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Neighbour from hell lands in prison after ignoring anti-social behaviour order

Janet Weir, 43, played loud music, threatened neighbours and coughed at police officers while claiming to have covid. She appeared at Hamilton Sheriff Court this week and admitted a string of charges.

Glasgow Live

Palestinian prisoner Awawda passes 70th day of hunger strike

The family of 40-year-old prisoner Khalil Awawda from Hebron has called for international intervention to save him.

Al Jazeera

The Blurry Legal Line Between Doctors and Drug Dealers

Xiulu Ruan, a pain specialist, was sentenced to 21 years in federal prison for prescribing opioid analgesics "outside the usual course of professional medical practice."

Reason

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The man who killed a stranger with a single punch, and then turned his life around

Jacob Dunne spent his life dealing drugs and getting into fights until, in 2011, he struck a deadly blow. Then meeting his victim’s parents changed everything

The Guardian - UK

Wife of Midlothian Da Vinci rapist's twin brother says mob won't stop 'hounding family'

Lee's husband, Richard Greens, is the twin brother of Robert Greens, who committed a horrifying attack on a local student near Rosslyn Chapel in Midlothian in 2005.

Edinburgh Live

Police issue appeal for help to find 'wanted man'

Steven James Smith was released from prison last March

Manchester Evening News

Man jailed after stealing safe and expensive champagne from Renfrew restaurant

Thomas Patterson had only been released from prison 13 days prior to the offence.

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Drug smuggling Brit gran waiting for execution on death row has final chilling wish

Lindsay Sandiford was sentenced to death almost a decade ago after being arrested for drug smuggling. She has been on death row ever since and has one final wish

Daily Mirror

French-Syrian Man Jailed for Association with Terrorists

French-Syrian imam Bassam Ayachi was sentenced in Paris to five years in prison for association with terrorist criminals. Considered in Belgium as a veteran radical, the 75-year-old sheikh was tried in April in the French capital for his role in Syria’s Idlib region between 2014 and 2018, AFP reported. The…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Wife of evil Da Vinci Rapist Robert Greens' twin brother begs mob to stop hounding family

Lee Greens, who is married to monster Greens' twin Richard, says her husband is ill and doesn't have long left.

Daily Record

Psychic Chris Fleming claims ghost 'violated' him on haunted Scots prison visit

The renowned medium was filming for new series Spooked Scotland with Gail Porter when they visited the prison in search of a reported poltergeist.

Daily Record

Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

Plasma, prisons, and political parties

Reason

Evidence from Veronica Nelson's final days casts a bright light into Victoria's prison system

Both an inmate and prison supervisor have described the treatment of Veronica Nelson at Dame Phyllis Frost Centre as "disgusting". But the evidence before the coroner suggests it wasn't unusual.

ABC News

Lawyer says Georgia man set for execution should be spared

The lawyer for a Georgia man scheduled to be executed next week says her client has significant cognitive impairments that likely contributed to his crimes and has suffered horrific abuse in prison

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Tennessee nurse convicted in lethal drug error sentenced to three years probation

RaDonda Vaught's prosecution was widely condemned by nurses, who said it set a dangerous precedent that would worsen the nursing shortage and make them less forthcoming about admitting mistakes.

The Independent UK

Vicky White’s mother-in-law ‘can’t understand’ why the ‘really nice’ prison guard went on run with inmate

Frances White is in disbelief over the actions of the 56-year-old corrections officer who she knew almost all her life

The Independent UK

Yorkshire Ripper ‘introduced serial killer Levi Bellfield to his fiancée’ who insists he’s ‘not a monster’

Molly Dowler killer reportedly spotted photo of blonde woman in Peter Sutcliffe’s prison cell after murderers became friends

Chicago Tribune

‘How can he do that?’: Police Superintendent David Brown appears to overstate links to mass shooting in Chicago

CHICAGO — About 15 hours after a corner in the Back of the Yards neighborhood was sprayed with gunfire Tuesday, leaving one man dead and four others wounded, Chicago police Superintendent David Brown held a news conference to update the public on the mass shooting.

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The Independent UK

From employee of the year to fugitive: Unanswered questions Vicky White takes to the grave

Former mother-in-law Frances White and longtime colleague Lauderdale County District Attorney Chris Connolly tell Rachel Sharp why the community is struggling to reconcile the model employee and ‘really nice person’ they knew with the Vicky White who was at the centre of a dramatic – and fatal – manhunt

Edinburgh Live

Edinburgh man sentenced to 10 years in prison for frenzied knife attack

A man has been sentenced in Edinburgh High Court today to 10 years in prison after an attempted murder of a 22-year-old in Craigentinny Road in November, 2020.

The Independent UK

Casey White could face further charges over doomed prison escape, says prosecutor

Casey White is so far charged with escape in the first degree over the 10-day prison break with his jailhouse lover Vicky White

Reuters

Qatar jails four election protesters, including three for life

(Corrects throughout to show three sentenced to life in prison, not two)

The Independent UK

Attempted murder, fatal stabbing and an ex’s mystery ‘suicide’: Casey White’s long history with the law before jail breakout with prison guard lover

The suspected murderer recaptured after 10 days on the run has been involved in a series of crimes and suspected offences, writes Rachel Sharp

Evening Standard

Prison guard Vicky White was mastermind behind jailbreak plot, says sheriff

Lauderdale County Sheriff Rick Singleton said the former prison guard was ‘basically the mastermind behind the whole plan’

The Independent UK

Ex-police constable facing jail over string of racist WhatsApp messages

Former prison officer James Watts admitted sending 10 grossly offensive to ex-colleagues who worked at a Warwickshire jail.

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