Crime

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Death Row murderer's haunting final words as he's executed protesting innocence
Anthony Sanchez maintained his innocence as was executed today saying 'I didn't kill anyone' in his final statement. He was sentenced to death for a 1996 crime
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Terrifying moment boy, 11, has 'gun held to head in masked raid on family home'
CCTV shows the gang of masked thieves raiding the family home in Walsall, West Midlands, before attempting to make off with a Range Rover but having to flee on foot
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Mum, 3-year-old and newborn baby missing for two days sparking urgent search
Jamie-Leigh Kelly, 31, left a Family Assessment Centre in north-west London on Tuesday evening with her three-year-old daughter and newborn baby boy against the wishes of staff
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Hairdresser stabbed husband in the heart in row during Christmas holidays
Teresa Hanson killed her husband Paul in the kitchen of their home three days after Christmas last year. The 54-year-old woman has today been found guilty of murder
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Death Row rapist and murderer enjoys enjoys hefty three-course final meal
Death Row inmate Anthony Sanchez as executed today and enjoyed a hefty three-course dinner for his final meal - he was convicted of the rape and murder of Juli Busken but activists say his dad confessed to the crime
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Met Police officer accused of murdering Chris Kaba in court - latest updates
The Metropolitan Police officer fired a single shot through the windscreen of a car being driven by Chris Kaba and hit him in the head last year. The marksman has been released on bail
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Family's terror as men try to bundle schoolboy, 11, into car as he walked home
Staffordshire Police have launched an investigation after a family of an 11-year-old boy claim he was approached by two men who called him 'mate' before trying to put him in their car
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Ashley Dale murder suspect admits killing council worker who was shot dead
Murder suspect James Witham, 41, has admitted to killing council worker Ashley Dale, 28, who was found unresponsive outside her home in Old Swan, Merseyside, in August last year
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Fury as Tories fail to keep track of convictions for shop worker attacks
Labour frontbencher Emily Thornberry criticised ministers after being told the Ministry of Justice doesn't have figures on the number of cases where people serving the public are assaulted
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Death row killer executed for raping and murdering student despite DNA row
A death row inmate who was convicted of the rape and murder of 21-year-old ballerina Juli Busken in 1996 was put to death on Thursday morning despite controversial DNA evidence used in his conviction
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Police hunt drug-dealing nursery owner after baby killed by fentanyl
Baby Nicholas Dominici died at the Bronx day care and nursery owner Grei Mendez has been charged - but the NYPD are trying to find her husband who was seen to flee the nursery
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School bus crash horror as roof torn off and children rushed to hospital
An air ambulance has dashed to Clavering, Essex, following a crash involving a car and a school bus, which lost part of its roof and was taking kids to Joyce Frankland Academy
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Suspect in killing of family-of-4 and their dogs shot dead in car 650 miles away
Nataniel Heuy, the suspect in the killing of family of four and their three dogs in suburban Chicago, was found dead with a gunshot wound in a burning car following a police chase in Oklahoma
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Police spoke to murder-accused daughter 'as mum and dad's corpses lay upstairs'
Virginia McCullough has been arrested and charged with murdering her elderly parents John and Lois McCullough at some point between August 2018 and September 2023
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Hunt for man in 'Trapstar' T-shirt and cap after woman raped on Brighton beach
Sussex Police has increased patrols along the seafront after the rape of a woman on a beach in Brighton earlier this month and are looking for a man in a Trapstar T-shirt
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Man 'beats his neighbour, 6, with bat' leaving boy unconscious in hospital
A horrific attack with a baseball bat has left six-year-old Jeremy hospitalised - with no known motive for the attack. The accused, Daniel Logan, allegedly also struck his own mother in Texas
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Woman sees Facebook post about air ambulance but has no idea victim is own mum
Rachel Bartram described Kathleen Kirby "like a rainbow... a butterfly" after Chad Rimmington, who has never passed a driving test, admitted killing her in a horror crash
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Man to be executed for killing university student - despite his dad 'confessing'
Killer Anthony Sanchez is facing execution in Oklahoma today for the brutal murder of university student Juli Busken in 1996, despite repeated claims his dad did it
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'Yobs urinate in front of my daughters and shake my house with late night music'
Dad Chris Pratt says Middlesbrough Council and Cleveland Police must do more to tackle the anti-social behaviour plaguing his neighbourhood as he, his wife and their teen daughters suffer
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Six chilling reasons Lucy Letby murdered babies - doctor crush to 'playing God'
What drove Lucy Letby to deliberately kill vulnerable babies in her care? Here we take a look at the numerous possible motives behind the former neonatal nurse's twisted crimes
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'I'm scared to walk my dog after XL Bully attack - but I'm 100% against the ban'
Kate Jackson said she came across a man with two dogs, one of which Kate believed to be an XL bully, in Sefton Park, Merseyside and it pounced on her puppy Arthur
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Human leg found sticking out of a recycling bin - as investigation is launched
Police were shocked to find mutilated remains in a rubbish bin near a bank after a person spotted a leg protruding from a giant red bin, prompting an investigation
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Family sues cops after girl, 6, is zip-tied by police for 'throwing a tantrum'
A family in Florida is now suing the local police department after their officers arrived at an elementary school, and 'zip tied' and 'perp-walked' a 6-year-old girl
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Heartbroken mum 'sorry' for not protecting daughter, 3, shot in head by cops
Alana dos Santos Silva posted a heartbreaking tribute to her tot Heloísa dos Santos Silva after she passed away in intensive care nine days after a police officer fired bullets that hit her head and spine
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Mum used dead son's benefits to buy fast food, Victoria Secret and holiday
After the death of her son Jordan Brooks, who had cerebral palsy, Lisa Marie Waldron kept using his benefits for a year to pay for fast food and fund a trip to Myrtle Beach