The Latest Breaking News from Mark Heywood

Arson attack accused thought he was going to ‘torch’ a car, murder trial told

Dale Francis claims he had no intention of causing serious harm or death to anyone and acted as a ‘lookout’ to settle a debt.

Evening Standard · May 1, 2025

British GT driver John Ferguson banned for aggressive behaviour

British GT driver John Ferguson has been banned for aggressive behaviour towards race director Peter Daly at the end of the Snetterton weekend in July.

Autosport · Oct 15, 2024

UK ministers approved £60m payments to Saudi royals to maintain arms deal, court told

Payments allegedly facilitated by senior government and military figures to secure arms contracts for British firms

The Guardian - UK · Nov 27, 2023

UK middlemen paid £9.7m in bribes to Saudis for contracts, court told

Jeffrey Cook and John Mason accused of making corrupt payments between 2007 and 2012 to secure deals with Airbus subsidiary

The Guardian - UK · May 5, 2022

Pharmaceutical firm fined £1.2m over contaminated baby feed supplied to hospitals

A pharmaceutical company which supplied feed to premature babies at hospitals across England when the product had been contaminated has been fined more than £1.2 million.

Evening Standard · Apr 29, 2022

Charges dropped in Sasha Johnson shooting

The black equal rights campaigner was shot in the head in Peckham in May 2021.

The Independent UK · Feb 22, 2022

Sasha Johnson: Case against 4 men accused of shooting collapses

The prosecution of four men accused over the shooting of black equal rights campaigner Sasha Johnson at a 30th birthday party in May 2021 has collapsed.

Evening Standard · Feb 22, 2022