A university lecturer who was murdered has been awarded a posthumous PhD. Claire Chick was stabbed to death​ in January by her estranged husband, who was jailed for 27 years. Hundreds gathered to mourn the 48-year-old, who was also a former nurse, at a candlelit vigil at Plymouth Hoe, with her partner saying “she cared...
Lucy Manning Special correspondent Metropolitan Police handout Daniel Anjorin wearing his school uniform A man has been jailed for life after being convicted of murdering a 14-year-old schoolboy with a samurai sword in east London. Marcus Monzo fatally wounded Daniel Anjorin minutes after the schoolboy left his home in Hainault on 30 April last year....
Japan has executed a man who murdered nine people in 2017, the first time since 2022 that the country has enacted capital punishment. The serial killings by Takahiro Shiraishi, dubbed the “Twitter killer”, had shocked the country and triggered debate over how suicide was discussed online. Shiraishi, then 30, lured his victims – most of...
Getty Images Peter Falconio was killed while travelling around Australia with girlfriend Joanne Lees Police in Australia have announced a new reward of up to A$500,000 (£240,000; $325,000) for information leading to the discovery of the remains of British backpacker Peter Falconio, 24 years after his murder. Mr Falconio was shot dead on a remote...
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 In June 2015, John “Goldfinger” Palmer was shot six times in the garden of his secluded woodland mansion in Essex. But due to an oversight in the police response,...
Soutik Biswas & Ishleen Kaur BBC Eye Investigations BBC Sidhu Moose Wala was shot dead in a hail of bullets in 2022 It was a killing that shocked India: Punjabi hip-hop star Sidhu Moose Wala shot dead through the windscreen of his car by hired gunmen. Within hours, a Punjabi gangster named Goldy Brar had...
Reuters The musicians were last seen in the Mexican city of Reynosa, near the US border Five musicians who disappeared in the Mexican city of Reynosa, near the US border, were murdered by suspected drug cartel members, Mexican authorities have said. Nine alleged members of the notorious Gulf Cartel have been arrested on suspicion of...
Sure – it’s just hurty words right? And what’s a little slip-up in the numbers? That up to 14K Gazan babies might possibly suffer from the effects of malnutrition in the next year, or the lie that went ’round the world of 14,000 Palestinian babies dying in the next two days because Israel won’t allow baby food and formula...
Malawian cricket is in mourning after the death of top official Arjun Menon on Saturday night. A statement from the Malawi National Council of Sports (MNCS) said that the 48-year-old had been “brutally murdered” at his residence in Blantyre. Local police in the Southern African nation are yet to issue a statement following Menon’s death....
Catherine Doyle BBC News NI Getty Images On X, the band said: “To the Amess and Cox families, we send our heartfelt apologies, we never intended to cause you hurt” The husband of murdered MP Jo Cox has called on Kneecap to give a “real apology” after footage emerged of the band allegedly calling for...
PA Media Katie Amess says she would be willing to meet the group and have a conversation with them The daughter of an Conservative MP who was stabbed to death at a constituency surgery has said rap group Kneecap should apologise over comments where they allegedly called for MPs to be killed. A video emerged...
Okay. So there’s a bridge, a bridge too far, and then there’s just tossing yourself off one without thinking twice. That’s pretty much what the head of the Democratic National Committee, one soy boy named Ken Martin, decided he would do earlier today. The spark that lit little Ken’s...