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Lucy Letby told police three baby deaths in fortnight ‘bad luck’, court hears

It is alleged the neo-natal unit nurse murdered seven babies and attempted to murder 10 others

The Independent UK · Apr 20, 2023

Lori Vallow: Who is the ‘doomsday cult mom’ on trial for her children’s murders?

Lori Vallow is a mother-of-three, a former game show contestant, a Mrs Texas Beauty Pageant and a cult follower. But is she also a killer? Rachel Sharp reports

The Independent UK · Apr 20, 2023

Alleged murder victim 'tortured and raped in cellar over £300 'drug debt''

Adam Clapham, 31, and another man were allegedly tortured after the cash went missing at a 'drug house.

Daily Record · Apr 20, 2023

4th arrest made in Alabama Sweet 16 birthday party shooting

A fourth man has been arrested and charged with murder in connection with a weekend shooting at a Sweet 16 party that killed four young people in Alabama

The Independent UK · Apr 20, 2023

Evil dad murdered seven-week-old baby daughter by repeatedly throwing her against a wall

Steven Michael Strahm, from Florida, pretended he had accidentally dropped his baby daughter Scarlet while investigators determined he'd repeatedly thrown her into a wall

Daily Mirror · Apr 20, 2023

Stephen Lawrence: how family liaison officers became an integral part of policing in the wake of his murder

Stephen Lawrence was murdered on April 22 1993 in an unprovoked racist knife attack in south London. He was just eighteen at the time. He had been waiting for a bus with his friend, Duwayne Brooks. A group of five to six white youths surrounded him and at least one…

The Conversation · Apr 20, 2023

Oklahoma court upholds Richard Glossip’s murder conviction

An Oklahoma appeals court has upheld the murder conviction of death row inmate Richard Glossip

The Independent UK · Apr 20, 2023

Husband murdered wife after she began new relationship, court told

Peter Nash denies murdering Jillu Nash and their daughter Louise Nash at their home in Suffolk last September.

The Independent UK · Apr 20, 2023

David Ungi linked to fatal shooting of Vinny Waddington by bottle of Lucozade

David Ungi is alleged to have fled to Spain after Vinny Waddington was blasted in the chest with a shotgun

Liverpool Echo · Apr 20, 2023

Seven-year-old ‘skipped to her death when she was lured to derelict building’

Scientific breakthroughs allowed experts to detect David Boyd’s DNA on Nikki Allan’s clothes, his murder trial has heard.

The Independent UK · Apr 20, 2023