A pensioner behind a £53million smuggling ring has been spared jail as his lawyer claims he is vulnerable to the coronavirus. Gilbert Khoo, 67, made a fortune smuggling critically endangered elver eels from a barn in Gloucestershire to the Far East. Khoo would import the live baby eels from Spain, hide them under hauls of … Read more
A transgender woman who threatened a man with a claw hammer has been spared jail after a judge was uncertain whether to send her to a male or female prison. Leila Le Fey, 40, had pleaded guilty to common assault and possession of an offensive weapon after trying to steal wine from a Budgens in Brighton. … Read more
Ex-MI5 chief Jonathan Evans says the most serious terrorists should get ‘whole life’ jail sentences and die behind bars Jonathan Evans said he backed Government’s tougher terror sentencing laws Said there should be more stringent sentences and current system ‘too complex’ New legislation ended automatic release at halfway point of terrorism sentence By Daily Mail Reporter … Read more
A British charity boss and her daughter are facing up to two years jail after they started a drunken mid-air ‘riot’ on board a passenger jet as they were flying out on holiday to Morocco. Karin Parkes, 56, and former civil servant Carrie Parkes, 34, triggered a ‘full on fight’ on the January 19 easyJet … Read more
The teenager who stabbed public schoolboy Yousef Makki to death has been released from jail less than half way through his 16-month sentence in a move the murdered 17-year-old’s family have slammed as ‘the third knife in Yousef’s heart.’ Privately-educated Joshua Molnar, 18, who attended a £33,000-a-year private school, admitted to stabbing his friend Yousef … Read more