A British-Australian academic who spent two years in an Iranian jail has announced she has divorced her husband after discovering he was having an affair with her friend and colleague while she was imprisoned. Dr Kylie Moore-Gilbert, an Islamic studies scholar, was freed last November in a prisoner swap deal after spending 804 days in … Read more
Drugs boss is let out of jail to marry his sweetheart seven months into six-year sentence for trafficking £120,000 of cocaine after he claimed ‘right to marry’ under human rights laws Drugs boss Benjamin Connor, 27, claimed he had ‘right to marry’ Adele Hunter The move is understood to have left Justice Minister Robert Buckland … Read more
A beautician and her fiance have avoided jail after they were caught trying to smuggle £60,000 worth of cigarettes into Britain. Donna Jablonski, 38, and husband-to-be David Sutton, 30, were detained by Border Force Investigators at Manchester Airport after returning from a four-day ‘city break’ in Moscow, Russia. But the couple, from Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, were found to have … Read more
Celebrity chef who opened vegan restaurant with Pamela Anderson faces jail over French covid scandal when ministers ‘ate caviar and champagne dinners despite lockdown rules’ Celebrity chef Christopher Leroy, 57, faces jail in France amid ‘secret meals’ Paris home was raided by police who suspect he flouted Covid-19 lockdown Leroy allegedly cooked meals for VIPs but … Read more
A Muslim convert has admitted sharing extremist videos on social media while subject to a terrorism notification order. Convicted terrorist Ibrahim Anderson, 44, pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey on Wednesday to a string of offences committed in the summer and autumn of 2020. The ginger-bearded defendant, from Luton, Bedfordshire, admitted breaching notification requirements by … Read more
A young woman who gave birth without knowing she was pregnant and then hid her dead baby in a hedge today walked free from court after a district judge decided she was ‘blameless’ despite her guilty plea. Lisa Blagden gave birth to Ivory Rose aged 20 in the bathroom of her family home, having been … Read more
An irate gardener who drowned his neighbour’s cat because it kept attacking birds and digging up his vegetable patch has escaped jail. Retired businessman Richard Giles put tabby cat Ruby in a sack and then held her in a water butt on his property until she was dead. He later dumped her body in a … Read more
No high octane adventure could have prepared Starsky & Hutch star David Soul for his latest assignment. His documentary, Cuban Soul, records the discovery of Ernest Hemingway’s long lost 1955 convertible Chrysler New Yorker, found in a garage in Cuba eight years ago, and its subsequent restoration. Yet what sounds a gentle project has exacted … Read more
Mass vaccination was supposed to be our get-out-of-jail-free card. We should be so lucky. Despite the fact that Britain’s rapid inoculation programme has been a spectacular success, the Government is taking no chances. The parole board is having second thoughts. We’re not so much getting out of jail free as being released on licence, wearing … Read more
Prisoners at one of Britain’s worst jails get a PETTING ZOO so they can de-stress by stroking gerbils and bunny rabbits Prisoners at HMP Hindley can book sessions with the animals to help with stress A report praised the jail for coming up with ‘imaginative initiatives’ Petting zoos are known to help relax people, with animals … Read more