Soldiers Are Not Heroes

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Coroner records Richard Woods’s death as suicide after he crashed into family’s car while driving wrong way

A PAEDOPHILE ex-squaddie has been jailed after crashing a van with no effective brakes and a window blacked out with plastic into an oncoming car,…

Ryan MacDonald, 31, was described by a judge of having shown no empathy for his victim.

Wade Priestley, from Bradford, is jailed for nine years and 10 months.

Four men sold drug at Wiltshire base over nearly three years and bought designer goods with proceeds, court heard

A former soldier stole almost half-a-million pounds from his late father’s estate leaving him with less than 50p and robbing…

Former British Army soldier Krisma Anthony left a tourist fighting for his life after a nightclub knife attack.

Plymouth Commando Sam Evans left a woman with a permanent medical condition after brutally raping her in a sustained attack at his home and has been handed an 18-year sentence.

The gibbering thug was identified because he was wearing a t-shirt with his name on the back.

Peter Beard, sentenced over disorder at asylum seeker hotel, is told his conduct was ‘astonishing’ given his army past

Janet MacGregor said her vision blurred and she couldn’t breathe as her 6ft 4ins estranged strangled her before flinging her across the room like a rag doll.

Joshua Powell was acquitted of rape and claimed the assault allegations were made up

Alex Piatt-Green, from Redditch, is sentenced to a six-year term for ordering weapons from the US.

A British soldier has been sentenced to nine years in prison in Austria for raping a six-year-old girl in her home. Craig Michael Stormey had been taking part in an army training camp in the Stubaital Alpine valley at the time.

A Royal Navy sailor who groomed and sexually abused three young boys over a period of 15 years while he was on shore leave was today (Friday) jailed…

A former soldier from Hampshire who raped and sexually assaulted a teenage girl has been jailed for 15 years

Ashley Grace was previously handed a suspended sentence of imprisonment in February 2018 after admitting possession of ‘small number’ of indecent images of children.

Former RAF serviceman Stuart Taylor, from Lancashire, indecently assaulted the girl in the 2000s.

Stephen Finnigan used the Army Cadets as a means of providing “a source of boys”, a court hears.

A Lancashire man is jailed for two years and eight months for glorifying the murder on social media.

The warrant officer sent explicit photos to two women serving on a military base, prosecutors said.

Case files recommending prosecution of murder charges have been sent to Service Prosecuting Authority

Cameron Gardner is given an 11-year term on charges including rape and the sexual assault of a child.

A former soldier has been jailed for five years for dealing heroin and crack cocaine in Scarborough.

William Howitt is told by a judge he “glorified Hitler” and had “entrenched right-wing views”.

Police are said to have smashed a drug ring run by SAS soldiers, with two arrested at a farmhouse in Herefordshire.

Stephen Light set fire to a home in Maryport, endangering several people and killing the family dog.

The sailor raped the woman in his cabin while the ship was overseas, Truro Crown Court hears.

Andrew Thomason is sentenced to three years for attempting to engage child in sexual activity.

Andrew Hughes, 57, was arrested after an undercover sting at Doddington Hall in November 2020.

A former soldier sexually abused a very young child more than 20 years ago before embarking on a career in the military which saw him serve in Iraq…

Paedophile Michael O’Mahoney, 38, was convicted following a trial of attempting to cause a child to watch a sexual act and attempting to engage in sexual communication with a child.

Cameron Gardner will be jailed for targetting victims in Aberdeen and across the Banff and Buchan area and has also been convicted of animal cruelty.

Craig Gibson has appeared in court after the alleged assault in Toronto.

The man was jailed for four years at Letterkenny Circuit Court after an attack that terrified his former wife when spraying blank bullets from a replica gun

A former soldier (and convicted cocaine dealer) launched a savage attack on his mother in her own home as he “snapped” after downing vodka has been given a six-year prison sentence.

A former soldier from Tullibody has been given a prison sentence after making threats about stabbing, rape and going on the rampage with a machete…

Nazi memorabilia, bomb-making manuals and indecent images of children were found at Serj Forster’s home.

Sydney Cole, 23, faces a three-year sentence over the April 15 2019 incident which left Lance Corporal Sarah Garrity, 26, in intensive care after losing four pints of blood and needing 14 stitches.

