Biffa Waste Services is convicted of illegally exporting more than 1,000 tonnes of household waste

One of Britain’s biggest waste disposal firms has been convicted of illegally exporting more than 1,000 tonnes of household waste for the second time in two years.   Biffa Waste Services was convicted of sending more than 1,000 tonnes of waste collected from private homes, labelled as paper, to Asia. An Environment Agency investigation prevented sixteen … Read more

Extinction Rebellion protestors are convicted of blockading national newspaper printing press

Six Extinction Rebellion protesters have been found guilty of blockading a national newspaper printing press in a demonstration that cost publishers more than £1million.    The activists stopped 3.5million newspapers reaching readers when they used bamboo structures to block trucks from leaving the Newsprinters printing works in Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, on September 4. Caspar Hughes, 49, of … Read more

Five Extinction Rebellion protesters are convicted over printing press blockade

Five Extinction Rebellion protesters are convicted over printing press blockade that stopped millions of newspapers being delivered Three men and two women are first to be punished following demonstrations  It comes after several other activists walked free from court on a technicality  The blockades were criticised as an affront to free speech as cost millions  … Read more

Pretty Little Thing model is convicted drug dealer who was jailed for selling cocaine and heroin

Revealed: Pretty Little Thing model with thousands of Instagram followers is convicted drug dealer who was jailed for selling cocaine and heroin Rebecca Vieira, 25, was jailed for possessing Class A drugs with intent to supply The influencer, describes herself as a ‘public figure’ and has 166,000 followers She was caught carrying cocaine and heroin … Read more

First PC convicted of terrorism posed in Hitler moustache and went on far-Right training camps

A Scotland Yard officer who lived a secret life as a neo-Nazi was facing jail yesterday after becoming the first British policeman to be convicted of terrorism. PC Benjamin Hannam, 22, attended training camps, went on graffiti sprees and recruited others to the banned white supremacist group National Action (NA), that supported the murder of … Read more

Pair convicted of murdering mother, 37, in petrol bomb attack that also killed four of her children

Two men have been found guilty of murdering a mother in a petrol bomb attack that also killed four of her children. Zak Bolland, 26, and David Worrall, 28, had both denied murdering 37-year-old Michelle Pearson. Ms Pearson’s daughters Demi, 15, Lacie, seven, Lia, three, and her son Brandon, eight, all died in the blaze in … Read more

Two men convicted of murder of woman in Salford petrol bomb attack that killed four of her children

Two men have been found guilty of murdering a mother in a petrol bomb attack that also killed four of her children. Zak Bolland, 26, and David Worrall, 28, had both denied murdering 37-year-old Michelle Pearson. Ms Pearson’s daughters Demi, 15, Lacie, seven, Lia, three, and her son Brandon, eight, all died in the blaze in … Read more

Water for Elephants author’s life threatened due to attempts to get convicted murderer freed

A bestselling author who became ‘obsessed’ with freeing a convicted murderer from prison has revealed how the nearly six years she has spent on the case has left her ‘absolutely broke,’ ‘seriously ill,’ and ‘years past deadline’ on her next book.    Sara Gruen, whose 2006 novel Water for Elephants sold 10 million copies worldwide, has … Read more

Prison officer, 26, who gave birth to convicted murderer’s baby is spared jail

A prison officer who had a baby with an inmate serving life behind bars for murder has been spared jail.  Kerianne Stephens, 26, slept with hit-and-run killer Louis Tate, 35, during a four-month romance at HMP Swaleside on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent.  The relationship, which carried on between September 1, 2018, and January … Read more

Husband and wife convicted of 1996 murder of British man in Belgium after 20 years on the run

A Frenchman and his wife have been convicted of murdering a British businessman in 1996 after more than two decades evading justice.  Jean-Claude Lacote, 54, and Hilde Van Acker, 57, two of Europe’s most wanted fugitives who were , were found guilty of shooting dead Marcus John Mitchell, 44, by a court in Bruges, Belgium … Read more