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A man sentenced to life in prison for the 1993 murder of Suzanne Poll in Adelaide's north has launched an appeal against his conviction as his brother clashed with media outside court.

Lyndsey Lamont says she took drugs worth £800 into HMP Greenock as she was scared Stuart Sharp would hurt her otherwise.

In Mexico, a long list of nonviolent crimes bring automatic pretrial detention, with no bail or house arrest allowed

As banks impose tougher lending standards and interest rate hikes drive property prices down, more Australians who borrowed at the height of the pandemic housing boom will find themselves in a mortgage trap, unable to refinance.

After spending time in a high-security prison with a double killer, Ahmed Elomar now watches Sydney's gang wars from the sidelines. He's showing youth in the city's west crime is not worth it.

Cameron Carter, 19, who had never travelled on a plane before, was left unable to contact his family throughout ordeal

A Guardian investigation reveals the firm has been accused of ‘gross negligence’ that allegedly led to gang rape, murder and mistaken solitary confinement in its US facilities

Ivan Safronov could be handed record sentence after being tried on secret evidence behind closed doors

Tennis icon Boris Becker was sentenced to two-and-a-half-years in jail in April, after being found guilty of deliberately hiding assets after filing for bankruptcy

Akaash Hussain was sentenced for the terrifying attack, as well as for conspiracy to supply drugs and perverting the course of justice. He appeared in court alongside three other men, who were also sentenced

The death of a Syrian young man under torture inside a state security prison in southern Lebanon sparked confusion at the security, judicial and political levels, and brought back to the fore the file of torture in pretrial detention centers. Lebanese sources told Asharq Al-Awsat that the arrested Syrian, Bashar…