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Vietnamese trafficker gets sentence lowered over UK refugee deaths

Belgian court of appeal on Thursday lowered the prison sentence for Vietnamese trafficking gang leader Vo Van Hong over the manslaughter of 39 compatriots who suffocated in an airtight shipping container smuggled into Britain in 2019.

Reuters

Hapless burglar accepted brews from kindhearted victims then left his DNA on the cups

Christopher McKillop, fresh out of prison, targeted vulnerable OAPs in a cruel campaign of burglary and fraud, spinning elaborate lies to get access to their homes before stealing cash and bank cards

Daily Mirror

Gateshead man who murdered Northumbria cop almost 30 years ago bids for move to open prison in third parole hearing

Paul Weddle stabbed Sergeant Bill Forth in the heart, lung and kidney

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Lady Martha Bruce obituary

Governor of Scotland’s only all-female prison whose military career shaped her pioneering approach to women in custody

The Guardian - UK

Harvey Weinstein pleads as he’s given 16 additional years in prison – live

Weinstein was convicted in December of one count of rape and two counts of sexual assault

The Independent UK

R. Kelly sentenced to an additional year in federal prison, and 19 concurrent years in his Chicago case

CHICAGO — A dramatic legal saga that began in a Cook County courtroom 20 years ago drew to a close in a Chicago federal courtroom Thursday as disgraced R&B superstar R. Kelly was sentenced to an additional year in prison on his conviction here.

Chicago Tribune

R. Kelly sentenced to an additional year in federal prison, and 19 concurrent years, for ‘horrific’ abuse of underage girls

CHICAGO — The video of R. Kelly sexually abusing his teenage goddaughter, “Jane,” has haunted her for more than two decades, robbing her of her childhood, of her dreams of being a musician, of any chance she ever had at normalcy.

Chicago Tribune

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Ex-SNP MP Natalie McGarry loses appeal over embezzlement conviction

A FORMER SNP MP who was jailed for embezzling almost £25,000 has lost an appeal over their conviction, but had their prison term cut to 20 months.

The National (Scotland)

Prison officer who smuggled class A drugs into jail handed six-year stretch behind bars

Heather McKenzie, 31, ferried cocaine and mobile phones into the prison where she worked

Wales Online

Prison officer who smuggled drugs into jail sentenced to six years behind bars

Heather McKenzie, 31, ferried cocaine and mobile phones into HMP Shotts in North Lanarkshire.

The Independent UK

The real case behind Boston Strangler, Hulu’s new Keira Knightly serial killer film

Here’s the true story behind Ridley Scott’s new thriller

Evening Standard

New Illinois law gives additional hope to youngest felons facing life in prison

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Nelson Morris was only 17 when he was arrested for a double murder that eventually doomed him to spend the rest of his life in prison, with no chance of parole.

Chicago Tribune

Edinburgh photos of forgotten shops show how different life was 50 years ago

From brush shops, prison cells, public toilets and laundrettes, photographs by a Scottish photographer shows how much times have changed over the last 50 years.

Edinburgh Live

'Most people would run away from them - we try to run towards them': The probation officers working with Wales' offenders

They try to help people who break the law change their lives, while protecting the public from harm, and are always thinking about risk

Wales Online

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Chronicle Live

Bid to seize fugitive cage fighter's ill-gotten gains from drug ring while he's on the run

Darren Towler was sentenced to 24 years in prison for running a cocaine operation in his absence

Daily Record

Scots prison officer who befriended knife killer jailed for smuggling drugs behind bars

Heather McKenzie secretly ferried cocaine and mobile phones into Shotts Prison, in Lanarkshire, but was rumbled after jail chiefs became suspicious about the level of drugs found in cells.

Daily Mirror

Harvey Weinstein facing extra 24 years in jail as he's sentenced for rape and sex assault

Harvey Weinstein is being sentenced today in Los Angeles, and could face up to 24 years in prison for his crimes against women.

WEKU

Red and blue states look to Medicaid to improve the health of people leaving prison

People leaving jail or prison are at extremely high risk of hospitalization and death, and policymakers from deep blue California to solidly red Utah think bringing Medicaid behind bars could help.

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The Independent UK

A timeline of dissident republican activity

Dissident activity in Northern Ireland over the last 15 years has included the killings of two police officers, two soldiers and two prison officers.

Manchester Evening News

Killer who yelled 'yahoo' as he hunted down and murdered his friend dies in prison

Peter Grass was handed a life sentence in 2006

The Independent UK

Weinstein faces a 2nd long sentence in LA rape conviction

Harvey Weinstein could get another long prison term at a Los Angeles court hearing

Liverpool Echo

Thug threatened to kill innocent man's dog and attacked him with a glass bottle

Bradley Wood had only been out of prison for a matter of weeks before he knocked the victim's tooth out and bit him

Axios

Jan. 6 rioter who assaulted officer and threatened AOC sentenced to over 3 years in prison

Prosecutors said Texan Garret Miller posted in reply to a tweet by Ocasio-Cortez: "Assassinate AOC."

The Independent UK

Could R. Kelly spend the rest of his life in prison?

R. Kelly wouldn’t be eligible for release until 2066, a year shy of his 100th birthday, if a federal judge accepts prosecutors’ recommendations at his upcoming sentencing hearing

Chicago Sun-Times

R. Kelly sentencing: Federal judge could add to singer’s prison time Thursday

Kelly is already serving a 30-year sentence for a federal racketeering conviction in New York. So the crucial question Thursday will be whether U.S. District Judge Harry Leinenweber feels the need to punish Kelly further.

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