Darwin to spend Christmas in jail
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'Missing' canoeist John Darwin is been denied police bail and will remain in custody until 11 January.
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A Liverpool teacher who was jailed in Sudan for calling a teddy bear Mohammed, is preparing to start a job at a school in China.
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Singer Pete Doherty will spend the weekend in jail after failing to raise the money to secure his bail.
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A judge agreed Thursday to release a man serving a 20-year sentence for a 1992 rape that DNA tests showed he didn't commit.
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A judge in Monroe County, Georgia, has ruled that 21-year-old Genarlow Wilson should be released from a 10-year prison sentence for a consensual sexual encounter he had when he was 17. The original sentence had demanded Wilson be listed as a sex offender. He has been imprisoned for more than two years after his conviction for a sex act with a 15-year-old girl.
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Four Pitcairn Island men convicted of multiple sex offenses received jail sentences of between two and six years Friday. Two other men have been ordered to perform community service.
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AUCKLAND : Four of the six Pitcairn Island men convicted of sex abuse crimes on the remote British Pacific island colony, including the mayor, have been sentenced to jail terms, a British official said on Friday.
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John Lennon&#39;s killer will remain in jail for at least two more years after being denied parole because of the &quot;extreme malicious intent&quot; he showed in gunning down the former Beatle in 1980.
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Sex offenders are to spend longer in jail under measures to be announced by the Scottish Executive.
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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - A British court on Friday sentenced four Pitcairn Island men to up to six years in prison after being convicted of several rapes on the tiny Pacific island.
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ATLANTA, June 11 â A Georgia Superior Court judge today ordered the release of Genarlow Wilson, who has served two years of 10-year prison sentence for having consensual oral sex with another teenager at a party when he was 17. Prosecutors said they would appeal the order.
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A U.S. Marine convicted of raping a Filipino woman will remain in a Manila jail over the Christmas holidays after his petition to be transferred immediately to the custody of the U.S. Embassy was rejected Tuesday.
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Briton due to be released after spending 20 years on death row in US taken to hospital with chest pains
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A Georgia judge ordered the release Monday of a man sentenced to 10 years in prison for having consensual oral sex with a 15-year-old girl when he was 17.
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With John Darwin's arrest Saturday, and Anne Darwin's early Sunday, one of the strangest crime stories in recent British history may have reached its end
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A man accused of being an illegal immigrant while on holiday is paid Â£7,500 after he was wrongly put in prison.
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A teacher who was jailed in Sudan for calling a teddy bear Mohammed is to take up an 18-month post teaching English in China, a friend said Saturday.