Crime

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From Bugattis to Doritos: How the Tate brothers’ image of limitless wealth collapsed behind bars
Three darkly seared ribeye steaks weighing several pounds arrived on a white platter at an upscale restaurant in Bucharest, Romania.
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Massachusetts jury weighs mother’s fate after she admitted killing her three children
The fate of US mother Lindsay Clancy is now in the hands of a Massachusetts jury, who must decide if she is guilty of first-degree murder - the intentional and premeditated killing of another person - in the deaths of her three children.
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Prison drug smuggler caught after failed attempts to hurl £12,000 package over Hull jail wall
A man who threw a package containing more than £12,000 worth of illegal drugs into HMP Hull has been jailed for three years and eight months.
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Teacher Sally-Anne Bowen found guilty of indecently assaulting teenage boys at London school
A chemistry teacher has been convicted of having sexual relationships with two pupils at an all-boys school in the late 1980s.
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Tens of millions in USDT, houses and luxury cars bought with investors’ money: CryptoProgram founder Edu Zimbardi faces 22 charges
Following news of Edward Anthony Zimbardi’s arrest in Fiji and deportation to the US earlier this week, Zimbardi’s CryptoProgram criminal case has been unsealed.
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They sold investors a story about AI, crypto mining and 30% annual returns: Profit Connect founder Kovar found guilty of a $24 million fraud
Following a jury trial that began on August 11th, Profit Connect founder Brent Carson Kovar has been found guilty on all eighteen counts in his indictment.
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Malaysia’s ex-PM Ismail Sabri charged over $40m wealth declaration failure
A Malaysian court charged former Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob on Thursday with failing to disclose his assets to the country’s anti-graft agency.
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"Butcher of Bosnia" Ratko Mladić dies in prison aged 84
Ratko Mladić, the Bosnian-Serb general who orchestrated the Srebrenica massacre and the siege of Sarajevo during the Balkan wars, has died in prison aged 84.
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Yorgen Fenech denies ordering Daphne Caruana Galizia murder despite admitting cash payments and police leaks
Yorgen Fenech testified he was innocent in the death of Daphne Caruana Galizia, even as prosecutors pressed him on cash payments to a middleman and leaked police files.
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"Gun factory in a van": Woman spared jail after laundering £53,000 for husband and son
A woman who laundered cash for her husband and son after they set up a gun factory in the back of a van has been spared jail - because of prison overcrowding.
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"Canal killer" John Sweeney dies in prison taking the secret of his victims’ missing heads to the grave
“Canal killer” John Sweeney has died in prison without revealing what he did with his victim’s heads.
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Revenge fire feared after seven-year-old girl and woman killed near fatal A66 crash
A seven-year-old child and her aunt have been killed in Middlesbrough in a house fire believed to be linked to Saturday’s fatal A66 crash.
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Prisoners "tried to decapitate" Sara Sharif’s father in brutal Belmarsh attack, court told
The father of schoolgirl Sara Sharif was allegedly attacked by two fellow inmates at HMP Belmarsh while serving life for the 10-year-old’s murder - they are now facing on trial
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Bike thefts soar at London stations as Clapham Junction records 286% surge
Clapham Junction had more bicycle thefts than any other London railway station last year, data obtained by a Freedom of Information request has revealed.
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Teacher barred from profession after sending explicit images to teenager on Snapchat
An assistant headteacher who was caught sending explicit pictures of himself to a teenage boy on Snapchat told a tribunal he “craved attention” as a “sexual thrill”.
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Two dead after house fire in Middlesbrough as police probe possible organised crime link
A murder investigation has been launched after two people have died in a house fire believed to be linked to Saturday’s fatal A66 crash.
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Man arrested after guillotine seized from pickup truck near US Supreme Court
A man has been arrested after officers near the US Supreme Court building seized a guillotine on the back of a pickup truck.
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Five arrested in €20 million AirPods VAT fraud scheme spanning six European countries
At the request of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office in Munich (Germany), five individuals were arrested today in Czechia, suspected of being the organisers of a criminal VAT fraud scheme involving the sales of wireless earbuds.
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Raheem Sterling could face two years in prison over M3 crash and nitrous oxide charge
Former England footballer Raheem Sterling is facing a significant jail sentence after he was charged with dangerous driving.
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Sudanese asylum seeker jailed for 25 years after brutal bottle attack on woman in Leeds
An illegal migrant from Sudan lay in wait for a lone woman before attacking her 30 times with a broken bottle in Leeds.
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Forty-two QNet trafficking victims rescued in Nigeria as alleged job scam syndicate is smashed
Forty-two QNet human trafficking victims have been rescued in Nigeria.
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Jay Slater’s last known companion marries woman convicted in £13million cannabis smuggling plot
The last man to see tragic teenager Jay Slater alive has married a glamorous woman who faces prison over a £13million cannabis smuggling operation.
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PSNI officer dismissed after "catalogue of corruption" involving sexual relationships and falsified evidence
The investigation by the Police Ombudsman found he had also failed to disclose multiple conflicts of interest, intimidated a former partner, attempted to falsify evidence and asked a colleague to lie
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Student who stabbed former friend through the heart over fake Rolex dispute guilty of manslaughter
A teenager who stabbed his former friend through the heart near a university campus after they fell out over a fake Rolex watch has been found guilty of manslaughter.
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Taxi stolen in Wales driven the wrong way along A55 before police stop it
A taxi that was reported stolen was stopped by officers being driven the wrong way down a dual carriageway after a collision with a cyclist, police said.