A seventh person has been charged with murder in connection with an acid attack. Danny Cahalane suffered a serious assault involving acid at his home on Lipson Road, Plymouth, in February and died in hospital on 3 May. The 38-year-old was described by his family as an “outstanding father and son”. Jude Hill, 43, of...
Warning: This article contains the name and images of an Indigenous person who has died. His family has given permission to use his name and image. Two men have been sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering an Aboriginal schoolboy, in a case that shocked Australia. Cassius Turvey died of head injuries after a brutal assault...
A nurse jailed for murdering four elderly hospital patients has lost his appeal against the convictions. Colin Campbell, previously known as Colin Norris, was found guilty in 2008 of killing four women and attempting to kill a fifth by injecting them with insulin. Doris Ludlam, 80, Bridget Bourke, 88, Irene Crookes, 79, and Ethel Hall,...
Yesterday, Karmelo Anthony was indicted for murder. Anthony is the teen who stabbed another teen in the chest during an altercation at a high school track meet. Karmelo Anthony, the now 18-year-old accused of fatally stabbing another teen during an altercation at a Frisco ISD track meet in early April, was indicted for murder by...
Nicola Goodwin BBC Midlands Investigations Team Shyamantha Asokan & Shehnaz Khan BBC News, West Midlands Family handout Alfie Steele was killed by his mother and her partner at their home in 2021 A police force that repeatedly met the family of a nine-year-old boy who was later murdered in his home “did not sufficiently train...
BBC A man has been charged with the murder of a woman stabbed after a gas explosion at her home in Stoke Newington, north-east London. Annabel Rook, 46 was found fatally injured just before 05:00 BST on 17 June. Clifton George, 44, of Dumont Road, was also charged with arson with intent to endanger life....
Peter Walker BBC News, Essex PA Media John Palmer was convicted at the Old Bailey in 2001 of a timeshare fraud that had about 16,000 victims Detectives have renewed their appeal for information 10 years after the murder of notorious and once wealthy criminal John “Goldfinger” Palmer. The 65-year-old was shot six times in the...
If you are going to legalize various forms of murder, it makes sense to do it all in a single week. Earlier this week, the British House of Commons pushed through a bill allowing the murder of babies in the womb up to the moment of birth, and a couple of hours ago, they passed...
George Herd BBC News Reporting fromCaernarfon Crown Court A judge described the attack as “senseless”, resulting in “catastrophic injuries” The daughter of a woman brutally killed by a drug dealer has said her life “shattered” the moment she saw the murderer enter her mother’s home. Dean Mears dragged grandmother Catherine Flynn, 69, from her bed...
A 69-year-old-woman has been charged with murdering another woman who was found fatally stabbed in her home in Camden, north London, on 13 June. The Metropolitan Police has previously said 69-year-old Jennifer Abbott’s death may have been linked to a missing Rolex watch. Nancy Pexton, of Gloucester Place, Westminster is due to appear later at...
Olivia Demetriades BBC News, London Metropolitan Police Jennifer Abbott, known also as Sarah Steinberg, was well known in the community A 66-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a 69-year-old was found fatally stabbed in her home in north London. Emergency services were called to a report of an unresponsive woman at...
Karen Read, an American woman accused of killing her boyfriend in January 2022, has been found not guilty of second-degree murder. The jury also found her not guilty of vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and leaving the scene of the collision. But she was convicted of driving while intoxicated. A July 2024 trial stemming from the...
A man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a woman who was found with stab wounds at a house in east London following a suspected a gas explosion. The Met Police and London Fire Brigade were called to reports of a blast with a person trapped inside a terraced house on Dumont Road, Stoke...
Counter Terrorism Policing Wales Alexander Dighton was sentenced after admitting trying to murder a police officer A man who tried to murder a police officer while armed with Molotov cocktails has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 22 years. Alexander Dighton, 28 from Llantrisant, Rhondda Cynon Taf, was wearing body armour when...
A man has been charged with the murder of a 13-month-old boy in Blackpool nearly two years ago. Police were called at about 19:15 BST on 27 July 2023 after an unresponsive baby boy was taken to Blackpool Victoria Hospital. Preston Davey was pronounced dead a short time later, said Lancashire Police. Jamie Varley, 36,...