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The Independent

 A police officer cries as he recalls how he thought he would die from his injuries following a savage attack on duty.PC Ashley Aspinall suffered a horrific brain injury when he was attacked by Ian Scott, 50, as he tried to apprehend him outside a bar in Blackpool on 7 April, last year.PC Aspinall, of Lancashire Police, lay injured on the ground as Scott continued his assault.The police officer feared he would never see his daughter again as he lay critically injured.Scott appeared at Preston Crown Court on 30 April, and was given a 24-month suspended sentence after pleading guilty to wounding of an emergency worker.

Police officer cries recalling savage attack outside seaside bar

 Teenage gang members rapped and waved weapons around in a video made after the attempted murder of a 20-year-old man in Hackney, London, on 7 August.Elisandro Pinto Alves, Hanzell Greenaway, and Jaheim Thomas, all 18, and 19-year-old Marvin Edokpolo - have now been sentenced to a total of over 77 years for the attack.They ambushed their victim in a lift, which was also occupied by a woman in her 60s, at an Overground station.Thomas proceeded to shoot into the lift while the victim used the woman as a shield.The victim sustained life-threatening injuries from the attack and received life saving treatment from paramedics at the scene and enroute to hospital; the woman was physically unharmed.       Read More               Statue honouring Black nurse Mary Seacole vandalised in ‘racially motivated’ attack‘His best work’: New Banksy artwork revealed in London as mystery murals continueEvery Banksy artwork that has popped up in the last week - and there’s eight of them      

Teenage gang members dance and rap about brutal gun and knife attack at London station

Two 12-year-old boys have become the youngest people to be convicted in connection with the nationwide public disorder. One of the boys admitted throwing a missile at a police van as he pleaded guilty to two charges of violent disorder during two separate incidents in Manchester.The boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was part of a group that gathered outside a Holiday Inn hotel in Manchester on 31 July.Manchester Magistrates’ Court heard how he was filmed by police “kicking the front window of a vape shop” and was seen kicking a bus.The other 12-year-old youth admitted a charge...

Two boys, both aged 12, become youngest to be convicted of violent disorder during nationwide riots

A 13-year-old girl has been convicted of violent disorder following unrest outside a hotel housing asylum seekers during the riots. She pleaded guilty to the charge after she was seen punching and kicking the entrance of the Potters International Hotel during a protest in Aldershot, Hampshire, on 31 July. The...

Girl, 13, admits violent disorder at asylum hotel

The Standard

Four men, including one described as the “least involved” a judge has seen, have been jailed for violent disorder during an anti-immigration protest in Plymouth.Gary Harkness, 51, of North West Road, John Cann, 51, of Patna Place, Ryan Bailey, 41, of no fixed address, and Amer Walid, 24, of Central Park Towers, were sentenced at Plymouth Crown Court on Tuesday.Cann, Bailey and Harkness were handed three-year, 30-month and 12-month sentences respectively.Walid, who was a counter-protester, was jailed for 20 months.All four previously pleaded guilty at magistrates’ court on Monday.Harkness was described by Judge Robert Linford as being the “least involved” in...

Four men jailed for involvement in violent disorder in Plymouth

Kaitlynn Lee, 25, was killed by her ex-boyfriend Joshua Thompson who shot her in the head through a window, police said

Mom-of-three was having fun filming a TikTok in a kitchen with her friend. Moments later she was shot dead

 A charity working with homeless people in Auckland, New Zealand unknowingly distributed candies filled with a potentially lethal dose of methamphetamine in its food parcels after the sweets were donated by a member of the public. Auckland City Mission told reporters on Wednesday that staff had started to contact up to 400 people to track down parcels that could contain the sweets — which were solid blocks of methamphetamine enclosed in candy wrappers. New Zealand's police have opened a criminal investigation. The amount of methamphetamine in each candy was up to 300 times the level someone would usually take...

Food bank unknowingly distributes candy made from meth

A total of 80 adults have been sentenced so far after unrest broke out across the country following the Southport stabbings at the end of July.

Who are the people sentenced so far following recent disorder?

