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Shocking Moment Drug Dealer Hits Cop With Car

In Coventry Crown Court, Croft was sentenced to 54 months in prison on August 5.

Zenger

Woman suffered 'horror' abuse at hands of 'evil' partner before drug overdose

Charissa Brown-Wellington, was found unresponsive at the property she shared with boyfriend Bobby Hardman on February 2, 2022.

Daily Record

China jails 'disappeared' tycoon for 13 years

Xiao Jianhua, a Chinese Canadian billionaire and onetime trusted financier to China’s ruling elite, was sentenced to 13 years in prison on Friday, and his company fined $8 billion, after he pleaded guilty to bribery and other crimes that authorities said had “seriously jeopardised” the country’s financial security.

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Australian PM says it’s ‘upsetting’ Indonesia has reduced Bali bomb maker’s prison sentence

Umar Patek was sentenced to 20 years in prison

The Independent UK

"Saudi Doctoral Student Gets 34 Years in Prison For Tweets"

The AP reports: A Saudi court has sentenced a doctoral student to 34 years in prison for spreading "[allegedly false] rumors" and retweeting dissidents, according to court documents obtained Thursday, a decision that has drawn growing global condemnation. Activists and lawyers consider the sentence against Salma al-Shehab, a mother of…

Reason

"I’ve survived a heroin addiction and prison, it has made me a better leader"

Michael Maisey's petty theft stealing sandwiches quickly escalated - an attempted suicide behind bars at 18 saw him decide to rebuild his life

Daily Mirror

How a ban on visitors impacted the smuggling of drugs into Florida prisons

Prison officials have long said that inmates’ friends and family members bear the most blame for the flow of drugs and other forbidden items into Florida prisons.

McClatchy Washington Bureau

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Inmate lit fire in prison cell with vape as 'cry for help'

Nicky Griffiths told officers his "head had gone" and he used his vape to start a fire

Wales Online

£1,000 reward possible for reporting wanted man with Nottinghamshire links

He has been recalled to prison

Nottingham Post

Indonesia reducing Bali bomber’s sentence upsetting: Australia PM

PM Albanese says potential release of Umar Patek, jailed over the deadly 2002 blasts, will ‘distress’ Australians.

Al Jazeera

Inside the prison ISIS Beatle will be sent to reserved for 'world's most dangerous'

Convicted ISIS Beatle member El Shafee Elsheikh is expected to serve his time at the Florence Administrative Maximum Facility in Colorado after for his role in terror killing of Scots aid worker David Haines and several others.

Daily Record

Woman tortured by 'evil' partner days before her drug overdose death, court told

Bobby Hardman has been jailed for four years after pleading guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm and false imprisonment following the death of girlfriend Charissa Brown-Wellington

Daily Mirror

Star Hobson's killer walks around prison with 'big smile' on her face, inmate claims

Inmates at HMP Styal claim that Savannah Brockhill is walking around the facility escorted by guards and 'grinning' as she serves a life sentence for murdering the toddler

Daily Mirror

South Australian mother accused of son's criminal neglect remanded in custody, pending appeal against bail

A South Australian woman charged with the criminal neglect of her two-year-old son is granted home-detention bail by an Adelaide court but will not be released from prison for now, after police seek a review of the magistrate's decision.

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Asharq Al-Awsat

ISIS ‘Beatle’ Faces Life Sentence for Us Hostage Deaths

A member of the notorious ISIS kidnap-and-murder cell known as the "Beatles," is to be sentenced in a US court on Friday for the deaths of four American hostages in Syria. El Shafee Elsheikh, 34, faces a mandatory sentence of life in prison after being convicted in Alexandria, Virginia, in…

Reuters

China sentences tycoon Xiao Jianhua to 13 years, fines his company $8.1 billion

A Shanghai court on Friday sentenced Chinese-Canadian billionaire Xiao Jianhua, not seen in public since 2017, to 13 years in jail and fined his Tomorrow Holdings conglomerate 55.03 billion yuan ($8.1 billion), a record in China.

Evening Standard

El Shafee Elsheikh: London-raised ‘Beatle’ IS terror cell member to be sentenced in US

A member of the so-called “Beatles” Islamic State terror cell could be sentenced to life in prison on Friday in the US.

Daily Mirror

Inside maximum security prison ISIS Beatle will go to - from where nobody escaped

ISIS Beatle member El Shafee Elsheikh is set for decades inside the 'Alcatraz of the Rockies' when he is sentenced today. Prisoners held there survive in near-continuous solitary confinement

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The Guardian - UK

Think abortion is legal in Great Britain? Ask the two women currently facing life sentences

Vulnerable women are being imprisoned for ending pregnancies in Britain. It’s time to legalise abortion, says barrister Charlotte Proudman

Manchester Evening News

Three prison officers left in hospital after being 'attacked with pool balls inside sock' at Forest Bank

Police were called to the prison over reports of one prisoner attacking another

The Hindu

Some convicts in Bilkis Bano case are 'Brahmins with good sanskaar', says Gujarat BJP MLA

"We asked the jailer and learnt that their behaviour was good in the prison...also (some of the convicts) are Brahmins. They have good 'sanskaar' (values)," BJP MLA from Godhra C.K. Raulji said

ABC News

Child inmate at Ashley Youth Detention Centre ruined by incarceration experience, mother tells inquiry

The mother of a boy imprisoned at Tasmania's Ashley Youth Detention Centre tells an inquiry her son was "savable" and "a child who still had a future" when he went in — but his ordeal at the prison changed that.

AAP

Drug-dealing reality TV star avoids jail

Reality TV star Christopher Mark Jensen has received a suspended prison sentence for drug trafficking after waiting almost five years for the verdict.

The Guardian - UK

What happened to Yusuf – and all children left behind after IS siege?

Family of missing Australian boy share their doomed efforts to bring him home

The Independent UK

Australia upset at Indonesia reducing Bali bomber's sentence

Australia’s leader says it’s upsetting that Indonesia has reduced the prison sentence of the bombmaker in the Bali terror attack that killed 202 people — meaning the terrorist could be freed within days if he’s granted parole

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