Mark Van Dongen (right) was paralysed from the neck down, suffered extensive burns, had his left leg amputated and struggled to speak after the attack by Berlinah Wallace (left, in court sketch and inset) in Bristol. Prosecutors say that, despite the victim having later elected to die at a euthanasia clinic in Belgium, the acid attack led directly to his death and have charged Wallace with murder. As part of the evidence in her highly-unusual trial today, the jury was shown footage of Mark being interviewed by police before his death.
Priti Patel arrived in the UK today after the PM ordered her home from an Africa tour to be sacked. The International Development Secretary (pictured top on a previous trip) touched down at Heathrow with her fate apparently sealed, after two further secret meetings with Israeli officials emerged on top of the 12 that had already been revealed. She also reportedly visited an Israeli military field hospital in the Golan Heights, a disputed area that Britain does not recognise, and failed to declare it. Miss Patel (pictured bottom meeting an Israeli official) will be the second major ministerial casualty in a week, after Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon resigned over the Westminster sleaze row last Wednesday. But the Prime Minister (inset) is also the subject of questions - amid claims she spoke to Miss Patel about her meeting with Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu as long ago as September.
Dubbed the Godfather of Italian gastronomy, Antonio Carluccio was known for his restaurant chain Carluccio's and for appearing on BBC Two show Two Greedy Italians with Gennaro Contaldo.
Party bosses were also warned of Carl Sargeant's 'anxiety and distress' 24 hours before his body was discovered in his Connah's Quay home yesterday, it has emerged.
Helen Cox, 44, went to extreme lengths after refusing to accept nothing could be done to retrieve the £9,000 vehicle which was taken from her home near Ely, Cambridgeshire.
Six NHS kitchen workers have served up a treat after walking away with a slice of a £25.4million EuroMillions jackpot. The six hospital cooks picked up more than £4m each and celebrated by quitting their jobs. They all worked at Neath Port Talbot Hospital, but will never have to cook another hospital meal again. Bosses at the hospital said they were deserving winners after years of hard work in the kitchen cooking tens of thousands of meals. They are pictured from left to right: Julie Saunders, 56, Doreen Thompson, 56, Julie Amphlett, 50, Jean Cairns, 73, Louise Ward, 37 and Sian Jones, 54.
As house prices have soared over the past 20 years, the number of young adults living at home have also risen dramatically, according to the Office for National Statistics.
Mary Griffiths, a 'wonderful mother and a kind and thoughtful woman', was dragged from her bed in Bury St Edmunds by axe-wielding John McFarlane and shot in the chest, the High Court heard today.
Endris Mohammed denies the murders of Saros Endris, 8, and Leanor, 6, (pictured) as well as the attempted murder of their mother at their home in Hamstead, Birmingham.
The cheeky group of female jockeys braved the cold and stripped completely naked for a rather raunchy calendar. They're hoping the cheeky calendar will raise money for the Injured Jockeys Fund. Wearing nothing but their riding helmets and boots, the models pulled a variety of saucy poses for the shoot, which took place on Fern Farm, in Adlestrop, Gloucestershire. (Pictured: female riders canter naked for the calendar. Left inset: a saucy picture of one of the jockeys featured. Right inset: The front cover of the calendar)
Former MP Lembit Opik appears to have been publicly dumped by his Bulgarian lawyer girlfriend after she claimed that he spent a 'night with another woman'. Sabina Vankova, 33, took to Twitter to announce she had ended her relationship with the former Liberal Democrat MP, before claiming: 'The woman with whom he spent Monday night can have him now all for herself’ (inset). The pair (pictured together right and left, in 2016) welcomed their daughter Angelina in June but their seemingly acrimonious split seems to have been played out on social media since.
Billie Piper (left) and ex-husband Laurence Fox (right) returned to the High Court in London today 18 months after they were granted a 'quickie' divorce in a 50-second hearing to end their marriage. The couple, who were married for nine years and have two sons - Winston, nine, and Eugene, five, attended a hearing at the Central Family Court. It is unclear what it related to but may have been about financial or child custody matters. Last year they were given a 'no fault divorce' although it was requested on grounds of Fox's 'unreasonable behaviour'.
The RMT union boss was spotted today riding to work on one of the driver-only trains which his organisation claims are too dangerous to the public. Mick Lynch, (left picture) assistant general secretary of the RMT, says the strike is about safety and passengers make a 'lethal gamble' with their lives if there is no guard on board. But he looked unfazed today as he joined the millions of commuters who have been carried safely to and from work on them for years. It came as hundreds of thousands of commuters across Britain were left stranded this morning in the worst disruption for decades as the RMT guards walked out on five networks - from long-suffering Southern to Merseyrail. Members of the RMT union staged a protest today at the official picket line at Waterloo Station (bottom right).
