Day: February 11, 2016

    Police and prosecutors attempted to keep the identity and possible homosexuality of a British jihadist a secret to protect his human rights, it can be reported today. Officers and the Crown Prosecution Service were concerned that should details surrounding Aseel Muthana emerge during a trial of his friends who helped him join Isil it would put his life at risk. They believed they still had a duty of care under human rights laws to protect the teenager, even though he had run off to join a terror group intent on attacking this country. The concerns centred on a series of text messages between Muthana, now 19, and Forhad Rahman, 21, who helped pay for him to travel to the war zone in February 2014. Language in the messages left their "sexuality open to interpretation" after ...

    The Health Secretary answers questions in the House of Commons (Picture: [copyright]) NHS junior doctors will be forced to accept a controversial new contract without agreement or further negotiation, the Health Secretary has announced. Jeremy Hunt said imposing the contract unilaterally would end “uncertainty” in the health service. Doctors have been on strike over the new contract, which they say will put patient safety at risk and leave medics working the longest hours worse off.

    A report carried out by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has revealed that troublingly, more than half of all teenage girls in Pakistan believe that domestic violence is justified for at least one reason. Refusing sex was just one of the reasons girls aged between 15 and 19 believed a husband would be justified in beating his wife, while more than 30 per cent of girls of the same age had already experienced physical or sexual violence in Pakistan. The report, entitled ‘Sexual and Reproductive Health of Young People in Asia and the Pacific’, also included data from Cambodia, India, Bangladesh and Nepal which revealed similar attitudes about violence against women among teenage boys, the Express Tribune reported. Between 25 and 51 per cent said that wife beating wa...

    A man has been jailed for seven years after travelling to Syria to fight with Isis - but returning because he thought it was "too cold". Mohammed Uddin, of Wilmington Gardens, Barking, Essex, was sentenced after pleading guilty to a charge of preparing acts of terrorism at Woolwich Crown Court on Tuesday. The court heard how the 29-year-old - who called himself "Supaman" - returned because he didn't like the cold water, the "bland food" and was "doing absolutely jack (nothing)". A South East Counter Terrorism Unit (Sectu) spokesman said that Uddin had travelled to Syria on November 4 2014, with the intention of joining Isis, otherwise known as Daesh, and engaging in combat. He then crossed the border back into Turkey on December 12 2014, but was detained by authorities in ...