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Around 4,000 Ukrainian citizens are now stranded in the eastern city of Bakhmut, which has been described as 'almost destroyed' by deputy mayor Oleksandr Marchenko

Nine serial offenders - including a sex attacker with 203 previous offences - were handed suspended sentences or community orders instead of jail time in 2021, figures show

Dad-of-six Saul Murray, 33, was given sedatives after being seduced by Surpreet Dhillon, 36, and Temidayo Awe, 21, before Ikem Affia, 31, and Cleon Brown, 29, killed him

The former Paralympian was sentenced to 13 years and five months in jail for the murder of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp but at the end of this month, a parole board in South Africa will consider the case and may give him an early release

Disgraced South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh, who was addicted to painkillers, wanted to die so his son Richard could cash in his £8million life insurance policy

Madeleine McCann prime suspect Christian Brueckner won't be charged this year, according to German prosecutor Hans Christian Wolters who admits "it’s going to take a lot longer"

Footage released shows the unnamed Brit watching on in a white T-shirt with a rucksack on his back as his suitcase was opened in front of him at a Colombian airport

Medical student Brian Shaffer, from Ohio, US, went on a bar crawl with his roommate to celebrate the beginning of spring break but it was the last time he was ever seen

Jose Manuel Gonzalez Testino was due to be sentenced for bribery and his role in a money laundering scheme when he shot his three-year-old son before turning the gun on himself

Three children have been killed and two others have been injured at a home in Texas in what is believed to have been a stabbing attack with a suspect, reportedly the mother, in custody

WARNING, DISTRESSING FOOTAGE: Shawn Lee Brunson allegedly stole a car in Baltimore, Maryland and was chased by police until he crashed onto another car and then into a building, which collapsed on the vehicles, also killing pedestrian Alfred Fincher

Ryan Johnston, 36, is claimed to have preyed on the woman on the Piccadilly Line in London between Heathrow and Hounslow West in February 2020

The disgraced star received 21 months in prison for sharing the clip to Only Fans, with nine months for count 1 and six months for count 2, to run concurrently

Carla Money was driving her son home from a playdate when she hit 77-year-old cyclist Celia Ward, who had fallen into the road after being sworn at and verbally abused by 49-year-old Auriol Grey

Fans are flocking to Netflix to watch the critically praised three-part documentary series Murdaugh Murders: A Southern Scandal on the day dad Alex Murdaugh was sentenced

Pietro Addis knifed grandmother Sue Addis 17 times at her home in Brighton after it was heard she had expressed fears the cannabis-addicted teen was becoming 'paranoid'

Alex Murdaugh has been found guilty of killing his wife and son at their sprawling countryside estate. But this story stretches back even further and includes even more bodies in South Carolina's Lowcountry, in the US

Glastonbury Festival has announced they are renaming their iconic John Peel stage after 18 years, following historic sexual abuse claims made against the BBC Radio One DJ

The 12-person jury took just 45 minutes to find Alex Murdaugh guilty of killing his wife Maggie and son Paul at their sprawling country estate of Moselle in South Carolina, US

Alex Murdaugh was found guilty of two counts of murder after his wife and their son were shot dead at their rural home in South Carolina, US, in a case highlighted in Netflix documentary Murdaugh Murders: A Southern Scandal

The missing toddler had be staying with his great-aunt in Cincinnati, Ohio, US, when he was snatched by another guest. The pair have been spotted since but police are desperate to find them

Celebrity Big Brother star Stephen Bear 'humiliated' women on TV shows in an effort to get more work as he says he would 'put on a show' and be 'whoever they wanted him to be'

Lorraine Thorpe was 15 when she and Paul Clarke tortured and murdered Rosalyn Hunt and her own father ,and was later jailed for life - but she's up for parole later this summer

In the wake of Stephen Bear's trial, Lauren Evans talks about her experience of image-based sexual abuse and the devastating effects that will always haunt her after she didn't get the justice she deserved

A man in London was rushed to a hospital following a huge brawl in a McDonald's restaurant on Thursday night. Emergency services were called to the scene after the man sustained a head injury