Couple who funded 'lavish lifestyle' with £1m fraud facing jail

Edit Belfast Telegraph 14 May 2016
An east Belfast couple funded a "lavish lifestyle" by defrauding a leading global medical supplies company out of £1m over seven years, a court has heard ... Share Go To ... Belfast Crown Court heard the total amount defrauded by the couple was £1,044,113 ... Judge Mr Justice Treacy said ... Mr McCollum, acting for Mrs Savage, also told the court that his client was "not a sophisticated person from a privileged or educated background" ... ....

Man jailed for life for killing his aunt Friday 13 May 2016 (West Midlands Police)

Edit Public Technologies 14 May 2016
(Source. West Midlands Police). Man jailed for life for killing his aunt. 13/05/2016 ... Gareth Emery, aged 25, from Clinton Road, Shirley, was handed the term at Birmingham Crown Court ... The court heard that Anne Dunkley had taken her nephew to a friend's house that day to help with gardening, but while there he began behaving oddly ... Following the court hearing, Anne's family released the following statement. ... (noodl. 33553896) ....

Danny Simpson to join Leicester City celebrations as curfew sentence quashed (PFA - Professional Footballers' Association)

Edit Public Technologies 14 May 2016
The 29-year-old asked a court on Thursday to let him pay a fine instead of finishing his community sentence for throttling his ex-girlfriend Stephanie Ward ... But on Friday, Simpson was back in front of the bench, this time at Manchester Crown Court, after he launched a fast-tracked appeal against the curfew order ... Simpson left court without comment....

Luxury car theft gang jailed (The Metropolitan Police)

Edit Public Technologies 14 May 2016
(Source. The Metropolitan Police). A gang of three men who conspired to steal BMWs and other high-value vehicles have been jailed for a total of 20 years at Snaresbrook Crown Court, following a 16-week trial ... DI Garry Poole, from the London Crime Squad, said ... The sentences given send a clear message that the police and courts will robustly deal with those involved in this type of criminality.' ... Both sentences will run consecutively....

UK IS extremist jailed for life for terror attack plan

Edit Scotsman 14 May 2016
An Islamic extremist who idolised Jihadi John has been jailed for life for planning a terror attack on American military personnel in Britain. Delivery driver Junead Khan, 25, was a “committed supporter” of Islamic State (IS) and plotted to kill a soldier using a Jihadi John-style knife ... Sentencing him yesterday at London's Kingston Crown Court, Mr Justice Edis said ... “His offence was so serious that a life sentence must be imposed.”....

London priest arrested in Kosovo

Edit The Guardian 14 May 2016
Laurence Soper is the former abbot of Ealing Abbey and is wanted in connection with child sex abuse allegations ... He had been arrested and released on police bail the previous year. A Scotland Yard spokesman said ... Soper taught at the school between 1972 and 1984 ... Ten days ago a former deputy head of the school was jailed for 33 months at Blackfriars crown court for possession of child sex images and class A drugs ... The report said ... ....

UPDATE: Man bailed in Hillingdon murder (The Metropolitan Police)

Edit Public Technologies 14 May 2016
(Source. The Metropolitan Police). A fourth man arrested by detectives investigating the murder of father-of-three Redwan El-Ghaidouni in Hillingdon has been bailed ... + On Monday 10 August 2015, Marwais Kakar, 34, (24.02.81) of Great Field Drive, Uxbridge was sentenced at Isleworth Crown Court to six months' imprisonment, suspended for two years, for providing false information to detectives investigating Redwan's murder ... (noodl....

Two men jailed for terrorist plot (The Metropolitan Police)

Edit Public Technologies 14 May 2016
(Source. The Metropolitan Police). A 25-year-old man has been handed a life sentence for plotting to kill US soldiers in the UK at Kingston Crown Court today, Friday, 13 May ... His nephew, Shazib Khan, 23 (13.11.92) from Luton, was also jailed for 13 years for engaging in conduct in preparation of terrorist acts, namely planning to fight with Daesh in Syria ... Commander Dean Haydon, head of the Met's Counter Terrorism Command said ... (noodl....

Man shot in Wood Green prison escape plot 'was speaking to accomplices'

Edit BBC News 13 May 2016
He was allegedly part of a gang trying to spring Izzet Eren from a custody van as he was being driven to an appearance at Wood Green Crown Court ... The jury at Woolwich Crown Court was told a police surveillance bug placed in a stolen car, in which Mr Baker was waiting with Mason and Sogucakli, had picked up conversations between the men....

UK man jailed for IS-inspired plot to attack US troops

Edit Austin American Statesman 13 May 2016
... the Crown Prosecution Service of Junead Khan ... (Crown Prosecution Service via AP) NOTE TO EDITORS ... Passing sentence Friday at Kingston Crown Court, Judge Andrew Edis said Khan planned a "horrifying" murder "in order to create terror and terrorist propaganda in this country."....

Leicester City's Danny Simpson wins curfew appeal

Edit BBC News 13 May 2016
But he appealed, arguing the court order would prevent him joining events for Leicester's ... Judge Richard Mansell QC at Manchester Crown Court overturned the decision and ruled Simpson must now complete the unpaid work after all....

4 more years in jail for violent Witham man (Attorney General's Office)

Edit Public Technologies 13 May 2016
Carter Adams, now 21, was convicted of offences including battery, causing grievous bodily harm with intent and assault occasioning actual bodily harm at Chelmsford Crown Court in November last year and sentenced to 8 years' imprisonment ... Solicitor General Robert Buckland QC MP referred the case to the Court, and speaking after the hearing today said.....

Belfast man to stand trial for schoolgirl sexual assaults and threatening to kill

Edit Belfast Telegraph 13 May 2016
The 23-year-old defendant appeared before the city's magistrates' court on Friday to face a total of 19 charges ... District Judge Nigel Broderick granted an application to have him returned for trial at Belfast Crown Court ... ....
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