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30/07/25

The estate of Richard Scott, a multimillionaire who died aged 81 in 2018, is at the centre of a fierce legal dispute. Scott, who fathered 19 children and amassed his fortune running the UK's second-largest car boot sale from his vast Cheshire farm—once the set for ITV's Car Boot Challenge—left behind a fortune officially valued at £7 million, though it may be worth up to £43 million based on private offers.

19/06/25

A fraudulent psychiatrist has been ordered to repay more than £400,000 to the NHS or serve an additional two and a half years in prison. Zholia Alemi, 62, was sentenced to seven years in jail in February 2023 after being found guilty of multiple fraud offences.

Alemi falsely claimed she had qualified as a doctor at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. However, a jury at Manchester Crown Court concluded she had forged both the medical degree certificate and a letter of verification, which she used to gain registration with the General Medical Council in 1995.

21/05/25

A childminder left a five-month-old baby boy home alone while she took other children on the school run, a court has heard.

Andrea Ward, 62, was found to have left three young boys—aged five, eight, and 16 months—unattended at her home on multiple occasions. Her actions were described in court as "every parent's nightmare," and she was accused of a "betrayal of trust" by putting financial gain above the safety of the children in her care.

25/04/25

A van driver who struck and killed a three-year-old girl on a Manchester pavement had consumed "at least 20 lines of cocaine" in the hours before the incident, a court has heard.

Louisa Palmisano—affectionately known as Lulu—died in hospital from her injuries after being hit while walking with her parents during a family visit to the city on February 22.

31/03/25

An AA recovery driver with autism who was dismissed after jokingly saying he would like to drop two colleagues out of a window has won his discrimination case.

Adrian Lloyd-Penny, 42, made the comment about dropping Lyndon Tyler, a night manager, and Dave Boddison, a dispatcher, "from a third-storey b----- window" during a heated phone call with a colleague. He later explained that his autism had "flared up" in response to a mistake he thought they had made.