One of Britain’s biggest waste disposal firms has been convicted of illegally exporting more than 1,000 tonnes of household waste for the second time in two years. Biffa Waste Services was convicted of sending more than 1,000 tonnes of waste collected from private homes, labelled as paper, to Asia. An Environment Agency investigation prevented sixteen … Read more
Six Extinction Rebellion protesters have been found guilty of blockading a national newspaper printing press in a demonstration that cost publishers more than £1million. The activists stopped 3.5million newspapers reaching readers when they used bamboo structures to block trucks from leaving the Newsprinters printing works in Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, on September 4. Caspar Hughes, 49, of … Read more
Five Extinction Rebellion protesters are convicted over printing press blockade that stopped millions of newspapers being delivered Three men and two women are first to be punished following demonstrations It comes after several other activists walked free from court on a technicality The blockades were criticised as an affront to free speech as cost millions … Read more
Serving Met police constable is sacked without notice after being convicted of stalking PC Dean Cupit of South Area Command pleaded guilty to harassment charge He was sentenced to an 18 month community order and rehabilitation A special case hearing this week found he had acted with gross misconduct By Jack Elsom For Mailonline Published: … Read more
Convicted rapist is one of FIVE men trying to exploit a Brexit ‘loophole’ to avoid extradition Rapist is one of five men trying to exploit Brexit ‘loophole to avoid extradition If successful, could see more suspected criminals released on to the streets High Court heard there was ‘no power to extradite any individual’ to an EU … Read more
Muslim head and her father carried on teaching despite being convicted of running an illegal £2,500-a-year Islamic school that failed to promote core British values, court hears Nadia and Arshad Ali deny institution they run in Streatham is a full-time ‘school’ The father and daughter claim it only offers 18 hours of education per week … Read more
Muslim head and her father carried on teaching despite being convicted of running an illegal £2,500-a-year Islamic school that failed to promote core British values, court hears Nadia and Arshad Ali deny institution they run in Streatham is a full-time ‘school’ The father and daughter claim it only offers 18 hours of education per week … Read more
A paramedic ‘who thought he was untouchable’ has been found guilty of raping a patient in her own home and sexually assaulting another patient in the back of his ambulance. Andrew Wheeler, 46, of Mill Green, Warboys in Cambridgeshire, was on duty in a rapid response car when he was called to help a woman … Read more
Surgeon who was convicted of assault for branding his initials on livers of two patients during transplant operation avoids being struck off after blaming ‘work stress’ Simon Bramhall, 55, used argon beam machine to mark the organs in operations Initials were discovered by change after donor organ failed a week after implant Bramhall resigned from … Read more
Kasabian singer Tom Meighan has spoken out for the first time since he was convicted of assaulting his partner Vikki Ager in July this year. The 39-year-old appeared at Leicester Magistrates’ Court and pleaded guilty to beating Vikki in their back garden on April 9 and he received 200 hours of unpaid work as well as a … Read more