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David Harker killed mother-of-four Julie Paterson in Darlington in 1998, and only some of her remains were ever found. ...
29/05/2026

David Harker killed mother-of-four Julie Paterson in Darlington in 1998, and only some of her remains were ever found.

The now 51-year-old is serving a life sentence after admitting manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility and has just been denied parole for a ninth time.

Harker, who has been eligible for parole since 2013, boasted to friends and psychiatrists that he had fried part of his victim’s thigh and eatten it with pasta and cheese.

The Parole Board said it was still not considered safe to allow Harker to be released or to be transferred, based on the continuing need to protect the public. Harker was 24 when he was sentenced in 1999.

Psychiatrists agreed he had a severe psychopathic disorder when he killed Ms Paterson, meaning he was not guilty of murder. The Parole Board said the law required Harker’s case to be assessed regularly.

29/05/2026

High on laughing gas doing 140mph in a 30mph zone.

Two men have been jailed in a landmark fatal dangerous driving case where the passenger received a longer sentence than the driver.

Uways Hussain was jailed for 11 years and eight months, and Usmon Mahmood – who was a passenger in the car – was given 12 months and nine months for the crash in Manchester in March 2026 and resulted in the death of Sylvester Abayomi.

Police believe it is the first time nationally where a passenger has been convicted for aid and abetting causing death by dangerous driving.

The sentences, handed down Friday, following a night of dangerous driving which saw the pair film themselves travelling at speeds of over 100mph in a 30mph area; seconds before impact, they were recorded at 139mph.

The vehicle was owned by Mahmood, but he let his mate drive. Mobile footage from the evening shows Mahmood inhaling from a balloon while sitting in the passenger seat. The pair ran red lights, weaved through traffic “with no regard for the safety of other road users or pedestrians.

At 4.36am, Mr Abayomi was on his way to work and proceeded through a green light, when he was hit by Hussain at extremely high speed. He later died.

Hussain and Mahmood fled the scene, but not before Hussain's Apple Watch called police.

Mr Abayomi’s partner, Denise, called him the “love of her life” and remembered him as “the most caring soul and gentle person you could ever meet”.

29/05/2026

“No way, bro almost killed someone.”

The moment a teenager hurled a 15kg sofa from the top floor of a mall, narrowly missing shoppers below, has been captured on newly released CCTV.

The 16-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, launched the soft furnishing from a 50ft balcony at Stratford’s Westfield Shopping Centre on 1 March last year, as his friend, 15, filmed him.

The teens were arrested shortly after video of the incident ,with the caption, “no way bro almost killed someone”, went viral online.

The 15-year-old confessed to criminal damage of the ÂŁ500 sofa chair as well as admitting to recklessly causing a public nuisance, and was handed a 12-month referral order, a three-month doorstep curfew and fined ÂŁ426 at the Stratford Youth Court. The 16-year-old, who threw the chair, also admitted recklessly causing a public nuisance and criminal damage. He was given an eight-month Detention and Training Order by the same court in September 2025.

Police are reviewing the footage and have reached out to Dame Helen. The Metropolitan Police are reviewing footage of D...
29/05/2026

Police are reviewing the footage and have reached out to Dame Helen.

The Metropolitan Police are reviewing footage of Dame Helen Mirren being abused in a now-viral street video and may consider investigating it as a hate crime.

Video of the actress being accosted and called an “evil Zionist *****” circulated on social media earlier this week but is believed to have been first published in November.

The Met has said they are trying to contact Dame Helen to see if she wants to report the incident, and in a statement added: “We are aware of a video circulating online, showing a man and a woman being subjected to antisemitic verbal abuse in Tower Hill.

“It is believed that the incident took place at the end of last year. Officers are currently reviewing the footage and making attempts to contact the victims to establish whether they would like to report the incident

“The Met continues to work hard to tackle hate crimes of all types, and officers across London have made more than 90 hate crime arrests since the end of March.”

A family court had ruled Oakley should be taken off his mum. Emma Barnett fed her 14-month-old son a fatal cocktail of ...
29/05/2026

A family court had ruled Oakley should be taken off his mum.

Emma Barnett fed her 14-month-old son a fatal cocktail of prescription medications before he could be taken into care, hiding in her loft with the boy after a family court hearing to “extend the time she had left with Oakley”.

The 36-year-old, from Debden, Essex, hid with Oakley after a court determined on 8 November 2024 thar her 14-month-old son should be taken off her.

Barnett and Oakley were initially reported missing – after she parked her car at Epping Forest and walked home – but were later found after police forced entry to her home.

Barnett had prepared a bottle containing a mixture of milk and medication, which she gave to Oakley, and which caused his death.

Officers spoke to Barnett by phone, and through the loft hatch, and were initially told the boy was sleeping, before she admitted, “I have killed him”. Barnett later tried to take her own life while police were present.

She is due to be sentenced on 5 June.

Police said the case was “extremely upsetting and difficult” for everybody involved.

