Madeline Halpert & Sakshi Venkatraman BBC News, New York Reuters Mr Agnifilo framed Combs’ victims as willing participants in so-called freak-offs The sex trafficking and racketeering case against hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs was “badly, badly exaggerated”, his lawyer told a panel of 12 New York jurors on Friday. In his closing, Marc Agnifilo argued...
Duncan Leatherdale BBC News, North East and Cumbria PA Media The tree was planted on Hadrian’s Wall in the 1800s The tree at Sycamore Gap took well over a century to grow and just minutes to cut down. It was globally renowned, standing as it did at the edge of the Roman frontier in northern...
Jurors were shown mobile phone footage in court on Wednesday, which prosecutors claim shows the moment the “iconic” Sycamore Gap tree was felled. Body-worn camera footage from the first police officer at the scene was also shown at Newcastle Crown Court. The BBC’s Emma Vardy talks through the footage shown in court and explains what...