Millionaire landlord Fergus Wilson, pictured today outside Maidstone County Court was banned from discriminating against potential tenants on the basis of their colour.
Scotland Yard detectives are investigating claims of serious sexual assault made by a second woman against David Blaine. The woman, a journalist, said the incident happened in New York in 1998
Robert Peters tried to strangle schoolgirl Sophia, leaving her critically injured in Raynes Park, south-west London, on the morning of November 3, it is claimed.
Zac France defied doctors when he fought back from paralyses but tragedy struck again when he was attacked on his 25th birthday in Cheltenham and woke up unable to use his arms and legs.
Twitter users filmed the Thames Dolphin at Putney and Wandsworth on October 29, while others claimed to have seen it in Hammersmith, Greenwich and Chiswick.
Toni Bell, 24, (pictured) is still on the waiting list for council accommodation and was left with no other option but to cram her young family into her mother's spare room in Edinburgh.
Elizabeth Luckman, from Peebles, Scotland, said regulations introduced in 2007 that ban reward points and special offers on formula milk penalise mothers who cannot breastfeed.
Gavin Williamson arrived to meet other Nato defence chiefs at a summit in Brussels after a senior US General warned Britain not to push ahead with proposed funding cuts.
The husband of 'kind, bubbly' mother-of-two Simone Grainger (pictured), Steven, has today appeared at Reading Magistrates' Court charged with her murder.
Full ratings for the Bake Off's October 31 final, which saw Sophie Faldo crowned the winner, revealed 10million Brits - one in six of the population - tuned in to watch the show.
The 49-year-old man of Asian descent, who cannot be named, sent her flying into a wardrobe ans she was so distraught she drank bleach, Kirklees Magistrates Court was told.
Steven Baker, 56, who was the managing director of Wild Cat energy drinks was found by friends lying dead in his gym with the 15-and-a-half stone bench press crushing his throat at his home in Leicester.
The son of former deputy Prime Minister John Prescott has been suspended from his job as communications chief to the shadow cabinet amid the Westminster sexual harassment scandal. David Prescott, who used to work as speechwriter for Jeremy Corbyn , was removed from his job in the past few days following a complaint to the leader's office. The precise details of the allegation are not known, but it comes as claims of sexual harassment and abuse sweep through the Palace of Westminster. A Labour Party spokesman refused to confirm the suspension saying they do not comment on staffing matters.
The PM's deputy took part in the unwise photo opportunity as the government was buffeted by a string of crises, ranging from sexual allegations to illicit meetings with foreign politicians.
Jane Merrick said she was left feeling 'humiliated and ashamed' after the former defence secretary had 'lunged' at her in a deserted room in the Commons following a lunch 14 years ago.
Louise McNamara has removed her daughter, Shannon, from the Oxford Academy in the city, after the Year 11 pupil was told to take out her tiny nose stud as it was against school rules. The school said Shannon would be educated in isolation if she refused to take out the stud. But Ms McNamara saw that as an unfair punishment and so removed her from the school just weeks before her GCSE mock exams. The Oxford Academy has warned Ms Mcnamara that she faces prosecution if she keeps her daughter at home.
When he started suffering from back pain, Jack Kane was told by medics he had an incurable tumour on his spine. The 23-year-old from Billingham, Teesside, decided to propose to his girlfriend of three years Emma in a race against time to get married before he died. But just three days before the wedding, a doctor at James Cook University Hospital, in Middlesbrough told Mr Kane he wasn't terminally ill and actually had the rare yet treatable neurological condition called Neuromyelitis Optica (NMO).
British explorer Ben Saunders (right) today embarked on his greatest challenge yet as he attempts to complete the first solo and unsupported crossing of Antarctica. The 40-year-old from Reading, Berkshire, will be carrying just 300lbs of his own supplies over the next two months in temperatures that could fall as low as -60C. Mr Saunders (pictured centre, with his fiancée Pip Harrison) is an accomplished explorer, holding the record for the longest solo Arctic journey by a Briton and being the third person to ski solo to the North Pole. His latest journey will be in memory of his friend Henry Worsley who nearly did the journey in 2016, but fell ill 30 miles before the end and later died. Mr Worsley planned the west-to-east traverse Mr Sanders will make from Berkner Island to the Ross Ice Shelf via the South Pole and the Shackleton Glacier (bottom centre).
Stuart Evans and his partner Aimee Sheppard found the chewed up package in their outhouse after Bull Mastiff Milo and Fox Red Labrador Digger had chewed it up at their home in north Wales. And they now want an apology from Royal Mail after the gaffe was caught on their CCTV system.
