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The Deputy PM resigned on Friday after the long-awaited report by Adam Tolley KC concluded he engaged in an 'abuse or misuse of power' while at the Foreign Office

The money is locked away in Child Trust Funds that can’t be touched because the owners don’t have capacity to make financial decisions - instead, families must go through the courts to access the savings

HMP The Verne in Portland, Dorset, is set for a major expansion but local residents say they weren't consulted about the plans and want the facility shutting down for good

The murder of Sarah Everard, 33, in 2021, by Met Police officer Wayne Couzens led to renewed calls to tackle supposedly lower-level sex offences. Couzens had previously indecently exposed himself

Harem Ahmed Abwbaker, 33, is wanted in France in connection with the deaths of 27 migrants in 2021. It will cost the taxpayer approximately £17,000 to keep him in custody until the new hearing

Inmates at HMP Frankland are said to be 'excited' over the possibility of making and receiving calls from their cell - some have said the idea would 'sicken' taxpayers and victims

Carole Gould's daughter, Ellie, was killed by her ex while Julie Devey's daughter, Poppy, also died after being stabbed 23 times in the head and neck by her former boyfriend

Sam Duthie, a prison officer at HMP Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire, spends his days keeping bad guys behind bars, but at night he pulls lorries down the street with his bare hands

Disgraced singer Gary Glitter is said to be behind bars once again at a prison for male sex offenders after downloading videos of girls as young as eight from the dark web

Tracey Connelly is now pals with Helen Caudwell, who suffocated her daughter Bethany with a Piglet pyjama case before trying to kill herself

Sidney Cooke, who has been denied release from jail 10 times, is making a new bid for freedom - but ex-detective David Bright is concerned

Shazib Khan was jailed in 2016, aged 23, and was described by a judge as "absolutely committed to the Jihadi creed" after planning to travel to Syria to join ISIS

The worsening crisis has led to judges being advised to lock up fewer offenders – and now, victims and barristers are accusing the Government of failing the justice system

The record figures, uncovered in Freedom of Information requests, come after three of the women ended up in court over illicit flings. The relationships took place over the past six years at HMP Berwyn

Diana Parkes has asked Dominic Raab to block the early release of her daughter's killer Robert Brown, who bludgeoned her to death with a hammer in 2010

Nine serial offenders - including a sex attacker with 203 previous offences - were handed suspended sentences or community orders instead of jail time in 2021, figures show

Previously people could get married aged 16 or 17 with their parents' consent and at 18 with or without consent, but now the law has been changed so that people can only get married at 18

Sheree Spencer spat at and punched her husband, grabbing his hair, slapping him, kicking and biting him and threatened to take his head off, rip his heart out and break his teeth

Some 35 criminals should have been fitted with tags but were left to roam free in September last year. System failures impacted approximately 3,000 cases at HM Courts & Tribunals Service

Children from ethnic minority backgrounds make up more than half all children in custody. The proportion has increased from 32% in 2010 to 53% in 2020

Wakefield MP Imran Ahmad Khan was sentenced to 18 months in prison at Southwark Crown Court in May for groping a 15-year-old boy in 2008

Osborne, 53, killed a man and injured 12 more in the horror attack in June 2017, in which he deliberately drove a van into a group of people near Finsbury Park Mosque

According to the Ministry of Justice, only 71,138 community sentences were handed out in 2021 - down from 189,333 in 2010

Young inmates at Cookham Wood Young Offender Institution in Rochester, Kent, have helped arrange for drugs to be thrown over the walls or dropped by drones. A source said this raises security concerns

Despite already having access to the vast Government Art Collection - some 14,700 works - the purchase of 13 'fine art photographs' was made at the taxpayers’ expense in March 2021