1 week ago Corriedale: Coronation Street favourite dies after evil rival locks him in blazing mini bus

Coronation Street favourite Billy Mayhew became Corriedale’s first victim after evil love rival Theo Silverton locked him in blazing mini bus.

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2 w. ago Fugitive fraudster who spent 13 years on the run after fleeing to France then the US after swindling £70,000 out of victims is jailed

Duncan Herd, 60, was originally locked up in 2010 after swindling £70,000 from his victims in a scam in which he took down payments for non-existent yachts or land abroad.

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2 w. ago Horrifying reality of 'most agonising' torture technique that causes mass internal damage then death

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT This method of torture, according to folklore, may possibly be the most harrowing and gruesome technique ever recorded and causes a drawn out and agonising death to victims

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3 w. ago Death row prisoner's agonisingly grim execution as he 'covered chamber in blood'

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT Clayton Lockett was executed iafter he was convicted of murder, rape and kidnapping - and his horrific death has been called into question ever since

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3 w. ago Agonising death of criminals locked in metal bull with fire set underneath it until they suffocated and burned

The ancient world wasn't short of a gruesome killing or two and the brazen bull method of execution was one of the most spectacular ways you could bow out in Greece

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3 w. ago Gruesome death sentence locked in metal bull and burned to death in public

The brazen bull was a life-sized bronze cast of the animal that was left completely hollow inside

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3 w. ago Agonising death of victims locked in metal bull with fire set underneath it

The brazen bull was a gruesome execution method in Ancient Greece designed not only to kill but to terrify, turning human suffering into a grotesque spectacle

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last month Dad of Lockerbie victim fears 'bombmaker' is using health as 'delaying tactic' for trial

The trial of Libyan Abu Agila Masud, who is accused of making the bomb which killed 270 victims over Lockerbie, has been delayed.

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