55 h. ago Grandparents accused of toddler’s murder were ‘horrible’, mother tells court

Ethan Ives-Griffiths died in August 2021.

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5 d. ago Granddaughter speaks of how Louisa Dunne’s murder cast shadow over family

Mary Dainton told Bristol Crown Court in a victim impact statement how her mother never recovered from circumstances of her own mother’s murder.

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6 d. ago MLAs raise concerns over violence against women after Sarah Montgomery murder

A man is still being questioned over the murder of the pregnant mother-of-two.

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6 d. ago Grandfather accused of toddler’s murder says boy’s mother was ‘quick

Michael Ives, 47, and his wife Kerry, 46, deny the murder of two-year-old Ethan Ives-Griffiths.

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8 d. ago How a family’s beef wellington lunch ended with three dead and a mother on trial for murder

The key question in the Australian murder trial of Erin Patterson was how fatal death cap mushrooms got into the meal, Rachel Clun writes

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8 d. ago A fatal mistake that led to bloody murder of a young mother: How wannabe influencer tracked down his wife who was in hiding... before slaughtering her in the street

Tech-savvy Habibur Masum appeared to be embracing life in Britain after moving from Bangladesh to study for a masters in digital marketing in 2022.

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9 d. ago Woman, 21, becomes sixth person charged with murder of mother

Former shop worker Joanne Penney, 40, was killed on a doorstep when she was shot in the chest by an alleged crime gang in Talbot Green, south Wales

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1 week ago BBC racing's John Hunt says daughter 'saved his life' before tragic murder alongside her sister and mother

John Hunt's two daughters and wife were murdered in a crossbow and knife attack at their family home

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1 week ago Partner of woman found stabbed in Stoke Newington gas explosion is charged with her murder

Clifton George, 44, is charged with the murder of mother-of-two Annabel Rook, 46, and also faces an allegation of arson with intent to endanger life

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1 week ago Scots woman 'tortured' by thought relatives knew more about mum's murder

Gina McGavin thinks others may have known more than they let on about the murder of her mother Mary McLaughlin.

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2 w. ago Grandparents took toddler to Tesco instead of doctor after he collapsed

A murder trial was told Ethan Ives Griffiths' grandparents and mother had been 'grossly neglectful' in their care

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2 w. ago Tributes paid to 'loveliest person' churchgoing mother who was found strangled at her home

Izzy Knight, 32, was discovered by police at the semi-detached home she shared in Northamptonshire with husband Paul and their two young daughters.

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2 w. ago Driver ‘did not know’ he fatally struck young mother off bike, murder trial told

Keaton Muldoon, 23, is on trial accused of murdering Alana Armstrong by ramming her off an electric bike in Derbyshire.

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last month 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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last month ‘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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