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Gerry McCann criticises alleged stalker for damaging efforts to find Madeleine

Gerry and Kate McCann spoke of their distress at Leicester Crown Court on Wednesday.

Evening Standard · Oct 8, 2025

Alleged ‘incessant’ McCann stalker hysterically sobs after Kate recalls distress

Kate McCann gave evidence from behind a screen at Leicester Crown Court on Wednesday.

Evening Standard · Oct 8, 2025

Alleged stalker signed letter addressed to McCanns as Madeleine, court hears

Julia Wandelt, 24, who has claimed to be Madeleine McCann, and 61-year-old Karen Spragg are on trial accused of stalking the missing girl’s parents.

Evening Standard · Oct 7, 2025

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Alleged McCann family stalker claimed to be two other missing girls, court told

Julia Wandelt, 24, said in a message to Kate McCann that she remembered the night Madeleine went missing, jurors heard.

Evening Standard · Oct 6, 2025

Polish woman who claimed to be Madeleine McCann ‘stalked missing girl’s parents’

Julia Wandelt, 24, and Karen Spragg, 61, are on trial accused of stalking Kate and Gerry McCann.

Evening Standard · Oct 6, 2025

Migrant who assaulted four people at asylum hotel ‘wants to return to Syria’

Mohammed Sharwarq was a resident at the Bell Hotel in Epping, Essex, at the time of the offences in July and August of this year.

Evening Standard · Sep 30, 2025

Asylum seeker at centre of Essex hotel protests jailed for 12 months

Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu, 38, was convicted last month of assaulting a 14-year-old girl and a woman

The Guardian - UK · Sep 23, 2025

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Suspected terrorist wanted by FBI could face ‘90-year sentence’ – hearing

Daniel Andreas San Diego, 47, was one of the US agency’s ‘most wanted fugitives’ after two bombings in the San Francisco area of California in 2003.

Evening Standard · Sep 8, 2025

NHS surgeon who had his legs removed to satisfy sexual interest is jailed for fraud

Neil Hopper took nearly £500,000 from insurers after falsely claiming he needed amputation because of sepsis

The Guardian - UK · Sep 4, 2025

NHS surgeon jailed for fraud over amputation of his own legs

Neil Hopper, of St Erme, Truro, Cornwall, entered guilty pleas to the five charges against him at Truro Crown Court.

Evening Standard · Sep 4, 2025

Alleged victim young enough to be my child, asylum seeker told police

Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu ‘teaches sports’ in his home country Ethiopia, a court heard.

Evening Standard · Aug 27, 2025

Alleged asylum seeker sex assault made woman ‘uncomfortable’, court hears

Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu denies all five charges against him.

Evening Standard · Aug 27, 2025

Volunteer Met officer’s alleged rape victim told police she was kept ‘hidden’ in public

All charges are alleged to have taken place between 1 January 2018 and 2 April 2024

The Independent UK · Aug 12, 2025

Volunteer officer’s alleged rape victim so young she liked teddies, court told

James Bubb, who now identifies as a woman named Gwyn Samuels, was violent towards his alleged victim during sex, the court heard.

Evening Standard · Aug 12, 2025

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Evening Standard · Aug 11, 2025

Met volunteer officer had 12-year-old perform sex act in public, court told

The defendant allegedly told one victim she ‘enjoyed being raped’ during sexual encounters.

Evening Standard · Aug 8, 2025

Baby killer Constance Marten compares prosecutors to Harry Potter Dementors in prison diatribe

Constance Marten has complained about her treatment during her Old Bailey manslaughter trial

Evening Standard · Jul 15, 2025

Constance Marten claimed long days and bad food denied her a fair trial in extraordinary magazine interview from behind bars

Constance Marten complained about the Old Bailey temperature and food as cover star for The View magazine during her second trial

The Independent UK · Jul 14, 2025

Aristocrat’s ‘evil’ partner should have been jailed for life for raping me, his first victim says

The victim has spoken out after she was attacked in her home by Mark Gordon, who was armed with a knife and hedge-clippers

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Evening Standard · Jul 14, 2025

How the elephant in the courtroom crashed into Constance Marten’s trial

The scene was set before the case began, as Mark Gordon’s defence team raised the thorny subject of the ‘white aristocrat and black rapist’.

The Independent UK · Jul 14, 2025

Man accused of suitcase murders claims he was ‘raped every day’

Yostin Andres Mosquera, 35, is on trial for the murders of Albert Alfonso, 62, and Paul Longworth, 71, on July 8 last year.

The Independent UK · Jul 11, 2025

Man accused of suitcase murders claims he feared for his life

Yostin Mosquera admits to killing Albert Alfonso but claims it was manslaughter and that Mr Alfonso had killed Paul Longworth first.

Evening Standard · Jul 7, 2025

Jury retires to consider verdict in Constance Marten and Mark Gordon baby manslaughter retrial

Marten, 38, and Gordon, 51, are accused over the death of newborn Victoria in a tent on the South Downs in early 2023

The Independent UK · Jun 30, 2025

Man, 92, found guilty of murder in ‘UK’s oldest cold case’

Police are now examining whether Ryland Headley could be linked to other unsolved crimes

Evening Standard · Jun 30, 2025

Man, 92, convicted of 1967 murder in Britain’s longest-running cold case

Ryland Headley, then aged 34, forced entry into the home of 75-year-old Louisa Dunne in Bristol in June 1967 before attacking her.

Evening Standard · Jun 27, 2025

Jury continues considering verdicts in 1967 murder trial

Ryland Headley has been on trial at Bristol Crown Court for the past two weeks.

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