PA A former Bargain Hunt art expert has been jailed for two years and six months for failing to declare art he sold to a suspected financier of Hezbollah. In the first prosecution of its kind, Oghenochuko Ojiri, 53, admitted eight counts under the Terrorism Act 2000 of failing to make a disclosure during the...
Lewis Adams BBC News, Essex Reporting fromChelmsford Crown Court Getty Images Jay Emmanuel-Thomas played for Arsenal, Aberdeen and England at youth level, as well as Bristol City A professional footballer who imported £600,000 worth of cannabis from Thailand to the UK has been jailed for four years. Jay Emmanuel-Thomas, 34, orchestrated the smuggling of a...
Police Scotland A court heard Lauren Baird panicked before driving off A driver who dragged two police officers along a Highland road with her car after they had pulled her over has been jailed for 18 months. Lauren Baird, 43, of Aberdeen, was being asked why her vehicle was not insured when she had a...
Caroline Hawley Diplomatic correspondent Free Alaa Laila Soueif’s daughter, Sanaa, described the situation as “very scary” Laila Soueif’s body is becoming weaker and weaker. Doctors have warned her that – after eight months on hunger strike – she’s now at risk of sudden death. But the strength of her resolve has not diminished at all....
Scott Bingham & George Thorpe BBC News, Devon Devon and Cornwall Police Peter Wilkinson was found guilty of 21 separate offences during a trial in Plymouth A “sexual predator” who abused five vulnerable women over a 12-year period has been jailed. Peter Wilkinson, 53, was found guilty of 21 separate offences against the women in...
BBC A South African woman convicted of kidnapping and trafficking her six-year-old daughter has been sentenced to life in prison, along with her two accomplices. The jail terms for Racquel “Kelly” Smith, her boyfriend Jacquen Appollis and their friend Steveno van Rhyn’s come more than a year after Joshlin Smith mysteriously disappeared outside her home...
Nathan Bevan BBC News, North East and Cumbria Police eventually used a stinger to stop Jack Lowrey during the 10mph pursuit A man who attempted to get away from police by driving at just 10mph has been handed an immediate 12 month prison sentence. Jack Lowrey was spotted driving erratically through parts of Cumbria on...
Ewan Gawne & Laura O’Neill BBC News, Manchester GMP Rawal Rehman’s van struck the girl after he crashed into a tram A van driver who took at least 20 lines of cocaine before crashing into a tram, then hitting and killing a three-year-old girl with his vehicle, has been jailed. Louisa Palmisano, from Burnley –...
Four Just Stop Oil protesters who were planning to glue themselves to the taxiway at Manchester Airport have been jailed. Officers arrested Indigo Rumbelow, Margaret Reid, Leanorah Ward and Daniel Knorr as they were making their way to the airport on 4 August 2024. They were equipped with heavy-duty bolt-cutters, angle grinders, glue, sand, Just...
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...
A man who marched into a Wetherspoon pub armed with an axe and threatened two men in the beer garden has been jailed. Jason Semple, 54, of Tavistock Road, Okehampton, Devon, admitted two charges of threatening a person with a bladed article at the White Hart Hotel in Okehampton. The incident happened at about 18:00...
Access to the social media account of Istanbul’s jailed opposition mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu, has been blocked by the authorities in Turkey. Imamoglu, who is the main rival to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, can no longer send messages in Turkey to his 9.7 million followers on X. His account is still accessible abroad. His social media...
Thames Valley Police Lydia Mugambe was found to have abused her position of power to use the young woman as a slave A United Nations judge has been jailed for forcing a housekeeper to work as a slave. Lydia Mugambe was studying for a PhD in law at the University of Oxford when officers discovered...
Phil McCann BBC North West Tonight Eleanor Lawson BBC News, West Midlands Cheshire Police Burrows abused boys while working at a boarding school and while he was a scout master, his trial heard A paedophile who spent nearly three decades on the run, denying victims justice, has been jailed for 46 years. Richard Burrows, 81,...
A motorcyclist has been jailed after a dangerous manoeuvre resulted in a fellow motorcyclist having to have their leg amputated, a court has heard. Kathryn Goff, 52, of Milton Road in Exeter, appeared at Exeter Crown Court on Friday after pleading guilty to causing serious injury by dangerous driving in “darkening, wet and foggy conditions”....