Jury laughs at pathetic excuses of child abuser before returning guilty verdict

A jury laughed at the lies of a child rapist before returning a unanimous guilty verdict which saw him jailed for 18 years. Alan Dart, 30, was homeless when he was offered an attic room by the ten-year-old girl's mother but he soon began to groom her daughter for sex. He started a three-year sexual relationship with her when she was just 11. A court heard he manipulated the victim so successfully she became convinced she was in love with...

Woman tells Jamaican to go “back to Somalia” in bizarre racist rant

A video of a racist woman in Leicester has gone viral after she told Asians to get out of "her country" and Jamaicans to go "back to Somalia". The woman was filmed outside a taxi rank asking drivers "why they are in our small island" before calling one man a "dirty f*cking tramp". The Leicester driver, who does not want to be identified, sent the one minute 20 second recording to his cousin to be uploaded online, the Leicester Mercury reported....

Police release harrowing images of pregnant mum and baby after they were left for dead by hit-and-run driver

  Police are hunting a callous hit-and-run driver who mowed down a pregnant mum and her baby before leaving them for dead in the gutter. Detectives have released heartbreaking images showing the one-year-old tot with nasty facial injuries lying in hospital with her mother. The teenage girl, aged 17, and her daughter were struck by a car before being left in the road in Cobridge, Stoke-on-Trent on August 15. It is believed two cars – a silver VW Jetta and...

Teen ambushed innocent pupil outside school gates

A "pure evil" teenager who stabbed to death a "popular, likeable and harmless" 15-year-old boy outside his school gates has been jailed for a minimum of 14 years today. The 15-year-old masked killer who moments early had been laughing and singing ambushed Quamari Serunkuma-Barnes at the end of the school day. He was said to have been influenced by violent rap lyrics when he chased Quamari armed with a large knife in front of horrified pupils. Quamari had shouted for...

Rapist jailed after he filmed himself abusing victim on his mobile phone

  A vile rapist has been jailed for eight years after he filmed himself abusing a woman in her sleep and used the footage to blackmail her into keeping quiet. Evil Alex Somerfield, 23, raped his victim last December but after he assaulted her in the street in February, she reported him to police. A court heard the thug deleted the footage from his mobile phone but experts were able to retrieve the incriminating evidence. Somerfield, of Handsworth, Birmingham, was...

High-performance sportscar recovered from side of a house

A high-performance sportscar was recovered from the side of a house today (Tues) after it dramatically crashed through a wall and injured a man sat on his sofa. The white £20,000 VW Golf R was pulled from the dented three-bed semi after creating a picture-postcard snap of a Grand Theft Auto (GTA) video game stunt. A white VW Golf R is removed from the house it crashed into in York, which left one man seriously injured and three other people...

Killer behind tragic school stabbing revealed for the first time

This is the face of the killer who stabbed a fellow school pupil to death and can legally be named for the first time after turning 18-years-old. Daniel Stroud was found guilty of stabbing Bailey Gwynne to death in the corridors of a high-achieving secondary school as an argument took a dark turn for the worse. Daniel Stroud while on trial for murdering Bailey Gwynne, at the High Court in Aberdeen Stroud regularly brought knives with him to Cults Academy...

800 years of additional imprisonment imposed on prisoners in a YEAR

Almost 800 years of additional imprisonment were imposed on prisoners found to have broken prison rules last year, as jails across England and Wales descended further into chaos. Research by the Howard League for Penal Reform reveals today (Monday 4 September) that prisons are routinely and increasingly resorting to draconian punishments in a counter-productive attempt to regain control. It shows that almost 290,000 additional days of imprisonment were handed down to prisoners during 2016 – a 75 per cent rise...

Poundland hit with record fine for having dead rats in their stockroom

A bargain shop has been handed the biggest ever fine after inspectors discovered a rodent infestation that was so bad some of the rats were DEAD. Poundland was fined £100,000 and forced to shut after health inspectors discovered a widespread and uncontrolled rodent infestation throughout the store. Mouse droppings and evidence of urine were found on food shelves alongside gnawed and soiled packets of biscuits, nuts, sweets and popcorn. Droppings were found throughout the store and the behind-the-scenes storage areas...

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