A lawyer for phone-hacking victims has claimed that the illegal interception of voicemail messages was “much more widespread” than just at the News of the World. Mark Lewis told the Leveson Inquiry into press standards that hacking the phones of celebrities and other people in the news was “too easy” for journalists to do. He [...]
Rashpal Chana jailed for four and a half years after being convicted of killing Eva Logina’s two-year-old daughter A magistrate has been jailed for four and a half years after being convicted of killing his partner’s two-year-old daughter. Rashpal Chana, who has served as a JP for almost 20 years, and his ex-girlfriend, Eva Logina, [...]
Sabir Hussain sentenced to 10 weeks for kicking and slapping pupils at mosque in Keighley, West Yorkshire A volunteer religious teacher at a mosque in Yorkshire has been jailed for 10 weeks for kicking and slapping young boys during lessons at a mosque. Sabir Hussain admitted four charges of assault after the attacks were secretly [...]
Police will examine a batch of email exchanges between climate scientists which appeared on the Internet on Tuesday as part of an inquiry into the hacking of the private documents, police said on Wednesday. The University of East Anglia, whose Climate Action Research Unit is considered one of the world’s leading institutions on climate science, [...]
Authorities in upstate New York say a 33-year-old woman due in court over a pair of arrests showed up driving a stolen car (wait, there’s more)…which she cleverly parked in the police department lot. Wanna guess what happened next? Police in Colonie, N.Y. say they got a call Wednesday from officers in neighboring Albany about [...]
Ohio – The season for giving is almost upon us. Maybe that’s what a Washington State man had in mind when, according to police in Ohio, he was found transporting a brightly gift-wrapped package, which, when opened, contained 25 individually wrapped packets of marijuana. Ohio troopers making a traffic stop say they found the stash [...]
LOS ANGELES — For three decades the unsolved homicide case of Robert Rathbun sat on a shelf in an archives room, awaiting justice with about 9,000 others. The laid-off engineer was stabbed to death with a butcher knife from his own kitchen by two burglars who then plunged a knife in the back of his [...]
he mother of actor Hugh Grant’s baby daughter has won an injunction from the High Court “prohibiting harassment” of her and the child after she said paparazzi had made her life “unbearable.” The injunction comes amid a high-profile inquiry into media standards, in which Grant is a leading figure, and a phone-hacking scandal in Rupert [...]
The first person to be convicted under new bribery laws was jailed on Friday, and lawyers said his sentence sent out a warning message to business. Munir Patel, 22, a court clerk who worked at Redbridge Magistrates’ Court in east London, had pleaded guilty to accepting 500 pounds to “get rid” of speeding charges by [...]
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