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Over 1,500 pints of prison hooch are confiscated in Irish prisons every year, new figures have revealed. Almost 6,500 pints of homemade alcohol - produced by inmates using water, sugar, fruit and bread - have been seized over the past four years, with nearly 875 pints confiscated last year.

A judge rehearsed an old legal joke as she sentenced a lawyer to a year in jail for forging the signatures of judges. Jose Camacho forged more than 100 judicial signatures in financial settlement cases, though strangely he never actually benefited from the fraud.

Pictured: Not the couple in question A new bride allegedly pulled a gun from under her wedding dress to threaten her new husband just hours after they were married.

Far-right Facebook users have been left red-faced after mistaking a photo of empty bus seats for burka-clad women. The photo was posted to a 13,000-member Facebook group with the caption: "What do people think about this?"

A dozen prisoners successfully tricked a security guard into letting them escape by smearing a food spread on doors in the prison. All but one are now back behind bars after a cunning plot which saw them smear peanut butter from prison sandwiches over door numbers.

A man has been jailed for possessing a disguised stun gun that he claims he only ever used on himself. Allan Turnbull, 29, was charged with firearms offences after police raided his house and discovered a stun gun disguised as a torch.

Two women allegedly smuggling four kilograms of gold jewellery in their underwear were caught out by an airport security scanner. The pair, aged 41 and 59, were stopped and questioned by customs officials in Mumbai airport after suspicions were aroused around the purpose of their trip.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oq0TNGk43No Two people suspected of donning Donald Trump masks to steal from cash machines have been arrested.

A woman has been arrested after allegedly destroying her ex-partner's vast violin collection during bitter divorce proceedings. The 34-year-old suspect is accused of breaking into her ex-partner's apartment in 2014 and destroyed 54 violins and 70 bows.

Ballot counting in Papua New Guinea's general election has been delayed following accusations of sorcery. Recounts have been ordered in two constituencies after candidates alleged that witchcraft has been used to remove their votes.

A top TV producer screamed "get ready to die" at a bewildered motorist in a botched citizen's arrest captured on a smartphone camera. Fergus Beeley, producer of some David Attenborough nature documentaries, has been subject to online mockery after a video emerged of him screaming at a family in a su

A judge has offered inmates less jail time if they undergo vasectomies or use birth control implants. Judge Sam Benningfield in White County, Tennessee told WFTV he was tired of hearing from inmates who said they could not afford child support.

With the new football season just around the corner, UK authorities have warned organisers of informal fantasy football leagues not to ask others to join their competition via social media or risk falling foul of gambling laws. The Gambling Commission raised the issue in a statement explaining that

The electoral commissioner of Papua New Guinea has won a court order against a critical blogger who compared him to a tomato. Patilias Gamato took Martyn Namarong to court after he called him "Patilias Tomato" and allegedly posted an image of him with a tomato for a head.

A judge has agreed to resign after he was caught swiping fancy business card holders from a social club. A lawyer representing Judge Michael S. Williams said he had decided against fighting the allegations because he wanted to retire anyway.