A man who abducted and raped a 13-year-old girl has been sentenced to 12 years in prison.
Watson Ogora, 33, and an accomplice, forced the girl into a car and made her swallow a date-rape drug before raping her, Snaresbrook Crown Court heard.
They caught the girl near Plaistow tube station, east London, in January 2005. [...]

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[I hope they get a heavy sentence-ed]
Three men have appeared at Glasgow Sheriff Court in connection with the alleged abduction of a businessman, bringing the total charged to nine.
Javed Mukhtar, 58, was found by police in Manchester last Tuesday, three weeks after his disappearance from his Pollokshaws home.
David Smith, 37, James Kavanagh, 36 [...]

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[Why has he been sacked by his Asian bosses for helping with a racist murder investigation?-ed]
A valet has told the Kriss Donald murder trial that he saw a group of Asian men sitting on something unusual in the back of a car.
Derek Lesley, 42, who worked for an Edinburgh car hire firm, told the [...]

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A father whose son died on holiday in Cuba has demanded to know why his body was returned with his lungs, kidney and part of his brain missing.
Andrew Redfern, 37, from the Wirral, Merseyside, died after slipping and hitting his face on a marble floor in a hotel lobby in Havana in August.
When [...]

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Schoolboy Kriss Donald was still alive when he was on fire, a court has heard.
Forensic scientist Ruth Ramage, 43, said he may have tried to extinguish the flames by rolling in mud on the Clyde walkway in Glasgow.
The 15-year-old’s body was found by the walkway, near London Road on 16 March 2004, a day [...]

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A SHERIFF has sparked outrage by claiming that all Chinese people can look the same to Scots.
Sheriff Margaret Gimblett made the remark before clearing overseas student Hui Yu on driving charges.
The 23-year-old, originally from Beijing, China, had been identified by police as the man they stopped in a Rover 400 at a garage [...]

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A YOUNG prisoner faced a chilling death threat when the three men accused of the murder of Glasgow schoolboy Kriss Donald were brought to court for the first time, a jury heard.
Imran Shahid, 29, his brother Zeeshan Shahid, 29, and Mohammed Faisal Mushtaq, 27, came back from Pakistan to appear at Glasgow Sheriff Court, [...]

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ONE of the founding fathers of Scottish devolution is calling for England to be given its own parliament to reflect a “growing sense of national identity”.
Canon Kenyon Wright, who chaired the Constitutional Convention that paved the way for the reconvening of the Scottish Parliament in 1999, will this week argue that England has the [...]

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[How many will disappear?-ed]
MORE than 300 criminals, including a man who killed his baby sons, are to be released from prison for Christmas leave, it was revealed yesterday.
Among the convicts scheduled for home leave is Ian Metcalfe, jailed for killing his two sons, 11-week-old Kyle in 1988 and Dylan, five months, in 1996. Both [...]

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IN THE new Cenzor pub on York Place in Edinburgh, we sit in one of a labyrinth of cosy basement rooms decorated in red while Anna, the spiky-haired bar manager serves us Polish beer, stuffed dumplings and potato pancakes. Groups of people in their 20s and 30s sit on sofas in the many inviting alcoves [...]

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A marine killed in a suicide bombing while serving in Afghanistan has been named by the Ministry of Defence.
Gary Wright, 22, from Blanefield in Stirlingshire, died following the attack on a military convoy in Lashkar Gah, in Helmand Province.
Marine Wright, who served with Arbroath-based 45 Commando, was airlifted to hospital but later died [...]

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Scottish oil workers are due to arrive back in the UK after being held hostage for nearly three weeks in Nigeria.
Paul Smith, Graeme Buchan, George Mclean and Sandy Cruden had been seized, along with three other men, by 18 armed militants.
Mr Smith’s wife Paula had feared the worst after earlier reports claimed he [...]

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Nick Griffin and Simon Darby discuss the news. Today’s topic is mainly the relations between Britain, Europe and the Muslim world. Nick shows how anti Muslim the main press, and the very people who organized immigration in the first [...]

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On October 30th 2006, Nick Griffin will be on trial for a private comment he made about Islam. If found guilty, he could be sentenced up to a 7 years in jail. He was filmed by a journalist who used a hidden camera while pretending to be a genuine member of the BNP.
In this interview, [...]

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The supply of heroin is “abundant” in some Scottish jails, according to a report produced for the prison service.
Some inmates claimed they could “get anything” in jails, with heroin among the most widely-used drugs.
Some of the prisoners claimed that drug testing could actually lead to first time heroin use because it does not [...]

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CLASSROOMS in Scotland are abuzz with at least 106 languages, it was revealed yesterday.
English and Gaelic are joined by Afrikaans, Polish and Tagalog on the list of mother tongues.
But experts believe the number could be much higher as only 13 of Scotland’s 32 councils took part in the survey.
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An island which has seen drastic action to protect its rare mice and birds is now trying to end a decline in its human population.
The National Trust for Scotland (NTS) hopes to attract two new families to Canna in the Hebrides.
The trust, which owns the most westerly of the Small Isles, said it [...]

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A CANCER patient has been left scared to leave her home after being brutally kicked in the face by a martial arts student.
Amateur kickboxer Talha Tariq, 19, assaulted and racially abused Carol Marr, 55, as she returned from a trip to buy a birthday present for her daughter.
Tariq, a biological sciences student at [...]

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Scotland’s communities minister has criticised Jack Straw’s comments on the wearing of veils by Muslim women.
The leader of the House of Commons described the veil as a visible statement of separation and difference.
Communities Minister Malcolm Chisholm said he strongly disagreed with his Labour colleague’s comments and said: “I regret that he raised this [...]

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[She could have bought a car and driving lessons for that amount-ed]
TAXPAYERS forked out almost £1,200 in four months for one MSP to be driven around in taxis, it was revealed yesterday.
Roseanna Cunningham’s taxi bill made up more than one-third of the total amount spent on cabs by Holyrood’s 129 MSPs from September until [...]

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