56 h. ago Woman appears in court charged with murder of Polish mother whose body was found buried in garden 15 years after she vanished

Anna Podedworna, 39, appeared before Southern Derbyshire magistrates this morning charged with the murder of Izabela Zablocka,

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63 h. ago ‘She lived without fear’: daughter of Chechen activist publishes book she vowed to pen after mother’s murder

Lana Estemirova promised to tell story of her mother, a renowned human rights activist. This month it is publishedLana Estemirova was 15 in 2009, when her mother, the renowned Chechen human rights activist Natalia Estemirova, was kidnapped and murdered. Bundled into a car as she walked to the bus stop on her way to work, she was driven out of town and then shot five times in the chest and head.The killing was widely seen as retribution for Estemirova’s fearless investigations of extrajudicial murders, kidnappings and human rights abuses in Chechnya, first by Russian soldiers and then by forces loyal to the Kremlin-appointed warlord, Ramzan Kadyrov. Nobody was ever prosecuted for the crime. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Woman is charged with murder after Polish mother's body was found buried in garden 15 years after she vanished

Anna Podedworna, 39, has been charged after the body of Polish mother, Izabela Zablocka, (pictured) was founrd in a garden in Derby by police 15 years after she vanished. 

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1 week ago Young mother died after being knocked off motorcycle by 4×4, murder trial told

Alana Armstrong, 25, died after the incident involving a Land Rover Discovery and an electric motorbike in Pleasley, Derbyshire, in November 2024.

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1 week ago Murder trial jury shown footage moments before mother allegedly rammed off bike

Keaton Muldoon is on trial accused of murdering Alana Armstrong, 25, on a country lane in Derbyshire.

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2 w. ago Mother and three children killed in London house fire named by police

Nusrat Usman, daughter Maryam Mikaiel and two sons Musa and Raees Usman died in Stonebridge

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2 w. ago Heroic neighbour saved two from house fire that killed mother and three children in north London

Victor Pedra, 33, said: ‘I saw people standing around watching huge flames but I had to act’

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2 w. ago Man arrested on suspicion of murder after mother is killed alongside her three children aged four, eight and 15 in horror house fire

Firefighters arrived to Stonebridge, Wembley, at 1:22am on Saturday morning after reports of a fire and worked for two hours to tackle the blaze. A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder.

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2 w. ago Man arrested on suspicion of murder as mother and her three children die in house fire

Man arrested on suspicion of murder as mother and her three children die in house fire  Sky News

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2 w. ago Man held on suspicion of murder after mother and children die in London fire

Man held on suspicion of murder after mother and children die in London fire  The Guardian

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2 w. ago Mother went ‘over whole car’ when 4×4 ploughed into motorbike, murder trial told

Alana Armstrong, 25, died when a vehicle collided with an electric motorcycle she was riding pillion on in Derbyshire in November last year.

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3 w. ago Murder detectives probe 'new sightings' of missing mother, 36, four months after she disappeared on shopping trip to Morrisons

Charlene Hobbs, 36, from the Riverside area of Cardiff, has been missing since July 24, 2024, after a trip to Morrisons with police treating her disappearance as murder.

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