8 h. ago Killer adds more time to jail term after scissors blade found in HMP Shotts cell

Scott Pearson claimed he armed himself after death threats were made against him at top-security HMP Shotts.

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56 h. ago ‘We’re Britain’s dirty little secret’: After 17 years under an indefinite jail term for a teenage crime, Tony is finally free

Tony Betteridge was aged just 18 when he was handed an indefinite jail term for setting a fire in a store cupboard in an empty building, Amy-Clare Martin writes. After more than a decade in jail, four recalls and the tragic loss of his mother, sister and brother, he is ready to start a new life

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6 d. ago Brazil coach Carlo Ancelotti sentenced to jail term in Spain for tax fraud

A Spanish court also fined the former Real Madrid manager 386,000 euros (£332,000).

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3 w. ago Wishaw mum caught with £12,000 worth of cocaine avoids jail term

Hamilton Sheriff Court heard that messages on her phones suggested Lyndsey Paton had been involved in drug dealing for more than a year.

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3 w. ago Desperate father who set himself alight while serving 13 years in jail for stealing a phone finally moving to hospital

Trapped under an abolished IPP jail term, Thomas White was driven to schizophrenia and psychosis. For the past year, The Independent has documented his tragic case - now he is finally being transferred to hospital following a six-year family campaign

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3 w. ago Desperate father who set himself alight while serving 13 years in jail for stealing a phone finally moved to hospital

Trapped under an abolished IPP jail term, Thomas White was driven to schizophrenia and psychosis. For the past year, The Independent has documented his tragic case - now he is finally being transferred to hospital following a six-year family campaign

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3 w. ago Predator who drugged and raped 10 women facing ‘very long’ jail term

Engineering student Zhenhao Zou, 28, may have targeted dozens more victims in harrowing attacks that he filmed, police fear.

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4 w. ago Killer's chilling excuse after butchering two women in 'horror movie' rampage

Jazwell Brown, who has today been sentenced to life in jail with a minimum term of 39 years, made a shocking remark to officers after stabbing Joanne Pearson and Teohna Grant to death in a frenzied rampage

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4 w. ago Reformed offender mentors young people through sport after serving jail term

Chauncey Taylor became involved in criminal activity after he was released from his rugby club.

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last month Jewellery model who posted 'revenge porn' photos online dodges prison as victim says she was left 'stripped of her dignity'

Louise Billman, 40, uploaded 'multiple' screenshots taken from compromising videos of her victim with a man. She was spared an immediate jail term because of her previous 'good character'.

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