Max Stephens

London

News Reporter at The Telegraph

International Crime Correspondent @telegraph [email protected] https://t.co/9xX0HvTSvh

Articles

Briton 'spying for Iran surveilled air base where US troops landed hours before'

3 days ago | telegraph.co.uk | Max Stephens |Yannis-Orestis Papadimitriou

A British terror suspect accused of spying for Iran allegedly surveilled an air base where US troops and an American transport aircraft had landed hours beforehand. The man, who also has Azerbaijani nationality, travelled to Andreas Papandreou air base in Paphos on Friday used a long-range camera, capable of a 125x optical zoom to photograph military movements there, according to reports.
Air India crash: Entire family killed shortly after being reunited and planning new life

2 weeks ago | independent.ie | Max Stephens

Entire family perish in Air India crash shortly after being reunitedPrateek Joshi, Komi Vyas with their children, Nakul and Pradyut (5) and Miraya (8) before the Air India plane took off©Telegraph Media Group Holdings LtdToday at 03:30Smiling for the camera, a doctor took a selfie with his wife and children moments before they all died in the Air India crash.
Doctor on Air India flight was bringing family to UK

2 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Max Stephens

In a video posted on social media from their boutique hotel in the city, the night before their flight, Fiongal, who described himself as a "fashion designer-turned-spiritual adviser" said: "So it's our last night in India and we have had a magical experience really, there has been some quite mind blowing things have happened." His husband Jamie, a yoga teacher and former dancer, added: "We really have been on quite a journey and then just spending the last night here in this amazing hotel...
Former vicar linked to 'Eunuch Maker' castration cult admits back-street surgery

3 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Max Stephens

Baulcomb admitted making four indecent photos of a child, namely four category B images and making 37 category C indecent images of a child. He admitted three further charges of possessing extreme pornographic images. The charges date between March 4 2020 and Dec 14 2022. The self-styled "Eunuch Maker" Gustavson mutilated paying customers and streamed it online.
Madeleine McCann police leave empty-handed after three-day search

3 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Max Stephens

Detectives investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann have left empty-handed after a three-day search near where she went missing 18 years ago. Officers from Portugal's Polícia Judiciária, under the direction of German authorities, scoured 120 acres of gorse scrubland east of Praia da Luz for any trace of the three-year-old's remains.
Madeleine McCann police take samples from abandoned houses

3 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Max Stephens

Detectives investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann have taken samples of potential evidence from abandoned houses near where she went missing 18 years ago. A squad of half a dozen German and Portuguese police officers and firefighters used chainsaws, hedge trimmers and pickaxes to clear thick foliage and access several crumbling ruins near Praia Da Luz in the Algarve on Tuesday morning.
Body of missing British hiker found in Dolomites

3 weeks ago | aol.co.uk | Max Stephens

The body of a British hiker who went missing in the Dolomites on New Year’s Day has been found by Italy’s alpine rescue service. Aziz Ziriat, 36, was last heard from five months ago while hiking through the mountain range in the Trentino region of north Italy with his friend Sam Harris. Several Items and pieces of equipment belonging to 35-year-old Mr Harris were discovered by search and rescue teams in the days after the pair’s disappearance.
Body of missing British hiker found in Dolomites

3 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Max Stephens |Nick Squires |Patrick Sawer

In a video, filmed on the day of their disappearance and shared with The Telegraph, they had discussed plans to scale 3,000-metre high mountains. Heavy snowfall, fog, and sub-zero temperatures had repeatedly hampered rescuers' efforts to find Mr Ziriat, and they were often forced to curtail searches for their own safety.
France's prison population reaches record high

3 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Max Stephens

In 90 per cent of these cases, the outcome of these fast-track hearings is detention, whether pre-trial or to serve out a sentence, according to Dominique Simonnot, the head of a prison watchdog group in France. France now sits behind Cyprus as the second worst country in the European Union for prison overcrowding, according to latest statistics.
Jacinda Ardern reveals Queen Elizabeth II's parenting advice

3 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Max Stephens

Dame Jacinda Ardern was told by Queen Elizabeth II that she should "just get on with it" after she sought advice on how to bring up a child in the public eye. The former prime minister of New Zealand, 44, has recalled her exchange with the late monarch at a Commonwealth summit in April 2018 while seven-months pregnant with her daughter, Neve Te Aroha.