15 h. ago Serial killer's disgusting final act to vulnerable man he dumped near graveyard

Serial killer Stephen Port managed to stay several steps ahead of the police for months when embarking on his terrifying spree of rapes and murders of young men in East London

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44 h. ago Murdering shoe fetish rapist in open prison move despite fears for public safety

Christopher Farrow, who became known as the 'shoe fetish' killer, was jailed for life in 2000 with a minimum of 18 years for the heinous rape and murder of mum-of-two Wendy Speakes, 51, in 1994

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5 d. ago Santosh review – terrifically tense cop movie digs into sexism and caste prejudice in India

Sunita Rajwar and Shahana Goswami lead a sinewy crime drama as a cynical veteran and a wide-eyed rookie who has inherited her late husband’s jobWriter-director Sandhya Suri has made a tense, violent and politically savvy crime procedural set in India: a film about sexism, caste bigotry and Islamophobia that doubles as a study in the complex relationship between two female cops, a cynical veteran and a wide-eyed rookie. They are terrifically played by Sunita Rajwar and Shahana Goswami in what is almost a gender-switched Indian version of Training Day.Suri is a film-maker who 20 years ago gave us a tremendous personal essay movie I for India, and this is her fiction-feature debut, which reportedly started as a documentary project inspired by public demonstrations about the gang-rape and murder of Jyoti Singh. It centres on the Indian convention of “compassionate appointment”: the dependent widow of a public official can apply for the same job. Goswami plays Santosh, whose cop husband ...

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5 d. ago Florida man executed for raping and murdering girl, 8, and stabbing her gran 21 times

Edward James was put to death by lethal injection at Florida State Prison in Raiford on Thursday, more than three decades after he raped and murdered eight-year-old Toni Neuner before killing her grandmother

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5 d. ago Sicko executed for murdering and raping girl, 8, then stabbing her gran 21 times

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT: Edward James pled guilty to the 1993 rape and murder of eight year old Toni Neuner and the killing of her grandmother Betty Dick when he was a lodger in Dick's house and has finally been executed

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5 d. ago Florida man faces execution for killing girl, 8, and her grandmother

Edward James scheduled to receive lethal injection under death warrant signed in February by Ron DeSantisA Florida man who killed an eight-year-old girl and her grandmother on a night in which he drank heavily and used drugs is set to be executed Thursday.Edward James, 63, is scheduled to receive a lethal injection starting at 6pm at Florida state prison outside Starke under a death warrant signed in February by Governor Ron DeSantis. Barring a last-minute reprieve, the execution is to be the second this year in Florida, which is planning a third in April. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago ‘He is innocent’: families of deported Venezuelans rebuke Trump claims

US president has painted Venezuelan migrants deported to notorious El Salvador prison as ‘heinous monsters’ Donald Trump’s White House has described the Venezuelan migrants deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador as “heinous monsters” and terrorists who “rape, maim and murder for sport”.But relatives of Francisco Javier García Casique, a 24-year-old from the city of Maracay, say he was a hairdresser, not a crook. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago ‘He is innocent’: family of deported Venezuelan rebukes Trump claims

Brother of Francisco Javier García Casique spotted him in a video showing scores of Venezuelan prisoners being taken to notorious El Salvador prisonDonald Trump’s White House has described the Venezuelan migrants deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador as “heinous monsters” and terrorists who “rape, maim and murder for sport”.But relatives of Francisco Javier García Casique, a 24-year-old from the city of Maracay, say he was a hairdresser, not a crook. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Husband of Harshita Brella is charged with her murder, rape and subjecting her to controlling or coercive behaviour

A man has been charged with the murder, rape and controlling or coercive behaviour over the death of Harshita Brella.

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7 d. ago First ever US execution by nitrogen takes place as rapist and murderer put to death

The first ever execution by nitrogen in the US state of Louisiana has been carried out on Death Row prisoner Jessie Hoffman Jr, who was convicted of murder and rape

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7 d. ago Killer Jessie Hoffman's bizarre excuse for why he shouldn't be gassed to death as he races clock to stop execution planned for TONIGHT

Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, is scheduled to be put to death Tuesday evening for his conviction of the brutal 1996 rape and murder of 28-year-old accounting executive Mary 'Molly' Elliott.

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7 d. ago Death Row killer to be executed today by method deemed to cruel for cats and dogs

Jessie Hoffman was sentenced to death in 1996 at the age of 18 for the rape and murder of advertising executive Mollie Elliott. He has been on death row ever since

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7 d. ago Death row killer set for execution by 'inhumane' method banned for use on cats and dogs

Jessie Hoffman was convicted of rape and murder in 1996 but is now scheduled to be executed by the "inhumane" method of nitrogen gas, that Louisiana don't even allow for their pets

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1 week ago Inside Sarah Everard killer Wayne Couzens' life behind bars as he has 'bounty on head'

Wayne Couzens is serving a whole life-term at HMP Frankland for the kidnap, rape and murder of Sarah Everard, whose body was burned and disposed of in a pond near Ashford, Kent

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1 week ago Plea for billionaire’s son suspected of murdering woman in central London in 2008 to return to UK

Martine Vik Magnussen, 23, was raped and murdered after a night out with friends at the Maddox nightclub in Mayfair on March 14 2008

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1 week ago Plea for billionaire’s son suspected of murdering woman in 2008 to return to UK

Martine Vik Magnussen, 23, was raped and murdered after a night out with friends at the Maddox nightclub in Mayfair on March 14 2008.

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1 week ago Brave Louise Hunt kept dark list of Kyle Clifford's vile acts to help with difficult split

Warning: distressing content. In the weeks before Louise Hunt was violently raped and murdered by her ex Kyle Clifford, she wrote a note on her phone to read when she felt 'sad'

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1 week ago Girl, 10, comes home from walk to find her nurse mother stabbed to death

The woman’s husband and children had gone out for the afternoon and discovered her body when they returned

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1 week ago Women in India should each be allowed to commit one murder due to rape epidemic, politician suggests

Rohini Khadse, head of the women's wing of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP-SP) made the shocking proposal in a letter to Indian President Droupadi Murmu.

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1 week ago Teen, 15, GUILTY of trying to murder girl with sword on Halloween camping trip

The boy was among a group of seven who went out to camp in a field on Halloween last year - where he stabbed the girl ten times, leaving her with injuries she was 'fortunate to survive'

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