The new Olivia Colman drama set to reinvent ‘true crime’ on TV
“Humankind cannot bear very much reality,” said TS Eliot, but then he never had Netflix. In fact, it would appear that humankind cannot get enough of the…
Arthur Labinjo-Hughes: Major review launched into six-year-old’s murder
‘I am deeply distressed by this awful case’ Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi said: “Arthur’s murder has shocked and appalled the nation. “I am deeply distressed by this…
Valuable drawings by Dame Laura Knight stolen after Royal Mail left them on doorstep
The spate of doorstep thefts has shocked residents of the idyllic riverside village of Waldringfield, where there were just four burglaries reported last year. The theft of…
‘I spent my teenage years trapped in my grandfather’s sex cult’
In 2010, ‘Mama Maria’ ended the communal living mandate, effectively bringing The Family to an end. A David Berg website is still administered by The Family International,…
Arthur Labinjo-Hughes: Life must mean life for ‘evil’ child murderers, say former ministers
The judge said it was not a case where they were “inadequate people incapable of caring properly”, but had instead chosen to be “spiteful and at times…
Pestering women in the street to be outlawed
Pestering women in the street or in pubs and making lewd comments at them could become an offence under plans to criminalise “public sexual harassment”, which are…
Pestering women in the street set to be outlawed
Pestering women in the street or in pubs and making lewd comments at them could become an offence under plans to criminalise “public sexual harassment”, which are…
Authorities dismissed family’s concerns as Arthur Labinjo-Hughes was tortured by ‘evil’ stepmother Emma Tustin
Arthur’s uncle, who contacted West Midlands Police to raise the alarm, was even threatened with arrest for breaking lockdown rules if he attempted to visit his nephew….
Friday morning UK news briefing: ‘Bruise for every day of lockdown’
Quarter of care home patients yet to have booster More than a quarter of care home residents have not yet received a booster jab, despite government pledges…
Arthur Labinjo-Hughes: Emma Tustin sentenced to life and Thomas Hughes 21 years for torturing and killing six-year-old
Tustin used her mobile phone to record hundreds of clips of the little boy being abused, mocked and physically attacked. In one heartbreaking audio message Arthur could…
School bullies could face up to three years in jail under new French law
French school bullies could be jailed for up to ten years if their harassment of classmates leads to suicide or attempted suicide, under a proposed law debated…
‘Wicked and evil’: Father and step-mother guilty of killing Arthur Labinjo-Hughes
When Arthur died, he had more than 130 areas of bruising on his body, was malnourished and had salt levels in the system that medics described as…
Poisoning 32 people with deadly shepherd’s pie made me a better cook, says pub chef
Chef escapes with suspended jail sentence Croucher has now been handed a four-month jail sentence, suspended for 12 months, at Reading Crown Court after admitting a charge…
Killer of Sir Richard Sutton enraged at hotelier’s £10,000 handout to buy car
The court had also heard how Schreiber visited his father’s grave in Stalbridge, Dorset, and sent pictures of himself “raising a glass” to his memory on the…
Courts could empty public galleries to make it less traumatic for rape victims to give evidence
Public galleries should be cleared when victims are giving evidence in rape trials in a bid to improve conviction rates, the Director of Public Prosecutions has suggested….
Ghanaian father of UK’s youngest gun killer: ‘I regret moving my family here for a better life’
There was nothing in the background of Yussuf Mustapha to suggest he would become Britain’s youngest gun killer. The immigrant son of devoutly religious parents, whose older…
‘Resentful’ killer contemplated murdering Sir Richard Sutton and his partner ‘day and night’
He added: “It was only through the quick actions of the police carrying her out of the house to the waiting paramedics, and then the treatment she…
Ghislaine Maxwell ‘a scapegoat’ for Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes
Ms Pomerantz said the heiress, who has spent the past 15 months in a federal prison in Brooklyn, used her “cover of respectability” to lull Epstein’s victims,…
What Nick Fletcher MP doesn’t get about ‘male role models’ – or Doctor Who
But just because a TV series is guilty of crimes against fashion and good storytelling does not mean it can be blamed for a wider cultural malaise….
Minister: I had to be carried home after my drink was spiked on a night out
A minister who claims she was spiked at a bar has called on the Home Secretary to tackle the issue. Mims Davies, the Conservative MP for Mid…
Indie-rock band guitarist charged with murdering 18-year-old Bobbi-Anne McLeod
A body, believed to be that of the missing 18-year-old, was found on Tuesday afternoon close to a beach in Bovisand, around seven miles from where she…
The real villain in Alice Sebold’s tragic tale has yet to be caught
It’s a story to break the heart, but also a story with a twist that even a novelist as imaginative as Sebold might have trouble dreaming up….
‘He told me that my body belonged to him – and I believed him’
There was violence in my home growing up. Not at first, when I was very young, but by the time I started school, it was there –…
Is it time the world let ‘Foxy Knoxy’ go free?
Knox, then, does not intend to disappear, saying this week in response to those who suggest that she changes her name: “My name is not wrong, they’re…
Swedish hitman disguised himself as a litter picker before shooting father in London, court hears
A Swedish hitman disguised himself as a litter picker before shooting a father on his doorstep, a court has heard. Flamur Beqiri, 36, was killed outside his…