18 h. ago Daughter who was 'light of her father's life' is in bitter court battle with siblings over £600,000 fortune

Laxmikant Patel handed the £600,000 family home in Harrow, north-west London, to eldest daughter, Anju Patel, 58 - leaving her siblings with a meagre token sum.

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23 h. ago ‘This is going to be a real hatchet job, isn’t it?’ Janet Street

One of the giants of British media, Street-Porter is a regular on Loose Women, a former TV executive, newspaper editor and author – and about to launch a one-woman stage show. She talks about love, regrets and her fury with her late motherJanet Street-Porter is the straight-talker’s straight talker. Nobody says it how it is quite like her, whether she’s talking about how she “hated” her mother, tried to kill her sister or cheated on her four ex-husbands. The former TV executive, newspaper editor, author and Loose Women regular is now going on the road with a one-woman show called Off the Leash. To be fair, she’s never been on it. Street-Porter’s website heralds her as “the nation’s favourite pissed-off pensioner” and promises that, with the new show, “in the words of her good friend Elton ‘the bitch is back!’”We meet at a restaurant she has booked in west London. When I get there, she’s already perusing the menu and eavesdropping on the couple behind us. “That man behind us is very ...

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35 h. ago Inside killer's family massacre as teen murdered mum, sister and brother

Nicholas Prosper was just 19 at the time and had also planned to carry out at massacre at his former primary school.

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37 h. ago Inside Nicholas Prosper's family massacre as teen killed mum, sister and brother

Triple killer Nicholas Prosper wanted to be remembered amongst the ranks of other notorious killers by carrying out a mass shooting in a primary school after brutally murdering his own family

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37 h. ago Driver who killed mother and daughter on Boxing Day was ‘racing’ at up to 84mph

Mohammed Ibrahim fled the scene after causing the deaths of Amanda Riley, 49, and Linda Philips, 72, in a head-on smash which set both cars on fire.

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38 h. ago Triple killer who plotted primary school shooting avoids whole life order after appeal

The 19-year-old murdered his mother and two younger siblings in a shooting spree

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39 h. ago Triple murderer Nicholas Prosper who killed his mother and two siblings will NOT get a whole life order

Nicholas Prosper was jailed for life with a minimum term of 49 years after admitting to the brutal killing of his mother Juliana Falcon, 48, and siblings Giselle Prosper, 13, and Kyle Prosper, 16, in Luton.

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39 h. ago Court rules against giving triple killer Nicholas Prosper a whole

Nicholas Prosper is currently serving a minimum term of 49 years

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42 h. ago Nicholas Prosper LIVE: Teen killer who wiped out own family back in court

Nicholas Prosper was jailed for life with a minimum term of 49 years for the murders of his mum, brother and sister, but could now face an increased sentence at the Court of Appeal today

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61 h. ago Why Ethan Chapin's mother is GRATEFUL Bryan Kohberger will never face trial... as her two remaining triplets graduate from the same Idaho school

Ethan Chapin's surviving siblings, triplets Maizie and and Hunter, 23, chose to continue their studies and graduate from the University of Idaho despite their brother's horrifying murder in November 2022.

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62 h. ago Why Ethan Chaplin's mother is GRATEFUL Bryan Kohberger will never face trial... as her two remaining triplets graduate from the same Idaho school

Ethan Chapin's surviving siblings, triplets Maizie and and Hunter, 23, chose to continue their studies and graduate from the University of Idaho despite their brother's horrifying murder in November 2022.

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3 d. ago Los Angeles man dies in jail while awaiting trial for killing and dismemberment of wife, her parents

Authorities say a Los Angeles man accused of killing and dismembering his wife, her mother and her stepfather has died in jail while awaiting trial

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3 d. ago Did 'depressed' Air India pilot deliberately crash plane killing 260 people because his mother died?

Captain Sumeet Sabharwal was piloting the Boeing 787 Dreamliner when it plummeted into a residential area, killing 241 people on board and 19 on the ground.

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4 d. ago ITV Coronation Street fans gobsmacked as they realise two former stars are siblings

Coronation Street viewers have been left stunned after realising two of the soap's former characters are in fact siblings in real life

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5 d. ago Man 'beheaded' his mother after 'kneeling on her neck' until she died

Bowen Fladland admitted to killing his 70-year-old mother Marlene in South Dakota before cutting off her head and burying her body in the garden of the home they had been living in

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7 d. ago Abhorrent text messages boy, 15, sent mother before she and her younger son, 8, died in mysterious bloodbath

Jessica Orton Lyman, 44, and her son Eli Painter, 8, were found with fatal gunshot wounds inside their Utah home on March 28.

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7 d. ago Cannibal killer horror letter to victim's partner from his prison cell

David Harker, who killed mother-of-four Julie Paterson in 1998 and then ate part of her body with cheese and pasta, has had his latest plea for freedom rejected

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8 d. ago I hoped our pretty new nanny was the answer to our prayers after my mother's tragic death... then she killed my father and I discovered the horrifying truth

For as long as she could remember, Sarah Corbett Lynch knew that she mustn't mention her birth mother in front of her stepmum Molly.

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8 d. ago Erin Patterson trial was Victoria supreme court’s largest media matter in recent history, court data reveals

More than 250 Australian and international journalists registered for court updates on triple murder trial, with spokesperson praising coverage as largely fair and accurateSign up for Guardian Australia’s free weekly media newsletter hereThe Erin Patterson trial was the Victorian supreme court’s biggest case in terms of media interest in recent history, with more than 250 journalists registering for court updates on the trial.On Monday a jury found Patterson guilty of murdering three relatives and attempting to murder a fourth with a deadly beef wellington lunch laced with death cap mushrooms almost two years ago. The media coverage has been consistent and extensive during the two-and-a-half months of the trial and has dominated media outlets this week.Sign up to get Guardian Australia’s weekly media diary as a free newsletter Continue reading...

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9 d. ago RecipeTin Eats cook upset her beef wellington recipe ‘entangled’ in Erin Patterson murder case

Convicted murderer told trial she made multiple changes to Nagi Maehashi’s recipe in preparing the fatal lunch two years agoFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastNagi Maehashi, the cook behind RecipeTin Eats, says it is “upsetting” to have become “entangled in a tragic situation” after Erin Patterson told her triple murder trial she used the beef wellington recipe for the fateful lunch.In a post to Instagram on Tuesday, Maehashi requested that journalists of Australia “please stop calling and emailing and texting and DM’ing me about the Erin Patterson case”.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...

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