16 h. ago Man who organised torture and killing of 'love rival' after plotting with victim's ex

John Belfield, 31, 'masterminded' the savage killing of Thomas Campbell, whose bloodied and near-naked body was found in the hallway of his Greater Manchester home.

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6 d. ago Man killed in Porth crash was an 'incredible' father with 'unwavering love' for his family

Ian Winder, 46, who died following a collision on the A4233, in Porth 'brought joy, comfort, and strength to his family and friends'

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7 d. ago Cocaine kingpin who made £2.5m a month and plotted murder of rival from his luxury Dubai villa is jailed for 32 years after being brought down by his own EncroChats

Dubai-based James Harding, 34, and his 'loyal right-hand man' Jayes Kharouti, 39, ran a vast £100million criminal empire.

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8 d. ago The chilling messages revealing how cocaine kingpin plotted rival's brutal murder...and the moment gang realised the police were on to them

EXCLUSIVE: Following their conviction at the Old Bailey trial, MailOnline has obtained EncroChat logs which reveal how they went about planning the hit.

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9 d. ago Woman who plotted to kill her celebrity hairstylist husband in love triangle with porn star sentenced

Monica Sementelli, 53, got life without parole Monday for planning the 2017 fatal stabbing of her husband Fabio Sementelli, 49

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9 d. ago Drug kingpins made £5m in ten weeks and plotted to murder rival

James Harding enjoyed lavish five-star hotels and drove Bugatti sports cars before their plot came crashing down

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9 d. ago Drug kingpin who plotted gangland murder from Dubai and smuggled £100m of cocaine into the UK is convicted

James Harding, 34, and his 'loyal right-hand man' Jayes Kharouti, 39, ran a vast criminal empire from Dubai.

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9 d. ago Drug kingpin who plotted gangland murder of rival from his luxury Dubai villa and smuggled £5m worth of cocaine into the UK is convicted after one of the biggest EncroChat investigations in history

James Harding, 34, and his 'loyal right-hand man' Jayes Kharouti, 39, ran a vast criminal empire from Dubai.

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3 w. ago Love Forms by Claire Adam review – the power of a mother’s loss

Forty years on, a Trinidadian woman has never stopped looking for the daughter she gave up for adoption, in a quietly devastating novelClaire Adam’s 2019 novel Golden Child was her debut, but it felt like the work of a master. It was tender, ravishing, shattering – you believed every word of it. The book had an effortless narrative authority that most first-time novelists would kill for.Love Forms is every bit as alive and convincing, and returns us to Trinidad, with its potent fizz of colour, heat and political instability. But unlike the earlier book, it’s also set partly in south London – the writer’s own home turf – and has a mother, rather than a father, at its heart. Continue reading...

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