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Chairman stole £22k from junior football club to fund cocaine habit

July 29, 2026 World Justice News 0

A former junior football club chairman stole £22,491 from accounts and faked HMRC documents to feed his cocaine habit. Karl Morecroft, 45, lied to club members at RTB Ebbw Vale while taking home the payments […]

Prison officer ‘had phone sex with inmate she developed inappropriate relationship with’

December 12, 2023 World Justice News 0

A female prison officer had phone sex with an inmate she had an “inappropriate relationship” with and even met up with his mum, a court heard. Ruth Shmylo, 26, is accused of beginning the relationship […]

Logan Mwangi murder: Mum, stepdad and 14-year-old stepbrother sentenced

June 30, 2022 World Justice News 0

A mother, stepfather and a teenager have been given life sentences for murdering five-year-old Logan Mwangi and dumping his body in a river. John Cole, 40, will serve a minimum term of 29 years in […]

Barristers walk out of courts in strike over pay

June 27, 2022 World Justice News 0

Barristers in criminal cases have gone on strike across England and Wales in a long-running dispute over pay. Eight out of 10 cases at London’s Old Bailey were disrupted by the walkout, barristers outside the […]

Three jailed for doctor’s homophobic murder

March 25, 2022 World Justice News 0

Two men and a 17-year-old girl have been jailed for life for the homophobic murder of a doctor in a city centre park. Psychiatrist Dr Gary Jenkins, 54, was attacked in Cardiff’s Bute Park on […]

Emiliano Sala: Flight organiser convicted over plane deaths

October 28, 2021 World Justice News 0

The organiser of the flight in which footballer Emiliano Sala died has been found guilty by majority verdict of endangering the safety of an aircraft. Sala, 28, and pilot David Ibbotson, 59, died in the […]

Farhan Mirza jailed for blackmail

November 25, 2016 zoshinuk 0

Farhan Mirza, 38, of Abertillery, Blaenau Gwent, has been jailed for eight and a half years for blackmailing and spying on Muslim women using intimate photographs and videos he took of them without their knowledge. […]

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Ethiopian police arrest alleged leader of multi-million-dollar trafficking ring

July 22, 2026 0

Police in Ethiopia say they have arrested 17 suspects including the alleged leader of what they say is a multi-million-dollar international human trafficking network. The gang is accused of “the deaths of 60 migrants”, sexually […]

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US Supreme Court upholds birthright citizenship in blow to Trump

July 1, 2026 0

The US Supreme Court has ruled that babies born in the US have a constitutional right to citizenship, rejecting Donald Trump’s bid to end the 150-year-old policy. In a 6-3 decision, Chief Justice John Roberts ruled that […]

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Four men held over child marriage in Sierra Leone appear in landmark court case

June 28, 2026 0

For the first time since child marriage was banned in Sierra Leone two years ago, people accused of committing the crime have been brought to trial. Four men appeared at a High Court on Friday […]