Day: February 3, 2026
Snapchat predator coerced boys to perform sex acts in exchange for Xbox and PlayStation codes
February 3, 2026A “depraved” sex predator who befriended schoolboys through Snapchat before coercing them to perform sexual acts in exchange for Xbox and PlayStation codes has been jailed for 10-and-a-half years. Ross Brogan, 31, bombarded four teenagers with indecent communications and obscene videos, then offered payment to reciprocate. The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) said […]
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Man dies from ‘unsurvivable’ injuries after being found in street
February 3, 2026Police have arrested seven men, and launched a murder inquiry, after the death of a man who was found with “unsurvivable” injuries in Bristol. Avon and Somerset Police said they encountered a group of men – some of whom were suspected of being in possession of bladed weapons – in Stapleton Road at around 10.45pm […]
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Statue of boxer Teddy Baldock stolen from east London park
February 3, 2026The Met Police are appealing for information after a bronze statue of boxing icon Teddy Baldock was stolen from a park in east London, with the thieves leaving behind nothing but the pugilist’s boxing boots. The statue, estimated to be worth around £100,000, was wiggled free from its stone plinth outside Langdon Park in Poplar […]
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Burglar who tried to smash his way into Anya Taylor-Joy’s bedroom jailed for 3 years
February 3, 2026An armed robber who smashed into a luxury London home where Hollywood star Anya Taylor-Joy was staying and tried to force his way into the actor’s bedroom with a crowbar was sentenced to three years in prison, officials said Wednesday. Prosecutors said that the way Kirk Holdrick and another masked man tried to get into […]
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Anya Taylor-Joy’s husband ‘barricaded them in bedroom’ when burglars smashed into London home
February 3, 2026A man has been handed additional jail time after admitting his role in a terrifying burglary at a London property where Anya Taylor-Joy was staying. Kirk Holdrick, 43, was sentenced this week after breaking into a multi-million-pound home in the capital in the early hours of 12 February 2023. Prosecutors said Holdrick and another man […]
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Moment £100,000 statue of boxer Teddy Baldock ripped down by masked thieves
February 3, 2026John Dunne Published February 3, 2026 3:29pm Updated February 3, 2026 4:45pm To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video The family of Britain’s youngest ever boxing world champion have described the theft of a £100,000 bronze statue of him from outside a London station as […]
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Neighbours rushed to help ‘lovely’ woman stabbed in ‘busy’ north London street
February 3, 2026John Dunne Published February 3, 2026 2:26pm Updated February 3, 2026 2:53pm Tributes have been paid to a ‘lovely’ woman found dying from stab wounds close to her London home. Flowers were left at the scene in Willesden in memory of the victim, 50, who has not been named by police. Locals in Harlesden Road […]
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The pie and mash crisis: can the original fast food be saved?
February 3, 2026Outside it’s raining so hard that the sandwich board sign for BJ’s pie and mash (“All pies are made on the premises”) is folded up inside. The pavement along Barking Road in Plaistow is a blur through the front windows and deserted, and there are only two customers in the shop. Another sign – this […]
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Hearing on transgender prisoners to start in Edinburgh
February 3, 2026A legal challenge against the Scottish Government’s policy on transgender prisoners will commence on Tuesday. The judicial review hearing begins at the Court of Session in Edinburgh and will hear from For Women Scotland, which is opposed to trans women being placed in female-only prisons. The group won a Supreme Court case in April last […]
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Robber who attempted to smash way into Anya Taylor-Joy’s bedroom is jailed
February 3, 2026Kirk Holdrick, 43, was one of two masked men who smashed their way into the luxury property in February 2023, in a raid which may have been targeted at the movie star. Taylor-Joy’s rockstar husband, Malcolm McRae, confronted the intruders, then barricaded himself and his wife inside one of the bedrooms. He was armed only […]
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