40 h. ago Loner obsessed with child murders including James Bulger and Southport massacre is jailed for 30 years for trying to kill girl, nine, by stabbing her in the neck

Jordan Wilkes, 29, was convicted of attempted murder and possession of a bladed article after stabbing a nine-year-old girl three times with a penknife outside his flat in Christchurch, Dorset.

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9 d. ago Tragic final moments of father, 35, stabbed to death over drug

Gregory Marshall, 35, was found collapsed and died in an alleyway in York after he was stabbed in the neck and chest by Ian James Franklin, who has been jailed for life.

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1 week ago Knife by Salman Rushdie audiobook review – 27 seconds that changed everything

The author recalls the attack that almost killed him in an honest, terrifying and life-affirming memoirOn 12 August 2022, Salman Rushdie was at a literary conference in Chautauqua, New York, about to deliver a lecture on keeping writers from harm, when a stranger rushed at him with a knife. Rushdie – who in 1989 had a fatwa issued against him by Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini calling for his death, after the publication of his novel The Satanic Verses – was stabbed in his neck, chest, hand and eye.Knife is Rushdie’s memoir of his “near-death” in which he recalls seeing his attacker and thinking to himself: “So it’s you. Here you are.” The attack lasted 27 seconds and, to this day, the author remains bewildered that he didn’t fight back. “Was I so feeble that I couldn’t make the slightest attempt to defend myself?” he asks. As baffling to him is that the man, a Lebanese-American whom he calls “The A” (short for “Assailant” or “Ass”), had never read The Satanic Verses. Instead, he had watc...

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2 w. ago Boy, 16, who dreamt of being a doctor, stabbed to death just days after moving from Wales

Ahmad Mamdouh Al Ibrahim was stabbed in the neck in Huddersfield town centre and died in hospital the same day

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2 w. ago Man charged with murder after boy, 16, stabbed in the neck in Huddersfield

The incident occurred in Huddersfield at about 2.45pm on Thursday.

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2 w. ago Boy, 16, dies in Huddersfield after being stabbed in the neck

West Yorkshire Police has launched a murder investigation after a teenager died in hospital

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