1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (1433+ words) By PAUL BRACCHI, SENIOR FEATURE WRITER Battery. Possession. Criminal damage. Racially aggravated public order offence. Albert Bowers – one of PC Andrew Harper’s teenage killers – has a long and disturbing rap sheet. All this, we know. One entry on his criminal…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (59+ words) Suspected Russian spy 'plotted to sabotage UK drone factory and sent Google Maps screenshots of the sites to Moscow' Daily Mail Suspected Russian spy 'plotted to sabotage UK drone factory and sent Google Maps screenshots of the sites to Moscow…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (327+ words) The teenager had accused her mother and stepfather of physical and sexual abuse. A Zurich court said the then-14-year-old's claims had a 'high probability of credibility', and sentenced her stepfather to three years in prison, while her mother received…...

5+ day, 4+ hour ago   (1099+ words) By NADINE DORRIES, COLUMNIST The Tuesday morning after the August Bank Holiday was busy. I’d had a houseful for the weekend and was en route to my local landfill site to dispose of the detritus from entertaining when I got…...

5+ day, 13+ hour ago   (709+ words) An Afghan small boat migrant travelled almost 200 miles to stab a shop worker to death near Westminster Abbey, a court has heard. Suliaman Tajzai, 18, travelled from Leeds to London to murder 26-year-old Farmanullah Sherzad on March 27 this year. Tajzai, of…...

5+ day, 19+ hour ago   (793+ words) Electronic tag alerts are 'too slow' to protect domestic abuse, sexual assault and stalking victims from their attackers, experts have warned. Currently, if a criminal wearing an ankle tag breaches their exclusion zones, probation officers are just sent an email…...

6+ day, 54+ min ago   (646+ words) By SARAH BROOKES - SENIOR REPORTER, AUSTRALIA Prisoners forced to sleep on mattresses beside prison toilets are being compensated by taxpayers, while judges are reducing offenders' sentences because of Western Australia's worsening overcrowding crisis. The WA Department of Justice confirmed inmates…...

6+ day, 8+ hour ago   (1478+ words) A father who has spent 20 years in prison serving an indefinite sentence over stealing a mobile phone is to be released - but his family say his life has been 'stolen' from him. Leroy Douglas, 45, was one of five prisoners whose…...

6+ day, 10+ hour ago   (335+ words) By JOSHUA HAINING, NEWS REPORTER A massive inferno ripped through a scrapyard in Barnsley yesterday with firemen battling to contain the blaze overnight. The fire broke out at a site housing scrap metal and tyres on Boulder Bridge Lane in…...

6+ day, 18+ hour ago   (750+ words) By RORY TINGLE, HOME AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT and JON AUSTIN and OLIVIA CHRISTIE, NEWS REPORTER A construction tycoon who previously sought large quantities of building material ahead of the May Bank Holiday has been linked to a traveller 'land grab' that…...