Jury in Russel Brand rape and sexual assault trial retires to consider verdicts
Judge tells jurors he will only be able to accept unanimous decisions on seven charges against the comedianThe jury in Russell Brand’s rape and sexual...
Investigative journalist Kate McClymont gives evidence in Alan Jones indecent assault trial
Jones, a former radio broadcaster, has pleaded not guilty to 21 charges of indecent assault and sexual touchingThe Sydney Morning Herald’s chief inves...
Trial of nine men accused of abusing woman drugged and raped by husband begins
The husband, who cannot be named to protect his victim, has already pleaded guilty to a number of offences carried out at the couple’s Stockport homeN...
Police use facial recognition to scan one million faces in WA trial leading to 122 arrests
Deployments of surveillance vans over five months result in nine false alerts and led officers to engage with 146 registered sex offendersGet our brea...
UK police should not have let US force take over airbase trial, MoD documents show
According to documents obtained by the Guardian, officials accused Cambridgeshire force of breaching US-UK deal by handing over case of woman strangle...
Florid language and long silences: five things we learned from week three of Russell Brand’s rape trial
The former comedian and his wife gave evidence in the case in which he denies all charges against himRussell Brand’s trial at Southwark crown court be...
Russell Brand trial: accusers have ‘nothing to gain’ and were not led by media, court told
In closing speech, prosecutor says six women had ‘bravely’ come forward after realising they were not aloneSix women who have been “haunted” by their ...
BBC allegations cost Tory and Reform donor a peerage, defamation trial told
Mohamed Amersi is suing over Panorama episode that made claims of his suspected involvement in corruptionA Conservative and Reform UK donor lost out o...
Russell Brand tells trial he had sex obsession but that consent is ‘non-negotiable’
Former comedian, in court on rape and sexual assault charges, denies setting goal to sleep with 5,000 womenRussell Brand has told a court he had an ob...
Russell Brand gives evidence in rape and sexual assault trial – latest updates
Brand, 51, has been charged with three counts of rape, three counts of sexual assault and one count of attempted indecent assaultShortly after the pro...
Russell Brand told police he led a ‘very promiscuous’ life, trial hears
Comedian accused of sexual offences against six women said consensual encounters were ‘unfavourably reframed decades later’Russell Brand told police h...
Beau Lamarre-Condon claims friend ‘flat-out lied to police’ in accused’s first statement in murder trial
NSW police officer accused of murdering Jesse Baird and Luke Davies tells court he wanted to do ‘right thing’ by their familiesFollow our Australian p...
Jury selected for trial of four accused of sexually assaulting man’s drugged ex-wife
Mr Justice Saini tells the eight men and six women at Winchester crown court the case is likely to be upsettingJurors being selected for the trial of ...
Russell Brand had ‘insane sexual appetite’ and bad behaviour on ‘another level’, trial told
Brand, charged with rape and sexual assault, was ‘sleeping with people day and night’, former assistant allegesRussell Brand had an “insane sexual app...
Covert recording of prison meeting between Beau Lamarre-Condon and friend played to double murder trial
Former police officer accused of shooting dead Jesse Baird and Luke Davies apologised to friend, acknowledging ‘you’re involved because of me’A covert...
Controversial US-backed vaccine trial in African newborns halted
Hepatitis B study in Guinea-Bissau that was to be funded by CDC and that drew global backlash ‘will not move forward’The US-backed hepatitis B vaccine...
