Italian con artist jailed for building 'world's oldest and largest amphitheatre' 20-years ago

Italian con artist jailed for building 'world's oldest and largest amphitheatre' 20-years ago

Published on 27/07/2026 – 13:15 GMT+2 A man has been jailed in Italy for fraud after charging tourists €40 to visit a fake Roman amphitheatre he built himself twenty years ago. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Franco Malosso ‘von Rosenfranz’, 69, claimed to have discovered the site, known as the Berico Maritime Amphitheatre in the north-eastern city of…

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Corrupt Liverpool prison worker jailed for smuggling drugs and sending sex texts to inmates

Corrupt Liverpool prison worker jailed for smuggling drugs and sending sex texts to inmates

A corrupt prison watchdog boss who billed herself “the prisoners’ Deliveroo” has been jailed for five years after admitting sending sexual messages to a killer inmate and smuggling drugs. Helen Spree, 63, was the head of the independent monitoring board (IMB) for HMP Liverpool when she engaged in illicit chats with prisoners over a 20-month…

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Senegal: New CPJ Podcast Reveals Torture, Coerced Testimony in Case of Jailed Senegalese Journalist René Capain Bassène

Senegal: New CPJ Podcast Reveals Torture, Coerced Testimony in Case of Jailed Senegalese Journalist René Capain Bassène

Dakar — A new podcast released by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) presents extensive new testimony and reporting on the conviction of Senegalese journalist and author René Capain Bassène, raising serious questions about the integrity of a case that has become one of West Africa’s most emblematic press freedom concerns. The six-part series, “René…

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