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In silhouette of woman sad depression in bedroom.

More manslaughter charges promised after rise in domestic abuse-related suicides

Channel: UK UK March 25, 2025 By Craig Munro

Toddler dies after babysitter 'left him in unattended in car for hours'

Channel: US US March 25, 2025 By Jessica Kwong

Drug dealer caught 'pink-handed' when photo showing just his fingers exposed him

Channel: UK UK March 24, 2025 By Sam Courtney-Guy

Two missing French bulldogs discovered dead inside crab pots

Channel: US US March 24, 2025 By Jessica Kwong
Picture supplied by Bav Media 07976 880732. Picture dated March 24th shows the injured alpaca called Pheobe at the farm in East Hatley,Cambs.Four other alpacas were killed at the weekend. Four ALPACAS have been SHOT in the HEAD ???like an execution??? and killed in a field in a small village in South Cambridgeshire which was left looking like a ???murder scene.??? Owner Dawn French said their six-acre field in East Hatley, near Gamlingay, looked like ???a massacre??? after the animals were found scattered around early yesterday (Sun) morning after they were shot with a ???.22 or higher rifle.??? A ewe was also ???massacred by dogs??? and a fifth alpaca received a gunshot wound to its face, but survived, in the ???horrific??? incident, which happened between 6pm on Saturday (March 22) and 8.30am yesterday (Sun). See copy catchline Four alpacas SHOT in HEAD ???murder scene??? small Cambs village

Four alpacas 'executed' and ewe 'massacred' with manhunt launched for gunman

Channel: UK UK March 25, 2025 By Sarah Hooper

Football captain was drug dealer and his club didn't know until he was jailed

Channel: UK UK March 24, 2025 By Katie Boyden
Shoe fetish murderer could be moved to open prison

Shoe fetish murderer could be moved to open prison

Channel: UK UK March 24, 2025 By Sam Courtney-Guy

Three men guilty of plotting to murder bank robber involved in £54,000,000 raid

Channel: UK UK March 24, 2025 By Sarah Hooper
Poppy Atkinson and her funeral coffin in hearse

Man United coffin tribute for girl, 10, killed when car crashed onto pitch

Channel: UK UK March 24, 2025 By Ben Lynch
Sam Varley has given evidence from beyond the grave as chilling footage showing her telling officers how the man accused of her murder would kill her was played to a courtroom. Warren Spence, 54, is standing trial at Leeds Crown Court accused of Sam's murder. Sam's body was discovered on February 12 last year in her bed at the couple's home in Brown Hill Terrace, Harehills, after a concerned relative called 999 due to not seeing her for a few days

Mum predicted her own death and who would kill her

Channel: UK UK March 25, 2025 By Sarah Hooper
Banned teacher Ashley Atkin

Primary school teacher banned for turning up to class drunk

Channel: UK UK March 24, 2025 By Ben Lynch
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Four people attacked at random by man with a knife in Birmingham

Channel: UK UK March 24, 2025 By Sara Odeen-Isbister

Former Labour MP who punched a constituent appears on morning TV with alcohol tag

Channel: Politics Politics March 24, 2025 By Jen Mills
The moment we found an 11-year-old boy towing a caravan along the M1

Boy, 12, on the run 'after stealing BMW towing caravan and driving it 40 miles'

Channel: UK UK March 24, 2025 By Luke Alsford
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Two children stabbed after party in school hall is stormed by armed gang

Channel: UK UK March 24, 2025 By Craig Munro
Play Video Two image showing a screengrab of a video of two plain-clothes police officers chasing a suspected phone snatcher in London and muzzed image showing the suspect lying on the ground.

Phone snatcher pinned to the ground after being nabbed by undercover officers

Channel: UK UK March 23, 2025 By Noora Mykkanen
Murder victim Rene Graham and police at the scene of the shooting in Ladbroke Grove, west London

Mum says she's constantly looking over her shoulder because son's killer is still free

Channel: UK UK March 24, 2025 By Oliver Jones

Families of murdered babies say Lucy Letby’s campaign is just ‘publicity-grabbing’

Channel: UK UK March 22, 2025 By Brooke Davies
Kimberly Cruz-Feliciano and a collar

Mother who 'forced own child to wear dead dog's shock collar' pictured

Channel: US US March 22, 2025 By Gergana Krasteva

Sex offender jailed for recording hundreds of men in public toilets

Channel: UK UK March 27, 2025 By Brooke Davies

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