A mentally ill woman killed her four-year-old son in the bath three years after telling a nurse about a previous attempt to drown him, a court has heard. Oluwakemi Badare,
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Two men who smuggled 31 Iraqi migrants, including children as young as one, into Britain in the back of hired vans have each been jailed for seven years. Akan Brayan
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A founder of banned fascist group National Action (NA) has been jailed for more than eight years. Last month Alex Davies, described as the “biggest Nazi of the lot”, was
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A mentally-ill man has been locked up indefinitely after stabbing his 81-year-old father to death. Frank Samuel, 54, was heard to say “don’t call me Frankie” as he attacked father-of-four
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A care home firm has been fined £450,000 after a catalogue of health and safety failings led to a vulnerable resident drowning in a bath. Margaret Glasgow was a resident
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New restorative justice services will put “victims at the heart of the justice system”, a Scottish minister has said as he welcomes its launch. Justice Secretary Keith Brown (pictured) said
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Labelling domestic violence as “honour abuse” could accidentally legitimise it, ministers have been warned. The Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) said a range of practices known as honour abuses, such
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A woman has been jailed for a minimum of 18 years for the murder of a one-year-old boy she was hoping to adopt. Leiland-James Corkill had been placed with Laura
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Millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money was spent for “nothing in return” because of “loopholes” in the contract for a privately run youth jail shut down over serious safety concerns,
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A “callous” abuser humiliated her partner by sharing a photograph of him bound with electrical cables before he choked to death. Charlotte Dootson, 25, strangled Mohammed Mukhtar, 53, at his
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