9 h. ago Prison death of drug gang killer who punted heroin for kingpin to be probed

Ronald Harrison was found dead at HMP Addiewell in West Lothian.

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25 h. ago 'Monster' woman, 34, gets maximum prison sentence for knifing stranger's son, 3, to death in grocery store parking lot

Bionca Ellis looked subdued Monday as she was sentenced for the June 2024 murder of Julian Wood.

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3 d. ago FBI indicts dozens of people in Philadelphia on drug charges

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has announced that more than two dozen people have been indicted on drug-related charges as part of a yearslong investigation into a gang in Philadelphia

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4 d. ago Fake fat jabs worth £250k seized by Brit cops after world’s largest ever weight

FAKE fat jabs worth more than £250,000 have been seized in the world’s largest ever weight-loss drug bust.   Officers smashed an organised crime gang during a dawn raid on a warehouse.   The site is believed to have been used for the large-scale manufacture, packaging and distribution of unlicensed — and potentially deadly —...

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5 d. ago Glam influencer, 23, 'on the run' after being accused of 'running major drug gang'

Melissa Said, 23, regularly posed in barely-there bikinis for her 341,000 social media followers. Now, she is being hunted by Brazilian police investigating a drug trafficking gang

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5 d. ago Drug dealer admits murder of woman who was shot dead during gang turf war

Marcus Huntley, 21, shot dead Joanne Penney, 40, after she opened the door of a flat in south Wales on March 9 this year.

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6 d. ago Baby P mum Tracey Connelly visited a sex club when she was released from prison

Tracey Connelly, speaking publicly for the first time since being jailed for her 17-month-old son Peter’s death, has revealed she visited a sex club after leaving prison

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6 d. ago Prison death of killer Edward Cairney who murdered Margaret Fleming to be probed

Cairney and his partner Avril Jones were carers for the 19-year-old, who had learning difficulties, when they murdered her at their Seacroft home near Inverkip, in 1999.

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6 d. ago Woman shot dead as part of drug gang turf war, murder trial told

Joanne Penney, 40, was shot in the heart when she opened the door of a flat in Talbot Green, near Cardiff.

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6 d. ago Sarkozy under police guard in prison after inmate threatens to kill him to ‘avenge Gaddafi’

The dramatic development came after the former President spent a ‘frightening’ first night at La Santé jail in Paris

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6 d. ago Police move into cell next to Nicolas Sarkozy after fellow inmates threaten to kill the jailed president

The former president arrived at prison yesterday after being handed a five-year sentence for a plan to take money from Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi

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7 d. ago Two more inmates are arrested on suspicion of conspiring to murder paedophile Lostprophets frontman Ian Watkins

Two more men have been arrested in connection with the death of former Lostprophets frontman Ian Watkins at HMP Wakefield on October 11, West Yorkshire Police said.

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7 d. ago Ian Watkins: Two more arrests over prison death of paedophile Lostprophets singer

West Yorkshire Police says two more men from the prison had been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to murder

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7 d. ago Two further arrests made after death of Ian Watkins in prison

The Lostprophets singer, a convicted child sex abuser, was killed in an attack earlier this month

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7 d. ago Ian Watkins death update as two more arrested after prison murder

This is a breaking news story and is being constantly updated by our reporters as the breaking news story develops

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7 d. ago Styal prison criticised over death of gran five days after release

A watchdog has made a series of recommendations

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7 d. ago US man accused of faking own death after rape conviction gets at least five years in prison

Nicholas Rossi, who fled US, gets first of two sentences after being convicted of raping two women in Utah in 2008A judge has sentenced a Rhode Island man who appeared to fake his death and flee the United States to avoid arrest of at least five years in prison for rape.The sentence handed down Monday for Nicholas Rossi, 38, was the first of two he faces after being convicted separately in August and September of raping two women in northern Utah in 2008. He is scheduled to be sentenced in November for the second conviction. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Marco Rubio betrayed drug gang informants to seal El Salvador prison deal, report says

Trump administration allegedly agreed to abandon confidential informants protected by US government in an effort to ink CECOT deal

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1 week ago Plans for 'pain free restraints' in jails in wake of Allan Marshall death derailed by overcrowding

The Scottish Prison Service has admitted the brutal death of inmate Allan, 30, in 2015 was unlawful after excessive force was used by officers.

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2 w. ago Prison guards left inmate to slowly 'burn to death' trapped in cell

Crystal Janelle West and William Eugene Romero allegedly refused to help Corey Bavousett after he is understood to have set his mattress ablaze while banged up in Texan jail

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