10 h. ago It Was Just an Accident review – Jafar Panahi’s urgent thriller should frighten us all

This Palme d’Or-winning drama arrives in the same week its director was handed a prison sentence

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25 h. ago ‘Armed and dangerous’ Georgia inmate accused of using Uber to evade cops in escape attempt

Timothy Shane is accused of fleeing from an Atlanta hospital in nothing but a medical gown Sunday night, kicking off a days-long manhunt

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28 h. ago Matthew Perry's family get their wish as doctor who sold him fatal ket is jailed

Perry's doctor has been handed a two and a half year prison sentence, following his earlier guilty plea for supplying the actor with drugs

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32 h. ago Reform council leader accused of racism after alleged remarks about Sadiq Khan

Ian Cooper allegedly called Khan ‘narcissistic Pakistani’ and made comments about lawyer Shola Mos-ShogbamimuA Reform UK council leader has been accused of racism after allegedly describing Sadiq Khan as a “narcissistic Pakistani” and saying a black British lawyer should have “F’d off back to Nigeria”.Ian Cooper, the leader of Staffordshire county council, is also said to have attacked the justice secretary, David Lammy, in a social media post that said: “No foreign national or first generation migrant should be allowed to sit in parliament.” Continue reading...

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51 h. ago 'Killer' Luigi Mangione spotted in McDonald's after 'customers grew suspicious'

Luigi Mangione, 27, is alleged to have fatally shot UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson before sparking a five-day manhunt which ended after he was spotted in a McDonald's

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8 d. ago More migrant woe for Shabana Mahmood as Epping council vows to continue fight against Bell Hotel

Epping Forest District Council lost a High Court bid to have the Bell Hotel closed - but now councillors have agreed to attempt a further challenge in the Court of Appeal.

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8 d. ago Prison inmate sues for 'right to eat Vegemite' after being handed life sentence

Andre McKechnie, a convicted murder, is suing the Australian state of Victoria over his right to eat Vegemite and '"enjoy his culture as an Australian' in a controversial case

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1 week ago Four guards sentenced in beating death of handcuffed Black man at New York prison

Brooks had been serving a 12-year sentence for first-degree assault

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1 week ago Footballer handed suspended prison sentence after sharing illegal video of minors

Norway and Benfica star Andreas Schjelderup was in court for judgment after being charged over sharing an illegal video to minors when he was 19 years old

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2 w. ago Serial rapist Met Police officer David Carrick already in prison handed 37th life sentence

Metropolitan Police officer David Carrick has been found guilty of molesting a 12-year-old girl and raping a former partner at the Old Bailey. He was already a convicted sex offender before the allegations came to light

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2 w. ago Sick couple 'smashed kid's head against cabinet made them sit on hot radiator'

Paul Dodds and Amanda Thomson embarked on a 'savage' torrent of abuse that they inflicted on innocent children — now they have been handed prison sentences

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2 w. ago She was a prison officer. He was a convicted rapist. How did she fall for him?

Cherrie-Ann Austin-Saddington was working in a men’s prison when she began a relationship with an inmate that would turn her, too, into a criminal. How do some of the most dangerous men in Britain get what they want – even behind bars?There was a moment in the summer of 2022 when 26-year-old Cherrie-Ann Austin-Saddington, a female prison officer in a men’s jail, had to make a choice. She was on her wing at HMP The Verne in Dorset, in the day room where inmates go to read books and newspapers, when a prisoner called Bradley Trengrove handed her a magazine. Concealed within its pages was a slip of paper with a number written on it – the number of his secret, illicit mobile phone. Under the watchful eye of the prison’s security cameras, Austin-Saddington had to decide what to do next.“I was thinking, do I report it? Do I not report it?” she says. “I wasn’t thinking, I’ll text him – that wasn’t in my head.” But she did not throw the piece of paper away. She kept it, and in the end decid...

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2 w. ago Prison staff who leaked information about Maxwell’s preferential treatment have been fired, lawyer says

Representative Jamie Raskin claimed Maxwell was being waited on ‘hand and foot’ by prison staff

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3 w. ago The prison officer who just couldn't keep her hands off the inmates... she had two affairs

Isabelle Dale certainly went for a type - tattooed 'bad boys'. And given her look - nose piercings, false eyelashes, acrylic nails and platinum-blonde hair - the then-teen had no shortage of admirers.

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3 w. ago 'Monster' paedophile who filmed himself abusing kids hit with lengthy sentence

Child sex offender Connor Wright, of Middlesbrough, has been handed an extended prison sentence - this is a breaking news story

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3 w. ago Wicked tatts, Ariana! Singer Grande shows off her 40 hand 'prison' tattoos at Wicked: For Good premiere in Paris

The singer, 32, was snapped in the French capital on Friday evening with her extremely thin physique ahead of the movie's release on November 21.

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4 w. ago Mistakenly released prisoner hands himself in as Lammy faces fresh pressure over handling of fiasco

William ‘Billy’ Smith, 35, returned to Wandsworth prison after being mistakenly released on Monday

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4 w. ago ‘I was not equipped with all the detail’ over prisoner release error – Lammy

Mr Lammy has faced scrutiny over his handling of the mistaken release of a second foreign prisoner.

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4 w. ago Who are the prisoners mistakenly released from Wandsworth Prison?

Police are continuing the search for a migrant sex offender who was wrongly freed from jail

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4 w. ago Moment fugitive fraudster hands himself in three days after he was freed from HMP Wandsworth by mistake as hunt continues for Algerian migrant sex offender

Fraudster William 'Billy' Smith, 35, was wrongly set free from the south London jail earlier this week but reportedly handed himself in after a three-day manhunt.

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