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Two jailed over Iran-linked attack on journalist
Two Romanian nationals were jailed for stabbing a journalist in Wimbledon on behalf of the Iranian regime in an attempt to "silence" him.
Their target, Pouria Zeraati, works for the Persian ...language channel Iran International, that is critical of the Iranian government.
Nandito Badea, 21, and George Stana, 25, attacked him in March 2024 as he walked to his car near his home, just around the corner from the All England Lawn Tennis Club.
The knife attack left Mr Zeraati in hospital needing stitches for three stab wounds in his leg.
The court heard Stana had driven the Mazda getaway car. Mr Zeraati said Badea wielded the knife, while a third man, David Andrei, held him while he was being stabbed.
The men then left the UK on a flight to Geneva from Heathrow Airport. Andrei is still in Romania, Badea and Stana were extradited to the UK.
At the Old Bailey, Stana was sentenced to 12 years in prison and Badea to eight, after being convicted last month of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.
Sentencing Badea and Stana, Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb said "I am sure that this was an attack for - or for the benefit of - a foreign power."
"The victim Pouria Zeraati was not selected at random."
"He had previously been subject to threats," she said, and there had been posters put up in the Iranian capital Tehran with his photograph and the words "Wanted. Dead or alive".
The judge concluded that Stana knew or should have known that the attack was being carried out on behalf of Iran, but said she was not sure that Badea knew.
Two Romanian nationals were jailed for stabbing a journalist in ...
Two Romanian nationals were jailed for stabbing a journalist in Wimbledon on behalf of the Iranian regime in an attempt to "silence" him.
Their target, Pouria Zeraati, works for the Persian ...language channel Iran International, that is critical of the Iranian government.
Nandito Badea, 21, and George Stana, 25, attacked him in March 2024 as he walked to his car near his home, just around the corner from the All England Lawn Tennis Club.
The knife attack left Mr Zeraati in hospital needing stitches for three stab wounds in his leg.
The court heard Stana had driven the Mazda getaway car. Mr Zeraati said Badea wielded the knife, while a third man, David Andrei, held him while he was being stabbed.
The men then left the UK on a flight to Geneva from Heathrow Airport. Andrei is still in Romania, Badea and Stana were extradited to the UK.
At the Old Bailey, Stana was sentenced to 12 years in prison and Badea to eight, after being convicted last month of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.
Sentencing Badea and Stana, Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb said "I am sure that this was an attack for - or for the benefit of - a foreign power."
"The victim Pouria Zeraati was not selected at random."
"He had previously been subject to threats," she said, and there had been posters put up in the Iranian capital Tehran with his photograph and the words "Wanted. Dead or alive".
The judge concluded that Stana knew or should have known that the attack was being carried out on behalf of Iran, but said she was not sure that Badea knew.
A man who threatened to blow up a block of flats in Sheffield city ...
A man who threatened to blow up a block of flats in Sheffield city centre leading to a police siege lasting about 34 hours was jailed for seven years.
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Yaqub Younis, ...49, falsely told residents and armed police he had guns and explosives in his flat and would open fire from his balcony at The Gateway on Broad Street.
Following a trial at Sheffield Crown Court, he was found guilty of communicating false information with intent, intentionally or recklessly causing a public nuisance, affray and criminal damage to property.
Sentencing him, the Recorder of Sheffield, Judge Jeremy Richardson KC, told Younis his actions had "caused incalculable harm".
The bomb hoax threat, which Younis made while wanted on recall to prison, triggered an evacuation of about 100 people and brought the city centre to a standstill for nearly 34 hours.
Police attended the building and put a cordon in place, but Younis refused to cooperate and remained in his flat for the entirety of the siege.
During the siege, Younis threw a TV and various household items, some of which were on fire, off his balcony, trashed the interior of his flat and shouted that he had "loads of guns" and up to 20kg of explosives.
Jurors heard his behaviour had been "erratic" and he had requested to speak to a member of parliament, as well as asking for a banana and a mobile phone.
