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A man has appeared in court after being charged in connection with the sexual assault of two girls in Kenilworth.

Ahmad Hania was detained after police were called on Monday evening to a hotel in the town where they located both victims.

Hania, of King Edward Road in Nuneaton, was arrested that night at his home and has been charged with a series of sexual offences, Warwickshire Police said.

The Syrian national appeared at Coventry Magistrates' Court on Tuesday morning and was remanded in custody. He is next due to appear at Warwick Crown Court on 17 September.

He has been charged with sexual assault on a female, one count of engaging in penetrative sexual activity with a girl under the age of 16 and one count of engaging in non-penetrative sexual activity with a girl under the age of 16.

The girls and their families are being supported by specially trained officers who are keeping them updated on the case, police confirmed.

Three men have admitted to planning a shooting in the West Midlands, which saw shots fired at an address.

The shooting took place on Talke Road, in the Bescot area of Walsall, in the early hours of March 13, 2024.

West Midlands Police (WMP) said the incident took place at around 4am that day.

Thankfully, no one was injured.

An investigation was launched by detectives, who discovered Mohammed Khan, aged 20, Junaid Shabir, 21, and Haider Shabir, 23, had conspired together to plan the shooting.

The incident followed an altercation earlier that month.

All three defendants initially pleaded not guilty to the charges put to them.

However, on the first day of their planned trial last Wednesday, August 12, at Wolverhampton Crown Court, they pleaded guilty to conspiring to possess a firearm with intent to cause fear of violence.

The men are due to be sentenced at a later date.

Chris Wormald received unprecedented payment after serving as cabinet secretary for just 14 months

The former head of the civil service Chris Wormald received a record payout, in the region of £500,000, when he was forced out of the top job in Whitehall by Keir Starmer, it has emerged.
The unprecedented payment was made after Wormald served just 14 months in the role of cabinet secretary before being replaced by Antonia Romeo.

There had been speculation about the scale of the payout, first reported by the FT, after Cat Little, the permanent secretary of the Cabinet Office, had to request a ministerial direction from Starmer in February to override value-for-money concerns before she could approve it.
In her letter to the prime minister at the time, she wrote: “In respect of value for money, I have consulted civil service HR and legal advisers and have had due regard to managing public money and the consideration of Sir Chris Wormald’s employment rights in the circumstances. The proposed award is greater than what Sir Chris Wormald would be contractually entitled to.

A convicted drug dealer and drill music artist has been returned to prison after bringing a firearm to a probation appointment.

Noble Nwokocha, 24, was arrested by Essex Police officers after a converted blank-firing revolver was found inside a coat he had brought with him to a probation office in Laindon.

Nwokocha, who performs under the alias ‘Drilla’ with Edmonton-based drill collective 3x3, was on licence from prison following a previous conviction secured by Essex Police.

In 2023, he was convicted of supplying heroin and cocaine as part of a county line operating in Basildon.

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A Labour MP has been suspended as he faces questions over taxpayer-funded Covid business loans.

Bayo Alaba, the MP for Southend East and Rochford, is understood to have referred himself to the Labour Party for investigation after The Times approached him with queries about a Covid-era loan given to one of his businesses.

The newspaper reported that he attempted to wind up one of his businesses before settling one of two bounceback loans he took out.

Mr Alaba is now repaying both loans, The Times reports.

The Labour Party said the matters will be “investigated in line with the party’s rules”.

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A married dad who preyed on a schoolgirl, then took her on dates in Glasgow while she was supposed to be in school, has avoided jail.

Zubair Javid, 40, preyed upon the 15-year-old between April 1 and June 14 last year.

Javid went with the girl for coffee, food and to the cinema, which he paid for, including her travel.

He kissed his victim on the lips at the end of each meeting, which he said “felt really good.”

Javid also complimented the teenager and told her that he “loved” her.

First offender Javid pleaded guilty at Glasgow Sheriff Court to sending written sexual communication to the girl.

He also admitted to engaging in sexual activity with her.

Sheriff Michael Hanlon told Javid at sentencing: “This was a very serious offence which involved a young girl with a significant age difference between yourself and her which continued over a long period of time. 

“It is clear you should ultimately have been aware that she was underage.

“The narrative said you were meeting her when she was wearing her school uniform on occasions.

“The victim impact statement suggests it clearly has had an impact on her and understandably so.

