2 h. ago 'Mez has been forgotten in all of this': The real Meredith Kercher, the lost victim in the Amanda Knox case

Meredith Kercher, the lost victim in the Amanda Knox case – and the family left serving a “life term” of loss

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14 h. ago Ozzy Osbourne's ghost played hilarious prank on daughter Kelly at his funeral

The Late Ozzy Osbourne continued to prank his family, according to his pal, as his daughter Kelly was a victim of this alleged practical joke at his own funeral service

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31 h. ago Death of Prince William's businessman pal who 'collapsed after swallowing a bee' sparks a £3billion inheritance row

Sunjay Kapur, 53, collapsed in front of horrified teammates during the game at Guards Polo Club in Windsor.

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37 h. ago Murder victim was ‘beloved’ father and grandfather, family say

The body of Stephen Brannigan was found at a house in Co Down on Sunday.

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67 h. ago Killer on the run from prison as victim's family of 'horrific' murder are 'terrified'

Vincent Raymond Lee, 63, failed to return to prison and the family of his victim - who he horrifically killed and set on fire - say the are now 'terrified'

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68 h. ago Police hunt killer on the run as murder victim's family are 'terrified'

Vincent Raymond Lee brutally murdered Ann Worrell by dragging her unconscious body onto her bed before setting her alight. The judge residing over the case described it as an 'horrific death'

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2 d. ago Police hunt killer on the run as family of 'horrific' murder victim 'terrified'

Vincent Raymond Lee was sentenced to life imprisonment

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3 d. ago Police hunting killer on the run as family of 'horrific' Welsh murder victim say they are 'terrified'

Police are looking for Vincent Raymond Lee who was sentenced to life imprisonment

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3 d. ago The Tennessee execution that ‘went horribly wrong’: how Byron Black’s killing unfolded

Witnesses say disabled death-row man was in distress upon gurney, while lawyer calls execution ‘100% botched’For attorney Kelley Henry, the visible blood was the first indication that the execution of her client was going wrong.At 10.15am on Tuesday inside the Riverbend maximum security prison in Nashville, the longtime Tennessee death row lawyer watched as staff attempted to place an IV into the right arm of Byron Black. Black was locked on to a gurney with crisscrossing black straps over his chest, stomach and legs, and Henry saw blood ooze from the injection site. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Kidnap, blackmail and Suranne Jones as PM: inside Hostage, Netflix’s breakneck new political thriller

The British prime minister and French president get sucked into a shady conspiracy in the streaming giant’s latest twisty, emotional drama. Jones and Julie Delpy tell allHostage is a political thriller, and observes the conventions in many ways. The pace is absolutely flawless, it’s twisty, it has emotional heft. The British prime minister, Abigail Dalton, played by Suranne Jones, faces her husband, Alex Anderson (Ashley Thomas), being kidnapped. Their marriage is well drawn – “it’s happy, it’s assured, they’re supportive of each other,” Jones says. As we chat in Netflix’s central London offices, she’s always saying five things at once, only one of them out loud. Here, the subtext (I’ve decided) is: it’s actually pretty skilled work, creating a not-schmaltzy, passionate but familiar love match in which all the audience’s hopes and prayers are with the abducted spouse. That’s why normally when fictional politicians are the victims of a family kidnapping, it’s one of their kids.Meanwh...

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5 d. ago Sister of Air India crash victim speaks of 'trauma' after family given wrong body

Fiongal Greenlaw-Meek was on the Boeing Dreamliner 787, carrying 242 people, which crashed shortly after takeoff from Ahmedabad airport on June 12

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6 d. ago Son battered frail father, 78, to death with dumbbell in row over £40

Aston Lambert was found guilty of murdering his father by a jury at Southwark Crown Court

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7 d. ago Death row inmate screams out in pain during execution after state refused to remove heart device

Byron Black, 69, was killed by lethal injection for the deaths of Angela Clay, 29, and her daughters, Latoya, nine, and Lakeisha, six, on Tuesday.

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7 d. ago Child murderer's five last words after injection on death row amid defibrillator row

Byron Black, who was convicted of killing his girlfriend and her two young daughters in the 1980s, was given a lethal injection at a jail in Nashville, Tennessee

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7 d. ago Death row inmates challenge new Arkansas law allowing executions by nitrogen gas

Several Arkansas death row inmates have sued the state to block a new law allowing executions by nitrogen gas

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8 d. ago Grim photo shows nightmarish conditions Bryan Kohberger faces after being moved to notorious J

The quadruple killer, 30, was moved to long-term isolation in a notoriously restrictive block of the Idaho prison where he will spend the rest of his life.

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9 d. ago Family man is named as murder victim found dead on riverside bench

Police offered their condolences to his family who are currently being assisted by specialist officers. Northamptonshire Police confirmed he had been found 'fatally injured' on the bench.

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3 w. ago 34 men who ended up on Death Row have one thing in common – they all went to same school

Michael Bell is the latest Florida inmate to be executed - the convicted murderer was one of 34 former students of the notorious Dozier School for Boys known for systematic abuse

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3 w. ago Nike fans are just learning creepy meaning behind 'Just Do It' slogan after 37 years

One of the world's most successful and most famous marketing slogans, Nike's 'Just Do It' is hiding a much more sinister past with ties to a convicted Death Row murderer

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3 w. ago ‘Our silence didn’t protect him’: daughter pleads for father on death row in Iran

Arrested in 2023 after helping those injured during Women, Life, Freedom protests, Rezgar Beigzadeh Babamiri has been subjected to torture and a forced confession, say family and campaignersIn late October 2022, as protests over 22-year-old Mahsa Amini’s death in police custody swept across Iran, Rezgar Beigzadeh Babamiri, a father of three, was racing through alleyways in the city of Bukan, in western Iran, carrying medical supplies to secret clinics where doctors treated injured demonstrators in defiance of the state.Many of the wounded were too afraid to seek hospital care after reports of secret police patrolling wards, interrogating patients and detaining injured protesters. By helping, Babamiri, a 47-year-old fruit and vegetable farmer, did not see himself as a revolutionary but simply as someone doing what was right, says his daughter, Zhino. Continue reading...

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