28 m. ago Two men in court on Christmas Eve over organised crime charges amid huge police crackdown

The pair, both aged 30, appeared at Glasgow Sheriff Court on December 24 on organised crime and drugs charges.

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5 h. ago Reese Witherspoon shares rare photo with daughter and everyone says same thing

Academy Award winning actor Reese Witherspoon has three children including daughter, Ava, who she shares with ex-husband Ryan Phillippe. The former couple starred together in the 1999 hit Cruel Intentions

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7 h. ago Russell Brand jokes about upcoming court case as he attacks government bid to axe jury trials hours after he was charged with two new counts of rape and sexual assault

The comedian and actor took to YouTube with a 16-minute video railing against UK Government plans to limit the use of jury trials.

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10 h. ago Woman 'drugged and raped by her husband over 13 years' was hailed a hero for helping recover missing person's body from river

Joanne Young, 48, waived her right to anonymity after six men, including her ex-husband, were charged with a string of sexual offences against her.

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11 h. ago Killing the Dead by John Blair review – a gloriously gruesome history of vampires

Shroud-chewers, lip-smackers and suckers populate this fascinating study of ‘the unquiet dead’ across the centuriesThe word “vampire” first appears in English in sensational accounts of a revenant panic in Serbia in the early 18th century. One case in 1725 concerned a recently deceased peasant farmer, Peter Blagojević, who rose from the grave, visited his wife to demand his shoes, and then murdered nine people in the night. When his body was disinterred, his mouth was found full of fresh blood. The villagers staked the corpse and then burned it. In 1745, the clergyman John Swinton published an anonymous pamphlet, The Travels of Three English Gentlemen, from Venice to Hamburgh, in which it is written: “These Vampyres are supposed to be the Bodies of deceased Persons, animated by evil Spirits, which come out of the Graves, in the Night-time, suck the Blood of many of the Living, and thereby destroy them.” And so a modern myth was born.But it is not so modern, or exclusively Europ...

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18 h. ago Miami Heat’s Terry Rozier asks judge to throw out betting charges

Lawyers for Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier are asking a judge to throw out sports gambling charges that have kept him off the court this season, arguing that the government overreached by turning a private dispute over bettors’ use of non-public information into a federal case

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21 h. ago Organised crime cops arrest two men in Scots town amid huge operation

The pair, both aged 30, were arrested and charged in Cambuslang and will appear in court on Christmas Eve.

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25 h. ago Police seek SEVENTH man over alleged drugging and raping of wife as six people including her husband appear in court charged with more than 50 offences

Police are searching for a seventh suspect in relation to the case of a former Tory councillor who is accused of drugging and sexually assaulting his wife with five men over13 years.

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26 h. ago Police seek SEVENTH man in connection with alleged Swindon sex assault case

Police are searching for a seventh suspect in relation to the case of a former Tory councillor who is accused of drugging and sexually assaulting his wife with five men over13 years.

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27 h. ago Five men appear in court charged with string of sex offences after husband accused of drugging and raping his wife over a 13

Business consultant Philip Young, a father-of-three, is accused of 56 sexual offences, including multiple counts of rape, against his former wife, Joanne Young.

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31 h. ago Man appears in court charged with 56 sexual offences against ex

Philip Young is charged with 56 sexual offences against his ex-wife Joanne Young

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32 h. ago Former Tory councillor in court accused of drugging and raping ex

Philip Young appears at Swindon magistrates court charged with 56 offences relating to 13-year periodA former Tory councillor has appeared in court charged with drugging and raping his former wife over a period of 13 years.Philip Young, 49, and five other men have been accused of more than 60 rapes and sexual offences against Joanne Young, 48. She can be named as the alleged victim because she has waived her right to anonymity, which would otherwise apply in such cases.Norman Macksoni, 47, a black British national of Sharnbrook, Bedfordshire, who has been charged with one count of rape and possession of extreme images.Dean Hamilton, 46, of no fixed abode, who is white British, has been charged with one count of rape and sexual assault by penetration and two counts of sexual touching.Conner Sanderson Doyle, 31, of Swindon, described as white British, has been charged with sexual assault by penetration and sexual touching.Richard Wilkins, 61, of Toothill, Swindon, who is white British...

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32 h. ago Husband appears in court charged with string of sex offences including drugging and raping his wife over a 13

Business consultant Philip Young, a father-of-three, is alleged to have carried out attacks against his former wife, Joanne Young, over a 13-year period.

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35 h. ago Rob and Michele Reiner funeral update as devastated children speak out

Nick Reiner - who has battled addiction and homelessness over the years -wore a blue anti-suicide vest and shackles during his appearance at Los Angeles Superior Court last week after being charged with two counts of first-degree murder

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45 h. ago Man appears in court charged with murder after body found in Scots home

Grzegorz Bialy, 56, was found dead when police scrambled to a house in Whitburn, West Lothian, on Friday afternoon.

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48 h. ago Husband and five men charged with 60 sexual offences against his ex

Philip Young, 49, from Enfield, has been charged with 56 sexual offences, including multiple counts of rape against his ex-wife Joanne Young, 48.

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50 h. ago Man appears in court charged with murder of 'joyful' man in Scots town

Ronan Kane, 26, appeared at Alloa Sheriff Court on Monday.

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55 h. ago Former British National Party leader Nick Griffin in court charged with stirring up racial hatred after posting cartoon on Twitter

Nick Griffin, 66, the former BNP leader, appeared in court via videolink today accused of stirring up racial hatred with a cartoon on Twitter.

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4 d. ago Man, 61, who drugged, raped & shared vile vids of wife with pervs jailed for 8 years in ‘Germany’s Gisele Pelicot’ case

A DEPRAVED German caretaker has been sentenced to eight-and-a-half years in prison for repeatedly drugging and raping his wife for several years and sharing footage of the vile abuse online. Fernando P, whose identity is protected under German privacy laws, has been convicted of carrying out the appalling assaults between 2018 and 2024. The 61-year-old...

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5 d. ago Woman in court charged with breaching abortion buffer zones law

Rose Docherty is accused of two offences under the Abortion Services (Safe Access Zones) Act 2024.

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