2 h. ago Was the Black Lives Matter rebellion all for nothing? It may feel like that, but I have seen reasons for hope | Jason Okundaye

It is easy to look back at 2020 and feel aggrieved, even fooled. But in the British city where slaver Edward Colston’s statue was pulled down, I found cause for optimismIt has been five years since George Floyd, a Black man who lived in Minneapolis, was murdered by Derek Chauvin, a white police officer. The killing, captured in a distressing 10-minute video that quickly flooded social media timelines, sparked something that felt like an international revolution: protests took place across the world, forcing countries and cities to reckon with their present and historical treatment of Black people.In Britain, protests reached fever pitch when activists in Bristol toppled a statue of Edward Colston, the slave trader and deputy governor of the Royal African Company, and hurled it into the harbour. Bristol, once a major slave-trading port, had maintained a veneration of Colston that was increasingly divisive. The statue in particular had been a key focus of tensions: attempts to add a s...

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5 h. ago American says he is 'framed' after arrest for murder of 'chopped up' Irish farmer

Michael Kelley, 46, was arrested by gardai on Tuesday in connection with the murder of Kerry farmer Michael Gaine - whose dismembered remains were found in a slurry tank

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5 h. ago Police arrest innocent man at brother's funeral mistaking him for suspect in unsolved 1995 murder

A funeral descended into chaos after police sifted through the crowd of mourning family members before arresting an innocent man they believed was the prime suspect in a murder case

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7 h. ago Is the inquest into the Bondi Junction murders further stigmatising schizophrenia?

Sandy Jeffs, first diagnosed in 1976, says ‘I just don’t know how we’re going to come back from this’Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastWhen Sandy Jeffs was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1976, “it was an absolute death sentence because schizophrenia and recovery weren’t spoken of in the same sentence back in those days”.“To have your future taken away from you like that, at 23 years of age, was just awful,” she says, “and I bought into the pessimism of my diagnosis because that’s what I was told by all those clinicians.”Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...

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11 h. ago American arrested in Michael Gaine murder probe claims 'I've been framed by gangsters'

Michael Kelley, a self-described asylum seeker from the US, has denied any involvement in the alleged murder of Irish farmer Michael Gaine after he says he was arrested by Gardaí - claiming he was framed by gangsters

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11 h. ago Coronation Street star speaks out on murder twist ahead of major exit from soap after a few months

Joe Layton has spoken out on the twist that has seen his character Mick Michaelis become a murderer after a dramatic week on the cobbles

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13 h. ago Friend pays moving tribute to 'ray of sunshine' dad at centre of murder probe as thousands raised

'No one ever prepares to bury their child'

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14 h. ago Jay Slater cops admit they are powerless to force key witnesses to attend his inquest

The 19-year-old, from Oswaldtwistle in Lancashire, disappeared in Tenerife last summer sparking a major manhunt before he was found dead about a month later.

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14 h. ago Satchwell’s story has ‘more holes than block of Swiss cheese’, murder trial told

Richard Satchwell is on trial at Dublin’s Central Criminal Court for the murder of his wife, Tina, in March 2017.

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14 h. ago Louisiana jail sees a murder suspect scale the fence and escape

Tra’Von Johnson, 19, was arrested for a 2022 home invasion that left a father dead and his child injured

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14 h. ago George Floyd's girlfriend worries Trump will pardon killer cop Derek Chauvin 5 years on

WARNING - GRAPHIC CONTENT: This Sunday marks five years since George Floyd was murdered by former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in a video that shocked the world

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14 h. ago A biblical hatred is engulfing both sides in the Gaza conflict – and blinding them to reason | Jonathan Freedland

Israel starving Palestinians, two killings at a Jewish museum: both are atrocities. But vanishingly few can see itI sat this week with Hussein Agha, a man who has given his working life to seeking peace between Israelis and Palestinians, negotiating from the Palestinian side of the table. He was gloomier than I have ever seen him, adamant that peace between the two sides can never, ever come. Because, Agha explained, this conflict was not about mere lines on a map or forms of words, the goods in which diplomats trade. This was about emotions, and specifically hatreds. Hatreds that, he feared, are becoming too murderous to contain. “It’s biblical,” he said.What he had in mind was the fury that drove Hamas to slaughter around 1,200 Israelis on a sleepy Saturday morning nearly 20 months ago and the fury that has driven the government of Benjamin Netanyahu to bombard Gaza ever since, killing more than 50,000, according to the Hamas-controlled health ministry, and, over the last 80 days,...

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15 h. ago Jay Slater cops make crushing admission over pals after mum's inquest plea

Jay Slater's distraught mum Debbie asked for his inquest to be stopped until several witnesses, including Jay's pal Lucy Law, who is reportedly in Tenerife, can be found to give evidence

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15 h. ago Jay Slater cops 'powerless' to force missing key witnesses to attend inquest

Jay Slater's distraught mum Debbie asked for his inquest to be stopped until several witnesses, including Jay's pal Lucy Law who is reportedly in Tenerife, can be found.

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15 h. ago ‘A new form of mass murder’: the terrifying, twisty unsolved mystery of the Tylenol killer

One of the most shocking true crime stories of the 80s is re-investigated in Netflix docuseries Cold Case: The Tylenol Murders“You’ve got an old one, huh?” asks James Lewis, eyeing the bottle of Tylenol with suspicion.“No, just off the shelf today,” replies a voice off camera. Continue reading...

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15 h. ago The Princes in the Tower: Has Richard III historian solved 500 year old murder mystery?

It is perhaps the greatest of all cold cases: who was responsible for the death of the two Princes in the Tower?

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16 h. ago Five years later: How the murder of George Floyd changed America

Five years after the murder of George Floyd, the ripple effects of that summer are still being felt to this day

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16 h. ago Deaf TikTok star died after ‘failure’ by mental health services, inquest finds

Imogen Nunn, 25, died in Brighton, East Sussex, on New Year’s Day 2023, after ingesting a poisonous substance she ordered online.

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16 h. ago Jay Slater police admit they have no power to find witnesses despite mum's plea

Jay Slater's distraught mum Debbie asked for his inquest to be stopped until several witnesses, including Jay's pal Lucy Law, who is reportedly in Tenerife, can be found to give evidence

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16 h. ago ‘Fresh evidence’ double murderer Hazel Stewart had mental illness, court told

Hazel Stewart is serving a minimum 18 years behind bars for the killing of Constable Trevor Buchanan, 32, and Howell’s 31-year-old wife Lesley Howell.

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