A Romanian gang who were caught tunnelling into a jewellery shop after they were linked to a spree of burglaries worth more than £700,000 have been jailed.
Ioan Asafeti, 39, Laurentiu-Daniel Nitisoara, 38, and Sergiu Plastin, 42, had stolen the goods after gaining access to Selvaraja Gold House in Mitcham Road, Tooting, in May.
But they were foiled when they tried to burrow into the same shop two months later and ultimately jailed for a combined total of 10 years and two months.
Police body-worn footage showed police discovering a hole in the wall of what appears to be a shower room inside the massage parlour.
They also found bags of tools and equipment used to dig the hole.
In the footage, an officer can be heard saying: 'They've been trying to get through the wall into the jewellers, but it doesn't appear they've managed to get in.'
'There are loads of tools in here, so we're going to need someone to come in and deal with this,' he added.
Nitisoara was immediately arrested in a nearby alleyway, with body-worn footage of the police's arrival showing him walking towards them with his hands raised.
Britain is bracing for a second 80mph storm in just 24 hours as forecasters issued another amber weather warning after thousands of homes were left without power by devastating winds.
Storm Boelo is set to unleash powerful gusts and torrential rain across the country this weekend, bringing fresh misery just hours after Storm Austen battered the South West.
The Met Office has issued a sweeping amber wind warning covering mainland Scotland, parts of Northern Ireland and the far north of England from Saturday night into Sunday.
Widespread gusts of 60 to 70mph are expected, with winds potentially reaching 80mph in exposed coastal areas.
Yellow warnings have also been issued across a much wider area, stretching further south into England and covering the whole of Northern Ireland.
The warnings come after Storm Austen, the first named storm of the season, wreaked havoc on Friday, leaving more than 16,000 homes without electricity in the South West.
The storm also destroyed a section of Brighton's iconic West Pier.
Footage showed one side of the landmark, which opened in 1866 and attracted two million visitors a year in its heyday, falling into
Two former senior FBI officials were charged with making false statements to Congress about their roles in the investigation into Hunter Biden's laptop in the final weeks before the 2020 presidential election.
The two ex-senior FBI officials, Nikki Floris, 46, and Bradley Benavides, 56, made their first appearance in court on Friday in Washington, DC, before federal Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui.
They were each charged with one count of allegedly lying to Congress about their roles on the FBI's Foreign Influence Task Force, or FITF, and 'about their roles in the FBI's Hunter Biden investigation,' according to US Attorney Jeanine Pirro.
They were charged by criminal complaint, which means that federal prosecutors have not yet secured an indictment in either case from a grand jury.
Floris is a former intelligence analyst who headed up the bureau's Washington Field Office, and Benavides formerly served as the deputy assistant director of the FBI's Counterintelligence Division.
The decision by Pirro's office to announce charges against two senior ex-FBI officials 10 days before the
A Democrat running for Congress in Pennsylvania is threatening to sue her Republican rival after his campaign released an attack ad accusing her of exposing her naked body to a neighbor's grandchild.
Janelle Stelson, a former television news anchor, has denied the allegation in a 30-second commercial approved by Republican Rep. Scott Perry, who narrowly defeated her in the 2024 election.
The ad, released Monday, features accusations from Stelson's neighbor, Sharon Orr, who claims the Democrat was seen outside her home with her breasts and buttocks exposed in front of a minor.
The allegations remain unsubstantiated, but Perry's campaign has used them to question Stelson's suitability for public office.
The commercial opens with Perry approving the message before a narrator declares that his Democratic challenger is 'not fit to serve.'
Stelson's campaign manager, Alma Baker, told The Philadelphia Inquirer on Wednesday that the congressional hopeful is considering filing a defamation lawsuit against Perry.
'This false accusation is a pathetic, desperate attempt by Scott Perry to rescue his failing campaign, with
A council worker has sued for discrimination after missing out on a pension worth £350,000 when he was made redundant three days before his 55th birthday.
Lee Henley, 57, had worked for Thurrock Council in Essex for 35 years when he was told restructuring plans within the authority meant he would be let go.
Mr Henley initially believed he would finish at the Council after his 55th birthday - meaning he would be entitled to the entirety of his pension.
But he was left short hundreds of thousands of pounds after changes in redundancy plans - brought in while Mr Henley was on holiday - brought the date forward by three days before his birthday.
He subsequently took the case to an employment tribunal, claiming age discrimination. However, his claim has now been dismissed by an employment judge.
Mr Henley began working at Thurrock Council in 1989. His employment ended on July 22, 2024, having worked at the authority for 35 years with an 'exemplary attendance record'.
By 2022, he had become the Head of Information Management - but the Council was in 'significant financial difficulty' and had the highest level of debt of
The village that voted to leave the UK in protest at plans for a giant migrant camp on its doorstep is now suing the Home Office in a fresh effort to frustrate the scheme.
Campaigners in Piddington, Oxfordshire, claim the Home Office broke the law by ignoring the potential threat to wildlife posed by the plan to turn a former Ministry of Defence (MoD) site into a home for up to 1,256 undocumented male asylum seekers.
