - videos of him masturbating

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1 week ago Son slashed dad's face in 'revenge for mum' after meeting for first time ever in jail

Lee Spence, 25, attacked his father John Spence with a blade after trying to take 'revenge for mum' in HMP Perth, leading his dad needing more than 40 stitches

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1 week ago Pregnant teacher on maternity leave charged with alleged sexual abuse of teenage boy

Naomi Tekea Craig, 33, was arrested on Tuesday after allegedly engaging in 'persistent sexual conduct' with a teenage boy in Mandurah, Western Australia, between 2024 and 2025

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2 w. ago Owner of Swiss bar in deadly NYE fire ‘was a pimp and fraudster who served time in jail’ as he and wife quizzed by cops

ONE of the owners of the Swiss bar where a blaze killed 40 people was allegedly a pimp who served time in jail – before his dodgy DIY turned Le Constellation into a death trap. Jacques Moretti, 49, reportedly had an extensive criminal history including convictions for "fraud, kidnapping and false imprisonment." Moretti owned the...

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4 w. ago From inside Iran's Evin jail: British mother's voice heard for first time since being detained with husband

Lindsay Foreman and her husband Craig were detained in Iran in January during a motorcycle tour around the world

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4 w. ago Outrage as engaged teacher who made out with boy, 11, in her classroom is sentenced to half the jail time prosecutors demanded

Madison Bergmann, 26, who taught fifth grade at River Crest Elementary School in Hudson, Wisconsin, sobbed as she was sentenced in court on Friday afternoon.

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4 w. ago 'Britain's angriest cyclist' Peter Abbott caged for horror new abuse of mum with newborn

Peter Abbott was handed the jail term as he was on a suspended sentence at the time for an infamous outburst against a woman in a Tesco car park

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4 w. ago Member of 'worst gang in world' who Trump called 'sick and deranged' handed 1,300

A member of the notorious MS-13 gang member has been handed a huge sentence of more than 1,300 years for murders, extortion and other crimes - and he's not the only one facing long jail time

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