Members of a race-fixing syndicate were spotted driving towards top jockey Kieren Fallon’s home late at night after he won a race he was expected to lose, the Old Bailey heard today.

Top jockey Kieren Fallon came second in a race which he should have won “at a canter”, the £2m (€2.8m) race-fixing trial at the Old Bailey was told today.

THERE was no evidence that Kieren Fallon ever received money or benefit from businessman Miles Rodgers or anyone else connected with a betting conspiracy that has seen the Irish jockey charged with throwing races.

KIEREN FALLON sent a “revealing” series of text messages the day after winning a race that he was supposed to have lost as part of a race-fixing plot, a court heard yesterday.

A STEP-BY-STEP trail of how Kieren Fallon was allegedly involved in a plot to lose a race at Goodwood was given to jurors yesterday.

Top jockey Kieren Fallon was part of a plot to throw races to make money for a crooked betting syndicate, the Old Bailey heard today.

A step-by-step trail of how Kieren Fallon was allegedly involved in a plot to lose a race at Goodwood was given to jurors at his Old Bailey trial today.

THE legal firm called on to provide assistance to the parents of missing Madeleine McCann in the UK is accustomed to high profile cases.

Two months after music producer Phil Spector's murder trial began, the defence began its effort today to show that actress Lana Clarkson killed herself.

Phil Spector's former lawyer may be held in contempt of court after she yesterday refused to testify at the music producer's murder trial.

A ruling by Switzerland’s highest court has opened up the possibility that people with serious mental illnesses could be helped by doctors to take their own lives.

Rock bands Cheap Trick and The Allman Brothers Band are suing Sony Music, claiming they are being short-changed on royalties for songs downloaded legally over the internet.

US government regulators have approved what would be the first transplant of foetal stem cells into human brains.

A woman who underwent surgery for a brain aneurysm died after she was mistakenly injected with an antiseptic solution instead of a harmless X-ray marker dye, hospital officials said.

IT is the stuff of science fiction and bioethical debates: the creation of artificial life. Up until now, it’s largely been just that.

ZACHARY has endured chemotherapy, five hip and knee operations and gall bladder surgery.