The family of a man who was stabbed to death in Devon have described him as a “loveable, cheeky, bubbly lad”. Denva Smith, 24, died at the scene after suffering a single stable wound in Exmouth at about 00:45 BST on 31 May. His body was found in a garden in Ashfield Close. A tribute...
PA Media Jennifer Abbott Dauward was found with multiple stab wounds at her Camden flat A film director found dead with her Rolex watch missing had been stabbed in the neck eight times, the Old Bailey has heard. Jennifer Abbott Dauward – also known as Sarah Steinberg – was discovered on the floor of her...
A woman found stabbed after a gas explosion at her home has been named as a charity worker who supported refugees. Annabel Rook, 46, was found fatally injured at a house in Dumont Road, Stoke Newington, north-east London, just before 5:00 BST on Tuesday. She worked for a charity that she co-founded called Mama Suze...
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...
Lynette Horsburgh BBC News BBC Police cordons included the Fairway Inn in New Moston Two teenagers have been arrested on suspicion of murder after a 14-year-old boy was stabbed, police have said. Police, paramedics and an air ambulance were called to Nevin Road in the New Moston area of Manchester at about 17:00 BST on...
A 56-year-old man who launched an unprovoked knife attack on a stranger was fortunate not to have killed him, a judge has said. James Lammas, of Belvedere Road, Ilfracombe, stabbed a 33-year-old man multiple times on the high street in the north Devon town in September 2024. At Exeter Crown Court, Lammas admitted wounding with...
BBC Tahla Redwan, 20, of Hackney, London, appeared at Plymouth Crown Court on Tuesday A man has appeared in court charged with the murder of a man in Plymouth. Tahla Redwan, 20, of Hackney, London, appeared at Plymouth Crown Court on Tuesday and denied murdering Shane Sweet. The 36-year-old was found stabbed to death in...
Rapper Tory Lanez has been taken to hospital after he was stabbed at a California prison, state corrections officials said. The Canadian hip-hop artist was attacked by another inmate on Tuesday morning in a housing unit at the California Correctional Institution in Tehachapi, about 75 miles (120km) north of Los Angeles. Prison staff “responded, activated...
Helen Astle & Isaac Ashe BBC News, East Midlands Supplied Father-of-three Gurvinder Singh Johal was fatally stabbed inside a Derby city centre bank A customer killed inside a city centre bank has been named locally as restaurant owner Gurvinder Singh Johal. Mr Johal had been at Lloyds in St Peter’s Street, Derby, with the bank...
Olimpia Zagnat BBC News, East Midlands Steve Beech BBC News, Derby BBC A pedestrianised street in Derby is currently taped off A customer has been stabbed to death in a bank in a city centre. The man, who was a customer aged in his 30s, was assaulted inside the Lloyds bank in St Peter’s Street...
A 14-year-old girl who stabbed two teachers and a pupil while screaming “I’m going to kill you” has been sentenced to 15 years. The girl, who cannot be named due to her age, will serve seven and a half years in custody. She was found guilty of attempted murder in a second trial at Swansea...
Devon and Cornwall Police The court heard Corin Harper-Davis was suffering from a psychotic illness and an episode of paranoid schizophrenia A man has been sentenced to a hospital order after he stabbed his uncle to death in a Devon village. Corin Harper-Davis, 37, of Hither Green, London, was sentenced at Exeter Crown Court after...
China has executed a man for fatally stabbing a 10-year-old Japanese boy last September, the Japanese embassy in China has told the BBC. Zhong Changchun was sentenced to death in January for attacking the boy, who had been walking to a Japanese school in south-eastern Chinese city of Shenzhen. The case had sent shockwaves through...
A murder investigation has been launched after a 45-year-old woman was found with fatal stab wounds in north London. Officers from the Met Police were called to an address in Ayley Croft, Enfield, at about 19:00 BST on Saturday, following reports of the attack. Crews from London Ambulance Service and London’s Air Ambulance also attended,...
Chloe Laversuch BBC News, Yorkshire West Yorkshire Police Ahmad Mamdouh Al Ibrahim, 16, died in hospital after being stabbed in Huddersfield A teenage boy who was fatally stabbed in Huddersfield had fled the war in Syria after being injured in a bombing. Ahmad Mamdouh Al Ibrahim, 16, suffered a single wound to the neck and...