Three men from the UK have been charged with allegedly reporting fabricated serious incidents to prompt an emergency response in the USA and Canada.

The Crown Prosecution Service has authorised Merseyside Police to charge Liam White, 22, Dylan Ash, 18, with three counts of conspiring together and with others to do a series of acts tending or intending to pervert the course of justice.

Keiron Ellison, 18, has been charged with two counts of conspiring together and with others to do a series of acts tending or intending to pervert the course of justice.

A 14-year-old girl who stabbed two teachers and a pupil at Ysgol Dyffryn Aman has been sentenced for attempted murder at Swansea Crown Court today.

The teenager, who cannot be named due to her age, had previously admitted the triple stabbing which took place on 24 April 2024, but had denied attempted murder.

The jury heard that she repeatedly stabbed the first teacher saying, “I’m going to [expletive] kill you”. The teacher suffered wounds to both arms.

A former police officer has been sentenced today after he was found guilty of indecently assaulting a teen girl more than 25 years ago. 

Paul Harold, 47, was prosecuted by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) following an investigation by Staffordshire Police. 

In May 1997, Harold arrested the 15-year-old victim for shoplifting in Newcastle-under-Lyme. She was vulnerable and living in care at the time. 

When he took her to the police station he wrote his phone number on the back of her hand.