A Midlands man has been jailed after violently assaulting railway staff during a dispute over a train ticket at Derby station. On 22 May, Mohamed Kadir, 29, of no fixed address, was sitting in a first-class carriage of a CrossCountry train bound for Birmingham when staff asked to see his ticket. Kadir admitted he did […]
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Two sisters have narrowly avoided immediate prison sentences after a £10,000 package of cannabis was mistakenly delivered to a neighbour, leading police to uncover their role in a wider drug operation. Paris and Destiny Connolly were found to have been involved in the preparation and sale of Class A drugs, including cocaine and heroin. The
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A former sports coach at a leading public school has been found guilty of murdering his wife after police discovered hidden bloodstained clothes partway through his retrial. Mohamed Samak, 43, an Egyptian national and former international hockey player, denied killing his wife, 49-year-old interior designer Joanne Samak, at their home in Droitwich Spa, Worcestershire, claiming
A company director who caused a fatal three-car collision while under the influence of cocaine has been sentenced to six years in prison. Christopher Lynn, 32, from Dalkeith in Midlothian, drove his Ford Ranger pick-up truck into the back of 64-year-old Yvonne Nichol’s Vauxhall Astra on the A7 near Ashkirk in the Scottish Borders. The
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A Fife businessman has been jailed for nine years after CCTV revealed him prowling a nightclub looking for women to drug before carrying out what a judge described as “reprehensible” sexual attacks. Kenan Baki, 46, sexually assaulted one woman and raped another after spiking their drinks at the Society nightclub in Kirkcaldy. The victims, who
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A 22-year-old Afghan national has been arrested after a triple stabbing in Uxbridge, west London, left a dog walker dead and two others injured, the Metropolitan Police confirmed. Emergency services were called to Midhurst Gardens at around 5pm on Monday following reports of multiple stabbings. A 49-year-old man, who was walking his dog, was treated
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A man who secretly filmed holidaymakers as they undressed at a Butlin’s resort has been jailed for three years. Mark Simpson, 51, of Wallsend, North Tyneside, pleaded guilty to multiple offences including two counts of voyeurism, after recording people getting changed at Butlin’s Skegness on 30 separate occasions. He also admitted possession of a prohibited
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A man who lured two women from Uganda to the UK with false promises of work and housing before raping them has been jailed for 17 years. Charles Isabirye, 48, was sentenced at Leicester Crown Court after being found guilty of a series of serious sexual offences, including four counts of rape, breach of a
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A convicted sex offender who was mistakenly released from prison spent more than an hour asking officers for help before being allowed to walk free, a witness has claimed. Hadush Kebatu, 41, from Ethiopia, was released from Chelmsford Prison in Essex on Friday due to what officials described as “human error”, just four weeks into
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An asylum seeker has been found guilty of murdering a young woman who worked at the hotel where he was staying in the West Midlands. Deng Chol Majek, originally from Sudan, stabbed 27-year-old Rhiannon Whyte 23 times with a screwdriver in what prosecutors described as a “vicious and frenzied” attack at Bescot Stadium railway station
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