UK News

UK NEWS: MC HARVEY ARRESTED FOR ALLEGED KNIFE THREAT TO GIRLFRIEND JAVINE HYLTON

August 5, 2008

Javine Hylton and Harvey Oh dear..oh dear! Trouble in paradise already? Awwww say it ain’t so!!! According to The Daily Mirror all isn’t well in the Javine and Harvey household……  MC Harvey was arrested for allegedly holding a knife to his girlfriend and threatening to kill her, it emerged last night. Singer Javine called police after a row with the So Solid Crew rapper, 29, during which she threw his clothes out of their home in Dollis Hill, London. Police said: “On July 30 a […]

UK NEWS: FINGERS HORROR IN BENEFIT FRAUD CASE

August 5, 2008

Remi Fakorede A voodoo-obsessed mother who unveiled what she claimed was her baby daughter’s disembodied fingers during her trial has been convicted of a £1m benefit scam. Remi Fakorede, 46, offered the three digits as macabre proof of a curse which led to her bank accounts being hijacked during the five-year tax credit scam. The mother of six left at least one of the jurors in tears during her evidence when she pulled out the three fingers and police arrived to seize […]

UK NEWS: FACEBOOK WATER FIGHT EVENT ENDS IN VIOLENCE

July 31, 2008

Girl sprays man during water fight organised on Face Book Man chases her   Then slaps her to the ground Photographs: The London Paper This is the shocking moment a water fight organised on the internet descended into chaos in Hyde Park. A teenage girl was chased and knocked to the ground by a thug who she upset during the mass water fight arranged on Facebook. The attack happened at around lunchtime yesterday near the Serpentine in front of horrified tourists. It […]

UK NEWS: BOASTING KILLER JAILED FOR LIFE

July 31, 2008

Laura Milne was brutally murdered by Stuart Jack A man who boasted on a mobile phone video that he enjoyed murdering a teenager then cutting up and hiding her body has been jailed for life. Stuart Jack, 22, smiled as he spoke of killing charity worker Laura Milne, 19, and mutilating her body in Aberdeen. Jack admitted murdering Ms Milne at a Union Street flat last year. He was jailed for a minimum of 18 years. Debbie Buchan, 19, received nine years […]

UK NEWS: PASTOR STANDS DOWN AFTER GETTING THE SISTER OF “BIG BROTHER” STAR PREGNANT

July 30, 2008

A pastor has stood down after a relationship with one of his congregation – Big Brother bully Alexandra de Gale’s sister – left her pregnant. Leon Richardson, of El-Shaddai Outreach Ministry, confessed to his West Croydon congregation that he had been seeing Donna de-Gale. Although the minister, who has three children from a previous failed marriage, has stood down he continues to attend church activities and was at a bible reading session this Tuesday. As a result around half a dozen church-goers […]

UK NEWS: MAYOR’S £700K TO CUT YOUTH CRIME

July 29, 2008

Mayor Boris Johnson A £700,000 funding package has been announced by the mayor of London to help tackle knife and gun crime among young people. The money will fund projects which hope to steer youngsters away from violent crime, said Boris Johnson. The announcement follows a spate of high-profile deaths of young people in London. So far this year, 21 teenagers have been killed violently in London. The mayor said he hoped the money would raise aspirations among youths. The new funding […]

UK NEWS: FOOTBALLER NATHAN DYER GUILTY OF BAR BURGLARY

July 27, 2008

Southampton footballer Nathan Dyer Shamed Southampton star Nathan Dyer has been convicted in court after the Sunday Mirror exposed him as a thief. The midfielder was filmed on CCTV rummaging through the bags of £5.50-an-hour barmaids while team-mate Bradley Wright-Phillips allegedly stood by. Staff at Bar Bluu in Southsea, where the players had been treated as VIPs, later reported three mobile phones and £145 cash missing. Dyer pleaded guilty to burglary at Portsmouth Magistrates’ Court on Friday and was ordered to do […]

DISARMING BRITAIN SEASON: SHOULD THIS BILLBOARD BE REMOVED?

July 12, 2008

The Billboard below, promoting Channel 4’s Disarming Britain season, which takes a look at the current rise in violence on Britain’s streets, was brought to my attention today by photographer Lloyd Best. Best (a black man) say’s he walks past this Billboard on a daily basis and finds it offensive. He is currently in the process of getting the authorities to remove the billboard from the public’s view. I am interested to know what your thoughts are on this matter? Is the billboard offensive? should it be removed ASAP?

UK NEWS: SHAKILUS MURDER ACCUSED IN COURT

July 10, 2008

Murdered: Shakilus Townsend Four teenagers, including a girl of 15, have appeared in court accused of murdering 16-year-old Shakilus Townsend in south London. Shakilus, from Deptford, was beaten with a baseball bat and repeatedly stabbed in Thornton Heath on 3 July. Tyrell Ellis, 18, of Thornton Heath, two youths, aged 17 and 16, and the girl, were remanded in custody by Sutton Magistrates. One man, 22, has been bailed while a fifth youth was arrested on Thursday. The defendants will next appear […]

UK NEWS: EX-BOXING CHAMPION CHRIS EUBANK (AND FORMER WIFE) GIVE UP TEENAGE SONS FOR ADOPTION

July 7, 2008

Chris Eubank poses with family for 2003 reality show. (Chris Junior and Sebastian are standing at the back). Chris Eubank has secretly given up his two teenage sons for adoption in America, it was claimed yesterday. The bankrupt ex-boxing champion is said to have handed over the boys to a Las Vegas woman after a chance meeting in Paris. Chris Junior, 18, and 16-year-old Sebastian are living in the Nevada gambling mecca with single mother Irene Hutton, 51. Eubank, 41, was accused of visiting his sons […]