Articles by Josh Robbins

Josh is a reporter at IBTimes UK. He was previously the Google News Lab fellow at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism.

Republican senator with child prostitute in motel room caught on police camera

Ralph Shortey has since resigned from the Oklahoma senate and pleaded guilty to child sex trafficking – he faces between ten years and life in prison for his crime.

Dec 5, 2017

IT guy threw £74m of Bitcoin in the bin – now he's offering the council a cut if they help find it

Newport IT worker James Howells was one of the earliest adopters of Bitcoin: he amassed 7,500 Bitcoins back in February 2009 when they were worth less than $1.

Dec 5, 2017

Bitcoin

200 UK paedophiles busted in just one week by 'Britain's FBI'

Some 192 suspected paedophiles were arrested in just one week during a UK-wide operation by the National Crime Agency (NCA), sometimes referred to as Britain's FBI.

Dec 5, 2017

FBI

Egyptian-born Abu Hamza, 41, who has a distinctive metal claw replacing one of his hands

Islamic hate preacher's armed robber son released from prison six years early

Imran Mostafa, the son of Abu Hamza, has been released from a British prison after serving less than half of his 11-year sentence for armed robbery.

Dec 5, 2017

Online bullies troll parents of teen, 13, who hung herself after school bullying

Rosalie Avila's parents found her hanging in her bedroom. They say their daughter, who dreamed of becoming a lawyer, was driven to suicide by bullies at Mesa View Middle School.

Dec 4, 2017

California

North Korean 'ghost boats' washing up in Japan as Kim Jong-un demands more fish

The Japanese coast guard said it found the decomposed bodies of three men in Yamagata prefecture on 4 December, two days after a battered wooden fishing boat was recovered nearby.

Dec 4, 2017

Heroin dealer sprayed acid in 14-year-old's face

James Packham was on bail for the acid attack when police in Kent nabbed him selling heroin and crack cocaine.

Dec 4, 2017

Mugger paralysed man with knife to the head and chest in London park

Jermaine McDonald, 26, has been jailed for 13 years after the vicious attack on a pair, in their thirties, who were sat chatting in a Dulwich Park on the afternoon of 27 April.

Dec 1, 2017

CCTV shows driver break traffic warden's shoulder because he was 'having a bad day'

Daniel Corneille, 47, will spend two years behind bars after he launched an attack on a traffic warden taking photos of his car on Sheerness High Street, Kent.

Dec 1, 2017

Jeremy Corbyn is an underwhelming grandpa, says GQ editor on his 'torturous' photoshoot

GQ boss Dylan Jones said Corbyn, 68, was "like a grandpa" who needed to be "pushed around for the family Christmas photograph".

Dec 1, 2017

Jeremy Corbyn David Cameron

Shoppers walk among illuminated Christmas decorations in a shopping mall at Berlin's Potsdamer Platz

German police find explosives at Berlin Christmas market

Police in Berlin, Germany have evacuated a Christmas market and are investigating a suspicious object.

Dec 1, 2017

Brexit voters and Britain First supporters are more likely to believe conspiracy theories

IBTimes UK's analyses of Twitter data reveals Britain First followers' obsession with Madeleine McCann's disappearance and other conspiracy theories.

Dec 1, 2017

Twitter EU Referendum

Handcuffed prisoner headbutts paedophile in stunning courtroom attack

Christopher Elwell, 29, who sexually assaulted a four-year-old girl, had just been jailed for up to 15 years by a judge at Strafford County Superior Court, New Hampshire.

Dec 1, 2017

Ink-onceivable: Police hunt felon with criminally bad tattoo on his face

Police are hunting down a felon with a criminally bad tattoo on his face. Corey Hughes, 27, absconded from his work crew on 27 November.

Nov 29, 2017

Teenage boys burned 12-year-old girls alive over £3.50 debt

A pair of teenage boys killed two 12-year-old girls and a man by trapping them inside a cave along with a burning sofa after a dispute over four euros, a court heard.

Nov 29, 2017

African slaves 'mutilated and cooked like kebabs' by Libya gangs

Ex-culture minister Femi Fani-Kayode lamented the plight of Africans who arrive on the Mediterranean coast dreaming of a new life in Europe only to be forced into slavery.

Nov 29, 2017

UFC star posts shocking Instagram pic of disembowelled friend 'tortured by police'

Undefeated Khabib Nurmagomedov claimed police had tortured his friend Akim Kuliev, who was accused of setting fire to a government building in Dagestan, Russia, earlier this year.

Nov 29, 2017

Instagram

Jeremy Corbyn says Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will 'have a lot of fun together'

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has responded to news of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's engagement, saying: "I'm sure they're going to have a great deal of fun together."

Nov 27, 2017

Jeremy Corbyn Prince Harry Meghan Markle

Vicious girl gang break teen's rib, slash her face with scissors and hack off her hair

The brutal and random attack took place in Wigan at the beginning of November, leaving Morgan Corrigan distraught and scared to leave the house.

Nov 27, 2017

Facebook

UK cocaine network smashed by Manchester police seizing £2.5m of drugs

The gang, which is headed up by Manchester twins Marcus and Jamal Anderson, flooded the UK with the class A drug while secretly being monitored by GMP investigators.

Nov 25, 2017

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