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...
Evidence against a man who made claims he was notorious serial killer Jack the Ripper will be re-examined in court -- almost 130 years after he was hanged. William Bury became the last man hanged in Dundee in April 1889 after he was found guilty of murdering his wife. In his initial confession, Bury, a sawdust merchant made a claim to be Jack the Ripper. In February 1889 Bury walked into Bell Street police station in Dundee and announced: "I'm...
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 social worker has been suspended for telling colleagues the best way to manage a woman with learning difficulties was to "hit her with a sledgehammer". Gawain Minney was banned from his profession after making the "cruel and discriminatory" jibe during a meeting with the woman's carer. A disciplinary panel heard he also suggested one way to manage the vulnerable woman, who is in her early 20s, was to "chuck her in a padded room." A Health and Care Professions...
A shopper says she was left disgusted after she spotted Primark selling ''hotpants'' - for BABIES. The 23-year-old saw the £3.50 cut-off denim shorts aimed at children up to three months. The horrified customer said the "sick" denim shorts serve only to "sexualise" babies, and ought to be removed from sale immediately. "I just think they are sick. What on earth were Primark thinking?" said the unnamed woman, from St George in Bristol. She was so horrified by the garment...
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....
A murder inquiry has been launched after an assault victim died more than six months after being attacked outside one of London's busiest tourist attractions. Desmond O'Beirne, 51, suffered devastating head injuries when two thugs attacked him in June near the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square. Police say he never regained consciousness and died in hospital of his injuries on Wednesday, December 20th. Shocking CCTV stills show the attackers kicking Desmond while he is lying helpless on the ground. Detective...
An "arrogant" surgeon who branded his initials on the livers of two patients has been spared jail and fined £10,000 in the first case of its kind in British criminal history. Simon Bramhall, 53, told a nurse "I do this" when she saw him about using an argon beam coagulator to burn the letters 'SB' on one unconscious patient's organ. He carried out the bizarre assaults at Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital on two separate occasions in 2013. An alarmed colleague...
A real-life 'Kinky Boots' pensioner has diversified his rubber firm into making erotic gear and torture devices - for SEX DUNGEONS. John Hindmarsh's industrial workshop used to produce mundane fittings for washing and cleaning machines. But several years ago he branched out and his factory now produces all types of kinky rubber gear. He makes large sex machines with names like 'The Girly Whirly' and 'The Stallion' - often used in adult films. John also has a machine which is...
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