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Parents whose children commit crimes could lose their benefits, face fines and even be jailed, a minister has said.Jake Richards said the youth justice system “should…

Hashim Thaçi, the former president of Kosovo, has been sentenced to 25 years in prison by a tribunal in The Hague for war crimes, including dozens…

A rickshaw driver in Somalia has been sentenced to three years in prison for comments she made on social media, in a case that has caught…

Two men have been jailed under the new offence of endangering others during a journey at sea.The two small-boat pilots are the first to be sentenced…

A man who evaded justice for nearly two decades has been jailed for 21 years for a “savage” rape for which Andrew Malkinson was wrongly imprisoned.Paul…

David Lammy has promised to cut the number of children kept in jail while they await trial by a quarter as part of an overhaul of…

A co-founder of the clothing company Superdry has been jailed for eight years for raping a woman after a night out in Cheltenham.James Holder, 54, had…

The jailed media entrepreneur Jimmy Lai has been awarded Deutsche Welle’s freedom of speech award for his contribution to Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement.The German public broadcaster…

A man convicted of killing his wife, who took her own life after repeated domestic abuse, has been jailed for eight years in a case seen…

Her ordeal began with stomach cramps; 19 years old and training to be a nurse, she knew something was wrong. At the hospital she waited for…