22 h. ago I hoped our pretty new nanny was the answer to our prayers after my mother's tragic death... then she killed my father and I discovered the horrifying truth

For as long as she could remember, Sarah Corbett Lynch knew that she mustn't mention her birth mother in front of her stepmum Molly.

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23 h. ago He hit his friend on the head with a hammer as he lay sleeping

Thomas Hodges, 38, left his victim Jordan Ivins with a bleed on the brain and multiple wounds to the back of his head

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66 h. ago Brother of Notting Hill Carnival killer who knifed mother to death in front of her daughter, three, is jailed for attacking police officer at the festival

Shakeil Thibou stabbed Cher Maximen with a zombie knife during last year's edition of the event. At the same time, his brothers Sheldon and Shaeim assaulted PC Oliver Mort.

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5 d. ago Mother and daughter, six, are killed after horror crash involving car and a van

They have been named locally as Natalie McLaughlin and daughter, Ella. Ella died in the collision, which occurred on the R240 at Glentogher, Carndonagh, on Wednesday evening.

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5 d. ago Appalling moment 'callous' speeding driver in stolen Porsche kills boy, two, and runs away

Sharjeel Shahzad, 30, had already been banned from getting behind the wheel and was awaiting a court date for dangerous driving when he caused the death of toddler Shehbaz Singh in the Porsche Cayenne.

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5 d. ago Colombian 'killer smashed pensioner over head with hammer 13 times before cutting up his body and shoving it in suitcase'

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT. Yostin Andres Mosquera, 35, is accused of murdering couple Albert Alfonso, 62, and Paul Longworth, 71, at their flat in London on July 8 last year.

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6 d. ago A woman lied to deputies right before her son killed one of them, South Carolina authorities say

Authorities in South Carolina have arrested the mother of a man who killed a deputy during a shootout

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7 d. ago Killing Eve star says playing 'controlling' mother in new film was 'easier'

Renowned Irish actress Fiona Shaw stars in Hot Milk, an adaptation of Deborah Levy's 2016 novel, as a mother with a mysterious illness, who is taken to a seaside Spanish town in search of a cure

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8 d. ago ‘I was constantly scared of what she was going to do’: the troubled life and shocking death of Immy Nunn

Two years after Immy killed herself, her mother Louise is still trying to understand how she found her way to a pro-suicide forum – and a man accused of supplying more than 1,000 packages of poisonJust a few hours before she ended her life, Immy Nunn seemed happy. She and her mother, Louise, had been shopping and had lunch. It was the final day of 2022 and Immy, who was 25, appeared positive about the new year. She talked about taking her driving test and looking for a new flat. She was excited about the opportunities her profile on TikTok was bringing her; known as Deaf Immy, she had nearly 800,000 followers, attracted by her honest and often funny videos about her deafness and her mental health.By the early hours of the next morning, Immy was dead, having taken poison she bought online, almost certainly after discovering it through an online pro-suicide forum. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Children pay tribute to ‘devoted’ mother killed in alleged assault

Nila Patel died after an assault alleged to have taken place following a road traffic collision.

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9 d. ago Granddaughter of Louisa Dunne never believed her murderer would be caught

Ryland Headley has been convicted of raping and killing the mother-of-two in 1967.

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1 week ago 'I was brainwashed by my monster dad who ate his girlfriend'

WARNING, DISTRESSING CONTENT: Jamie-Lee Arrow was just nine years old when her father, Isakin Jonsson, killed and ate parts of her 'second mother'

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1 week ago These are the horrifying hidden signs of a coercive or abusive relationship

In July 2024, Kyle Clifford broke into the home of his ex-girlfriend Louise Hunt, stabbed her mother Carol - the wife of BBC racing commentator John Hunt - then killed his daughters Louise and Hannah.

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1 week ago Mother's fury as British graduate's 'killer' will not face justice after she was shot dead at her father's US home

A manslaughter investigation was launched in February after Lucy Harrison, 23, from Warrington, Cheshire, was killed at the house in Prosper, Texas, on January 10.

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1 week ago LIVE FOREVER by John Robb: How a hammer to the head and Like a Virgin kicked off Liam Gallagher's career

We all know about their infamous feuds with Blur, the band and between themselves. But in his new book, John Robb lifts the lid on what it is really like being a Gallagher.

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2 w. ago Inquest opens into deaths of mother and three children killed in house fire

Nusrat Usman, 43, daughter Maryam Mikaiel, 15, and sons Musa Usman, eight, and Raees Usman, four, died after the fire on May 24.

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2 w. ago Gloria Estefan: ‘My abuser told me he’d kill my mother if I told anyone’

The Cuban-American superstar talks to Fiona Sturges about her childhood abuser and her father’s disappearance, the ‘inhumanity’ of Trump’s America, and why her new album is her masterpiece... plus why she’s catching up on ‘Stranger Things’

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2 w. ago Tragic final words of Ukrainian girl, seven, killed by Iranian missile while undergoing cancer treatment in Israel, are revealed

Artem Buryk was on the frontline when he learnt his only child, Anastasia - affectionately dubbed Nastya - and her 30-year-old mother, Maria Pashkurova were caught up in the blast.

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2 w. ago Woman admits trying to smother elderly mother with pillow in hospital bed

A court heard Susan Hardwick carried out an ‘attempted mercy killing’ to stop her mother being transferred to another hospital for palliative care.

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2 w. ago Stoke Newington: Family in tribute to mother killed before blast

Stoke Newington: Family in tribute to mother killed before blast  BBC

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