Glencore told to pay £281m over international bribery scandal November 3, 2022 A London judge today told a UK subsidiary of Glencore to pay a total sum of £281m over an international bribery scandal that saw its staff pay almost $29m (£25.6m) in bribes to officials in Africa. At a sentencing hearing today, Judge Peter Fraser said a “culture” of bribery was “endemic” within Glencore’s West Africa [...]
Convicted: Ex Labour MP Jared O’Mara guilty of fraud to fund cocaine habit – while in office February 8, 2023 A former Labour MP has been found guilty of making fraudulent expenses claims to fund a cocaine habit while in office. Jared O’Mara was convicted of six counts of fraud after trying to claim around £24,000 of taxpayers’ money for his “extravagant lifestyle”. The 41-year-old, who represented the constituency of Sheffield Hallam from 2017 to [...]
Former Labour MP Jared O’Mara ‘tried to claim up to £30,000 to fund extensive cocaine habit’ January 23, 2023 A former MP tried to fraudulently claim up to £30,000 in taxpayers’ money to fund an “extensive cocaine habit”, prosecutors have said. Jared O’Mara, 41, who represented the constituency of Sheffield Hallam from 2017 to 2019, is on trial for submitting “dishonest” invoices to the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa). Jurors at Leeds Crown Court [...]
Shock ruling: BBC Radio One DJ who abused vulnerable children sees jail term increased from 12 to 18 years June 10, 2022 Mark Page, a former Radio One DJ who arranged to have sex with vulnerable children in the Philippines, has had his jail term increased from 12 years to 18 years by Court of Appeal judges. Page, 63, who worked at the station in the 1980s, had been given a 12-year sentence by Judge Paul Watson [...]
Benjamin Mendy: Premier League footballer for Manchester City cleared of sex attacks and rape January 13, 2023 Premier League footballer Benjamin Mendy has been cleared of sex attacks on four women, as jurors failed to reach verdicts on two others following a six-month trial. The Manchester City star, 28, sitting in the dock at Chester Crown Court, covered his face with both hands, gently rocking back and forth, as the jury foreman, [...]
Blackmail plot: Shadow from ’90s ITV show Gladiator jailed for for six years August 27, 2021 Michael Jefferson King, 60, better known as Shadow from ‘90s television show Gladiators, has been jailed at Isleworth Crown Court for six years and three months for his role in a blackmail plot. The bodybuilder, famous for his starring role in the 1990s television programme, was one of four people who kept a man detained [...]
Disbelief and anger as man who kept low IQ victim for 40 years in a horse box walks free: ‘I had nowhere else to go’ February 4, 2022 There was disbelief and anger today as a man who exploited a vulnerable victim found living in a squalid shed has walked free from court. Peter Swailes Jr, 56, was sentenced at Carlisle Crown Court to a nine-month jail term, suspended for 18 months. The victim had been “used and exploited” for 40 years while [...]
Former Norton motorcycle boss pleads guilty to pensions investment breaches February 7, 2022 The former owner of motorcycle firm Norton has pleaded guilty to three charges of breaching employer related investment (ERI) rules after he pumped more than five per cent of his firm’s three pension schemes back into his business. Stuart James Garner, 53, was accused of illegally investing cash from the Dominator 2012, Commando 2012 and [...]
The sadistic scandal rocking rural Yorkshire this week: Disturbed vicar’s decade of bamboo cane abuse April 2, 2022 It is a matter of “deep, deep shame” for the Church of England that a sadistic vicar was able to continue to beat a vulnerable woman with a bamboo cane during a decade-long period of abuse, a bishop said this morning. In the trial of Hilary Alflatt, 87, it emerged that the church authorities had [...]
NatWest falls back into private hands after 14 years under majority taxpayer ownership March 28, 2022 NatWest has fallen back into private ownership after the state ditched more of its holdings in the high street lender, the government announced today. It is the first time since the financial crisis 14 years ago that the bank formerly known as Royal Bank of Scotland has not been majority owned by the taxpayer. The [...]