The iconic Millennium Falcon (inset left) from the Star Wars film saga has been spotted hidden away near Longcross Studios in Surrey surrounded by shipping containers under plastic sheeting (pictured main and top right). The model spaceship was used at the site for filming of the latest episode in the series, The Last Jedi, and appears to have been put to one side for use again in future films. But eagle-eyed fans spotted the very recognisable frontage of the ship sticking out from under the sheeting while looking at the area on Google Earth.
Stacey Chapman, from Ryarsh village in Kent, had been riding her 14-year-old mare Revuelo when a gold Volvo tried to overtake the car in front rather than waiting for the horse to pass. As the Volvo zoomed past the waiting car, it skidded off the country lane and flipped onto its side. In fright, Stacey's horse then bolted down the hill towards oncoming traffic which left her 'shaking all over'. She said: 'It could have killed me. I've had cars whip past me and slam their brakes on before and you almost accept that, but this was much worse.' Kent Police have said they are still investigating the crash.
The remarkable story of Admiral Lord Nelson's most precious jewel which vanished from a museum 66 years ago has been revealed in a new book. Nelson was gifted the stunning seven-inch chelengk (right) by Sultan Selim III of Turkey after the Battle of the Nile in 1798. The hat decoration (worn by Nelson, inset) contained over 300 diamonds and a central diamond Ottoman star which was powered by clockwork to rotate and sparkle in candlelight. The chelengk was then bought for £1,500 by the Society for Nautical Research in 1929 following a national appeal and placed in London's National Maritime Museum. But it was stolen in 1951 by career criminal George Chatham, who sold the jewel for a 'few thousand' to a criminal gang who he believes broke it up into little pieces. Now, an exact replica (left) has been produced to coincede with the launch of a new book detailing the jewel's storied history for the first time.
Madam Tussauds unveiled the new waxwork of PM Theresa May in Baker Street, London earlier today. The PM's waxwork is wearing the dress she met Donald Trump in January.
Vicky Armitage (pictured with her son Toby), of Mossley, Greater Manchester, slammed the decision of the council, which deemed the trip as not being 'exceptional circumstance'.
Sasha Evans, 28, was hit in the side by the Ford Galaxy at a junction in Nunhead, south-east London, and suffered severe head trauma, leaving him 'lucky to be alive'.
Robert Bright (pictured), 58, fell over a wall in Nice, France, as he took party in the cycle for his son Goerge, 24, who plunged to his death from a hotel window in Thailand.
West Yorkshire Police were called to reports of an injured child at a property in Huddersfield this morning and confirmed a two-year-old boy had died at the scene.
Geoff Edwards, 52, won a place to study English Literature after gaining distinctions in his Access to Higher Education course at Cambridge Regional College.
The terrorist bomb went off without warning ahead of a Remembrance Sunday service in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, on November 8 1987, killing 10 civilians and a police officer.
Dylan Stringer and Joseph Chance, from Stourbridge, who killed young mother Nadine Foster when one of the men crashed during a drunken road race have been jailed.
William Searle, 74, had his sight tested by Specsavers and was handed back his licence by the DVLA - but just two days later he hit and killed motorcyclist Jerry Daniell (pictured) in Devon.
Police Scotland posted a mugshot of Guxim Imerio on Facebook as part of an appeal to find him, but the image received dozens of swooning comments from admirers.
Mother-of-two Zoe Balding, 44, from Tunbridge Wells, Kent, was in her local Tesco supermarket in August when she saw the employee picking his nose while scanning her shopping.
The couple, who married in 2015, already have one daughter, Sophia, who was born last year. The proud Scot's second girl is understood to have been born in England a few days ago.
The £6,000-a-night Soho Farmhouse at Great Tew in the Cotswolds has been labelled 'Butlins for toffs' and boasts celebrity guests such as Eddie Redmayne, Mark Ronson and Poppy Delevingne.
Kevin Richer, 47, was ordered to pay Dorset Council's £12,000 court costs after a bogus compensation claim he launched after blaming a 'pothole' for a fall outside his house.
It was only when a senior fire officer went to police headquarters after midnight that the brigade was told it was safe to deploy – an hour and a half after Salman Abedi blew himself up.
Edmundo Fonesca, 44, was wanted by Portugal authorities over the acid attack on British holiday rep Ellie Chessell, 29, in Portugal in May. Her former boyfriend is in custody over the attack
Pc John Davidson, 53, was shot dead while trying to arrest a suspect who had opened fire in the car park of a shopping centre in Abbotsford, British Columbia, on Monday.
Drake Morgan-Baines, 19, (pictured), from Newport, South Wales, collapsed and died after taking a 'high-potency MDMA' for the first time during a night out with his friends in Bristol.
Sky said it would 'review its position' on the 'continued provision of Sky News' (pictured) if it stopped the Fox takeover or any 'other corporate opportunities'.
Ashley Dunford, 20, (pictured) from Hull, East Yorkshire, admitted wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm when he appeared at the city's crown court yesterday.
