2 d. ago Student who asked lecturer how to get away with murder jailed for killing personal trainer on Bournemouth beach

Nasen Saadi killed Amie Gray and seriously wounded Leanne Miles as the pair were enjoying a late-night chat next to a small fire to keep warm at the Dorset seaside resort in summer

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3 d. ago Amie Gray: Student to be sentenced for murder of woman on Bournemouth beach

Nasen Saadi was found guilty following a trial at Winchester Crown Court

Society

3 d. ago Criminals handed longer sentences 'will be let out of prison early to make room in jails'

Shabana Mahmood's remarks open up the prospect of offenders handed long jail terms getting less jail time as part of a sentencing review launched by Labour.

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3 d. ago Killers could serve shorter jail terms for good behaviour in radical overhaul of sentencing, justice minister signals

Shabana Mahmood warned ‘short sentence reform on its own isn’t going to be enough’ to ease the overcrowding crisis as she opened a new 1,500-cell prison

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4 d. ago Chloe Brockett and boyfriend Jack Fincham in 'crisis talks' following 'a stressful year' after he overturned jail sentence

The TV personality, 24, and former Love Island winner, 32, are said to be looking to move into separate homes but hope it will 'improve their relationship.'

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5 d. ago 'Life must mean life': Sarah Everard's parents and other families join forces as they call for tougher sentences on Britain's criminals

Jeremy and Susan Everard said it is 'important that sentences should truly reflect the seriousness of the crime and give victims, their families and society a sense of justice'.

Society

6 d. ago Wicked carer's comment in FULL as she cries during sentencing for £40,000 fraud

Toni Wilkinson, from Oldbury, West Midlands, was supposed to be helping her vulnerable victims - but when she was doing their shopping, Wilkinson used their bank cards for her own gain

Economics

6 d. ago Wicked carer cries as she is sentenced for despicable £40,000 fraud

Toni Wilkinson, from Oldbury, West Midlands, was supposed to be helping her vulnerable victims - but when she was doing their shopping, Wilkinson used their bank cards for her own gain

Economics

1 week ago Premier League stars 'to be deported' under 'ludicrous' Tory immigration plan

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch wants to change the law so all foreign nationals in the UK who receive a criminal conviction, regardless of sentence length, would be deported

Politics

1 week ago Four hours of phone calls a day, 80 visits, a laptop: Tommy Robinson’s life behind bars

The activist has a ‘substantially more permissive’ segregation regime than other prisoners

Politics

1 week ago Judge throws the book at a West Virginia couple convicted of treating adopted Black kids as ‘slaves’

In January, a jury found Jeanne Whitefeather and Donald Ray Lantz guilty on multiple counts of forced labor, human trafficking, and child abuse and neglect

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1 week ago Triple killer who wanted to 'unleash disaster' with mass school shooting is jailed for life

Nicholas Prosper, 19, from Luton, murdered his mother and two siblings and was plotting a school shooting because he wanted to be famous

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1 week ago The traveller connection, the Kinahan cartel and the great golden toilet robbery: Incredible story behind unlikely Blenheim Palace heist

Two of the burglars who stole a golden toilet from Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire are now facing long jail sentences - but inconvenient questions remain over the audacious crime .

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1 week ago ‘The prison system is insanely broken’: a climate activist on his experience in jail

George Simonson says you learn about society by seeing how it treats its prisoners – and jail has strengthened his belief that change is crucialGeorge Simonson, 24, from London, had recently graduated in mechanical engineering from the University of Edinburgh when he was given a 24-month custodial sentence for climbing a gantry over the M25 in 2022. He was also found guilty of criminal damage and sentenced to a further six-week custodial sentence for spraying paint on a wall of Exeter University in 2023. He sent this letter from prison before he was released in January.I remember the day I was sentenced like it was yesterday. I was filled with anxiety the entire time. It’s a strange situation to be in, not knowing whether or not you’d have your liberty at the end of the day, or for how long it might be taken away. My mind was racing and I had no idea how to operate. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Nicholas Prosper sentencing: Teenager who murdered family 'planned on killing at least 30 schoolchildren'

Nicholas Prosper, 19, wanted to become UK’s worst mass school killer with shooting attack on his former primary, court told

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1 week ago Teen who shot family plotted to kill 30 school children to become most notorious mass killer

Shooter Nicholas Prosper, then 18, spent a year plotting a school attack which was disrupted by ‘chance and circumstance alone’, Luton Crown Court heard

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1 week ago Nicholas Prosper: Teenager who murdered family and was plotting school shooting to be sentenced

Nicholas Prosper, 19, will appear at Luton Crown Court on Tuesday for a one-and-a-half day sentencing hearing

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1 week ago ‘Serial killer who only killed once’ is heading to prison after decades on the run

After almost three decades on the run, Stephan Smerk has been sentenced for first-degree murder in crime ‘among the worst’ Fairfax County had ever seen, James Liddell writes

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2 w. ago The ‘serial killer who only killed once’: He left an Army base in 1994 with an intent to kill, now he heads to prison

After almost three decades on the run, Stephan Smerk has been sentenced for first-degree murder in crime ‘among the worst’ Fairfax County had ever seen, James Liddell writes

Events

2 w. ago Indiana teen will spend more than 40 years in prison for murder of 20

Jeremy Briscoe, 16, was charged as an adult in the 2024 murder of Carlos Jair Neri-Guzman

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