A man has been ordered to pay more than £800 for throwing a cigarette butt on the floor. Carl Smith, 31, was issued with a £100 fixed penalty notice earlier this year for dropping the butt on the street, Bromley Council said. He was then prosecuted after failing to pay the notice for littering in … Read more
Contraband is brought in to prisons in “children’s nappies” and through the use of “drone drops” by organised criminal gangs, MPs have been told. This came as prisons minister Lord Timpson called for the use of drugs in UK jails to be treated as a public health issue, following the deaths of 17 inmates at … Read more
The chief constable of Essex Police has defended the way his officers handled the investigation into Allison Pearson, the Telegraph journalist, insisting they had behaved “proportionately, fairly and very, very ethically”. BJ Harrington said the force had received an allegation of crime and had followed all reasonable lines of inquiry before concluding that no offence … Read more
For a life lived for just three short months, there are endless questions about KP. Most importantly, what happened in the days before the lifeless baby’s body was discovered in a freezer in a home in a small town on the New South Wales-Victorian border? A three-day coronial investigation this week in Albury – about … Read more
A sexual assault victim sits outside a police station, wanting to make a report, but is too scared to go inside. At another, a victim of family violence is told there’s not enough evidence to file for an intervention order. There’s the car-jacking victim who avoids public transport, and even walking to the shop, because … Read more
An 18-year-old man from London has been sentenced to one year in a Dubai jail for having a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old girl, a campaign group has said. Marcus Fakana, of Tottenham, “feels abandoned by the British government and Keir Starmer”, Detained in Dubai said. Radha Stirling, the group’s chief executive, said the sentence … Read more
Sara Sharif was filmed playing the guitar and singing in unseen home footage which has been released after three members of her family were found guilty over her death after years of horrific abuse. The 10-year-old’s father Urfan Sharif, 42, and stepmother Beinash Batool, 30, were found guilty of her murder and her uncle Faisal … Read more
Sara Sharif’s stepmother replied “no comment” when asked by police whether she loved or cared about the 10-year-old, a newly released video has showed. On Wednesday, her father Urfan Sharif, 42, stepmother Beinash Batool, 30 were found guilty of murdering the girl. Her uncle, Faisal Malik, 29, was convicted of causing or allowing her death. … Read more
There was no evidence of police collusion in the investigation into the 1978 La Mon House Hotel bombing, the Police Ombudsman has said. Twelve people were killed and scores injured in the atrocity when the Provisional IRA exploded a bomb at the hotel on the outskirts of Belfast in 1978. The Police Ombudsman said that … Read more
At first glance, a home video that showed Sara Sharif dancing in front of the TV could have been filmed in any happy household. But on closer inspection it was clear that a small chunk of the little girl’s finger was missing and there was a deep scratch to her nose. Unseen by the lens … Read more