Romanian professional pickpocket is facing deportation after racking up 11 convictions in a year 

Romanian professional pickpocket, 20, who preyed on mothers caring for their children while she was pregnant is facing deportation after racking up 11 convictions in a year West Midlands Police seeking to deport 20-year-old pickpocket Pansella Radu The Romanian has racked up 11 convictions and cautions over the last 12 months An image of Radu … Read more

Convictions of ‘Stansted 15,’ who stopped deportations, overturned

The ‘Stansted 15’ protesters who stormed the airport to ground a flight deporting 25 criminals to Africa crowed today after their convictions were overturned by Court of Appeal judges – because it ruled they were wrongly charged as terrorists. The group cut through the Essex airport’s perimeter fence in March 2017 and took smiling selfies … Read more

‘Stansted 15’ protesters who stopped deportation flight have convictions overturned

‘Stansted 15’ protesters who stopped a flight trying to deport 60 criminals to Africa have convictions overturned by the Court of Appeal Group cut through airport’s perimeter fence and locked themselves together  767 jet transporting people from UK detention centres for repatriation to Africa  Were convicted in December 2018 before all 15 avoided jail in … Read more

‘Stansted 15’ begin Court of Appeal bid to overturn convictions

‘Stansted 15’ begin Court of Appeal bid to overturn convictions after storming runway and chaining themselves to Home Office-chartered jet to prevent deportation of 60 criminals – including child rapists and murderers – to Africa Group cut through airport’s perimeter fence and locked themselves together  767 jet transporting people from UK detention centres for repatriation … Read more

Up to 44 sub-postmasters are set to have convictions quashed by Court of Appeal

Up to 44 sub-postmasters are set to have their convictions for fraud, theft and false accounting quashed by the Court of Appeal after the Post Office said it won’t contest their cases. The company today apologised for ‘historic failings’ which saw hundreds of employees wrongly sacked, forced to repay cash or wrongfully convicted – and … Read more

Thug, 17, with string of convictions for violence who slashed man’s neck is jailed for four years

Kyrese Cashley, from Whitley, Berkshire, swiped at Steven Amor’s neck with a Stanley knife on March 17 this year A 17-year-old boy who slashed a man’s throat during a pub argument has been jailed for four years – and had his anonymity stricken by a judge. Kyrese Cashley, from Whitley, Berkshire, swiped at Steven Amor’s … Read more

Gerry Adams wins Supreme Court appeal against convictions

Gerry Adams’ historic convictions for attempting to escape from the Maze Prison in the 1970s was today overturned by the UK’s highest court after it ruled that his detention was unlawful. The former Sinn Fein leader won a legal battle lasting more than 40 years after the Supreme Court agreed his two 1975 convictions were unsafe … Read more

Former Post Office staff given criminal convictions over IT scandal slam pitiful compensation payout

Former Post Office staff who were bankrupted and given criminal convictions over the Horizon IT scandal have been handed as little as £500 in compensation. Hundreds of postmasters, once pillars of their communities, were removed from their posts or dragged through the courts accused of thieving from their own tills. But after a decade-long legal … Read more