American actor and Empire star, Bryshere Gray, has been sentenced to 10 days in jail after pleading guilty to felony aggravated assault for choking his wife until she passed out.
Gray, 27, who played Hakeem Lyon on the Fox TV series, entered a guilty plea in his domestic violence case, according to legal documents obtained by TMZ.
Gray was arrested on domestic violence charges in July last year after a woman said her husband had assaulted her for ‘several hours’.
When cops got to their home in Goodyear, Arizona, Gray refused to come outside and barricaded himself inside the house overnight.
Police said the woman had multiple visible injuries on her body and that she said Gray strangled her at...
The UK economy has fallen into recession after recording two successive quarters of negative economic growth in the second half of last year.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said that gross domestic product (GDP) contracted by a worse-than-expected 0.3% in the three months to December having shrunk by 0.1% between July and September.
A Reuters poll of economists had pointed to a smaller 0.1% fall in the October-to-December period.
The fall in GDP in the fourth quarter was the biggest since the first quarter of 2021, the ONS said.
Britain’s economy has been stagnating for nearly two years. The Bank of England has said it expects it to pick up slightly in 2024.
“Businesses were already under no illusion...
