6 h. ago Cyclists who kill pedestrians could face life in prison under new UK law

Currently, reckless cyclists face a maximum two-year sentence under Victorian-era laws dating back to the 1860s

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33 h. ago 'What gave you the right to stop her heart beating?' Killer gets life as he faces grieving mum's powerful words

Alcwyn Thomas killed Victoria 'Vicki' Thomas after drinking heavily and taking cocaine but had denied murder saying the pair regularly enjoyed adventurous intercourse including strangulation.

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4 d. ago Adventurer, horse photographer, killer: Eadweard Muybridge’s extraordinary life told in a comic book

He is famed for being a pioneer of the moving image – but there was so much more to Muybridge than that. The great graphic novelist Guy Delisle explains why he turned his life into a rollicking readIt was one of the biggest talking points of the 19th century: whether a galloping horse lifted all four hooves off the ground simultaneously. Painters struggled with the notion, often wrongly depicting the animals doing a sort of leap, their limbs outstretched front and back. Then, in the 1870s, the great British adventurer Eadweard Muybridge closed the debate, devising photography with quick enough exposure times to isolate the horses in motion – and airborne.“Lots of people didn’t accept it,” says Guy Delisle. “When they saw a photograph of the horse gathering its hooves, they said it looked like a dead spider. But when the photographs were projected in sequence, they said, ‘It’s true!’” Continue reading...

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8 d. ago 'My nagging wife saved my life when I dismissed killer infection as pink eye'

Jordan Niles, 28, was urged by wife Courtney Niles, 25, to get his eye checked out after it suddenly ballooned in size - when he got to A&E, he discovered he had a potentially deadly infection

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8 d. ago British troops use new futuristic 'drone killer' to zap enemy kamikaze craft

British forces conduct secretive exercise in which they successfully brought down a swarm of 'enemy unmanned kamikaze planes' using a life-saving new weapon dubbed the 'drone killer'

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1 week ago Killer who stabbed neighbour 'murdered' by fellow prisoner at high security jail

A 44-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of the murder of a convicted killer, who was serving a life sentence after stabbing his elderly female neighbour to death in 2006.

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2 w. ago Killer wife jailed for life after husband found buried in her garden, not 'dead abroad'

Jeremy Rickards, 65, was found dead behind the property in St Martin's Road, Canterbury, on July 11 last year, and his wife Maureen has now been jailed for life

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2 w. ago Killer who hid husband’s dismembered body in garden jailed for life

Maureen Rickards was sentenced to life with a minimum of 22 years after being found guilty of murdering Jeremy Rickards.

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2 w. ago Brutal killer who murdered father in savage attack given life sentence

John Farquhar was ordered to serve at least 22 years in prison after he repeatedly stabbed his neighbour Garry Thomson with a knife at a flat in Guardbridge, in Fife.

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3 w. ago Convicted killer Taylor Schabusiness tackled after she lunges at attorney in court

The convicted killer, who is serving a life sentence for decapitating her lover, was back in court for allegedly attacking a prison guard

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3 w. ago Inside the heartbreaking hospital life of killer mum who drowned five children in bathtub

Andrea Yates rejects an annual hearing that could lead to her release

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3 w. ago Scarlett Vickers: Family of killer dad 'seek experts' to appeal murder life sentence

Simon Vickers was jailed for life for the murder of his daughter Scarlett Vickers, 14, after she was stabbed in the heart - his family believe he is innocent and are searching for expert witnesses

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3 w. ago Scots trans killer has life saving treatment restored after it was removed by medics

Sophie Eastwood has been in hospital since August of last year, after swallowing razor blades.

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3 w. ago Killer nurse Lucy Letby's life behind bars exposed: Card games with a notorious child killer, her astonishing cell perks, why she lives in fear of attacks and how she feels she's 'wasting away'

Three weeks ago and in a packed hall on the outskirts of west London there's a standing ovation as the cast of Made in Dagenham take their first night bow.

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4 w. ago Everything the judge told Marcin Majerkiewicz as he locked up body parts killer for life

Majerkiewicz was sentenced to at least 34 years

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4 w. ago ‘Body parts’ killer jailed for life for murder of pensioner housemate

Deby-ridden Marcin Majerkiewicz, 42, murdered Stuart Everett, 67, before dismembering and dumping his body.

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4 w. ago Crossbow killer Kyle Clifford set for "miserable existence" in life behind bars

A legal expert has warned Clifford's life in prison will be "far from easy".

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