A former CIA analyst who leaked classified documents about Israel’s plans to strike Iran has been sentenced to 37 months in prison. Asif William Rahman, 34, pleaded guilty in January to two counts of willful retention and transmission of national defence information under the Espionage Act. Authorities say that, using his high-level security clearance, Rahman...
A man cleared of murder has been sentenced for possessing the knife he used in the fatal incident in Plymouth last year. Tahla Redwan was found not guilty of murdering 36-year-old Shane Sweet, from Plymouth, by a jury at Plymouth Crown Court on Tuesday. Redwan, 20, admitted he stabbed Mr Sweet twice in the chest...
Matt Taylor BBC News, Leicester Laura Hammond BBC News, East Midlands Supplied Bhim Kohli, 80, died the day after he was attacked at a park in Leicestershire A 15-year-old boy and a 13-year-old girl have been sentenced for killing an 80-year-old man out walking his dog in a park. Bhim Kohli died the day after...
Ben Godfrey BBC Midlands Today Freya Theobold Freya Theobold was seriously hurt in the hit-and-run crash in Wolverhampton A teenager who left a carer for dead in a hit-and-run crash has been sentenced to four years in a young offenders’ institution. Layton Clenton, 19, stole a Land Rover Discovery from an Ikea car park in...
A former policeman from Exeter has admitted possessing indecent images of children more than three years after he was arrested. John Bramwell, 55, of Causey Gardens, pleaded guilty to three charges of possessing images ranging from category A – the most severe – to category C. Exeter Crown Court heard Bramwell, a former sergeant in...
A Canadian man has been sentenced to almost two years in prison for stealing a famous photograph of Winston Churchill known as “The Roaring Lion”. Jeffrey Wood had pleaded guilty to stealing the original print from Ottawa’s Château Laurier hotel between Christmas 2021 and early January 2022. He also admitted committing forgery. The photo of...
Google Plymouth Crown Court heard how Benjamin Lilly had recorded girls aged between 12 and 15 while working at Plymouth Life Centre A lifeguard who used his mobile phone to record young girls undressing in changing room cubicles has been given a two year suspended sentence. Plymouth Crown Court heard how Benjamin Lilly recorded girls...
A former prime minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo has been sentenced to a decade’s forced labour for corruption. Augustin Matata Ponyo was found guilty of embezzling about $245m (£182m) of public funds by the Congolese Constitutional Court on Tuesday, alongside Deogratias Mutombo, the former governor of the DR Congo’s central bank. Matata’s lawyer...
A New Jersey man who stabbed and partially blinded novelist Sir Salman Rushdie on a New York lecture stage was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Friday. Hadi Matar, 27, was convicted of attempted murder and assault earlier this year. Sir Salman was on stage speaking before an audience in August 2022, when he...
Former world champion cyclist Rohan Dennis has been given a two-year suspended sentence over a car incident in Australia which killed his wife, fellow Olympian Melissa Hoskins. Dennis pleaded guilty to one aggravated count of creating the likelihood of harm, after Hoskins was struck by the car he was driving during a fight outside the...
An inmate armed with a plastic prison knife who took a Dartmoor prison officer hostage has been jailed. Scott Patterson handcuffed the warder and held him for three hours during the attack at HMP Dartmoor in July 2023. Patterson, 37, admitted false imprisonment, assaulting an emergency worker and possessing an offensive weapon in prison. Judge...
A man has been given a two-year custodial sentence for killing three teenagers in a crash on their way home from school. Edward Spencer, now 19, was driving a Ford Fiesta near Shipston-on-Stour, Warwickshire, when it crashed with a Fiat 500 in April 2023, five weeks after passing his test. His passengers Harry Purcell, 17;...
A 14-year-old girl who stabbed two teachers and a pupil while screaming “I’m going to kill you” has been sentenced to 15 years. The girl, who cannot be named due to her age, will serve seven and a half years in custody. She was found guilty of attempted murder in a second trial at Swansea...
Jonny Humphries BBC News, Liverpool BBC Joanne Sharkey was identified after her older son’s DNA was entered onto a national database A mother who killed her newborn baby boy in 1998 while in the grip of severe post-natal depression has been given a suspended sentence after a judge decided the case “called for compassion”. Joanne...
Lynette Horsburgh & Marc Waddington BBC News PA Media Prosecutors say Kyle Shaw’s messages became abusive A stalker who believed Strictly Come Dancing judge Shirley Ballas was his aunt has been given a suspended prison sentence. Kyle Shaw’s “persistent campaign” saw him send abusive messages and a “menacing” threat to Miss Ballas as well as...