4 hours ago Sara Sharif murder trial latest: Schoolgirl, 10, showed signs of starvation and had ‘unusual’ injuries, jury told

Father Urfan Sharif, stepmother Beinash Batool and uncle Faisal Malik deny 10-year-old’s murder

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13 hours ago Attorneys give opening statements in murder trial of Minnesota man accused of killing his girlfriend

Attorneys delivered opening statements on Thursday in the high-profile murder trial of the former boyfriend of a Minnesota woman whose body was found hidden in a rural area of the state in 2023

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16 hours ago Sara Sharif showed signs of starvation and suffered broken bone in neck weeks before death, jury told

Jurors were told that the fracture of the hyoid bone in her neck was likely to have occurred between six to 12 weeks before she was died

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17 hours ago Teenage girl with unbearable itch was told to stay away from family pets, but the real cause was devastating

Niamh Connell, 15, developed a constant irritating itch across her body in June, which was initially dismissed as an allergic reaction, but it was something far more sinister

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18 hours ago Sara Sharif, 10, 'was strangled until bone in her neck broke in weeks leading up to her murder', court hears

Sara's father Urfan Sharif, 42, is on trial at the Old Bailey accused of her murder, along with the girl's stepmother Beinash Batool, 30, and uncle Faisal Malik, 29.

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20 hours ago Carrie review – Brian De Palma’s horror masterpiece is a death metal spectacle of carnage

Sissy Spacek unforgettably evolves from ugly duckling to swan to something else entirely in the groundbreaking film adaptation of Stephen King’s novelBrian De Palma’s insouciantly horrible masterpiece from 1976, adapted from the novel by Stephen King, and mixing in tropes and tricks from Hitchcock’s Psycho, is now rereleased. This is the extraordinary exploitation shocker that also conveyed – or anyway fabricated – an impassioned sympathy for a bullied teenage girl with learning disabilities and telekinetic powers. It was a horror classic that didn’t conform to the narrative beats of the genre; it was a scary movie in which the terrifying demon was also the final girl.Sissy Spacek gives an amazing performance as Carrie, a shy high school student and put-upon daughter of Margaret (Piper ...

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20 hours ago Sara Sharif murder trial latest: Schoolgirl showed signs of starvation and had ‘unusual’ injuries, jury told

Father Urfan Sharif, stepmother Beinash Batool and uncle Faisal Malik deny 10-year-old’s murder

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21 hours ago Team GB Olympian who competed at London 2012 convicted of raping two teenage girls

Former Olympic swimmer and trainee police officer Antony James, 34, has been found guilty of sexual abuse

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21 hours ago Barking Road crash: Police name teenage girl killed by car in horror east London smash

Police name victim as Maryam Nabil Shuwey, 18, as they praise off-duty officers and members of public who attempted to help her

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