Thomas Godfrey

3 days ago | news.com.au | Thomas Godfrey

Prosecutors have been accused of siding with a pedophile – who lured a six-year-old boy into the woods – by dropping an attempted kidnapping charge against him. Jayden Smith, 19, pleaded guilty to child sex offences but evaded a much longer prison sentence when Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) lawyers abandoned the more serious case, The Sun reports. Smith was caught on doorbell cameras as he stalked his young victim near his home. He followed him into the woods, where he asked him to strip naked.

3 days ago | thesun.co.uk | Thomas Godfrey

PROSECUTORS have been accused of siding with a paedophile who lured a boy of six into woods by dropping an attempted kidnapping charge against him. Jayden Smith, 19, pleaded guilty to child sex offences but evaded a much longer prison sentence when Crown Prosecution Service lawyers abandoned the more serious case. The pervert was caught on doorbell cameras as he stalked his young victim near his home. He followed him into the woods, where he asked him to strip naked.

4 days ago | thesun.co.uk | Thomas Godfrey

A THUG who drove 100 miles to beat a man with a cricket stump cannot be deported as a judge ruled he is not a public threat. Akshay Parsotam, 25, broke lockdown rules to carry out the gang attack in 2020. He travelled from Leicester to Wembley, North West London, for the premeditated assault. Portuguese-born Parsotam was convicted of violent disorder and GBH and jailed for 7½ years in February 2021.

4 days ago | thesun.co.uk | Thomas Godfrey

Jump directly to the contentNewsReviewsBuyValuationsSun MotorsExclusiveIn recent years one examiner suffered a broken jaw when he failed a candidateRAGING learner drivers attacked or threatened examiners virtually every day last year, shock figures reveal. Calls for the test chiefs to be given body cameras grew as it emerged 362 were targeted — more than double the total of 170 eight years ago. In recent years one examiner suffered a broken jaw when he failed a candidate.

4 days ago | thesun.co.uk | Thomas Godfrey

NHS trusts will be hit with “slam dunk” lawsuits for millions of pounds if they fail to protect single-sex female spaces, a lawyer warns. It comes after a ruling that transgender females are not legally women. Health bodies that fail to follow the Supreme Court judgment that a woman is defined by biological sex face sex discrimination cases and court action by staff and patients.