Articles by Paul Wright

Woman suffers life-changing burns after acid is thrown in her face in Canary Wharf

A 36-year-old woman has been left with life-changing burns to her leg and face after being victim to an acid attack in Canary Wharf, east London.

Dec 28, 2017

London UK crime

Sailor rescued 'after drifting in Indian Ocean with his cat for seven months'

Zbigniew Reket, a Polish sailor, and his cat have been found in a rudderless lifeboat in the Indian Ocean where he claims they had been drifting for seven months.

Dec 28, 2017

Private jet 'owned by Lord Ashcroft' crashes into building after being blown off runway

A private jet said to be owned by the billionaire Tory grandee Lord Ashcroft crashed into an office block in Malta after reportedly being blown off the runway by strong winds.

Dec 28, 2017

Mentally ill woman freezes to death 'after being locked in tiny room for 15 years by parents'

Japanese police say they have arrested a couple whose 33-year-old daughter, Airi Kakimoto, froze to death in a tiny room where she had been confined for more than a decade.

Dec 27, 2017

Japan

Vegan chef posts festive Facebook video before 'shooting wife and children dead on Christmas Day'

Vegan chef Anthony Milan Ross has been accused of shooting dead his wife and two children on Christmas Day in Phoenix, Arizona.

Dec 27, 2017

Children's magazine lists Israel alongside North Korea as 'not a real country'

A French children's magazine has been withdrawn from newsstands after it listed Israel alongside North Korea as places that weren't considered "real countries".

Dec 27, 2017

Israel France

Acid attack thug Arthur Collins smuggled phone into prison inside crutch to call Ferne McCann

Convicted acid attacker Arthur Collins likely to spend even more time behind bars after admitting to smuggling a phone into prison to call his ex-girlfriend Ferne McCann.

Dec 27, 2017

Paedophiles are using YouTube to advertise child abuse and porn

Paedophiles are using YouTube as a shop window to advertise abused children and underage pornography to other predators, it has been claimed.

Dec 27, 2017

YouTube Google

Woman molested 13-year-old boy in tent on Dorset beach after Facebook grooming

Charlene Baxter, a 29-year-old woman who groomed a 13-year-old boy over Facebook before molesting him in a tent on a Dorset beach, has been jailed.

Dec 22, 2017

Paedophile 'strangled and cut up 10-year-old boy before dumping remains around city'

Paedophile Alexander Georgievsky faces life in jail after luring Ruslan Korolev, 10, to his flat in Russia before strangling him and dismembering his body.

Dec 22, 2017

Russia

London abbot who molested 10 boys at scandal-hit Catholic school jailed for 18 years

Andrew Soper, a former abbot who molested children at a scandal-hit St Benedict's Catholic school, has been jailed for 18 years.

Dec 22, 2017

Man jailed for rape has conviction quashed after deleted Facebook messages recovered

Danny Kay, a man sentenced to four-and-a-half years in prison for rape, has had his conviction quashed after his lawyers recovered deleted Facebook messages.

Dec 22, 2017

Facebook

'Russian spy in Downing Street': Ukraine PM's interpreter arrested on suspicion of being Moscow mole

Stanislav Yezhov, who got close to Theresa May in Downing Street, arrested by Ukrainian secret service in Kiev.

Dec 21, 2017

Ukraine Theresa May

Police chief tells forces to not automatically believe 'victims' in sex abuse cases

Sara Thornton, head of National Police Chiefs Council, warns that policy of always believing alleged victim has warped judgment of officers.

Dec 21, 2017

Man who spent 31 years in prison for rape he didn't commit is finally exonerated

Governor of Tennessee clears Lawrence McKinney, 61, after DNA tests show accused was not rapist. Accused in line for big compensation payout.

Dec 21, 2017

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Car 'deliberately' ploughs into Christmas shoppers in Melbourne leaving 19 injured

More than a dozen people have been injured, including a toddler, after police say a car intentionally ploughed into pedestrians in the heart of Melbourne, Australia.

Dec 21, 2017

Homophobic attack sees violent thug stamp on victim's leg until it snaps

Kamil Snios, from Tottenham, North London, has been jailed after launching into a vicious homophobic attack that saw him stamp on his victim's leg until it snapped.

Dec 20, 2017

UK crime

WWE fan killed boy with body slam during row over £5

Wrestling fan Cole Mackin has been sentenced to more than three years behind bars after killing 14-year-old Reece Seagrave by body slamming him to the ground.

Dec 20, 2017

WWE

Stepfather jailed after children find dead five-year-old boy submerged in water park

Paul Smith, stepfather of Charlie Dunn, jailed for manslaughter after stepson drowned at Bosworth Water Park in Leicestershire.

Dec 20, 2017

UK crime

Mother and father arrested after trying to swap their children for drugs

California couple Vincent Calogero and Sarah Nilson accused of putting their own children up for sale to fund drugs habit.

Dec 20, 2017

California

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