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13-month-old UK boy 'abused and smothered to death'; gay couple on trial for murder

A 13-month-old baby boy was “routinely ill-treated, sexually abused and physically assaulted” before being killed, a UK court has heard, in a case described as deeply distressing.

The Times of India

Baby was sexually abused before being killed by man adopting him, court told

Preston Davey died aged 13 months after ‘routine abuse’ by Jamie Varley and his partner, John McGowan-Fazakerley, jury hears

The Guardian - UK

Reform UK’s former leader in Wales, Nathan Gill, jailed over pro-Russia bribes

The former MEP had pleaded guilty to eight counts of bribery

The Independent UK

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Eni Aluko ‘glad justice has been served’ after Joey Barton convicted

A jury found the 43-year-old had ‘crossed the line between free speech and a crime’ with six posts he made on X.

Evening Standard

Joey Barton found guilty of sending offensive posts on social media

Former footballer guilty over posts directed at football pundits Lucy Ward and Eni Aluko, and broadcaster Jeremy Vine

The Guardian - UK

Jury retires to consider verdicts in Joey Barton social media posts trial

Barton, 43, is said to have ‘crossed the line between free speech and a crime’ with his tweets.

Evening Standard

Joey Barton tells court he is victim of ‘political prosecution’

Joey Barton is on trial over tweets about broadcaster Jeremy Vine and female TV football pundits Lucy Ward and Eni Aluko.

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Joey Barton comments ‘made me feel physically unsafe’, Jeremy Vine tells court

Barton is on trial Liverpool Crown Court over allegations he sent grossly offensive social media posts on X to Vine, Lucy Ward and Eni Aluko with intent to cause distress or anxiety

The Independent UK

Joey Barton’s online comments ‘gravely upset me’, Jeremy Vine tells court

The TV and radio presenter said he stepped in to help football commentators Lucy Ward and Eni Aluko.

Evening Standard

Lucy Ward tells jury that social media posts from Joey Barton left her ‘scared’

Barton, from Widnes, Cheshire, denies 12 counts of sending a grossly offensive electronic communication with intent to cause distress or anxiety.

Evening Standard

'Crossed the Line': Ex-BBC and Man City Star Joey Barton Accused of Online Campaign to Humiliate Pundits

Ex-Man City star Joey Barton faces trial over X posts accused of targeting pundits Lucy Ward, Eni Aluko, and BBC presenter Jeremy Vine.

International Business Times UK

Joey Barton X posts ‘crossed line between free speech and crime’, court told

Former footballer on trial over social media posts about pundits Lucy Ward and Eni Aluko and broadcaster Jeremy Vine

The Guardian - UK

Nursery nurse guilty of killing baby girl she found ‘too demanding’

Kate Roughley was found guilty by a jury of the manslaughter of nine-month-old Genevieve Meehan at Tiny Toes nursery in Cheadle Hulme in Stockport

The Independent UK

Baby died after being left face-down at Stockport nursery, court hears

Kate Roughley, then deputy manager, accused of causing death of Genevieve Meehan, who was swaddled and strapped to bean bag

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The Independent UK

Drugs regime at hospital unit ‘open to abuse by any member of staff so minded’

Nurse Catherine Hudson, 54, was convicted of drugging patients at Blackpool Victoria Hospital’s stroke unit to ‘keep them quiet and compliant’.

The Independent UK

Nurse who denies unlawfully sedating patients is a ‘complete fraud’, jury told

Catherine Hudson, 54, is accused of drugging patients on Blackpool Victoria Hospital’s stroke unit with unprescribed sleeping pills.

The Independent UK

Nurses drugged stroke patients to ‘keep them quiet’ and found it ‘amusing’, court told

Nurses would on occasion drug patients 'simply out of spite' if they or their families had irritated them, jury told

The Independent UK

Unfinished business – cleared Ryan Giggs ‘hoping to revive career in football’

Giggs left the Wales job in the run-up to last year’s World Cup while facing trial.

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The Independent UK

Cleared Ryan Giggs hoping to revive career in football – source

Giggs was formally found not guilty of domestic violence charges after his ex-girlfriend refused to give evidence in a re-trial.

The Guardian - UK

Ryan Giggs domestic abuse trial was case without winners

Charities had seen case as ‘watershed’ moment for relatively novel charge of coercive control

The Independent UK

Ryan Giggs hoping to ‘rebuild life’ after domestic abuse charges are dropped

Lawyers said there was no longer any realistic prospect of conviction.

The Independent UK

Giggs hoping to ‘rebuild life’ after domestic abuse charges dropped

The domestic violence case against him collapsed after his ex-girlfriend said she did not want the ordeal of a retrial, the court heard.

Manchester Evening News

Cocaine-fuelled boxer used victim 'as a punchbag' in terrifying random attack

'Angry' Kian Winstanley followed the young man who was on a family birthday night out

Manchester Evening News

Dad's double life running £40m crime gang exposed after cops hack his phone and raid his luxury home

Irtiza Bashir used Encrochat to concoct elaborate plans to smuggle huge amounts of drugs

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