A former BBC local radio presenter convicted of stalking Jeremy Vine has been recalled to prison for breaching his licence conditions. Alex Belfield, from Nottingham, was jailed for five and a half years in September 2022 after being found guilty of four stalking charges against broadcasters, including Channel 5 host and BBC Radio 2 DJ […]
The London’s Burning and Grange Hill actor John Alford has died in prison weeks after being jailed for sexually assaulting two teenage girls. Alford, 54, was found unresponsive in his cell on Friday morning at HMP Bure in Norfolk, where he had just begun an eight-and-a-half year sentence. He had been convicted of four charges […]
John Alford, the actor who starred in London’s Burning and Grange Hill, has been jailed for eight and a half years for sexually assaulting two teenage girls. Alford, 54, was found guilty of four charges of sexual activity with the younger girl, who was 14, and charges of sexual assault and assault by penetration relating […]
Russell Brand is due to appear in court today accused of sexually assaulting a woman by touching her breasts and dragging another woman towards a male lavatory. The comedian and actor, 49, who now lives in the United States, was charged by post last month with one count each of rape, indecent assault and oral […]
Huw Edwards has avoided an immediate custodial sentence having been given a 6 month sentence suspended for two years – and with a requirement to complete a sex offender treatment programme consisting of 25 sessions. He was also placed on the sex offender’s register for seven years. The ex-news anchor was sentenced today at Westminster […]
Trump has been convicted of fraud by a New York jury that declared he was guilty of all 34 counts of falsifying business records to conceal a payment made to a porn star during his tumultuous 2016 campaign for the White House. The verdict made him the first former president in American history to be […]
Former pop star Gary Glitter has been denied freedom by the Parole Board. A hearing took place behind closed doors last month to consider the 79-year-old’s case – see below. Glitter, whose real name is Paul Gadd, was jailed for 16 years in 2015 for sexually abusing three schoolgirls between 1975 and 1980. His sentence […]
Rolf Harris, the disgraced Australian entertainer who was convicted of sexually assaulting four girls, has died aged 93. He died of neck cancer and frailty of old age on May 10 at his home in Bray, Berkshire, the day a private ambulance was seen in his driveway, before being cremated without public notice. Harris worked […]
The paedophile brother of Phillip Schofield, the TV presenter, has been sacked from his police job following his conviction for child sex offences. Timothy Schofield, 54, was convicted of 11 sexual offences involving a child between October 2016 and October 2019, including two of sexual activity with a child, after a trial at Exeter Crown […]
Gary Glitter has been recalled to prison after breaching his licence conditions, the Probation Service has announced. The singer, 78, was released from HMP The Verne in Dorset in February after serving half of his 16-year sentence. He was jailed in 2015 for sexually abusing three schoolgirls. Glitter, whose real name is Paul Gadd, was […]
Charges of attempted rape and assault have been dropped against Manchester United footballer Mason Greenwood. The 21-year-old was arrested in January last year amid allegations surrounding images and videos that emerged online. He was later charged with attempted rape, controlling and coercive behaviour and assault occasioning actual bodily harm. The Crown Prosecution Service said the […]
A former Labour MP submitted fraudulent expense claims totalling £30,000 to part-fund an “extensive” cocaine habit, a court was told. Jared O’Mara, 41, who represented Sheffield Hallam between 2017 and 2019, allegedly invented an autism charity and falsely billed for work said to have been carried out by his friends. Leeds crown court was told […]