3 h. ago The harrowing life of a man whose daughter was murdered by her adoptive father

Richard Jenkins, 51, was the biological father of Elsie Scully-Hicks who was just 18-months-old when she was murdered by her adoptive father Matthew Scully-Hicks.

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37 h. ago Emma Caldwell's mum warns she may die before inquiry into daughter's murder

Margaret Caldwell, 77, is calling for pressure to be placed on authorities to go ahead with a public inquiry into the failures with the investigation of her daughter, Emma Caldwell's murder.

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48 h. ago Emma Caldwell's mum fears she'll die before inquiry into daughter's murder case is held

Speaking exclusively to the Sunday Mail Margaret Caldwell has demanded the Solicitor General remove all barricades that stand in the way of truth and justice.

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7 d. ago Task review – Mark Ruffalo’s druggy kidnap drama is so bleak it’s downright manipulative

This box-ticking exercise from the maker of the exceptional Mare of Easttown has bloody shootouts, bags of fentanyl and bodies – but very soon it becomes inescapably boringDo you feel it? There is a ripple in the firmament, a vibration in the foundations, a bracing of the cosmos yes, Mark Ruffalo is preparing to Act again. This time, he stars in crime drama Task, created by Mare of Easttown’s Brad Inglesby, as a former priest turned FBI agent nursing a great sorrow in the suitably grey environs of suburban Philadelphia. Tom Brandis ends every day in a drunken semi-stupor and begins every morning with prayer and a head-dunk into an ice-filled sink. Do you think we might be in for a meditation on guilt, sin and the possibility of redemption? Yes, I wearily agree.So. Brandis is taken off the desk duties he has been assigned since his great sorrow. This is evidently connected to the sentencing hearing for a third-degree murder conviction he is due to attend next week, where his daughter...

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8 d. ago "GMP made me feel like a criminal because of who my father was"

Paul Massey's daughter has vowed to find answers for her murdered father

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9 d. ago Jim Jarmusch’s Father Mother Sister Brother, starring Cate Blanchett, surprise winner of Venice Golden Lion

The Voice of Hind Rajab, a harrowing account of a Palestinian child’s death in Gaza, won the runner-up Silver LionUS indie director Jim Jarmusch unexpectedly won the coveted Golden Lion at the Venice film festival on Saturday with Father Mother Sister Brother, a three-part meditation on the uneasy tie between parents and their adult children.Although his gentle comedy received largely positive reviews, it had not been a favourite for the top prize, with many critics instead tipping the Voice of Hind Rajab, a harrowing true-life account of the killing of a five-year-old Palestinian girl during the Gaza war. In the end, the film directed by Tunisia’s Kaouther Ben Hania took the runner-up Silver Lion. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Murder victim's mother says her daughter's female killer who stabbed her 43 times is 'ticking time bomb' as she is quietly released from jail

Samantha Madgin, who had recently became a mother herself, was enjoying her first night out since giving birth to her son Callum, when she was knifed 43 times by Jordan Jobson in Wallsend..

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1 week ago 'Monster' murdered neighbour and hid body beneath bath in crime 'fuelled by rejection'

Ann Ming’s unrelenting fight to reopen her daughter’s murder case led to the scrapping of the UK’s double jeopardy law, with her story set to play out in ITV's new hit drama

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1 week ago Daughter of man murdered in Loyalist feud ‘disappointed’ at progress to inquest

Work is ongoing in preparation for an inquest into the deaths of John Coulter and Robert Mahood.

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1 week ago Daughter's plea to cops over sex beast who murdered mum 40 years ago

Graham McGill is serving a life sentence for strangling 58 year old Mary McLaughlin in 1984.

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1 week ago Esther Ghey launches campaign to ban mobile phones in classrooms to protect pupils’ safety

Her murdered daughter Brianna had an addiction to her smartphone which had been raised as a concern by her school

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1 week ago Bloodbath in $1.7 million suburban mansion as dentist murders wife and daughter, 15, then kills himself

Dr James Choi, 52, (pictured) was found dead in his $1.7 million Georgia mansion with his wife Myoung and their 15-year-old daughter Grace.

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2 w. ago Filming locations for Sheridan Smith's ITV drama I Fought The Law revealed

I Fought The Law is based on the true story of Ann Ming's fight for justice after her daughter Julie Hogg was murdered by William Dunlop

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2 w. ago I Fought the Law review – no one does this kind of drama better than Sheridan Smith

This true crime drama about a woman who forced the government to change the law so her daughter’s killer could be jailed is totally elevated by Smith. Her brilliance turns it into genuinely moving TVIs there any comfort to be had in knowing that police incompetence is not a new phenomenon? Not really, no. But it might be all you can find to cling on to during this harrowing, heartbreaking four-part drama. I Fought the Law is based on the true story of Ann Ming ,the murder of her 22-year-old daughter Julie in 1989 and her 30-year campaign to change the double jeopardy law so Julie’s acquitted killer could be tried again for the crime.I Fought the Law has two great strengths. First, the awareness that although the overturning of a law that had existed since Magna Carta is technically the most astonishing part of Ming’s tale, it is not the most televisual. That, for better or worse, will always be the body blows she withstood, from finding her daughte...

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2 w. ago Sheridan Smith fans 'in tears' at heartbreaking I Fought the Law scenes

Sheridan Smith is being praised for her powerful performance in I Fought the Law, a new ITV drama based on the real-life harrowing story of a Brit who fought for justice after her daughter's murder

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2 w. ago Killer Billy Dunlop now as I Fought The Law brings harrowing true story to ITV

I Fought The Law tells the story of Ann Ming, whose daughter was murdered by Billy Dunlop at her home in 1989, and the 17-year fight for justice that followed

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2 w. ago Where is Ty Pennington now? The Extreme Makeover host who traded modelling for carpentry and saw a harrowing health scare 'put his life into perspective'

Long before being famed for shouting 'Move that bus!', Ty Pennington once modelled for J. Crew, which saw his 'career explode overnight.'

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2 w. ago What it's like to be the child of a serial killer: Daughter of BTK reveals how learning her 'good guy' father was a murderer made her whole life 'a lie'

Kerri Rawson, the daughter of US serial killer Dennis Rader has spoken about what it's like being the child of a murderer in an ABC 20/20 True Crime Vault podcast episode titled My Father BTK.

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2 w. ago Dad charged with murdering missing baby 'previously abused daughter so badly she developed cerebral palsy'

Jake Haros was previously convicted for willful child cruelty after he abused his baby daughter so badly she developed cerebral palsy, according to a prosecutor.

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2 w. ago Daughter of murdered Scots aid worker blasts IS terrorist's bid to return to UK

Bethany Haines, whose dad David was killed in 2014, has hit out at El Shafee Elsheikh, aka Jihadi Ringo.

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