A woman in the United Kingdom recalled her harrowing memories, alleging that her former husband had drugged, raped and took photographs when she was unconscious. In a report by the BBC, the woman said that her husband has been abusive and controlling in private. To hide the identity of the victim, the BBC gave her…
A British man who served 38 years in prison for murder had his conviction overturned on Tuesday after forensic evidence from the crime scene was tested and found not to match his DNA. The man, Peter Sullivan, 68, is thought to be the victim of the country’s longest miscarriage of justice involving a living prisoner….
British laws restricting what the police can say about criminal cases are “not fit for the social media age,” a government committee said in a report released Monday in Britain that highlighted how unchecked misinformation stoked riots last summer. Violent disorder, fueled by the far right, affected several towns and cities for days after a…
Andrew Tate, the online influencer known for his misogynistic views, has been accused of raping two women and threatening one of them with a gun, in a claim filed in Britain’s High Court. The accusations are part of a civil suit filed by the two women, and two others, last June against Mr. Tate. The…
Prosecutors in Britain have charged Russell Brand, the comedian and actor, with multiple counts of sexual assault, including two counts of rape. The country’s Crown Prosecution Service announced the charges on Friday. Jaswant Narwal, a prosecutor, said in the statement that Mr. Brand would appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court in London for a first hearing…
More than two years after he was ensnared in a murder conspiracy case, a young man was freed from prison on Wednesday after Britain’s Court of Appeal found that the authorities had misidentified him in a video. The man, Ademola Adedeji, 21, was among 10 young Black men from Manchester whom prosecutors had accused of…
A Hong Kong-born doctor has admitted disguising himself as a nurse and attempting to murder his mother’s partner in Britain by injecting him with a poison-laced fake Covid vaccine in a dispute over inheritance of property. Thomas Kwan, 53, wore a bizarre disguise consisting of a fake beard and hairpiece before administering the injection to…