7 h. ago Psychiatric patient who escaped secure unit and beat church warden, 86, to death with a golf umbrella is jailed

David Parish, 38, randomly attacked Beryl Purdy, 86, with the large golf umbrella he had taken from her porch on March 27, 2023.

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9 h. ago Woman learns fate after killing husband and texting mum four chilling words

A woman texted her mother four chilling words after she brutally stabbed her 'caring' husband in the neck and killed him - Christine Kekkonen was jailed this week

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9 h. ago Killer wife who stabbed her husband in the neck before texting her mother 'I've done something awful' is jailed for life

Christine Kekkonen, 37, knifed Henri Kekkonen, 41, at their home in Baltonsborough, Somerset in May last year.

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14 h. ago Up to 43,000 criminals a year set to avoid jail under Labour's soft

A new sentencing review already been accepted 'in principle' by Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood could see tens of thousands of offenders avoid jail each year, official data shows.

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14 h. ago Patient who absconded from psychiatric unit jailed for killing pensioner

David Parish, 38, attacked Beryl Purdy with a large golf umbrella he had taken from her porch and inflicted fatal head injuries

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43 h. ago 'A slap in the face for victims': Fury at Labour plans to allow killers, rapists and domestic abusers out of jail earlier in bid to ease prison overcrowding

An independent sentencing review has called for criminals convicted of serious violence or sex offences to win their freedom after serving half their jail term.

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50 h. ago Violent offenders including killers and rapists will be let out of jail one third EARLIER under plan set to be adopted by Labour

Criminals convicted of serious violence or sex offences could win their freedom after serving half their jail term, rather than at the current three quarters point - a one third reduction.

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52 h. ago Scissor killer seeks ban on biological males in women's jails

Jayney Sutherley was acquitted of transphobic abuse of trans murderer Alex Baker - who is still being held in women's jail despite being biologically male

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68 h. ago Drug plot car chase crooks jailed for 33 years after young woman killed in crash

Arslan Sajid was behind the wheel of a Mercedes which hit the back of a Vauxhall Vectra driven by Amy Rose Wilson in Falkirk on July 29, 2023.

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4 d. ago Woman, 52, who knifed her partner and left him to die on their bed before telling police he had killed himself is jailed 16 years

Joanna Wronska, 52, from Pentre Gwyn in Caia Park, Wrexham, stabbed and killed her partner Marcin Koziol in a 'cruel and violent attack' on October, 23, 2023.

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4 d. ago Scissor killer cleared over trans prison row after court hears of murderers' jail shower sex

Killer hairdresser Jayney Sutherley was cleared of a four-year transphobic abuse campaign.

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5 d. ago Haunting 12 words of mum who killed own kids and has men fawning over her in jail

Sadistic child killer Susan Smith, who drowned her own sons in a lake, has engaged in several romantic relationships with men who send her money, despite being inside one of the US' toughest prisons

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6 d. ago REVEALED: How Southport killer's prison security was relaxed before his attack on a guard

Locked in a cell behind a see-through, reinforced Perspex door, Axel Rudakubana 's every move was watched around the clock.

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6 d. ago 'Drug mule' Bella Culley is locked up in sledgehammer killer’s Georgia jail after Brit teen's arrest

Bella May Culley is locked up at Women's Prison No.5 in Rustavi, south of capital Tbilisi, Georgia — which is understood to be home to double murderer Magda Papidze

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7 d. ago Ten people break out of New Orleans jail, including man convicted of killings

Local, state and federal officials launch ‘full-scale’ search and warn people who escaped are ‘armed and dangerous’Ten people in custody at the New Orleans jail, including a man convicted of four killings, escaped early on Friday morning.The escapes prompted local, state and federal officials to launch a “full-scale search operation” and warn community members to be on the lookout for “armed and dangerous” individuals.This article was amended on 16 May 2025 to update the number of people who escaped as well as how many had been caught, based on newer information. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Eleven people break out of New Orleans jail, including man convicted of killings

Local, state and federal officials launch ‘full-scale’ search and warn escapers are ‘armed and dangerous’Eleven people in custody at the New Orleans’s jail, including a man convicted of four killings, escaped early on Friday morning.The escapes prompted local, state and federal officials to launch a “full-scale search operation” and warn community members to be on the lookout for “armed and dangerous” individuals. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Man who killed woman in front of daughter at Notting Hill Carnival jailed

Shakeil Thibou claimed the death of Cher Maximen was an accident.

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8 d. ago The innocent man wrongly locked up for murder for 38 YEARS who was cruelly denied parole...after he refused to say he was guilty of a crime he did not commit

Peter Sullivan spent 38 years in jail for a murder he didn't commit but the Parole Board turned him down for release just three months ago after he said he 'maintains his innocence'

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9 d. ago ‘Cheeky, kind and full of life’: Mum pays tribute to boy, seven, killed in drugs lab explosion as man jailed

Reece Galbraith jailed for 14 years after explosion in Newcastle terraced street that killed two peopleA man operating a cannabis drugs lab which caused an explosion in a terraced street has been jailed for 14 years for the deaths of two people, including a seven-year-old boy.The boy, Archie York, was asleep in the flat above the drugs lab being run by Reece Galbraith, 33, when the blast happened in the Benwell area of Newcastle in the early hours of 16 October 2024. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Killer jailed for life over 'ferocious' murder on homeless man in park

Joshua Carroll left Headley Thomas with serious head injuries, which he later died from.

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