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David Ruck was held on remand for months after a judge determined he was likely to continue sending death threats if released.

A double rapist who now identifies as a woman won’t serve her sentence at Stirling’s Cornton Vale women’s prison despite being sent there this week. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon confirmed yesterday (Thursday) that Isla Bryson, who is due to be sen

Noel Phillips, the US Correspondent for ITV’s Good Morning Britain, says his life was ‘turned upside down’ after racist attack in London in September

A court in Thailand has sentenced a 27-year-old political activist to 28 years in prison for posting messages on Facebook that it said defamed the country’s monarchy

Nicola Barnes was sentenced to two years and four months in prison, HM Revenue and Customs said.

Bernard Phelan, a Franco-Irish citizen detained in Iran, must be released immediately and provided access to urgent medical care, the Foreign Ministry in Paris said on Thursday. "The denial of medical access by Iranian authorities is unacceptable", Foreign Ministry spokesperson Anne-Claire Legendre told journalists, adding France was very concerned about…

A cross-border appeal was launched earlier this week for help in locating the two prisoners who were 'unlawfully at large'

Nicola Sturgeon confirmed the Scottish Prison Service decision during FMQs

She has been convicted of raping two women when she was a man.

Nicola Sturgeon confirmed the decision at First Minister’s Questions at Holyrood.

Bryson had been remanded in Cornton Vale women’s prison sparking a huge row