The Taliban‘s morality police have rounded up at least nine females over the past two days in Afghanistan in a fresh move to enforce strict Sharia law dress codes. The women were detained in the city of Herat, despite them all wearing hijabs, according to Amu TV – a US-based Afghan broadcaster. The arrests come … Read more
The mother of a nine-year-old girl who died on a Scottish industrial estate while camping with her family has said she will be ‘eternally connected’ to her daughter, after the girl’s father was charged with her murder. Minnie Merriman, from Wakefield, West Yorkshire, was found with serious injuries by emergency services crews at Elliot Industrial … Read more
A Russian marine was struck by lightning while fleeing a bear on horseback, causing his steed to collapse on top of him, leaving him temporarily paralysed, according to local media. He then crawled more than half a mile to safety using just one arm, the reports say. The unnamed soldier was riding in Russia’s mountainous … Read more
Grooming gang members, a serial paedophile and a predatory piano teacher are among the child sex offenders who may be eligible for early release under Labour. Andy Burnham announced earlier this week that criminals convicted of rape, child sex offences and grooming would no longer be included in the controversial scheme. But it has now emerged … Read more
A Cambridge professor accused of plagiarism has quit after the university launched an investigation into him. Professor Jason Arday had been at the centre of a growing row over allegations that he had copied parts of his PhD from another student. He also faced questions over a list of seemingly tall claims from his life … Read more
A police officer has appeared in court accused of causing death by dangerous driving after a teenage boy died when his e-bike was involved in a collision. Ryley Hutson was pronounced dead at the scene of the incident in Bramcote, Nottingham, in September last year. Last month Nottinghamshire Police announced Daniel Cartwright, an officer with … Read more
Wes Streeting has insisted ‘full due diligence’ was carried out on donations he accepted from a think tank linked to a notorious fraudster known as the ‘Crypto King’. The Defence Secretary is facing questions over £37,500 he received from the Labour for the Long Term (LLT) pressure group across 2022 and 2023. Little over a … Read more
A pregnant mother fell 90ft to her death from a tower block after falling from an open window, but her unborn baby miraculously survived, an inquest has heard. Emma Atkinson, 38, fell from the ninth floor of Shakespeare Towers in Leeds while visiting her father. Her daughter, later named Posie, was born five weeks early … Read more
A former butcher who dismembered his victim then hid the body in a concrete-filled barrel was today jailed for at least 35 years. Farmer Christopher Wright, 73, was convicted of murdering Richard Dyson, 55, who disappeared in 2019, then concealing the body for six years. Mr Dyson, who lived in his car on Wright’s land … Read more
A woman has been charged after four men were stabbed in Covent Garden. Stella Gollovena, 47, has been charged today with four counts of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm and one count of possession of an offensive weapon in a public place. She is due to appear in Highbury Magistrates’ Court this afternoon. … Read more