17 h. ago Woman 'wakes up in Paris hotel with man raping her' after airline put her in hotel room with a stranger when flight was cancelled

'During the night, the German woman left the room and I was woken up with the naked man on top of me, kissing my neck, holding me down, trying to rape me,' the woman, a consultant, said.

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49 h. ago 'I escaped notorious killers Fred and Rose West but the word evil didn't cross my mind'

Kathleen Richards was just 17 years old when she lodged at 25 Cromwell Street. She has now published a spine-chilling memoir about surviving the so-called 'House of Horrors'

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3 d. ago ‘I felt like the walls were closing in. All I could see was Fred West’s face’: how one woman escaped Britain’s worst serial killers

When Kathleen Richards rented a room at 25 Cromwell Street, she quickly realised the couple who owned it had a dark side. But even after their arrest, there was something about her 15 months at the house that she could never tell anyone – until nowKathleen Richards knows how lucky she is to be alive. In 1979, she woke up in bed to find the serial killer Fred West on top of her. It was by no means the first time West had assaulted the 17-year-old, but it was the last. This time, she managed to escape from the room she was renting at 25 Cromwell Street, perhaps Britain’s most notorious address, where Fred and Rose West raped, tortured and murdered so many girls and young women. Fred West took his own life in January 1995 while on remand, charged with 12 murders. Rose West was convicted of 10 murders later that year and is serving a whole-life sentence.In her own way, Richards has also been serving a life sentence. Today, she is a youthful, likable and traumatised 65-year-old. How...

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3 d. ago Naked woman, 22, found in only a dog collar after escaping killer's sex dungeon

WARNING, DISTRESSING CONTENT: Cynthia Vigil was found naked apart from an iron dog collar and a set of chains, and begged for help after being held captive and raped for days in a killer's sex dungeon

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3 d. ago Murderer who dragged woman’s naked body into his shed after killing her faces at least 20 years behind bars

Christopher Barlow killed Mariann Borocz at his home in Bolton

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3 d. ago Naked woman, 22, escapes killer's sex dungeon before cops find unimaginable horrors

Naked apart from an iron dog collar and a set of chains, a young woman who escaped after being held captive by the ‘Toy Box Killer’ led police to the house where she was tortured - what they discovered there was horrifying

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4 d. ago Killer murdered woman then left her naked body in his shed for 10 days

Christopher Barlow faces a life sentence for murdering Mariann Borocz

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4 d. ago Man guilty of murdering woman found dead in his shed after huge search

Christopher Barlow faces a life sentence for murdering Mariann Borocz

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1 week ago Man 'panicked' and dragged woman's naked body to his shed but says he 'didn't murder her', court hears

Christopher Barlow, 62, told a jury he found Mariann Borocz, 55, dead in his kitchen after the pair returned to his home in Bolton when they met at a shop nearby.

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1 week ago Man admits 'panicking' and dragging woman's naked body into his shed

Christopher Barlow denies murdering Mariann Borocz

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2 w. ago 'Devil in the Ozarks' killer spent months planning elaborate escape and stealing tools

A former police boss behind bars managed to escape after he spent months gathering supplies to make a fake police uniform and it actually worked – until he was caught just two miles away

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2 w. ago Woman 'runs into street naked' after sunbed sparks tanning salon fire

Extraordinary scenes after a fire broke out at Ania’s Tanning and Beauty on Wood Green High Street just after 2.50pm yesterday

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