Dramatic CCTV footage shows the thug dragging his elderly victim to the ground on Sunday evening as he tries to steal her handbag outside a social club in Ipswich, Suffolk.
Richard Felce, 24, was searching for calves missing from his farm in Elham, Kent, when he discovered somebody had cut through his barbed wire fence, leaving behind a note (pictured).
Megan Crosby, from Blackpool, admitted grievous bodily harm but was given eight months in a young offender institute suspended for two years and told to complete 100 hours unpaid work.
Rolf Harris was back at the Court of Appeal in London with his niece Jenny Harris today, a day after the stepfather of his youngest victim said the sex attack on the seven-year-old could not have happened.
Paul Barnes, 33, was offered the cash courtesy of the taxpayer after he instructed lawyers to sue the Prison Service when guards left a wet patch on his floor at HMP Manchester.
Assistant Chief Constable Marcus Beale, of West Midlands Police, faces court after he allegedly failed to safeguard sensitive documents stolen from an unmarked police car.
Dorset police resumed searching for Gaia Pope, 19, who was last seen yesterday afternoon in Swanage wearing a black fur-trimmed jacket, grey leggings and white trainers.
Wayne and Lisa Maguire from Ceredigion in Wales have been left devastated after ten-week-old Molly died after a vet administered potassium chloride because it was 'stored incorrectly'.
Jet2, Norwegian Air Shuttle, IAG, Wizz Air and easyJet are all understood to be vying for the slots, which span Manchester, Gatwick, Birmingham, Luton and Leeds Bradford airports.
A dual British-Iranian national, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe (left, with her daughter Gabrielle) was flying to Iran to show her parents their new granddaughter. But, rather than joy, the trip turned into the stuff of nightmares. Today, more than 18 months after setting off, Nazanin is being held at Tehran’s notorious Evin prison, a hellish place with secret cells where torture and sexual assault of prisoners is rife. Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said the charity worker was and was one of ‘the heads of foreign-linked hostile networks’ and she was sentenced to five years in prison. Her husband Richard (right, the couple together) hoped she would be released by Christmas, but comments by Boris Johnson (inset) this week, that Nazanin was ‘teaching people journalism’, may have seen her sentence doubled.
Steven Letts, 39, was spotted cycling alongside his vulnerable victim after meeting her in Gloucester city centre. He later took the schoolgirl back to his flat and subjected her to a vile sex attack.
Eugene Terentjev sent out the advice in an email to first-year physical science undergraduates to prepare them for the ‘very hard’ physical sciences course ahead.
Richard Ratcliffe, from London, said his wife Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was inconsolable when told the British Foreign's remarks could lead to her sentence being extended.
Web giants and police must do more to take down online material that is triggering fatal gang violence, London's Metropolitan Police commissioner Cressida Dick has said.
Ministers faced criticism they had caved in after the European Parliament threatened to block Brexit talks, due to begin again tomorrow, unless ‘invasive’ criminal record checks were blocked.
Youth Justice Minister Phillip Lee (pictured) said rapists as young as ten could be locked up in specialist units following a rise in 'dark and troubling' attacks carried out by kids, often fuelled by porn.
Ashton Sammut (pictured) was convicted of theft but the Electronic Monitoring Service put the tag he was given on his prosthetic leg, after he was deemed unfit for community service due to his disability.
It is often ‘Get Boris’ time these days, seldom more so than in the Commons yesterday when he was delivering a regular update on anti- terror policies in Syria and Iraq, writes QUENTIN LETTS.
Carl Sargeant (left), 48, who was found dead at home in Connah's Quay (inset), North Wales, told friends he was unaware of the details of the sex claims against him because Labour officials refused to say. His solicitors allegedly wrote to party chiefs to warn them he was suffering from anxiety and distress as a result. A source said: 'Labour were warned it was affecting his mental health'. Yesterday the Welsh Assembly cancelled its business in a mark of respect to the dedicated politician and father-of-two, who was praised by colleagues for his work on gender equality and domestic abuse. His wife Bernie, 48, and children Jack, 23, and Lucy, 25, (right, with Mr Sargeant) said they are 'devastated beyond words' because the family have lost 'the glue that bound us together'.
Broadcaster investigating 25 cases of alleged sexual harassment after Harvey Weinstein scandal prompted ‘spike’ in staff coming forward. More cases are 'live' than in the last three years combined.
The former Conservative minister said serious cases needed to be examined, but raised concerns that many were in fact trivial on ITV's Good Morning Britain show yesterday.
Two local authorities controlled by the party - Sefton Council in Merseyside and Warrington Council in Cheshire - avoided paying over £12 million in taxes, it has been revealed.
