The Johnson Partnership, News

27/11/25

Liverpool was in full celebration mode as hundreds of thousands lined the streets to watch the team parade the Premier League trophy—an opportunity they had missed during the pandemic. Doyle had no real interest in the event but agreed to drop a friend and his family in the city centre, and later return to pick them up—something he would soon regret.

Dashcam and CCTV footage showed Doyle driving aggressively even before reaching the crowds: speeding through traffic, overtaking dangerously and running a red light. Prosecutors said he was already agitated, and grew visibly more enraged as the number of people around him increased.

29/10/25

Four other inmates have been wrongly released from custody in the past week, following the mistaken release of a convicted sex offender from HMP Chelmsford.

Hadush Kebatu, an Ethiopian national, was freed from the Essex prison on Friday instead of being transferred to an immigration detention centre. The migrant sex offender — who had been living at the Bell Hotel in Epping when he assaulted a 14-year-old girl and a woman — travelled to London after his release. He was recaptured in Finsbury Park on Sunday morning following a two-day manhunt.

29/09/25

Paul Gallagher, 59, of East Finchley, north London, has denied rape and a series of other violent sexual offences. The charges, brought by Scotland Yard following an investigation that began last year, were first reported by The Telegraph in July.

28/08/25

A taxpayer has been criticised by a judge after relying on an artificial intelligence chatbot to fight his tax case in court.

Marc Gunnarsson appealed against HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), which sought to recover £12,918 in self-employment support payments he had claimed during the pandemic. Representing himself at the Upper Tribunal, Mr Gunnarsson used AI to draft his written submissions. However, the chatbot invented three tribunal cases that did not exist, which HMRC spotted in his skeleton argument filed the day before the hearing.

23/07/25

Prisoners at HMP Stoke Heath in Shropshire will keep their Saturday morning lie-ins after a quarry extension was approved with a delayed weekend start time. Shropshire Council, led by the Liberal Democrats, granted planning permission for Grundon Sand & Gravel to extend operations at its Tern Hill site—on the condition that no work begins before 9am on Saturdays.

The decision followed objections from prison officials concerned that early morning quarrying, including noisy blasting, would disturb inmates' sleep. The category C facility houses 734 prisoners, who are allowed to sleep in beyond their usual 7:30am wake-up time on Saturdays.