He also claimed that MI5 and the National Crime Agency had been plotting to kill him and that he had believed his life was in danger.
IN FULL: Two teens detained as court overturns 'lenient' rape sentences
Two teenage boys had their sentences for the rape of two girls ...
Two teenage boys had their sentences for the rape of two girls increased after they were found to be "unduly lenient".
The boys, both aged 14 at the time of the ...offences and referred to in court as X and Y, carried out the attacks in Fordingbridge, Hampshire, in November 2024 and January 2025.
They were initially given non-custodial sentences - three-year youth rehabilitation orders - by a judge at Southampton Crown Court in May.
But after a ruling at the Court of Appeal they were been sentenced to four years in detention.
The case was sent for review under the Unduly Lenient Sentence scheme after a wave of public outrage over the initial sentences.
Delivering her judgement, Lady Chief Justice Baroness Carr told the teenagers: "We have decided that we do need to change your sentences and both of you do need to go into detention. What you both did was so bad that we decided we had no other choice but to make these sentences."
Baroness Carr said a custodial sentence for both boys was "unavoidable", and that the judge at Southampton Crown Court had "wrongly assessed" the level of harm caused to the two girls who were raped.
The judge failed to properly assess the ages and vulnerabilities of those involved in the offending, as well as the "humiliation and degradation" suffered by the victims, she added.
The court ruled the sentence of a third teenager involved in the attacks, referred to as Z, will remain the same.
All three teenagers also saw their restraining order, which prevented them from contacting either victim, extended from an original 10 years to indefinite.
A teenager who admitted possessing explosive substances and ...
A teenager who admitted possessing explosive substances and threatening to bomb his college and kill his fellow students was sentenced to three years and 11 months in custody.
Police found explosives ...at Jagger Strang's home, in Stafford, and he also admitted accessing material on YouTube about the manufacture of gunpowder and how to make an improvised detonator.
Strang, 18, had been due to go on trial at Leicester Crown Court but pleaded guilty hours before the trial began.
A sentencing hearing at Birmingham Crown Court heard he had idolised serial killers and had a disturbing fixation with violence.
He was told he would also face extended supervision once he was released from a young offender institution.
Police first became aware of Strang when they were contacted by a safeguarding officer at Stafford College.
The court heard how the then 17-year-old, who was studying woodwork at the college, told other students he had numerous weapons and had planned how he would blow up a classroom.
He was arrested at his home the following day, and officers undertook a search of the property.
Strang's mobile phone was also examined and officers discovered internet searches and videos relating to serial killers, including sharing images on Snapchat of Norwegian domestic terrorist Anders Breivik and the person responsible for a massacre in Crimea.
Passing sentence, Mr Justice Wall told Strang: "You developed an unhealthy interest in explosives. You acquired the chemicals necessary to make gunpowder and thermite, and you made them."
The judge said there was a "longer-term potential" for harm, given Strang's obsession with serial killers and explosives.
The chemicals Strang possessed were "not toys" and were "akin to dangerous weapons", he added.
Six jailed over death of innocent woman in drug gang turf war
Six people were jailed for a total of more than 150 years for the ...
Six people were jailed for a total of more than 150 years for the murder of an innocent woman who was shot as part of a feud between rival drug ...gangs.
Joanne Penney was staying with friends at a house in Talbot Green, South Wales, March 2025 when she answered a knock on the door.
Drug dealer Marcus Huntley, 22, then shot her at close range with a gun that had been delivered to him from Leicester to carry out a revenge attack.
Huntley, along with five others, were all convicted of murder after two lengthy trials at Cardiff Crown Court.
Sentencing them, Mr Justice Fordham said Penney's life was "senselessly taken" as an "innocent victim in a drugs war".
Jordan Mills-Smith, 34, from Cardiff, Leicester trio Joshua Gordon 28, Melissa Quailey-Dashper, 40, and Kristina Ginova, 22, along with drug gang boss Renaldo Baptiste, who ordered the attack from a prison cell where he was serving a sentence for a previous killing, were found guilty of Penney's murder as part of the drugs turf war.
