A Florida woman has been arrested and charged after allegedly using the same language associated with the suspect in the murder of a top health insurance executive while on a phone call with her healthcare firm. Briana Boston, 42, had just had a medical claim denied and was talking on a phone call with a … Read more
Kemi Badenoch has said people must “treat each other with respect” as she backed a report that found a Conservative baroness should face a three-week Lords suspension for calling a peer “Lord Poppadom”. The Tory leader said the recommendations of Parliament’s standards watchdog should be followed after complaints against Baroness Catherine Meyer were upheld in … Read more
The McDonald’s employee in Altoona, Pennsylvania who called in the tip that led to the arrest of Luigi Mangione is eligible for law enforcement’s $60,000 reward — but he may not collect it for a while. The manhunt for the masked gunman suspected of fatally shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on December 4 came to … Read more
A mother who strangled her seven-year-old son to death has been handed an indefinite hospital order. Louis Linse was found dead in his bed at home on Upper Market Street in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, on January 10 after being killed by his mother. Papaipit Linse, 43, was handed an indefinite hospital order at Swansea Crown Court … Read more
The founder of a neo-Nazi network that has proliferated rapidly around the world in recent years will be sentenced in US federal court on Friday, capping a seven-year legal saga that has bewildered observers of the far right. Robert Rundo, the 34-year-old founder of the neo-Nazi “Active Club” network, pleaded guilty in September of conspiracy … Read more
A woman who was seriously injured in the same attack that killed physical trainer Amie Gray on Bournemouth beach told police that her friend had “saved her life”, a court has heard. Nasen Saadi, 20, from Croydon, south London, is on trial at Winchester Crown Court charged with the murder of Ms Gray, 34, at Durley … Read more
A former soldier who travelled to Ukraine to give medical assistance on the frontline was unlawfully killed by a “comrade”, an inquest has found. Daniel Burke, 36, from Manchester, was staying in the Zaporizhzhia region of Ukraine in August 2023 when he went missing, the hearing at Manchester Coroner’s Court on Friday was told. A … Read more
A British former paratrooper who traveled to fight in Ukraine and whose body was later found miles from the frontline was “unlawfully killed” by someone claiming to be his friend, a court has concluded. The body of Daniel Burke, 36, from Wythenshawe in Manchester, was found last September after being reported missing in Ukraine in … Read more
A teenager accused of murdering a hotel worker at a railway station has pleaded not guilty to the charge during a video-link appearance before a Crown Court judge. Speaking through an Arabic interpreter, Deng Chol Majek, 18, said “not guilty, I didn’t kill her” when asked to enter his plea to a charge alleging he … Read more
Armed police were right to arrest a 13-year-old black boy after they mistook his water pistol for a gun, the police watchdog said. The Independent Office for Police Conduct launched an investigation after the child’s mother accused officers of discrimination against the teenager during the incident in Hackney, east London. The youngster, known as Child … Read more