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Yahoo
2 days ago
- Yahoo
Double sex attacker's 'unduly lenient' ten-year jail sentence to be reviewed
A double sex attacker is set to have his ten-year jail sentence reviewed for being 'too lenient'. Arshad Chaudrhy sexually assaulted one girl on multiple occasions in 2017 and, three years later, sexually assaulted another woman and attempted to rape her. The 50-year-old was arrested after the two victims bravely came forward - and was then charged with seven sexual assaults, one attempted sexual assault and one attempted rape. He denied all the offences at court but the jury saw through his lies. He was found guilty and sentenced to ten years in prison. However, a spokesperson for the Attorney General's Office (AGO) has now confirmed that Chaudrhy's sentence had been referred under the Unduly Lenient Sentence Scheme. They said: 'I can confirm that the Solicitor General has referred Arshad Chadurhy sentence to the Court of Appeal as they agree that it appears unduly lenient. 'It is now for the court to decide whether to increase the sentence.' As previously reported, Chaudrhy was jailed on June 23 this year at Teesside Crown Court. Following the sentencing, investigating officer Detective Constable Neil Chisholm from CET said: 'Chaudrhy targeted these two women in pursuit of his own sexual gratification. 'His crimes have had a lasting impact on his victims who were put through even more trauma when he tried to deny his crimes. 'Thankfully the jury saw through his lies and found him guilty. I'm pleased that justice has today been served and that he is now in prison where he can't hurt anyone else. 'Hopefully it has brought some closure to the victims. 'I'd like to thank the victims for their courage and strength throughout this whole process. I'd encourage anyone who has been sexually assaulted to come forward and report it. 'We will fully investigate it and support you throughout.' It's never too late to report an incident to police. The force has specially trained officers who will support you throughout. You can report at any time of day or night online via the Cleveland Police website or by phoning 101. Anyone who has been a victim of rape or sexual abuse can contact Teesside Sexual Assault Referral Centre (SARC) for help and support, regardless of whether or not the offence has been reported to police. SARC provides 24-hour crisis intervention and a range of options.
CTV News
5 days ago
- CTV News
Bus traveling from Lima to Peru's Amazon overturns on highway in the Andes, killing at least 18
LIMA, Peru — A bus traveling from Lima to Peru's Amazon region overturned on a highway in the Andes Mountains, leaving at least 18 people dead and 48 injured, authorities said Friday. The double-decker bus belonging to the company 'Expreso Molina Líder Internacional' went off the road and fell down a slope in the district of Palca, Junín region, Junin's health director Clifor Curipaco told reporters. Authorities are still investigating the cause of the accident. Videos broadcast on local television showed the bus split in two, while firefighters and police tried to rescue the injured. It was not the first fatal bus accident in 2025, another bus fell into a river on Jan. 3, leaving six people dead and 32 injured. A study by the Attorney General's Office found that d river recklessness and excessive speed are the main causes of accidents in Peru. Road transportation is poorly monitored by authorities in Peru, and emergency assistance is so slow and disorganized. In 2024, there were approximately 3,173 deaths as a result of traffic accidents in the South American country, according to official data from the Death Information System. The Associated Press
Yahoo
5 days ago
- Yahoo
At least 18 dead, dozens injured in Peru bus crash
A bus travelling from Lima to Peru's Amazon region has overturned on a highway in the Andes Mountains, leaving at least 18 people dead and 48 injured. The double-decker bus belonging to the company Expreso Molina Líder Internacional went off the road and fell down a slope in the district of Palca, Junín region, Junin's health director Clifor Curipaco told reporters on Friday. Authorities are still investigating the cause of the accident. Videos broadcast on local television showed the bus split in two, while firefighters and police tried to rescue the injured. It was not the first fatal bus accident in 2025, another bus fell into a river on January 3, leaving six people dead and 32 injured. A study by the Attorney-General's Office found driver recklessness and excessive speed are the main causes of accidents in Peru. Road transportation is poorly monitored by authorities in Peru, and emergency assistance is so slow and disorganised. In 2024, there were approximately 3173 deaths as a result of traffic accidents in the South American country, according to official data from the Death Information System.
Associated Press
5 days ago
- Associated Press
Bus traveling from Lima to Peru's Amazon overturns on highway in the Andes, killing at least 18
LIMA, Peru (AP) — A bus traveling from Lima to Peru's Amazon region overturned on a highway in the Andes Mountains, leaving at least 18 people dead and 48 injured, authorities said Friday. The double-decker bus belonging to the company 'Expreso Molina Líder Internacional' went off the road and fell down a slope in the district of Palca, Junín region, Junin's health director Clifor Curipaco told reporters. Authorities are still investigating the cause of the accident. Videos broadcast on local television showed the bus split in two, while firefighters and police tried to rescue the injured. It was not the first fatal bus accident in 2025, another bus fell into a river on Jan. 3, leaving six people dead and 32 injured. A study by the Attorney General's Office found that d river recklessness and excessive speed are the main causes of accidents in Peru. Road transportation is poorly monitored by authorities in Peru, and emergency assistance is so slow and disorganized. In 2024, there were approximately 3,173 deaths as a result of traffic accidents in the South American country, according to official data from the Death Information System.
Times
7 days ago
- Politics
- Times
Watchdog rebukes government for blocking Times FoI request
The government has been issued with an unprecedented formal rebuke by the transparency watchdog for wrongly interfering to block a freedom of information request from The Times. Internal correspondence showed staff at the Attorney General's Office (AGO), the government's legal advisory office, had intervened to 'maximise the delay' in having to disclose how often the former minister Suella Braverman had forwarded official correspondence to private email addresses. After a lengthy legal battle, The Times was able to reveal last year that she had done so on 127 occasions, which a former head of the National Cyber Security Centre described as posing a 'clear vulnerability'. The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) said it was 'highly concerning behaviour for an organisation with the AGO's role and remit to take this approach', adding that it must take action to ensure requests from journalists are not mishandled in future. Braverman was later forced out as home secretary for using such private emails by Liz Truss, before being reappointed by Rishi Sunak. The intervention came as the government was being widely criticised for its approach to transparency. Last week it was revealed that the government had maintained a superinjunction to prevent disclosure of information about a leak of thousands of names of Afghans who were seeking to flee to the UK for two years, and the efforts to protect those affected, despite the clear public interest in scrutiny. • Juliet Samuel: Afghan cover-up shows secrecy is addictive The ICO said the correspondence about Braverman 'strongly implies that the AGO anticipated their refusal would be overturned and aimed to delay the publication of information that it believed it should release under The Freedom of Information Act'. It said that it 'should not require the commissioner and then the tribunal to instruct them to disclose information which they know they should disclose', which was a 'waste of their own, the commissioner's, the tribunal's and ultimately the taxpayer's limited resources'. The transparency watchdog further criticised the AGO for allowing senior officials to intervene to water down the response to ensure what was disclosed would not be 'easily quotable in a newspaper', with it being clear that 'the quality of the response the requester received was likely to be affected by their status as a journalist'. It said it was also of concern, given the role of the AGO in supporting the government's compliance with the law, that staff also revealed the response was written with reference to concerns that 'HO Spads [Home Office special advisers]/No 10 may wish to spin this'. The internal correspondence, the ICO said, raised concern about 'the underlying culture at the AGO in relation to transparency', concluding that it was 'clearly not in the spirit of the act that a request made at the end of 2022 for information that should have been released at the time does not result in disclosure of information until 2024.' The AGO was approached for comment.