“I want to make it clear to everyone affected by this that any shame or embarrassment is on your shoulders. It is you who is responsible. 

“You are a first offender and are at a low risk of re-offending. You have expressed some degree of remorse and accept that punishment should be imposed upon you. 

A Lancashire Police officer with alleged links to an organised crime group is due in court to face two corruption-related charges following an Independent Office for Police Conduct-directed investigation.

PC Hakeem Mahmood, 30, who was investigated by Lancashire Constabulary’s Anti-Corruption Unit, will appear at Burnley Crown Court tomorrow (August 14).
Mahmood, of Accrington, is alleged to have conspired with others to supply a Class A drug and participated in the criminal activities of an organised crime group between August 2024 and January 2026.   

On conclusion of the investigation in June, the case was referred to the Crown Prosecution Service, which authorised the charges of conspiring to supply a Class A controlled drug and corrupt/improper exercise of police powers and privileges by a police constable.
He was arrested on June 24.
He will appear in court alongside Waqar Khan, 30, of Exchange Street, Accrington, who is charged with conspiring to supply cocaine.

Also in the dock will be:

Asif Fazal, 33, of Higher Antley Street, Accrington,
Zeeshan Hussain, 20, of Paddock Street, Oswaldtwistle,
Raheem Rangzeb, 23, of Lister Street, Accrington,
Khaleel Asghar, 30, of Crossland Street, Accrington, and
Sarfraz Hussain, 33, of Bagley Wood Road, Oxford

A man who murdered a man sleeping rough by repeatedly dropping a stone slab on his head has been sentenced again after successfully appealing his first conviction.

Sergio Lemori, 40, killed Andrew O'Connell, 54, from Chatham in Kent, while he slept in Brighton's Royal Pavilion Gardens on the evening of 7 August, 2018.

Lemori, originally from Brazil, of no fixed address, originally pleaded guilty to the murder in December 2018 but after six years, successfully appealed his conviction on the basis of diminished responsibility.

The case was retried at Hove Crown Court where a jury returned a unanimous guilty verdict and Lemori has now been re-sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 25 years.

In a statement released after Lemori's re-conviction, O'Connell's family said: "Although the defendant chose to appeal, the truth remained unchanged.

"While no court decision can undo the loss or erase the suffering, it reaffirms what we have always known - that Andy deserved justice, dignity, and to have his voice heard.

"We honour a life that was taken far too soon, a life that touched so many people with love, kindness, and memories that will never fade.

"His absence is felt every day, but so too is his lasting impact on everyone fortunate enough to have known him."

CCTV footage showed Lemori carrying out the attack. He initially denied the offence but later admitted murder before his first conviction.

A man from Bradford who admitted to a number of child sex offences has been jailed for six years.
Rehan Ali aged 24 of Falsgrave Avenue admitted two counts of inciting a girl under 13 to engage in sexual activity, making an indecent photograph of a child, attempt to incident a girl aged 13 -15 to engage in sexual activity and attempting to engage in sexual communication with a child. 
The offences happened between October and November 2024 when Ali used snapchat to befriend two girls who were seven and eight years old. 
Ali then contacted a child he believed to be a girl aged 13, on Facebook and then WhatsApp. He engaged in sexual communications making attempts to incite the child into sexual activity. This was a decoy profile operation by an online child abuse group.

A young mum tricked into a taxi before being raped by a man who followed her after Christmas night out said she thought she was ‘going to die’.

Mohammed Al Masri, 25, tricked the ‘extremely drunk’ lone woman, telling her he would take her home in an Uber. He in fact took her back to his east Manchester HMO where he raped her as a friend watched and possibly filmed part of the attack, a court heard.

Officers arrested him moments after the attack after she managed to send her live location to her boyfriend via WhatsApp, who then alerted the police.

Al Masri - a political refugee from the Assad regime in Syria - was today (Friday, August 7) ruled to be a dangerous offender by a judge as he was jailed for eight years.

The victim, in her 20s, had been out drinking with a friend in Manchester city centre on a ‘pre-Christmas night out’ on December 21 last year, Manchester’s Minshull Street Crown Court was told.

At the end of the night they ‘went their separate ways’ and the woman tried to get a taxi, Lewis Hazeldine, prosecuting, said.

“She was followed by the defendant and an associate,” Mr Hazeldine said. The woman was concerned enough to tell her boyfriend, who she was on the phone to.

