The National Portrait Gallery has been slammed after it wrongly claimed an art dealer launched his career using money from slavery. The gallery said Edward Fox White launched his career from a compensation payout his father-in-law received for freeing slaves. It said
The murder conviction of a brain-damaged youth for shooting dead a shopkeeper in 1990 should be quashed because his vulnerabilities meant he could not properly defend himself, a court has been told. Rose Slowe KC told the Court of Appeal that Oliver
An “easily manipulated” brain-damaged youth jailed for shooting dead a shopkeeper in a robbery in 1990 was pressured by Metropolitan Police detectives into falsely confessing to the murder, a court has been told. In what some believe to be the longest-ever miscarriage
Orla Baxendale, from Lancashire, bought the Vanilla Florentine Cookie at a store in Connecticut, unaware of its nut content. Ms Baxendale, 25, was treated with her anti-allergy EpiPen injector but it was not enough to counter the severe reaction, said her lawyers
The U.K. is introducing measures to overturn the convictions of over 700 post office branch managers wrongly accused of theft or fraud. The scandal involved postmasters falsely convicted of stealing money as the Post Office’s computers incorrectly indicated missing funds from their
The BBC’s reputation is on the brink this morning after a disastrous 12 hours covering the explosion at a hospital in Palestine. The supposedly neutral broadcaster has been accused of parroting Hamas propaganda that an Israeli rocket killed 500 Palestinians after hitting
A Missouri mum says her life has been completely ruined after she was erroneously declared dead in 2007. Madeline-Michelle Carthen, 52, said the 20-year-old Social Security mistake has made her life incredibly difficult and has struggled to keep a job or even
The Financial Conduct Authority has warned banks it “will act” should politicians be wrongly “de-banked” because of their views. It comes after former UKIP leader and ardent Brexiteer Nigel Farage had his account closed at exclusive bank Coutts in late June. He
Documents from a case where a man was wrongfully convicted of raping a woman show another man’s DNA was identified three years after he was jailed. Andy Malkinson was sentenced in 2004 of raping a woman in Greater Manchester but had his
A teenage driver careered across a central reservation when trying to give police the slip, North Staffordshire Justice Centre heard. 19-year-old Max Edwards was in stationary traffic in Newcastle when he heard police sirens and saw flashing lights. He wrongly believed they