The driver of a stolen van who killed two people and seriously injured four others when he drove the wrong way along the M25 has been jailed for 18 years.

Barancan Nurcin, aged 22, caused the deaths of his passenger Fahad Dek, and 39-year-old Zoe Hawes, the passenger of a vehicle he collided head on with on the motorway near St Albans in the early hours of Sunday 4 February.

A man has been jailed for nine years after pleading guilty to seriously assaulting his former partner in Spain. 

The assault occurred in Marbella, Spain, but was prosecuted in the UK with the CPS International team liaising with the Spanish authorities to obtain crucial evidence.

Jason McInerney, 36, from Chessington, and his ex-partner from Hertfordshire were in Spain in July 2023 when he assaulted her over the course of several days.