Jonny Humphries & James Mountford BBC News Lancashire Police Lenny Scott had been threatened by a prisoner four years before his death, a jury heard A former prison officer was shot dead in an “act of retaliation” four years after seizing a mobile phone from a prisoner’s cell, a jury heard. Lenny Scott, 33, was...
Hannah Dugan is the Wisconsin judge who was arrested by the FBI last month after (allegedly) interfering with ICE agents who were present in the public part of the courthouse to make an arrest of a criminal illegal alien. Today she was indicted on two counts by a federal grand jury. The Wisconsin judge arrested...
Warning: This story contains distressing details Prosecutors opened their case by accusing hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs of using fame and violence to sexually abuse women, while the rapper’s attorneys defended his “swinger” lifestyle and rejected sex trafficking claims. The 55-year-old has pleaded not guilty to charges including racketeering, sex trafficking and transportation to engage...
A woman accused of having an illegal abortion has been cleared by a jury. Nicola Packer, 45, cried as she was acquitted of “unlawfully administering to herself a poison or other noxious thing” with the “intent to procure a miscarriage”. Her trial at Isleworth Crown Court heard she took abortion medicine at home during the...
Shortly after Judge Hannah Dugan was arrested in Milwaukee for attempting to interfere in the arrest of a criminal illegal immigrant by federal agents, there was a general caterwauling from elected Democrats. I wrote a post cataloging some of the instant and suspiciously similar responses from Senators Tina Smith, Tammy Baldwin, Elizabeth Warren, Chuck Schumer,...
Constance Marten has tearfully given her account of how her daughter Victoria died, and how she kept the body in a Lidl bag, during her retrial at the Old Bailey. She said that she was worried that people would think she was an “evil mother” or a “murderess.” She said she had just fed the...
Albert Alfonso/Flickr The three men were friendly and had visited each other’s home, the court heard A jury has been shown footage of an alleged killer attacking a man in a “frenzied stabbing” while having sex with him in west London. Yostin Mosquera, 35, is accused of murdering both Albert Alfonso, 62, and Paul Longworth,...
Duncan Leatherdale BBC News, North East and Cumbria CPS Experts say a wedge of wood came from the tree and was pictured in Daniel Graham’s car A man accused of felling the world famous Sycamore Gap tree told police he had been framed as part of a feud. The tree had grown in a dip...
Duncan Leatherdale & Evie Lake BBC News, North East and Cumbria Watch the video shown to jurors Mobile phone footage which prosecutors claim shows the moment the “iconic” Sycamore Gap tree was felled has been shown to jurors. The tree had stood for more than 100 years in a dip on Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland...
National Trust The Sycamore Gap tree was felled in September 2023 Jurors in the case of two men accused of felling the famous Sycamore Gap tree have been told by a judge to set all emotion aside. Twelve people have been sworn in at Newcastle Crown Court to consider the case against the pair who...
After deliberating for about two hours a jury in Sarah Palin’s case against the NY Times sided with the newspaper, finding the Times was not liable for defaming Palin back in 2017. The jury deliberated a little over two hours before reaching its verdict after lawyers for Palin and the newspaper delivered closing arguments at...
Constance Marten’s newborn baby would have been exposed to “substantial climatic cold stress” in the first few days she spent camping on the South Downs in January 2023, a jury has heard. Professor George Havenith, an expert on clothing and cold exposure, told the jury that baby Victoria would have been at a “substantial risk...