Crime

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Dad shoots wife and 5 kids dead in horror murder-suicide after divorce filed
Michael Haight, 42, killed his wife and five children along with his mother-in-law in the town of Enoch, Utah, police have said, following a divorce being filed
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Grieving mum shares haunting pic of son on deathbed urging 'turn in knife thugs'
Dionne Barrett's teenage son was stabbed and killed last year, she said she won't stop until she gets justice as she makes a desperate plea for information about his killers
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Mum run over and killed at hospital on first visit to see baby granddaughter
Mary Owen-Jones, 52, died two days after being struck by a car on the hospital visit on the day her daughter gave birth to baby April Rose on New Year's Day
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Wife killer in 1st public parole hearing to be freed despite admitting cover-up
Russell Causley made history as the first UK prisoner to face a public parole hearing - he was convicted of killing his 40-year-old wife Carole Packman after she went missing in 1985
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Ex-husband of woman found dead arrested after biting off current wife's finger
Benjamin Ledyard, 55, from Delaware, US, is accused of chasing his wife Stephanie Ledyard with a pool cue and smashing her head into the floor of their home on Sunday
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Drug lord El Chapo's son arrested in shootout with heavily-armed security forces
Reports and images on social media suggest a shoot-out took place before the arrest of Ovidio Guzmán in the community of Jesús María while parts of Mexico were blocked off by armed police
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'Hippy crack' warning as medic keeps seeing 'excruciating pain' side effect
Consultant podiatrist Abid Hussain has warned Brits about the dangerous laughing gas trend that is 'plaguing' parts of Britain as he has seen patients develop severe symptoms
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Teen girl, 15, reported missing by school 10 months ago is found safe and sound
Saidatu Jalloh was reported missing to Met Police by staff at her school in Lambeth, London, on March 9 but a pubic appeal was only launched 10 months later
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Six women arrested after toddler dies at nursery in 'suspicious' circumstances
The youngster died on Friday, December 9 at nursery in in Bourne Street, Dudley and a criminal investigation was launched following a visit by Ofsted after the boy’s death
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Investigations continue into deaths of mum and daughter, 17, found in house
Emergency services found a woman, 42, and a 17-year-old girl dead at a property near Milford-on-Sea in New Forest, with police describing the deaths as "unexplained but not suspicious"
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Pregnant woman killed in drive-by as she waits for Dad to get a birthday cake
Pregnant Marissa Perez, 25, was sitting in the passenger seat of the car waiting for her father when she was fatally shot in what police believe was a targeted killing
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Dad of Brit murdered by pilot husband shares reason Greek brutally killed her
According to David Crouch, pilot Babis Anagnostopoulos killed his daughter Caroline Crouch after she discovered he was trafficking drugs in a suburb of Athens in Greece
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Man, 21, arrested on suspicion of kidnapping his Bumble date for five days
Police arrested Zachary Mills, 21, for holding his victim at his apartment on Kuykendahl Road in Houston, Texas, and sexually assaulting her, after meeting her on the dating app Bumble
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Scaffolding collapses on double decker bus forcing road closure and travel chaos
Scaffolding can be seen lying against a double decker bus that is at a stop on Willesden High Road in north west London in dramatic images with police forced to close off the street
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Murder of Brit in Jamaica 'contract killing ordered from the UK', police claim
The 33-year-old personal trainer from London was found with gunshot wounds to his head and upper body two days after arriving in Jamaica in order to visit family
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Cops make grim discovery of five kids and three adults shot dead inside house
Eight dead bodies including five children have been found in a Utah home with gun shot wounds. A police investigation is underway although there is not thought to be a threat to the public
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Top CEO arrested after woman spots him peeping at her under toilet door in cafe
Eduardo Moreno, the CEO of tech company SeaDrone Inc, which supplies underwater drones to the US Navy, was arrested after being tackled by witnesses
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Terrified woman flees in underwear after fiancé marches her away and bites face
Cameron Johnson has been sentenced to three years behind bars for biting, punching and strangling his fiancée during two vicious attacks that left her fearing for her life
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Girl chased and attacked by 16 men for 'dressing immodestly' at Iraq biker event
A teenager was filmed running from a crowd of men in the city of Sulaymaniyah, in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, before being surrounded by them. She was insulted and beaten, according to locals
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Killer slit mum's throat in posh village after she ended fling over age gap
John Jessop, 26, had been in a brief relationship with mum-of-three Clair Ablewhite, 47, and he killed her six days after she ended things, Nottinghamshire Police said today
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Woman, 22, killed by police car on Xmas Eve was carer walking home from work
Rachael Louise Moore, 22, was hit by the marked police car in Merseyside, at around 8.10pm on Christmas Eve - a coroner today opened an inquest into her death
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Paedophile Gary Glitter fears attack by 'psycho' if he is moved to open prison
Gary Glitter - who could walk free in weeks - is on a vulnerable person wing at HMP The Verne on the Isle of Portland, Dorset, and is worried that a 'psycho' will attack him if he leaves
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Police officer beats up 12-year-old girl at bus stop as he rains punches on her
Shocked bystanders tried to intervene and pull the girl away as the officer appeared to rain 'hammer strikes' (a punch banned in boxing) down on her head on Staten Island, New York, US
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Woman killed as she waited on application to move to US after death threats
Mum-of-two Karina Melisa Rodríguez, 34, was killed by an identified man in her shop in La Entrada, Copán, Honduras, while waiting for her application to move with her family to the US
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Police release CCTV of man after £60 was swiped from boy, 4, in Smyths Toys shop
A four-year-old boy allegedly dropped £60 at Smyths Toys at Anglia Retail Park in Bury Road in Ipswich on December 27 and it is alleged an unknown man picked it up and left the shop with the cash