Author: Eniola Amadu

A 45 year old man has been found guilty of attempting to rape a Scottish woman on an Easyjet flight. The Italian native, Nicola Cristiano, 45, moved seats to sit beside the woman — who for legal reasons cannot be named — during an overnight journey from Naples to Edinburgh on 13 May. After offering the woman — born in 1993 and from Aberdeenshire — wine, he attempted to force her hand and head toward his exposed groin, the court heard. The prosecution stated that all the actions occurred without the woman’s consent, a claim supported by a witness seated…

A man has admitted guilt to attempting to kill a uniformed Army officer in a knife attack outside a military barracks in Kent. The assailant, Anthony Esan, 25, was reported to have “repeatedly” stabbed Lt Col Mark Teeton in Sally Port Gardens, near Brompton Barracks in Chatham, on 23 July 2024. He was arrested later near his home in Rochester about 25 minutes after the attack. On Thursday, Esan appeared via video link from Broadmoor Hospital at Maidstone Crown Court. He also admitted to possessing two bladed weapons. The victim — Teeton — who was taken to hospital with serious…

A man serving a life sentence for throwing a six-year-old boy from the Tate Modern has received an additional sentence for assaulting two nurses at Broadmoor Hospital. The man Jonty Bravery, aged 24, kicked one of the nurses on the thigh and scratched the face of another, causing a facial injury that resulted in bleeding. In 2019, Bravery threw down a French boy from the London art gallery’s 10th storey balcony. He was given a life sentence and is being held at the high security hospital in Crowthorne, Berkshire. Read also the related story on New Daily Prime: Crime Crackdown: UK…

The UK Government has revealed there will be no further amendments to the revised proposals to increase farm inheritance tax. The government said last month that it would raise the proposed threshold for a 20% levy on inherited agricultural assets from £1m to £2.5m. Protesters attempted to disrupt a speech by Environment Secretary Emma Reynolds on Thursday at the Oxford Farming Conference by staging a tractor protest involving the sounding of horns. Questioned on further changes, Reynolds told the conference: “That’s it, I’m afraid… it is the people in this room who have engaged with us constructively and relatively quietly…

Westminster City Councillor Laila Cunningham has been announced by the Reform UK as the party’s candidate for the London mayoral election in 2028. The party leader, Nigel Farage and Cunningham featured together at a news conference with banners which reads: “London needs Reform.” The councillor, who left the Conservative Party last year, criticised the Labour Mayor of London, Sir Sadiq Khan, stating that she intended to deliver a “different message” to residents of the city. “There will be a new sheriff in town, and I’ll be launching an all-out war on crime,” she said. Cunningham told the news conference that…

UK Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, has vowed the MPs would get an approval concerning proposals for British soldiers to support the implementation of any peace agreement in Ukraine. This comes following UK and France reaffirmed their readiness to release troops to prevent Ukraine from Russia attack if a deal to end the conflict is reached. The prime minister noted the action would be aligned to “recent practice” on the use of UK armed forces. Whilst the administration is yet to specify the number of British military personnel to be incorporated in this move, the PM stated that it would correspond…

Prime Minister Keir Starmer has sought to clearly differentiate the Labour Party from Nigel Farage’s Reform UK as part of efforts to rebuild the party’s political standing at the start of the new year. Sir Keir Starmer told members of his political cabinet that voters should be presented with a clear choice between Labour’s agenda for national renewal and Reform UK, which he accused of promoting grievance, decline and division. The ratings of Labour and the PM’s have decreased in opinion polls since the party’s victory in the 2024 general election. Following that, Reform has topped the polls, and is…

UK Conservative leader, Kemi Badenoch has said that the US military action in Venezuela was morally “right”. She stated she does not know the legal basis of the attack, however, she’s “glad he’s gone” because the captured Venezuela leader, President Nicolás Maduro was leading a “brutal regime”. She stated that the move did “raise serious questions about the rules-based order”. During BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, Badenoch mentioned the US action was “extraordinary” noting that she understood the reasons behind the decision. “Where the legal certainty is not yet clear, morally, I do think it was the right thing to…

UK’s longest living former Labour MP and defense minister, Sir Patrick Duffy has been reported dead following a brief illness at the age of 105. According to a confirmation by a family friend, Kevin Meagher, the former MP died on January 2. In his political career, Duffy ran for parliament in 1950 and got elected MP in 1963 following his win at the Colne Valley by-election, before serving as the representative for Sheffield Attercliffe from 1970 until he retired in 1992. Born in wigan in 1920, the war veteran served as parliamentary under-secretary for the State for Defence for James…

UK prime minister, Keir Starmer has cleared the air on the stance of the government in the attack on Venezuela launched by the US saying it was not “in any way” involved. When questioned on his position on the US action, he stated the need to ascertain the facts and discuss with the US President Donald Trump first He noted that he had not yet spoken to Trump about the US strikes and its move to detain the Venezuelan President, Nicolas Maduro in Caracas. Starmer mentioned close partnership with the UK embassy in Venezuela to ascertain the welfare and protection…