All news by author: Ryan Merrifield

Helicopter pilot Babis Anagnostopoulos, 34, murdered British-born Caroline Crouch, 19, at their home in Greece before attempting to make it look like a robbery gone wrong

Olivia Perks, 21, was found dead at elite military training school Sandhurst in February 2019, with a damning report revealing that she had been a victim of "a complete breakdown in welfare support"

Murderer David King, 56, is seen being arrested outside his home in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, following the death of suspected car thief Neil Charles in a 'vigilante' attack

David and Edward King were last year found guilty of the murder of Neil Charles, whom they chased and stabbed after seeing him trying to open car doors near their home on the Moreton Hall estate

Jesus Martinez, 88, scooped £1.07 million on the Spanish Christmas Lottery in Madrid after a gypsy predicted he would be a millionaire - but he died four months later

As a person dies, it is common that they lose their senses in a particular order, with modern scientists being able to decipher this due to ability of meds to keep a person in the 'active dying' phase for longer

Michael Hollingworth was called a 'drama queen' and later dismissed from his job at Staincliffe Sports and Social Club, in Batley, West Yorkshire, after telling his boss he was gay

Robert Wootton was left bedridden for a week with food poisoning after returning from a TUI holiday in Turkey and believes he caught an infection from an omelette or pudding

The Met Office has responded to headlines suggesting a 40C heatwave is on the cards this summer in Britain - after 2022 surpassed the mark before being named the hottest year on record

Tracey Britten was 50 when she gave birth to quadruplets - the oldest mum to complete the feat in Britain - but is now homeless and living in a Travelodge without the children's dad

Miranda Dickson, 29, inherited her three-storey Georgian house in Edinburgh from her parents and over the Covid lockdown decided to give it a major revamp - but not everyone was pleased

Sergeant David Stansbury, 42, is charged with three counts of raping a woman in 2009 while a serving police officer for Devon & Cornwall Police. He is due in Bristol Crown Court on May 10

New Zealand's North Canterbury Hunting Competition's cat-killing contest for children has been scrapped after the organisers were slammed by animal welfare groups

Mark Chamberlain, 53, was pulled into the current at the weir on the River Great Ouse in Kempston when he was a schoolboy - and said it was sheer luck he survived

A man in his 50s was fatally attacked in Solihull, West Midlands, on Tuesday evening - with police having launched a murder investigation after multiple people fled the scene

A 13-year-old boy was confronted by a stranger in public toilets at Brinton Park in Kidderminster, Worcestershire, who tried to sexually abuse him before he managed to escape

Experts say Britain is no more prepared for another pandemic as it was three years ago when Covid struck due to defunding of research and dismantling of key services

Tomasz Oleszak, 14, collapsed after being stabbed in a nature park in Gateshead last October - with his attacker Leighton Amies denying murder before being found guilty at Newcastle Crown Court

David Stansbury has been charged with three counts of raping a woman while on duty for Devon & Cornwall Police in relation to alleged incidents in Plymouth in 2009

David Francis, nicknamed the Litherland Running Man, died at the scene of the crash in Netherton, Merseyside, on Thursday evening after being struck by an Audi. The driver ran off and is still being hunted by police

Hertfordshire Police have released a CCTV grab of a man wanted in relation to a designer handbag theft, with Facebook users saying he looks just like Prince Harry

Caroline Dodd shares a daughter with shotgun-wielding killer Raoul Moat, who is the subject of a new ITV drama focusing on the week-long manhunt for the bodybuilder

Princess Eugenie is expecting her second child later this summer and says motherhood has changed her outlook on the future, revealing the important message she hopes to teach son August, two

Emergency services rushed to the scene on the M6 in Staffordshire after a lorry was sliced in half and burst into flames after crashing between Junctions 12 and 13

Julio Armando Buelvas Salinas was crushed to death by a freight lift at Comerpes SA seafood warehouse in Cartagena, Columbia, on his 26th birthday - with his family waiting at his house with a cake