In February, Chellapah pleaded guilty to 21 offences from August to October 2025, including sexual communication with a child, attempting to meet a child following grooming, inciting a child to engage in sexual activity and offences relating to the production and possession of indecent images of children. Source link
The parents of a three-year-old boy who was mauled to death by two dogs on a farm have had an appeal against their conviction and sentence thrown out. Both Mark Twigg and Joanne Bedford were found guilty of being in charge of a dog which caused injury while dangerously out of control. Their son, Daniel Twigg, suffered horrific injuries following the ‘furious and prolonged’ attack at Carr Farm, in Milnrow, Rochdale, on May 15, 2022. Mark Twigg, 43, and Bedford, 37, were renting out the farm from a family friend who was in custody at the time. They had agreed to care for his eight or nine ‘untrained guard dogs’ including breeds such as a Cane Corso, American Bulldog and a Boerboel. Click here to hear the latest from Manchester’s courts in our newsletter Signs were in place warning visitors about the dogs, one of which told visitors not to exit their vehicle and to ‘beep their horn or ring’ instead, while another said ‘beware of the dogs they bite’. Manchester Crown Court heard how …
Undated handout photo issued by Lancashire Police of Ryan Wellings, 30, who has been found guilty of assault and prolonged domestic violence towards his partner, 23-year-old Kiena Dawes, but cleared of her manslaughter at Preston Crown Court, and is to be sentenced later on Thursday. Dawes had written a suicide note saying, “Ryan Wellings killed me”, before leaving their nine-month-old daughter with a friend and taking her own life on a railway line on July 22, 2022. Issue date: Thursday January 16, 2025. PA Photo. See PA story COURTS Kiena. Photo credit should read: Lancashire Police/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder. (Image: PA) An abusive man who drove his girlfriend to take her own life has been handed a lengthier prison term after being ‘coached’ throughout his trial in a contempt of court. Ryan …
SINGAPORE: An 88-year-old Singaporean man who was serving a 15-year jail term for hacking his partner to death died in December 2025 of pneumonia. A coroner’s court on Tuesday (May 12) found that Mr Pak Kian Huat had died of a natural disease process, with no evidence of foul play. He had also been afforded the appropriate medical care at Changi Prison’s Complex Medical Centre and Changi General Hospital, said State Coroner Adam Nakhoda. The court heard that Mr Pak’s family members had become estranged from him after the incident in 2019, when he killed his domestic partner, Madam Lim Soi Moy. Madam Lim was 79 when she was hacked to death with a chopper in a Housing Board flat in Toa Payoh, after a dispute about her rooming arrangement with Mr Pak. The sentencing judge in May 2023 said Mr Pak’s attack was “deliberately and unspeakably vicious and brutal”. The couple met as teenagers in the 1950s and had four children together, but never married. During an earlier hearing in 2022, Mr Pak made …
A teenager has been spared jail after carrying out a high street shoplifting spree, stealing goods worth more than £100,000. Source link
A woman who failed to stop at the scene of a crash that killed two children riding an e-scooter has been spared jail. Deimante Ziobryte, 21, who three weeks ago gave birth to a daughter, was sentenced to three months in prison, suspended for 12 months, at Basilton Magistrates’ Court. Roman Casselden, 16, and his sister, Darcie Casselden, nine, were pronounced dead at the scene in Ashlyns, Pitsea, Essex, on 1 February last year. Jasmin Akter, prosecuting, said the crash happened as the children were approaching a junction on an e-scooter and Ziobryte’s vehicle collided with them. “There’s CCTV evidence that shows the defendant stops away from the scene,” she said. Ziobryte made calls to her brother and partner but did not call emergency services or return to the scene, she added. Hulusi Ali, mitigating, said: “This was a panic-driven failure in the aftermath of a catastrophic event.” He read a letter from Ziobryte in which she said she wanted to express “my sincere remorse”. “I’ve relived the events every day and I know I …
A video still showing Cole Allen at the gym at the Hilton ahead of the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner. Courtesy: USAttyPirro An irritated federal judge on Monday said it appeared that Cole Allen, the man accused of trying to assassinate President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, has been treated more harshly by a jail than it treated defendants in Jan. 6, 2021, attack criminal cases. “I can tell you I have never had a January 6th defendant who was put in 5-point restraints or a safe cell,” Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui told prosecutors and the top attorney for the District of Columbia’s jail system, during a hearing in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. Faruqui said he found it “extremely disturbing” and was “very troubled” that the 31-year-old Allen had been placed under suicide watch and had restrictions imposed without a finding that he was at risk for suicide and without having a criminal history. “A lot of people have seemed to forget about Jan. 6, but I have not,” …
Cole Tomas Allen on Thursday told a judge he was waiving his right to challenge his detention in jail — for now — on charges of trying to assassinate President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner last Saturday night. Allen’s waiver came a day after his defense team, in a court filing, sought his release on bond pending trial, and after prosecutors in their own filing laid out arguments for why he should remain in jail. “He’s conceding detention at this time,” Allen’s lawyer, Tezira Abe, told Magistrate Judge Moxila Upadhyaya, during a hearing in U.S. District Court in Washington on Thursday. Abe said Allen was reserving his right to challenge his detention at a future date. Abe told Upadhyaya that she and Allen’s other lawyer had difficulty meeting with the defendant over the past several days, but spoke to him on Thursday morning before the hearing. Allen, a 31-year-old California resident, is charged with trying to assassinate Trump, transportation of a firearm or ammunition in interstate commerce and discharge of a …
Jay (not pictured) found himself alone and hopeless in a jail cell when a fellow inmate’s unexpected words of comfort changed his life. Irkham Khalid/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Irkham Khalid/Getty Images When Jay was 22 years old, he was a self-described loner. In this story, he is being identified by his nickname to allow himself to speak candidly about the following experience and his mental health. He says the few people he did hang out with at the time had questionable morals. ”I chose my friends poorly, and your friends have a tendency to rub off on you. And so I started making poor decisions,” Jay said. One evening, when he and his friends were out drinking, someone suggested they should try to break into the chemistry building on his college campus. Most of the group shrugged the suggestion off, deeming it impossible, but Jay was convinced he could pull it off. “The next night I made a plan of how to do it, and I did it,” Jay remembered. “And I didn’t …
To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. Accept Manage my choices One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Try again © France 24 Issued on: 16/04/2026 – 22:51 11:59 min From the show Reading time 1 min In tonight’s edition, South Africa’s firebrand, leftist leader Julius Malema is sentenced to five years in prison convicted of firearm offences. Also, on a visit to Cameroon, Pope Leo condemns so-called “tyrants” driving global wars and the exploitation of Africa’s resources. And we’ll have a look at a new online database shaking up the restitution debate. Produced by Jean-Emile Jammine and Antonia Cimini By: Source link