Transgender biker Ella Davies used to be called Daniel Reeves. "She" searched internet for repugnant images of child abuse

Soldier sentenced to more than seven years in prison for attacking Army colleague in his room after a night out

AN ARMY major’s career lay in ruins yesterday after he was convicted of groping a junior officer. Robin Dews, 48, was warned he will almost certainly be booted out of the service and could be jaile…

Luke Partridge, aged 35, of Madeira Villas, Exmouth, admitted breaking a non-molestation order and a suspended sentence and was jailed for a year…

A RECORD number of soldiers were booted out of the Army last year for using illegal drugs. Some 700 got their marching orders after taking substances including cocaine, ecstasy, ketamine, cannabis …

‘This should have been attempted murder,’ the judge said

Sadistic ex-soldier jailed again for torturing and mutilating hedgehog

Abdulqani Hamdan denied wrongdoing but was convicted by a jury

Oliver Schulz, 41, was arrested in the southern highlands of New South Wales by Australian federal police and NSW police

EXCLUSIVE: Major Jennifer Wilson is charged with disclosing private sexual photos and footage of Special Forces sergeant Christian Craighead, 47, with the intent to cause distress.

A FORMER soldier has been locked up for the attempted rape of a woman while she was sleeping.

Daniel Langman, 48, choked Anthony Collins, 28, with a cable in his Port Glasgow flat in May 2021.

A former soldier has been considered a dangerous “wife batterer” by a judge after committing a series of domestic violence incidents on his…

A former soldier who carried out a brutal murder bid on a stranger while on weekend leave was jailed today for five years and three months.

Sam Evans left the victim with a permanent medical condition following the “brutal and horrific” attack in Plymouth, which a detective called “one of the worst cases” his force has dealt with.

A former soldier accused of a vicious sectarian assault on three young men in Belfast city centre claimed he was in an altercation with dissident republicans, the High Court has heard.

A MAN has been jailed for three years after admitting grooming and engaging in sexual activity with a Weymouth teenage girl he had met online.

Stuart Sands was convicted by a jury after a trial at Hull Crown Court

A former RAF serviceman who previously lived in Elgin has been convicted of historical child sexual abuse in the Falkland Islands. Ryan Elstow preyed on

Constantin Maxim (48)pleaded guilty to possessing 1,458 images of child abuse imagery on his mobile phone

Stuart Hood was found guilty of eleven sexual offences against three children.

A FORMER solider has been jailed for nine months after harassing and assaulting his ex-partner.

A veteran once shot by the Taliban has been unmasked as a paedophile who hoarded “sickening” images of child abuse and bestiality involving a frog.

A British soldier was yesterday remand at the Belize Central Prison after being accused of beating and kidnapping

A PROLIFIC paedophile who abused two young girls – one just six-years-old when it began - has been jailed for nine years.

A trained support worker, who tied a mentally impaired woman to his bed and later filmed them having had sexual activity, has been jailed today, Wednesday.

Leon Well, 40, has breached his licence conditions following his release from prison in January last year

The 31-year-old admitted attacking the 10-week-old boy, leaving him with life-changing injuries.

Ex Army soldier behind extremist Patriotic Alternative bid to hijack campaign over asylum seekers

Bryce Pounder was one of four men arrested in a police operation targeting the East Belfast UVF.

Ex soldier ‘fuelled by jealousy and rage’ scarred a total stranger with a kitchen knife for dating his ex-partner, a court has heard.

A nuisance neighbour in Morley who threatened residents while waiting to stand trial for previous incidents has been jailed.

A FORMER soldier and Army dog handler who confessed to child porn offences will be spending Christmas in jail.

Former soldier Charles Spear abused a girl from the age of six in the 1970s and left her with lifelong psychological traumas.

The victim of a racist assault has told how he was chased down a street in Stockport by a former soldier with two umbrellas

Lance Corporal Storm Elliott, who was in training to be a Royal Military Police officer, had been found guilty of twice touching the female soldier inappropriately during a night out clubbing.

Anthony Lingard (pictured), 39, has been given a suspended sentence after pleading guilty at Manchester Crown Court to five counts of child abduction concerning one boy.

Lance Corporal Storm Elliott was found guilty of twice touching the soldier inappropriately during a night out clubbing

Peter Galvin was a hired thug for 15 years

The 53-year-old is the first hired thug to be convicted of a historical offence since the 1998 Good Friday Agreement.

Leading Aircraftman Gordon Cummins murdered Evelyn Hamilton, Evelyn Oatley, Margaret Lowe and Doris Jouannet in February 1942.

The incident happened in 2002, but he committed other offences against a woman and a child since then

A soldier has been jailed after he was found guilty of sexually assaulting a teenage girl in Norfolk.

