3 h. ago Mother of woman strangled to death by boyfriend 'absolutely betrayed' by justice system

The family have demanded an urgent review of Tape’s sentence

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7 h. ago Mother of woman killed by boyfriend ‘absolutely betrayed’ by justice system

Linda Westcarr spoke of her devastation following the sentencing of Gogoa Lois Tape to a hospital order for the manslaughter of her daughter.

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12 h. ago Haunting final texts of mother who told her family she was going on holiday... only to secretly die in a Swiss euthanasia clinic: Friend reveals anguish that drove woman to take her own life

Maureen Slough, 58, of County Cavan, Ireland, sent a string of haunting final messages from inside the controversial Pegasos facility in Basel where she had quietly paid £13,000 to end her life.

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32 h. ago Chilling discoveries that led to Billy Dunlop's arrest as tragic case revisited in ITV drama

Sheridan Smith stars in ITV's new four-part series, I Fought The Law, as Ann Ming, whose daughter, Julie Hogg, was tragically strangled to death by Billy Dunlop

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35 h. ago 'She's under the bath! She's under the bath!': Devastating screams of the mother who found her daughter's body behind bath panel

Julie Hogg, 22, was strangled to death and sexually mutilated by her neighbour William 'Billy' Dunlop in 1989. He hid her body behind a bath panel where it was later discovered by her mother.

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3 d. ago Girlfriend laughs at army boyfriend so he strangles her to death

A huge search was launched for missing student Anitra Gunn, whose body was found in woodland

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4 d. ago Care home resident screamed 'he's trying to kill me' as roommate 'strangled him to death'

Jerome Babij was arrested and charged with second-degree murder on August 26 after following reports of an alleged altercation at a care home, according to police

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4 d. ago ‘We had to up the ante’: Robin Wright on her tense TV tale of incest and violence among London’s billionaires

The Girlfriend is a nail-biting drama that centres on a love triangle between a mother, her son and his girlfriend. Its director and co-stars take us behind the scenesA too-pure young man, training to be a doctor, scion of the wealthiest imaginable family, meets a smoking hot young woman, but is she who she seems? His mother thinks not. The quickest way to describe The Girlfriend is to say that it’s sort of perfect. The perspectives shift between that of Cherry, the girlfriend (Olivia Cooke), and that of Laura, the mother (Robin Wright, who also directs). Whoever’s take you are watching, that’s who you believe. Baroque events, blood and guts, flagrant lies – it all unfurls in exquisite interiors and idealised London street scenes.It is compulsive. I bit my nails to shreds. It’s not clear who’s the psychopath, but someone is – and the crisscrossing erotic tension gives it the inevitability of Greek tragedy. People this irresistible to one another never end up at peace. Continue readi...

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5 d. ago Families’ horror at funeral director who kept babies’ bodies at home

Woman barred from Leeds mortuaries after one mother said she found dead baby propped up ‘watching’ cartoonsA funeral director has been banned from working with hospitals in Leeds after a mother said she was left screaming when she found her dead baby propped up “watching” cartoons at the woman’s home.Amie Upton has been banned from NHS maternity wards and mortuaries in the city after keeping babies’ bodies at her house in circumstances that a grandmother of another baby compared to a horror film. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Kidnapped woman pushed off cliff to her death by 'brutal' mother and daughter

Mary Elizabeth Isbell's body was found at the bottom of a cliff in a picturesque national park two years after mother-daughter duo Loretta Kay Carr and Jessie Kelly allegedly murdered her

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9 d. ago 'I'm mortified by what my boyfriend did as he walked into our bedroom'

A woman was left absolutely terrified when her boyfriend walked into the bedroom after debuting a new look – and many people could relate to her priceless reaction

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9 d. ago When my birth mother rejected me, another woman’s words helped me heal | Corin Hirsch

I struggled to cope with her refusal to meet me, until a straight-talking judge gave me a new perspectiveSometimes we learn the deepest truths in the most quotidian moments. One afternoon when I was six, I watched a character give birth in an army tent in the sitcom M*A*S*H. I immediately rushed from the den into the kitchen with a very important question for my mother. “Did you give birth to me in a tent like that?” I blurted out, hoping to learn my origin story.Unexpectedly, my mother dashed from the room in tears. When she returned, she sat me down and broke the news I had somehow always known. “Your Uncle Ana brought you home from the hospital to Mommy and Daddy,” she said. “You’re adopted, which means we chose you.”Corin Hirsch is a writer who covers food, drink and travel Continue reading...

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1 week ago Mum charged after 'dead newborn baby concealed in Perth storm drain'

The body of the infant was found in a stormwater drain in Alexander Heights, Perth, this week and a woman - understood to be the tot's mother - has now been charged

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1 week ago Cannabis addicted boyfriend strangled and punched his girlfriend to death before driving around with her body for TWO hours

Gogoa Lois Tape attacked Kennedi Westcarr-Sabaroche, 25, for at least eight-minutes in Hackney, last April. The 28-year-old strangled and punched the helpless mother before propping up her body.

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1 week ago The woman who made Katie Price: Terminally ill mother Amy who's been her daughter's constant support, her damning verdict on Peter Andre and her fears for Princess

Katie Price expressed an interest in modelling from the age of 14 and her supportive mother Amy did everything she could to make her daughters dream come true.

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