Stuart Hogg being stripped of his MBE would be “reasonable and understandable”, John Swinney has said after the disgraced former Scotland rugby captain was convicted of domestic abuse. The First Minister said he was personally “incredibly disappointed” that someone regarded as a national sporting hero had committed such a crime. But Mr Swinney refused to … Read more
Judges and magistrates are to be told to consider sparing thousands of criminals from being sent to jail amid the prison overcrowding crisis. The sentencing council, which advises all criminal courts in England and Wales, is to issue new guidance telling judges and magistrates to “think very carefully about the non-custodial options” available. The council … Read more
Justice Juan Merchan sentenced President-elect Donald Trump to an unconditional discharge on Friday. The measure is a rare and lenient sentence in the New York state court system that still means that Trump will enter office on January 20th as a felon. If Trump had been sentenced to a conditional discharge, he would have had … Read more
US President-elect Donald Trump will not go to jail or face any other punishment for his criminal conviction stemming from hush money paid to a porn star, a judge ruled on Friday. The sentence of unconditional discharge places a judgment of guilt on Mr Trump’s record and closes a case that had loomed over his … Read more
Donald Trump has been handed an unconditional discharge after being convicted of 34 charges relating to a hush money payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels. It was, according to Manhattan Judge Juan Merchan, the “only lawful sentence” he could impose because of Mr Trump’s impending second term as president. He will take office on … Read more
President-elect Donald Trump is not going to jail, at least not today. He isn’t being forced to pay any fines. He won’t have to check in with a court-ordered probation officer like most criminal defendants with felony convictions. But a sentence handed down by a judge in a criminal courtroom in Manhattan on January 10 … Read more
Scottish police are working with officers in Hungary who are liaising with the family of two sisters who disappeared in Aberdeen three days ago. Eliza and Henrietta Huszti, both 32, were last seen in Market Street after leaving their home in the city on Tuesday at around 2.12am. Specialist search teams and police dogs are … Read more
Almost 900 weapons were seized in one year from children detained in a young offender institution in the north of England, a prisons watchdog has found. In its annual report published on Friday into HM young offender institution Wetherby in West Yorkshire, the institution’s independent monitoring board found that children were in possession of a … Read more
A troubled childhood and autism are no excuse for the “frenzied” fatal stabbing of 15-year-old Elianne Andam, jurors have heard. Hassan Sentamu, 18, is accused of attacking Elianne and plunging a kitchen knife into her neck during a row over a teddy bear outside the Whitgift Centre in Croydon, south London, on September 27 2023. … Read more
Police cleared of wrongdoing after dangerous dogs shot dead on Poplar footpath Metropolitan Police firearms officers who shot dead two dangerous dogs during a stand-off on a canal towpath have been cleared of wrongdoing. Armed officers were deployed after a woman and her dog were attacked by two Cana Corsa in Poplar, east London, on … Read more