Crime

Yesterday, Thomas Cashman was sentenced to a minimum 42 years in prison after nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel was shot in the chest in her house in Liverpool last August

The decision has sparked outrage among politicians and charities, with Rape Crisis Scotland's CEO Sandy Brindley describing the sentencing as "worryingly lenient"

Cashman, 34, has been jailed for life with a minimum of 42 years for the murder of nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel

CCTV footage secretly recorded by the victim in the lounge of her home in Blaenau Gwent, South Wales, showed Lewis Thomas dragging her across the floor by her hair and legs during the “truly awful” assault on February 10, 2020

Fawziyah Javed, 31, died after falling from the 823ft-high Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh in September 2021. Her husband Kashif Anwar, 29, is accused of murdering her as he denies all charges

Days before Nicole Fits, 32, was found dead in 2016 her family had raised the alarm after a mysterious Facebook post appeared on her profile that seemed to have been written by someone else

Olivia Pratt-Korbel was shot dead inside her family's home in Dovecot, Merseyside, last August, after gunman Thomas Cashman chased convicted burglar Joseph Nee into the house and opened fire

The murderer of Olivia Pratt-Korbel did not have the guts to attend his sentencing in court - he could brandish a gun in the street but he was too pathetic to look her family in the eye

The LS756 flight from Tenerife to Manchester Airport issued the alert around three hours into the journey on Sunday night (April 2) after a customer required medical assistance

Olivia Pratt-Korbel's mum Cheryl told Manchester Crown Court it was "as though time had stood still" when she came home for the first time after her daughter had been shot dead

Klaus Braunig, now 78, has spent half a century behind bars after stabbing a doctor and her teenage daughter to death in their homes in the western German city of Mainz, in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate

Armed police officers, and ambulances raced to the scene in south east London after an 11-year-old girl was attacked by a dog - leading to a woman being arrested

Abby Zwerner has filed a lawsuit against the management of Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, Virginia seeking $40 million in damages after a kid shot her on January 6

Donald Trump left his Mar-a-Lago mansion in a motorcade and arrived at Palm Beach airport in Florida, from where he took off and headed to LaGuardia airport in New York

Kathleen Poole, 74, moved from Cheshire to Sweden 18 years ago to be close to her son and his family. She developed dementia 11 years ago and has been in a care home for 10 years

Olivia Pratt-Korbel was gunned down in her own home in August last year and today Thomas Cashman was sentenced at Manchester Crown Court to at least 42 years in jail

Cheryl Korbel clung to the teddy while Thomas Cashman was sentenced to a minimum of 42 years in prison for the murder of nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel last August

In a harrowing letter to the Home Secretary, a woman who was trafficked and sold between gangs said she had to wait 562 days for officials to finally recognise she was a victim - during which time she had nowhere safe to stay

Lori Vallow Daybell is set to go on trial accused of the murder of Tylee Ran and JJ Vallow, whose bodies were found in a pet cemetery on the property of 'doomsday cult leader' husband Chad Daybell

Sheldon Flanighan, 55, was killed after being hit by a van outside the Bay Horse pub in Cramlington, Northumberland, on Saturday. Three people have been charged with murder

Timothy Schofield, 54, was charged with 11 sexual offences involving a child between 2016 and 2019, including two of sexual activity with a child

Specialist handler Daniel Holdsworth shares everything his drug detection dogs get up to in a day - from patrolling the prison to searching visitors for illegal substances

The bodies of Gary Dunmore, 57, and Joshua Dunmore, 32, were discovered at properties in The Row, Sutton, and Meridian Close, Bluntisham, Cambridgeshire on March 29

A "tyrant" father who was killed by his teen daughters will now be put on trial after his death following allegations he was an abuser who "systematically" tortured his own children in Russia

Police are trying to determine whether a fight broke out moments before a model plummeted to death from a sixth-floor luxury flat in in Buenos Aires, Argentina