25 h. ago Expert professor who helped free Guildford Four raises 'serious questions' about 'confession' notes used to convict Lucy Letby

A forensic psychologist has raised 'serious questions' about the handwritten notes used to convict Lucy Letby of murder.

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31 h. ago Vulnerable man wrongly convicted of murder 'will sue the Metropolitan Police'

Vulnerable Oliver Campbell was jailed for life for the fatal shooting of shopkeeper Baldev Hoondle in 1990. Now his legal team is trying to bring a civil claim against the police for using his condition to “badger and bully”

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49 h. ago Inside the hellhole jail where Charlie Kirk's suspected killer Tyler Robinson could live out his days before facing the firing squad

The Utah jail where Tyler Robinson will likely live out his days if convicted of Charlie Kirk's murder has been riddled with problems since it opened three years ago.

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62 h. ago Stephen Lawrence’s mother makes plea for witnesses as review begins

Doreen Lawrence says review of decision to close investigation into her son’s murder is ‘last opportunity’ for justiceThe mother of Stephen Lawrence has urged witnesses to come forward to assist a review into her son’s racist murder more than 30 years ago.A gang chased, surrounded and stabbed Stephen, who was 18, near a south-east London bus stop in April 1993; two men were convicted of his murder in 2012, but at least three members of the gang remain at large. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Suspect convicted of murder in knife attack at German festival and sentenced to life in prison

A German court has convicted the suspect in last year’s knife attack at a festival in Solingen of murder and membership in the Islamic State group and sentenced him to life in prison

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6 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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6 d. ago Woman who murdered family lunch guests by poisoning beef wellington with mushrooms jailed for life

Erin Patterson’s non-parole period of 33 years is the longest ever for a woman convicted of murder in Victoria, Australia

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6 d. ago Erin Patterson jailed for life for poisoning relatives with death cap mushrooms

Patterson's non-parole period of 33 years is the longest ever for a woman convicted of murder in Victoria

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9 d. ago Land where Margaret Fleming was murdered finally sold after price slashed

The vulnerable teen was kept prisoner at Seacroft, a bungalow in Inverkip, before her carers were convicted of the murder - though Margaret's remains have never been found.

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1 week ago Minnesota man freed after 27 years in prison for murder he did not commit

Bryan Hooper’s first-degree murder conviction vacated after woman confessed to 1998 killing of Ann PrazniakA Minnesota man wrongly convicted of murder who spent nearly three decades in prison after being falsely implicated by a woman who has since confessed to the crime has been released.State district court judge Marta Chou had vacated Bryan Hooper Sr’s first-degree murder conviction the day before. He was released on Thursday morning from Stillwater correctional facility, a Great North Innocence Project spokesperson said. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Man jailed for murder of former Manchester Grammar School teacher to have conviction reviewed

Benjamin Field was jailed in October 2019 after being convicted of the murder of Peter Farquhar

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2 w. ago UK's most famous killer could walk free in months as Jon Venables wins parole hearing

Jon Venables was released in 2001 following his conviction for the torture and murder of James Bulger, but has been in an out of jail since, now he could walk free again

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2 w. ago Beautician who stabbed boyfriend with scissors halts computer simulation bid for murder conviction

Dionne Christie stood trial on a murder charge but was convicted of the lesser offence of culpable homicide and sentenced to eight-and-a-half years in prison in May.

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2 w. ago 'Incredibly twisted' Lenny Scott murderer was 'loose cannon' who broke underworld code

Elias Morgan was convicted of the murder of dad-of-three and ex-Altcourse prison officer Lenny Scott

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2 w. ago ISIS Beatle 'Jihadi Ringo' who was part of a gang that filmed the killings of hostages makes a bid to return to the UK

El Shafee Elsheikh - known as Jihadi Ringo - is currently serving life in a high-security US jail after he was convicted in 2022 of hostage-taking and conspiring to murder.

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2 w. ago Teen fleeing police kills pregnant mum travelling with her husband and 2

Travion Smith, 18, was sentenced to between 25 and 50 years in state prison on Tuesday following a conviction of second-degree murder

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2 w. ago How the 'mushroom murders' mystery unravelled as convict Erin Patterson faces her only survivor in court ahead of being sentenced

This is how a quiet family lunch in a small Australian town sent shockwaves around the world after a sinister murder plot came to light.

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3 w. ago Pressure grows on Tanzania to free victim of domestic violence who has been on death row for 13 years

Lemi Limbu, who was convicted of murdering her daughter, has severe intellectual disabilities and ‘absolutely should not be in prison’, say campaignersPressure is mounting on the Tanzanian government to release a woman with severe intellectual disabilities who has been in prison awaiting execution for 13 years.Lemi Limbu, who is now in her early 30s, was convicted of the murder of her daughter in 2015. A survivor of brutal and repeated sexual and domestic violence, she has the developmental age of a child. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox: What is fact and what is fiction in the Disney drama?

A new eight-part series sees Knox’s memoir about her conviction and eventual acquittal for the murder of Meredith Kercher adapted for the small screen. Helen Coffey attempts to sort reality from artistic licence

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3 w. ago Florida man who fatally stabbed friend over Trump convicted of second

Donald Jamesbrown Henry and Shawn Popp got into a fight over ‘Trump going bankrupt’ when the latter was attackedA Florida man who fatally stabbed a friend during an argument in 2022 over Donald Trump’s businesses having gone bankrupt, is facing possibly spending the rest of his life in prison after being convicted of murder.Donald Jamesbrown Henry, 38, awaits a sentencing hearing tentatively scheduled for October after jurors found him guilty Friday of second-degree murder in the killing of Shawn Popp, whose death came to be regarded by some as an example of the havoc that politics can wreak on interpersonal relationships in the US. Continue reading...

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