The Latest Breaking News from Christopher Hehir

Thief who told police ‘you’re lucky I’m not grooming girls’ jailed after £19,000 crime spree

The judge warned Neville Stanbury, 58, that he may die in prison if he does not choose to give up drugs

Evening Standard · Jun 25

Small boat asylum seeker guilty of raping woman at London hostel

Iraqi asylum seeker Yousif Al-Maliki, 30, carried out the attack on a woman he had just met while staying at a hostel in South Kensington

Evening Standard · Mar 9

‘Devious’ prison officer jailed for having sex with inmate

Isabelle Dale, 23, was also jailed for plotting to smuggle drugs into a Kent prison

The Independent UK · Jan 21

Just Stop Oil appeals: Supporters protest outside High Court as prison sentences challenged

Just Stop Oil founder Roger Hallam, who is challenging his five-year prison sentence, among 16 activists appealing ‘corrupt’ sentences

Evening Standard · Jan 28, 2025

Former human rights lawyer spared jail after admitting fraud over Iraq war claims

Phil Shiner pleads guilty to misconduct and dishonesty relating to untruthful allegations against UK combatants

The Guardian - UK · Dec 10, 2024

Ex-human rights lawyer Phil Shiner spared jail over Iraq War fraud charges

The 67-year-old was sentenced for three counts of fraud at Southwark Crown Court on Tuesday.

Evening Standard · Dec 10, 2024

Van Gogh is turning in his grave at the harsh Just Stop Oil sentence. I know, because I spoke to him

Nature was the painter’s ultimate muse, and he would have admired those seeking to protect it, says activist Nadya Tolokonnikova

The Guardian - UK · Oct 3, 2024

Why climate activists keep targeting art galleries – despite public outcry

Two Just Stop Oil activists were recently jailed for 27 months and 20 months respectively for throwing soup at one of Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers paintings at London’s National Gallery back in October 2022. Some commentators suggested these were overly harsh sentences for a nonviolent protest, while others felt such…

The Conversation · Oct 3, 2024

As the waters rise, a two-year sentence for throwing soup. That’s the farcical reality of British justice

Why do the mass killers of the fossil fuel industry walk free while the heroes trying to stop them are imprisoned? asks Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The Guardian - UK · Oct 1, 2024

Just Stop Oil protesters deny ‘revenge’ soup attack on Van Gogh paintings

Stephen Simpson, 61, Phillipa Green, 22, and Mary Somerville, 77, appeared at Westminster Magistrates Court

The Independent UK · Sep 30, 2024