37 h. ago US hitwoman in niqab disguise guilty of conspiracy to murder in Birmingham

Aimee Betro became embroiled in a plot to kill a man, but the handgun jammed

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37 h. ago US hitwoman who flew to UK found guilty of niqab disguise murder plot

Aimee Betro became embroiled in a plot to kill a man, but the handgun jammed

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61 h. ago Jury given majority direction in trial of US woman accused of murder plot

Aimee Betro, 45, denies any involvement in an attempt to shoot a businessman’s son in Birmingham in 2019.

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62 h. ago Three men to stand trial over brutal 2002 murder of Glasgow man Darren Birt

Darren Birt was found in the street seriously injured in August 2002, and later died in hospital.

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4 d. ago Dentist slowly killed wife by poisoning smoothies and tried to recruit daughter to cover tracks

Colorado dentist James Craig has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole after being found guilty of fatally poisoning his wife Angela

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5 d. ago Mushroom poisoner Erin Paterson's bids to kill ex with poison curry and cookies

Mushroom poisoner Erin Paterson was accused of lacing a chicken curry, cookies, and a pasta Bolognese she gave her ex husband with poison - years before killing her in-laws with a beef Wellington

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5 d. ago Revealed at last: The dramatic footage of the very moment Erin Patterson sealed her fate as she told lie after lie to detectives

It was the moment Erin Patterson had been dreading in the years leading up to her epic murder trial. 

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5 d. ago What the jury wasn't allowed to hear in the Erin Patterson trial: suspicions and mystery illnesses

Material and claims the jury in Australia’s mushroom lunch murder trial wasn’t allowed to hear can be reported after a suppression order was liftedFive key moments in the murder trial of Australia’s mushroom lunch cookErin Patterson’s hospital visit – and what the beef wellingtons really looked like: mushroom murder exhibits revealedSimon Patterson told his father, Don, and other family members that he suspected his estranged wife, Erin Patterson, had been trying to poison him before she invited his parents and his aunt and uncle to a fatal beef wellington lunch, according to evidence heard in a pre-trial hearing.One argument heard in court, but not able to be revealed to the jury in Erin Patterson’s triple murder trial, involved police suspicions that she might have previously used rat poison in an alleged attempt to kill Simon.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Jury retires in trial of US woman accused of taking part in murder conspiracy

Aimee Betro, 45, denies being part of a failed assassination plot in which a person wearing a niqab fired a gun at a man in Birmingham.

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7 d. ago I waited 40 years for justice for my sister. An unthinkable request from the culprit's daughter and a dark DNA twist could shatter our peace

Cindy French repeatedly had to get up and leave the trial of the man charged with her sister's murder. He was convicted 40 years after her body was found.

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7 d. ago Luigi Mangione is granted major perk while waiting in jail ahead of his murder trial

Mangione is accused of murdering Thompson, a 50-year-old father-of-two, outside a Manhattan hotel while he was attending a work conference on December 4, 2024.

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8 d. ago Luigi Mangione allowed laptop in prison ahead of murder trial: judge

Mangione’s attorneys want accued killer to be able to prepare for upcoming CEO murder trial

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8 d. ago Voices: I felt mad after giving birth – but even I wouldn’t do what Calvin Harris has done

Following his son’s birth, the DJ has shared graphic photos of his wife’s placenta and a jar of protein pills he made from it. Victoria Richards, who did something gory with her own child’s umbilical cord, says this is a ritual too far

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9 d. ago Teen thugs beat vulnerable homeless man to death and laughed as he lay in street

Two of the three teens, Connor and Brandon Doran, who beat the rough sleeper to death with a friend, were arrested at the same time as their older brother was awaiting trial for a different murder.

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9 d. ago Teenage thugs beat rough sleeper to death and laughed as he lay in street

Connor and Brandon Doran, then aged 17 and 14, beat a rough sleeper to death with a friend and were arrested at the same time as their older brother was awaiting trial for a different murder

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3 w. ago The Liverpool gangster so violent that prison guards are afraid to look him in the eye: Brutal crimes of notorious enforcer who scalped woman and slashed his OWN throat while on trial for murder

EXCLUSIVE: He was an enforcer for Vincent Coggins - boss of the hated Huyton Firm - and has convictions for a string of heinous crimes.

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4 w. ago Teen describes moment she was choked by father in 'attempted honor killing' after refusing arranged marriage

Fatima Ali, 18, testified against her parents Ihsan Ali, 44, and mother Zahraa Subhi Mohsin Ali, 40, at their attempted murder trial. They are accused of trying to strangle her in a Muslim 'honor killing'.

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4 w. ago Mum died after husband 'poisoned shakes' as eerie Google search 'gave him away'

Prosecutors say that James Craig, a dentist from Colorado, was having an affair at the time of his wife's death and hoped to cash out on her life insurance policy as he struggled with financial woes

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4 w. ago Colorado dentist wipes his crocodile tears as murder trial hears why he poisoned his wife's protein shakes

Father-of-six James Craig is accused of using lethal concoctions including tetrahydrozoline, an ingredient used in eye drops, to murder his wife of 23 years Angela Craig

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4 w. ago Teen 'grinned' before 'stabbing victim, 18, through heart' with Rambo knife

Noah Smedley "did absolutely nothing wrong" and did "nothing to deserve what happened to him" the court heard during a murder trial over the December 28 killing

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