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Tristan Kirk

Courts Correspondent

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Tristan Kirk is the Courts Correspondent for the Evening Standard. He covers news from London's criminal justice system, High Court and Supreme Court rulings, and civil court disputes.... MORE

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Tristan Kirk is the Courts Correspondent for the Evening Standard. He covers news from London's criminal justice system, High Court and Supreme Court rulings, and civil court disputes.

Crime

Footage shows moments before police sergeant Matt Ratana shot dead

Louis De Zoysa, 25, has been found guilty of the murder of Met police custody sergeant Matt Ratana at Croydon police station

Jun 23, 2023
Crime

Louis De Zoysa guilty of murdering Met custody sergeant Matt Ratana

Louis De Zoysa, 25, fired the antique pistol four times just as 54-year-old custody sergeant Matt Ratana was preparing to search him in the course of an arrest

Jun 23, 2023
Showbiz

Kesha ends legal war with producer Dr Luke

‘I am looking forward to closing the door on this chapter of my life and beginning a new one. I wish nothing but peace to all parties involved’

Jun 23, 2023
Crime

Met PC guilty of eight rapes during his police career

Adam Provan, 43, twice raped a 16-year-old girl in 2010

Jun 21, 2023
Crime

Model stalker of Premier League footballers spared prison

Orla Sloan signed up for OnlyFans in her pursuit of social media influencer status, before bombarding Chelsea footballers with ‘random, erratic, and menacing’ messages

Jun 20, 2023
London

Labyrinth dancer in fight with neighbours over garden wall in Peckham

Susan Lee and her neighbours Vanessa and Andrew McVickers are at war over the brick wall that runs between their gardens in Peckham

Jun 16, 2023
Crime

Conor McGregor accused of sexually assaulting woman after NBA game

The Irish mixed martial arts star has been accused of an attack in a bathroom at a basketball match in Miami

Jun 16, 2023
Crime

Former police watchdog boss charged with raping teenage girl

Michael Lockwood, 64, is accused of six counts of indecent assault and three counts of rape against a girl under the age of 16

Jun 16, 2023
Crime

Omid Djalili caught speeding while ‘desperate for the toilet’

Djalili was fined and given penalty points by a court for speeding near to Regent’s Park, in the latest of his run-ins with police over his driving

Jun 16, 2023
Crime

Met PC used dead people’s bank cards for shopping

Muhammed Mustafa Darr, 37, took credit and debit card details of the deceased when police were called out to deaths

Jun 15, 2023
Crime

Arsonist started Palace fire in bid to speak to King Charles III

Christian Gheorghe, 31, set a pile of cardboard ablaze with a cigarette lighter before being bundled to the ground by Royal police officers

Jun 15, 2023