A man charged with murdering a woman in Devon has pleaded not guilty. Rowan Sutton, 30, of West Charleton Court, Kingsbridge, appeared at Plymouth Crown Court on Monday charged with the murder of Aimee Pike. The 22-year-old died on the A379 Embankment Road in Kingsbridge in the early hours of Wednesday 23 April. A trial...
Julia Quenzler Vladimir Motin will remain in custody until his trial The captain of a cargo ship that crashed into an oil tanker in the North Sea has pleaded not guilty to gross negligence manslaughter. Vladimir Motin was captain of the Portuguese-flagged cargo ship Solong which crashed into the US tanker Stena Immaculate off the...
Eight people have been found guilty after US reality TV star Kim Kardashian was robbed at gunpoint of millions of dollars’ worth of jewellery in Paris nearly a decade ago. The four who took part in the heist were given prison sentences of up to eight years, but most of these terms were suspended. Two...
A man has been jailed for 13 years for raping and sexually assaulting a woman. Christian Dodd, 46, was arrested in August 2022 after police received a report of rape. A jury at Truro Crown Court found Dodd, previously of Cliff Road, Falmouth, Cornwall, guilty of one count of rape of a woman and one...
Duncan Leatherdale BBC News, North East and Cumbria Prosecutors said a video was filmed of the moment the Sycamore Gap tree was felled Two men have been found guilty of the “mindless destruction” of the world famous Sycamore Gap tree, the felling of which sparked international outrage. The tree had grown in a dip on...
Warning: This article contains the name and images of an Indigenous person who has died. His family has given permission to use his name and image. Two men have been found guilty of the murder of Cassius Turvey, an Aboriginal schoolboy who was chased down by a vigilante gang and beaten, in a case which...
Three former officers charged with murder in the fatal beating of a black man that triggered nationwide protests against police brutality have been acquitted by a state jury in Memphis, Tennessee. Tyre Nichols, who was beaten during a traffic stop in 2023, died three days after sustaining numerous blows to the head, according to a...
Luigi Mangione has pleaded not guilty to all federal charges brought over the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York last year. The 26 year old, who was arrested in December and accused of shooting Mr Thompson outside a Manhattan hotel, faces the charges of murder and stalking. His not guilty plea...
A man, who was homeless at the time, has admitted starting a fire behind a barber’s shop which he then tried to extinguish with his own urine. Ryan O’Shea, 40, pleaded guilty during a hearing at Plymouth Magistrates’ Court to one charge of arson following an incident outside Spike-Up Barbers in Mutley Plain on 7...
Peru’s former president, Ollanta Humala, has been found guilty of money laundering and sentenced to 15 years in prison. A court in the capital, Lima, said that Humala had accepted illegal funds from the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht to bankroll his election campaigns in 2006 and 2011. His wife, Nadine Heredia, who co-founded the Nationalist...
Stephen Fairclough BBC News AFP UK law requires animals to be stunned before slaughter unless the meat is intended for Muslims or Jews A food wholesaler has been found guilty of fraud by falsely distributing chicken as halal meat and putting unsafe food on the market. Hamil Miah, 46, from Cardiff, was the owner of...
Kremlin handout Dmitrii Ovsiannikov pictured with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin A former Russian government minister – who was once a governor in illegally annexed Crimea – has been found guilty of breaching UK sanctions in the first case of its kind. Dmitrii Ovsiannikov was accused of deliberately avoiding sanctions by receiving more than £75,000 from...
A man has been found guilty of murdering a woman who he stabbed with a zombie knife in front of her three-year-old daughter at the 2024 Notting Hill Carnival. Shakiel Thibou, 20, from Kensington in west London, was found guilty of the murder of Cher Maximen by a jury at the Old Bailey. Ms Maximen...
BBC A prison governor who began a relationship with a drug-dealing gang boss locked up in the jail she ran has been found guilty of two counts of misconduct in a public office. Kerri Pegg, 42, was seen as a “rising star” of the Prison Service, climbing the career ladder from graduate to governor of...
A 15-year-old boy and 13-year-old girl have been convicted of the manslaughter of 80-year-old Bhim Kohli, who was fatally attacked at a park in Leicestershire. Leicester Crown Court heard that during the “intense attack”, the boy racially abused Mr Kohli and slapped him in the face with a slider shoe while he was on his...