Thug, 17, with string of convictions for violence who slashed man’s neck is jailed for four years

Kyrese Cashley, from Whitley, Berkshire, swiped at Steven Amor’s neck with a Stanley knife on March 17 this year A 17-year-old boy who slashed a man’s throat during a pub argument has been jailed for four years – and had his anonymity stricken by a judge. Kyrese Cashley, from Whitley, Berkshire, swiped at Steven Amor’s … Read more

Gerry Adams wins Supreme Court appeal against convictions

Gerry Adams’ historic convictions for attempting to escape from the Maze Prison in the 1970s have been overturned more than 40 years later after the UK’s highest court today ruled that his detention was unlawful. The Supreme Court agreed the former Sinn Fein leader’s two 1975 convictions were unsafe because his detention was not ‘personally considered’ … Read more

Gerry Adams wins Supreme Court appeal against convictions

Gerry Adams’ historic convictions for attempting to escape from the Maze Prison in the 1970s were today overturned by the UK’s highest court after it ruled that his detention was unlawful. The former Sinn Fein leader won a legal battle lasting more than 40 years as the Supreme Court agreed his two 1975 convictions were unsafe … Read more

Cardinal George Pell has opened up about ‘suffering’ after child sex convictions were overturned

Cardinal George Pell opens up in a letter about ‘suffering’ in prison as he wears Catholic robes for the first time in 13 months following his child sex convictions being quashed Cardinal George Pell wrote a letter after child sex convictions were overturned  Pell won his appeal bid to the High Court on Tuesday and … Read more

Cardinal George Pell has opened up about ‘suffering’ after child sex convictions were overturned

Cardinal George Pell opens up in a letter about ‘suffering’ in prison as he wears Catholic robes for the first time in 13 months following his child sex convictions being quashed Cardinal George Pell wrote a letter after child sex convictions were overturned  Pell won his appeal bid to the High Court on Tuesday and … Read more

George Pell’s accuser breaks his silence after the cardinal’s sex abuse convictions were dropped

One of George Pell’s accusers has accepted the high court’s decision to overturn his child sex abuse conviction – saying the law is ‘weighed in favour of the accused’. Known as Witness J, the former choirboy came forward after another accuser died in 2014 and claimed he too was abused by the cardinal. He said … Read more

George Pell’s accuser breaks his silence after the cardinal’s sex abuse convictions were dropped

One of George Pell’s accusers has accepted the high court’s decision to overturn his child sex abuse conviction – saying the law is ‘weighed in favour of the accused’. Known as Witness J, the former choirboy came forward after another accuser died in 2014 and claimed he too was abused by the cardinal. He said … Read more