Tag Archives: Victim

Google John Thompson crashed into a 14-year-old girl on Meadow Lane in Westbury A driver who crashed into a teenage girl before urinating on his van as she lay in the road has been disqualified from driving for 17 months. John Thompson, 45, hit the 14-year-old girl in Meadow Lane, …

BBC Five people were killed and more than 60 injured in the attack in August 1975 A commemoration event has taken place in west Belfast to mark the 50th anniversary of the Bayardo Bar attack on the Shankill Road. On 13 August 1975, five people were killed and more than …

Peru’s president has signed a controversial new law pardoning soldiers, police and civilian militias on trial for atrocities during the country’s two-decade armed conflict against Maoist rebels. Dina Boluarte enacted the measure that was passed by Congress in July, despite an order from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights to …

A man convicted of multiple offences including raping a nine-year old girl has been handed a 13-year sentence. The judge told Jason Harkness, 31, of Drum Road, Cookstown, that despite his continued claims of innocence, the offences he committed indicated he had a “deviant sexual interest in children”. Harkness was …

Stephen Fairclough BBC News Angela Johnson Ms Johnson is now unable to work after being carjacked A woman who was “carjacked” and then dragged along the road behind her vehicle has described the thief as “a scumbag”. Angela Johnson was working as a takeaway delivery driver in Wattsville, Caerphilly county, …

A 15-year-old boy sentenced for the manslaughter of an 80-year-old man he racially abused and fatally attacked will not have his sentence extended. The boy left Bhim Kohli with three broken ribs and other fractures during the attack, which occurred when the victim was walking his dog in Franklin Park …

Three soldiers have been killed in a drone attack in south-west Colombia, which authorities have blamed on a dissident rebel group. The devices dropped explosives on members of Colombia’s navy and army, who were manning a checkpoint on the Naya River. Four other members of the security forces were injured …

The Metropolitan Police says 146 people have now come forward to report a crime in their investigation into former Harrod’s boss Mohammed Al Fayed. In a video update sent to victims, Scotland Yard said women and men had reported crimes, and a number of new witnesses had also contacted the …

Six men and three women have died in a blast at an explosives factory near the Brazilian city of Curitiba, in southern Paraná state, emergency officials say. The explosion happened on Tuesday morning local time when a number of people were on shift in the factory. Seven people were also …

Dan Wareing BBC News, Manchester Greater Manchester Police Hassan Mahmood was found guilty of four charges relating to the girl A paedophile is wanted by police after fleeing the country on the second day of his trial accused of sexually assaulting a child. Hassan Mahmood was on trial at Manchester …

Danny Fullbrook & PA Media BBC News, Buckinghamshire PA Media/Elizabeth Cook Gwyn Samuels now identifies as a woman but was known as James Bubb at the time of the alleged offences A Metropolitan Police volunteer told his alleged rape victim he wanted to have sex with her despite knowing she …

A man who who died following an ambulance crash on the A98 has been named by police. Alistair J Stewart, 36, from Ardersier, was driving a blue Renault Megane at Arradoul, near Buckie, at about 06:50 on Monday when it was in collision with the ambulance. Emergency services attended but …

Press Association Brendan McFarlane was the leader of IRA prisoners in the Maze during the 1981 hunger strike The family of Linda Boyle, who was killed in a bomb in west Belfast in 1975, have said they are “absolutely disgusted” by the “sick” tribute to former senior IRA member Brendan …

A serial conman who posed as a nurse, a handyman and an electrician to steal from and defraud elderly victims has been sentenced to nine years in prison. Robert Markward tricked his way into the homes of nine vulnerable people in Ayrshire between December 2022 and March 2023. The 64-year-old …

Séamas de Faoite Councillor Séamas de Faoite described footage of “vigilante groups” on social media as “chilling” Footage of groups of men patrolling the streets of Belfast and confronting people from ethnic minority backgrounds is “chilling”, a councillor has said. It comes as videos circulating on social media show groups …

Police investigating a serious assault on a woman have found a man’s body in a play park. Officers were called to the village of Naburn, near York, after reports of an assault at about 17:50 BST on Monday. The woman was taken by air ambulance to hospital. A search for …

Jude Sheerin BBC News, Washington Harford Co Sheriff’s Office Rachel Morin was killed on a Maryland hiking trail in 2023 An illegal immigrant from El Salvador has been sentenced to life without parole for killing an American mother of five – in a case invoked by President Donald Trump to …

A man has been fined for fly-tipping after he was filmed on a police bodycam following a tip-off from a member of the public. Chunlin Zheng, of Philip Lane in London, pleaded guilty at Swindon Magistrates’ Court on Friday to fly-tipping wood in a layby on the A361 near Trowbridge, …

A Metropolitan Police volunteer officer groomed a child and raped her after meeting her online, a court heard. Prosecutors said the defendant, who was born a man named James Bubb but now identifies as a woman named Gwyn Samuels, asked one alleged victim to perform a sex act in public …

This is the moment that a man was reunited with the match steward who saved his life after he suffered a cardiac arrest at a football match. David Ince, 67, from Haverhill in Suffolk, had heart problems during the Cambridge United v Rotherham United match in October. Play stopped while …