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A New Orleans stuntwoman-turned-lawyer staged car crashes to file fraudulent insurance claims, the US Department of Justice alleged. Vanessa Motta, 43, is one of eight people indicted in the scheme in Louisiana. The defendants, who include Motta’s husband and professional drivers, would allegedly intentionally collide with 18-wheelers and flee the scene. The drivers that crashed … Read more

An alleged arsonist has had to shed their burning pants after seeking to set a Melbourne fast-food business alight on Christmas morning. Victoria police said emergency services were called to a blaze at a strip of shops off Doncaster Road in Doncaster East at about 2.40am on 25 December. Police said two people had earlier … Read more

A convicted predator who groomed, and attempted to kill, a 15-year-old girl sent disturbing voice notes to his victim’s family on Snapchat. Ellis Dismore, 24, from Middlesbrough, sent threatening messages to the girl’s family in June 2023 before he tried to murder the teenager by repeatedly stabbing her on her way home from school in … Read more

The local community has paid tribute to a 14-year-old boy with a “pure heart” who was stabbed to death on a bus in south-east London. Aspiring rapper Kelyan Bokassa was fatally injured on a route 472 bus in Woolwich Church Street, near Woolwich Ferry, just before 2.30pm on Tuesday. On Wednesday evening, around 40 mourners … Read more

A pair of lynx have been let loose on to the Scottish Highlands, prompting a police search. The wild cats were originally believed to have escaped from the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland Highland Wildlife Park near Kincraig. However rangers and the police confirmed that they had not escaped from the park, which is home … Read more

Conservative former minister Sir David Davis has called for a retrial for child serial killer Lucy Letby and said he believes it will “clear” the former nurse. The senior Tory said there was no “hard evidence” implicating Letby and the case against her was “built on a poor understanding of probabilities”. He told MPs: “If, … Read more

Fundamental flaws in the criminal trial system led to the former nurse Lucy Letby being convicted of murder in a “clear miscarriage of justice”, David Davis has said in parliament. In a parliamentary debate, the former cabinet minister detailed the mounting concerns of leading experts about the convictions and said there should quickly be a … Read more

Sam Altman, the head of OpenAI — the company that created ChatGPT — has been accused by his sister of sexually abusing her while they were both children. Now, he is hitting back at the claims and painting his sister as someone suffering from mental health issues. Ann Altman, Sam’s sister, sued him on January … Read more

A Conservative Party amendment calling for a national inquiry on grooming gangs has been rejected in the Commons. The amendment to Labour’s flagship Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill received 111 Ayes and 364 Noes, majority 253. Ms Badenoch’s amendment to the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill called for ministers “to develop new legislative proposals for children’s wellbeing including … Read more

Foreign offenders freed from prison in the UK are going on crime sprees after avoiding deportation, government figures show. Hundreds of foreign criminals freed from jail in the past four years have committed multiple offences after avoiding deportation or challenging their removal under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). Figures from the Ministry of … Read more