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Shotts prison guard 'bleeding heavily' as murderer turns violent in jail cell attack

Stuart Murdoch turned on Kevin Hall as he tried to remove a metal pole from his cell at the Lanarkshire prison where he is serving life for stabbing Anthony Laurie to death in Cumbernauld in 2015.

Glasgow Live

From Gentleman Jack’s hat to Olly Alexander’s cape: 10 objects that tell Britain’s queer history

With drag queens’ dresses, erotic drawings, even a prison door, Queer Britain’s new exhibition distills centuries of LGBTQ+ life. Here are the highlights

The Guardian - UK

US’s proposed swap for Griner and Whelan met with skepticism and fury

While some have praised the Biden administration for the deal, others are upset over the prospect of releasing Viktor Bout, nicknamed the ‘Merchant of Death’

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Pensioner found dead after fears she claimed too much in benefits only owed £4.55

Margaret Tyszkow, from Worcestershire, feared she would go to prison for claiming too much in benefits but it later transpired she only needed to pay back £4.55

Daily Mirror

Knife thug who cut man's throat released early from prison twice

Details of the horrific attack by serial offender Stephen Paterson were laid bare as the Scottish Government ditch a plan to free most prisoners just a third of the way through their jail sentences

Glasgow Live

Brickbat: To Protect and Serve

Former Prince George's County, Maryland, police officer Bryant Strong was sentenced to a year in prison followed by three years of probation for assaulting a handcuffed man, leaving the man paralyzed from the waist down. Police had stopped Demonte Ward-Blake for an expired tag. Ward-Blake was "verbally agitated" but cooperative…

Reason

Irish prison cell attack victim told jail bosses he felt safe hours before horror assault

Robert O’Connor, 34, had stopped breathing and was revived after the assault in his cell in Dublin’s Mountjoy Prison on Friday evening.

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Mountjoy prisoner 'fighting for life' after horror attack

Robert O’Connor, 34, had stopped breathing and was revived after the assault in his cell in Dublin’s Mountjoy Prison

Dublin Live

Indigenous man found dead in WA prison

An Indigenous man has died after being found unconscious in his cell at Perth's maximum-security prison, with police to provide a report to the coroner.

AAP

Scots prison bosses criticised by campaigners after admitting halfway house could host trans prisoners

Campaigners claimed housing “prisoners of the male sex” at the Bella Centre in Dundee would be harmful to females living there.

Daily Record

Briton Leaves Iraq after Antiquities Conviction Quashed

A retired British geologist jailed in Iraq for antiquities smuggling has been freed and has left the country, his family said Sunday. Jim Fitton, 66, was sentenced in June to 15 years in an Iraqi prison. A Baghdad appeals court overturned the conviction and last week ordered his release. Fitton…

Asharq Al-Awsat

War and Justice: The true story of the first British soldier convicted of murder and what happened to him

War and Justice: The Case of Marine A on Channel 4 tells the story of Alexander Blackman

Wales Online

Red Cross renews appeal to visit site of Ukrainian POW attack

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has not yet received permission to visit the site of Friday's attack that killed dozens of Ukrainian prisoners of war, it said on Sunday, condemning the incident at the Olenivka facility.

Reuters

Death of Edinburgh prison inmate Allan Marshall to be re-examined by prosecutors

Prosecutors are now re-examining the fatality after the 30-year-old died in custody at Saughton Prison in 2015, following an incident where he was forcibly restrained.

Edinburgh Live

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The Times of India

Former Jehanabad MP Arun Kumar gets 3-year jail term for remarks against Bihar CM Nitish Kumar

PATNA: A Jehanabad based special court for the MP/MLA cases has sentenced former Lok Sabha member Arun Kumar to three years in prison for his controversial remarks against Bihar CM Nitish Kumar in June 2015.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Sting Warns during Warsaw Concert of Threats to Democracy

British musician Sting interrupted a concert in Warsaw on Saturday evening to warn his audience that democracy is under attack worldwide and to denounce the war in Ukraine as “an absurdity based upon a lie.” He asked a popular Polish actor, Maciej Stuhr, to come onstage to translate his warning…

Dublin Live

Former pal who posted bail of disgraced ex garda calls him a 'monster' for abusing terminally ill partner

Moody, who was stationed at Irishtown Garda station in Dublin, admitted a campaign of terror against his victim named in court only as “Nicola” to protect her identity

Irish Mirror

Man who put up bail for ex-Garda Paul Moody brands him a 'monster' and won't visit him in jail

“He won’t be going to see him in prison. He hasn’t been friendly with him for a number of years."

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France 24

Ukraine’s Mykolaiv hit by heavy Russian strikes

Authorities in Ukraine's southern city of Mykolaiv said Sunday that widespread Russian bombardments overnight had left at least one person dead, as Moscow continued to pummel the sprawling front line. Earlier, Russia invited United Nations and Red Cross experts to probe the deaths of dozens of Ukrainian prisoners held by…

Reuters

Russian strikes kill Ukrainian grain tycoon; drone hits Russian naval base

Russian missiles pounded the southern Ukrainian port city of Mykolaiv on Sunday, killing the owner of a major grain exporter, while a drone strike on Russia's Black Sea naval base in Sevastopol was launched from within the city in a "terrorist attack," a Russian lawmaker said.

Liverpool Echo

Toxic rivalries that left young men dying on the streets

Rueben Murphy's lifestyle was linked to the deaths of friends and enemies

Daily Record

New probe into violent death of Scot Allan Marshall in custody launched by prosecutors

The Sunday Mail can reveal the prison officers given immunity from prosecution but branded “dishonest” in the Fatal Accident Inquiry ruling are set to be re-interviewed.

Pedestrian.tv

Shakira Could Face A Hefty Prison Sentence For Alleged Tax Fraud

Shakira says her hips don't lie but Spanish prosecutors reckon her tax statements do.

Reuters

Russia says it has invited U.N., Red Cross experts to probe jail deaths

Russia has invited experts from the United Nations and the Red Cross to probe the deaths of dozens of Ukrainian prisoners in a jail held by Moscow-backed separatists, the defence ministry said on Sunday.

The Independent UK

Ukraine: Zelensky calls for mass evacuation from the Donetsk region

‘The more people leave Donetsk region now, the fewer people the Russian army will have time to kill’

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