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Karen Edwards, whose daughter Becky Godden, 21, was strangled by the fiend in 2003, said Claudia’s family deserve “some peace”

The suspect is the third teenager to be held in connection with the fatal stabbing of 17-year-old Chima Osuji in Chingford, on Easter Monday

Police revealed the suspect behind the threats the night before had shot a gun from his vehicle while driving through two Sacramento suburbs, lodging bullets in the wall of a hospital and a commercial building but injuring no one

Former US president Donald Trump is back in New York expected to take part in a deposition in another lawsuit being filed against him following his indictment on felony fraud charges as he sues former lawyer and key witness Michael Cohen

Nick Carter is facing allegations of sexual assault and battery in a new lawsuit filed by singer Melissa Schuman after an incident that occured in 2002 in Santa Monica, California. Allegations which he has vehemently denied.

A Rio de Janeiro court sentenced Veronica Costa to 10 years and eight months, stipulating that her sentence must be served in a prison

Anne Perry, the crime author whose role in a murder as a teen was featured in hit film Heavenly Creatures starring Kate Winslet, has died in a Los Angeles hospital

Aaisha Hasan, 34, allegedly kept secret recordings of her husband Asim Hasan and voiced her fears to her friends on WhatsApp before her death, in which she suffered 36 stab wounds

Ruth DiRienzo-Whitehead, 50, from Pennsylvania, US, told police she did not want her son Matthew Whitehad to grow up 'with these struggles' and allegedly used her husband's belt to strangle him

The White Hart in Grays, Essex, has been dropped from the Good Beer Guide after its landlords refused to stop displaying the dolls after it was raided by police earlier this month

Victim Joice Maria da Gloria Rodrigues, 25, was strangled to death with a shirt before her body was concealed on a construction site in Sao Vicente, Brazil

A vigilante mum has walked free from court after she abducted and tied up a suspected drug dealer. Scot Linda Gowers, 40, bundled Michael Graham into a van and took him to her house in Kirriemuir, Angus before calling the police

Hollywood actors Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson could be real-life brothers after a family revelation sparks speculation

PC Andrew Caulfield, of Police Scotland, subjected ex-girlfriend and colleague Amanda Watson to nine months of harassment after she dumped him - and has since been sacked

Louis Bernard Gaskin, 56, was put to death at 6:15 p.m. local time after receiving a lethal injection, Florida's governor's office said

The claimants, in their late twenties and early thirties, say the ex-kickboxer – under house arrest in Romania – attacked them between 2013 and 2016

Dermatologist Yue 'Emily' Yu, 45, from South Carolina, US, faces eight years in prison if found guilty of poisoning husband Dr. Jack Chen's tea with drain cleaner

New York Police Department boss Widler Lucas allegedly grabbed Ammy Ventura by the hair and dragged her behind his desk. He is accused of forcing her to give him oral sex while his office door was open

Piran Ditta Khan, 74, is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court charged with murdering Pc Sharon Beshenivsky in Bradford in 2005

Browns star Perrion Winfrey arrested in Texas and is facing misdemeanour assault charges for "intentionally and knowingly causing bodily injury to" a woman with his next court date next week

A number of weapons including knives and rifles with silencers were found in 'doomsday cult mum' Lori Vallow Daybell's garage along with toys and items belonging to son JJ as well as his prescription medication

Louis Bernard Gaskin, 56, was convicted of killing the Sturmfels in their Flagler County winter home. He stole from the house a clock, two lamps and a videocassette recorder which he wanted to give to his girlfriend as a present

Chris Ryley's pub The White Hart Inn in Essex had its display of offensive dolls removed by police - and now an unearthed Facebook post from 2016 appears to show the landlord making a vile joke about lynch mobs WARNING: STORY CONTAINS LANGUAGE READERS MAY FIND OFFENSIVE

Alrico Nelson-Martin, 19, attempted to change his solicitor in court as he along with two other defendants, who failed to turn up, are accused of gunning down mourners at a funeral

The former Eton College master has pleaded not guilty to murder after he was accused of killing his 84-year-old mum, who the court heard he was living with at the time of her death