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Mum who 'enjoyed torturing son' cries in dock as jailed for 27 years

Sadistic Carla Scott and partner Dirk Howell sent to prison for killing 'kind and cheeky' Alfie Steele, 9

Wales Online

Police hunting 'violent' man who threw bricks through ex's window

Kay is wanted on recall to prison

Liverpool Echo

Is Donald Trump going to prison?

Former president pleaded not guilty to 37 federal charges during arraignment in Miami, Florida

The Independent UK

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Double child killer Colin Pitchfork can be released from prison, Parole Board rules

Pitchfork was jailed for life in 1988 after raping and strangling two 15-year-olds, Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth, in Leicestershire in 1983 and 1986

The Independent UK

Colin Pitchfork: Double child killer can be released from prison, parole board rules

Double child killer Colin Pitchfork can be released from prison subject to conditions, the Parole Board has said.

Evening Standard

OPINION - Awful Carla Foster abortion case shows Britain is failing women still

Three days ago, Carla Foster was sentenced to 28 months in prison for the crime of inducing her own abortion. The case is a complex one — Foster was between 32 and 34 weeks pregnant when she took her anti-abortion pill — but the key fact is that current legislation…

Evening Standard

Tory MP calls for end to at-home abortions after mum jailed for termination

A TORY MP has called for a ban at home abortions like the one performed by a woman sentenced to prison for an illegal termination.

The National (Scotland)

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2 men who helped run popular pirating website Megaupload sentenced to prison in New Zealand

Two men who helped run the once wildly popular pirating website Megaupload have each been sentenced by a New Zealand court to more than two years in prison

The Independent UK

Drugs baron prisoner escapes from jail 'after being warned his life is in danger'

Heroin kingpin Sean McGovern reportedly fled prison near Dundee, Scotland, on Sunday evening after being told by police that somebody was plotting to kill him

Daily Mirror

Edinburgh drug baron who vanished from prison 'was warned his life was in danger'

Underworld sources have said Seam McGovern was given a "threat to life" notice just days before before he escaped from HMP Castle Huntly, commonly known as an Osman letter.

Edinburgh Live

Scots drug baron on the run after prison escape 'was warned his life was in danger'

Underworld sources say Seam McGovern was handed a “threat to life” notice – commonly known as an Osman letter – a matter of days before he vanished from HMP Castle Huntly.

Daily Record

A body in a suitcase, Bonnie and Clyde fantasy and baby born in Bali prison: The chilling case of Heather Mack

As Chicago woman Heather Mack prepares to plead guilty over the killing of her socialite mother Sheila von Weise-Mack at a 5-star Bali resort in 2014, all these years on America remains horrified by the case of – a case involving a Bonnie and Clyde fantasy, a body stuffed in…

The Independent UK

Elizabeth Holmes objects to $250 monthly payments to Theranos victims

Lawyers for disgraced CEO, who was once worth $4.5bn, say ‘limited financial resources’ mean she cannot afford repayments

The Guardian - US

Captured Ukrainian soldiers face trial in Russia

More than 20 Ukrainian soldiers who were taken prisoner during fighting in Ukraine are facing trial in southern Russia

The Independent UK

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Daily Mirror

Prisoners dream up a saucy new way of smuggling drugs into jail

Report into the 1,200-capacity HMP High Down in Surrey said drugs were getting into the jail through a variety of methods an identified a cheeky new technique

The Conversation

Immigration detention continues in Canada despite the end of provincial agreements

Despite its reputation as a refugee-welcoming and multicultural country, Canada imprisons thousands of people on immigration-related grounds every year. Many of these people are held in provincial jails under agreements between the provinces and the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA).

Leeds Live

Leeds man threw friend from off-road bike in crash after drinking and taking cocaine

Jack Campbell has narrowly avoided a prison sentence

The Independent UK

Elizabeth Holmes objects to $250 monthly restitution payments proposed by government

Federal prosecutors are seeking for Elizabeth Holmes to pay a monthly amount of $250 to victims of her failed blood testing startup after she leaves prison — but her attorneys have pushed back, and cited the ex-Theranos CEO’s “limited financial resources.”

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Daily Mirror

Campaigner for Vladimir Putin's foe Alexei Navalny sentenced to 7 years in penal colony

Lilia Chanysheva, who was in charge of one of Alexei Navalny's regional offices, has been found guilty of a number of offences including founding a rights-violating organisation in Russia

Edinburgh Live

The cunning inmates who escaped Edinburgh's Saughton during jail football match

In the early 1990s, a group of inmates - including one man who had been convicted over Glasgow's ice cream wars killings - escaped through a hole in a fence during a football match at Saughton.

The Guardian - AU

Almost every Victorian Indigenous prisoner has enrolled to vote for body negotiating treaty

First Peoples’ Assembly will begin negotiations with Andrews government later this year

Evening Standard

OPINION - This awful abortion case shows how Britain is failing its women still

Two days ago a woman, Carla Foster, was sentenced to 28 months in prison for the crime of inducing her own abortion. The case is a complex one — Foster was between 32 and 34 weeks pregnant when she took her anti abortion pill — but the key fact is…

The Independent UK

Briton who climbed Korean skyscraper expects ‘to spend month in jail’

George King-Thompson said he dreamt of his Lotte World Tower ascent while in prison for scaling The Shard in London in 2019.

The Independent UK

Navalny associate jailed for more than 7 years by Russian court: ‘Another hostage in prison’

Sentence for Lilia Chanysheva comes as Kremlin intensifies a crackdown on dissent while it wages war in Ukraine – and sparks outrage from opposition figures

The Independent UK

Donald Trump is the first former president arrested on federal charges. Can he still run in 2024?

Trump faces the possibility of two federal indictments and criminal and civil cases in several states

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