Duncan Leatherdale BBC News, North East and Cumbria Watch the video shown to the jurors above A second man accused of felling the world famous Sycamore Gap has told jurors he was amazed at the public’s reaction as he thought it was “just a tree”. The tree had grown in a dip on Hadrian’s Wall...
Daniel Sandford UK correspondent Julia Quenzler The jury in the retrial of Constance Marten and Mark Gordon have been told his barristers have withdrawn from the case. Judge Mark Lucraft KC told the jurors that from now on Gordon was going to represent himself. Marten, 37, and Gordon, 50, deny manslaughter by gross negligence of...
Field Of Gold, ridden by Kieran Shoemark, was sent off the 11-8 favourite having been an impressive winner of the Craven Stakes over course and distance last month. The grey was bidding to give John Gosden, who now trains alongside son Thady, a first 2000 Guineas winner in an illustrious career. But he could not...
Russell Brand has arrived at Westminster Magistrates’ Court in London to face charges of rape, sexual assault and indecent assault. The broadcaster, comedian and actor faces one allegation of rape, one allegation of indecent assault, one of oral rape and two further counts of sexual assault, relating to four separate women. Photographers surrounded his car...
The Supreme Court held oral arguments this morning in a case that all people concerned with religious liberty and school choice care very deeply about. It’s called Oklahoma Charter School Board V. Drummond, and could be the final nail in the coffin of public officials desperate to keep religious discrimination alive and well. The case...
The justice secretary has said it is “absolutely unacceptable” to question the validity of the Supreme Court after it ruled that the term “woman” is defined by biological sex. Speaking to Parliament’s Human Rights Joint Committee, Shabana Mahmood said judges at the UK’s highest court “provided the legal clarity in their legal decision which is...
Julian O’Neill & Chris Page BBC News NI PA Media Gerry Adams, pictured on Wednesday, appeared during the second day of his libel case against the BBC Gerry Adams has described a BBC TV programme on the murder of an informer as an “attempted hatchet job” on him. The former Sinn Féin president was giving...
Albert Alfonso/Flickr Yostin Mosquera, 34, Albert Alfonso, 62, and Paul Longworth, 71, pictured on a boat in Colombia A man murdered a couple, dismembered their bodies and then froze some of their remains before taking the rest in suitcases to the Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol, a court has heard. Yostin Andres Mosquera filmed himself...
Judge Hannah Dugan, the Milwaukee judge who helped escort a criminal illegal alien out of her chambers to evade arrest, was just suspended from her job by the Wisconsin Supreme Court. The Wisconsin Supreme Court suspended a judge accused of helping a man evade immigration authorities, saying Tuesday that it is in the public interest...
Malta’s so-called golden passport scheme that lets people become citizens through financial investment is contrary to European law, the EU’s top court has ruled. The EU commission took Malta to court in 2022 over the scheme, which grants foreigners a Maltese passport and thereby the right to live and work in any EU country in...
Duncan Leatherdale & Evie Lake BBC News, North East and Cumbria Nick Lewis Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers deny criminal damage Two men accused of chopping down the famous Sycamore Gap tree kept a wedge as a trophy in a felling that prosecutors described as a “moronic mission”. The tree had stood for more than...
Google Rowan Sutton, 30, of West Charleton Court, Kingbridge, appeared at Plymouth Magistrates Court A man has appeared in court charged with the murder of a woman. Rowan Sutton, 30, of West Charleton Court in Kingbridge, appeared before Plymouth Magistrates Court charged with the murder of Aimee Pike. Ms Pike died on Embankment Road in...
Maine Rep. Laurel Libby has appealed her censure to the Supreme Court, arguing that Maine’s legislature is silencing her and also her constituents by not allowing her to vote. ???? BREAKING: Rep. Laurel Libby files an emergency petition to the U.S. Supreme Court to restore the voice of House District 90 — and defend constitutional...
Anna Holligan BBC News, Hague correspondent EFE Dozens of countries are expected to give evidence across five days of hearings The UN’s top court, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), has begun hearings for an opinion on Israel’s legal duty to allow aid to Palestinians and to co-operate with the UN’s Palestinian aid agency, Unrwa...
A national power outage stopped play at the Madrid Open, with Britain’s Jacob Fearnley among those forced off court. Fearnley had saved a match point in his third-round encounter against Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov and was about to serve to stay in the match at 6-4 5-4 down when play was suspended on the main court....