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The Jeremy Bamber twist: does Britain’s most notorious murderer finally have an alibi?

This week, audio footage was released by the New Yorker magazine, which seemed to exonerate Bamber, who has been in prison for 40 years. Could this lead to his release?

The Guardian - UK

Inmate serving life sentence for murder admits to three other cold case killings in California, police say

All three additional Long Beach cases are believed to be linked to gang activity

The Independent UK

Man freed from prison under early release scheme charged with murder

It is the most serious offence alleged to have been committed by someone released under the scheme, which was implemented to cut prison overcrowding.

Evening Standard

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Ministers were warned of errors at jail that released sex offender by mistake

Chaotic release procedures at HMP Chelmsford were flagged to the prisons minister last year

The Guardian - UK

Diddy Begins Serving Sentence at New Jersey Military Prison

Sean “Diddy” Combs has been transferred to a low-security military base prison in New Jersey to serve the rest of his sentence after a reported knife attack

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Four Bulgarians jailed for Paris Holocaust Memorial vandalism linked to Russia

Four Bulgarians were sentenced to between two and four years in prison for their involvement in spray-painting blood-red hands on Paris' Holocaust Memorial in an act of vandalism that French intelligence services linked to a destabilisation campaign by Russia.

Radio France Internationale

Queen of the Serial Killers: How Aileen Wuornos still haunts a Florida bar as Netflix release chilling documentary

IN FOCUS: Wuornos shot and killed seven men, claiming at least one was in self-defense. A new Netflix documentary revisits her crimes through never-before-seen interviews with the serial killer, who was executed in 2002. Andrea Cavallier talks to the owner of the Florida biker bar where she drank her final…

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4 Bulgarians sentenced to prison in Paris Holocaust Memorial vandalism linked to Russia

Four Bulgarians have been sentenced for vandalizing Paris' Holocaust Memorial with blood-red hands

The Independent UK

Sean 'Diddy' Combs lands job in prison

Sean 'Diddy' Combs will be working in the laundry room of his new prison.

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Poor Nicolas Sarkozy. His hardline views on crime and punishment have come back to bite him

The former French president zealously promoted a zero-tolerance penal system. Luckily for him, his prison visitors include powerful friends, says Guardian Europe columnist Rokhaya Diallo

The Guardian - UK

Chilling moment convicted killer shouts 'I regret nothing' after stabbing his pregnant girlfriend to death

March was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 42 years for the murder of his pregnant girlfriend Alana Odysseos

Evening Standard

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs transferred to new prison to serve four-year sentence

Combs' lawyers had asked a judge earlier this month to “strongly recommend” transferring him to a low-security male prison

The Independent UK

Four Bulgarian nationals sentenced to prison for defacing Paris Holocaust Memorial with ‘red hands’

Judges found the 'red hands' graffiti was part of a coordinated campaign to stir division in France, echoing a previous pro-Russian disinformation operation.

Euronews

Man freed from jail to reduce prison overcrowding charged with murder

The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, had previously been imprisoned for knife offences and was released due to prison overcrowding

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The Guardian - UK

UK man who murdered pregnant girlfriend after release from prison jailed for 42 years

Alana Odysseos, 32, was pregnant with her third child when she was killed by Shaine March in July last year

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Deaths in custody remembered as protesters urge change

Calls for justice and accountability have echoed through the streets as the loved ones of those who have died in custody share their stories.

Euronews

French justice minister's prison visit to Sarkozy sparks legal complaint by lawyers

France's justice minister visited former President Nicolas Sarkozy at the Santé prison in Paris on Wednesday evening, sparking a legal complaint.

The Independent UK

Double murderer who stabbed pregnant girlfriend 23 times is jailed for life

Shaine March was aged 21 when he fatally stabbed 17-year-old Andre Drummond in the neck at a McDonald’s restaurant in Denmark Hill

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Why is it so difficult for the UK to deport foreign criminals?

A convicted sex offender has been deported from Britain to Ethiopia after being accidentally released from prison. Following a national manhunt, home secretary Shabana Mahmood confirmed that Hadush Kebatu – an asylum seeker who came to the UK without authorisation on a small boat – would be returned to his…

The Guardian - AU

Australian governments ‘turning their backs’ on soaring Indigenous incarceration, former minister says

Robert Tickner says there are ‘no excuses for the failure to implement’ recommendations from the royal commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody

The Independent UK

Turkish court sentences hotel owner and 10 others to life for deadly fire that killed 78

A Turkish court has sentenced the owner of a ski resort hotel and 10 others to life in prison for severe negligence in a deadly fire

Evening Standard

Man handed life prison term for murdering wife in ‘brutal’ New Year’s Day attack

Mompati Dodo Isaacs, 39, stabbed Keotshepile Naso Isaacs, 33, nine times at their home in North Berwick while their children were asleep.

Radio France Internationale

Legal complaint filed against French justice minister over Sarkozy prison visit

A group of lawyers has filed a complaint against French Justice Minister Gérald Darmanin for what they say is an "illegal conflict of interest," following his visit to former president Nicolas Sarkozy, who is serving a prison sentence.

The Independent UK

The potential ‘Son of Sam’ killings that still haunt the NYPD

NEW YORK CITY HALLOWEEN COLD CASE: Decades after a photographer and his girlfriend were executed in their Manhattan apartment, the case remains open – haunted by cult rumors, a missing gun and theories tied to the ‘Son of Sam’ serial slays. A former NYPD sergeant tells Andrea Cavallier what he…

Evening Standard

Double murder refuses to attend Old Bailey sentencing

Shaine March stabbed pregnant girlfriend Alana Odysseos to death in July last year.

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