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Get you up to speed: British lawyers’ body suspends ICC Prosecutor Khan over misconduct claim
Britain’s Bar Standards Board has suspended International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Karim Khan effective immediately amid ongoing allegations of sexual misconduct. This follows Khan’s previous suspension by the ICC after an investigation found he engaged in “serious misconduct” and a “serious breach of duty.”
The Bar Standards Board (BSB) has announced that the interim suspension of Karim Khan will be reviewed by an Interim Suspension Panel within four weeks. The ICC is set to vote on Khan’s potential removal from office on 24 July 2026, following earlier serious misconduct findings.
The Bar Standards Board (BSB) has suspended International Criminal Court Prosecutor Karim Khan following allegations of sexual misconduct, effective immediately, as part of ongoing investigations. The ICC is set to vote on Khan’s potential removal from office on 24 July, while his legal team intends to contest the ICC’s previous suspension citing “serious misconduct.”
What remains unclear — The outcome of the ICC’s scheduled vote on whether to remove Khan from office on July 24 is yet to be determined.
British lawyers’ body suspends ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan over misconduct claims
News|ICCBritish lawyers’ body suspends ICC Prosecutor Khan over misconduct claim
Khan is the subject of multiple investigations into allegations of sexual misconduct at the ICC.
Published On 19 Jun 202619 Jun 2026
Britain’s independent watchdog for lawyers has suspended the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) Prosecutor Karim Khan.
In a statement issued on Friday, the Bar Standards Board (BSB) said the suspension was effective immediately. The move comes just a week after the ICC suspended Khan, who has led numerous high-profile prosecutions of senior figures in the conflicts in Sudan, Russia and the Middle East.
The 56-year-old prosecutor faces allegations of sexual misconduct with a female aide. The accusation was first reported more than two years ago. Khan has denied any wrongdoing.
“The interim suspension must now be considered by an Interim Suspension Panel at a hearing within the next four weeks,” the BSB update read.
Two coworkers initially brought allegations of misconduct against Khan to the ICC’s watchdog, but an initial investigation was closed after the woman involved in the claim declined to make a formal complaint, saying she feared retaliation.
The accusation came as Khan sought arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza. In response, the United States, which does not recognise the ICC, sanctioned 11 of its staff, including Khan, revoking their US visas and blocking their bank accounts.
On June 8, the ICC’s executive committee suspended Khan after an investigation found he engaged in “serious misconduct ” and a “serious breach of duty”.
Khan’s lawyers rejected the ICC’s decision and have pledged to challenge the decision.
Khan had temporarily stepped down from his position since May 2025 pending the outcome of a separate, external inquiry launched by the United Nations’ Office of Internal Oversight Service.
In April, the UN investigators found that Khan had “nonconsensual contact” with his aide in “his office, at his private residence” and while on a mission, according to reporting by The Associated Press.
However, a three-judge panel selected by the ICC’s oversight body, the Assembly of States Parties (ASP), to conduct a legal assessment of the report rejected it.
The UN investigators had “failed to indicate which witnesses’ testimony they found credible” and “did not resolve narrative inconsistencies,” the judges wrote.
The ICC has scheduled a vote on whether to remove Khan from office for July 24, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing diplomats and documents. WTX News was unable to immediately verify the report.
October 12, 2024
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‘Cheer up, you caught the bad guy,’ says killer Virginia McCullough as she is arrested for murdering her parents
A woman who murdered her parents “in cold blood” before hiding them in makeshift tombs for four years told officers to “cheer up, you caught the bad guy” as she was arrested in her home.
Virginia McCullough, 36, poisoned her father John McCullough, 70, with prescription medication and fatally stabbed her mother Lois McCullough, 71, shortly afterwards in 2019.
She ran up large debts on credit cards in her parents’ names and after their deaths, she continued to spend their pensions until she was finally caught in 2023.
