The far-right anti-Islam activist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, better known as Tommy Robinson, has lost an appeal against his 18-month prison sentence for contempt of court. Yaxley-Lennon was jailed last October after he ignored a court order not to repeat lies about a Syrian refugee, who had successfully sued him for libel. The 42-year-old appealed against the...
Thomas Mackintosh & Tom Symonds BBC News Greater Manchester Police Hashem Abedi left prison officers at HMP Frankland in hospital with serious injuries following an attack on Saturday A Manchester Arena bombing survivor has said he is angry, disgusted and broken after the bomber was able to attack three prison guards at a high-security unit...
Holy smokes. They must really be trying to convince us they love America. I’m still not falling for it, but this is as good a shot as they’ll probably ever take without spontaneously combusting on camera. Where the weepy Washington Post has this for a headline over the sad saga of Abrego Garcia: The deportation...
Daniel De Simone Investigations correspondent Handout The families of (clockwise from top left) Liam Curry, Chloe Rutherford, Megan Hurley, Eilidh MacLeod and Kelly Brewster say the situation was “beyond comprehension” The families of five people murdered by Hashem Abedi in the Manchester Arena bombing have told the justice secretary of their “absolute disbelief” that he...
The government has suspended kitchen use in prison separation centres that are used to house a small number of the UK’s most dangerous and extremist inmates, it is understood. It comes after the Manchester Arena bomber Hashem Abedi attacked three prison officers on Saturday in HMP Frankland. Two male officers remain in hospital with serious...
The investigation into an attack on three prison officers at a high-security prison on Saturday remains ongoing, counter-terrorism police have said. Three officers were taken to hospital with “life-threatening injuries” after being attacked by Hashem Abedi, one of the men responsible for the Manchester Arena bombing, according to the Prison Officers’ Association (POA). The Prison...
Three prison officers have been attacked by Hashem Abedi, the brother of the Manchester Arena bomber, a source has told the BBC. The officers sustained life-threatening injuries on Saturday including burns, scalds and stab wounds in the attack at HMP Frankland in County Durham, the Prison Officers’ Association said. Abedi threw hot cooking oil over...
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday issued a ruling with no noted dissents affirming a federal judge’s order compelling President Donald Trump’s administration to enable the stateside return of Kilmar Abrego García, a Salvadoran man wrongfully deported to a notorious prison in his native country. “The rule of law won today,” said Andrew Rossman, one...
The far-right anti-Islam activist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, better known as Tommy Robinson, has urged the Court of Appeal to let him out of prison early because he says it is making him ill. In a highly unusual challenge to a sentence, Yaxley-Lennon’s lawyers said his segregation from other prisoners at HMP Woodhill in Milton Keynes was...
Three Americans convicted for their role in a failed coup in Democratic Republic of Congo last year have been sent home to the US to serve the rest of their jail terms. The three were originally sentenced to death by a military court before their sentences were commuted to life in prison last week. US...
BBC A prison governor who began a relationship with a drug-dealing gang boss locked up in the jail she ran has been found guilty of two counts of misconduct in a public office. Kerri Pegg, 42, was seen as a “rising star” of the Prison Service, climbing the career ladder from graduate to governor of...
BBC Warning: This article contains distressing content Palestinian detainees released back to Gaza have told the BBC they were subjected to mistreatment and torture at the hands of Israeli military and prison staff, adding to reports of misconduct within Israel’s barracks and jails. One man said he was attacked with chemicals and set alight. “I...
Angel Cabrera will be welcomed back to Augusta National as a “true champion” this week as he returns to the scene of his 2009 Masters triumph for the first time in six years following his release from prison. The Argentine was found guilty in 2021 of numerous charges that included assault, theft and illegal intimidation...
We’re not backing down in the face of Trump’s threats. As Donald Trump is inaugurated a second time, independent media organizations are faced with urgent mandates: Tell the truth more loudly than ever before. Do that work even as our standard modes of distribution (such as social media platforms) are being manipulated and curtailed by...
Walid Khalid Abdullah Ahmad, who was 17 years old, is the first known child killed in an Israeli prison. The first known Palestinian child to be killed in an Israeli prison, Walid Khalid Abdullah Ahmad, was starved, had untreated diseases, and was repeatedly beaten by guards before he died last month, his autopsy report shows....