Donald Trump has been handed an unconditional discharge after being convicted of 34 charges relating to a hush money payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels. It was, according to Manhattan Judge Juan Merchan, the “only lawful sentence” he could impose because of Mr Trump’s impending second term as president. He will take office on … Read more
President-elect Donald Trump is not going to jail, at least not today. He isn’t being forced to pay any fines. He won’t have to check in with a court-ordered probation officer like most criminal defendants with felony convictions. But a sentence handed down by a judge in a criminal courtroom in Manhattan on January 10 … Read more
Scottish police are working with officers in Hungary who are liaising with the family of two sisters who disappeared in Aberdeen three days ago. Eliza and Henrietta Huszti, both 32, were last seen in Market Street after leaving their home in the city on Tuesday at around 2.12am. Specialist search teams and police dogs are … Read more
Almost 900 weapons were seized in one year from children detained in a young offender institution in the north of England, a prisons watchdog has found. In its annual report published on Friday into HM young offender institution Wetherby in West Yorkshire, the institution’s independent monitoring board found that children were in possession of a … Read more
A troubled childhood and autism are no excuse for the “frenzied” fatal stabbing of 15-year-old Elianne Andam, jurors have heard. Hassan Sentamu, 18, is accused of attacking Elianne and plunging a kitchen knife into her neck during a row over a teddy bear outside the Whitgift Centre in Croydon, south London, on September 27 2023. … Read more
Police cleared of wrongdoing after dangerous dogs shot dead on Poplar footpath Metropolitan Police firearms officers who shot dead two dangerous dogs during a stand-off on a canal towpath have been cleared of wrongdoing. Armed officers were deployed after a woman and her dog were attacked by two Cana Corsa in Poplar, east London, on … Read more
Some MI5 material relating to its involvement with a teenager who was charged with terrorism before she took her own life is being “withheld” from her inquest but is “not a cause for concern”, a hearing was told. Rhianan Rudd, 16, was found dead at a children’s home in Nottinghamshire on May 19 2022, a … Read more
The head of the Metropolitan Black Police Association could be sacked after sending and receiving racist, sexist and inappropriate WhatsApp messages. Inspector Charles Ehikioya, the full-time chairman of the MBPA, was in a WhatsApp chat with Carlo Francisco, a former officer, in which the messages were sent and received, a misconduct hearing found on Friday. … Read more
The family of a Belfast man found dead in Spain have had an emotional homecoming. Billy George, whose son John, had been on holiday in Alicante when he went missing last month, said he would have stayed if John’s body had not been found. The 37-year-old father of two from west Belfast was last in … Read more
The head of the Metropolitan police’s Black Police Association (MBPA) committed gross misconduct over his participation in a WhatsApp group that shared sexist comments and racist remarks about Asian people, a police tribunal has found. Insp Charles Ehikioya faces potential dismissal after Friday’s tribunal ruling at Palestra House in London. It found he was in … Read more