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Rapists should be sent to jail, FM insists amid outcry over Sean Hogg sentence

THE First Minister has said he agrees that all rapists should be sent to prison, amid outcry over one convict who was given community service.

The National (Scotland)

Garda killer Stephen Silver 'behaving himself' in prison so will serve life sentence in Mountjoy

The Irish Prison Service has no plans to move him and say so far he is a "model prisoner" who is full of remorse

Irish Mirror

US fugitive Nicholas Rossi fails to attend court hearing after 'altercation' with security guard

Rossi was brought to Edinburgh Sheriff Court for extradition hearing but didn't appear after alleged incident with security officer.

Daily Record

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Couple who fled motorway crash that killed schoolgirl won't have prison sentences increased

Hannah Jones and boyfriend Safeer Iqbal were both jailed and banned from driving after being responsible for a collision on the M61 in July, 2019.

Daily Record

Beth Kowitt: Disney embraces its role as hero to DeSantis’s villain

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s war against Walt Disney Co. reached parody level on Monday when he floated his latest threat: building a prison next to its theme park complex in the state.

Tribune News Service

Russian woman jailed for 21 years for bizarre identity theft cheesecake murder plot

A Russian-born woman has been sentenced to 21 years in prison for trying to kill her American lookalike with poisoned cheesecake and then stealing her identity.

Evening Standard

En garde! Fencing helps young Senegalese play by the rules

Teaching young offenders and others the sport has been so successful at instilling self-discipline and respect that the scheme is expanding

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More unrest at troubled West Australian prison

More details have emerged of unrest at a youth detention unit in Perth's Casuarina prison, with one officer confirmed injured in the latest altercation.

AAP

Teen admits guilt to felonies in Vegas school teacher attack

A Las Vegas teenager has pleaded guilty as an adult to felony charges that a prosecutor says could get him decades in prison for attacking a high school teacher and leaving her unconscious in a classroom after school a year ago

The Independent UK

Texas mother who confessed to killing her 2 daughters sentenced to life in prison

DALLAS — It took a Dallas County jury less than an hour to return a guilty verdict for the Irving mother who confessed to killing her two young daughters.

Tribune News Service

Prominent Boogaloo boy pleads guilty following probe that raised extremism concerns

DETROIT — Timothy Teagan, a prominent member of the far-right anti-government Boogaloo movement, pleaded guilty to gun- and drug-related charges Wednesday following an investigation by FBI counterterrorism investigators and could spend 13 months in federal prison.

Tribune News Service

Corrie shock over Stu's prison compensation 'fortune' as Alya is left horrified by the amount

The Coronation Street chef was left reeling from the news

Manchester Evening News

Female prisoners' relationship with food

For incarcerated women, art themed workshops show how food can act as both panacea and hindrance

Salon

Couple who ran away from scene of M61 crash as schoolgirl lay dying will not have prison sentences increased

Hannah Jones and her boyfriend Safeer Iqbal fled the scene in a taxi

Manchester Evening News

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The Independent UK

Connecticut man sentenced to 55 years in manhunt killing

A 26-year old man who used a sword to attack two men in Eastern Connecticut before going on a crime spree that included killing a former classmate and kidnapping a woman before during a multistate manhunt was sentenced Wednesday to 55 years in prison

The Independent UK

US judge sends Hugo Chavez's ex nurse to prison for 15 years

A federal judge in Miami has handed down a 15-year prison sentence to the former nurse of late Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez for taking bribes from a billionaire media mogul to green-light lucrative currency transactions when she served as Venezuela's national treasurer

The Independent UK

Maine shooting suspect Joseph Eaton was released from prison four days before rampage

Suspect left prison shortly before shooting after violating parole from previous offences, official says

The Independent UK

Maine shooting spree: What we know about the deadly attacks on a home and highway

Man just released from prison kills parents and their friends before going on highway shooting rampage. Rachel Sharp and Gustaf Kilander report

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The Independent UK

Who is Joseph Eaton? Everything we know about Maine shooting spree suspect

Joseph Eaton was released from prison just four days before he allegedly opened fire in a shooting spree in Maine. Rachel Sharp and Gustaf Kilander report

The Independent UK

Myanmar Supreme Court agrees to hear some Suu Kyi appeals

A legal official says Myanmar’s Supreme Court has agreed to hear appeals of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s convictions and requests for reduced sentences in several cases in which she was charged with corruption, election fraud and violating the official secrets act

Evening Standard

Rishi Sunak brands Keir Starmer ‘Sir Softy’ as pair clash during tetchy PMQs

Labour leader had accused the Government of breaking public services, including the criminal justice system

The Independent UK

Sunak aims ‘Sir Softie’ jibe at Starmer during tetchy Prime Minister’s Questions

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer accused the Government of breaking public services, including the criminal justice system.

Reuters

Kremlin critic Yashin defiant after losing appeal against long jail term

Russian opposition activist Ilya Yashin on Wednesday predicted he would one day help build a "new and free Russia" after losing his appeal against an eight-and-a-half year prison sentence on a charge of spreading false information about the army.

The Independent UK

Stephen Silver sentenced to 40 years in prison for murder of Garda Colm Horkan

The jury of seven men and five women last month found Silver guilty of murdering the garda in the course of his duty.

Daily Mirror

Russian soldiers admit killing children and tossing grenades at Ukrainian prisoners

Alexey Savichev and Azamat Uldarov said they, along with other mercenaries, massacred between 300 and 400 people, including about 40 children who were taking refuge in the basement of a nine-floor block of flats in Bakhmut

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