A woman raped by an Irish firefighter in a Boston hotel filed a lawsuit against Court TV, claiming it broadcast her name during the trial despite a judge’s order. Terence Crosbie, 39, was convicted of raping an unidentified woman over the course of 15 minutes inside a sixth-floor room of the Omni Parker Hotel on … Read more
A fraudster dubbed the ‘Black Widow’ for spinning a web of lies which allowed her to swindle nearly £300,000 from a pensioner is in jail after 16 months on the run. Pamela Gwinnett, 63, isolated 89-year-old Joan Green from her family after posing as a carer for the retired accountant between December 2019 and November … Read more
Tributes have poured in for a father who was killed in a mass shooting at a traveller site on Sunday morning. Jimmy Ward, who was in his thirties, suffered fatal gunshot wounds at the Calcutt Traveller Site, a permanent council-approved Gypsy and Traveller site near Cricklade, on the outskirts of Swindon. Emergency services were called … Read more
Best-selling crime writer Lynda La Plante broke down in tears after pleading with a court not to ban her from driving. The 83-year-old author and screenwriter said it would end her writing career if she was disqualified, because she would not be able to meet up with criminals and other sources for her work. And … Read more
A flash solicitor who pretended to be a police officer to obtain CCTV footage from a Nando’s restaurant to spy on his ex-girlfriend has been ordered to do 260 hours of community service. Conor Johnstone, 34, who called himself ‘The Legal Missile’, was found guilty of impersonating a police officer following a one-day trial at … Read more
The president of a Cambridge college appears to have quietly withdrawn her name from a letter supporting the professor at the heart of a plagiarism scandal. Prof Jason Arday became a poster boy for diversity as the university’s youngest ever black professor, but is now facing questions about both his academic record and a series … Read more
An Afghan professional boxer who arrived in Greece on a small boat before marrying an American Christian has been arrested over the murder of a British woman in Athens. Sharif Ahmadzai, 26, is suspected of killing Elisabeth-Jane Ross, 38, before putting her body in a bag and dumping it in a derelict building. Detectives trawled … Read more
Two helicopters have crashed into one another while fighting wildfires in Greece. Emergency services were called after the aircraft collided in the Psatha region, west of Athens. The BELL helicopters were each carrying two passengers and had taken off from the Elefsina military airport. Hundreds of firefighters were today battling wind-fuelled fires near Porto Germeno … Read more
From golfing with Donald Trump at the Mar-a-Lago Club estate, to lounging on yachts and boarding private jets, AI billionaires are increasingly emerging as the new jet-setting elite. Tech trailblazers live in sprawling mansions in Palm Beach, Miami and Hawaii, enjoying the luxurious lifestyle afforded by their contributions to innovation. Fuelled by the AI boom, a … Read more
When police officers ambushed Johannes Kongsnes Natland in a hotel room in West Yorkshire in March last year, the teenager was found with two working guns, 19 rounds of live ammunition and £2,000 in cash. When he saw officers at his door, he mimed shooting one of them before he was thrust against the wall … Read more