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A 23-year-old British man has pleaded guilty to hacking into over 100 hundred Twitter accounts, including those of Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Kim Kardashian, Kanye West and Elon Musk, in one of the biggest hacks in social media history (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
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Briton pleads guilty to Twitter hack that included Kim Kardashian and Elon Musk

O’Connor was extradited from Spain to face charges which carry a total maximum sentence of more than 70 years in prison.
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Phone hacking trial featuring Harry against tabloid publisher set to begin

Harry is one of a number of people bringing claims against Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) over alleged unlawful information gathering at its titles.
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What legal claims has the Duke of Sussex brought?

Harry is involved in a number of legal actions, including a trial against Mirror Group Newspapers set to begin on Wednesday.
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Limehouse: Owner of dogs shot dead by Met officers charged

Louie Turnbull, 46, appeared in court on Tuesday facing dangerous dog offences

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Salmon farm company fined £800,000 over accident in which worker was killed

Clive Hendry, 58, died after being crushed by a vessel dropping him off at a floating structure in Loch Alsh.
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Murder trial teacher claims only memory of garden burial is ‘dragging sensation’

Fiona Beal denies murdering Nicholas Billingham, claiming her ‘broken’ mental state means she is guilty of the lesser offence of manslaughter.
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Chris Packham is ‘Marmite’, libel trial told

Dominic Wightman, editor of Country Squire Magazine, is defending the libel claim along with writer Nigel Bean and a third man, Paul Read.
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Police taser suspect and shoot dogs on east London canal towpath

Police defend actions saying they were responding to reports of a woman being attacked by a dog

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Boy, 17, in court charged with murder of pensioner

The teenager had been due to enter pleas but the hearing was adjourned for reports.
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Union boss to pay damages to firefighter over ‘reckless’ tweets, court told

Paul Embery said UCU general secretary Dr Jo Grady had caused him ‘considerable distress’.
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Man faces life sentence after admitting murder of woman, 40, found dead in flat

Joe Rankin, 34, has admitted murdering Emma Potter, 40, who was found dead at a flat in Stroud, Gloucestershire.
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Family’s anguish after boy, 16, is stabbed to death at school gates

Renell’s cousin tells Standard: ‘He was a happy boy, now he has gone. Why? His parents are devastated. He was a good person’

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Two men injured in shooting in Bow

The men, aged 21 and 66, were taken to hospital suffering bullet wounds

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London gun crime: Five injured in three shootings within 24 hours

Met detectives are probing three separate shootings in Peckham, Bow and Mitcham on Saturday and Sunday

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Murder probe launched as boy, 17, killed in London commuter town

Another boy, also aged 17, was wounded and has been taken to hospital

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Man, 27, stabbed to death in Hackney named as murder suspect charged

Sebastian Zon died after being found with stab wounds in Mare Street

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Almost 40,000 sign petition for tougher sentence for West End killer

Paul Mason’s sister blasts ‘sickening’ sentence handed down to Steven Allan, who admitted manslaughter but was cleared of murder

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Man in court charged with attempted murder after woman in 70s stabbed

Anthony Roberts is also accused of sexual assault after a woman aged in her 70s was left with critical injuries.
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Man shot in the back while sitting in car in southwest London

He was taken to hospital with gunshot wounds to his back

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Two jailed after gun found in driver’s handbag in south London

Police stopped the car in West Norwood and discovered a loaded revolver inside

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Man convicted of selling BT Sport streams flees UK with his dog

Brockley had been selling Infinity Stream subscriptions for £15

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Police officer who tasered man accused of being a liar

Pc Imran Mahmood is on trial charged with unlawfully inflicting grievous bodily harm on Jordan Walker-Brown in May 2020.
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Murder-accused nurse ‘stunned’ at death of first alleged victim

Lucy Letby is on trial accused of the murders of seven babies and the attempted murders of 10 others at the Countess of Chester Hospital