15 h. ago Range Rover driver is caught downing 11 pints of cider and Baby Guinness on pub crawl with friends before killing teenager biker in horror crash

Danny Francis, 29, had been drinking all afternoon with his friends in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, and into the night of September 30, 2023.

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18 h. ago Devastated mum breaks silence after daughter, 7, killed by 'impatient' delivery driver

Seven-year-old Elsie Gascoigne was heading home from a shopping trip with her family when delivery driver Veselin Dudenski, 39, performed a dangerous overtake causing a head-on collision

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19 h. ago BREAKING: Delivery driver who killed girl, 7, in horror overtake crash jailed for six years

Veselin Dudenski has been sentenced following the death of little Elsie Gascoigne in Lincolnshire earlier this year

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24 h. ago Shocking moment passenger puts taxi driver in a chokehold before threatening to kill him

This is the shocking moment a passenger puts a taxi driver in a chokehold before threatening to kill him.

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26 h. ago Horror as girl, 16, mauled in street by XL Bully after desperately trying to flee

"She said it lasted for a good two minutes but it felt like forever."

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51 h. ago The Matchbox Girl by Alice Jolly review – horror, humanity and Dr Asperger

The reader grapples with fascism and complicity through the eyes of a mute autistic girl being treated during the second world warAs I started reading Alice Jolly’s new novel, whose narrator is a mute autistic girl in wartime Vienna, I realised that I was resisting its very premise. I am generally sceptical about books that use child narrators to add poignancy to dark plots, or novels that use nazism as a means of introducing moral jeopardy to their characters’ journeys. And yet by the end Jolly had won me over. This is a book that walks a tightrope between sentimentality and honesty, between realism and imagination, and creates something spirited and memorable as it does so.We meet our fierce narrator, Adelheid Brunner, when she is brought into a children’s hospital by her grandmother, who cannot cope with the little girl’s fixations. Adelheid is obsessed with the matchboxes of the title, which she is constantly studying, ordering and occasionally discarding. In the hospi...

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59 h. ago Mercedes driver admits killing couple in horror crash while 'hurrying to salon'

Laila Barnard-Wigley, 27, has admitted causing the deaths of Dean Yarrow, 33, and Faye Wardle, 32 - the jury said in 2023 it was split and could not reach verdicts in the case

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67 h. ago BREAKING: Liverpool parade driver Paul Doyle told he must face victims he nearly killed

After denying all offences relating to his 29 victims for months, Paul Doyle broke down as he pleaded guilty to deliberately mowing down crowds at Liverpool's title parade

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2 d. ago Driver who struck and killed dog walking couple on icy country lane hit 87mph seconds before the crash, dangerous driving trial hears

Thomas, 61, and Susan Corkery, 68, were taking their friend's dog for a walk when Scott Gunn struck them down, killing all three on Thurnham Lane near Maidstone on January 20

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3 d. ago Driver who killed couple walking their dog on icy country lane was ‘speeding at 87mph seconds before crash’

A DRIVER who killed a couple walking a dog in a fatal crash was driving at 87mph down an icy country lane, a court heard. Thomas and Susan Corkery were walking their friend's dog when Scott Gunn skidded and smashed into them, killing both of them and the dog. Gunn, 38, was driving at 87mph...

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3 d. ago Keir Starmer voices horror over Ukrainian girl his daughter's age pulled from rubble

The Prime Minister told MPs he was celebrating his daughter's 15th birthday when he saw images of a Ukrainian girl of around the same age being pulled from rubble

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4 d. ago Driver who killed student and her dog while going more than double to speed limit is jailed for five years

Lucy Atkins died after being struck by a car on West Boulevard in Quinton on 24 June last year. The family's Lakeland Terrier, Simba, was also killed in the collision.

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4 d. ago Tributes paid to young woman, 20, killed by a car in broad daylight while walking her dog as woman, 34, jailed

A HEARTBROKEN family has paid a touching tribute to a young woman who was fatally struck down while walking her dog. Danielle Mitten has been jailed after she mowed down Lucy Atkins, 20, as she walked her Lakeland Terrier, Simba, in Birmingham last year. University student Lucy was hit by the car as it sped...

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6 d. ago Driver, 68, 'drove away' after cyclist hit and killed in South London

Driver, 68, 'drove away' after cyclist hit and killed in South London  My London

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7 d. ago Passengers warn 'maniac' driver going 80mph in 30 zone he is 'crazy' just moments before killing teenager, 19, as he crossed the road

Chilling mobile phone footage shows Regan Kemp, 26, speeding at 80mph on a 30mph road just before he knocked down 19-year-old Ashton Kitchen-White.

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7 d. ago Moment show off driver told ‘that’s crazy fast’ just seconds before he killed budding doctor in horror hit

THIS is the chilling moment a show off driver is told "that's crazy fast" seconds before killing an aspiring doctor in a hit-and-run. Footage shows Regan Kemp, 26, barrelling down the 30mph road at 80mph in Leeds, West Yorks., on May 16 this year. The haunting video, filmed on a mobile phone inside the Ford...

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7 d. ago Stirling driver told prison "inevitable" after crash which killed three

The incident took place on a rural road near the village of Dunmore in July last year - with evidence presented in court revealing she drove at more than 85mph in the lead-up to the crash.

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8 d. ago 'Maniac' driver who hit and killed aspiring doctor on pedestrian crossing while doing 80mph in 30 zone is jailed for 15 years

Ashton Kitchen-White died at the scene after he was mowed down by Regan Kemp, 26, who was driving a Ford Focus ST in Leeds on May 16 this year, a court heard.

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9 d. ago Brooklyn driver who killed a mother and two children is sentenced to 3 to 9 years in prison

A Brooklyn wigmaker and social media influencer who raced through a red light and plowed into a mother and three children has been sentenced to 3 years to 9 years in prison

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1 week ago Girl, 9 screams 'Mum, I'm going to die' after horror 'XL Bully' attack in Birmingham

The youngster was walking back from a shop to her home in an Erdington residential street when she was set upon by an 'XL Bully-type dog' in an unprovoked frenzied attack

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