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A convicted murderer who dodged deportation to Jamaica with a last-minute appeal has been awarded £93,000 in legal aid, it can be disclosed. Michael Antonio White was taken off a Home Office flight last month after his lawyers submitted new claims shortly before take-off. Now in his 50s, he was sentenced to life in prison … Read more
Surgeon who was convicted of assault for branding his initials on livers of two patients during transplant operation avoids being struck off after blaming ‘work stress’ Simon Bramhall, 55, used argon beam machine to mark the organs in operations Initials were discovered by change after donor organ failed a week after implant Bramhall resigned from … Read more
President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday a wave of pre-Christmas pardons that included two people convicted of lying to U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller during the Russia investigation. The announcement came just minutes before the president seemed to threaten to veto the COVID-19 stimulus package that Congress passed almost 24 hours earlier, leading to accusations that he was ‘burying … Read more
Two young men and two teenage boys have been convicted of murdering a pair of 17-year-olds in a ‘ferocious’ ambush at a birthday party. Dom Ansah and Ben Gillham-Rice were stabbed to death at a house in the Emerson Valley area of Milton Keynes, Bedfordshire, on October 19 last year. Two other people were stabbed … Read more
A dissident who claims he was tortured by Iran demanded the release of imprisoned British mother Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe as he was convicted of trying to torch a diplomatic car outside the Iranian Embassy. IT professional Sam Parsa, 60, was accused of planting a bottle of petrol along with a scarf into the exhaust pipe of … Read more
A heavy drinker who botched installation works on his caravan’s generator is facing jail after his partner was electrocuted to death while preparing a barbecue. James Atkin, 43, has been convicted for the gross negligence manslaughter of 40-year-old Deana Simpson, who collapsed by the cooker more than three years ago. Ms Simpson had received a … Read more
Hundreds of postmasters are finally cleared after they were falsely convicted of ‘fraud’ caused by computer glitches Victory as first six postmasters are cleared after IT glitch led to fraud convictions They had convictions quashed at London’s Southwark Crown Court on Friday Between 1999 and 2015, hundreds of innocent postmasters were prosecuted By Tom Witherow … Read more
French prosecutors tonight called for a four-year prison sentence for former President Nicolas Sarkozy following a corruption trial. The sensational request on Tuesday included a demand that the 65-year-old should spend two years in a cell, with the remaining part of his term suspended. This would make Sarkozy the first head of state in French … Read more
Cocaine-using mother, 26, is convicted of murdering her 19-month-old daughter by scalding her with boiling water then leaving her to scream while she spent an hour covering her tracks Gracie Crowder died shortly after was rushed to hospital on March 6 this year She suffered deep burns covering 65 per cent of the infant’s body … Read more
Kasabian singer Tom Meighan has spoken out for the first time since he was convicted of assaulting his partner Vikki Ager in July this year. The 39-year-old appeared at Leicester Magistrates’ Court and pleaded guilty to beating Vikki in their back garden on April 9 and he received 200 hours of unpaid work as well as a … Read more