17 h. ago ‘I literally lost my mind’: Diddy writes letter to judge on eve of sentencing begging for clemency

Sean Combs tells justice he was ‘broken to my core’ but now feels remorse over his past actions, observing: ‘Prison will change you or kill you – I choose to live’

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26 h. ago Combs pleads with judge in letter before sentencing, saying he was ‘reborn’ in jail

Music mogul, facing up to 11 years in prison, says he is a new man and ‘I no longer care about the money or the fame’Facing up to 11 years in prison at his sentencing on Friday, Sean “Diddy” Combs told a federal judge that he has experienced “a spiritual reset”, and he hoped to be released so that he can return to his children and his mother.“The old me died in jail and a new version of me was reborn. Prison will change you or kill you – I choose to live,” Combs, 55, wrote in a letter to Judge Arun Subramanian. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago South Carolina prosecutor seeks death penalty in murder case after Biden reduced sentence to life

A local prosecutor in South Carolina plans to seek the death penalty against a man whose federal death sentence for killing two bank employees was commuted to life in prison by President Joe Biden

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4 d. ago Three inmates killed themselves at Pentonville prison where jail staff on 24

Chief Inspector of Prisons Charlie Taylor placed HMP Pentonville in London under special measures in July due to a series of 'comprehensive failures'.

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4 d. ago Lucy Letby's life in jail from 'eerie room' to child killer pal and binging on junk food

Lucy Letby is serving a whole life order after being convicted of murdering seven children at the Countess of Chester Hospital as she spends her time in prison alongside other child killers

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7 d. ago Assata Shakur, an icon of Black liberation who was exiled to Cuba, dies aged 78

Shakur spent decades exiled after she was convicted of killing a state trooper in 1977 and escaped from prisonOn 25 September, Assata Shakur, a former member of the Black Liberation Army, died aged 78 in Havana, Cuba, according to Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Cuban officials cited the reason for her death as old age and health conditions. Shakur, a longstranding symbol of resistance and Black liberation, spent several decades exiled in Cuba after she was convicted of killing a New Jersey state trooper in 1977 and escaped from prison.“At approximately 1:15pm on September 25th, my mother, Assata Shakur, took her last earthly breath,” her daughter Kakuya Shakur wrote on Facebook. “Words cannot describe the depth of loss that I’m feeling at this time.” Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Macron comes under pressure to PARDON his shamed predecessor Nicolas Sarkozy after French ex president was sentenced to five years in jail for criminal conspiracy

A Paris court sentenced Sarkozy, to five years in jail and a €100,000 fine over allegations he sought millions from Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi to fund his 2007 election campaign.

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8 d. ago Pakistani teenager sentenced to 100 years in prison for killing family over PUBG game

Zain Ali was 14 when he shot his mother, brother and two sisters

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8 d. ago My horror years in female prison housing killers like Lucy Letby where ‘hungry’ guards violated lags & perved in showers

IT’S the ‘Monster Mansion’ home to some of Britain’s most notorious female killers - with baby killer Constance Marten the latest high profile inmate joining the likes of Lucy Letby and murderous mum Beinash Batool. Now a former inmate of HMP Bronzefield has lifted the lid on the hell she experienced behind bars at the...

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1 week ago Four guards plead guilty to brutal and fatal beating of Black inmate caught on body cam

Four of the 10 guards indicted in February are still headed to trial on October 6, including three accused of murder

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1 week ago Lucy Letby could 'meet tragic end' in prison as expert calls for her to be freed

As a crowd of supporters grow in favour of releasing the convicted baby-killer, an expert warns that prison may provide an early demise for former nurse Lucy Letby

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1 week ago Pakistani court charges man with murder of teenage TikTok influencer

Sana Yousaf's death drew widespread condemnation

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1 week ago Constance Marten's shocking Lucy Letby ultimatum as killers locked up on same ward

Constance Marten is sharing a prison ward with notorious baby killer Lucy Letby but has made a bizarre request to officials as sources call her "deluded"

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2 w. ago Murderer who killed again after being released from prison will die behind bars

Direece Roche stabbed 23-year-old Adam Steele to death on New Year’s Day in 2011. In June 2024, just nine months after being released, he stabbed his great uncle 77 times

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2 w. ago Sadistic killer of stable girl's open prison bid blocked by Justice Secretary 

Colin Hill will remain in a closed jail after the Parole Board's recommendation to transfer him in preparation for release w refused amid concerns he still poses a risk to the public

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2 w. ago British Muslim convert who plotted to kill for ISIS is sent back to prison after trying to leave the UK for Africa

Ismael Watson, formerly known as Jack, is back in prison after he tried to leave the UK for Africa. The 35-year-old from Liverpool was previously jailed for trying to join ISIS in Syria.

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2 w. ago Convicted killer was released from prison for murder, then did it again

Direece Roche was just 16 when he committed his first murder

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2 w. ago Conviction: The Case of Lucy Letby review – documentary probes Britain’s most notorious baby killer

Channel 4’s film follows the fight to overturn Letby’s conviction, questioning expert testimony and exposing deep divisions over whether she is guilty or the victim of a miscarriage of justiceIs Lucy Letby innocent? Or, to put it another way, is there now enough reasonable doubt to declare her conviction unsafe? This documentary’s answer to the second question could hardly be clearer: yes.Letby was declared to be the biggest child serial killer in modern Britain, though she could yet go down in history as the subject of our era’s most serious miscarriage of justice. Public opinion, media mythology and the law turn as slowly as an oil tanker. Letby could walk free or she could end up the subject of unending and fruitless debate, in a kind of permanent standoff with her accusers, like the Menendez brothers in the US, contentiously convicted of killing their parents in 1989 and still in prison. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago 'He's back where he belongs' say victim's family as killer returned to prison

Jack Shepherd was released from jail last year after the death of 24-year-old Charlotte Brown on their first date

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2 w. ago Speedboat killer Jack Shepherd back in prison after breaching licence conditions

He was jailed over the death of 24-year-old Charlotte Brown on their first date

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