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Sophie Eastwood, who was named Daniel at the time of their sentencing, is serving a life term at Polmont prison in Brightons, Scotland for using shoelaces to strangle a cell-mate to death in 2004

Dad-of-one Tyre Nichols was on his way home from watching the sunset at a local park when he was pulled over by police and brutally beaten in Memphis, Tennessee, US

US authorities have released footage from the attack on former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's 82-year-old husband at their San Francisco home where he was hit with a hammer

Thousands of protesters have taken to the streets of US cities to seek justice following the release of a video showing five Memphis police officers beating black driver Tyre Nichols to death

US President Joe Biden has said he is "outraged and deeply pained" to see footage of Memphis police officers beating Tyre Nichols, who later died from his injuries

Tyre Nichols, 29, died three days after he was pulled over by police while on his way home after taking photos of the sunset in a nearby park in Memphis, Tennessee

Unrepentant Carl MacDowall, Carlton Mullen and Kieran Kristensen laughed as they were sentenced at Liverpool Crown Court after the violent attack on Jacob Clough-Massey in 2020

Shamed Gary Glitter has served just half of his 16-year sentence for a number of horrific sexual offences and he could be walking the streets as soon as next week

Yuseab Woldeab pretended to be a taxi driver to lure his victim into his car before he kidnapped her, drove her to his home and raped her twice in a "truly horrendous" crime

Police officers and ambulance crews are working at the scene after a boy and girl – aged 15 and 16 - were injured with a blade just after 5pm in Priestpopple, Hexham, Northumberland

In a rant from behind bars, Christian Brueckner said he is being deprived of his “prison rights” on visitors as German authorities fear he will get “sexual satisfaction”

Alex Murdaugh appeared to become emotional and tearful in court after pictures of his murdered wife Maggie and son Paul were shown on the second day of the murder trial

Social workers 'overlooked' the man's criminal convictions for child sex offences after he was previously classed 'low risk', and went on to abuse the girl for a number of years

Skid Row in Los Angles is a permanent homeless camp that stretches across around 70 blocks of Los Anglese where crime is commonplace and people live out on nothing but a mattress

Boxing promoter Leslie Allen promised juror Damien Drackley £5,000 to help him get off charges - but they were rumbled when defence witness Laurence 'Del Boy' Hayden was spotted nodding and winking at Drackley in court

A court heard how Lavinia Pinner punched, kicked, scratched and bit a 13-year-old boy after losing her temper in an argument over an air rifle - she was told 'the sword of Damocles is now hanging over your head' as she was allowed to walk free

Chance Seneca, 21, from Louisiana, US, used Grindr and Snapchat to convince men into meeting him as he wanted to satisfy a Jeffrey Dahmer "compulsive murder-fantasy"

Hayley Marshall was in mourning for her recently deceased partner when she was listening to his funeral playlist and began hurling cans of beer into the street below

A 31-year-old man has been charged with rape and sexual assault following an investigation by detectives into the rape of a woman in the centre of a popular seaside town

Roma Lawson escaped from a police car after being arrested in Margate and led officers on a half-naked chase as she evaded the law and bit an officer before finally being arrested again

Madison Brooks was fatally hit by a car after being dropped of by the group on a dark street in Baton Rouge. An autopsy alleged showed she had been sexually assaulted before hand

Daniel Harris, 19, from Derbyshire, UK, posted videos far-right extremist videos which were shared by Payton Gendron, who has admitted a supermarket shooting in Buffalo, New York

Oliver Mailey shared a fundraising page for his son, Abel-Jax's, funeral and even got his name tattooed on his neck just a matter of weeks after he killed him

Lori Vallow Daybell's attorneys have claimed that she is prejudiced for the time she has spent in prison awaiting trial for allegedly murdering her own children

Beauty students have been left feeling "physically sick" and "violated" after learning during their course they stripped almost entirely naked in front of convicted rapist Isla Bryson