Dressed in a orange jumpsuit and with his hands and legs shackled, Jewish cricket tycoon Sir Allen Stanford arrived at court today to face allegations he masterminded a £4.2billion fraud. Laywers for the Texas billionaire, 59, told a judge that he denied running a giant Ponzi scheme. But Dick DeGuerin, defending, revealed he had turned to alcohol to deal with the stress of the accusations. ‘Allen... 

A psychiatrist has given a glimpse into the warped mind of the father who was “born to rape” the daughter he held captive for 24 years. Josef Fritzl, 73, lured teenager Elisabeth into a sound-proofed cellar under their home in Amstetten, Austria, in 1984. Now 42, the daughter has told of how her father repeatedly raped her in the confined, stuffy bunker where she gave birth to seven of...