46 h. ago Blackpool teacher charged with sexual assault and murder of baby

Jamie Varley and co-accused John McGowan-Fazakerley were in process of adopting 13-month-old Preston DaveyA secondary school teacher has appeared in court accused of the sexual assault and murder of a 13-month-old baby boy he was adopting.Jamie Varley, 36, who was a head of year at a school in Blackpool, is also accused of a number of counts of assault, cruelty and taking and distributing indecent images relating to Preston Davey. Continue reading...

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47 h. ago 'High school teacher', 36, is accused of sexually assaulting and murdering 13

Jamie Varley, 36, from Lancashire, has accused of sexually assaulting and murdering a 13-month-old baby boy, Preston Davey, whom he was in the process of adopting. 

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48 h. ago ‘Teacher’ accused of murder and sex assault of baby he adopted

Jamie Varley, 36, faces multiple charges over the death of 13-month-old Preston Davey.

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49 h. ago Man charged with murdering baby, serious sex offences and child cruelty

Preston Davey died in July 2023 at 13 months old

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50 h. ago Two men charged with child cruelty and sexual offences after death of baby boy

Jamie Varley, 36, will appear at Lancaster Magistrates’ Court today charged with the murder of 13-month-old Preston Davey. John McGowan-Fazakerley, 31, will also appear charged with allowing the death of a child

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52 h. ago Former NFL star Antonio Brown wanted by Miami police on attempted murder charges

The shooting occurred outside of a celebrity boxing event in Miami in May

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2 d. ago Man suspected of killing his new bride and two relatives claims they were all drug gang members

Patrick Waite was charged with three counts of murder and one count of attempted murder.

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3 d. ago Erin Patterson denies all charges as triple murder trial testimony concludes

Accused maintains fatal mushroom lunch unintentional

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3 d. ago Australia mushroom trial live: evidence concludes in Erin Patterson’s triple murder trial after weeks of testimony from witnesses

Victorian woman, 50, has pleaded not guilty to three charges of murder and one of attempted murder after a fatal beef wellington lunch in Leongatha in 2023. Follow liveWho are Erin Patterson and the other key figures in Australia’s mushroom trial?Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastProsecutor Nanette Rogers SC turns to evidence about factory resets performed on the mobile referred to as “Phone B”. The court previously heard four resets – one in February 2023 and three in August 2023 – were performed on the phone that Erin Patterson provided to police during the search on 5 August 2023. Rogers says one of these resets were done when she was left alone to call a lawyer while police searched Patterson’s Leongatha home. Patterson rejects this and says she phoned a lawyer at 2pm. Rogers says Patterson performed the three factory resets after the lunch to “conceal” the contents on Phone B. Patterson rejects this. Rogers then turns to her final points in the cross-ex...

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3 d. ago Three decades after a woman was found stabbed to death in her Texas apartment cops say they arrested her neighbor

Darryl Patrick Goggans, 61, is charged with capital murder in the 1994 slaying of 29-year-old Megan Johns

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3 d. ago Man charged with murder after slipping abortion drug in pregnant girlfriend’s drink

Justin Anthony Banta's ex-partner experienced heavy bleeding and visited the emergency room, but lost her baby a few days later.

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4 d. ago Ibrahima Seck death sees three teens in court charged with murder of boy, 14

Ibrahima died in hospital after he was attacked on Sunday as he was on his way to play football with his brother and friends, magistrates in Manchester heard

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4 d. ago Coatbridge clubber who attacked another man at closing time jailed for 21 months

Josh Preston was told that he was lucky not to be facing a murder charge.

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4 d. ago Three teenagers charged with murder of boy, 14, killed in Manchester stabbing

Ibrahima Seck’s family described him as a ‘well-liked young boy’

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4 d. ago ‘The perfect dish for them’: Erin Patterson explains why she included dried mushrooms in fatal lunch

Triple-murder accused also denies foraging death caps hours before buying food dehydrator as trial continuesWho are Erin Patterson and the other key figures in Australia’s mushroom trial?Erin Patterson has denied leading health officials on a “wild goose chase”, and that she foraged death cap mushrooms two hours before buying a food dehydrator, a Victorian court has heard.Patterson, 50, faces three charges of murder and one charge of attempted murder relating to poisoning four lunch guests with beef wellington served at her house in Leongatha, Victoria, on 29 July 2023. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Erin Patterson denies foraging death cap mushrooms hours before buying food dehydrator, murder trial hears

Murder accused also tells Victorian supreme court that she thought beef wellingtons were ‘the perfect dish’ for dried mushroomsWho are Erin Patterson and the other key figures in Australia’s mushroom trial?Erin Patterson has denied leading health officials on a “wild goose chase”, and that she foraged death cap mushrooms two hours before buying a food dehydrator, a Victorian court has heard.Patterson, 50, faces three charges of murder and one charge of attempted murder relating to poisoning four lunch guests with beef wellington served at her house in Leongatha, Victoria, on 29 July 2023. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Australia mushroom trial live: Erin Patterson denies foraging death caps two hours before buying dehydrator

Victorian woman, 50, has pleaded not guilty to three charges of murder and one of attempted murder after a fatal beef wellington lunch in Leongatha in 2023. Follow live‘You knew how suspicious it would look’: Erin Patterson makes series of denials in tense cross-examinationErin Patterson questioned over what her children ate the day after fatal lunchProsecutor Nanette Rogers SC begins to ask Erin Patterson about evidence regarding what her children ate the day after the lunch. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Australia mushroom trial live: Erin Patterson tells court she thought beef wellington recipe was ‘the perfect dish’ for dried mushrooms

Victorian woman, 50, has pleaded not guilty to three charges of murder and one of attempted murder after a fatal beef wellington lunch in Leongatha in 2023. Follow live‘You knew how suspicious it would look’: Erin Patterson makes series of denials in tense cross-examinationErin Patterson questioned over what her children ate the day after fatal lunchProsecutor Nanette Rogers SC begins to ask Erin Patterson about evidence regarding what her children ate the day after the lunch. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Dad charged with murder after 'leaving baby inside roasting hot car for nine hours'

Joseph Boatman, 32, allegedly left the tot inside the vehicle for nine hours after consuming 'multiple' alcoholic beverages - and while temperatures that day reached a scorching 35C

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4 d. ago Louisiana father charged with murder after leaving daughter, 1, inside 105F car for NINE hours

Joseph Boatman, 32, was arrested for murder after he allegedly left his infant daughter inside a blistering 105F car for more than nine hours.

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