A councillor who labelled his elderly next door neighbours ‘The Tart’ and ‘The Peeping Tom’ during a 13-year war of words on their leafy suburban street was facing jail today. Brendan Murphy, 79, hounded Christopher Boyd and his wife Margaret with barbed comments after they fell out over a dispute about local gossip. Whenever Mr … Read more
Polish writer faces three years in jail for calling the country’s president a ‘moron’ on Facebook Jakub Zulczyk said he had been charged for insulting President Andrzej Duda On November 7, Zulczyk commented on a Facebook post in which Duda congratulated US President Joe Biden on his successful campaign In the post, Duda – an … Read more
Parole Board meets to decide if notorious child killer Colin Pitchfork can be freed from jail after he raped and murdered two 15-year-old schoolgirls in 1980s Schoolgirl killer Colin Pitchfork could be released early from after parole hearing He was jailed for life after raping and strangling Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth Conservative MP Alberto … Read more
Oyster card fraudster who swindled £24,000 by creating bogus travel cards using faces of elderly Turkish actors and politicians before selling them on is facing jail Efecan Gokce, 20, from Hendon, London, sold fake Oyster cards via social media Potential loss to TfL ranged from £647,000 to £2,500,000, Gokce taking £24k Found to be using four … Read more
Ex-Green Beret and his son ‘who smuggled Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn out of Japan in a speaker box’ face up to three years in jail as they are charged in Tokyo Michael Taylor and his son Peter face up to three years in a Japanese prison The US pair were extradited to Japan on a charge … Read more
Dramatic moment moped-riding thieves snatch £22,000 cash box from a Sainsbury’s and hurl a breeze block through a shop window as they face years in jail for four raids that caused £50,000 of damage Alfie Atherton, 29, and Reed Roberts, 30, worked as part of a robbery gang Pair used stolen mopeds with fake number … Read more
Dramatic moment moped-riding thieves snatch £22,000 cash box from a Sainsbury’s and hurl a breeze block through a shop window as they face years in jail for four raids that caused £50,000 of damage Alfie Atherton, 29, and Reed Roberts, 30, worked as part of a robbery gang Pair used stolen mopeds with fake number … Read more
Pakistani singer who accused pop star of groping her and sparked country’s #MeToo movement faces three years in jail for ‘criminal defamation’ Meesha Shafi, 39, claimed Ali Zafar, 40, groped her at recording studio in 2017 Zafar stringently denies the claims that he inappropriately touched Shafi Launched criminal defamation charge due to ‘irreparable’ damage to … Read more
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has told of her five years of ‘traumatising’ torture in Iran for the first time. In a video interview with independent investigators, Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 43, revealed she was threatened with execution and the torture of her family. She was also chained and forced to wear a blindfold in prison where she suffered sensory … Read more
Matthew Topham admitted causing the death by careless driving on Christmas Day 2019 A Euromillions jackpot winner has avoided jail over a head-on road crash that killed a 75-year-old woman. Matthew Topham admitted causing the death of pensioner Mary Jane Regler on Christmas Day 2019 in North Cockerington, Lincolnshire. The 31-year-old, who won £45million on the lottery … Read more