Singer Shakira (pictured) has been dragged into the Paradise Papers scandal after being accused of transferring £30million in musical assets and trademarks to the low-tax regime of Malta.
Lloyds, Halifax and Barclaycard are bringing in a 0.25 percentage point increase for some credit card customers next month following the Bank of England's base rate rise.
New figures show that a third of Volkswagen cars fitted with software to cheat emissions tests remain unfixed and the rate at which they are being dealt with has 'stalled'.
Roadside officers from the Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency found that in random checks of lorries, foreign ones were more likely to be 'mechanically defective' than British ones.
At the end of the advert the famous children's character hands the thief, who he has mistaken for Santa Claus, one of his prized marmalade sandwiches and receives a hug. As he leans in to give Paddington a grateful embrace, he whispers 'thank you little bear' in his ear. However, hundreds of people watching the advert, when it aired for the first time on Tuesday, heard something rather different.
Daisy French, 16, from Sheffield, had wrote of how she 'worried about what was going to happen to her' as she began her transition from child to adult care.
A lynx on the loose is feared to have killed seven sheep found dead close to where it escaped from two weeks ago. Lillith the lynx (pictured) escaped from a zoo in Borth, Wales.
Benjamin Netanyahu was flanked by bodyguards as he made his way out the West London nightclub, which has been host to Princes William and Harry, Mick Jagger and Kate Moss
The bill will pardon men convicted under Scotland’s anti-gay legislation, which remained until 1981, 14 years after homosexuality was decriminalised in England and Wales.
Entrepreneur John Caudwell, 65 has accused his former business partner Nathalie Duriac (pictured), 39, of smearing his name after she was dismissed over an expenses row.
Julian Underhill (pictured right) text a friend to say he had 'found Willy Wonka's golden ticket' when he spotted some of the 794lb (360kg) of Class A drug (pictured left) spread across beaches in Caister-on-Sea and Hopton-on-Sea (pictured inset) near Great Yarmouth in February. Norwich Crown Court heard Underill, 34, took around a kilo of the cocaine, worth between '£20,000 and £30,000' before police confiscated it in February. He used a small amount himself and dealt some to other people over a period of three weeks. Judge Maureen Bacon QC sentenced Underhill to two years in prison suspended for two years and ordered that he take part in a drug rehabilitation programme.
The footage, taken by dogbreeder Julie Whiteley, show two of the dogs sitting happily in their baskets before the thieves arrive at the home in New Mill, West Yorkshire.
Peter Morrison has been convicted of death by dangerous driving after sending texts at the wheel, losing control of his car and ploughing into two motorway traffic officers on the M6 in Cumbria.
The man, named locally as Jordan Higham, was found in an 'unresponsive' state by officers in a street (pictured) blighted by thefts in Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire, and later died in hospital.
Businessman Ivica Todoric is fighting extradition to his homeland of Croatia where he faces fraud charges relating to around €110 million. The 66-year-old denies the charges.
Bradford Bulls' Macauley Stones today guilty to grievous bodily harm after the attack on rival player Reece Glossop, of the Nottingham Lions, during a match on September 19 2015.
Emotional viewers were left in tears as they watched Tomas help new 'best friend' Ada, who has Down's syndrome overcome her fear of rabbits in a heart-warming episode of The Secret Life Of 4-Year-Olds. Fans tweeted that they were 'bawling their eyes out' after Tomas followed Ada to the corner where she was hiding (left) and told her that 'rabbits don't eat humans' so she has nothing to fear. The adorable pair later told the camera they were 'best friends', prompting dozens of tweets from overwhelmed viewers (inset).
Jake Coates' beloved wife Emmy (left) died last June at the age of just 31 after an 18-month battle with thyroid cancer. The pair (pictured right on their wedding day in 2016), from Monmouth in Wales, longed to become parents and shortly before she passed away, doctors harvested Emmy's eggs and Jake's sperm to leave nine viable embryos. Their former schoolmate Liz Begg (inset with the couple) then volunteered to carry their baby after reading Emmy’s heart-wrenching blog which documented her cancer battle.
George 'Johnny' Johnson (right), who took part in the 'Dambuster' raids in Germany during World War Two in 1943, received an MBE from The Queen at Buckingham Palace (left) to recognise his service. The airman, who retired in 1962 at the rank of Squadron Leader, was honoured following a petition signed by thousands of people and launched by television presenter Carol Vorderman after she said it was 'disgraceful' he had not been knighted. Mr Johnson (pictured inset in 1962 before retiring from the RAF), 95, said he was 'very grateful' to those who signed the petition and added his memories of the bouncing bomb raid would 'last forever'.
Kate Blakeley and her partner Marco Faes, from Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, were close to completing on a purchase of the property when they were targeted by fraudsters.
