Moped-riding thieves face years in jail for four raids that caused £50,000 of damage 

Dramatic moment moped-riding thieves snatch £22,000 cash box from a Sainsbury’s and hurl a breeze block through a shop window as they face years in jail for four raids that caused £50,000 of damage Alfie Atherton, 29, and Reed Roberts, 30, worked as part of  a robbery gang  Pair used stolen mopeds with fake number … Read more

Moped-riding thieves face years in jail for four raids that caused £50,000 of damage 

Dramatic moment moped-riding thieves snatch £22,000 cash box from a Sainsbury’s and hurl a breeze block through a shop window as they face years in jail for four raids that caused £50,000 of damage Alfie Atherton, 29, and Reed Roberts, 30, worked as part of  a robbery gang  Pair used stolen mopeds with fake number … Read more

Pakistani singer who accused pop star of groping her faces three years in jail

Pakistani singer who accused pop star of groping her and sparked country’s #MeToo movement faces three years in jail for ‘criminal defamation’ Meesha Shafi, 39, claimed Ali Zafar, 40, groped her at recording studio in 2017  Zafar stringently denies the claims that he inappropriately touched Shafi  Launched criminal defamation charge due to ‘irreparable’ damage to … Read more

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe tells of her ‘traumatising’ five years of hell in Iranian jail

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has told of her five years of ‘traumatising’ torture in Iran for the first time. In a video interview with independent investigators, Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 43, revealed she was threatened with execution and the torture of her family. She was also chained and forced to wear a blindfold in prison where she suffered sensory … Read more

Euromillions £45m jackpot winner, 31, avoids jail over head-on road crash that killed woman

Matthew Topham admitted causing the death by careless driving on Christmas Day 2019 A Euromillions jackpot winner has avoided jail over a head-on road crash that killed a 75-year-old woman. Matthew Topham admitted causing the death of pensioner Mary Jane Regler on Christmas Day 2019 in North Cockerington, Lincolnshire.  The 31-year-old, who won £45million on the lottery … Read more

Bird lover avoids jail for threatening terrified ex-girlfriend over custody of their pet parrot 

Bird lover, 28, avoids jail for threatening his terrified ex-girlfriend, 23, with a baseball bat after she took custody of Custard their pet parrot Kaya Colakoglu, 28, tracked down ex-lover Lena Nixon, 23, to a friend’s house She had escaped with their pet parrot called Custard when he turned violent He smashed a window with … Read more

Katie Price’s ex-husband Alex Reid ‘faces jail after admitting trying to scam a car insurance firm’

Katie Price’s ex-husband Alex Reid ‘faces jail after admitting trying to scam a car insurance firm out of £61,000 by giving a false statement about a crash’ Reid allegedly sought compensation from Axa after Audi A6 crashed in 2018  He ‘claimed stranger agreed to be witness but it emerged were acquainted’   Axa allegedly applied to … Read more

Man, 57, avoids jail after punching French bulldog three times in the head before trying to drown it

Man, 57, avoids jail after punching ‘yelping’ French bulldog three times in the head before trying to drown it in hot tub Glenn Calderwood, 57, punched a dog in the face before trying to drown the pet  Calderwood was handed a 20-week prison sentence, suspended for 18 months The 57-year-old, from Brent, was spotted attacking the … Read more

Former public schoolgirl, 28, who lunged at police officer avoids jail 

A former public schoolgirl lunged at a police officer and called her a ‘Welsh dyke’ before yelling ‘I’m surrounded by Muslims’ while being handcuffed has avoided jail.  Hanita Dadswell, 28, attacked PC Larner after officers were called out to investigate a report she had been assaulted by her boyfriend at his Chelsea flat.  Dadswell – who … Read more