Biffa Waste Services is convicted of illegally exporting more than 1,000 tonnes of household waste including soiled nappies and hairpieces and labelling it as paper then dumping it in Asia Biffa Waste Services convicted sending more than 1,000 tonnes of waste to Asia Investigation stopped sixteen 25-tonne containers travelling from Southampton Wood Green Crown Court … Read more
Six Extinction Rebellion protesters have been found guilty of blockading a national newspaper printing press in a demonstration that cost publishers more than £1million. The activists stopped 3.5million newspapers reaching readers when they used bamboo structures to block trucks from leaving the Newsprinters printing works in Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, on September 4. Caspar Hughes, 49, of … Read more
Five Extinction Rebellion protesters are convicted over printing press blockade that stopped millions of newspapers being delivered Three men and two women are first to be punished following demonstrations It comes after several other activists walked free from court on a technicality The blockades were criticised as an affront to free speech as cost millions … Read more
Two members of criminal network that sold near-worthless carbon credits as investments convicted of fraudulent trading, thanks to Tony Hetherington By Financial Mail on Sunday Reporter Published: 21:50 BST, 15 May 2021 | Updated: 21:50 BST, 15 May 2021 Two members of a huge criminal network that sold near-worthless carbon credits as investments have been … Read more
The BRIT Awards have paid tribute to convicted murder Phil Spector in their memoriam list. The Wall Of Sound producer died from Covid-19 related complications at the age of 81 in January. Famed musician Phil had been serving a 19 years-to-life sentence for the 2003 murder of actress Lana Clarkson, who died aged 40 after … Read more
A jury in Rome on Wednesday convicted two American friends in the 2019 slaying of a police officer in a tragic unraveling of a small time drug deal gone bad, sentencing them to life in prison. The jury deliberated more than 12 hours before delivering the verdicts against Finnegan Lee Elder, 21, and Gabriel Natale … Read more
Seven Italians convicted of left-wing domestic terrorist crimes in the 1970s and 1980s, including several former members of the Red Brigades, have been arrested at their homes in France. The development on Wednesday has been hailed as historic by Italy. The crimes for which they were convicted include the 1980 killing of a Carabinieri paramilitary … Read more
Troubles veterans convicted of crimes relating to Northern Ireland shootings could be pardoned, former minister Johnny Mercer says Mr Mercer Government ‘failed’ in its promise to former Northern Ireland troops Part of him ‘died’ when senior figures were looking to reduce convicts’ sentences Soldiers A and C face trial accused of murdering an official IRA … Read more
The man wrongly convicted of murdering Jill Dando has praised Line of Duty for for ‘highlighting what the police do’ after a Down’s Syndrome suspect was branded a ‘local oddball’. Barry George, who spent eight years in jail for Ms Dando’s murder in 1999 before he was finally acquitted in 2008, said the show’s writers should be … Read more
The man wrongly convicted of murdering Jill Dando has praised Line of Duty for for ‘highlighting what the police do’ after a Down’s Syndrome suspect was branded a ‘local oddball’. Barry George, who spent eight years in jail for Ms Dando’s murder in 1999 before he was finally acquitted in 2008, said the show’s writers should be … Read more