In body-worn video footage released by police, a handcuffed – and eerily calm – McCullough told officers: “I did know that this would kind of come eventually.
“It’s proper that I serve my punishment.”
She said she had slipped something into her father’s drink then put his body under a bed on the ground floor, and put her mother’s body in an upstairs wardrobe.
McCullough, having been arrested on suspicion of double murder, told an officer: “Cheer up, at least you’ve caught the bad guy.”
She added: “I know I don’t seem 100% evil.”
At the police station, she told officers where a kitchen knife was, which she described as a “murder weapon”, and a hammer which she said “will still have blood on it”.
McCullough, of Pump Hill, Chelmsford, Essex, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Friday with a minimum term of 36 years at Chelmsford Crown Court, after she admitted to their murders between 17 and 20 June 2019 at an earlier hearing at the same court.
Chelmsford Crown Court heard how she hid their bodies in makeshift tombs at the family home in Great Baddow in Essex, then told persistent lies to cover her tracks.
The court heard she cancelled family arrangements and frequently told doctors and relatives her parents were unwell, on holiday or away on lengthy trips.
But concerns over Mr and Mrs McCullough’s welfare were raised in September 2023 by a GP at their registered practice, and Essex County Council’s safeguarding team referred these to police.
The GP had not seen the couple for some time and said Mr McCullough had failed to collect medication and attend scheduled appointments. It was found McCullough had frequently cancelled appointments, using a range of excuses to explain her father’s absence.
Police said a missing persons investigation was initially launched and McCullough lied to officers, claiming her parents were travelling and would be returning in October.
It became a murder investigation, and when officers forced entry to the house in Pump Hill on September 15 2023, McCullough confessed that her parents’ bodies were in the house and that she had killed them.
Nicola Rice, a specialist prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service, said: “McCullough callously and viciously killed both of her parents before concealing their bodies in makeshift tombs within their home address.
“She spent the next four years manipulating and lying to family members, medical staff, financial institutions, and the police, spending her parents’ money and accruing large debts in their name.”
She added: “This was a truly disturbing case, which has left behind it a trail of devastation, and I can only hope that the sentence passed today will help those who loved and cared for Lois and John begin to heal.”
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Defense alliance NATO chief Mark Rutte has met US President-elect Donald Trump to discuss global security issues, according to a NATO spokesperson.
The meeting took place in Palm Beach, Florida.
During his first term as US president, 2017-2020, Trump pushed for European NATO countries to spend more on defense and described the alliance’s cost-sharing as unfair to the US.
Rutte took over as NATO chief from Norwegian Jens Stoltenberg in November.
Before taking office in January, Trump has nominated Pete Hegseth for the post of defense secretary, which has raised eyebrows among many allies.
Hegseth, 44, has served as an infantry captain in Iraq and Afghanistan, but has no senior military or government officer experience.
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Multiple missiles were fired in an airstrike towards a densely populated part of Lebanon’s capital early on Saturday.
The huge airstrike targeted Beirut’s Basta neighbourhood, and no prior warnings were given by the Israeli military. The largely residential area was struck last month.
At least one violent explosion was heard across the city, Reuters witnesses said, and plumes of smoke could be seen. Scenes of massive destruction at the site were shared online, including a massive crater in the ground.
“Beirut, the capital, woke up to a horrific massacre, as the Israeli enemy’s air force completely destroyed an eight-story residential building with five missiles on Al-Mamoun Street in Basta,” the state-run National News Agency reported.
The health ministry put the initial death toll at four, with 23 wounded. The number is expected to climb in the coming hours as search and rescue efforts continue.
It came after a long day of Israeli airstrikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs, which have been non-stop since last week.
The cross-border fighting between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group escalated into a full-blown war in mid-September.
Israel has bombed southern Lebanon, Beirut’s southern suburbs and the eastern Beqaa region, and has sent ground troops across the border. Hezbollah has continued to fire rockets deeper into Israel.
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