LONDON—A wealthy businessman has denied he paid “hush money” to a man who had been arrested and accused of planting explosive devices outside the chambers of a top London barrister as part of a “campaign of intimidation.” Jonathan Nuttall, 49, denies conspiracy to plant explosive devices on Sept. 14, 2021; conspiracy to transfer criminal proceedings…

LONDON—Five members of a gang who shot dead a rival during a “rideout” on a London street and then celebrated his death at a secret gathering have been jailed by a judge who condemned their “callous disregard for life.” Sharmake Mohamud, 22, was killed in Haringey, north London, on Sep. 21, 2021, by members of…

A teenager who became radicalised by Islamist propaganda online has been jailed for life after admitting a plot to carry out a terrorist attack against the British police or a military base. Matthew King, 19, carried out surveillance at police stations, railway stations and an British Army barracks in London and admitted preparation of terrorist acts,…

LONDON—Explosive devices were left outside the chambers of a top London barrister as part of a “campaign of intimidation” by a wealthy businessman with a “serious grudge,” a jury has been told. Prosecutor Catherine Farrelly told the Old Bailey on Monday that Jonathan Nuttall, 49, “harboured a great deal of animosity” towards Andrew Sutcliffe, KC, a…

LONDON—A wealthy Nigerian senator on trial for organ harvesting has denied he ever promised money or “material advantage” to a young Lagos street trader who was allegedly brought to London to donate a kidney for his seriously ill daughter. Ike Ekweremadu, 60, his wife Beatrice, 56, and daughter Sonia, 25, are on trial along with…

LONDON—A radiologist accused of being the middleman in an illegal attempt to procure a kidney from a street trader in Lagos that was to be donated to the daughter of a wealthy Nigerian politician has admitted he lied when he claimed his own donor was his cousin. Obinna Obeta, 51, told a jury he himself…

LONDON—A security guard at the British Embassy in Berlin who spied for Russia has been jailed for 13 years and two months by a judge who said his actions were, “intended to damage British interests.” David Ballantyne Smith, who formerly served in the Royal Air Force, pleaded guilty in November to eight counts of breaching the Official Secrets…

LONDON—A wealthy Nigerian politician and his wife offered an itinerant hawker in Lagos up to £7,000 to give his kidney to their ill daughter and lied about him being a distant cousin in order to get a UK visa, a jury at the Old Bailey in London has been told. Ike Ekweremadu, 60, his wife…

A serving Metropolitan Police officer who worked alongside rapist and murderer Wayne Couzens, has admitted 24 counts of rape and 25 other offences which were carried out over the space of 18 years. PC David Carrick, 48, appeared at Southwark Crown Court on Monday and pleaded guilty to four counts of rape, false imprisonment, and indecent…

LONDON—Anne Sacoolas, a United States government employee and the wife of a U.S. diplomat, has been sentenced in absentia to a suspended prison sentence of eight months, after pleading guilty to causing the death of motorcyclist Harry Dunn in August 2019 by careless driving. On Thursday, Sacoolas, 45, appeared at the Central Criminal Court, also…