32 h. ago Why Joanne Sharkey didn't get sent to jail for suffocating her own baby to death

The judge said it was an 'exceptional' case

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34 h. ago Joanne Sharkey who suffocated newborn baby Callum to death in 1998 before dumping his body in woodland avoids prison after judge says her case 'calls for compassion'

Joanne Sharkey, 55, had pleaded guilty in March at Liverpool Crown Court to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility and endeavouring to conceal the birth of a child.

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34 h. ago Woman who deliberately suffocated baby walks free from court

Judge said 'I’m satisfied that this very sad case calls for compassion'

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34 h. ago Mother who suffocated her baby and left his body in woodland in secret kept for 25 years avoids jail

Joanne Sharkey pleaded guilty to manslaughter by diminished responsibility over death of newborn Callum in 1998

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7 d. ago The NHS suffocated my 'miracle' baby and I spent £150,000 on trying to get pregnant again

Pippa Davies, 49, of Cardiff, received £150,000 and an apology from Cardiff and Vale University Health Board over the breach of care to her baby Seren (pictured), who died from hypoxia in 2014.

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7 d. ago The NHS suffocated my 'miracle' baby and I spent £150,000 on trying to get pregnant again

Pippa Davies, 49, of Cardiff, received £150,000 and an apology from Cardiff and Vale University Health Board over the breach of care to her baby Seren (pictured), who died from hypoxia in 2014.

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8 d. ago Diego Maradona's heart 'was freakishly deformed' after years of cocaine use and he 'died in agony': Daughter walks out of court amid gruesome details and photos reveal

Football legend Diego Maradona suffered an agonising 12-hour death in a dark room, struggling to breathe after his heart swelled to double that of a regular size.

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9 d. ago Breastfeeding safety warning after baby suffocates while in a sling

James 'Jimmy' Alderman died from suffocation and a coroner said there was "insufficient information" for parents about the safe positioning of young babies in carriers, particularly when it came to breastfeeding.

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1 week ago Inside the gruesome court case that exposed Joey Barton for the foul, violent and despicable individual he really is

IAN HERBERT: Joey Barton was adopting his intellectual persona in court on Tuesday afternoon. He walked in carrying a thick paperback of Christopher Hitchens essays.

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1 week ago Girl, 13, denies taking photo of elderly dog walker to 'target him' week before 80

Bhim Kohli, 80, had walked his dog a short distance from his home to Franklin Park in Braunstone Town, near Leicester, when he sustained fractured ribs and a broken neck in an attack, the court heard.

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1 week ago Kyle Walker's wife Annie Kilner to appear in court over alleged driving offences amid accusations she 'was not in control of £70,000 Mercedes'

The WAG, 33, was stopped by police in Cheshire on June 8 last year, while Kyle Walker was preparing for England's Euro campaign.

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2 w. ago Mum told husband 'I f****** did it' after suffocating her newborn baby boy

Joanne Sharkey has pleaded guilty to manslaughter by diminished responsibility over the death of the newborn more than 25 years ago.

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2 w. ago Mother of baby Callum told her husband 'it is what it is, I f*****g did it' after she was arrested for suffocating newborn to death

A near three-decade quest to identify a newborn baby whose body was left in woodland was finally solved after the infant's DNA matched with his brother, a court heard.

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2 w. ago Joanne Sharkey who suffocated her baby told husband after arrest 'it is what it is, I f****** did it’

Joanne Sharkey admitted killing her baby and was found after a 25 year police hunt when her son was arrested

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2 w. ago Shamed Love Island star Jack Fincham walks free from court after winning appeal against prison sentence for dog attack committed by his cane corso

The 32-year-old reality TV star was originally sentenced in January 2025 after his black Cane Corso, Elvis, injured runner Robert Sudell in Swanley, Kent, in September 2022.

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2 w. ago Karren Brady left terrified after burglar targets £6million Belgravia home in series of raids

Burglar Gregory Adnane repeatedly broke into the Baroness's basement to steal designer goods, but walked free from court

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2 w. ago Apprentice star Karren Brady reveals she's been left 'terrified' after her £6million home was targeted four times in just 16 hours by a burglar

The Apprentice star, 55, claimed she has struggled sleeping and no longer likes being home alone after a series of 'targeted' break-ins at the house in Belgravia, central London.

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2 w. ago Schoolboy, 15, accused of beating an elderly dog walker to death tells court he pushed him to the ground to protect his 13

The teenager is charged with the murder of Bhim Kohli, 80, who died 24 hours after he was allegedly punched and kicked repeatedly in a park last September.

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2 w. ago Disney's woke Snow White is slapped with trigger warnings about a 'woman deliberately poisoned' and 'girl surrounded by ominous trees'

The two hundred-million-pound movie has been plagued by controversy from replacing dwarf actors with CGI and its lead star panning the original Disney cartoon for its 'sexist' romance plot.

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3 w. ago Inside Diego Maradona's House of Horrors: Prosecutors horrify court with graphic photos of football legend's dead body and walk through a model of his home as they accuse doctors of MURDERING him

Prosecutors have claimed football legend Diego Maradona was 'murdered and died in a 'theatre of horror' as a trial began in Argentina of the medical team responsible for his care.

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