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Owners of inadequate 'Hobbit' basement flat fined £80,000 over illegal letting

The pair face up to 19 months imprisonment if they fail to comply further

Wales Online

Head of people-smuggling ring who fled UK to avoid prison is arrested

Records found on the gang leader’s phone suggest he was involved in smuggling at least 1,900 migrants over a 50-day period

The Independent UK

Founder of Egypt’s Juhayna Food Industries and his son released from prison

The founder and former CEO of Juhayna Food Industries and his son were released from prison in Egypt on Saturday after about two years in detention, according to a judicial source and a family member.

Reuters

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Racist who murdered Asian cellmate with table leg could be freed after 23 years

Robert Stewart was 20 when he was sentenced to life for bludgeoning Zahid Mubarek. Despite two earlier bids for a switch to an open prison being blocked, a third parole hearing in summer may free him

Daily Mirror

Prison bosses hope therapy ducks can help ex-gang members go straight

Bosses at category B Dovegate jail are hoping that looking after the waterfowl while doing bird can help cons go straight. Inmates at the rural prison include many serving time for gang-related offences

Daily Mirror

Elizabeth Holmes tried to ‘flee’ US with one-way Mexico ticket, prosecutors say

New court filing says ex-Theranos founder booked flight departing 26 January last year, shortly after fraud conviction

The Guardian - US

Venezuela frees former spy chief who defied Nicolás Maduro

Venezuela’s government has released a former spy chief for the late Hugo Chavez who spent nearly five years in prison for spearheading a movement of disgruntled leftists that defied President Nicolás Maduro’s rule

The Independent UK

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Dani Alves’ wife breaks silence after he is arrested over sexual assault allegations

Dani Alves has been sacked by Mexican club Pumas following his arrest with the former Barcelona and Paris Saint-German defender currently spending nights in a prison

Daily Mirror

British prisoner ‘breaks world record’ for longest time in solitary confinement

Robert Maudsley is thought to have been in continuous isolation since 1978

The Independent UK

World's most infamous fugitives on the run for YEARS just like Mafia boss Messina Denaro

Matteo Messina Denaro was arrested in Sicily on Monday after 30 years on the run. The mafia boss is not the only notorious criminal who managed to evade authorities for decades

Daily Mirror

UK's most dangerous serial killer 'will die in underground glass box' he entered 44 years ago

Robert Maudsley has spent a total of 16,4000 days living in solitary confinement inside a glass cell after killing four men in the 1970s.

Daily Record

Edinburgh sex offender requests transfer to women's prison before release

Albert Caballero, 50, is requesting to be known as a woman which has stunned his guards at HMP Edinburgh. It is understood that he has asked for lipstick and eye make-up.

Edinburgh Live

Hunger-striking activists in hospital

Thai Lawyers for Human Rights (TLHR) has renewed its call for an end to arbitrary detention and judicial harassment of political activists, as a prison hunger strike by two of those activists enters its fourth day.

Bangkok Post

Boxing fans sent prison warning over illegal Chris Eubank Jr fight stream

Boxing fans have been warned that they could face punishment over illegal streaming ahead of Saturday middleweight clash between Chris Eubank Jr and Liam Smith

Daily Mirror

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The Philadelphia Inquirer

Trudy Rubin: Putin must be prevented from enabling the prison death of ill opposition leader Alexei Navalny

Western allies are finally realizing the Ukraine war won't end until Vladimir Putin's dreams of conquest are decisively defeated on the battlefield.

Chronicle Live

Jeremy Kyle records TV interview with sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell inside her prison

The controversial Talk TV show host gained access to Florida’s FCI Tallahassee female prison

The Independent UK

Prosecutors: Convicted CEO Elizabeth Holmes is a flight risk

Federal prosecutors say Elizabeth Holmes is a flight risk and shouldn’t be allowed to stay out of prison while she appeals her 11-year prison sentence for defrauding investors

Daily Record

Sex offender who raped care worker wants moved to women’s prison before release

Having served half his sentence, Caballero is eligible to apply to the Parole Board for Scotland to be released back into the community.

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Nottingham Post

Murderer Michael O'Brien says time in prison has been 'horrific'

He says he has had letters from Colin Gunn

Al Jazeera

US to designate Wagner mercenary force a crime organisation

The Wagner Group has an estimated 50,000 fighters in Ukraine, 80 percent of them drawn from Russian prisons.

The Independent UK

Disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes tried to ‘flee’ US after conviction, prosecutors claim

Government says Holmes should immediatly start 11 year prison sentence for defrauding investors

The Independent UK

How father of Sarah Lawrence student got sentenced to 60 years in prison for exploiting daughter’s friends

Lawrence Ray was convicted in 2022 of racketeering conspiracy, extortion, sex trafficking, forced labor, and tax evasion

Los Angeles Times

Key question at Alec Baldwin’s criminal trial: Is he to blame for Halyna Hutchins’ death?

The criminal case prosecutors are filing against Alec Baldwin will turn on the same question that has dogged the actor since the day he shot cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the New Mexico set of the film “Rust”: Is he responsible for her death?

Reason

Alec Baldwin Shouldn't Spend 5 Years in Prison for an Accident

The actor is a polarizing figure. That shouldn't matter when evaluating the criminal case against him.

Chicago Sun-Times

‘El Chapo’ aide pleads guilty to drug charges in Chicago

Felipe Cabrera Sarabia, known as “The Engineer,” told a judge he had “always made a living as a cattle rancher.” Now he faces up to life in prison.

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