2 h. ago Burglar who took part in bike theft before death of Dean Barnes avoids jail

Alex Riley was told by a judge he was 'on his last chance'

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3 h. ago Claudia Lawrence police officer who admitted child sex offences avoids jail

Disgraced officer Paul Beckwith, 53, admitted three counts of having indecent images of children and five counts of voyeurism and was sentenced today at York Crown Court

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5 h. ago Woman found obscene message on divorce papers her husband had pinned to bedroom wall with knife

John Reid, 49, narrowly avoided jail this week for "appalling" behaviour towards the woman over a six-month period.

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6 h. ago University graduate who stole £90,000 from her elderly grandfather said she was suffering from 'spoilt brat syndrome' as she avoids jail

Rebecca Culley (pictured), 34, secretly looted her widowed grandfather Thomas Culley's savings over a two year period.

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8 h. ago Scots grandad hailed in parliament after getting degree aged 88

Grandad Lawrence Taylor graduated with a BA (Hons) degree from the Open University last month.

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36 h. ago 'I get scared to go out, you don’t know where he’s going to turn up'

Rizwan Afzal has avoided jail after following his partner, biting her, and calling her 'a cheating s**g'

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55 h. ago Creep masseur who sexually assaulted five women at luxury Wokingham spa learns his fate

Ibrahim Ali, 36, of Percy Place, Datchet, has avoided jail after sexually assaulting five women while working as a masseur at Nirvana Spa in Wokingham, Berkshire

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55 h. ago Masseur who sexually assaulted five women at luxury Wokingham spa avoids jail

Ibrahim Ali pleaded guilty to five counts of sexual assault by touching in September and the masseur, described as a 'danger to women when alone with them', has now been sentenced

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4 d. ago Shock moment burglar robs art gallery of Banksy’s iconic Girl with Balloon worth £270k as thief jailed

THIS is the shocking moment a burglar stole Banksy's iconic Girl with Balloon artwork from a London gallery. The thief who stole the £270,000-worth signed print has now been jailed. CCTV footage caught the "dramatic smash-and-grab" late night robbery which was carried out on a September evening last year. The prized possession pictures a stencil...

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5 d. ago Ten hooligans avoid jail over mass brawl in Manchester city centre

They were spared because it took six years to bring them to justice

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5 d. ago Notorious influencer HSTikkyTokky, 24, is spared prison after crashing £230,000 McLaren supercar and fleeing the country

TikTok influencer HSTikkyTokky has avoided jail after crashing 'a supercar going extremely fast' and then failing to appear in court for almost a year.

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5 d. ago TikTok star spared jail after crashing McLaren and avoiding court

Harrison Sullivan, 24, known as HSTikkyTokky on TikTok, was wanted for failing to turn up at court after crashing his McLaren in March 2024.

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6 d. ago Thug battered girlfriend with Flash speed mop in front of their baby – but avoids jail after saying he has mental health issues due to cannabis use

Lewis Royle-Williams, 20, from Droylsden, blamed his cannabis use for the attack following a meal out with his girlfriend

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6 d. ago Moment burglar is caught hiding in a BIN after stealing £8,000 worth of designer sunglasses

Body-cam footage captured the moment officers discovered Ashley Lawrence, 37, cowering among the rubbish after he stole £8,000 worth of designer sunglasses from a Nottingham opticians.

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7 d. ago Algerian migrant stole £20,000 of phones and laptops as their owners drank in City bars in crime spree, court told

Munir Ghilas, 28, allegedly targeted drinkers in London bars and pubs between July 24 and October 23 this year.

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7 d. ago Construction boss avoids jail after worker found dead on synagogue site in Hackney

Although the worker died of natural causes multiple life-threatening failures were found at the construction site

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7 d. ago Shocking moment a stolen pickup truck smashes into a Tesco store before driver steals more than £3000

Driver Robin Vaughan stole more than £3,000 in cash as well as a bag of parcels, at around 12,40am on June 16.

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8 d. ago ‘It’s notoriously hard to write about sex’: David Szalay on Flesh, his astounding Booker prize

The novel’s protagonist is violent, libidinous and so inarticulate he says ‘OK’ some 500 times. So how did the author turn his story into a tragic masterpiece?When we meet the morning after the announcement of this year’s Booker prize, David Szalay, the winner, seems an extremely genial and gentle author to have created one of the most morally ambiguous characters in recent contemporary fiction. His sixth novel, Flesh, about the rise and fall of a Hungarian immigrant to the UK, is unlike anything you have read before.Szalay (pronounced “Sol-oy”) is often described as “Hungarian-British”, but that has offended Canadians this morning, he says. His mother was Canadian and he was born in that country, where his Hungarian father had moved a few years earlier. “I’m arguably more Canadian than Hungarian.” Now 51, he grew up in England, graduated from Oxford University, and lived in Hungary for 15 years. To make things more confusing, he is over from Vienna, where he now lives with his wife...

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9 d. ago Teen found guilty of raping and torturing female students gets 'slap on wrist' and avoids jail

An 18-year-old who brutally raped and attacked two students has avoided significant jail time after a judge allowed him to go free, leading to public outrage and protests

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1 week ago Teen who violently raped and assaulted two girls avoids jail

Jesse Butler, 18, was ordered to perform community service and go to counselling.

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