Shirley and Julie Bridge were pictured fleeing the IRA aged 13 and 14 in Enniskillen, Ulster, and said they suffered from a lack of counselling at the time - and still bear the emotional scars now.
Father-of-two Max Spiers, from Kent, was found in an apartment in Poland last year after vomiting black liquid. His inquest was due to resume in Maidstone this week but has been postponed.
Chelsea Flower Show star Matthew Bradley, 24, was on a stag do in Liverpool when he was killed in a suspected hit-and-run. Merseyside Police has arrested a man, 22, in connection with the death.
The family of Helen Edgar won a £415,000 payout after doctors at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust failed to diagnose a flesh-eating disease despite her husband's 'pleas for help'.
Border collie Winnie chased a rabbit under the huge tractor on a farm in Dorset but survived after she was pushed into the soft mud rather than crushed beneath the 4ft-wide wheel.
Shaun Walley, 67, from Stockport, was visiting a friend in Thailand when he apparently touched a steel balcony handrail that was live with an electric current due to a faulty light box sign.
Siraya Parke, 29, was found collapsed and fitting in the bedroom of her home in Denton, Greater Manchester. Paramedics wrongly believed she had had a Spice overdose rather than a brain bleed.
Police raids found £45,000 in cash inside a secret compartment of a white transit van used by the gang to carry out deals. They also uncovered a large stash of cocaine, a fifth of which, worth up to £20,000, was found in an old cereal box. After a surveillance operation the officers swooped in and seized the drugs. Five of the men were sentenced to a total of 25 years behind bars, with a further five receiving suspended sentences and community service. Kingpin Grant Holder (pictured bottom left), 34, of Stone, was sentenced to six years and six months. Daniel Felgate (pictured top left), 34, of, Stone, was sentenced to seven years. Simon Richardson (pictured top centre), 36, of Stone, was handed four years six months behind bars, while Wayne Bond (pictured far right), 37, of Stone, was given five years. Russell Ford (pictured bottom centre), 36, of Birkenhead, was given two years and seven months. Judge Jinder Singh Boora told Holder: 'These are serious offences. You were the kingpin within this conspiracy.' Addressing Felgate, he said: 'When cross-examined you were trying to act like a smart alec. You were trying to hoodwink the jury. You were the right-hand man.' And he told Richardson: 'I can't ignore the fact that you dishonestly used somebody's house to receive cash, to receive goods and to deal in drugs.'
A gay father who murdered his 18-month-old adopted daughter after calling her 'Satan in a Babygro' was today jailed for 18 years. Matthew Scully-Hicks, 31, (right and inset) subjected Elsie Scully-Hicks to months of horrific assaults and was heard shouting 'shut the f*** up' at her in his home in Llandaff, Cardiff. The toddler (left) suffered a string of suspicious injuries including bruises and a broken her leg and had fallen down the stairs at the house. Following months of abuse Scully-Hicks, a fitness instructor, eventually killed the youngster just two weeks after she was formally adopted by him and his 36-year-old husband Craig. Scully-Hicks was today jailed for life with a minimum of 18 years at Cardiff Crown Court. Social services in the Vale of Glamorgan now face an investigation after they visited the family 15 times but still raised no concerns - despite finding out the severity of her injuries.
This is the suspect wanted by murder detectives after a man was discovered on railway tracks after he is believed to have been chased. Detectives from British Transport Police initially thought the incident, at Knockholt station in Kent on Sunday night, was not suspicious, but later said new information had come to light. Officers were called to the station at 00.05am on Monday following reports from a train driver that a body had been seen on the tracks near to the station. Police believe that shortly before 9.30pm on Sunday, the victim was chased into the station by another man.
Britain First leader Paul Golding, of south London, was given a suspended sentence after admitting assaulting a martial arts expert in a 'vicious' nightclub attack in Kent in July.
Ian Naude, 29, a serving police officer with Cheshire Constabulary, was arrested and charged with the alleged rape of a teenager schoolgirl at a property in Crewe last weekend.
St Prix Rosemond, 30, allegedly abused the mother of their two children, Natasha Romain, over a 14-month period at their home in Thamesmead, south east London.
Emile Cilliers, 37, accused of trying to murder his wife by sabotaging her parachute thought he would get her £120,000 life insurance payout, Winchester Crown Court heard.
The video, filmed by an inmate at HMP Addiewell in West Lothian, shows a group of men in a cell with one of them on a bed, face down and barely responsive.
Razvana Zeib was jailed after travelling to Pakistan and setting up a bank account with the intention of laundering at least £900,000 of the money her spouse Rafaqat Hussain had helped steal.
Mik Laverty, 50, an Army veteran from Newton Aycliffe who claimed gunmen in Thailand broke his leg and stole his watch, has been exposed as a fraud after police found he fell off a balcony.
