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James Heaps, a retired UCLA gynaecologist, was found guilty of three counts of sexual battery by fraud and two counts of sexual penetration

Nikitta Byrne, 26, woke up in bed after a party in Penarth, Wales, to find her friend's pensioner dad Huw Thomas, 72, sexually assaulting her, having removed her clothing

The police inspectorate said murderers probably continue to escape justice because their crimes are not spotted by poorly supervised and inexperienced officers

The lag was 37 when he was handed three life sentences for bludgeoning Dr Lin Russell and her six-year-old daughter Megan to death with a hammer

Ravi Gulati's secret crime boss Christos was finally revealed in Thursday's EastEnders after the villain set his employee a trap

Emmett Till's 1955 lynching and the photo of his body, which his mother wanted the world to see, brought nationwide attention to the racial violence and injustice prevalent in Mississippi and the entire United States.

The remains had damage "consistent with carnivore scavenging" when they were found in an eastern Idaho yard, an FBI forensic anthropologist told jurors

A seven-year-old special education student at Brown Elementary School in Brownsburg, Indianapolis, was told to eat his vomit after he got sick during lunch

A Zoom meeting hosted by Coney Island Health Centre to discuss the high rate of sexually transmitted diseases was interrupted with X-rated sex acts and foul language

Lee McConnell fell out with pensioner Wendie Bryant after she erected a metal post to stop him parking his VW campervan in her space - then had sex with his wife Dani outside her home

Secil Ciftci is said to have killed victim Semih Sevgi and then buried his body in the woods with help from her dad. The autopsy report revealed that the victim suffered a broken left arm and leg

Lucy Letby, 33, is alleged to have murdered seven babies and attempted to murder 10 others at the Countess of Chester Hospital's neo-natal unit between June 2015 and June 2016

Gasps were heard as death row inmate Richard Glossip lost his appeal for clemency with the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board, despite Attorney General Gentner Drummond attending on his behalf

Sherry was just nine when she was first raped by the deacon of her local church - she is now using her harrowing story to help others

Serial killer and rapist Levi Bellfield - whose victims include Miller Dowler, Amelie Delagrange and Marsha McDonnell - has now confessed to killing Lin and Megan Russell, his solicitor says

Mayweather will return to the ring on June 11 in Florida for his first American exhibition since facing Logan Paul when he takes on John Gotti III

Urban explorer Jose Flores has visited a home in Monterrey, Mexico, that is said to be haunted by the ghosts of two women, a mum and a daughter, who were tortured and killed there

A jury voted for Jeremy Webster to be sentenced to life in prison instead of sending him to a mental hospital for treatment after he shot four people in Denver, Colorado in 2018

The uncle, named only as N.B. in local media, battered his nephew to death before burning his body and dumping it on a tip while high on drugs, police said

A key witness in the Olivia Pratt-Korbel murder case felt compelled to come forward after learning that Thomas Cashman, with whom she was having an affair, had killed the nine-year-old

Myra Otsie Santiago, 22, had been out partying with a friend the night before and woke up the next afternoon to find her three year old son missing from their Ormond Beach apartment in Florida

Sararat Rangsiwuthaporn was arrested following the death of her friend Siriporn Khanwong and now police accused her of killing at least 12 friends and acquaintances with cyanide

Former nurse Neil Parker has been living on the land for a year. He says it was 'abandoned' so he started squatting there, but now he's locked in after a bitter dispute with locals

Osman Shaptafaj killed his estranged daughter Lindita Musai and her husband Veton Musai on New Year's Eve in 2019. His lawyer argued his sentence was too harsh but an appeal to reduce it was refused

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: Unsettling footage from Haiti shows the bloodied men being forced to lie down by rifle-wielding police before bystanders piled tyres on top of them, doused them with petrol and set them alight