Author: Darren Smith

A former police sergeant who was found naked near a children’s play area and claimed he was merely cooling down after a run has been handed a five-year sexual risk order after a judge ruled he had masturbated in public on at least four separate occasions for sexual gratification. Simon Ince, 52, a father of two from Chatham, was sacked from Kent Police in 2024 following the incident at Horsted Valley nature reserve in Chatham, Kent, but escaped criminal conviction after prosecutors concluded there was insufficient evidence that anyone had directly witnessed his behaviour. This week, Medway Magistrates’ Court granted…

An Afghan asylum seeker who arrived in Britain after working for the Taliban has been jailed for kidnapping a seven-year-old girl and sexually assaulting her inside a taxpayer-funded hotel where he had been housed while his claim was processed. Afsar Safi, 30, lured the child away from her mother with an apple before dragging her down a corridor by the arm at the asylum hotel in Acton, west London, in September last year. The girl managed to escape by alerting security staff at the facility. She later told jurors: “I could not tell him to go away because I was…

A video of Arsenal supporters making an impassioned — and darkly comic — plea to Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has spread rapidly across social media, capturing the raw tension of one of the tightest Premier League title races in recent memory. In the footage, which has circulated widely on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook and X, one Arsenal fan can be heard shouting directly at Guardiola: “Pep, let Arteta win the league! You’ve won enough already… Let him win something! I hate you, you’ve ruined my life!” The clip, filmed as Guardiola arrived in the presence of Arsenal supporters, drew a…

Labour is facing accusations of running a covert programme to house thousands of asylum seekers in disused military barracks across Britain, with critics warning that communities are being kept deliberately in the dark while the Government quietly scales up its use of former army sites. In a GB News investigation, Britain’s News Channel approached every council across Great Britain with military barracks set to be disposed of over the next 12 years, asking whether the Home Office had expressed interest in using the sites for asylum accommodation. The responses painted a picture of evasion, deflection and a Government unwilling to…

Britain was pressured by the United States into permitting the sale of F-16 fighter jets to Argentina, it has been reported, in a revelation that has deepened alarm over the security of the Falkland Islands as Donald Trump signals he may support Buenos Aires’s claim to the territory. Foreign Office officials were reportedly told “in no uncertain terms” not to oppose the deal, which was agreed by the Biden administration in 2024 before Labour came to power. One Argentine source said Washington had made a “strong” case for the sale in secret talks with Britain, while other sources described the…

Donald Trump has launched one of his most vicious attacks yet on former ally Candace Owens, branding her an “extremely low IQ individual” and sharing a mocked-up Time magazine cover labelling her “Vile Person of the Year” — the latest escalation in a feud between two figures who were once firmly on the same political side. The president posted the image on Truth Social on Friday, accompanied by a caption targeting Owens over her ongoing legal battle with French First Lady Brigitte Macron, whom the right-wing commentator has repeatedly and falsely claimed was born male. “Candace Owens’ stock, which was…

Argentina’s President Javier Milei has declared he is pursuing every available avenue to bring the Falkland Islands back under Argentine sovereignty, his comments landing at the same moment Washington is reportedly considering withdrawing its longstanding support for Britain’s claim to the territory. “We are doing everything humanly possible to bring the Falkland Islands back into Argentine hands,” Milei told Neura in an interview. “Sovereignty is not negotiable, but it must be done judiciously, it must be done with intelligence.” The remarks take on particular weight given the closeness of Milei’s relationship with Donald Trump and the deepening strain between Washington…

Jared Kushner and US special envoy Steve Witkoff will travel to Islamabad, Pakistan on Saturday morning for a fresh round of negotiations with Iran, the White House has confirmed. Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told Fox News that the two senior figures would depart this weekend to continue diplomatic efforts aimed at reaching a deal with Tehran, as the extended ceasefire between the United States and Iran remains in place. The confirmation marks a significant escalation in direct diplomatic engagement, with two of the most prominent figures in the Trump administration’s foreign policy operation now personally involved in the Islamabad talks.…

The residents of one of New York City’s most reliably left-wing neighbourhoods have taken their own newly elected socialist mayor to court after he attempted to relocate the city’s main homeless intake centre to their streets — a lawsuit that has drawn pointed mockery from conservatives and accusations of rank hypocrisy from across the political spectrum. Seven residents of the East Village in Manhattan filed the legal challenge on 19 April in New York County Supreme Court, seeking to block Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s plan to move homeless services from a deteriorating facility near Bellevue Hospital in Kips Bay to a…

A 27-year-old substitute teacher in Texas has been arrested and charged with having an improper relationship with students after school officials discovered what they described as inappropriate communications on a social media platform outside of school hours. Angela Palmaras was taken into custody after Bell County school authorities alerted police to the messages and referred the matter for investigation. She now faces a charge of improper relationship between an educator and a student, a second-degree felony in Texas that carries a potential prison sentence of up to 20 years if she is convicted. She is currently being held on a…