Author: Darren Smith

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…

West Ham co-owner David Sullivan has been banned from all contact with his own club’s women’s and youth teams for the past three years following a safeguarding investigation — a restriction that was kept entirely secret while he continued to appear prominently in the director’s box at men’s first-team matches. The Football Association opened a safeguarding investigation in 2023 after receiving allegations about Sullivan’s conduct. In response, a safeguarding group comprising the club, the FA and the local authority imposed restrictions preventing Sullivan from accessing West Ham’s women’s and youth teams or attending their matches, the BBC has learned. The…

More than one million Jeep vehicles have been recalled over fears they could spontaneously catch fire — even when parked with the engine switched off — in a major safety alert that has prompted regulators to warn owners to park away from buildings until their cars are repaired. Stellantis, the parent company of Chrysler and Jeep, has notified the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration that it is recalling approximately 1.08 million Jeep Wrangler and Gladiator vehicles manufactured between 2021 and 2025. The recall also extends to an estimated 106,258 vehicles in Canada, 23,702 in Mexico and 124,297 in markets…

A man believed to be Somalian has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after what police are describing as a critical incident in north Belfast, in which a victim was left in a critical condition with serious injuries to his face, neck and back as bystanders risked their own lives to drag the attacker away. Officers from the Police Service of Northern Ireland were called to Kinnaird Avenue at around 10.30pm on Monday. Footage circulating on social media shows a man stabbing a second man who is lying on the ground, repeatedly striking him in the head and neck…

Mehdi Hasan has launched Zeteo UK, the first international expansion of his independent media company, promising unfiltered news and bold opinions free from political or corporate influence — as a team of high-profile British journalists lines up behind what supporters are billing as a much-needed challenge to the mainstream press. The UK outlet soft-launched this week at zeteonews.co.uk, with a full hard launch planned for September 2026. It builds on the success of the main Zeteo platform, which Hasan founded in 2024 after leaving MSNBC and which has since grown to more than 650,000 subscribers. Among the early team members…

A teenage girl has been arrested after three people were left with knife wounds at a Manchester school that was placed into lockdown following the attack this morning. The incident at Co-op Academy on Plant Hill Road in Blackley sent emergency services rushing to the scene, with police cars, ambulances and a helicopter all deployed to the north Manchester school. Parents reported the school going into lockdown in the immediate aftermath of the suspected stabbing. Greater Manchester Police confirmed a teenage girl had been arrested in connection with the incident. Three people sustained wounds consistent with knife injuries, though the…

A man identifying himself as a Sikh lawyer has sparked widespread calls for police action after a video emerged showing him defending Henry Nowak’s killer, labelling Britain a “bastard country,” urging crowds to physically confront Tommy Robinson’s supporters at rallies — and allegedly hosting a TikTok Live poll asking viewers to vote on whether to urinate or defecate on Henry Nowak’s grave. Bobby Singh, who posts under the handle @bobbysinghesq on Instagram, delivered the explosive rant in a video shared widely on X, in which he described convicted murderer Vickrum Digwa — sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum of…