Lucy Manning Special correspondent Metropolitan Police handout Daniel Anjorin wearing his school uniform A man has been jailed for life after being convicted of murdering a 14-year-old schoolboy with a samurai sword in east London. Marcus Monzo fatally wounded Daniel Anjorin minutes after the schoolboy left his home in Hainault on 30 April last year....
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 sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering an Aboriginal schoolboy, in a case that shocked Australia. Cassius Turvey died of head injuries after a brutal assault...
Liam Barnes BBC News, Nottingham Thames Valley Police Edward Vines has repeatedly breached restraining orders to not contact the Maitlis family A man who has harassed broadcaster Emily Maitlis for more than 30 years has been jailed for breaching restraining orders. Edward Vines was found guilty of sending letters to the News Agents podcast presenter...
Jemma Crew BBC News Reporting fromKingston upon Thames Crown Court Tarah Welsh Housing correspondent Metropolitan Police Drina Gray had “engaged in a campaign of harassment” against the young couple living in the flat above hers A woman who shouted threats to get her neighbours “killed” through their doorbell camera has been jailed for three years...
Paul Ward and Steven Godden BBC Scotland News Rex/Shutterstock Thomas Robinson supplied high-end establishments such as Edinburgh’s Balmoral Hotel and the Dorchester in London A fraudster who tricked luxury hotels and stores into buying “Scottish-grown tea” that was actually from abroad has been jailed for three-and-a-half-years. Thomas Robinson also conned aspiring tea growers by selling...
A court in Japan has sentenced a US marine to seven years in prison after finding him guilty of sexually assaulting a woman in Okinawa last year. Lance Cpl Jamel Clayton, 22, attacked the woman in her 20s, choking her from behind and attempting sexual intercourse, the court ruled. The case is one of a...
Brian Farmer BBC News, Bedfordshire Reporting fromLuton Crown Court Bedfordshire Police Humar and Hannan Mahmood left their victim with a stab wound to the chest Two robbers have been jailed after attacking an off-duty police officer with a machete who confronted them while out shopping. Brothers Hannan Mahmood, 20, and Humar Mahmood, 19, attacked PC...
George Herd BBC News Reporting fromCaernarfon Crown Court A judge described the attack as “senseless”, resulting in “catastrophic injuries” The daughter of a woman brutally killed by a drug dealer has said her life “shattered” the moment she saw the murderer enter her mother’s home. Dean Mears dragged grandmother Catherine Flynn, 69, from her bed...
Daniel Sandford UK correspondent Reporting fromInner London Crown Court Police entered Zhenhao Zou’s London flat in January 2024 A Chinese PhD student who is “one of the most prolific predators” in the UK has been sentenced to life with a minimum term of 24 years. Zhenhao Zou, a Chinese national, drugged and raped three women...
PA Media Belfast Crown Court heard how posts on Twitter left Emma Little-Pengelly so scared she considered moving from her home A Belfast man who sent threatening online messages to Northern Ireland’s deputy first minister and smashed the windows of a party colleague’s office has been jailed. Emma Little-Pengelly of the Democratic Unionist Party (...
Two men have been jailed for the theft of a £4.8m gold toilet from from an art exhibition at Blenheim Palace. Thieves smashed their way in and ripped out the functional 18-carat, solid gold toilet, hours after a glamorous launch party at the Oxfordshire stately home in September 2019. James ‘Jimmy’ Sheen, 40, pleaded guilty...
Counter Terrorism Policing Wales Alexander Dighton was sentenced after admitting trying to murder a police officer A man who tried to murder a police officer while armed with Molotov cocktails has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 22 years. Alexander Dighton, 28 from Llantrisant, Rhondda Cynon Taf, was wearing body armour when...
A plastic surgeon has been jailed for life for attempting to murder a colleague he wanted “out of the way” because he was a witness against him in disciplinary proceedings. Jonathan Peter Brooks broke into Graeme Perks’s home in Halam, Nottinghamshire, in the early hours of 14 January 2021, wearing camouflage gear and armed with...
Detained in Dubai Marcus Fakana handed himself in to the authorities in December to begin a one-year jail sentence A British teenager jailed in Dubai for having sex with a 17-year-old girl has pleaded with the authorities for clemency. Marcus Fakana, 19, of Tottenham, north London, was sentenced in December to a year’s imprisonment after...
A court in Norway has sentenced a doctor to 21 years in prison for the rape and sexual abuse of dozens of women, in a case that has shocked the Scandinavian country. Former GP Arne Bye has been convicted of 70 counts of rape and sexual assault. He was also convicted of 82 counts of...