Mr Searle would crash into Jerry Daniell (pictured) after pulling out at a service station near Newton Abbot, Devon, leaving the 52-year-old with fatal head injuries.
Farhana Ahmed, 40, from north-west London, who encouraged terror attacks on the UK on a pro-ISIS Facebook group has been spared jail at the Old Bailey.
As the proud custodian of Captain Henderson’s medal group, which I bought at auction for my collection of war medals, I had long wanted to pay my respects to this noble soldier. He showed such courage in battle south-east of Arras in France in 1917 — despite a badly wounded arm, he led a fierce attack on the enemy before being killed aged just 23 — that he was awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross (VC), Britain and the Commonwealth’s most prestigious gallantry award. The cemetery, designed by the great architect Sir Edwin Lutyens, contains 349 war graves from World War I. Like a staggering 23,000 other cemeteries in more than 150 countries worldwide, it is meticulously maintained by an organisation that I have come to respect and admire: the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC). The CWGC does exactly what its name suggests: it ensures that nearly 1.7 million men and women of the Commonwealth Forces who died in the two world wars will never be forgotten. As I have travelled the world in recent decades, I have visited scores of CWGC cemeteries — from Burma to Russia, from northern Africa to Western Europe. All are preserved to the most exacting of standards. Pictured left: Soldiers march in a Commonwealth cemetery in Ypres, Belgium. Top right: Prince Harry at graves in Guyana. Bottom right: Prince Charles in Vicenza, Italy.
For the generations who assembled those meticulous sticker album collections, Panini is a name synonymous with schoolyard swaps, ‘shinies’ and the company’s heraldic knight insignia. It takes a collector of the very obsessive kind to know about the comical glitch on the Celtic pages of the 1978 edition. That particular album has sat on your correspondent’s shelves for the past 39 years, but Greg Lansdowne takes fewer than 10 seconds to point out — with no advance notice we’ll be discussing the edition — that the head of Johannes Edvaldsson, the Icelandic centre back, is superimposed onto the shoulders of Paul Wilson, the club’s forward, on page 52. It was Panini’s first football album in this country, and was ‘very rushed’, says Lansdowne, a collector turned sticker historian, and indeed the Edvaldsson sticker — employing rudimentary means to disguise that Panini lacked an image of the defender in a Celtic shirt — really does look ridiculous, now that he comes to mention it.
A man has died after a commercial firework was posted through his letterbox, exploding more than 200 times and sending a fire ripping through his home. Neighbours claim Anthony Nicholls (left) desperately tried to smash windows so that he and his partner Marie, 50, could escape the flames. Police say the blaze started when a lit box of fireworks containing 200 tubes of explosives - normally used at outdoor public displays - was put through the door of his home in Birmingham. The 56-year-old was rescued by firefighters who raced to the property after receiving a 999 call at 11pm last Thursday. The former hardware store worker was rushed to hospital with 60 per cent burns and placed in an induced coma after the blaze ravaged his property (inset and right). But West Midlands Police said Mr Nicholls never regained consciousness and detectives had now launched a murder inquiry.
'Overpaid' male BBC stars could see their wages slashed as part of a drive to close the corporation's gender pay gap, director general Tony Hall has said.
Experts have been brought in to take down 260 tons of bricks and mortar of the isolated home in rural Wales, after David Cuthbertson (pictured) and five of his children died.
The £20,000 18ft sculpture was unveiled outside Lincoln Castle as a tribute to an environmental charter but has been mocked online for looking like a toilet plunger.
Up to 1,400 job losses are planned at Transport for London - including engineering and on the London Underground - because of spending cuts, the RMT union said.
Firefighters and police rushed to the scene, and people were forced to leave Holyrood's MSP section, but the suspect envelope turned out to be an invite to the Inverness Courier's 200th birthday.
German-based Lidl, which has hundreds of stores across the UK, warns that the products are a possible health risk to anyone with an allergy to soya, milk, nuts, wheat or gluten.
Proud Sioned Howells (pictured), 18, asked for a bacon roll in Welsh - but was stunned when the blundering bakery worker couldn't understand her order.
Guests appearing on the programme last Friday - including Daily Mail sketch writer Quentin Letts - were told that they were not allowed to wear the poppy, which critics described as an 'outrageous' move.
Two men were seen entering the building in Bolton, Greater Manchester, shortly before the fire broke out - and are believed to have broken through a back door then started the blaze.
President Donald Trump said Wednesday in South Korea that the 'rogue regime' to the North has become a dangerous menace, and warned North Korea's dictator Kim Jong-un not to test his patience. 'Today, I hope I speak not only for our countries, but for ALL civilized nations, when I say to the North: Do not underestimate us. And do not try us.' Addressing a global audience, he insisted that 'the world cannot tolerate the menace of a rogue regime that threatens it with nuclear devastation.' Trump spoke at South Korea's National Assembly, entering to a standing ovation. Assembly speaker Chung Sye-kyun praised him as 'the leader of the world,' and declared that first lady Melania Trump was 'beautiful and wise.'
