An Audi driver who raped an 18-year-old girl when she accidentally got into his car thinking it was a taxi after a night out has been jailed. Andrew Green, 43, pretended he was "a Good Samaritan" when he pulled over and spoke to his victim - who had "nowhere to run and nowhere to hide" at 4.30am on Saturday July, 15 last year. Bolton Crown Court, Grt Mancs., heard the nightclub-goer thought Green's white Audi was the taxi she had...
New research from Veterans Assistance UK has revealed that there are 13,000 homeless veterans in the UK today as the country prepares to squander millions of pounds on the wedding of one ex serviceman. The wedding of the former Blues and Royals Squadron Prince Harry and Meghan Markle has already been embroiled in controversy after a Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead council chief called for homeless people in Windsor to be removed before the Royal Wedding on 19 May. But...
A model and campaigner was humiliated when his colostomy bag leaked - and staff at a conference centre REFUSED to let him use the toilet. Bodybuilder Blake Beckford, 36, has ulcerative colitis and three years ago was fitted with a stoma bag on the outside of his body to collect his body waste. The father-of-three was caught short on the way to a meeting when his bag started to leak while he was walking past the Manchester Central Convention Complex....
Three evil thugs who forced a 14-year-old girl into prostitution and made her have sex with 30 'clients' after plying her with drugs and booze have been jailed for 18 years. Monsters Jake Cairns, 21, Jack McNally, 21 and Brandon Sharples, 20, exploited the vulnerable victim after holding her captive and forced her to have sex with strangers. A court heard the trio advertised her services online after making her pose naked for photos and pretended she was 18-years-old on...
These are the chilling final moments of a teenager before she was strangled to death as she laughs and jokes with the man accused of murdering her just hours later. Jobless Ashley Foster, 24, had only just been released from prison three days before he allegedly killed 17-year-old Megan Bills during a sex game. The church-going teenager's body was found badly decomposed at a hostel for former inmates in Brierley Hill, West Mids., on May 3 last year. A court...
A police officer once hailed a hero was sacked on the spot for sharing racist posts on Facebook including one describing gypsies as “f****** scumbags.” PC Jeanette Cadden received a commendation in 2015 for her actions in saving a suicidal woman who was about to jump from the Avon Gorge, but at a tribunal it was decided she could not remain a police officer. One post she shared read "Ex-serviceman living in a car. Share if you think he should...
A serving police officer has today (tue) admitted sexually grooming a 15-year-old boy. Detective Constable Jonathan Davies-Brewin, 50, was snared by a vigilante paedophile hunter posing as the teenager. A court heard the senior cop arranged to meet the 'boy' following a conversation on social media. However, when he arrived for the meeting in Colchester, Essex, the boy turned out to be a vigilante adult. Today (tue), Davies-Brewin admitted one count of attempting to meet a boy under 16 years...
Animal welfare officers were left in tears after a distressed pony was found dumped and neglected on New Year's Eve. Saroo, a 15-year-old Shetland pony was discovered abandoned in a field starving and thirsty and had about 3,000 burrs across her body leaving her unable to go to the toilet. Animal welfare officers were left in tears after a distressed pony was found dumped and neglected on New Year's Eve. The pony, who is now on her road to recovery,...
The mum of a baby born with a hole in her heart has hit out at the Government after a life-saving op was cancelled FIVE times due to unprecedented hospital pressures. Adorable one-year-old Evelyn Johnston-Smith was in desperate need of major surgery to correct the heart defect which was spotted at the 20-week scan. She was successfully treated with a pulmonary band to fix her heart on September 19, 2016, but doctors said she would need a larger band within...
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