News about Paul Lewis

Former steelworker Paul Lewis paid a neighbour £1,500 to find a killer to bump off his wife of 10 years Joanne Atkinson-Lewis, it's alleged. Lewis, 54, handed the bounty to neighbour Dominique Saunders, 34, and was frustrated when he later saw his wife 'still breathing' on a beach, a jury was told. The two men, who lived in neighbouring properties in Swansea Marina, both deny conspiracy to commit murder.

Former steelworker Paul Lewis, 54, is accused of plotting with his neighbour Dominique Saunders (left) over ways to kill his estranged wife Joanne. Saunders, 34, was allegedly given £1,500 by Lewis to hire a hitman to get the job done as the couple were going through a divorce. But a court heard grandfather Lewis believed he had been scammed when he spotted Joanne alive on a trip to the beach and saw she was 'still breathing.' Lewis allegedly told Saunders he gave him the money 'in good faith' to have his wife killed.

Britain's crackdown over the riots sparked by the killing of three girls in Southport continued today - as thugs including a bingo fan bitten on the backside by a police dog, and a grandfather who was part of a mob that torched a library were jailed. Ryan Sheers, who yelled 'I pay your wages' at embattled officers before a police dog nipped him, wept in court as he was jailed for over two years today. The 28-year-old and his boyfriend Steven Mailen, 54, had spent the day at the bingo together before walking into the middle of the disorder that rocked Hartlepool on July 31. Each received sentences of two years and two months in prison by a judge who told them the public were 'rightly outraged by the behaviour seen on the streets of this country.' The pair, both from Hartlepool, had pleaded guilty to a charge of violent disorder and had been warned to expect jail, however Sheers burst into tears when the length of the term was announced.

The evil children became the UK's youngest knife murderers after stabbing Shawn Seesahai, 19, through the heart in a park in Wolverhampton in November last year. However, despite four media organisations, including the PA news agency, having argued that the defendants, one now aged 13, should lose anonymity granted by an order under the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act, it was kept.

Two 12-year-old boys are facing mandatory life sentences after murdering a stranger in a brutal machete attack in November last year. However, High Court judge Mrs Justice Tipples yesterday rejected a media application to name the pair, stating the welfare of the youths outweighed the wider public interest and open justice principles. The killers, both from Wolverhampton, were found guilty in June of murdering 19-year-old Shawn Seesahai, who was stabbed in the heart and suffered a skull fracture during an attack on the city's Stowlawn playing fields on November 13.

A 12-year-old boy accused of a machete murder in a park told a court today he watched his friend carry out the killing - before the pair went home and played the video game Fortnite while their alleged victim lay dying. Prosecutors say the boy, and a second 12-year-old, acted together to kill Shawn Seesahai after he 'shoulder-brushed' them by a park bench. They both deny murder, blaming each other for the fatal blow. Mr Seesahai, 19, had flown to Britain from a Caribbean island for medical treatment on his eyes but jurors heard that in November last year he was stamped on, beaten and stabbed in an unprovoked attack. But giving evidence in his own defence, the second defendant to take the stand claimed he was "nowhere near" the stabbing, which he said was conducted by his co-accused, who gave evidence last week.

Leslie Garrett (inset), 49, pleaded guilty to all eight charges he faces in connection with multiple incidents of gunshots outside the Croxteth cinema and a house in Croxteth on January 3 this year. No one was injured in any of the incidents, and armed response officers arrested Garrett as officers cordoned off the premises. On January 4, he was arrested on suspicion of carrying a Section 1 firearm with the intention of endangering life and a robbery.

Donna Ferguson, the award-winning financial journalist and host of Money Box on Radio 4, tells Donna Ferguson that he does not invest in stocks and shares and will never consider becoming a buy-to-let landlord. If he were Chancellor, he would freeze income tax exemptions but not increase Capital Gains Tax. He has three adult children and lives with his wife Emma, who is mortgage free in a three-bedroom house by the Thames in West London.

"In @premiern hotel, no clean towels, no organized bed, no made bed," Paul Lewis, who hosts Money Box on BBC Radio 4, tweeted: "After a day of work. I scream, but I am told to request that my room be cleared. No one told me!'

As a youth, Tearaway Shaun Tinsley, now 28 (left), of West Derby, Liverpool, was also caught selling cocaine and opium as a teenager. On the M62 (right) in Wirral, Tinsley crashed into Paul Loller's car "like a bomb" about 3.40 a.m. on April 29. He eased into the central reservation and 'in a cowardly way' fled on foot, leaving Mr Loller dead on the scene. Tinsley's car was seen on CCTV footage at a garage on the night of the fire, while nitrous oxide canisters were passed between people inside the car. Tinsley was seen inhaling from a 'black, round object.' Tinsley's criminal history goes back to his youth. His 21 prior convictions for 36 offences include "significant criminal conduct"; his name made news back in 2014 - when he was arrested as part of a Merseyside-based drug cartel smuggling heroin, crack cocaine, and cannabis to Cumbria.

With Big Brother actor Glyn sharing a snapshot of a Christmas party he attended at his house, Glyn Wise and Paul Burrell have become unlikely friends. Both Glyn, 34, and Paul, 64, appeared on different iterations of Big Brother in 2006 and 2015, and they are both deeply concerned about faith. Sharing a snap on Instagram on Wednesday from Paul's home in Cheshire, Glyn wrote: ' Lovely Christmas Party at @officialpaulburrell & @grahamjcooper House!

Miya James, 25, was supposed to attend the home of a young 71-year-old woman who had just been discharged after eight weeks in a Liverpool hospital on January 24 and 2021. The woman was suffering from Covid-19, had been released from Whiston Hospital, and she had mobility difficulties, which meant she could not walk down stairs. James skipped three of the four visits she was supposed to undertake over the two days, but she mistakenly logged her attendance on the company's website in an attempt to get paid.

On September 3, 2022, Bristol Zoo Gardens, the world's oldest provincial zoo, was closed after 186 years.' 'Thank you for the memories.' After the financial strains of the pandemic and lockdowns left the owners no choice but to close, Bristol Zoo Gardens, on the edge of Clifton Downs, will be turned into viable homes. The Bristol Zoological Society said that its hands had been coerced.' "For many years, Bristol Zoo Gardens has suffered with various difficulties,' she added. Specifically, declining tourist numbers, the economic consequences of the coronavirus pandemic, and the difficulties of catering to the animals' changing needs.'