4 h. ago Nicholas Prosper planned 'shocking mass killing' for 'notoriety' after shooting family dead

Prosecutors told a trial at Luton Crown Court that Nicholas Prosper's killings of Juliana Falcon, Kyle Prosper and Giselle Prosper were "the first step in an even more shocking mass killing"

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9 h. ago French hunter, 81, on trial for killing endangered bear that attacked him

Brown bear charged at André Rives in the Pyrenees and dragged him several metres before he shot and killed itAn 81-year-old French hunter has gone on trial accused of killing an endangered bear that attacked him in the Pyrenees.The brown bear is a protected species in the mountain range, which separates France and Spain. Continue reading...

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21 h. ago Iranian dissident Masih Alinejad set to testify at trial of men accused of plotting to kill her

The charismatic Iranian dissident and journalist who prosecutors say was targeted by her former homeland's government for assassination, is set to testify at the trial of two men accused in the plot

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4 d. ago Wife of British diving instructor who was shot dead on their Bahamas yacht says she's still fighting for justice 10 years on

The wife of a British diving instructor who was gunned down on their Bahamas yacht is still fighting for justice a decade later, as the alleged killer's trial is put on hold once again. 

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7 d. ago Carol Hunt's final words to crossbow killer before he launched sick rampage inside

The jury in the trial of Kyle Clifford, known as the crossbow killer, has heard a transcript of his conversation with his victim and her family just moments before he went on a killing spree within their family home

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8 d. ago Trial begins over a plot to kill an Iranian dissident in NYC

The trial of two men charged in an alleged Iranian government-sponsored murder-for-hire plot that targeted a prominent Iranian journalist and human rights activist has begun with jury selection

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8 d. ago Home Secretary faces family's fury as she rejects call for public inquiry into 'state failures' that allowed terrorist to murder Tory MP David Amess

Yvette Cooper said it was 'hard to see how an inquiry would be able to go beyond' terrorist killer Ali Harbi Ali's trial and the recently published Prevent learning review.

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8 d. ago Man's body chopped into 27 pieces and dumped at different locations

Marcin Majerkiewicz, 42, is on trial at accused of murder after he allegedly killed and cut up Stuart Everett, 67, after attacking him at the home they shared

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1 week ago Triple killer will not give evidence at trial for rape, jurors are told

Kyle Clifford denies the rape of his ex-girlfriend, Louise Hunt, 25, at her family’s home in Bushey, Hertfordshire, on July 9 last year.

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1 week ago Sir Keir Starmer's secrecy over the Southport killings 'could have put the entire murder trial at risk', terror watchdog warns

Jonathan Hall KC criticised authorities for failing to 'spell out basic and sober facts' about the teenager after he murdered three young girls at a dance class last year.

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1 week ago Kyle Clifford: CCTV shows movements of triple killer on day of his knife and crossbow attacks

Kyle Clifford denies a single charge of rape, against his former partner

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2 w. ago Jury shown moment crossbow triple killer Kyle Clifford buys rope days before murdering family of John Hunt

CCTV footage shows the moment crossbow triple killer Kyle Clifford bought rope days before he murdered the family of BBC racing commentator John Hunt.

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2 w. ago The best Crime novels to carry you into March: Making a Killing by Cara Hunter, Murder below Deck by Orlando Murrin, A Trial in Three Acts by Guy Morpuss

Geoffrey Wansell reviews the best Crime novels out now.

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2 w. ago Chile seeks to extradite a suspect from the US over the killing of a Venezuelan dissident

Prosecutors in Chile say the country will formally request that the United States extradite a Venezuelan man to stand trial for charges related to the abduction and killing of a Venezuelan ex-army officer and opposition figure last year in Chile

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2 w. ago Lucky Death Row killer who ate tasty last meal 'three times' granted new trial

Oklahoma prisoner Richard Glossip has been scheduled to be put to death nine times in total, but fresh evidence has prompted the Supreme Court to grant him a new trial

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2 w. ago Murder trial shown CCTV of children running from park after pensioner attacked

A 15-year-old boy and a 13-year-old girl are on trial accused of killing 80-year-old Bhim Kohli in a park near Leicester in September last year.

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2 w. ago Police video and 911 call play key role in trial of man accused in Palestinian American boy's murder

A harrowing 911 call, police video and other crime scene evidence are expected to play a key role as the murder and hate crime trial for an Illinois landlord accused of killing a 6-year-old Palestinian American boy continues Wednesday

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3 w. ago Boy, 15, ‘let anger out’ by kicking pensioner in park, murder trial told

Two children are on trial accused of killing Bhim Kohli in Franklin Park, Leicester.

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3 w. ago Jury sworn in ahead of trial of two children accused of killing elderly man

Bhim Kohli died in hospital in September last year after he was allegedly attacked in a park near his home in Braunstone Town, near Leicester.

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3 w. ago Jury selection to begin in murder trial of suspect in suburban Chicago July 4 parade

The man accused of opening fire on a suburban Chicago Independence Day parade and killing seven people is about to stand trial nearly three years after the attack

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