8 h. ago Man who battered supermarket worker to death with a pepper mill and kicked and stamped on her as he slammed door on her head is locked up

Brian Simpson, 64, left 37-year-old Kristine Sparane with fatal head injuries after attacking her at her home in Spalding, Lincolnshire, on November 26 last year.

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7 d. ago A New Orleans man with a history of violent allegations killed his neighbor – now a family seeks justice for their son

Leroy Stelly Jr shot Richie Smith dead in 2023 but was never charged. Now Smith’s mother and father have unearthed Stelly’s brutal past and are asking police for justiceOver a roughly 14-year period beginning in 2009, Leroy Stelly Jr faced accusations of pepper-spraying two women whom he encountered on a sidewalk and insulted as “bitches”, slapping his future wife at a bar, and threatening to shoot a construction worker while pretending to be a cop.He also called emergency operators and declared that he was “going to put a fucking .45”-caliber bullet in the head of someone who had banged on his door. He allegedly punched a guest he had over on Christmas Eve. He reportedly challenged people at a healthcare clinic with which he shares a fence “to meet [him] out on the street”. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Met officers who wrongly arrested Sex Education star, pepper sprayed and kicked him are cleared of assault by watchdog

The actor told of being sprayed with an incapacitating liquid, thrown to the ground and kicked by officers when he was detained in Fulham, west London.

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1 week ago Nursery worker and owner appear in court in connection with child’s death

A court heard 14-month-old Noah Sibanda died after an alleged failure to ensure children in a baby room were put down to sleep in a safe way.

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1 week ago Australian former soldier killed by explosive device in Ukraine while working for aid organisation

Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese confirmed the death of the man, a former Australian soldier, following media reports the charity worker died after an an improved explosive device went off in a building

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2 w. ago Young woman posted idyllic photos from dream holiday to Greece

The cause of death for care worker Melissa Cross, 23, was recorded as having taken her own life just days after her idyllic holiday to Greece, an inquest in Pontypridd, South Wales, heard

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2 w. ago Scots NHS worker who stabbed wife to death as she cried out 'why' jailed for 18 years

Mum Veronica Chinyanga begged for her life as she was stabbed to death in the garden of her Broxburn home.

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2 w. ago The execution that haunts prison worker 28 years later: Death row officer had therapy for a decade after horrific mishap filled cells with the smell of 'burning flesh'

Ron McAndrew witnessed executions using the electric chair in Florida, but one traumatising death never left him and the botched execution led to the prison ending the use of the electric chair.

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3 w. ago Woman who stabbed man, 61, to death in racist attack after calling herself the 'Charles Bronson of Bristol' told care worker she was going to 'get the Jamaican drug dealer' minutes earlier

A woman who stabbed a man to death in a racist and unprovoked attack had asked her care worker that she be sent back to hospital minutes before the killing.

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