Broken Britain

A pervert who wanted to be a teacher has been jailed for sexually assaulting two fellow male students as they slept in their beds. Sick Matthew Gell, 22, performed an indecent act on his victims after sneaking into their rooms on two different occasions. The students, who were living in shared accommodation, woke in horror to find Gell assaulting them. Gell told a court he was bisexual but denied the charges and claimed the men initiated sex with him. But...

Thieves have been branded as “sick and cynical” after raiding a store and making off with charity cash being raised in support dementia research. The break-in in the early hours of Monday is the latest in a string of burglaries at retail outlets in Hawick, Roxburghshire. An estimated £600 in coins stacked up in a gallon whisky bottle were snatched. The manager of the Iceland store, Bill Innes, told of his outrage at the raid. He is convinced the culprits...

A convicted murderer has received tens of thousands of pounds from a police force following a botched investigation into the killing of a promising football star. Levi Walker was one of four men originally found guilty of the "execution-style" murder of Kevin Nunes. Nunes, who had been on the books of Tottenham Hotspur, was found dead in a country lane in Pattingham, Staffs., on September 19, 2002. Narel Sharpe, a soldier on leave from Iraq, who was killed on Oldbury...

A suspected fraudster denied trying to swindle nearly £10,000 of pounds and goods by falsely claiming he lost his wife and son in the Grenfell Tower fire, a court heard. Anh Nhu Nguyen, 52, tried to scam a council and charities out of cash, clothing, food and electronic goods by pretending he had lost his home and "worldly possessions", it is claimed. He posed as a victim for nearly two weeks, and was put up in a Holiday Inn, Southwark...

A violent bully broke into his ex girlfriend's house and held her hostage in an ordeal of "uncontrolled viciousness" during which he forced an angry dog to BITE her. He used the growling and irate dog as a weapon during the horrendous attack and later kept his victim prisoner in her own home for 57 hours. A court was told that he was "completely off his head" and threatened to kill his ex girlfriend with scissors. The traumatised victim described...

This shocking clip shows the moment a middle-aged man only narrowly missed plunging into rocks after jumping 65ft into the sea, at a piece of the coast known to be very dangerous. The unknown man landed awkwardly on his back after leaping from a spot known as Dead Man's Cove in Plymouth. He was filmed carrying out the 'tombstoning' attempt less than a year after father-of-three Vincent Wagstaff plunged into the sea at the same place and died from multiple...

Jordan Walsh, 29, and Adam Skidmore, 30, left two men, Leonid Goldin and Arinus Romanovas, with facial burns following the attack on January 5. Officers were called after reports of a burglary at a property in Burton-upon-Trent, Staffs., after the men had liquid thrown at them which was later discovered to be ammonia. The house was being used as a cannabis factory and police found a tent in the upstairs bedroom containing 84 plants. Goldin said he went to help...

Millions of public sector workers are contributing £11 billion of free hours each year to keep essential services running. New research by GMB, the union for public sector staff, found that almost a quarter of public sector staff regularly work an average of eight hours unpaid hours a week. If public sector workers were paid for these hours, they would be owed an extra £6,000 on average - equivalent to a 24 per cent pay rise. As it is, the...

A dumped dog was abandoned a second time by her cruel owner after she managed to find her way back home. The one-year-old brindle saluki was found tied up in a play park in Chessington by a women who took her home. But as she called the RSPCA the frightened pooch managed to escape from the garden. And a man later found the unloved dog now called Flo tied to a bus stop and this time the RSPCA managed to...