Author: Darren Smith

Three British women have been sexually assaulted in separate attacks at the same Spanish hostel after a Tunisian man allegedly posed as a member of staff to gain their trust before targeting them, Spanish police have confirmed following his arrest in Valencia. The 32-year-old suspect, believed to have been a guest at the budget hostel in the city’s Camins al Grau neighbourhood, is alleged to have carried out three distinct attacks over the course of two days — with the first coming to light only when two younger victims called police in the early hours of Tuesday morning. According to…

A notorious child killer was stabbed 25 times in a four-minute prison cell attack by three fellow inmates who then placed him in his bed “as if asleep” and left him to bleed to death — with his body not discovered until the following morning’s roll call, Leeds Crown Court has heard. Kyle Bevan, 33, died at maximum-security HMP Wakefield on 5 November last year. He had been serving a life sentence with a minimum term of 28 years for the sadistic murder of two-year-old Lola James, his partner’s stepdaughter, in Pembrokeshire, Wales — a killing in 2023 that left…

A Belarusian NHS doctor who admitted she struggled with small talk and “could not understand the British fascination with the weather” has lost a £100,000 unfair dismissal case after an employment tribunal found she was legitimately sacked for failing to meet communication standards required of a consultant anaesthetist. Dr Maryna Anatolyeva, 47, was removed from a postgraduate anaesthetics training programme at St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust in October 2022 after repeated concerns about her communication, leadership and teamworking skills. Her claim that she had been treated unfairly was rejected by Employment Judge Callum Cowx, who found she…

Two summers ago, Elliot Anderson was watching the Euros with his mates somewhere — he cannot quite remember where. Now the 23-year-old Nottingham Forest midfielder is one of the first names on Thomas Tuchel’s England teamsheet at the World Cup and the subject of a bidding war between Manchester City and Manchester United, with Forest’s owner digging in against the assumption that his best player can simply be picked off at will. The journey, as the Daily Mail’s Ian Ladyman writes, is one that nobody saw coming — least of all Anderson himself. His move from Newcastle to Forest two…

Britain is working with Ukraine and European allies to develop an alternative anti-ballistic missile system that would reduce Kyiv’s dangerous dependence on American Patriot supplies — as the Trump administration’s diversion of resources to the Middle East leaves Ukraine exposed to relentless Russian bombardment. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed the development after meeting Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Sunday, saying the three European powers would help Ukraine build anti-ballistic capabilities. “I hope that we will manage to develop a European anti-ballistic system together with the UK,” he said. “We are…

Conor McGregor has called for an immediate ban on immigration from the “third world” and the removal of “all illegal entrants” from Ireland and the UK, as Belfast descended into a second night of violent disorder following a stabbing attack linked to a Sudanese migrant — with riots spreading to London, Glasgow and Southampton and Elon Musk urging people to protest “repeatedly and loudly.” The UFC star posted on X the day after the attack, writing that “inviting and financing mentally deranged people from the 3rd world is a hard no” and calling on authorities to “close the borders” and…

The victim of Monday night’s attempted beheading in Belfast has lost his left eye, a court has heard, as his attacker was named and remanded in custody for four weeks. Stephen Ogilvie, an NHS radiographer in his 40s, lost his eye as a result of the frenzied knife attack on Kinnaird Avenue in north Belfast that left him in a critical condition and prompted a night of rioting across the city. Hadi Alodid, a Sudanese migrant, appeared at Belfast Magistrates’ Court charged with the attempted murder of Mr Ogilvie and was remanded in custody for four weeks. The revelation that…

The M25 has been brought to a standstill in one direction during rush hour after a vehicle fire forced the closure of a stretch of the anticlockwise carriageway, with drivers facing delays of at least 30 minutes and four miles of backed-up traffic. The closure is in place between Junction 25 for Enfield and Junction 24 for Potters Bar, with the fire service on scene dealing with the incident. Traffic has been held while emergency crews work to make the area safe. A National Highways spokesperson said: “On the M25 anticlockwise between J25 (Enfield) and J24 (Potters Bar) traffic has…

An ISIS-linked gang who stabbed and battered a world-renowned British botanist couple to death, threw their bodies to crocodiles and then blew £37,000 on the victims’ credit cards have been convicted of double murder in South Africa — eight years after the killing of Rod and Rachel Saunders shocked the world. Rod Saunders, 74, and his wife Rachel, 63, were ambushed in the remote Ngoye Forest National Park in February 2018 while searching for rare gladioli seeds — a passion they had pursued together for over 50 years. Just 48 hours before their deaths, the devoted couple had been filmed…

Gunmen Kill 12 in Johannesburg Massacre as Shooting Lasted More Than an Hour At least 12 people have been killed in a mass shooting at a Johannesburg informal settlement after more than ten gunmen arrived in a minibus, entered the community from both sides simultaneously and opened fire across multiple locations in an attack that lasted more than an hour — with police launching a manhunt as residents described the area as increasingly gripped by gun violence. The South African Police Service confirmed the death toll from the attack at Jumpers Informal Settlement in the Cleveland suburb of Johannesburg, which…