In papers submitted to the High Court, they allege the Home Office has failed to take account of the endangered wildlife around the site, including some of the rarest bats in Britain.
In the submission, villagers claim the Home Office 'erred in law' by concluding that the camp was unlikely to damage the environment without carrying out a full assessment which, they say, would show it needs to introduce measures to protect the wildlife.
The claim is brought by Bicester Countryside and Communities CIC, a community interest company set up to represent Piddington and the legal entity behind the Wrong Plan Wrong Site campaign.
A spokesman for the group told The Telegraph: 'We are asking the Government
Britain is bracing for a second 80mph storm in just 24 hours as forecasters issued another amber weather warning after thousands of homes were left without power by devastating winds.
Storm Boelo is set to unleash powerful gusts and torrential rain across the country this weekend, bringing fresh misery just hours after Storm Austen battered the South West.
The Met Office has issued a sweeping amber wind warning covering mainland Scotland, parts of Northern Ireland and the far north of England from Saturday night into Sunday.
Widespread gusts of 60 to 70mph are expected, with winds potentially reaching 80mph in exposed coastal areas.
Yellow warnings have also been issued across a much wider area, stretching further south into England and covering the whole of Northern Ireland.
The warnings come after Storm Austen, the first named storm of the season, wreaked havoc on Friday, leaving more than 16,000 homes without electricity in the South West.
The storm also destroyed a section of Brighton's iconic West Pier.
Footage showed one side of the landmark, which opened in 1866 and attracted two million visitors a year in its heyday, falling into
Scotland has been hit by 'biblical' downpours, hours before an amber 'danger to life' warning was issued for back-to-back storms which could bring hurricane-level winds.
Storm Austen arrived on Friday with heavy rain across much of the country, while Storm Boelo will follow on Saturday and Sunday with gales of up to 70mph expected widely.
Gusts of up to 80mph, hurricane level, are likely in exposed coastal areas with Scots told to stay at home unless travel is absolutely necessary.
Torrential rain in Shetland on Thursday night caused flash flooding and a landslide, closing the road between Garderhouse and Reawick.
Several cafes, restaurants and shops around Lerwick were also hit by floods.
Johnny Sandison, who works at the Lerwick Brewery, said the rain was 'biblical'.
He told BBC News: 'It was probably the heaviest rain I have ever seen in Shetland in my life.
'When the cars were going past on the road, you could see these massive waves were coming up above the height of the cars themselves.'
A 15-year-old disabled boy starved to death just days after a social worker had deemed there to be no danger in his home, despite the child admitting to being spanked and deprived of food.
Karreon Adams-Franks died on November 27, 2020, after his adoptive parents, Felicia Adams and Jesse Franks, abused him.
Adams, who is the sister of Karreon's biological mother, and Franks were sentenced to 35 and 30 years respectively in December 2023 for his murder.
Last week, the State of Washington – including the Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF) – and the Evergreen School District settled with Karreon's estate for $49.3 million.
The payment will be split between the district and the state.
Davis Law Group, which represented the estate, including Karreon's two surviving brothers, said there were years of warning signs that the three boys were suffering at home, a statement said.
Adams and Franks used extension cords and canes to beat the boys, withheld food as punishment, and locked them inside their bedrooms for days.
When Karreon died, he weighed just 61 pounds. A little over a year before, the boy weighed 115 pounds. Karreon was also autistic, nonverbal, and legally blind.
The Commanding Officer of the Special Air Service was targeted by military police following the legitimate killing of an ISIS terrorist, the Mail can reveal.
The 'CO' was interviewed under caution and accused of covering up the 'murder' of a jihadist – when, in fact, he had acted appropriately.
The Lieutenant Colonel was one of three SAS commanders hounded by police following the shooting in Syria in 2022, causing uproar in its ranks.
A five-man SAS team under his command had risked their lives to eliminate the terrorist who had vowed in a chilling propaganda video to blow up infidels.
After the incident, the CO and two senior colleagues signed-off the SAS team's account of the shooting as accurate and proportionate.
But another senior officer, who previously commanded the SAS's fierce rivals the Special Boat Service (SBS), disapproved.
General Sir Gwyn Jenkins' intervention led to the five-man SAS team and the SAS officers being subjected to military police investigations.
SAS soldiers legitimately engaged an ISIS terrorist is Syria yet they and their Commanding Officer were hounded by
President Trump lambasted a Utah judge on Friday for allowing the murder trial of conservative activist Charlie Kirk to drag out on an extended timeline.
'The judge in the Charlie Kirk case is doing a terrible job! This case should be tried within a month, not three years — and it should be over with!' Trump wrote on social media.
The president addressed the ongoing legal battle as District Court Judge Tony Graf weighs a decision to postpone the trial as requested by the defense for Kirk's accused murderer Tyler Robinson.
Trump expressed his disappointment with the judicial hesitation in the trial, even though a final decision on timing for the trial has not been announced.
The defense has requested for jury selection to start in the latter part of the year 2029, citing the years worth of evidence to sort through on top of a high-profile jury selection process.
Kirk was assassinated on September 10, 2025, while speaking at a Turning Point USA event at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah. He was 31.
