9 h. ago Terrifying moment elderly woman attacks neighbour with flare gun in retirement community

A 76-year-old woman allegedly attacked her neighbour while he was walking his dog in their retirement community, and is now been arrested and faces a charge of second-degree assault

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3 d. ago Nursing home staff 'let elderly woman freeze to death alone in room amid storm'

Cynthia ‘Cindy’ Pierce, 73, died from hypothermia after a window was left open in her room by members of staff at a nursing home in Texas during a severe winter storm that cut power to the facility

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6 d. ago Pensioner, 80, who attacked his OAP neighbour with a hammer then went home, grabbed a knife and stabbed him to death is jailed for 22 years

Peter Kindell, 80, battered his 76-year-old neighbour after setting him up in the lobby of a block of flats in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, at around 4.30pm on January 3.

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6 d. ago Pensioner, 80, who attacked his OAP neighbour with a hammer then went home, grabbed a knife and stabbed him to death is jailed for 22 years 

Peter Kindell, 80, battered his 76-year-old neighbour after setting him up in the lobby of a block of flats in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, at around 4.30pm on January 3.

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6 d. ago Pensioner who died after 'violent sexual assault' in Lancashire hospital was 'unlawfully killed'

"For someone to assault a vulnerable, relatively elderly woman in a hospital setting is really quite difficult to believe"

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6 d. ago Israeli military database indicates only a quarter of Gaza detainees are fighters

Elderly woman with Alzheimer’s, medical workers and children among 6,000 Palestinians heldOnly one in four detainees from Gaza are identified as fighters by Israel’s military intelligence, classified data indicates, with civilians making up the vast majority of Palestinians held without charge or trial in abusive prisons.Those jailed for long periods without charge or trial include medical workers, teachers, civil servants, media workers, writers, sick and disabled people and children. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Elderly woman loses over £5000 to online scammer posing as fake astronaut in distress

Victim was targeted in what police describe as romance scam, echoing a rise in online fraud worldwide

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7 d. ago Elderly Japanese woman loses over £5000 to online scammer posing as astronaut in distress

Victim was targeted in what police describe as romance scam, echoing a rise in online fraud worldwide

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8 d. ago Woman duped out of thousands by fake astronaut who was 'in need of oxygen'

According to police, the elderly Japanese woman met the scammer in July on social media, who said he was an astronaut.

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9 d. ago Sick boy, 13, is caught sexually groping elderly woman on her own porch

Jan Fletcher, 78, was groped by a 13-year-old teen while sitting on her porch in Louisville, Kentucky Saturday afternoon after he asked her for directions to a nearby park.

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9 d. ago Elderly woman, 89, hit and killed by recycling lorry as driver arrested

An 89-year-old woman has died in Llandudno, north Wales, after being hit by a recycling lorry - the driver was arrested and taken into custody while police taped off the scene

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1 week ago Terrifying moment lone child nearly falls off rail at Hersheypark as terrified adults try to help

A young boy was captured walking along the monorail at Pennsylvania's Hersheypark on Saturday after getting separated from his parents.

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2 w. ago British woman loses £1700 to elderly 'zimmerframe bandit' at Mallorca airport

The man, said to be in his 70s, allegedly targetted tourists as they arrived at Palma de Mallorca Airport to begin their holidays, using a walking frame to hide his ill-gotten gains

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2 w. ago British tourist robbed by 'Zimmerframe bandit' at Majorca Airport, loses £1700

A British woman was targeted by the elderly thief as she arrived at Majorca's Palma airport, with the 70 year old 'zimmerframe bandit' making off with £1700 worth of her belongings

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2 w. ago Man found guilty of murdering neighbour in frenzied attack at east London block of flats

Raish Ahmed, 50, was stabbed to death by his neighbour in east London

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2 w. ago Postman cleared of causing serious injury to elderly woman by dangerous driving

The 73-year-old sustained multiple fractures when she was knocked down by Alan Russell's van in Cumbernauld.

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2 w. ago The Thursday Murder Club review – Richard Osman bestseller provides solid, star

There’s much to enjoy in this adaptation of Osman’s ingenious book, with Helen Mirren, Ben Kingsley, Celia Imrie and Pierce Brosnan as the senior-citizen X-MenRichard Osman’s phenomenal bestseller from 2020 was an ingenious, accessible, good-natured book, which helped rebrand the English detective novel as “cosy crime”, started a celeb-copycat publishing trend and, being about four elderly people in a retirement community rising above ageist condescension to solve crimes, spoke eloquently to the shut-in frustrations and escapist yearnings of the Covid age.Now it has been adapted as a funny and likable, if slightly bland, comedy-drama for Netflix, which as one character amusingly and pre-emptively comments, feels just like a Sunday teatime TV crime drama. There is nothing new about these nostalgist leanings: Agatha Christie has after all been a solid film and TV export for more than half a century. Screenwriters Katy Brand and Suzanne Heathcote adapt the novel and director Chris Colu...

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2 w. ago Girl, 5, assaulted by strange man with elderly woman at major UK train station

British Transport Police say the incident happened at approximately 4:30pm on Saturday, July 12 and describe the man as in his 30s with scruffy dark hair and a slim build

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2 w. ago Child assaulted by stranger at Glasgow Central as police hunt man 'who got train to Dalmuir'

Police say the child was assaulted by an unknown male who was accompanied by an elderly woman on Saturday July 12.

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2 w. ago Kate Middleton 'grimaced' at Meghan Markle in tense moment that terrified Harry

All eyes were on the 'Fab Four' as they made their first joint appearance together in February - but behind the scenes relations between Meghan and Kate were already strained...

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