A request to remove late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny from a list of “terrorists and extremists” has been rejected despite his death last year, his widow Yulia Navalnaya has revealed – saying that it shows Vladimir Putin is still afraid of her husband. Russia’s financial watchdog, Rosfinmonitoring, said in a letter published by Ms … Read more
President-elect Donald Trump ranted about his innocence and having a ‘very terrible experience’ during his hush-money trial moments before a judge sentenced him to no jail time or fines in the historic case. New York Judge Juan Merchan sentenced Trump to unconditional discharge on Friday after a jury found him guilty of 34 counts of … Read more
Nottingham Forest FC owner Evangelos Marinakis can continue a libel claim against a Greek football rival at the High Court, a judge has ruled. Marinakis, who also owns Greek side Olympiacos, sued Irini Karipidis, the owner of Super League rivals Aris, over several “false” allegations including that he had conducted match-fixing and was involved in … Read more
Donald Trump will return to the White House as the first-ever criminally convicted president after his sentencing in a Manhattan courtroom, where the judge presiding over his criminal hush money trial declined to send him to jail but preserved the jury’s historic verdict against the president-elect. New York Justice Juan Merchan told the former president … Read more
A drug dealer who fatally stabbed a rival in the street was tracked down by his designer Louis Vuitton-style manbag. Dualla Abdi, 20, failed to ditch the luxury accessory he was carrying when he attacked Tyreece Scott, 24, in Hounslow, west London, shortly before 1am last January 16. Having disposed of his clothes after stabbing … Read more
Pakistanis are up to four times more likely to be responsible for child sex grooming offences reported to police than the general population, previously unreleased data suggest. Figures from all 43 forces in England and Wales show 13.7 per cent of child sexual exploitation “grooming” offences in the first nine months of last year involved … Read more
Police officers behaved “appropriately” when they briefly followed a 15-year-old boy on an e-bike before he fatally collided with an ambulance, a report has found. Saul Cookson was riding a Sur-Ron e-bike in Salford, Greater Manchester, when the incident took place at about 2pm on June 8 2023. He was treated by paramedics at the … Read more
An Austrian man travelled to the UK to meet up with a 13-year-old girl he groomed on the children’s video game Roblox, a court heard. Michael Shablinger, 36, had spent months grooming the victim after finding her on the online platform. Norwich Crown Court heard Shablinger, who had told the victim he was 21, travelled … Read more
A serving Met Police detective who had non-consensual sex with a woman he met on a Hinge date has been booted out of the force. Detective Constable Kamal Baldeo had non-consensual penetrative sex with the woman at a Travelodge in Brighton despite her saying she did not want to beforehand, a misconduct panel found. DC … Read more
The life of the 14-year-old stabbing victim Kelyan Bokassa could have been saved if he had been helped to move out of south-east London, according to an anti-knife crime charity who knew him. Kelyan, who was an aspiring drill rapper, was stabbed to death in Woolwich on a 472 bus on Tuesday afternoon. Mark Rodney, … Read more