All news by author: Martin Fricker

Former friend of Christian Brueckner warns that the Madeleine McCann suspect is still a threat to others. It comes as he is currently serving a seven-year jail term for raping a pensioner at Praia da Luz on the Algarve in 2005

Shay Kang, 10, died at the house on Monday lunchtime, hours after she was seen playing with friends In Rowley Regis. Her mum has been charged with her murder

Schoolgirl Shay Kang, 10, was found dead at her home in Rowley Regis, West Midlands, on Monday afternoon, where she lived with her mum. A 33-year-old woman was arrested

Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Brueckner faces charges for crimes against women and children in Portugal, and appeared in court in Braunschweig, Germany on Friday

Nottingham Forest fanatic Vera Hill reluctantly gave up her annual season ticket when her eyesight started to deteriorate in 2012, listening to games on the radio instead

Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Brueckner faces charges for crimes against women and children in Portugal, but his court case in Braunschweig, Germany was today adjourned

Convicted German sex offender and prime Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Brueckner's long awaited trial is set to start on Friday, which will be his first public appearance since he was accused of being Maddie's abductor

Convicted paedophile Christian Brueckner, 47, is standing trial on Friday accused of carrying out a string of vile sex attacks in Portugal

The monarch, who gave his “heartfelt thanks” for messages of support on Saturday, was seen out in public as he was joined by the Queen for the service at Sandringham

A British ex-pat has claimed paedophile Christian Brueckner hatched a sick plan to kidnap a child in Portugal week before Madeleine McCann went missing in Praia du Luz

A court heard how the woman had a 'fixation with violence' and filmed herself slaughtering the stolen pet - before allegedly murdering a man and dumping his body in a river

Pooja Kanda, whose son Ronan was murdered in June 2022, wants a clampdown on websites selling blades online. Labour believes tech firm bosses should be held responsible

When Bob Brooker's mum Doris died, she left him a heap of old photographs which revealed a secret affair in his family that went back more than a hundred and thirty years.

As examined in Channel 4's Catching A Killer, Peter Farquhar was tricked into believing he was in a loving relationship with his young lover Ben Field, who was secretly killing him to get hold of his money

Clear video footage from a Ring doorbell shows callous Peter Norgrove hurrying out to his car after he killed Sharon Gordon in her own home in Dudley, West Midlands

Sharon Gordon met newly-qualified bricklayer Peter Norgrove at the church they both attended. She was found slumped at the bottom of the stairs in her own home

Calocane’s guilty plea of manslaughter by diminished responsibility was accepted on Thursday and he was sentenced to a hospital order

Valdo Calocane – sentenced on Thursday to an indefinite hospital order – killed Grace O’Malley-Kumar, Barnaby Webber and Ian Coates - Barnaby's mum issued stark words to police on Thursday

Valdo Calocane was previously a man of 'impeccable character' before being billed as 'The Psycho' at university. Whilst suffering from paranoid schizophrenia, he killed three victims in a knife rampage

Valdo Calocane, 32, went on a chilling rampage across Nottingham in June last year, killing students Grace O'Malley-Kumar and Barnaby Webber as well as school caretaker Ian Coates, 65

Grace O’Malley-Kumar’s family have backed the Mirror’s anti-knife campaign, with her dad Dr Sanjoy Kumar saying the scourge of knife crime is at “epidemic proportions” and needs tackling following her murder by Valdo Calocane in Nottingham in June.

Valdo Calocane, 32, killed university students Barnaby Webber, Grace O'Malley-Kumar, both just 19, and a school caretaker, Ian Coates, 64, during a frenzied attack on June 13 last year

Grace and Barnaby Webber, both 19, and Ian Coates, 65, were killed by Valdo Calocane, 32, a paranoid schizophrenic in Nottingham on June 13, 2023 - he will sentenced on Wednesday

Valdo Calocane, 32, brutally knifed Barnaby and Grace, both 19, on their way home from a night out on Ilkeston Road before killing caretaker Ian Coates, 65, in Mapperley Park on June 13 last year

Valdo Calocane brutally stabbed Grace O'Malley-Kumar, Barnaby Webber and Ian Coates to death in Ilkeston Road, Nottingham. His classmates revealed he showed alarming signs ahead of the attack