Emergency Exit at English Heritage
12 July 2025
by Mike Wells
A two-tier justice row has erupted after an engineer was jailed for half as long as Lucy Connolly over a near-identical tweet, while a Labour MP who punched a constituent to the ground was spared jail completely.
Tommy Robinson is due to be released from prison within days after his 18-month sentence for the civil offence of contempt of court was reduced by four months at the High Court after he showed a "change in attitude".
Rapists will no longer be able to identify as women following the landmark Supreme Court transgender ruling, with police forces now expected to begin recording criminals' biological sex rather than preferred gender.
Transgender women are not legally women, the Supreme Court has declared. In a unanimous decision, the five justices ruled that "woman" and "sex" in the 2010 Equality Act refer to biological sex, not acquired gender.
Matt Hancock has lost a High Court attempt to end a libel claim by former MP Andrew Bridgen against him over a tweet about the Covid vaccine after Hancock branded his fellow Tory "antisemitic".
Five years after the pandemic, people are still being hauled into court over alleged Covid rule breaches, with many feeling punished for honest mistakes in a drawn-out, costly Kafkaesque saga.
A nurse can refer to a transgender doctor she claims she was forced to get changed in front of at work as a man in a legal victory.
Covid dissident doctor William Bay has won back his right to practise medicine after the Supreme Court in Australia overturned his suspension, slamming the health board's "animus" and "profoundly unsatisfactory" conduct.
More than 50 experts stand ready to defend Lucy Letby, her barrister has said, as the police confirm they have questioned her in prison over more deaths and collapses.
Three baby deaths for which Lucy Letby was convicted had medical explanations and may have been preventable with better care, a leaked expert report not seen by the original jury concluded.
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