Jess Phillips has been accused of hypocrisy over her criticism of Elon Musk for calling her a “rape apologist”. The world’s richest man branded Ms Phillips a “rape genocide apologist” last week after it emerged the Government had blocked a new national grooming gangs inquiry. He has now said her reaction was hypocritical after it … Read more
Jet Blue passengers subdued a man after he opened an emergency door and tried to jump out of the aircraft during an apparent argument with his girlfriend. The incident on JetBlue Flight 161, leaving Boston Logan International Airport for San Juan, Puerto Rico on Tuesday, resulted in the plane’s slide being deployed while the aircraft … Read more
The Elon Musk-instigated argument over whether the UK needs another national inquiry into rape and sexual abuse gangs reached the Commons on Wednesday, with the Conservatives pushing an amendment that would set up such a process, while at the same time torpedoing a wider government bill on schools and child welfare. Below are four claims … Read more
The Premier League player involved was first arrested on suspicion of rape in July 2022.Photograph: Stephen White/CameraSport/Getty Images The Metropolitan police has handed a “full file” of evidence on a Premier League footballer accused of rape to the Crown Prosecution Service. The player, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was first arrested on suspicion … Read more
What happened to children at the hands of Pakistani-heritage rape gangs and how the police and councillors failed society’s most vulnerable, has been hauled back into the public spotlight by Elon Musk. For many of us rereading the details, it has been a sickening experience. The depravity and the brutality involved had me hiding my … Read more
One of Louisiana’s youngest mayors’ has been bonded out of jail after being accused of involvement in a drug trafficking ring and for soliciting prostitutes, officials allege. Tyrin Truong, mayor of the city of Bogalusa, 25, walked out of jail Tuesday after posting a $150,000 bond. He’s facing a string of criminal charges involving a … Read more
Cecilia Sala, an Italian journalist who was held in solitary confinement for almost three weeks in Iran, has returned home after being freed from prison. A plane carrying the 29-year-old landed at Rome’s Ciampino airport on Wednesday afternoon, where she was greeted by family members and politicians including the Italian prime minister, Giorgia Meloni. Sala’s … Read more
A rapper has been convicted of posting a “menacing” video on social media directed towards Tommy Robinson, in which he mentioned artillery and made a gun gesture while shouting “pow, pow, pow”. Omar Abdirizak, a 31-year-old Birmingham-based rapper known as Twista Cheese, posted the minute-long TikTok video in August last year. He pleaded not guilty … Read more
Kelyan Bokassa (Mary Bokassa ) Listen here on your chosen podcast platform. The mother of a 14-year-old boy stabbed to death on a London bus fears her son had been groomed by gangs and exposed to drugs before he was killed. Kelyan Bokassa was attacked on a Route 472 double-decker on Woolwich Church Road just … Read more
A German couple has confessed to killing a Ukrainian refugee and her mother as part of a plot to steal the young woman’s newborn baby. The two defendants were accused of posing as volunteers, drugging the Ukrainian women, aged 27 and 51, and then leading them to a lake before killing them and fleeing with … Read more