The number of prisoners released in error more than doubled in the year to March 2025, Government data shows. A report by His Majesty's Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) said 262 prisoners were released in error from April 2024 to March 2025, up from 115 in the year to March 2024. HMPPS said in the report that releases in error remain infrequent and believes the rise is linked to changes in the law, and the early release scheme which Labour introduced in September 2024.
New footage is giving the public a first look at one of the four masked men who scaled a balcony at the Louvre in France on Sunday and successfully made off with eight pieces of Napoleonic jewelry in a meticulously timed heist. Armed with power tools and dressed in high-visibility jackets, the gang broke through a second-floor window of the country's most famous museum, accessing the Apollon gallery via a maintenance area, where the French crown jewels are kept,
Brooklyn, NY - A 64-year-old MTA employee was slashed in the neck late Monday night inside the Nostrand Avenue subway station, sparking a police manhunt for the suspect who fled into the darkness. The attack happened around 10:30 p.m., when the on-duty transit worker was standing on the roadbed of the southbound tunnel. An unidentified man approached and struck without warning, cutting the victim on the left side of his neck with an unknown object before running off on foot in an unknown direction.
When Constance Marten fell pregnant for the fifth time with Mark Gordon, they were determined to keep the baby. Over the previous four years, a family court had removed their first four children from their care a decision the parents tried to claim was a miscarriage of justice driven by a corrupt social services system. So they hatched a plan to carefully conceal her pregnancy from the world and delivered baby Victoria in secret in a holiday cottage in Northumberland on Christmas Eve 2022.
Tom Phillips had been on the run with his three children since December 2021 The remote and squalid bush camp where a fugitive hid his three children before he was killed in a police shoot-out has been exposed in photos released by New Zealand authorities. Tom Phillips's four years on the run in the wilderness of New Zealand's North Island came to a bloody end on Monday when he was killed in a shoot-out with police near the small town of Piopio.
Victoria police say they have arrested a 42-year-old woman and a 15-year-old boy, interviewed them and released them pending further inquiries in their search for suspected gunman Dezi Freeman in Victoria's high country. As of Friday morning there had been no confirmed sightings of Freeman, 56, also known as Desmond Filby, since he allegedly shot and killed two police officers and injured a third when they came to execute an arrest warrant on him at a rural property in Porepunkah on Tuesday.
The attacks on Minnesota lawmakers, labeled as targeted political violence, highlight the distressing trend of such assaults on public officials, raising questions about safety and security.