The men began speaking to her and ‘offered to get her an Uber home’, the prosecutor said. She saw them type her postcode into the Uber app, so was ‘satisfied they were taking her home’, he said.

But as soon as she got into the car, she began ‘to feel unsafe’ and feeling the effects of alcohol, saying her ‘head was starting to spin’, he added.

The taxi driver told police she ‘fell asleep on the defendant’s shoulder’ and later ‘with her head in his lap’. She had the ‘presence of mind’ to share her live location with her boyfriend.

Rather than take her home, the men took her to the house of multiple occupancy (HMO) in Abbey Hey, Gorton, where Al Masri was living. The victim was so intoxicated, she had to be ‘lifted and carried out of the taxi by the two men’ and was taken to the defendant's bedroom, Mr Hazeldine said.

The mother of a 13-year-old girl who was attacked while roller-skating home in Basildon has praised the "speed and compassion" shown by Essex Police throughout the investigation.

She said her daughter was "listened to, believed and treated with care" from the moment the incident was reported, and credited the swift police response with helping her daughter's recovery and ensuring the offender was quickly brought to justice.

Her comments come after Mohammed Younas, 31, was jailed for a total of nine years and two months with an extended licence of three years at Basildon Crown Court on Wednesday 5 August.

Younas - a British-born national - admitted a range of serious offences, including kidnap, engaging in sexual activity in the presence of a child, being concerned in the supply of cocaine, possession of criminal property and possession with intent to supply cocaine and cannabis.

His conviction followed a fast-moving investigation which saw officers identify him through DNA evidence and arrest him within three days of the attack.

The victim had been spending time in Basildon with a friend on 30 April.

After visiting a shopping centre and roller-skating together, the pair headed home.

Having left her friend at her address, the girl continued towards her own home alone.

As she reached Parkside, she was approached by Younas, who began following her.

He asked if she "wanted a push", which she declined.

Younas then grabbed the girl, covered her mouth and forced her along a path towards an area of bushes.

There, he placed her on the ground, warned her not to scream and claimed he had a knife and a gun.

The incident lasted only moments before he discarded the girl's phone and fled.

The victim courageously made her way home and immediately told her mother what had happened.

Officers were alerted and an investigation began.

A man has been jailed for seven-and-a-half years for the attempted murder of his estranged wife in front of their child on an Edinburgh street.

Osarenkhoe Atutie admitted the attack on Duke Street, Leith, last November - where he hugged his daughter before repeatedly stabbing his wife.

The High Court in Edinburgh head that Victory Atutie, 30, sustained 12 injuries including scarring to her face and a collapsed lung.

Lord Cubie said it had been a "sustained attack" on a "defenceless victim" and also banned Atutie, 26, from contacting her for life.

A woman who was raped by a man in Norwich says she feels she has finally found justice after her attacker was jailed for seven years. He was also issued with an indefinite restraining order. Monwar Hussain, aged 29, of Marauder Road, Norwich was sentenced at Norwich Crown Court today (Friday 24 July 2026) after previously being convicted of two counts of rape, one count of attempted rape and one count of assault by penetration. It follows an incident on 13 March 2020 when the victim had been on a night out with friends in Norwich and ended up at a house party. When she became became unwell, her friends called her a taxi and a man who had also been at the party offered to share the taxi home. The victim woke up the next morning to find the man raping her. The suspect was later identified as Monwar Hussain, also known as Rak, and in August 2024 he was charged. Hussain denied any wrongdoing but following a trial at Norwich Crown Court in April 2026 a jury found him guilty of all four charges.

An asylum seeker who left a young woman in a 'crumpled bloody mess' after knocking her unconscious outside a nightclub has been jailed for six months.

Abdoela Berhan punched 20-year-old Cleo Lake 'full force' in the face in the early hours of December 7, 2024, when she and her friends rejected his advances.

He was found guilty of assaulting Miss Lake at the Cameo nightclub in Bournemouth just a week after being convicted of attacking a Subway worker in a separate incident.

The Eritrean national, 35, maintained his innocence throughout the trial - claiming to have acted in self-defence, despite CCTV footage recording the attack.

Berhan, a failed asylum seeker, was staying at the taxpayer-funded Britannia migrant hotel in Bournemouth, Dorset, at the time of the attack. At least 11 asylum seekers staying at Britannia and the nearby Roundhouse hotel in Bournemouth have been convicted of crimes in the past year, including a stabbing and a rape. 