Minneapolis, MN

 Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd, has been moved to a new federal prison following his stabbing by an inmate last year.Chauvin, 48, was transferred from Tuscon Federal Correctional Institution in Arizona to the Oklahoma Federal Transfer Center last week.The Federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed the move to The Independent but said it could not give any further details “for privacy, safety, and security reasons.”In November 2023, Chauvin was stabbed 22 times by inmate John Turscak, while Chauvin was serving a 21-year sentence for violating Floyd’s civil rights. Chauvin’s sentence is running concurrently with a 22.5-year...

Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin who murdered George Floyd is moved to new prison after near-fatal stabbing

Fort Worth, TX

 A Texas mother will likely spend the rest of her life behind bars for poisoning her young daughter with Benadryl and other drugs to fake a seizure disorder.Jesika Jones, 32, was sentenced on Friday to 60 years in prison after reaching a deal with prosecutors to plead guilty to one count of injury to a child with serious bodily or mental injury and abandoning or endangering a child with reckless criminal negligence.Jones was first arrested in June 2022, when she took her then four-year-old daughter to the Cook Children’s Hospital in Fort Worth and said she had been having...

Mom who poisoned her 4-year-old with Benadryl to fake seizure disorder will likely spend the rest of her life behind bars

A cardiologist in Denver has been found guilty of drugging and sexually assaulting nearly a dozen women. On Tuesday, Stephen Matthews, 36, was found guilty on 35 felony counts of assault and sexual assault, according to the Denver Post. Matthews attacked 11 people. “Stephen Matthews took advantage of nearly a dozen women in the most egregious way imaginable, and for that he will now pay a significant price,” Denver District Attorney Beth McCann said in a statement Tuesday. “I hope today’s verdict provides a measure of comfort to all the victims.”The cardiologist was arrested in March 2023 after a woman...

Cardiologist found guilty of 35 counts of date rape and assault after attacking a dozen women

Iraq's Yazidi community leaders have announced plans for an internationally funded project to build an entire new village to house displaced survivors of one of the bloodiest massacres committed by Islamic State militants against their religious minority

Iraq's Yazidis hope a new village will prompt survivors of a 2014 Islamic State massacre to return

Terri McAdams ‘was an amazing girl, beautiful and full of life,’ her sister said

A student was raped and murdered in her fiancé’s apartment on Valentine’s Day. Forty years later, genealogists finally crack the case

One mom said her two sons became ill after ingesting products from former councilman’s store

City councilman jailed for six years, forfeiting monster truck and $1.9m, for selling drugs

South Carolina State

The family of a South Carolina woman struck and killed by a rotting 70-year-old utility pole will get $30 million in a wrongful death settlement

Family of woman killed by falling utility pole to receive $30M settlement

Colorado State

The boy was reportedly splashing water on his friend when he accidentally splashed the man’s wife, leading to the confrontation

Private equity CEO filmed body-slamming teen at In-and-Out in Colorado

Tice was abducted in Damascus in 2012 while reporting on the Syrian Civil War

White House calls for release of US journalist Austin Tice held in Syria –after high-profile Russian prisoner swap

Ocala, FL

A white Florida woman told investigators she fired a shot through her door at a Black neighbor because she panicked as the other woman pounded heavily on her door and threatened her amid an ongoing dispute over the neighbor's children, according to a video statement played in court Wednesday.The mother of the woman who was fatally shot disputed that, telling reporters at a news conference that Susan Lorincz was not in fear for her own life but was intent on harming Ajike “A.J.” Owens on June 2, 2023, in Ocala, Florida. Lorincz is on trial for manslaughter in the shooting."She...

White Florida woman says she fatally shot Black neighbor amid fear for her own life

The victim has lifelong brain damage after being repeatedly punched in the head by Jordan Cattell.

Man jailed for punching baby in the head

The songwriter and novelist died from complications caused by Alzheimer’s disease

Greg Kihn, ‘Jeopardy’ and ‘Breakup Song’ power pop singer dies of alzheimers, at age 75

Tom Neblett had thrown bricks towards officers and climbed on top of a white van

Boy, 15, first to be charged with riot as more violent disorder suspects locked behind bars

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