Huntley pleaded guilty to the same offence.
Both trials heard how the two rival drug gangs were involved in a turf war centred around Talbot Green and the address at Llys Illtyd where the shooting happened.
Weeks before the murder, a drug dealer working on behalf of Gordon was beaten and humiliated by a member of a rival gang.
Huntley and Gordon were said to have discussed a reprisal attack and a gun, along with ammunition, was sourced from the criminal underworld in Leicester and sent to Cardiff.
Following the shooting Huntley buried the gun in a park in Cardiff before fleeing the city.
Mills-Smith also fled to Suffolk but the police closed in on all six. Within days they were all arrested, with Huntley stopped in a dramatic swoop by police on a National Express coach.
Huntley must serve 30 years before he can apply for parole; Mills-Smith a minimum of 27 years; Gordon 32 years and Baptiste will have to serve a further 42 years in jail before he can be considered for release. This will run concurrently with his current minimum term, which has 19 years left.
Quailey-Daspher, who knocked on the door pretending she wanted to buy drugs on the night of the murder, was told she must serve 14 years. Ginova, Gordon's girlfriend who destroyed vital evidence the day after the shooting, will serve a minimum of 12 years in jail.
Two jailed over arson attacks linked to Keir Starmer
Two men were jailed for plotting to carry out arson attacks targeting ...
Two men were jailed for plotting to carry out arson attacks targeting property and a car connected to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer.
Ukrainian national Roman Lavrynovych 22, was jailed for ...seven years while Ukrainian-born Romanian national Stanislav Carpiuc, 27, was sentenced to two years imprisonment at the Old Bailey.
Lavrynovych carried them out after being recruited by Russian-speaking Telegram user "EL" who promised him payment. He had previously been hired by the same unknown figure to put up far-right posters.
The judge, Mr Justice Garnham, described Lavrynovych as a "useful idiot" who could be easily manipulated.
He said he had been "easily bought" and "accepted the job as you had accepted other grubby little tasks".
Carpiuc played a "supporting role" in the "utterly reckless" attacks, the judge said.
The court heard a Toyota car previously owned by the prime minister was found on fire on a street he used to live on in Kentish Town, on 8 May 2025.
On 11 May, a fire was discovered at flats linked to Sir Keir in nearby Islington. He had lived there years before.
A day later, a fire was discovered at the entrance to Sir Keir's Kentish Town home, which he still owned and was being rented out to his sister-in-law, Judith Alexander.
She told the trial of the billowing black smoke going up the stairs while she, her daughter and partner were in the house.
Lavrynovych and Carpiuc were found guilty at the court on Monday of conspiring together and "with others" to damage property by fire between 1 April and 13 May 2025.
Lavrynovych was also convicted of alternate counts of damaging property by fire, being reckless as to whether life was endangered. He was acquitted of damaging property by fire with intent to endanger life.
A third man, Petro Pochynok, 35, was found not guilty of the conspiracy charge.
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Section 4a of The Limitation Act 1980 defines the time limit for actions for defamation or malicious falsehood as one year from the date on which the cause of action accrued.
Article 10 of the Human Rights Act 1998 gives the right to freedom of expression. "This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers."
“A key issue here is the need to distinguish between conduct which, however objectionable, does not justify invoking the criminal law and conduct which crosses the line and results in criminal liability" - Para 31 R v O’Neill [2016] EWCA Crim 92 [2016]
“Harassment is generally understood to involve improper oppressive and unreasonable conduct that is targeted at an individual and calculated to produce alarm and distress” - Para 38 R v O’Neill [2016] EWCA Crim 92 [2016]
"The behaviour said to amount to harassment must reach a level of seriousness passing beyond irritations, annoyances....The gravity of the misconduct must be of an order which would sustain criminal liability" - Paras [40-44] Hayden v Dickenson [2020] EWHC 3291 (QB)
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