6 h. ago Rapper's wife who dismembered him with hacksaw and fed fingers to rats is jailed

Marina Kokhal was sentenced to over a decade in prison after she killed her rapper husband, dismembered him and desecrated the remains, even throwing some parts in the washing machine

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10 h. ago Rapper’s wife who chopped him up with hacksaw while still alive before putting body parts in washing machine is jailed

THE wife of a popular rapper has been jailed after being found guilty of killing and dismembering her husband. Marina Kokhal, 41, was sentenced to 12 and a half years in prison, for hacking her partner's corpse and shoving his body parts in a washing machine. Ukrainian-born singer Andy Cartwright, whose real name is Alexander...

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9 d. ago ‘She was extremely petrified’: the shocking drama about one woman’s six

When dual national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was imprisoned, her husband went on hunger strike – to force Britain to act. Narges Rashidi and Joseph Fiennes reveal how they brought their nightmare to the small screenWhen Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was arrested in Iran in 2016, it wasn’t immediately obvious what had happened – but within 100 days, we had the contours of the story. Her husband, Richard Ratcliffe, held a press conference. He had amassed 780,000 signatures on a petition for her release, and delivered a letter urging the same thing to former PM David Cameron. This, it transpired much later, was after murky meetings with the Foreign Office in which civil servants insisted that the best thing, both for Nazanin’s release and the safety of her parents and brother in Iran, was to lay low and let diplomacy take its course.“It was state hostage-taking,” says Joseph Fiennes, who plays Richard Ratcliffe in the BBC’s four-part drama Prisoner 951. “It clearly goes on, and innocent pe...

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2 w. ago Prisoner release errors rate 'rising faster than UK jail population' says expert

A top prisons researcher has said the government's proposed checks cannot immediately fix a system that is breaking down from multiple angles, with no available 'quick way out'

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2 w. ago Rats, overcrowding and urgent riot warnings — my day inside a London jail

Britain’s jails are “on the precipice of failure”, with warnings that jails could run out of space within days. As Keir Starmer announces emergency measures to fix the crisis, Katie Strick spends a day on the frontline

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2 w. ago Bianca Censori 'follows Kanye West's weird diet, tattoo and sunbathing rules' – and likes them

Bianca Censori's relationship with Kanye West has been riddled with controversy and a source claims that the rapper has his wife follow a strict set of rules - which she actually enjoys

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3 w. ago First banker jailed over Libor interest rate rigging to sue UBS for $400m

Tom Hayes claims he was ‘hand-picked scapegoat’ for the Swiss bank as it tried to avoid regulatory scrutinyTom Hayes, the first banker jailed over Libor interest rate rigging, is suing his former employer UBS for $400m (£300m), claiming he was a “hand-picked scapegoat” for the Swiss bank as it tried to avoid regulatory scrutiny.The claim, which was publicly filed in a US court in Connecticut on Monday, alleges that UBS misled US authorities and called him an “evil mastermind” behind the alleged Libor scandal, in order to protect senior executives and minimise fines. Continue reading...

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