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Serial sicko and former popstar Gary Glitter has shown no remorse for the victims of his sexual abuse and may reach the age of 86 before he is ever allowed to leave prison again

Last year the courts handed out almost £500million in fines but three-quarters of it has yet to be repaid, leading to fears criminals are being given a licence to break the law

Colin Whelan believed he had committed the perfect murder after strangling wife Mary Gough to death - but her was rumbled after fleeing the country due to a simple mistake

The Parole Board has rejected his application for released because jail officials believe he still poses a risk after he was imprisoned in August 1997 for shooting little Dillon Hull dead in Bolton

Laura Holmes Cameron has been told that she could beat fraud and criminal gang membership charges issued against her in relation to a £10million food poisoning swindle in Spain

The lawyers of notorious sex offender Christian Brueckner have requested a witness who claims his prison cell was bugged be heard in the trial in Braunschweig

Bridget Taylor, 43, was part of a criminal network that travelled business class from London to Dubai to smuggle illicit cash amounting to over £100million out of the country

42-year-old Don McDougal, who is facing a capital murder charge for the killing of 11-year-old Audrii Cunningham, had ties to the notorious neo-Nazi prison gang, the Aryan Brotherhood

Raheem Hussain, 30, a prisoner at HMP Frankland, squirted excrement and a liquid at the governor of the top security jail in the latest of a series of shocking attacks by him on staff

A teenager who has spent the last five years living with her aunt and cousin while her parents were in prison has been left devastated when they refused to consider adopting her

Serial killer nurse Lucy Letby, who was convicted of murdering seven babies and attempting to kill six, is due to be considered by the Court of Appeal at a hearing in April

Roger Clarke, 77, was pictured on British soil for the first time today since his transfer from a Portuguese prison in 2021 just days after his wife died behind bars

Jadiel Williams-Douglas drove Denico Raymond to and from an address in Colindale where he throw acid in the face of a woman; a man and 10-year-old girl were also hit with the liquid

Former Barcelona legend Dani Alves has been sentenced to four-and-a-half years in prison by a court in Barcelona after being convicted of raping a woman inside a nightclub

Vladimir Kara-Murza, 42, is serving 25 years in a penal colony for “treason” and criticising the tyrant’s war against Ukraine, and has called on Russians to end Vladimir Putin's reign

As shamed YouTuber Ruby Franke issued a shallow apology to her kids for physically and emotionally abusing them, one takes to TikTok to make light of her arrest

Foreign Secretary David Cameron has announced those in charge of the Arctic penal colony where Alexei Navalny was killed will be banned from the UK and have assets frozen

Daniel Sebastian Allen admitted murdering a teenage girl, her baby daughter and brother and killing their mum, found handcuffed to a bed after a house fire in Derrylin, Co Fermanagh

Ruby Franke went from being a popular YouTuber to becoming one of the most reviled mum's in the US after the extent of her abuse came to light from cruel punishments for her children to forced labour

Vladimir Putin's Lefortovo Prison on the outskirts of Moscow is where the Russian President's forces keep terrorist suspects, so-called spies and high-profile ex-officials

Alexei Navalny's cause of death has not yet been released, but sources have said he may have died of a signature technique used by the KGB - a single punch to the heart

Adam Montgomery, 34, is accused of dumping his partially-blind daughter, Harmony's, body "like it was trash" after brutally beating her to death, a US court has heard

Grieving Lyudmila Navalnaya braved minus-11°c temperatures to stand outside the jail where her son Alexei Navalny was being held in a desperate bid to get Vladimir Putin to act

Frida Sofia Guzman Munoz, the granddaughter of notorious Mexican drug lord El Chapo, went on a hunt to track down the Loch Ness monster during a trip to Scotland

Russian activist and opposition politician Alexei Navalny was Vladimir Putin's main political opponent, but was serving a three-decade term in a penal colony when he was found dead on Friday