The celebrations in Damascus were interrupted by a whisper. On the outskirts of the city, a door had been found. Beyond it lay a vast underground complex, five stories deep, containing the last prisoners of the Assad regime, who were gasping for air. Cars raced towards Sednaya prison, locally known as “the human slaughterhouse,” the … Read more
Police chiefs have warned Yvette Cooper that thousands of officers’ jobs will have to be cut because of a funding shortfall. Ten forces have written to the Home Secretary predicting that they will be more than £300 million short in the police funding settlement due to be announced this week, forcing major reductions to frontline … Read more
Jay-Z has described a lawsuit alleging he raped a 13-year-old girl along with Sean “Diddy” Combs at a party in 2000 as a “blackmail attempt”. The federal civil lawsuit was originally filed in October in the Southern District of New York, listing Combs as a defendant, but was refiled on Sunday to add the US … Read more
Jay-Z has denied allegations that he drugged and raped a 13-year-old girl along with Sean “Diddy” Combs during an MTV Video Music Awards after-party in 2000. A federal lawsuit, which originally only named Mr Combs, was refiled in federal court on Sunday (8 December). It cites the accuser, “Jane Doe”, who alleges she was assaulted … Read more
Police are searching for two people who potentially witnessesed the suspected murder of a top chef in London earlier this year. Mussie Imnetu, 41, was found unconscious with a head injury in outside the Dr Power restaurant in Queensway, West London at 11:22pm on Monday 26 August. The chef, who worked under Gordon Ramsay and … Read more
Jay-Z says he and Beyoncé will explain together to their children a civil lawsuit accusing him of raping a 13-year-old girl with Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs. The rapper is facing an allegation from an unnamed woman that he and Diddy sexually assaulted the girl at the 2000 MTV Music Video Awards. Jay-Z was named in the … Read more
As Britain is gripped by a prisons crisis, The Telegraph is publishing dispatches from an inmate at a Category B jail – the second highest level of security – to discover what life is really like inside. Recently, the Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) found the jail to be chronically overcrowded and understaffed, with self-harm and … Read more
Police have released CCTV images of two possible witnesses as a murder investigation continues into the death of a chef on the final day of Notting Hill Carnival. Mussie Imnetu, 41, was repeatedly punched in the head during an altercation outside the Dr Power restaurant in Queensway at around 11.20pm on August 26 . He … Read more
Australian authorities have declared an arson attack on a synagogue last week a terrorist act as the detectives revealed the case has reached a “crucial turning point”. Arson squad detectives have been investigating the blaze that extensively damaged the Adass Israel Synagogue in Melbourne on Friday. But the investigation was taken over on Monday by … Read more
After the child known as Baby C died, his mother had his tiny handprints and footprints made into a pendant to wear round her neck. It had comforted her to keep them close, she told the court. But even that was taken away from her when Lucy Letby, the nurse convicted of being Britain’s worst … Read more