Promes made his senior debut for Twente in 2009 and spent three years at the club before earning the first of his two stints with Russian side Spartak Moscow. After four years in the Russian capital, Promes joined Sevilla in La Liga but spent just one year in Spain before returning to the Netherlands with...
A drug trafficker has had his prison sentence extended after the Court of Appeal deemed his initial punishment too lenient. Stephen Wills, 36, from Bridford, Exeter, was sentenced to nine years in prison in March for his role in two organised crime groups that trafficked large quantities of cocaine across the country. However his sentence...
The victims of prolific French paedophile Joel Le Scouarnec have expressed their dismay that the former surgeon’s 20-year prison sentence does not include preventive detention – meaning he could be released from jail in the early 2030s. The 74-year-old was found guilty on Tuesday of sexually abusing hundreds of people, most of them underage patients...
A former college principal in the eastern Indian state of Odisha has been sentenced to life in prison for sending a parcel bomb that killed a newlywed man and his great aunt in 2018. A court found Punjilal Meher, 56, guilty of murder, attempted murder, and use of explosives in what became known as the...
Far-right activist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, also known as Tommy Robinson, has been released from prison. The 42-year-old, jailed for contempt of court in October, left HMP Woodhill in Milton Keynes after his 18-month sentence was reduced by the High Court. Yaxley-Lennon was filmed speaking for about 20 minutes for a video posted to his social media...
Ian Youngs Culture reporter Reuters Sir Salman lost the sight in one eye and sustained other serious injuries in the attack Author Sir Salman Rushdie has said he is “pleased” the man who tried to kill him in a knife attack in 2022 has received the maximum possible prison sentence. Hadi Matar, 27, was jailed...
An 81-year-old hunter in France has been fined and handed a four-month suspended jail sentence for killing an endangered bear in the Pyrenees mountains. The man said he had “no other option” but to open fire on the brown bear when it attacked him during a boar-hunt in 2021. Fifteen other hunters were also fined...
A boy with an ultra-rare immune disease which can carry a “death sentence” is starting to live a normal life after taking part in a groundbreaking gene therapy trial. Eisa, from Reading, now enjoys playing football and can attend school – something his family never dreamed possible before the treatment. The four-year-old was born with...
Mr Daniel was hit by Akins, who was driving his seven-year-old daughter to a piano lesson. Akins had pulled out into the path of Mr Daniel, who had been cycling home from work. In a victim impact statement, Mr Daniel’s wife, Savanna, said his death had been “like hell and a nightmare I’m not waking...
Cyclists who kill pedestrians by acting dangerously on the road could face life imprisonment under a proposed change to the law. Currently, cycling offenders can be imprisoned for no more than two years under an 1861 law originally intended for drivers of horse-drawn carriages. A government amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill – which...
Former Australia cricketer Michael Slater has been handed a partly suspended four-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to domestic violence charges. However, the 55-year-old will walk free – having already served more than a year in custody after being refused bail in 2024. Slater, who played 74 Tests for Australia between 1993 and 2001, pleaded...
Bedfordshire Police Nicholas Prosper was jailed for life and must serve a minimum term of 49 years The Court of Appeal has been asked to review the sentence of a teenager who killed three members of his family and planned a school shooting. Nicholas Prosper, 19, has been jailed for life with a minimum term...
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...
Three Americans convicted for their role in a failed coup in Democratic Republic of Congo last year have had their death sentences commuted to life imprisonment, the presidency has said. They were among 37 people sentenced to death last September by a military court. The three were accused of leading an attack on both the...
Retired GP Diana Warner has been sentenced today in Leeds Crown Court to a two year conditional discharge and required to pay £4,380 in court costs after being found guilty of obstruction of a railway line that carries trees to be burned at Drax, the UK’s single biggest carbon emitter. Drax: burning the planet but...