18 h. ago 'Wholesale failure' to stop Southport killer carrying out one of UK's 'most egregious crimes'

Chairman Sir Adrian Fulford said the Southport inquiry will identify changes to protect the most vulnerable from other "horrors" following the murder of three girls at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class

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20 h. ago Southport child killer Axel Rudakubana has name banned from public inquiry into tragedy

Bebe King, Elsie Dot Stancombe and Alice da Silva Aguiar died at the hands of Axel Rudakubana last summer and he is now serving a minimum of 52 years behind bars

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20 h. ago Southport child killings were one of 'most egregious crimes' in UK history

The public inquiry into last July's horrific murders at a Taylor Swift-themed dance event began in Liverpool today. A minute's silence was held for the three schoolgirl victims

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20 h. ago Southport inquiry to examine ‘wholesale failure’ to prevent attack

Murder of three young girls at a holiday club was ‘far from unforseeable’, says inquiry chairThe inquiry into the Southport attack will examine the “wholesale failure” of multiple institutions to prevent “one of the most egregious crimes in our country’s history”, its chair has said in his opening remarks.Sir Adrian Fulford said the murder of three girls appeared “far from being an unforeseeable catastrophic event” given Axel Rudakubana’s well-known obsession with extreme violence. Continue reading...

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20 h. ago Southport inquiry will examine one of ‘most egregious crimes’ in UK history

A public inquiry into the horrific attack, which claimed the lives of Alice da Silva Aguiar, Bebe King and Elsie Dot Stancombe, has been opened

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42 h. ago 'Most gruesome case in British history' dissected in true crime documentary hitting screens this week

A serial killer who murdered three women will have his twisted case dissected in a new true crime documentary on a streaming platform this week.

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8 d. ago Murderland by Caroline Fraser review – what was behind the 1970s serial killer epidemic?

A compulsive new history suggests the crimes of Ted Bundy et al were – at least partly – down to the air they breathedIn 1974, the year Caroline Fraser turned 13, Ted Bundy committed his first confirmed murders. Bundy was handsome, charming, extremely intelligent and sociopathic – “a sexual virus masquerading as a person”. There is persuasive evidence that he began killing much earlier but never this gluttonously. Almost all of his victims had long brown hair, parted in the middle. Sometimes he broke into the women’s houses while they slept, or snatched them off the street. Sometimes he would put on a sling or plaster cast and lure them into his car to help with some fabricated task. If one refused, he tried another, convinced that he would never be caught because they would never be missed. “I mean, there are so many people,” he reasoned. “It shouldn’t be a problem.” Fraser lived on Mercer Island, Washington, near Bundy’s first hunting grounds. Recalling the moment he was first cha...

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8 d. ago Paedophile who raped children in Scots care homes caged for 15 years

Edward Stanton, 73, who has a prolific history of committing child sex abuse crimes, has been caged again.

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3 w. ago History is repeating itself in my hometown and it’s terrifying to watch

Like everywhere in Northern Ireland, Ballymena has suffered its share of atrocities. Now it’s happening all over again, writes Kate Devlin

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4 w. ago How crime boss Jamie Daniel's death led to fresh violence in long

Crime Reporter Norman Silvester's series on the history of Scotland's notorious gangland war today examines the death of crime boss Jamie Daniel and how it led to a fresh wave of violence.

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4 w. ago How botched hits on gangster Kevin “Gerbil” Carroll led to shocking Asda shooting

Crime reporter Norman Silvester's three-part series on the history of Scotland's gangland war today charts the rise and violent death of Kevin "Gerbil" Caroll.

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