British soldier calls into talk radio to prove what a racist he is. They're all like him, of course.

A 300-page dossier details atrocities by British soldiers against Palestinians during UK rule.

Eri Gutberto Parra-Lopez, 25, who was an active-duty Army sergeant at the time, sold about 3,150 tablets of fentanyl to the undercover officers.

“Multiple electronic devices were seized” by San Bernardino County sheriff’s officials and U.S. Army investigators at the Mojave Desert military base.

Alistair Dickson was convicted of murdering Danny Humble in Blyth while Owen Soones, Ethan Scott, Kyros Robinson and Bailey Wilson were found guilty of manslaughter

He was found guilty of sending the woman abusive texts and contacting her repeatedly when she tried to end the relationship

Trooper Louis Anderson, 24, (pictured) allegedly stroked his victim’s back before grinding against her as she lay ‘frozen’ with fear following a drunken night out.

Patrick Elkin, 64, served in Northern Ireland and the First Gulf War

Former soldier John Butler, who left the army in 2010 following three tours of Iraq, attacked his mother in the bath and threatened her with a knife, Mold Crown Court was told.

Robert Millar (34) has been jailed for 50 months.

Cameron Bailey, 25, mounted the pavement in Salisbury and deliberately drove into a group of people.

He also said rape should be ‘legalised’ in front of both male and female colleagues.

A woman who survived being stabbed 29 times by her violent partner believes it’s “a miracle” she is still alive.

Gulf War hired thug Ian Ewart Ramsay was branded a "danger to society"

His victim spotted a spy camera in her laundry basket.

THIS is the decorated ex-special forces soldier accused of bombarding his neighbours with metal ball bearings.

Cameron Gilles, from Nottinghamshire, is a drug dealer

Private Thomas Davies treated his victims like ‘prey’ after offering to pay them up to £400 for intimate photos, a sex tape and a video call in which the women were in ‘a state of undress’.

A NAVY sailor is accused of murdering his wife in a jealous rage before setting their home on fire, court documents show. George Dodson, 23, allegedly beat his wife to death with a hammer and set t…

Michael Potter thought he was talking to another pervert. He was wrong

Peter Day has finally faced justice for offences that took place many years ago

Army veteran Robert Millar, 34, is sentenced to 50 months for various offences in Moray.

A soldier who sexually assaulted an unconscious woman has been handed a 18 month sentence.

Anne Pham vanished Jan. 21, 1982, in the time it took her to walk fewer than 1,000 feet to her Seaside elementary school. On Thursday, convicted sex offender Robert Lanoue, who lived around the block from the Pham family in 1982, was charged in connection with her rape and murder.

This is the paedophile soldier who is now facing fresh death threats and warnings to leave Antrim from the UDA.

Would-be submariner exposed by Observer escaped discipline amid fear of extremism in forces

This case remains under investigation.

Private Peter Harries, 28, (pictured) believed he was messaging a child called Chloe while using the app Kik, but he was actually talking to two undercover police officers

A soldier cried as he was sent to prison for offences involving his partner last week.

Detectives who carried out a search of Christopher Moore’s home foundthe munitions - with ‘bomb’ and ‘explosive’ clearly written on them - in his bedroom.

Lee Lewitt was caught with nearly 10,000 despicable child abuse images and videos

Combat veteran’s crime ‘abhorrent’, says judge

An RAF serviceman was jailed for what an Oxford judge branded an ‘appalling’ series of attacks on his partner.

The soldiers under investigation will not take part in the Platinum Jubilee celebrations, the MoD says.

A former British soldier went on trial in Belfast on Monday accused of the attempted murder of an “innocent vulnerable man” said to have “the mind of a child” and with a fear of uniforms who was shot dead in a Co Tyrone field over 47 years ago.

A former soldier has been jailed for ten years for raping a woman on multiple occasions and threatening to kill or cause her serious harm.

A soldier who ploughed into two promising athletes after drinking with colleagues has been jailed for six years.

Matthew McKay pretended to be a teenager so he could groom her online

When asked to explain his behaviour, the 29-year-old told a court martial that it was just ‘banter’ and he would have done it to a male colleague as well.

Former soldier Collin Reeves, 34, is accused of using a ceremonial dagger he received upon leaving the army to murder his neighbours Stephen and Jennifer Chapple in Norton Fitzwarren, near Taunton.

Cameron Bailey used his car ‘as a ‘weapon’, sending victims ‘flying like skittles in a bowling alley’, court told