20 h. ago Schoolboy, 16, filmed holding a seagull he killed 'like a trophy' before shooting a disabled man with a catapult is spared jail

The teenager from Ashford in Kent, who cannot be named due to his age, was arrested after a sickening video captured the moments after he killed the bird.

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21 h. ago Mum who hid two stillborn babies in sheets and binbags spared jail for harrowing reason

Egle Zilinskaite, 31, gave birth to two stillborn children three years apart and hid the bodies of both babies in her Wales terrace. Now the mum has been sentenced

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22 h. ago Mum who hid deaths of two babies after birth 'without support' is spared jail

Mother-of-five Zilinskaite concealed the pregnancies due to a 'fundamental distrust of authorities, both in the UK and based on her experiences in Lithuania' where she was born

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9 d. ago Foreign agents must register with UK authorities from TODAY or face jail but Labour is accused of 'kowtowing' to Beijing as China is spared from the toughest rules

The new Foreign Influence Registration Scheme (FIRS) came into effect on Tuesday as ministers look to crack down on covert action by foreign governments.

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1 week ago Men who lured schoolgirl, 15, into van and live streamed sick footage of her being sexually abused while one orally raped her are spared jail

Michael Linfoot, 24, Callum Hesketh, 24, and Thomas Rae, 24, all of Chorley in Greater Manchester, were all convicted of offences in 2018 on Thursday.

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1 week ago Bus driver spared jail after he ran over pensioner had curfew lifted to take son to Legoland

Norman Hamilton avoided a prison sentence for seriously injuring Andrew Milton last March.

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3 w. ago Girl, 17, kept child abuse images sent by paedos as she 'loved attention from men'

Alicia Nkemla was just 17 when she started to sell sexual images of herself online. She was spared jail by a judge who told her she should 'consider herself very lucky'

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3 w. ago 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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