Thai protesters are risking arrest and 15 years in prison by voicing rare public criticism of the country’s normally unassailable monarchy. Around 4,000 protesters listened in Bangkok this week as organisers read out a list of demands for the royal family, including reform of the ‘lese majeste’ law which protects the King from criticism. Activists … Read more
Daughter, 29, avoids jail for glassing her own mother in the face during drunken row after drinking Tequlia Sunrise and Stella Artois on all-day pub crawl Jade Rhodes, 29, glassed her mother Joanne after a day drinking Stella Artois Was given a suspended sentence weeks earlier for attacking emergency worker Her mother suffered a black eye, … Read more
PC Harper’s widow calls for Andrew’s Law that would jail cop killers for life after traveller trio dragged her husband to his death in line of duty Lissie Harper said she would to ‘never stop’ in pursuit of justice for her husband She wants killers of emergency workers to be given full-life sentences in court The … Read more
Clergyman’s ex-wife is spared jail after waging a vendetta of lies against her former husband The high court ruled locking up Jean Gibbs, 60, would not stop her false claims Ms Gibbs claimed Methodist minister Charles Gibbs, 70, abused their son Mr Gibbs, who now lives on the Isles of Scilly, says she repeatedly accused him … Read more
PC Harper’s widow calls for full life jail terms for killers who claim lives of 999 heroes – after traveller trio dragged her husband to death in line of duty Lissie Harper said she would to ‘never stop’ in pursuit of justice for her husband She wants killers of emergency workers to be given full-life sentences … Read more
Prisons and jails number among the top hotspots for coronavirus outbreaks in the US – and new Harvard University research suggests that for every one person who goes into a jail, another two people in the communities they return to develop COVID-19. By the end of last month at least 78,526 people had tested positive … Read more
Former British army officer is facing 13 years in jail over a Romanian meditation ceremony where country VIPs drank hallucinogenic Amazonian healing medicine Thomas Lishman spent more than a decade as an officer in the British Army He was working in a clinic outside Bucharest, Romania when he was arrested Lishman was hosting a ceremony … Read more
British 28-stone conman, 74, is spared jail because he is so fat prison staff would struggle to get him out of bed A judge at Southampton Crown Court said jail staff would struggle to get 28-stone Barry Beardall out of bed in the morning Judge Henry said the 74-year-old’s size and ill-health, meant he would … Read more
Former Italian deputy PM Matteo Salvini could face 15 years in JAIL after senate allows him to be tried for ‘illegally detaining migrants at sea’ Vote passed 149 to 141 with one abstention in the Italian senate in Rome today He is accused of using his power to illegally prevent more than 80 migrants rescued in … Read more
A husband who murdered his wife and never revealed where he dumped her body has confessed to her killing from behind bar, just weeks before his parole hearing. Russell Causley, now 78, killed Veronica Packman in 1985 but has never told her devastated family what happened or where he dumped her body. Now Causley has … Read more