29/05/2026

Jill Biden has opened up about her husband’s disastrous 2024 presidential debate with Donald Trump, saying she thought he was “having a stroke”.

“I was frightened because I had never seen Joe like that before or since. Never,” the former First Lady said.
“I don’t know what happened. As I watched it, I thought, ‘Oh, my God, he’s having a stroke.”

After the incident, Donald Trump was asked to respond but said he couldn’t as he didn’t know what President Biden had just said.

President Biden came under intense pressure to step down after the debate and ultimately stepped aside and endorsed then-vice president, Kamala Harris.

“Animals adapted to live in the sub-Antarctic, with its icy temperatures and dynamic weather, can never thrive in a room...
29/05/2026

“Animals adapted to live in the sub-Antarctic, with its icy temperatures and dynamic weather, can never thrive in a room in a city centre.”


Penguins kept in a windowless, underground basement at Sea Life London Aquarium are to be moved, the owner of the facility has announced, following a long-running campaign to free them.

Merlin Entertainments has said it will phase out gentoo penguins at all of its UK facilities and would merge 14 kept at its London site with 17 housed at their Birmingham facility.

They will live at a new habitat that has natural light and more water space. The firm also committed to ending breeding of the birds permanently after holding two-days of talks.

The penguins at the London facility have been housed there since the “Penguin Point” exhibit first opened in May 2011.

Campaigners have long called for the company to provide better facilities and conditions for the birds.

Laura Walton, Co-Director, Freedom for Animals, said: “While improved conditions can never resolve the fundamental ethical issue of captivity, we recognise that the proposed measures would make a material difference to the lives of these penguins. Importantly, Merlin Entertainments’ commitment to permanently end gentoo penguin breeding at both SEA LIFE London Aquarium and SEA LIFE Birmingham is a significant step forward.”

Dr Carys Bennett, Senior Corporate Projects Manager, PETA said: “Animals adapted to live in the sub-Antarctic, with its icy temperatures and dynamic weather, can never thrive in a room in a city centre. These incredible birds deserve better.”

29/05/2026

An undercover 5 News investigation has exposed the dangerous - and growing - market in backstreet cosmetic practices spreading across the UK, with surgeries taking place in unregulated environments - from rented spaces to living rooms.
Authorities have warned of copycat operators and a “travelling network of rogue surgeons”. Here's what we found.

Two brothers accused of assaulting a police officer at Manchester Airport during a fracas which went viral on social med...
29/05/2026

Two brothers accused of assaulting a police officer at Manchester Airport during a fracas which went viral on social media will not face a third trial after prosecutors offered no evidence.

The decision was made after two separate juries at Liverpool Crown Court could not reach verdicts on allegations that Mohammed Fahir Amaaz, 21, and Muhammad Amaad, 26, assaulted Pc Zachary Marsden in July 2024 causing him actual bodily harm.

Both men, from Rochdale, denied the charge and said they acted in lawful self-defence, or in defence of the other.

Last week, the second jury was discharged after they deliberated for nearly 20 hours following a five-week trial.

Amaaz was remanded in custody last year after he was convicted at the first trial of the assault of Pc Lydia Ward and Pc Ellie Cook during the same incident on July 23.

He will be sentenced on June 26.

"Who here will examine how the British state let this happen?"A Canadian man accused of selling poison linked to the dea...
29/05/2026

"Who here will examine how the British state let this happen?"

A Canadian man accused of selling poison linked to the deaths of more than 100 Brits won’t be extradited to the UK to face justice after his case in Canada concludes.

Kenneth Law, 60, is expected to admit aiding su***de in Canada on Friday after allegedly selling 1,200 packages across 40 countries, including the UK.

The hotel cook was arrested in 2023, with a National Crime Agency (NCA) probe into Law’s website finding that 286 individuals received packages in the UK, leading to 112 deaths.

According to reports, the NCA and Crown Prosecution Service has written to bereaved families in the UK telling them that Law will not face charges here.

In a letter, they explained that Mr Law “should not be sentenced for the full extent of his offending within a single sentencing process in Canada”, an approach, they said was “not unusual in cases involving serious offending that crosses international borders”.

Adele Zeynep Walton said: “The question for our own country is simpler still: who here will examine how the British state let this happen, and what it will do so that no other family goes through it?

29/05/2026

To the moon and boom!

Days after Nasa announced Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin won a contract to launch the first of three planned missions to the moon – one of his rockets exploded in a massive fireball during a test in Florida.

The explosion engulfed the New Glenn rocket and destroyed the launchpad at the Kennedy Space Centre, seconds after the start of the scheduled “hotfire” test. The orange sky was reportedly visible from 185km away.

The rocket is the type Blue Origin intends to use for the moon launch. Mr Bezos

Mr Bezos later tweeted that no one was hurt in the explosion, which he called a “very tough day”.

Nasa tweeted that a full evaluation of the timeline will be conducted but branded the testing “extraordinarily difficult”.

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