55 h. ago Idaho student stabbings suspect pleads guilty to murder to avoid death penalty

Ex-criminal justice student Bryan Kohberger admits to killing four University of Idaho students in 2022Bryan Kohberger pleaded guilty to murder on Wednesday in the brutal stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students in 2022 that stunned and terrified the campus and set off a nationwide search, which ended weeks later when he was arrested in Pennsylvania.Kohberger, who was a criminal justice graduate student at nearby Washington State University, admitted to the slayings before entering a formal guilty plea in a deal with prosecutors that will allow him to avoid the death penalty. He was set to go to trial in August. Continue reading...

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56 h. ago Dean Barnes trial: Driver accused of causing teenager's death as he chased stolen bikes told cops 'I've not f***ing done anything'

Adam Norman and Callum Duncan deny causing death by dangerous driving

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4 d. ago Absence of motive evidence counts in Erin Patterson’s favour, jury told, as deliberations begin

Jurors retire to consider verdicts in triple murder trial over beef wellington lunch that contained death cap mushroomsWho are Erin Patterson and the other key figures in Australia’s mushroom murders trial?The jury has started deliberations in the triple murder trial of Erin Patterson at the Latrobe Valley law courts in Morwell.Justice Christopher Beale completed his charge or directions to the jury on Monday. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Pennsylvania judge considers if witnesses must testify in trial over Idaho students' stabbings

A hearing in Pennsylvania will determine if several witnesses will have to testify at a former criminal justice student's trial on charges he stabbed to death four college students in Idaho in 2022

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4 d. ago Erin Patterson jury begins deliberations as mushroom lunch trial enters 10th week

Jurors retire to consider verdicts in triple murder trial over beef wellington lunch that contained death cap mushroomsWho are Erin Patterson and the other key figures in Australia’s mushroom murders trial?The jury has started deliberations in the triple murder trial of Erin Patterson at the Latrobe Valley law courts in Morwell.Justice Christopher Beale completed his charge or directions to the jury on Monday. Continue reading...

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6 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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1 week ago Alleged murderer John Belfield tells trial he was watching Finding Nemo when Thomas Campbell was killed

Mr Campbell was found naked apart from a pair of socks after being 'tortured to death'. John Belfield denies murder and is on trial at Manchester Crown Court.

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2 w. ago Gang 'mastermind' cracked jokes after torturing Coleen Campbell's ex to death, trial hears

John Belfield denies murdering Thomas Campbell and conspiring to rob him - the victim's body was found dressed in only a pair of socks in his hallway while his legs and buttocks had been burned

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2 w. ago Jury reaches verdict in Karen Read murder trial over death of Boston police boyfriend

Jurors in the murder trial of Karen Read say they’ve reached a verdict in a divisive case about the death of a Boston police officer that lawyers have presented as either a tragic love story or a sinister cover-up

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2 w. ago Thomas Campbell was found naked with ankles bound after being 'tortured to death', murder trial told

John Belfield denies murdering Thomas Campbell, and conspiring to rob him

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2 w. ago Building site workers face trial over death of mum killed by falling bricks in east London

Michaela Boor was killed by falling bricks from a building site crane in Bethnal Green

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3 w. ago Liam Payne death update as two charged over tragedy will stand trial

The former One Direction star tragically died at the age of 31 in October last year after falling from a hotel balcony

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3 w. ago Two hotel workers accused of selling Liam Payne cocaine before star plunged to his death to face trial

Waiter Braian Nahuel Paiz and former hotel worker Ezequiel David Pereyra have been in prison since the start of January after being charged over the tragic One Direction star's death.

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3 w. ago Liam Payne update as two men charged over star's death will stand trial

An update in the death of former One Direction star Liam Payne has revealed two of the men accused of supplying the singer with cocaine will face trial in Argentina

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3 w. ago Two accused of selling Liam Payne cocaine before fatal hotel plunge will go on trial

Argentinian prosecutors have confirmed that waiter Braian Nahuel Paiz and hotel worker Ezequiel David Pereyra will face court on drug charges related to Liam Payne's October 2024 death

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3 w. ago Defense rests case in second trial of Karen Read for Boston police officer boyfriend's death

The defense in the second trial of Karen Read has rested its case, saying Read was framed for the killing of her Boston police officer boyfriend

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3 w. ago ‘The perfect dish for them’: Erin Patterson explains why she included dried mushrooms in fatal lunch

Triple-murder accused also denies foraging death caps hours before buying food dehydrator as trial continuesWho are Erin Patterson and the other key figures in Australia’s mushroom trial?Erin Patterson has denied leading health officials on a “wild goose chase”, and that she foraged death cap mushrooms two hours before buying a food dehydrator, a Victorian court has heard.Patterson, 50, faces three charges of murder and one charge of attempted murder relating to poisoning four lunch guests with beef wellington served at her house in Leongatha, Victoria, on 29 July 2023. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Erin Patterson denies foraging death cap mushrooms hours before buying food dehydrator, murder trial hears

Murder accused also tells Victorian supreme court that she thought beef wellingtons were ‘the perfect dish’ for dried mushroomsWho are Erin Patterson and the other key figures in Australia’s mushroom trial?Erin Patterson has denied leading health officials on a “wild goose chase”, and that she foraged death cap mushrooms two hours before buying a food dehydrator, a Victorian court has heard.Patterson, 50, faces three charges of murder and one charge of attempted murder relating to poisoning four lunch guests with beef wellington served at her house in Leongatha, Victoria, on 29 July 2023. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Australia mushroom trial live: Erin Patterson denies foraging death caps two hours before buying dehydrator

Victorian woman, 50, has pleaded not guilty to three charges of murder and one of attempted murder after a fatal beef wellington lunch in Leongatha in 2023. Follow live‘You knew how suspicious it would look’: Erin Patterson makes series of denials in tense cross-examinationErin Patterson questioned over what her children ate the day after fatal lunchProsecutor Nanette Rogers SC begins to ask Erin Patterson about evidence regarding what her children ate the day after the lunch. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Man ‘casually walked off’ after stabbing wife to death and leaving baby – trial

Habibur Masum, 26, threw the knife away before ‘dusting his hands and calmly carrying on’ as his wife lay fatally injured, a witness said.

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