5 h. ago Father is jailed for life for murdering his premature son in hospital by snapping his neck as nurses stood just yards away

Daniel Gunter, 27, inflicted catastrophic injuries to the head, neck, legs and jaw of 14-day-old Brendon Staddon at Yeovil District Hospital in Somerset on March 5 last year.

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5 h. ago Dad crushed premature son's skull in special care baby unit and then went outside for a fag

Daniel Gunter inflicted 'catastrophic injuries' on his two-week-old son Brendon Staddon before walking out of the hospital for a cigarette, leaving nurses desperately trying to save the infant

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3 d. ago My mother was shot by the police – and that bullet changed everything

Lee Lawrence was 11 when his mother, Cherry Groce, was paralysed during a botched police raid. It was the end of his childhood and the start of his fight for her life and legacyWhen Lee Lawrence’s son, Brandon, picked him up from hospital after a minor operation recently, Brandon thought he saw a car following them. Lawrence looked round and told his son he didn’t think it was anything to worry about. But then the car – which turned out to be an undercover police vehicle – put its siren on. It overtook them and did a hard stop. “I expected to see guns come out next,” says Lawrence. “I thought: ‘What the hell is going on?’ I got upset. My son was trying to calm me down, because I was thinking: ‘How could this be happening to my son?’”Lawrence was 11 when his mother, Cherry Groce, was shot and paralysed in 1985 by an armed police officer during a botched raid on her home. Community fury over Groce’s shooting would spark a two-day uprising in Brixton, south London. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Newborn baby holds contraceptive coil that stopped mum from getting pregnant

An IUD (intrauterine device), also known as a copper coil, is 99% effective in preventing pregnancy, but one baby beat the odds and was pictured victoriously holding the tiny device shortly after being born

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4 d. ago Team Europe star won Ryder Cup with son in hospital as he gives emotional update

Sepp Straka was forced to miss the BMW PGA Championship earlier this month after his son, Thomas, was born prematurely and remains in hospital

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6 d. ago Boy, 5, 'beheaded in front of mum by missing man' in horror home invasion

Vikas, a five-year-old boy, was reportedly beheaded at home in India by a man who ran into the house - his mum was also injured as she tried to stop him

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8 d. ago Tangled love life leaves relatives fighting for huge sum in wealthy man’s will

RELATIVES of a man who left a £2.7million fortune but had no children or will are fighting for his riches. And the battle for McDonald Noel’s huge estate centres on his father’s tangled love life. Unmarried McDonald, who died in 2018 aged 84, emigrated from Trinidad to London in 1960. He made his £2.7million fortune...

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9 d. ago Bachelor’s £2.7m fortune sparks High Court DNA battle over heirs

McDonald Noel died in 2018, leaving a substantial fortune unclaimed

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1 week ago Baby son ‘not safe’ in hospital where he died, mother tells inquest

Tommy Kneebone was seven-months-old when he died in the early hours of January 21 2023 at Tunbridge Wells Hospital in Pembury, Kent.

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1 week ago Dad and baby killed in horror crash with mum and son fighting for their lives

A dad and his daughter sadly died in a tragic car crash just days after the family moved from Wales to Poland - the mum and son are fighting for their lives in hospital

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2 w. ago Mum's Universal Credit stopped a week after death of baby son

A 21-year-old woman has been left feeling 'like she wasn't a human' after her Universal Credit was stopped just a week after she lost her baby son

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4 w. ago Mum 'stopped at McDonald's' on way to take dying son to hospital

Vanessa Esquivel, 27, allegedly left her dying 15-month-old baby in the back of her car for more than two hours in Dallas as temperatures soared above 35C outside

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last month Mother's horror as son, 12, is hospitalised after overdosing on Tyson Fury's caffeine gum

A mother from Swindon in England has shared her terror when her son was hospitalised after eating 50 of Tyson Fury's chewing gums.

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last month Mother caught on hospital CCTV subjecting toddler son to unimaginable act

Mum Alexandra Marie Frost will now serve 10 years behind bars after devastating CCTV footage confirmed hospital staff's worst suspicions about the treatment of her two-year-old son

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