3 h. ago Cake thief's four unwise words see prison sentence shoot from months to years

Michael Smith, 36, was jailed for 30 months after an incident in One Stop in St Helens, Merseyside, where he attempted to steal cakes worth £25 and claimed he had a weapon

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5 h. ago Two months after he got out of prison 'the ghosts of his past caught up with him'

Sending cocaine dealer Sean Rowles back to prison a judge said it was clear he had learned nothing from his conviction last year

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24 h. ago Menendez brothers resentencing hearing to begin after months of delays

LA judge will decide whether Erik and Lyle Menendez should be freed after serving 30 years in prison for murderAfter months of delays, a hearing starts on Tuesday to decide whether Erik and Lyle Menendez should get a chance at freedom after serving nearly 30 years in prison for the double murder of their parents.A Los Angeles judge will preside over the resentencing hearing that is expected to last two days. If he shortens their sentences, the brothers would still need approval from the state’s parole board to get out of prison. They could then potentially go free on time served. Continue reading...

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24 h. ago A French icon falls: Gérard Depardieu’s guilt will make his films hard to watch

Some will argue the actor’s legacy of landmark film roles should not be tainted by his conviction for sexual assault. But it willIt seems strangely appropriate that 76-year-old French movie star Gérard Depardieu was found guilty of sexual assault and given an 18-month suspended prison sentence on the eve of the 78th edition of the Cannes film festival. Both Cannes and Depardieu, born in the 40s, belong to an old world, but it seems only one of them has managed to adapt to the times we live in, especially since the #MeToo movement.For anyone who followed the trial closely, it was never in doubt that justice would prevail and that a French monument was about to fall. Once the accusers, two female technicians who worked as set-dresser and assistant director on the film Les Volets Verts in 2021, had pressed charges and the facts been exposed in court, there was little doubt as to the dignity of the victims and the veracity of the sexual assaults. But what was particularly striking was h...

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29 h. ago Gérard Depardieu found guilty of sexually assaulting two women

French actor, 76, convicted of assaulting set dresser and assistant director during film shoot in Paris in 2021Gérard Depardieu has been found guilty of sexually assaulting two women during a film shoot in 2021 and given an 18-month suspended prison sentence.Depardieu, France’s biggest film star who has made more than 200 films and TV series, is the highest-profile figure in the French film industry to be convicted of sexual assault since the #MeToo movement. His name will be added to the sex offender register in France, the judge ruled. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Hate preacher Anjem Choudary who was jailed for running terror group has 28

The fanatic was implicated last month when the brother of Manchester Arena bomber attacked three prison guards with boiling oil and makeshift knives in prison.

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5 d. ago ‘Predator’ who groomed and abused at least 14 girls receives five

Max Hollingsbee, 21, of Lurgan is to serve 31 months in prison and 31 months on licence.

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7 d. ago Two teenagers found with 5,000 ants could serve 12 months in prison

The pair have been fined $7,700 or the option to serve the maximum penalty for violating wildlife conservation laws in prison

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7 d. ago Two Belgian teenagers found with 5,000 ants in Kenya given $7,700 fine or 1

Two Belgian teenagers found with 5,000 ants in Kenya have been fined $7,700 or the option to serve 12 months in prison — the maximum penalty for the offense — for violating wildlife conservation laws

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8 d. ago How Ohio became a hotbed of white supremacism, spreading its tentacles globally | Stephen Starr

The rise of a resurgent American white supremacism is reaching around the globe, often with deadly consequencesBy many accounts, Hilliard, a leafy suburb west of downtown Columbus, is a midwestern success story: its progressive school district gives a vacation day for all students to mark the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr – the first in Ohio to do so – and its homes are highly sought-after by a growing number of diverse families where locals enjoy shopping at the oldest Asian grocery in the state.But it is also where Christopher Brenner Cook, a convicted terrorist, grew up. In April 2023, Cook and two others were sentenced for conspiring to attack America’s electrical grid, and he was given a 92-month prison term. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Trump meets with American ballerina who was held in Russian prison for 15 months

Ksenia Karelina was arrested in Russia last year after she donated to a charity that sends aid to Ukraine

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8 d. ago Trump to meet with American ballerina who was held in Russian prison for 15 months

Ksenia Karelina was arrested in Russia last year after she donated to a charity that sends aid to Ukraine

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1 week ago This Met Gala is filled with pro athletes. Dressing them is a unique challenge

When Brittney Griner became the first WNBA player to attend the Met Gala in 2023, just months after being released from a Russian prison in a high-profile prisoner swap, she wowed in a custom-made Calvin Klein suit

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1 week ago DUNCAN FERGUSON I feared being slashed inside Britain's most notorious prison

Everton hero Duncan Ferguson was sentenced to three months at the infamous Barlinnie prison in Glasgow - now he speaks for the first time on his terrifying time inside

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2 w. ago American tourist who trespassed on killer uncontacted tribe's island freed on bail... but there's a big catch

Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov, 24, is facing five years in prison after being arrested for landing on Sentinel Island last month and leaving a can of coke for an uncontacted tribe.

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2 w. ago Detained Chinese immigrants carved their anguish into a wall a century ago. Those words inspired a ballet

Oakland Ballet Company takes on a harrowing chapter of US-Chinese history with a piece about Angel Island, ‘the Ellis Island of the west’One sunny March day on Angel Island, a hilly landmass in the middle of the San Francisco Bay, a dancer with a 40-ft braid attached to her head glided across a narrow concrete walkway. The audience sat on chairs in front of a long wooden building: a former detention center where – from 1910 to 1940 – half a million people, the majority Chinese, were held for months, even years, in prison-like conditions.Sometimes called “the Ellis Island of the west”, Angel Island’s immigration station is the unlikely setting, and inspiration, for an ambitious new work by the Oakland Ballet Company. It’s based on the people from 80 countries who were confined to the the island’s detention center, which was the result of the Chinese Exclusion Act and other racist laws designed to keep Asian people out of the United States. In response, the detainees carved over 200 p...

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2 w. ago Corrupt police officer, 27, who handed intelligence over to two crook associates she had flings with is jailed

Choni Kenny, 27, (pictured) who joined Greater Manchester Police (GMP) in 2020, was given a three-year and nine month prison sentence at Liverpool Crown Court today.

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3 w. ago UK prison opens Iceland and 'JP Sports' behind bars – lags even have sweet shop

The Iceland Foods opened in the Category C jail near Wolverhampton - the largest prison in the country - last month. Governor Sean Oliver said the move will also help prisoners learn how to budget

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3 w. ago Raver jailed after trying to smuggle drugs into Creamfields inside Irn

Blake Holmes from Dalkeith has been jailed for 32 months in prison after he attempted to smuggle MDMA, ketamine and cocaine into the popular dance music festival in Darlesbury.

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3 w. ago They were supposed to be guarding murderers, armed robbers and gangsters

Last month it was revealed 40 female prison officers have been sacked in the last four years over illicit relationships with male inmates

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