Author: Darren Smith

England fast bowler Brydon Carse has been stood down from the second Test against Pakistan after footage emerged showing him handcuffed by police outside a nightclub in Derby, with cricket’s independent regulator now investigating the incident following a referral from the ECB. England cricketer Brydon Carse has been withdrawn from the squad for the second Test against Pakistan following an incident at a nightclub in Derby on Saturday night. The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) confirmed the decision after footage emerged showing the fast bowler handcuffed by police outside the venue. The Cricket Regulator, an independent body responsible for…

Former world snooker champion Graeme Dott has been convicted of historical child sex abuse following a trial at the High Court in Glasgow, after a jury heard evidence relating to two children abused years apart, allegations Dott had denied throughout the proceedings. Former world snooker champion Graeme Dott has been found guilty of historical child sex abuse. Dott, 49, stood trial at the High Court in Glasgow accused of lewd, indecent and libidinous practices and behaviour towards two children, with the allegations spanning two separate periods: 1993 to 1996, involving a girl, and 2006 to 2010, involving a boy. Both…

Sean Grayson, the former Illinois sheriff’s deputy convicted of fatally shooting Sonya Massey inside her own home in 2024, has died in prison just weeks after his request for compassionate medical release was rejected, his attorney has confirmed. Sean Grayson, the former Sangamon County sheriff’s deputy convicted of fatally shooting Sonya Massey after she called 911 to report a prowler, has died in prison, his attorney said on Sunday. Daniel Fultz, who represented Grayson during his murder trial, said he died at around noon, six months into a 20-year sentence for second-degree murder. Grayson, 32, had been diagnosed with Stage…

PC Matthew Blades has been pictured following the devastating A66 collision that claimed the lives of two Cleveland Police officers and five young men travelling in a car that had been driven the wrong way along the road. PC Blades, 38, and his colleague PC Tom Clough, 37, died after a Volkswagen Passat travelling in the wrong direction on the A66 collided head-on with their marked police vehicle during the early hours of Saturday morning. The five occupants of the Passat were also pronounced dead at the scene. As tributes continue across Teesside, PC Blades has been remembered as a…

The five young men who died in the A66 crash near Middlesbrough have been named as Makai Saddington, 18, Michael Robert Cahill, 23, Jacob Matusiak, 23, Cole Robert Worthy, 16, and Theo Rae, 17, with tributes now emerging from friends and family as the police watchdog continues its investigation into the collision that also killed two officers. The five young men killed in the crash on the A66 near Middlesbrough have been formally named by police. Makai Saddington, 18, Michael Robert Cahill, 23, Jacob Matusiak, 23, Cole Robert Worthy, 16, and Theo Rae, 17, were all travelling in the Volkswagen…

PC Matthew Blades and PC Tom Clough have been named as the two Cleveland Police officers killed alongside five others in a crash on the A66 near Middlesbrough, as investigators examine CCTV footage and questions over the police pursuit that preceded the collision. Tributes have poured in for two “brave” police officers who died in a crash on the A66 that claimed the lives of seven people in total on Saturday morning. PC Matthew Blades, 37, and PC Tom Clough, 38, were killed when a Volkswagen Passat travelling the wrong way down the dual carriageway near Middlesbrough collided head-on with…

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is to be depicted in a new drama recreating scenes from his fall from public life, The Mail on Sunday can reveal, with his lawyers offered the chance to give his side of the story before the script is finalised, an offer he has declined to take up. Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is set to feature in a forthcoming film reconstructing episodes from his downfall, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. The drama, titled The Janitor, stars Peaky Blinders actor Harry Kirton as a publicist who cleans up scandals for the elite, and includes a scene dubbed “The Table of…

Behind political headlines about “chemical castration” for sex offenders lies a much more clinically complex NHS-funded treatment pathway, more than a decade in the making, that doctors insist is designed to treat diagnosed medical conditions rather than simply control reoffending risk. A pioneering medical treatment pathway for male sex offenders in England and Wales could be expanded across all prisons and probation services by December 2028. Known formally as the Medication to Manage Problematic Sexual Arousal (MMPSA) pathway, the programme sits at the intersection of criminal justice and NHS healthcare. While recent political debate has focused on using the drugs…

FIFA president Gianni Infantino ignored a request from his own vice president to stay away from an Under-14 tournament in the Caribbean, making a rare public appearance in the Dominican Republic just weeks after abandoning a controversial plan to sell a stake in FIFA’s commercial operations to private investors, amid mounting internal opposition to his leadership. FIFA president Gianni Infantino has defied a request from one of his own vice presidents to stay away from a youth football tournament in the Caribbean, making a rare public appearance amid the ongoing fallout from his abandoned plan to sell future World Cup…

President Donald Trump has publicly turned on former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, branding him a “loser” with a “very low IQ” on Truth Social, after Carlson met with prominent former MAGA allies Marjorie Taylor Greene and Thomas Massie in what has been described as a gathering of an emerging anti-Trump, anti-war faction within the movement. President Donald Trump has turned publicly against former ally Tucker Carlson, accusing the journalist of conspiring with politicians to undermine him. Trump, 80, launched the attack late on Friday night, describing the former Fox News personality as a “loser” with a “very low IQ”…