Berhan has now been jailed for six months - sparking fury from Miss Lake's mother, Helen O'Brien who said after the hearing: 'He'll probably be out earlier.'

Ms O'Brien added: 'The impact of leaving Cleo in a crumpled bloody mess in that alley has lasted more than six months for us.

'I still cry when I think about that CCTV showing what he did to her and Cleo is still not the happy carefree girl she once was.

Four further men have been found guilty of sexually abusing a girl who was living in a children's home in Bradford in the early 2000s.

A total of 13 men have now been convicted of offences against the girl, known as "Anna", including a man who groomed and "married" her when she was 15.

Earlier, Mohammed Baig, 47, Sohail Hussain, 40, Mohammed Suleman, 45, and Khurram Iqbal, 40, were convicted of sexual offences at Bradford Crown Court.

Baig, Hussain, Suleman and Iqbal, all from Bradford, were released on conditional bail and are due to be sentenced at the same court on 22 October.

The court heard Anna was sexually exploited by men from the age of 13, and the abuse continued after she was moved to a children's home.

Baig was convicted of three counts of rape and two counts of indecent assault, with Hussain found guilty of rape and indecent assault.

Suleman was convicted of two counts of indecent assault and Iqbal was convicted of indecent assault and found not guilty of rape.

Anna spoke to the BBC in 2019 about being groomed after seeing one of her abusers, Basharat Khaliq, in a Look North TV news report about sexual exploitation.

Khaliq, 45, was convicted in 2025 of her rape and indecent assault and jailed for 21 years.

In a separate trial, a jury was told that Anna had an Islamic wedding ceremony at the age of 15 to Raja Zulqurnean, who groomed and abused her.

Zulqurnean, 43, was jailed for 18 years for rape and indecent assault but the sentence was later increased to 23 years by appeal court judges.

Detectives investigating the shooting of a man in Bradford have arrested man on suspicion of attempted murder.

The 35-year-old man, from Bradford, was arrested in Ipswich on Saturday evening in connection with an incident where a 28-year-old man suffered a gunshot wound to the head in Gaythorne Road, West Bowling, Bradford, shortly before 11pm on Wednesday, July 8.

The victim remains in a critical condition in hospital.

The arrested man has been transported back to West Yorkshire where he remains in police custody.

Three other men, aged 21, 34 and 36, were arrested in Ipswich on Saturday evening on suspicion of assisting an offender. They have since been released on police bail.

A 27-year-old man, who was previously arrested in Ipswich on suspicion of assisting an offender, and a 25-year-old man, who was previously arrested in Bradford on suspicion of assisting an offender, have also since been released on police bail.

Detectives are still seeking 24-year-old Luqman Khan, from Bradford, in connection with the investigation and are continuing to appeal for any information on his current whereabouts.

Khan is believed to have travelled to Suffolk and was thought to be in the Ipswich or Felixstowe areas.

An Iraqi migrant who groped a 15-year-old schoolgirl on a busy Tube before assaulting her again on an escalator is facing jail. Loughman Shaffie, 35, was found guilty of two counts of sexual assault over the incidents on the Elizabeth Line on March 6 last year.

He was acquitted of a third sexual assault charge linked to a separate incident on the same Tube line on February 24 of the same year. 

The teenager said she was groped while travelling between Goodmayes and Whitechapel in a video interview played for the jury. 'I thought maybe it was a coincidence. He kept moving closer to me. I thought what is going on here? I felt really uncomfortable,' she said. 
'I feel something touching against my bum. I looked behind and I saw the exact same person... I didn't want to be here.'
She said she left the station as quickly as possible after arriving at Whitechapel.
The schoolgirl said Shaffie followed her up an escalator and touched her again.

Detectives investigating an incident where a man stared at a woman and masturbated are releasing this image in connection.

Just after midnight on Tuesday 16 June, a man sat opposite a woman on a Lioness Line train between London Euston and Watford Junction.

He then stared at the woman throughout the journey while masturbating.

Detectives would like to speak to the man pictured, as they believe he may have information which could help their investigation.

Anyone who recognises him is asked to contact British Transport Police by texting 61016 or by calling 0800 40 50 40, quoting reference 17 of 16 June.

Information can also be given to Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.