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Police arrest 586 people in county lines crackdown

May 21, 2019 World Justice News 0

Nearly 600 suspected members of county lines drugs gangs have been arrested across the UK in the past week, the National Crime Agency has said. Police forces led by the National County Lines Coordination Centre […]

Zain Qaiser: Student jailed for blackmailing porn users worldwide

April 9, 2019 World Justice News 0

A student who made hundreds of thousands of pounds blackmailing pornography website users with cyber attacks has been jailed. Zain Qaiser from Barking, London, used his programming skills to scam visitors to pornography sites around […]

Alleged hacker Lauri Love in legal bid over seized computers

February 10, 2019 World Justice News 0

An alleged hacker whose computers were seized by police more than five years ago is using legislation from 1897 to seek their return. The High Court blocked the extradition of Lauri Love, from Suffolk, to […]

British Airways: Suspect code that hacked fliers ‘found’

September 11, 2018 World Justice News 0

A cyber-security firm has said it found malicious code injected into the British Airways website, which could be the cause of a recent data breach that affected 380,000 transactions. A RiskIQ researcher analysed code from BA’s […]

One of Europe’s ‘most wanted’ arrested in Watford

August 15, 2018 World Justice News 0

The suspected head of a Romanian organised crime network is facing extradition after he was arrested in Hertfordshire. Florin Ghinea, 43, listed as one of Europol’s most wanted men, was detained as he left a […]

Harrods big spender fights to keep mansion

July 25, 2018 World Justice News 0

The fugitive wife of a “fat cat banker” who’s spent £16m in Harrods is battling to keep her London mansion after the UK’s first use of a new power to combat international corruption. The woman, […]

Lauri Love case: Hacking suspect wins extradition appeal

February 5, 2018 World Justice News 0

Alleged computer hacker Lauri Love has won his High Court appeal against his extradition to the US. Mr Love, 32, from Stradishall, Suffolk, who was first arrested in October 2013, is suspected of hacking into […]

Thai beach murders: National Crime Agency unlawfully shared data

August 30, 2017 World Justice News 0

The National Crime Agency (NCA) has admitted unlawfully handing information to Thai police investigating the murders of two British backpackers. Zaw Lin and Wai Phyo were found guilty of killing Hannah Witheridge and David Miller […]

Rapist on Most Wanted List Arrested After 6 Years on the Run

October 26, 2016 World Justice News 0

A rapist who had been on the run from British police for more than six years has been arrested in the Canary Islands. Mohammed Alam, 33, was convicted and jailed for 14 years in his […]

Human Rights

Report finds ‘clear human rights failures’ in southern Scotland

October 7, 2026 0

A new report has found “clear human rights failures” across the south of Scotland with basic obligations on food, health and housing not being met. The study was carried out over eight different local authority […]

Human Rights

Christa Pike set to be first woman executed in Tennessee in 200 years still alive after two lethal injections

October 1, 2026 0

A Tennessee death row inmate set to be the first woman to be executed by the state in more than 200 years is still alive after being administered two lethal injections, her lawyers have said. […]

Human Rights

Killer Christa Pike is to be executed within days – but her defence say she’s a victim too

September 27, 2026 0

Ashlee Sellars last heard from her friend Christa Pike earlier this week, when Pike texted her from her cell on death row as she prepares to be killed by lethal injection by the US state […]