North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un's state media said that if Donald Trump continues to make threats of military actions and push for further sanctions, the U.S. would suffer a 'bitter defeat'.
'The president will tweet whatever he wants,' a senior White House official told reporters aboard Air Force One shortly before Trump landed in Beijing.
Ed Klein, who has authored four books on the Clintons, claims Hillary's minions are in secret talks with Christopher Steele, author of the infamous Russian dossier.The second dossier will allegedly contain evidence that Trump had 'romantic involvements with Russian women' connected to the Kremlin's spy apparatus. The original Russian dossier has been discredited. Klein's new book, All Out War: The Plot to Destroy Trump, reveals Hillary's never-ending crusade against the president.
The results from Tuesday night elections amount to a sweeping repudiation of what critics have called Trump's politics of division, and a test of his influence ahead of electoral battles looming.
Democrat Danica Roem, a former journalist, is set to make history as the first openly transgender person elected and seated in a state legislature in the United States.
Spain's Foreign Minister Alfonso Dastis has said the government is considering making changes to the constitution to allow autonomous regions to vote on independence. Catalonia has been rocked by protests since Wednesday morning, and the region's separatist movement suffered another blow in the afternoon when Spain's constitutional court annulled their declaration of independence. Hundreds of protesters gathered outside the local parliament building in Sant Jaume square in central Barcelona (main image), others stopped traffic on around 50 roads including two motorways, as police and demonstrators clashed across Catalonia.
A group of bike owners in Panipat, northern India, held a stake-out after finding their vehicles were being repeatedly drained of petrol. But they were stunned to realise the true culprit was a monkey that was pulling fuel pipes off and sucking the tanks dry. The animal was consuming so much petrol it was 'always high' and would even refuse gifts of bananas, locals said.
Dramatic pictures assembled by British Lieutenant Commander Claude Rayner highlight the dangers pilots faced towards the end of the Second World War in the Far East. Rayner was part of the British Pacific Fleet and carried out photographic reconnaissance and anti-submarine patrols against the Japanese in 1944 and 1945. His graphic photos show a Japanese fighter pilot carrying out a terrifying suicide attack (bottom, centre) and British aircraft ending up in the sea after crashing while trying to land (bottom right). Others show a British Seafire plane (top) and a an American Grumman Hellcat (bottom left) crash landing on aircraft carriers.
Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg called for the infrastructure update as NATO is set to overhaul its command structure for the first time since the Cold War, allegedly in response to Russia's 'war games'.
Devin Patrick Kelley was named as a suspect in a June 2013 sexual assault case in New Braunfels, Texas, about 35 miles from the scene of Sunday’s church attack in Sutherland Springs.
The Harvey Weinstein scandal took yet another astonishing turn on Wednesday, with the attorney for Paz de la Huerta claiming that a man was attempting to obtain his client's records.
Nicole Kidman, Justin Timberlake, Martha Stewart, Harvey Weinstein and Madonna have been linked to the documents which on Monday exposed a widespread use of tax havens.
President Hassan Rouhani warned Saudi Arabia on Wednesday that it will achieve nothing by threatening the might of Iran, as a war of words between the regional heavyweights intensifies.
The theft of 'Maternity' – one of Colombian artist Fernando Botero's best-known works – is the latest in a long string of audacious heists in the French capital.
Two unmanned tanks, one of which is designed as a kamikaze device, have been subjected to testing outside Moscow for almost a year and they shone in their most recent trials just outside Moscow.
Spanish magazine El Jueves published the tongue-in-cheek story after Spain's police force was accused of using brutal tactics to stop Catalonia's independence referendum.
Prince Mansour bin Murqin died on Sunday in the crash alongside seven government officials in southern Saudi Arabia. His father Prince Muqrin bin Abdulaziz was today pictured at the funeral.
Aspiring vlogger Alina, from Nizhnekamsk, had hoped to come face to face with some of her 3,000 web subscribers but despite 'promises' from 20-plus, no-one came.
Shocked officers in Germany removed a 35cm king python from the man's underwear and took him into custody for his state of intoxication before seeing if he broke any animal welfare laws.
The WWE Hall of Famer from Minnesota, known to millions as The Nature Boy, gave a moving account of his personal life in ESPN's documentary on him which aired last night.
The 28-year-old Egyptian was enjoying his last night as an unmarried man when one of the guests fired a weapon in celebration and accidentally hit him in the groin (file photo).
Villagers in south-west Novogradovka in south-western Ukraine's Odessa Oblast, are claiming to have proof of alien visitors to earth, after spotting strange lights in the sky.
