All news by author: Fran Way

Shannon Owen, 22, had been enjoying a walk in the woods with her best friend while chatting on the phone to her sister when the 18ft branch suddenly crashed to the ground, hitting her in the chest

Fiona Carrier is accused of having sex with a schoolboy from Blue Coats School in Reading in the 1990s when she was a piano teacher, but denies several counts of indecent assault

John and Angela Richardson killed themselves with a shotgun in the 100-acre woodland behind their £4,500-a-month rented farmhouse, after investors started to pull out of a new business they had set up