Three South American thieves who embarked on a 'shameful voyage' to Britain to rob tourists in a carefully orchestrated scam were jailed today for a total of eight-and-a-half years. (FRI)
They prey
POUNDS 2.5M POT PLOT SUNK
TWO men appeared in court yesterday after police foiled an underwater plot
to smuggle cannabis worth pounds 2.5million.
Matthew Woodcraft, 30, and Lee Woolcock, 31, we
A drug dealer was shot in the face at his home when a turf war exploded in North Kensington, an inquest heard.
Wayne Thomas, 37, was blasted with a shotgun at close range as rival crack traders
A young woman told a jury today (WED) how her former boss offered pnds stlg 50,000 if she could find a hitman to kill her common-law husband.
Baker's assistant Jacqueline Gaywood, 22, said business
A jailed drugs dealer facing the onslaught of full-blown AIDS was said to have pocketed nearly pnds stlng 31,000 selling illicit substances.
Earlier this year Jose Tristan-Garcia escaped with a 'me
The mastermind who orchestrated the 20th Century's biggest contemporary art fraud was today (FRI) faced with a pnds stlng 125,000 bill or face another two years behind bars.
Nicknamed the 'puppet-m
The best friend of a murder victim sobbed today (WED) as she told the Old Bailey she feared they were both 'condemned to death' after a drugs deal went wrong.
Wendy Woodhouse, 31, was pistol-whippe
A pnds stlg 1.9 million confiscation probe into a police couple behind a massive fraud has been put off after the hearing hit a snag.
Police inspector Anne O'Grady became a master of disguise to
A former Cardiff solicitor who was kicked out of the profession for mortgage fraud failed in his appeal to practise law again today. (Tues)
Gurmit Singh Randhawa, 49, was struck off after he receiv
Osteopath Jemma Mitchell gets 34 years for the murder and decapitation of Mee Kuen Chong 
‘Love Bug’ killer who eavesdropped on his housemate and her boyfriend gets 25 years 
THE CURSE OF BRINKS MAT 
He chopped his mum’s head off, put her finger in the kettle and blamed his dad 
Freed from hospital to kill his third girlfriend Two Russian immigrants put a young woman through a nightmare gang rape attack after inviting her to a poetry evening, a court heard today.
The terrified 25-year-old put up a desperate struggle but sh
