At school Joe Cole learned lessons he’s put to good use in a scorching new television action thriller. The 31-year-old is the star of Sky’s ten-part Gangs Of London, in which he plays Sean Wallace, a public school-educated, cold-eyed scion of a crime family who takes over the business when his father (Colm Meaney) is … Read more
Brazil’s health minister says the government should turn to gang and militia leaders in dangerous and overcrowded favelas to develop a coronavirus strategy Brazil Health Minister Luiz Henrique Mandetta said the government should engage favela gang and militia leaders to combat the coronavirus The overcrowded slums are home to about 11 million people or 2% … Read more
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire duped out of £5million by dodgy quiz gang: How a consortium secretly provided contestants with the answers and played the system to plant their members on to the ITV show Applicants who paid a fee would be slipped the answers to the questions Producers believe the gang netted ‘at … Read more
Ex-England ace Ashley Cole ‘is attacked and tied to a chair by masked gang who raided his home and stole jewellery’ Cole’s home in Fetcham, Surrey allegedly targeted by robbers on January 21 The former Chelsea star may have been tied to a chair in the raid, sources claim Surrey Police are still trying to … Read more
Gang of goats RETURN! Uninvited four-legged friends seen strolling around deserted streets of a seaside town during lockdown yet again Mountain goats spotted in Llandudno, North Wales by Andrew Stuart on Friday Herd returned to coastal town over weekend and was photographed again today Kashmiri goats believed to be descended from a pair gifted to Queen … Read more
A crime boss and his county-lines drugs gang have been told to pay back just £60,000 after making £2.4million selling drugs through a major underworld syndicate. Kingpin Carl Hannan, a 36-year-old from Teesside, headed up the cross-country drug trafficking network that sprawled from the North East to the North West of England, designed to flood … Read more
Four men are executed over the 2012 gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old student in Delhi that shocked the world Akshay Thakur, Vinay Sharma, Pawan Gupta and Mukesh Singh were all executed The four were hanged in the high-security Tihar prison in India’s capital on Friday Their deaths mark the first executions in the … Read more
Evil grooming gang are jailed for a total of 70 years after treating a vulnerable 15-year-old girl from Sheffield as a ‘piece of meat’ One member of the gang, Jasim Mohammed raped the victim ten times Three other members of the Sheffield-based gang raped the girl once or twice A fifth member of the group … Read more
A gang of brazen thieves who stripped a town park of its entire stock of daffodils were being hunted by cops today. Just seven out of an estimated 10,000 blooming daffodils were left standing after the flowers were cut at their stems in an ‘industrial scale’ operation earlier this week. The flowers, worth around £2,000, … Read more
The British teenager who avoided jail after being convicted of lying about being gang-raped by 12 Israeli men in Cyprus has relived her ordeal for a TV documentary. The woman, 19, flew home in January after being handed a four-month suspended sentence over the events of July last year in an Aiya Napa hotel room. … Read more