Author: Darren Smith

A 37-year-old man was arrested within hours of allegedly slapping a 10-year-old boy in Whitworth, Rossendale, in an incident police believe may have followed a “knock-and-run” prank, with detectives also investigating claims he threatened to stab others before fleeing the scene. Police have arrested a man after a 10-year-old boy was assaulted in Whitworth, Rossendale, in an incident that drew several patrol cars to the area and prompted residents to gather outside their homes. The confrontation happened on Spring Mill Avenue on Tuesday evening, and was partly captured on video circulating on social media, which shows a man walking onto…

Manchester City are closing in on Arsenal academy midfielder Mishel Nduka, one of England’s top young midfield prospects, as the Premier League champions continue to outmanoeuvre their title rivals on the transfer front following their £12.5million deal for Leicester winger Jeremy Monga. Manchester City are on the verge of landing another highly rated young player from a Premier League rival, this time poaching midfielder Mishel Nduka directly from Arsenal’s own academy. According to The Mail, Nduka is in talks to join City rather than sign fresh terms with Arsenal, after his academy contract expired and left him free to consider…

Former NFL star Marcellus Wiley has been released on a $1,000 bond and ordered to have no contact with his wife Annemarie following his arrest in Orlando, as he continues to deny her allegations of rape, physical abuse and years of intimidation throughout their marriage. Marcellus Wiley, the former Pro Bowler turned television analyst, has been released on a $1,000 cash bond after being booked into Orange County Jail on Saturday, 4 July, following an alleged altercation with his wife Annemarie over the holiday weekend in Orlando. As a condition of his release, a court has ordered Wiley to have…

As prosecutors laid out DNA evidence, surveillance footage and a possible motive against Tyler Robinson at his pre-trial hearing in Provo, Utah, several theories floated by commentators including Candace Owens have started to unravel — though Owens remains defiant, predicting the conspiracy theorists will ultimately be vindicated. Ten months after Charlie Kirk was fatally shot on camera at Utah Valley University, pre-trial hearings for suspected killer Tyler Robinson, 23, have begun testing a wave of conspiracy theories that emerged in the aftermath of his death. Prosecutors this week presented surveillance footage, DNA evidence and autopsy findings that appear to contradict…

Tony Bartlett, 39, has been found guilty of murdering his four-week-old son Atticus by shaking him after returning home from a night out where he drank eight and a half pints, with a jury taking just over a day to reach its unanimous verdict at Bristol Crown Court. A postman from Chard, Somerset, has been convicted of murdering his baby son in what prosecutors described as “a moment of pure violence” fuelled by alcohol. Tony Bartlett, 39, attacked four-week-old Atticus after returning home from his first night out with the baby’s mother, Evelyn Ballentyne, since the child’s birth in July…

Dean Foord, 33, was found crouched inside a refrigerator as officers searched his property, in bodycam footage capturing the moment police caught up with a man now jailed for three years over a sustained campaign of violence and coercive control against a former partner. A Rochester man who attempted to evade arrest by hiding inside a fridge has been jailed for three years after subjecting a victim to six months of escalating abuse. Dean Foord, 33, of Brooker Close, was arrested in December 2025 following an emergency report to Kent Police concerning the victim’s safety, prompting officers to search the…

An international manhunt is underway for Ndodana Tshuma, also known as Mark, after he was captured on CCTV fleeing through Heathrow Airport to Zimbabwe just two days before his wife and two daughters were discovered dead at the family’s £1.3million home in Bedfordshire. Police have launched a murder investigation after the bodies of Zandile Tshuma and her two daughters, Natalie, 15, and Nala, five, were discovered at the family’s home on Carnoustie Drive in Great Denham, near Bedford, on Tuesday. Officers forced entry to the property after the family had not been seen for several days. The prime suspect, Ndodana…

Police in Schongau, southern Germany, arrested a suspect after several people were injured — some with stab wounds — in an attack partly inside and partly outside the Welfen-Gymnasium school on Wednesday, in an incident officers say is developing “in the direction of a rampage situation.” A suspect has been detained after multiple people were wounded, several with stab wounds, in an attack at a secondary school in Schongau, Bavaria, on Wednesday. The alarm was raised around 12.50pm local time, during school hours, at the Welfen-Gymnasium, located southwest of Munich. Police said the number of victims and the severity of…

All four teenage suspects are now in custody following a violent assault that left a 47-year-old Turkish Cypriot man fighting for his life, after police say the attacker who tried to flee Cyprus was intercepted at Larnaca Airport. Police in Cyprus have arrested a fourth suspect in connection with a violent assault that left a 47-year-old man from the Turkish Cypriot community in intensive care, after he was detained at Larnaca Airport while allegedly attempting to leave the country. The arrest completes the detention of all four suspects, all aged 18, in an attack that took place in the Famagusta…

A young volunteer firefighter has died battling a blaze in the French Alps, villas have been evacuated in Spain’s Costa del Sol, and the Foreign Office has warned of a “high risk” to British travellers, as more than 19,000 hectares burn across southern Europe under a fresh heatwave threatening temperatures of up to 43C. Southern Europe is battling widespread wildfires that have already claimed the life of a firefighter in France and forced evacuations across Spain, as the region faces a renewed heatwave with temperatures set to climb as high as 43C. The Foreign Office has issued a warning to…