Two people have been charged over the creation and sale of fake Covid-19 vaccination records during the pandemic. Waqas Hanif, 26, and Touqir Nasir, 29, will appear at Luton magistrates’ court on Thursday. They were charged in relation to alleged offences under the Computer Misuse Act and Fraud Act, the National Crime Agency (NCA) said. … Read more
Lucy Letby should face a retrial, Sir David Davis has told Parliament, as he claimed the NHS was “most likely” responsible for baby deaths at her hospital. The demands by the Conservative former Brexit secretary came as concerns over the case were formally addressed in the Commons for the first time. The major intervention was … Read more
An 18-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a woman was killed in a drive-by shooting outside a north-west London church. Shots were fired in Gifford Road, Brent, at about 9.15pm on December 14, killing 44-year-old Michelle Sadio, who was standing among mourners outside the church after a wake, the Metropolitan Police … Read more
A British toddler has been “abandoned” in a Romanian orphanage by his mother, a court has heard. Mariana-Mirabela Neagu, 26, abducted her son from the care system in Oxfordshire and took him to her native Romania in September. She has since returned to the UK to face justice, but her two-year-old child remains stranded in … Read more
Jay-Z has filed a motion to dismiss the ongoing sexual assault lawsuit against him. A federal lawsuit refiled on December 8 last year alleged that Sean “Diddy” Combs and Jay-Z, whose real name is Shawn Carter, sexually assaulted a “Jane Doe” plaintiff during an MTV Video Music Awards afterparty in 2000. The woman has since … Read more
Labour MPs have blocked an attempt to initiate a national inquiry into grooming gangs. The amendment put forward by Conservative MPs that would have piled pressure on the Government to hold a statutory inquiry into historic child sexual exploitation was voted down by 364 to 111. The move was branded as an “act of cowardice” … Read more
MPs have rejected a Conservative bid to push for another national inquiry into grooming gangs. The Government’s draft child protection legislation passed its first Commons hurdle on Wednesday following a bitter Prime Minister’s Questions in which Tory leader Kemi Badenoch said failing to back a probe would fuel concerns about a “cover-up”. The Conservatives had … Read more
An Ohio woman was attacked, killed, and partially eaten at her home by her neighbor’s pigs on Christmas Day, according to police. Officials found the body of Rebecca Westergaard Rigney, 75, in her Pataskala home following a welfare check request. She failed to make it to her niece’s home on December 25. Police found her … Read more
Rumors of jailhouse jealousy are coming out of the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, where alleged sex trafficker Sean “Diddy” Combs is reportedly pouting because he’s playing second fiddle to suspected health insurance hitman Luigi Mangione. A source reportedly familiar with the situation told the New York Post that Combs was “throwing tantrums” inside the … Read more
A U.S. Marine has been accused of sexually assaulting a woman while stationed in Okinawa, Japan’s southernmost island, marking the fourth case of its kind within the past year. The serviceman, who is believed to be in his 30s, is suspected of allegedly raping a woman “older than 20” in an undisclosed building at Camp … Read more