Author: Darren Smith

A married couple killed in a hit-and-run crash on the M4 have been named and pictured as a 28-year-old man has been charged with causing their deaths by dangerous driving. Diljan Hagila, 62, and Mohammed Hagila, 63, died following a collision on the M4 westbound near junction four in Hillingdon on Sunday 1 June. Mohammed died at the scene despite the efforts of emergency services. Diljan, who had been a passenger in the car, was rushed to hospital in a life-threatening condition and died there on Saturday 6 June. Maninder Singh Brar, 28, has been charged with two counts of…

An Oxford University law professor has been forced to cancel a series of lectures on gender law after pro-trans activists repeatedly stormed his talks, stood in front of his lectern and urged audiences to walk out — in scenes that have drawn widespread condemnation and fresh accusations of a coordinated attempt to suppress academic debate. Dr Michael Foran, 32, an associate professor of law and fellow at Keble College, was due to deliver four lectures drawing on his new book Sex, Gender Identity, and the Law, which examines how the legal definition of sex has evolved and what it means…

Donald Trump has issued an urgent public demand for both Israel and Iran to immediately halt their exchange of fire, posting on Truth Social as the two countries traded missile and drone strikes in the most dangerous escalation of Middle East hostilities since the spring ceasefire collapsed. “Israel and Iran must immediately stop shooting,” the US President wrote, in a post that came after Israeli forces carried out retaliatory strikes on Iranian targets despite Trump’s earlier personal appeals to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to hold back. Prior to Israel’s decision to retaliate, Trump had told multiple US and international media…

The families of the three victims of the 2023 Nottingham attack have delivered a devastating verdict on the public inquiry into their children’s deaths, declaring that every single agency involved failed without exception and demanding a meeting with the Prime Minister, Attorney General, Home Secretary and Justice Secretary within the next month. Speaking at a press conference in central London on the eve of the third anniversary of the attack, Emma Webber — the mother of 19-year-old Barnaby Webber, who was stabbed to death alongside Grace O’Malley-Kumar as they walked home from a night out celebrating the end of their…

A 19-year-old woman has been shot dead at a house in north London in the early hours of this morning, with the Metropolitan Police launching an urgent manhunt for the gunman after no arrests have been made. Emergency services were scrambled to an address in Dale Grove, Finchley, at around midnight after gunshots were heard at 12.15am. Paramedics worked to save the young woman at the scene but she was pronounced dead. Police have not yet released her identity. The Met Police confirmed the shooting and said officers are conducting an urgent search for the suspect. A significant police presence…

Two 17-year-old boys are fighting for their lives in hospital after a head-on collision between two cars near Saltburn left six people injured, with three of them requiring urgent medical treatment. The crash occurred just before 5pm on Saturday on Saltburn Lane, north of Skelton-in-Cleveland, when a Ford Fiesta travelling toward the A174 collided head-on with a Toyota Corolla travelling in the opposite direction. The two 17-year-olds, who were in the front seats of the Ford Fiesta, sustained the most serious injuries and remain in a critical condition. A 15-year-old boy in the back seat of the same vehicle suffered…

A man filmed in the Calais migrant camp has openly admitted on camera that he intends to cross to Britain not to work but to join a gang — stating his plans to sell drugs, fight, stab and shoot people upon arrival in the United Kingdom. The 18-second clip, which has been reported by GB News and the Daily Express and spread widely across social media, shows the man speaking directly to an interviewer in a selfie-style format, filmed outdoors in the Calais area. When asked whether he intends to work on a cannabis farm, he dismisses the suggestion immediately.…

A 22-year-old man has drowned in one of Colombia’s most popular tourist reservoirs after allegedly being forced overboard from a party boat as onlookers shouted “drown him” — with not a single person jumping in to save him as the vessel continued along its route. Alexander Avendaño Varela boarded a party boat at the Peñol-Guatapé Reservoir in Guatapé on 24 May for what should have been a celebration. What followed was captured on footage that has since spread widely across social media and prompted a criminal investigation. The video shows an altercation breaking out on deck among a large group…

In the history of Australian rugby league, no single dressing room has produced a more extraordinary catalogue of crime than the 1975 Newtown Jets — a team whose roster included a man who would become one of Queensland’s most notorious armed robbers, another who rotted in a Bangkok prison for drug smuggling, and a third whose wife’s disappearance became one of Australia’s most gripping murder cases. The Jets, a foundation club of the NRL who had just rebranded from the Bluebags two years earlier, fielded a competitive side in 1975. What nobody could have known at the time was that…

Bill Maher has turned on the musicians who pulled out of a concert series celebrating America’s 250th birthday, accusing them of handing Donald Trump a political gift and making Democrats look like they “don’t really love America” — even as the artists insist they were deceived about the event’s partisan nature. The HBO host delivered his verdict on Real Time with Bill Maher on Friday night, following the withdrawal of Poison, Morris Day, Young MC, the Commodores and Martina McBride from the Freedom 250 concert series, which was intended to mark the United States’ 250th anniversary across multiple states throughout…