Crime

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Fiancee of ice hockey star killed after throat slashed mid-game had to ID body
Nottingham Panthers star Adam Johnson suffered a catastrophic injury to his throat when colliding with a Sheffield Steelers player's skate blade during a Challenge Cup match
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Dad slammed shopkeeper's head into fridge as he refused to sell son energy drink
Stephen Brown attacked a shopkeeper who refused to sell his teenage son an energy drink. He was sentenced to two years and four months in prison and handed a restraining order
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Sam Bankman-Fried's failed empire after collapse of Crypto King's web of lies
Jurors rejected Bankman-Fried's claim during four days on the witness stand in Manhattan federal court that he never committed fraud or meant to cheat customers before FTX, once the world's second-largest crypto exchange
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Brazen boy, 12, 'used baby booster seat for wild city joyride in stolen car'
The mini menace reportedly took a ride across three boroughs in a Hyundai SUV on Staten Island, New York - needing a booster seat to see over the dashboard of the stolen vehicle
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Man broke his partner's nose as he drove at 70mph on the M4 with children in car
Gareth Davies punched his partner in the face as they drove on the M4 motorway at 70mph, before the car crashed as they came off the motorway, with two children inside
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Tortured, beaten, castrated by soldiers from his own army - for joining Mau Mau
In the eyes of many historians, the campaign against Mau Mau fighters was the bloodiest British suppression of any of their colonial uprisings anywhere in the world
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Who Wants To Be A Millionaire contestant, 75, jailed after £4.5m fraud case
Jeff Arundell appeared on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? all the way back in 2000 where he answered just six questions using all the lifelines, winning only £1,000
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Last surviving member of Great Train Robbery dies at 94 after Alzheimer's battle
Bobby Welch, who died last week aged 94, was one of 15 men who stole £2.6 million from a Royal Mail train in an infamous heist in 1963 and spent 30 years in jail
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Man charged with murder of 'loved' mum found dead after walking home from pub
Greater Manchester Police has charged a man with murder over the death of 44-year-old Caroline Gore who was found dead outside a tower block in Wigan
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Armed female cop forced to strip down to underwear for training wins £30k payout
Det Insp Rebecca Kalam was subjected to sex discrimination and harassment, and ended up having to take medical retirement - she had previously been a 'poster girl' for her force
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Dad knocked out at child's christening party as youth footballers rush to help
Carl Gray ruthlessly 'lunged' at his victim and delivered 'multiple strikes' to his head after a fight broke out at a party at Caerleon RFC in Wales, with youths playing football forced to step in
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Inside the warped world of strange couple who stole identities of dead babies
Walter Primrose and Gwynn Morrison lived under the names of dead babies from Texas for decades, with Primrose even joining the Coast Guard and gaining security clearance under the false name
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Man, 74, arrested over murder of Brit gran stabbed to death at dream Italy home
A 74-year-old man was arrested in Leicestershire by police officers in connection with the murder of grandmother Michele Faiers, who was found lying in a pool of blood at her home in eastern Italy
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Teenage football fans attacked after Championship match as police issue appeal
Police have appealed for witnesses after the teenagers, aged 14 and 17, were attacked while with a grandparent after Middlesbrough’s 2-0 defeat to Stoke City
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Terrifying moment armed robbers storm church and kidnap official during sermon
An armed daylight robbery at the Church of Pentecost in South Africa was caught on camera, showing the terrified reaction of the preacher when he saw the thieves with their guns
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Man, 79, who murdered wife with rounders bat before confessing to cops is jailed
Tarsame Singh, 79, battered his wife Maya Devi, 77, to death and then walked into a police station to confess the murder. He has now been jailed for at least 15 years
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Super thief who pilfered over a dozen Hollywood homes is jailed for 31 years
Benjamin Eitan Ackerman, who posed as a realtor to gain access to some of Hollywood's most expensive, high-end homes, was sentenced to 31 years in prison on Wednesday four years after his arrest
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Dad murders 4-month-old son by causing injuries to tot’s spine, ribs and brain
Reece Kelly was convicted of murder following a three-week trial at Carlisle Crown Court, during which the jury had heard baby Dallas sustained a bleed to his brain
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Serious crime victims in some parts of UK wait 13 hours for police - full list
Figures released under the Freedom of Information Act reveal a 'disturbing postcode lottery' in responses to grade two priority crimes - which include burglaries, missing persons and domestic incidents
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Teenage boy admits killing stranger by tripping him up on the street
A 16-year-old boy ran up to Jerald Netto in Hanwell, west London, in March earlier this year, and tripped him up, leading to the 62-year-old having a heart attack and dying
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Innocent gang shooting victim recalls night of terror that left her sister dead
Sophie Ellis has revealed her pain over the tragic death of her sister Charlene at the hands of the Burger Bar Boys gang in Birmngham. She revealed the ongoing abuse her family receives more than two decades on
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Harrowing 911 call played in trial of yoga teacher 'who shot dead pro-cyclist'
Caitlin Cash said she discovered the body of her professional cyclist pal, Moriah Wilson, lying in a pool of blood in a Texas home, which prompted her to make a frantic 911 call
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Taxi driver saves woman stuffed in suitcase by ex-partner after hearing screams
A cab driver rescued a woman from being kidnapped after he heard her screaming from inside a suitcase - he attempted to catch the supect and chased him down several streets
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Brit gran found stabbed to death in Italy 'may have been killed in her sleep'
Michele Faiers, 66, lived in the idyllic rural Italian village of Verratti, with Michael Whitbread before she was found dead with seven knife wounds in her back
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Man 'poisoned to death by girlfriend' after inheritance was scammed, say family
Steven Edward Riley Jr., 51, was due to meet a lawyer at Minot Airport on September 3 to sign off on the inheritance cheque but suddenly fell ill after being allegedly poisoned by his girlfriend