All news on the topic: Murder trial

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Unexpected final words of infamous serial killer Ted Bundy before his execution
Ted Bundy's chilling final words were unexpected and not at all what people expected from the serial murderer who slaughtered over 30 young women and girls in the 1970s
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Killer shares his immediate reaction after he 'learned of Ashley Dale's death'
James Witham, who has pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of 28-year-old Ashley Dale in Old Sean and denies murder, has told of his first reaction after learning of her death
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UK's 'most dangerous female inmate' now - solitary confinement and prison lovers
'Britain's most dangerous female prisoner' Joanna Dennehy, who was handed a life sentence in 2014 after her frenzied killing spree, told police she found killing her victims 'moreish and fun'
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Ashley Dale murder accused fled UK after shooting as he feared 'retaliation'
Ian Fitzgibbon is among five men accused of murdering 28-year-old Ashley Dale, and claims he fled to Dubai after her death in August last year because he feared "people were gonna retaliate"
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Son of 'evil' biryani poisoner who saw mum kill dad wants to watch her execution
Ramandeep Kaur Mann killed her husband in 2016 by poisoning his biryani dinner and slitting his throat as he slept. Now facing the death penalty, her son Arjun "looks forward" to her execution
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Student dies after being snatched from work and buried alive by ex-boyfriend
Snatched from her workplace by her former boyfriend, 21-year-old nursing student Jasmeen Kaur suffered an horrific fate after being bound, blindfolded and dumped in a shallow grave
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Harrowing moment 'biryani killer' confesses how he slit throat of love rival
Gurpreet Singh, 32, started an affair with Ramandeep Kaur Mann, 38, from Derby, who told him she wanted to kill her husband because of his alleged drug taking and abusive behaviour
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Ashley Dale murder accused takes witness stand and tells jury 'I am no angel'
Ashley Dale defendant Niall Barry, giving evidence at Liverpool Crown Court, denied being the leader of an organised crime group but told the jury he was 'no angel'
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Sick dad 'beat & stabbed 2 young kids to death in astonishing act of brutality'
Prospero Serna is alleged to have attacked three of his four children in his Lancaster, California home, beating and stabbing two of them to death, if convicted he faces life in prison without parole
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Man accused of plotting to kidnap and murder Holly Willoughby pleads not guilty
Gavin Plumb, 36, of Potters Field, Harlow is charged with soliciting to commit murder and incitement to kidnap former ITV This Morning presenter Holly Willoughby
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Dad murders 4-month-old son by causing injuries to tot’s spine, ribs and brain
Reece Kelly was convicted of murder following a three-week trial at Carlisle Crown Court, during which the jury had heard baby Dallas sustained a bleed to his brain
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Harrowing 911 call played in trial of yoga teacher 'who shot dead pro-cyclist'
Caitlin Cash said she discovered the body of her professional cyclist pal, Moriah Wilson, lying in a pool of blood in a Texas home, which prompted her to make a frantic 911 call
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Mum and dad gather to watch daughter's killer describe 'chilling' murder
Natalee Holloway's parents gathered in a room at an Alabama jail to watch Joran van der Sloot admit to killing their daughter who disappeared in 2005 while on holiday in Arbua
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Women failed as quarter convicted of exposure go on to commit further crimes
Since 2018 there have been 219 cases where a person convicted of exposure have gone on to commit violent sex crimes such as rape, including killer cop Wayne Couzens, with the Lib Dems warning the justice system is failing women and girls
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Mum's 20 year nightmare after her 14-year-old daughter vanished
Detectives fear Charlene, 14, was murdered but her body has never been found - and despite several arrests and two trials, no-one has been convicted of her killing
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Policeman shot in station 'would have lived' if 'rookie searched man properly'
Sergeant Matt Ratana was allegedly shot dead by Louis De Zoysa, a double-jointed man with a ten-inch antique revolver, after he smuggled it into a custody centre in Croydon, South London
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Drug dealer 'threatened Ashley Dale's boyfriend in month before her gun murder'
Niall Barry, giving evidence at Liverpool Crown Court today, said he had been friends with Ashley Dale's boyfriend Lee Harrison but stopped speaking to him
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Killer who bludgeoned student sent abroad to serve sentence in another murder
Joran van der Sloot, a Dutchman, confessed to the murder of Natalee Holloway, an American high school student in Aruba in 2005, and has been sent to Peru to serve the remainder of his murder sentence in the country
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Co-pilot 'threatened to shoot captain' for trying to divert passenger plane
Jonathan Dunn, from California, faces up to 20 years in jail after the terrifying incident on board a passenger jet - as details emerged during a court hearing in Utah
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Moment two elderly Muslim worshippers set on fire in attacks outside UK mosques
Mohammed Abbkr is on trial accused of attempting to murder two elderly worshippers by setting them on fire in separate attacks in London and Birmingham, with new footage capturing the incidents
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Fugitive mum is charged with murder of son, 6, after she 'claimed she SOLD him'
Noel Rodriguez-Singh went missing in November 2022, but it wasn’t reported until March this year. Now his mother has been indicted on murder charges - and she has fled to India to escape the authorities
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Suspected serial killer 'The Beast' on trial for killing own mum in murder spree
An alleged serial killer who referred to himself as 'the Beast' is facing 41 charges, including murder, after going on a violent crime spree shortly after being released from prison
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Landlord's cold stare in court after Palestinian-American boy stabbed to death
Joseph Czuba, the landlord who allegedly fatally stabbed six-year-old Palestinian-American Wadea Al-Fayoume, appeared in court today and pled not guilty to eight charges related to murder, attempted murder and a hate crime
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'Killer' yoga teacher 'shot cyclist love rival, escaped and had plastic surgery'
As the trial of Yoga teacher and realtor Kaitlin Armstrong, 35, who is accused of killing pro cyclist Moriah Wilson, is scheduled to take place, prosecutors have added extra charges for trying to escape police custody earlier this month
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Mum rushes to baby son found dead in vomit at daycare as woman jailed for 30yrs
Little Charlie Cronmiller died on February 3, 2021 after being found face down unresponsive covered in his own vomit. His killer, Amanda Hickey, has been sentenced to 30 years in prison