Author: Darren Smith

A Palestinian man living in the UK has sparked widespread anger after posting a video responding to the Belfast knife attack by declaring “what goes around comes around” — framing a near-fatal assault on a local resident as karmic retribution against the British public for its government’s foreign policy. In the clip, which has spread rapidly across social media, the bearded man films himself in a car reacting to footage of Monday night’s attack on Kinnaird Avenue, in which a Sudanese man with leave to remain in the UK pinned down a local resident and repeatedly slashed at his head,…

A disgraced American mayor who raped a 16-year-old boy at her own son’s birthday party has been sentenced to just 90 days in jail — a fraction of the 17 years prosecutors sought — after being convicted of two felonies in the same small Louisiana town she once governed. Misty Roberts, 44, was found guilty in March of statutory rape and indecent behaviour with a minor following an incident at a pool party at her home in DeRidder on 20 July 2024. Judge D. Kent Savoie handed down two five-year suspended sentences at Beauregard Parish Criminal Court on Tuesday, ordering…

Several homes have been set on fire and a bus torched in Belfast as violent disorder swept across the city on Tuesday night, with Northern Ireland’s First Minister Michelle O’Neill condemning the rioters as “thugs” carrying out “disgusting cowardice” in a night of chaos that spread to cities across mainland Britain. Fires were reported at multiple residential properties off the Crumlin Road in north Belfast, where a significant emergency response involving police, fire and ambulance services was deployed. A home on Oakley Street was ablaze along with two vehicles parked in front of it. Windows were smashed at a property…

A Texas jury has found Karmelo Anthony guilty of murder for the stabbing death of 17-year-old Austin Metcalf at a high school track meet in April 2025, in a verdict that drew emotional reactions in the courtroom and reignites debate about a case that became one of the most racially charged in recent American memory. Anthony, who was 17 at the time of the killing and is now 19, was tried as an adult under Texas law. Judge John Roach Jr. read the verdict at McKinney’s Texas District Court, with the conviction carrying a sentence of five years to life…

A bus has been set on fire in Belfast as hundreds of people took to the streets in protest after a Sudanese asylum seeker was charged with attempted murder following a suspected knife attack in the city. The demonstration erupted shortly after the man — who entered Northern Ireland by crossing the Irish border — was charged in connection with the attack, which left a victim fighting for his life with serious wounds to his face, neck and back after bystanders intervened to overpower the attacker on Kinnaird Avenue in north Belfast on Monday night. The burning of the bus…

A disgraced American teacher who had a three-and-a-half hour sexual encounter with a 17-year-old pupil in her marital bed was warned by her own husband that her looks would get her into trouble at work — a warning she later repeated to the teenage boy she was abusing, newly obtained police records reveal. McKenna Kindred, 28, was sentenced to two years’ probation and placed on the sex offenders’ register for ten years after being convicted of first-degree sexual misconduct in Spokane, Washington. Now, records obtained by the Daily Mail through a Spokane County Sheriff’s Office request expose the full extent…

A 17-year-old girl was lured from her home county by taxi in the early hours of the morning, taken to an unfamiliar house in Bristol and allegedly raped repeatedly by four Afghan nationals over several hours after being plied with alcohol and cigarettes, a jury has heard. Bristol Crown Court was told the alleged attack began after Mehrab Safi, 21, met the girl while she was Christmas shopping with a friend. Within days he had obtained her Snapchat details and requested nude photographs of her. On the night of 30 November last year, Safi and co-defendant Salman Habibkheil, 19, arranged…

A former US Air Force intelligence officer has made explosive claims at Capitol Hill that the American government is aware of multiple alien species — including solid physical creatures and intelligent plasma energy beings — and is sitting on “smoking gun” proof of extraterrestrial life that it has refused to release to the public. David Grusch, who previously testified before Congress on UFOs in 2023, stood alongside members of the House Oversight Committee’s Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets on Tuesday to publicly demand the White House disclose what he described as suppressed evidence of non-human life. When…

A 30-year-old man has been charged with attempted murder following the horrific knife attack in north Belfast that left a man fighting for his life — as authorities issued urgent calls for calm amid fears of far-right disorder on the streets tonight, and a fundraiser for a bystander hero topped £2,600 in a matter of hours. The suspect will appear before a Belfast court tomorrow, the Police Service of Northern Ireland confirmed. The charge comes less than 24 hours after the attack on Kinnaird Avenue, in which bystanders — including a man who wielded a hurling stick to help overpower…

A 30-year-old man has been charged with attempted murder following the horrific knife attack in north Belfast that left a man fighting for his life — as authorities issued urgent calls for calm amid fears of far-right disorder on the streets tonight, and a fundraiser for a bystander hero topped £2,600 in a matter of hours. The suspect will appear before a Belfast court tomorrow, the Police Service of Northern Ireland confirmed. The charge comes less than 24 hours after the attack on Kinnaird Avenue, in which bystanders — including a man who wielded a hurling stick to help overpower…