At least four of the defendants are members of the same family

Judge insists on consecutive sentences for hundreds of counts, including kidnapping, rape and assault

O J Simpson has been granted parole on some charges stemming from his 2008 kidnapping and armed robbery convictions involving the hold-up of two sports memorabilia dealers at a Las Vegas hotel room.

Doreen Lawrence, the mother of Stephen Lawrence who was murdered in a racist attack in 1993, is to be made a Labour peer in the House of Lords.

The Appeal Court has criticised the lawyers of five refugees who were wrongly jailed for carrying false documents after fleeing their countries under the threat of persecution.

Staff at the university said there may be some discomfort at having the convicted mass murderer as a student, but they would have to follow the normal applications procedures

A Tunisian member of the Ukrainian feminist direct-action group Femen has been cleared of insulting and defaming a public servant, according to her lawyer.

From L.A Noire to The Binding of Isaac; the sale took in some great titles this year

The privatisation scramble extends far beyond all of these aspects of our everyday lives, into the critical exercises of the power of the state over individual citizens

Soul singer Joss Stone has said she reacted to a shocking plot to kill her by thinking of it as a "random black comedy".

Women's prison dramas are back in fashion

BBC broadcaster's original 15-month prison term for sex offences criticised as 'unduly lenient'

Victims ‘relieved’ after Cleveland kidnapper pleads guilty to 937 charges against him

Sgt Nightingale has already been jailed - and freed - for the same crime