This month, the BBC will broadcast a television adaptation of Maryland, a play about the culture of violence against women written by one of the UK’s leading playwrights
The play, which premiered at the Royal Court in London in 2021 as a fictional artistic response to recent real-life events, deals with the violence that women are forced to confront in their daily lives. This new 30-minute adaptation, co-directed with acclaimed documentary filmmaker Brian Hill, follows two ordinary women, both named Mary, and […]
This month, the BBC will broadcast a television adaptation of Maryland, a play about the culture of violence against women written by one…
The play, which premiered at the Royal Court in London in 2021 as a fictional artistic response to recent real-life events, deals with the violence that women are forced to confront in their daily lives. This new 30-minute adaptation, co-directed with acclaimed documentary filmmaker Brian Hill, follows two ordinary women, both named Mary, and […]
Detectives have released CCTV images of two men who may have information that can help with the investigation into the theft of a purse f…
On Saturday, June 18, a purse belonging to the woman was stolen from an Asda trolley.A man approached the woman around 09.00 and distracted her by asking about some items in the shop. Another man then went into her bag and took her purse, which contained a large sum of money.“We are very keen to […]
Detectives have released CCTV images of two men who may have information that can help with the investigation into the theft of a purse from a 90-year-old woman while she shopped in Huyton
On Saturday, June 18, a purse belonging to the woman was stolen from an Asda trolley.A man approached the woman around 09.00 and distracted her by asking about some items in the shop. Another man then went into her bag and took her purse, which contained a large sum of money.“We are very keen to […]
A 34-year-old man was sentenced to prison after being found guilty of a string of serious sexual offences in Perth, Angus, and Fife over …
In June, John Todd of Fife was found guilty of a number of charges, including rape, against three different women.He was sentenced to five years and ten months in prison today in Edinburgh’s High Court.Todd is a predatory and dangerous man who has committed a variety of serious crimes against a number of different women […]
A 34-year-old man was sentenced to prison after being found guilty of a string of serious sexual offences in Perth, Angus, and Fife over the course of five years
In June, John Todd of Fife was found guilty of a number of charges, including rape, against three different women.He was sentenced to five years and ten months in prison today in Edinburgh’s High Court.Todd is a predatory and dangerous man who has committed a variety of serious crimes against a number of different women […]
A Rochdale investigation into a vengeful conspiracy resulted in the imprisonment of ten gang members
Members of the same gang were sentenced to 131 years in prison today at Preston Crown Court.Harry Oni of Mythorn Walk, Manchester, was sentenced to 21 years in prison after being found guilty of conspiracy to murder at an earlier hearing; Jeffery Ojo of Newick Walk, Manchester, 21 years; Gideon Kalumda of William Lister Close, […]
A father who subjected his infant son to a litany of abusive violence has been sentenced to prison
Dwayne Gordon’s cruelty was revealed when a 17-month-old child, who we will not name, was taken to the John Radcliffe Hospital in January 2019 with facial injuries.The A&E doctor who examined the child, Dr Janet Craze, told Gordon’s trial in May that a slap mark on the boy’s face was “something, sadly, all paediatricians have […]
Police are looking for the vehicle and driver who failed to stop at the scene of the fatal collision in Plumstead
An elderly man died after being struck by a driver who did not stop at the scene. The pensioner, believed to be in his 60s, died at the scene after colliding with a car this afternoon in Plumstead (Friday, July 1). At around 2.40pm, emergency services, including an air ambulance that landed at a nearby […]
Police are looking for the vehicle and driver who failed to stop at the scene of the fatal collision in Plumstead
An elderly man died after being struck by a driver who did not stop at the scene. The pensioner, believed to be in his 60s, died at the scene after colliding with a car this afternoon in Plumstead (Friday, July 1). At around 2.40pm, emergency services, including an air ambulance that landed at a nearby […]