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Shoe fetish murderer could be moved to open prison

Shoe fetish murderer could be moved to open prison

UK 7 days ago By Sam Courtney-Guy

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Man told to wait outside after being jailed goes home after prison van didn't turn up

UK 7 days ago By Danny Rigg

Dangerous prisoner finally caught days after escaping van on motorway

UK March 22, 2025 By Sara Odeen-Isbister

Prison worker jailed for letting Zara Aleena’s killer ‘throttle her’ in secret affair

UK March 21, 2025 By Sam Courtney-Guy

Katerina Tatus posing in a pool.

Female prison guard suspended over ‘inappropriate relationship' with inmate

News March 21, 2025 By Kyriakos Petrakos

Royal Navy sailor, 22, jailed in Bahrain after ‘stepping in to break up fight’ & left caged with murderers and rapists

Royal Navy sailor, 22, jailed in brutal Bahrain prison after 'trying to break up fight'

UK March 21, 2025 By Luke Alsford

File photo dated 25/10/2024 of Tommy Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, has appeared at the Royal Courts of Justice, London, via videolink from HMP Woodhill in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, for a hearing in bid to bring legal action against Ministry of Justice. Robinson is set to ask for permission to bring a judicial review against the department. Issue date: Thursday March 20, 2025. PA Photo. See PA story COURTS Robinson. Photo credit should read: Jordan Pettitt/PA Wire

Tommy Robinson to stay locked away from other inmates after losing legal battle

UK March 21, 2025 By Danny Rigg

British couple in their 70s arrested by the Taliban Peter Reynolds, 79, and his wife Barbie, 75, were returning to their home in Bamiyan on 1 February when they were detained. The couple have been running training projects in Afghanistan for 18 years and their daughter, Sarah Entwistle, told the BBC she had not heard from her parents in more than two weeks.

British man's 'life is in danger' after health deteriorates in Afghan jail with his wife

World March 16, 2025 By Danny Rigg

Met Police officer spent £300 on Deliveroo and Amazon using dead woman's card

UK March 14, 2025 By Sarah Hooper

More than 50 prisoners escape from 'overcrowded' jail after breaking through security

World March 13, 2025 By Sarah Hooper

Robert Maudsley

UK's 'most dangerous prisoner' on hunger strike after PlayStation confiscated

UK March 9, 2025 By Danny Rigg

US set to execute first person in 15 years by firing squad

US March 7, 2025 By Sara Odeen-Isbister

Prison officer who boasted about sex act on convict cries as she's jailed for 21 months

UK March 4, 2025 By Sarah Hooper

DONCASTER, UK - SEPTEMBER 10, 2021. An aerial view of HMP Doncaster prison which is run for the government by Serco; Shutterstock ID 2041853324; purchase_order: -; job: -; client: -; other: -

Prison officer calling herself 'Queen' had 'intimate' relationship with inmate

UK March 1, 2025 By Sara Odeen-Isbister

Pregnant women on remand GETTY IMAGES

Pregnant in prison: 'I thought my baby had died but was treated like an inconvenience'

UK February 22, 2025 By Sarah Hooper

Drill rapper jailed over gang murder releases EP behind bars despite life sentenceKay-OKammar Henry-Richards, who goes by the name Kay-O, says he is ?getting richer? while serving a life sentence for murder at HMP Belmarsh.Henry-Richards was given the tariff with a minimum of 37 years at the Old Bailey on January 14. He was among four men jailed for the murder of Kacey Boothe, who was shot almost seven times at point-blank range in east London on August 13, 2022.

Drill rapper boasts that he's getting richer after releasing tracks from behind bars

UK February 21, 2025 By Josh Layton

'Dilapidated and failing' prison spent £8,000 on a fish tank

UK February 20, 2025 By Jen Mills

Who was Ruth Ellis? The last woman to be hanged in the UK

UK February 18, 2025 By Jenny Dyer

The B Wing facility for newly-arrived prisoners at HMP Liverpool, also known as Walton Prison. The prison was given a scathing report in 2017 which pointed out various failings and problems. Present governor Pia Sinha was appointed in that year and in the next two years she turned the prison around with a programme of improvements and support for inmates and infrastructure. HMP Liverpool houses a maximum of 700 prisoners with an overall staff of around 250. (Photo by Colin McPherson/Corbis via Getty Images)

Prison crisis 'caused by politicians desperate to appear tough on crime'

Politics February 18, 2025 By Craig Munro

Olivia Pratt-Korbel's murderer 'dealing drugs' in prison with illegal phone

UK February 14, 2025 By Sarah Hooper

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