A 37-year-old woman from Castlemilk has received an 18-month animal disqualification order and a Community Payback Order after leaving an elderly dog, three other canines, and a nine-week-old kitten locked…
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A 40-year-old father of four from Evesham has been sentenced to 40 months’ imprisonment at Worcester Crown Court after pleading guilty to child cruelty, controlling behaviour, and actual bodily harm.…
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A violent offender who repeatedly stabbed a mother before swinging her seven-month-old baby by his legs against walls is facing a Parole Board hearing to decide if he can be…
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A 44-year-old chef from Holmfirth has received a suspended prison sentence and an indefinite ban on keeping animals after abandoning his dog in a freezing cellar for three weeks without…
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A 30-year-old man from south-east London who acted as the ringleader of a global network commissioning, scriptwriting, and selling videos showing the sadistic torture and killing of baby monkeys has…
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A 34-year-old father has been sentenced to nine years’ imprisonment at Cardiff Crown Court after inflicting catastrophic brain damage on his eight-week-old son, leaving the child with permanent, life-limiting disabilities.…
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A woman from Stevenston who allowed her dog to starve to death over a period of two months has been handed a community sentence and a five-year animal ownership ban…
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An official investigation by the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman (PPO) has identified critical failures in suicide prevention and mental health monitoring preceding the death of Clive Cocking at HMP Wymott.…
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Frankie Smith, the mother convicted of allowing the death of her 16-month-old daughter Star Hobson, has been released from prison on licence after serving the custodial portion of her 12-year…
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A 37-year-old man from Preston who inflicted widespread bruising on a 17-month-old baby and repeatedly attempted to blame others has been sentenced to two years’ imprisonment at Preston Crown Court.…
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A Burnley man who bit an infant girl on the face hard enough to puncture her skin and inflicted widespread bruising has been jailed for 13 months at Bradford Crown…
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A 23-year-old man who inflicted facial injuries and a burst eye blood vessel on a nine-week-old baby after slapping the infant three times has avoided immediate imprisonment at Telford Magistrates’…
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Ernest Oakley, aged 32, of Swanton Road, Norwich, has been sentenced to a total of six years and two months’ imprisonment at Norwich Crown Court after injuring his 26-day-old newborn…
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Sergiu Chiriac, a Romanian national residing in Streatham Hill, south London, has been sentenced to an extended sentence of 24 years at Inner London Crown Court following a protracted campaign…
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Brendan Harris, aged 34, who was convicted of the murder of 20-year-old Sophie Lancaster in a notorious hate attack targeting alternative subcultures, has been cleared for release from prison after…
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Thomas Buckworth, aged 23, of Premier Road, Ormesby, Middlesbrough, has received a suspended custodial sentence and a 10-year animal disqualification order after pleading guilty to causing unnecessary suffering to a…
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The drug used in the botched Texas execution is the sedative Pentobarbital. After 30 years, Texas shifted from a traditional three-drug cocktail to a single dose of pentobarbital in July…
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Luqmaan Ahmed, aged 24, a retail security guard employed at Primark, has been handed an extended sentence of four and a half years at Manchester Crown Court after being convicted…
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John Bagnall, aged 38, of Consett, County Durham, has been handed a suspended prison sentence and an indefinite disqualification from keeping animals after his 16-year-old pet terrier suffered repeated blunt…
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Child killer Jon Venables will have his upcoming parole assessment conducted in private after the Parole Board rejected formal applications by victim relatives and national media organisations to hold proceedings…
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