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A man has admitted killing a King’s College London student after hitting her with the van he was driving near the university’s central London campus. Christopher Jackson, 27, appeared in the dock at the Old Bailey on Monday to plead guilty to causing Aalia Mahomed‘s death by dangerous driving on 18 March last year. The […]

A man in his sixties – understood to be MP Dan Norris – has been further arrested on suspicion of rape, sexual assault, voyeurism and upskirting, Avon and Somerset Police has said. Mr Norris, currently the independent MP for North East Somerset and Hanham, was formerly a member of the Labour Party, until he was

Serial killer Steve Wright has pleaded guilty to the murder of a 17-year-old girl in Suffolk more than 25 years ago. The 67-year-old, formerly of London Road, in Ipswich, had been due to go on trial at the Old Bailey, in London, but changed his plea on Monday. It is the first time Wright, known

Sir Keir Starmer is set to chair a cabinet meeting today as police assess allegations his former US ambassador Lord Mandelson leaked sensitive information from the heart of government to Jeffrey Epstein. The Metropolitan Police is investigating allegations of misconduct in public office after emails appeared to show conversations between the ex-cabinet minister and paedophile

Anas Sarwar has vowed to ban transgender women from the female prison estate “within days” if he becomes first minister after the Holyrood election. The Scottish Labour leader has pledged his party will “act swiftly” to ensure prisons are “single-sex, based on biological sex” if it gets into power in May. His declaration comes ahead

Lord Mandelson has resigned his membership of the Labour Party to avoid causing it “further embarrassment” after documents in newly released files appeared to show he received $75,000 from Jeffrey Epstein. The latest batch of files released by the US Department of Justice includes three apparent bank statements detailing three money transfers of $25,000 each