A respected former BBC correspondent has been jailed for eight years after he was caught paying to watch live online shows of child sexual exploitation. Duncan Bartlett, 52, made a series of payments to the Philippines over the course of seven years, so that he could watch sickening livestreams featuring girls as young as nine … Read more
A New York City jury has acquitted 26-year-old Daniel Penny for the 2023 death of Jordan Neely, a homeless man with mental health issues who Penny put into a chokehold for nearly six minutes during a tense encounter on the subway. The jury cleared Penny of criminally negligent homicide in Neely’s death. A more serious … Read more
A man in Pennsylvania is being held for questioning in connection with last week’s fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEOBrian Thompson, sources familiar with the matter tell NBC News. The man, who has not been identified, was found with a gun that is similar to the one used in the assassination-style killing that took place outside … Read more
A criminology student “butchered” Amie Gray by stabbing her to death in a random attack on Bournemouth beach after researching methods of murder, his trial has heard. Nasen Saadi, 20 – who, the court was told, has a “fascination” with knives and enjoyed horror movies – is accused of murdering 34-year-old Amie Gray and attempting … Read more
A former human rights lawyer is due to be sentenced for fraud charges linked to claims made against Iraq War veterans. Phil Shiner, 67, admitted that an agent acting on his behalf had been cold-calling potential clients in Iraq. He also admitted paying referral fees, both of which were in contravention of the terms of … Read more
A man who assaulted a lone protester during riots in Middlesbrough “feared repercussions for the local mosque and Asian community” after the demonstration turned violent, a court heard. Ameer Khalile, 25, was one of a group of Asian men who ran towards the victim shouting “you white scum” and “you white racist c****” outside a … Read more
Footage emerging from the liberation of Bashar al-Assad’s most notorious prisons has revealed that the Syrian dictator used underground cells and body-crushing iron presses to detain and torture thousands of civilians. Syrian rescue teams were still trying desperately to reach prisoners trapped in the underground labyrinth of jails deep inside the city of Sednaya on … Read more
Former London MP Margaret Hodge has been appointed the UK’s anti-corruption champion to lead the crackdown on “dirty money” in Britain and overseas. Foreign Secretary David Lammy announced the appointment on a visit to the National Crime Agency on Monday. Baroness Hodge, who was MP for Barking, has built up a reputation as a leading … Read more
By 1980, April Balascio had grown accustomed to moving with her family every six months to a year. On one particularly memorable evening that year, the 11-year-old was woken up by her father in the middle of the night and told they were leaving their Watertown, Wisconsin, home. They had only lived there for a … Read more
A criminology student could have stabbed a woman to death on a Dorset beach because he wanted to know what it would be like to take a life and how it would feel to make a woman feel afraid, a jury has been told. As he plotted the attack, Nasen Saadi asked his lecturers so … Read more