9 h. ago Baroness Newlove, who became a leading campaigner for victims' rights after her husband Garry's brutal murder, dies after 'short illness' aged 63

Baroness Newlove, who became a leading campaigner for victims' rights after her husband was murdered by three youths, has died after a short illness.

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9 h. ago Baroness Helen Newlove who championed victims' rights after husband's murder has died

Baroness Helen Newlove used her platform to fight against the scourge of antisocial behaviour after her husband was kicked to death by yobs in front of his daughters

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39 h. ago One Aladdin Two Lamps by Jeanette Winterson review – freewheeling reflections on life, art and AI

One Thousand and One Nights is the framing device for the author’s pithy and thought provoking takes on everything from eugenics to trouser suitsIn the framing device that opens the Middle Eastern folk tales collected in One Thousand and One Nights, King Shahryar avenges his wife’s infidelity by ordering her execution and marrying a new virgin every night, having each of them beheaded by sunrise so they won’t have time to cheat. When he runs out of victims, the young Persian queen Shahrazad volunteers but stalls her own murder by telling the king one captivating tale after another – and those become the stories we’re reading.As Jeanette Winterson puts it in her new book – a dizzying whirligig of memoir, history, philosophy, politics and self-help, loosely tied to commentary on the Nights – Shahrazad’s feat of creativity “refuses the present emergency – the contrived drama of a powerful man”. The echo of life in the Trump era is deliberate...

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46 h. ago Eritrean migrant, 26, who drunkenly attacked security guards at his taxpayer

Samuel Million, 26, launched the assault after returning to his accommodation drunk in Bournemouth, Dorset in October last year.

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50 h. ago Man who stabbed woman's vagina in horrific misogynistic attack jailed

The defendant, who cannot be named for legal reasons, had 15 previous convictions and was on bail when he committed this brutal offence at a city centre flat in Dublin, Ireland

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52 h. ago Eritrean migrant, 26, who drunkenly attacked security guards at his taxpayer funded hotel is jailed

Samuel Million, 26, launched the assault after returning to his accommodation drunk in Bournemouth, Dorset in October last year.

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59 h. ago Birmingham murder: Katie Fox, 34, named as victim of horrific 'unprovoked' stabbing

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61 h. ago Rapist captured on CCTV moments before Glasgow attack jailed after string of sex offences

Mihai-Nicolae Patran was found guilty of rape, sexual assault and sexual exposure following a trial at the High Court in Glasgow.

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6 d. ago Man picked grandkids up from school after what he did to their parents

Derek Martin, 67, from Brighton was jailed for murder after a frenzied attack on his step-daughter Chloe Bashford and her husband Josh at their home - leaving their four children orphaned

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7 d. ago Scots knife thug who stabbed dog walker in crazed attack jailed

Paul Weller Aires, 42, has been jailed for seven years after he stabbed the 43-year-old victim on Teviot Crescent in Hawick.

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9 d. ago Toolbox Killers' sick torture and rape of teenage girls before brutal murders

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris became friends in prison and decided to join forces as they hunted female victims in a sinister van they nicknamed the 'Murder Mac'

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1 week ago Ministers were warned that jail which wrongly freed Ethiopian sex attack migrant had 'litany of issues and errors' over prisoner release

The error at HMP Chelmsford, in Essex, saw Hadush Kebatu freed when he should have been handed to immigration officers.

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1 week ago Inside the ‘House of Horrors’ mass murder case that rocked India – and may never be solved

Nearly two decades after the chilling discovery of mutilated bodies in drains behind a bungalow in a village near Delhi, India’s top court is now poised to overturn the last remaining conviction in the serial murder case. Speaking to Namita Singh, parents of the victims say they are losing hope in receiving justice

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1 week ago Evil Scots murderer who stabbed wife to death on New Year’s Day jailed for life

AN EVIL killer who murdered his wife in a "brutal" New Year's Day knife attack has been jailed for a minimum of 21 years. Mompati Dodo Isaacs murdered 33-year-old Keotshepile Naso Isaacs - known as Naso - at their home in North Berwick, East Lothian, in the early hours of January 1, 2024. The 39-year-old...

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1 week ago British man, 26, shot dead while on holiday on Caribbean island

A murder investigation has been launched after the victim was found dead

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1 week ago Man who stabbed wife nine times in 'brutal' New Year's Day attack jailed

Mompati Dodo Isaacs has been jailed for a minimum of 21 years for his wife’s murder

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1 week ago Husband who murdered wife in brutal New Year's Day knife attack jailed for life

Mompati Dodo Isaacs claimed he believed his spouse Keotshepile cheated on him as he repeatedly stabbed her on the head, neck and body.

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1 week ago Celia Imrie becomes the final murder victim on Celebrity Traitors as fan favourite is killed in plain sight by  ruthless Alan Carr

The traitors committed their final killing of the series on Thursday night as the penultimate episode saw Celia Imrie murdered in plain sight. 

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2 w. ago Afghan national charged after triple stabbing in west London

Afghan national charged after triple stabbing in west London - as murder victim named  Sky News

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2 w. ago Sex attack migrant mistakenly released from jail was given £500 to leave the country

The Ethiopian was found guilty of sexually assaulting a schoolgirl and a woman in Epping, Essex, just over a week after arriving in the UK on a small boat in June.

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