18 h. ago 'Ross was just an ordinary guy doing what he loved. He never came home'

Father of motorcyclist killed in crash supports safety campaign

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28 h. ago Press conference for teen 'killer' Karmelo Anthony descends into chaos as victim's father is thrown out

Austin Metcalf's father Jeff Metcalf crashed a press conference on Thursday for 17-year-old alleged killer Karmelo Anthony.

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37 h. ago Mother, 57, is left permanently disabled after being forced to wait almost two hours for an ambulance when she suffered a stroke

Susan Harding, 57, has lost the use of the left side of her body after suffering a haemorrhagic stroke at her home in December last year, leaving her with a bleed on the brain.

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59 h. ago Man killed his dad and stored body inside cardboard box in garden shed

The 41-year-old was sentenced at Stafford Crown Court on Wednesday

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64 h. ago Strictly judge Craig Revel Horwood: ‘I thought my abusive father was going to kill me’

Craig Revel Horwood has opened up about fearing his father would kill him as he spoke of how he suffered abuse during his childhood.

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3 d. ago Craig Revel Horwood reveals he thought he’d be killed by abusive father

Craig Revel Horwood has opened up about fearing his father would kill him as he spoke of how he suffered abuse during his childhood.

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3 d. ago Man who killed his father, left his body in a cardboard box behind a shed and then used 67

Thomas Sykes, 41, from Burton-on-Trent, was today sentenced to 18 years and seven months behind bars for the murder of his 67-year-old father, Anthony Sykes.

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3 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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3 d. ago Man arrested on suspicion of murder after father, 53, killed in horror 'gas explosion' that demolished house in Worksop

Nottinghamshire Police said a 43-year-old man was arrested and questioned on suspicion of murder before being bailed.

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3 d. ago Funeral home owner 'left woman's body in back of hearse for more than a year'

Miles Harford was arrested after the body of a woman was found in the back of a hearse along with the cremated remains of up to 30 other people stashed throughout his rental property

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4 d. ago Killed, dismembered and scattered: the Honduran father and son who made a stand against illegal logging

The country is the most deadly to be an environmental activist – and the brutal murders of Juan Bautista Silva and Juan Antonio Hernández are the latest in a long line of violent acts against defendersAt about 6pm on Wednesday 26 February, Ana Luiza Hernández Raudelez saw her partner, Juan Bautista Silva, 70, receive a phone call. A land defender who had spent more than 20 years working for the local environment, Silva was preparing to leave on a motorcycle trip to photograph illegal logging near Las Botijas, in Comayagua, central Honduras, to support a complaint to the prosecutor’s office.As he was about to set off, Ana suggested he take their son, Juan Antonio Hernández, 20, with him, as his new mobile phone took better photos. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Harry Potter fans left gobsmacked by Ralph Fiennes 'unreal' body transformation

Ralph Fiennes treated fans to a sneak peek at his body transformation after posting two images of his built physique on social media and the response was as expected

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5 d. ago Journalist Ahmed Alnaouq: ‘It’s our duty to make Gaza’s stories immortal’

The Gaza-born, UK-based journalist, who has lost more than 20 family members in Israeli airstrikes, has taken pieces from an online platform he co-created for young Palestinians and collated them in a new book‘Gaza, it breaks my heart to see you in this state’: three stories from young Palestinian writersOn 22 October 2023, an Israeli airstrike hit Ahmed Alnaouq’s home in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza, killing 21 members of his family, including his 75-year-old father, two brothers, three sisters and all of their children.At the time, Alnaouq was living in London, where he works as a journalist and human rights activist. “It crushed me,” he says of the attack. Unable to return home, he could only watch helplessly from afar and grieve alone. Later, he tells me that it’s not anger or hate that consumes him now, but survivor’s guilt. “All the time I think: ‘Why? Why am I alive? Why wasn’t I killed with my family?’” Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Dad's fatal stabbing was 'just the beginning of our nightmare' say family as killer is allowed out

The family of Lewis Stone, who was killed in Borth in 2019, claim they have 'been treated disgracefully' after finding out their father's killer is to be allowed out on visits from the psychiatric unit where he is being held

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7 d. ago Man 'killed wife and kept dead body in car' as he went for job interview

Jorge Mares Raygoza, 47, has been charged with the murder of his wife Coral Llamas Sifuentes, 45, after he allegedly strangled her to death in a motel in Texas, US, and then left her body in the car

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7 d. ago My father threw out my box of memories then took his own life. How can I move on? | Ask Annalisa Barbieri

Your sadness at losing reminders of happier times may have been heightened by the traumatic loss of your dad• Every week Annalisa Barbieri addresses a problem sent in by a readerNot long before the Covid pandemic, my dad threw out my cardboard box of mementoes that I had stored in his garage for “safekeeping”: years’ worth of personal journals, Polaroids and photos with no negatives, love letters, all of my degree essays, reams of teenage poetry, etc – the classic priceless time capsule stuff that one looks forward to revisiting one day.It was one of his final acts before taking his own life, so it was a double whammy of bereavement in which my first loss was buried by the second. And, with the pandemic arriving shortly afterwards, it stayed buried for further years as, again, I was distracted by something else serious happening. But once that had passed, the original grief returned with a vengeance and has become an abiding sorrow that’s been difficult to shake off: the feeling tha...

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7 d. ago Woman who killed father in act of mercy gets suspended sentence

Lisa Davenport had been her father's sole carer

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8 d. ago Bernice King reflects on the Fair Housing Act, made law after her father's killing

Bernice King warns decades of work to reduce inequities in housing is at risk, as the Trump administration cuts funding for projects and tries to reduce funding for nonprofits that handle housing discrimination complaints

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8 d. ago Father killed mum and three children then uttered three chilling words

Damien Bendall, 32, has been handed a whole-life sentence after he admitted murdering his partner Terri Harris, 35, her daughter Lacey Bennett, 11, son John Paul Bennett, 13, and Lacey's friend Connie Gent, also 11, at the home they shared in Derby

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8 d. ago Oran McConville death: Britain’s Got Talent star dies, aged 18

Teenager was killed just six weeks after his father ‘suddenly’ died

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