50 h. ago Prisoner threw kettle full of boiling water over cellmate in row over vape

Danny Smith left his fellow inmate in agony following a brutal behind bars assault at HMP Altcourse

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57 h. ago 'Slaughter house' prison with bodies strewn across floor and execution parties

WARNING DISTRESSING DETAILS: Bashar Al-Assad's brutal regime saw thousands die in his 'human slaughterhouse' prisons - with some guards getting so carried away they threw execution parties

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58 h. ago Man left brutally injured and screaming 'he's going to kill me' after row over vape

Danny Smith carried out the brutal assault while serving a sentence in HMP Altcourse

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2 w. ago World’s oldest professional footballer on playing at 59: ‘I won’t put limits on myself’

Mykola Lykhovydov is living his sporting dream with Ukraine’s Real Pharma, helped by a haka-like warm-up, local water and napsMykola Lykhovydov half-boils a kettle and, pausing slightly for dramatic effect, decants its contents into the waiting glasses. The water comes from an artesian well close to this small, rickety dressing room that doubles as a clubhouse. They say it flows from 80 metres underground and should be consumed just like this, served a little above body temperature and sipped gently so the body’s cells can properly hydrate. Nobody at FK Real Pharma would drink anything else before training and Lykhovydov swears by an extra benefit. “A doctor from Dynamo Kyiv told me this is the best water in Ukraine,” he announces. “It is the secret of eternal youth.”Whether marvel or myth, the regimen is serving Lykhovydov well. He turned 59 in January and is, as far as anybody knows, the oldest active professional footballer in the world. At almost a year older than the Japanese g...

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2 w. ago Teen lag hurls boiling water at guard in suspected terror attack ‘inspired by Axel Rudakubana’

The teenage prisoner boiled water in his in-cell kettle and mixed it with sugar before throwing it at the officer - in an attack believed to be inspired by Axel Rudakubana

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3 w. ago Brotherless Night by VV Ganeshananthan audiobook review – love and conflict in Sri Lanka

The civil war transforms a young trainee doctor’s life as she copes with her feelings for a Tamil Tiger in last year’s Women’s prizewinning novelBrotherless Night opens with 16-year-old Sashi Kulenthiren, who hopes to be a doctor like her eldest brother, making tea when the kettle slips out of her hand, causing her to pour boiling water on herself. When a neighbour, K, hears her screams, he rushes over to help, cracking raw eggs over the scalds to soothe the pain. “So I began as K’s patient though he ended as mine,” Sashi reflects.Set in 1980s Sri Lanka, VV Ganeshananthan’s coming-of-age novel – which won the 2024 Women’s prize for fiction – is an epic and hard-hitting tale of family and survival as it documents life during the civil war between Tamil separatists and the Sinhalese majority that lasted three decades. Before fighting breaks out, Sashi’s most pressing problem is whether she will pass her exams at school. But soon violence and kidnapping become the norm, communities are...

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3 w. ago Violent inmate threw faeces and urine at prison officers while laughing

Adam Smith, 33, carried out the disgusting acts on staff members at HMP Parc in Bridgend

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