Crimes Against the Person

Prosecutors demand 18year sentence for OJ Simpson

Prosecutors have asked a Las Vegas judge to send OJ Simpson to jail for 18 years when the disgraced American football star is sentenced for kidnapping and armed robbery on Friday. Lawyers for the 61-year-old and his...

'Pure Evil': Shannon's Mum Guilty

Breaking News 2:57pm UK, Thursday December 04, 2008 Mike McCarthy, North of England correspondent The mother of schoolgirl Shannon Matthews is facing a "substantial" jail sentence after being found guilty of kidnapping her own...

Hudson's brother-in-law in court

William Balfour has appeared in court for the first time in connection with the deaths of three of Jennifer Hudson's relatives. The prosecutor alleged Hudson's brother-in-law killed the victims because he was angry his...

Gordon Wood sentenced to 17 years in prison for throwing model girlfriend off a cliff

A British-born playboy convicted of killing his model girlfriend by throwing her off a cliff "like a spear" has been sentenced to 17 years and four months in prison for the crime. By Bonnie Malkin in Sydney Last month, Gordon...

DNA database innocents win landmark European court ruling

The police in England, Wales and Northern Ireland face having to wipe the profiles of nearly one million innocent people from the DNA database after a landmark European ruling. By Tom Whitehead and Christopher Hope DNA records...

Man held over taxi office robbery

A 22-year-old man has been arrested in connection with an armed robbery at a taxi office in Oxford. Police said a 24-year-old man working in the office was assaulted by two men during the raid in Magdalen Road in the early...

Call for refuge for rescued women

Refuges should be set up in Northern Ireland for women rescued from human trafficking, the head of the PSNI's organised crime squad has said. On Wednesday, the PSNI, the Garda and police in Wales carried out raids against...

Becoming a pariah state

Even if none of the Mumbai attackers turns out to be British, radicalised young men from over here continue to export terror abroad. Intelligence officers around the world must have winced as the camera-phone images from Mumbai...

Hairdresser denies part in raid

The robbery took place at a Securitas depot in Kent in 2006 A man accused of being part of the £53m Securitas robbery conspiracy had ambitions to become a celebrity hairdresser, the Old Bailey has heard. Michael Demetris, 32,...

Anna Politkovskaya trial moves into closed court to hear secret testimony

The Moscow trial of three men accused of being involved in the murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya has moved into a closed court today. Judge Yevgeny Zubov, who is presiding over the case in Moscow's district...

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