Two more members of a drugs supply network known as Scouse Dave have been jailed. The Liverpool-based county lines gang peddled crack cocaine and heroin in Gosport and Plymouth, Portsmouth Crown Court heard. On Friday, Paul Naughton, 30, of no fixed address, was jailed for six years after pleading guilty to two counts of conspiracy...
Brazil Supreme Court A woman in Brazil has been jailed for 14 years after writing an offensive message in lipstick on a statue during riots in Brasilia. Debora Rodrigues took part in the unrest in January 2023, along with hundreds of supporters of former president Jair Bolsonaro. The riot saw thousands of Bolsonaro’s supporters attack...
Alex Moss BBC News, Yorkshire South Yorkshire Police Valentin Badica (from left), Ionica Badica and Cristian Damaschin were all jailed for their roles in the gang Members of a “dangerous” organised crime group have been sentenced for their part in a prostitution ring trafficking women into the UK from Romania. The “nationwide enterprise” saw 14...
A man has been sentenced to a minimum of 27 years for the murder​ of his estranged wife in Plymouth. Paul Butler, 53, of Stangray Avenue, Plymouth, previously pleaded guilty to murdering 48-year-old university lecturer Claire Chick in January. Ms Chick was found seriously injured in West Hoe Road on the evening of 22 January...
Iolo Cheung BBC News Reporting fromSwansea Crown Court CCTV shows the moment Anthony Felton attacks his deputy teacher with a wrench A head teacher attacked his deputy with a wrench after being hit by “overwhelming sexual jealousy” due to a love triangle at the school. Anthony Felton, 54, admitted attempted grievous bodily harm with intent...
Thomas Mackintosh BBC News Met Police Louis Ahearne (left) and Stewart Ahearne (right) were sentenced for the museum heist last January. Although Daniel Kelly (centre) has not been charged or convicted by Swiss authorities, the Old Bailey heard it was accepted he had taken part in the raid A gang of thieves from London who...
Steve Jones BBC News, Yorkshire PA Media Mansfield Town forward Lucas Akins admitted causing the death of Adrian Daniel in a crash in Huddersfield A professional footballer has been jailed for 14 months for causing the death of a cyclist in a crash in West Yorkshire. Adrian Daniel, 33, died 10 days after he was...
George Thorpe BBC News, Devon BBC Stephen Sanders’ sentencing hearing was held at Exeter Crown Court A man who used paganism and chocolate to help him sexually abuse and rape children has been jailed. Stephen Sanders, 62, of Raleigh Avenue, Torquay, was sentenced to 27 years in prison and told to sign the sex offenders...
Bodycam footage captures Nerys Bethan Lloyd at the scene A former paddleboard firm owner has been jailed for 10 years and six months after the deaths of four people on a river in south-west Wales. Paul O’Dwyer, Andrea Powell, Morgan Rogers and Nicola Wheatley died after paddleboarding in “extremely hazardous conditions” on the Western Cleddau...
A court in Tunisia has sentenced a group of senior politicians, businessmen and lawyers to long prison sentences on conspiracy and terrorism charges. The defendants received sentences of up to 66 years. They include leaders of National Salvation Front, the main opposition coalition, who were arrested in 2023. Human rights groups described the trial as...
A man has been sentenced to five-and-a-half years in prison for terrorism offences relating to right-wing extremism. Tobias Gleed, of Meadows Crescent, Honiton, was sentenced at Winchester Crown Court on Thursday. The 20-year-old was found guilty and convicted of four counts of possession of a document or record for terrorist purposes and four counts of...
A former top Russian general has been jailed for seven years after being accused of taking bribes. Lt Gen Vadim Shamarin was arrested last year during a crackdown on corruption in the defence ministry launched by the Kremlin, and was accused of taking “a particularly large bribe” from a telecommunications company. Russia’s Investigative Committee said...
A hairdresser from St Petersburg has been given a jail term of five years and two months on a charge of spreading fake news about the Russian army. Anna Alexandrova denied posting eight anti-war messages on social media, insisting the case was motivated by a squabble over land with a neighbour. Her neighbour told the...
Kremlin handout A former Russian government minister, once a governor in illegally annexed Crimea, has been sentenced to 40 months in prison for breaching UK sanctions. Dmitrii Ovsiannikov was found guilty of deliberately avoiding sanctions by receiving more than £75,000 from his wife, Ekaterina Ovsiannikova, into a newly-opened account, and a new Mercedes Benz SUV...
Ksenia Karelina, a Los Angeles resident, has been released in a prisoner swap. The Russian-American citizen was accused by Russia’s FSB security service of raising money for a Ukrainian organisation that provided arms to the Ukrainian military. The organisation in question denied raising money for weapons or ammunition, saying it was focused on humanitarian aid...