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A crossbow killer has been jailed for life after murdering retired lecturer Gerald Corrigan at home in Wales in a ‘medieval-style execution’. Terence Whall, 39, was also sentenced to six years, to be served concurrently, for conspiracy to pervert the course of justice after plotting to destroy the Land Rover Discovery he was driving the … Read more
A father has today been jailed for 12 years for the manslaughter of his baby daughter who suffered horrific injuries including bite marks while in his care. Daniel Ashurst, 33, inflicted injuries, such as a bleed on the brain, a broken ankle and potential bite marks that killed his 14-month-old daughter Hollie, prosecutors said. He … Read more
Masterminds behind a £10million fraud which saw the UK’s largest illegal tobacco factory produce 140 packs of cigarettes a minute have been jailed. John Watson Snr, 47, who was a director of Doncaster Greyhound stadium, Terence Jacques, 60, and security guard Russell Haywood, 48, led a 12-man gang who made millions of counterfeit cigarettes which … Read more
Three organised criminals who stole more than 20 mobile phones from fans at a Libertines concert and used a special bodysuit to hide the items have been told by a judge: ‘Go back to Romania – and don’t return.’ The trio targeted the gig at Nottingham’s Rock City venue in December, leaving music lovers stunned … Read more
Four men have been jailed for smuggling nearly 30 Vietnamese people ‘like freight’ into the UK through a harbour in an historic fishing village. The group of human traffickers were locked up for a total of 16 years between them after a judge said they were motivated by greed. They were arrested in April last … Read more
A mother and stepfather of an eight-year-old boy who had to have buckwheat surgically removed from his knees after they forced him to kneel on a pile of grain seeds have been jailed. Sergey Kazakov, 35, punished the boy for ‘running away from home and stealing money’ by making him kneel – sometimes naked – for … Read more
A British pensioner who is serving an eight-year sentence for smuggling £1million of cocaine on a cruise has said she fears she will die behind bars. Susan Clarke, 71, is jailed at Portugal’s maximum-security prison EP Tires and is now waiting for biopsy results after she found a lump in her left breast. The grandmother-of-eight, from Kent, … Read more
Estate agent boss is forced to take out £400,000 in loans to get his crooked colleague jailed after police refused to investigate due to ‘austerity’ Estate agent Stephen Laycock has been left £277,000 out of pocket by events He funded private prosecution of Timothy Shinners, who stole tenants’ deposits Case highlights failure of police to … Read more
Shocking moment HGV driver who took wrong M6 exit does U-turn on slip road then turns back onto motorway during morning rush-hour traffic – as he’s jailed for six months A HGV driver was jailed for six months and disqualified from driving for 15 Took wrong M6 exit before U-turn on to a slip road … Read more
Irish drug dealer loses his £46MILLION bitcoin fortune after losing the piece of A4 paper with the access codes Clifton Collins, 49, printed the codes on an A4 sheet of paper to remember them He then stashed the sheet in the cap of a fishing rod case at home in Galway But, after he was … Read more