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GMB viewers sickened after guest defends serial killer Levi Bellfied's marriage plans

Heike Phelan appeared on Good Morning Britain following the news that serial killer Levi Bellfield

Daily Mirror · May 13, 2022

‘Guess what happened?’ Criminal taunted police by posting ‘catch me if you can’ under wanted appeal

Jordan Carr was sentenced at Guildford Crown Court on Thursday after police took up his challenge

The Independent UK · May 13, 2022

China Database Reveals the Thousands Detained in Xinjiang

A leaked list of thousands of detained Uyghurs has helped Nursimangul Abdureshid shed some light on the whereabouts of her missing family members, who have disappeared in China's sweeping crackdown on Xinjiang. Researchers estimate over one million Uyghurs and other mostly Muslim minorities are being held in a secretive network…

Asharq Al-Awsat · May 13, 2022

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Victim's sister pours out grief after Clarence Dixon's death

Leslie James stepped up to a podium at the Arizona state prison complex in Florence and tearfully told the world all that Clarence Dixon had taken

The Independent UK · May 13, 2022

Redacted Justice Action newsletter will be allowed in SA prisons, following agreement with corrections department

The Justice Action group had lodged a Supreme Court challenge against the SA corrections department's ban of its newspaper, which has information about prisoner rights, voting, and policies of political parties.

ABC News · May 13, 2022

Cops who photographed murdered sisters at crime scene 'attacked in prison'

Former police officers Deniz Jaffer, 48, and Jamie Lewis, 33, had been assigned to guard the crime scene after Bibaa Henry, 46, and Nicole Smallman, 27, were found dead in bushes in June 2020.

Daily Record · May 13, 2022

Mum who hid drugs in bra to give to murderer son in prison has been jailed

Lyndsey Ryan was caught trying to hand over drugs to her son Jack Ryan, who is serving time behind bars for murder.

Daily Record · May 13, 2022

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Guard lied to prisoner about getting help

A prison guard lied to Indigenous woman Veronica Nelson about getting a nurse to help her, before she died in her cell in 2020.

AAP · May 13, 2022

Pa. man who shot up a Democratic Committee office after Trump’s loss will spend 3 years in prison

PHILADELPHIA — An Eagleville man was sentenced to just over three years in federal prison Thursday on charges brought after he drunkenly fired shots into Montgomery County Democratic Committee headquarters last year in protest of what he believed was the stolen 2020 presidential election.

The Philadelphia Inquirer · May 13, 2022

Experts: Arizona executioners took too long to insert IV

The first execution in Arizona in nearly eight years was carried out more smoothly than the state’s last use of the death penalty, when a condemned prisoner who was given 15 doses of a two-drug combination gasped for air hundreds of times over nearly two hours

The Independent UK · May 13, 2022

High-profile prisoners who have married behind bars as serial killer Levi Bellfield asks to wed

Former justice secretary says it ‘cannot be right’ that Milly Dowler’s killer should get to marry

The Independent UK · May 12, 2022

Texas authorities: Prisoner stabs guard, escapes from bus

Texas authorities say a prisoner escaped from a transport after stabbing a guard in a rural county roughly halfway between Houston and Dallas

The Independent UK · May 12, 2022

Can you get married in prison in the UK? Levi Bellfield applied to marry in Durham jail

Milly Dowler Bellfield has requested to get married whilst serving his prison sentence.

Chronicle Live · May 12, 2022

Man who wrote ‘catch me if you can’ on his own wanted appeal jailed

Bedfordshire Police said Jordan Carr was sentenced at Guildford Crown Court on Thursday.

The Independent UK · May 12, 2022

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Daily Mirror · May 12, 2022

Mum who stuffed drugs in bra to give to both her murderer sons jailed

Lyndsey Ryan, 48, from Sunderland, sneaked the drugs into Full Sutton Prison where her son Jack was serving a prison sentence for the murder of George Dagg

Daily Record · May 12, 2022

Violent prisoner posts Facebook status to update pals from jail cell

Prisoner Daryl Abbey, 27, posted a status to Facebook to inform his friends that he had been jailed for 12 years.

The Independent UK · May 12, 2022

Serial killer Levi Bellfield’s prison marriage bid is ‘inconceivable’ – Raab

The 53-year-old wants permission to marry a woman while he is serving two whole life sentences for multiple murders.

Chronicle Live · May 12, 2022

Sunderland mum smuggled drugs in her bra to give to convicted murderer son in prison

Lyndsey Ryan was caught trying to hand over drugs to her son Jack Ryan who is a convicted murderer

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Nottingham Post · May 12, 2022

Dad who slept in shed gains new start in St Ann's flat after a life of booze and prison

"It is about regaining that dignity and respect for yourself"

Reuters · May 12, 2022

Mayor, owners jailed for deadly Romania nightclub fire

A Bucharest court handed down prison sentences on Thursday to a mayor of a district in the capital and the owners of a nightclub where a 2015 fire killed 65 people in what became a symbol of corruption in Romania.

Manchester Evening News · May 12, 2022

Drink-driver who killed Salford student, 19, after 10 pints has prison sentence CUT

David Turner ploughed an Audi into 19-year-old Gabriel Fields and then refused to co-operate with the investigation

The Guardian - US · May 12, 2022

Crystal Mason on a ruling that could change her life: ‘I know this is not over’

A court in Texas must reconsider its decision to sentence Mason to five years for a voting error – how does she feel?

Zenger · May 12, 2022

Jail Riot: Inmates Attacked Prison Guards And Set Offices On Fire Over Smoking Ban

Guards were forced to flee the wing after prisoners took it over and threatened staff with pool cues and snooker balls in socks.

The Independent UK · May 12, 2022

David Bonola said he believes the murdered Queens mother he was having an affair with gave him HIV

If convicted David Bonola could face up to 25 years in prison

Evening Standard · May 12, 2022

Who is Levi Bellfield? Serial killer allowed to marry in prison

Bellfield reportedly got down on one knee to propose in front of wardens at high security HMP Frankland in County Durham.

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