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Alex Murdaugh appeared to become emotional and tearful in court after pictures of his murdered wife Maggie and son Paul were shown on the second day of the murder trial

Social workers 'overlooked' the man's criminal convictions for child sex offences after he was previously classed 'low risk', and went on to abuse the girl for a number of years

Skid Row in Los Angles is a permanent homeless camp that stretches across around 70 blocks of Los Anglese where crime is commonplace and people live out on nothing but a mattress

Boxing promoter Leslie Allen promised juror Damien Drackley £5,000 to help him get off charges - but they were rumbled when defence witness Laurence 'Del Boy' Hayden was spotted nodding and winking at Drackley in court

A court heard how Lavinia Pinner punched, kicked, scratched and bit a 13-year-old boy after losing her temper in an argument over an air rifle - she was told 'the sword of Damocles is now hanging over your head' as she was allowed to walk free

Chance Seneca, 21, from Louisiana, US, used Grindr and Snapchat to convince men into meeting him as he wanted to satisfy a Jeffrey Dahmer "compulsive murder-fantasy"

Hayley Marshall was in mourning for her recently deceased partner when she was listening to his funeral playlist and began hurling cans of beer into the street below

A 31-year-old man has been charged with rape and sexual assault following an investigation by detectives into the rape of a woman in the centre of a popular seaside town

Roma Lawson escaped from a police car after being arrested in Margate and led officers on a half-naked chase as she evaded the law and bit an officer before finally being arrested again

Madison Brooks was fatally hit by a car after being dropped of by the group on a dark street in Baton Rouge. An autopsy alleged showed she had been sexually assaulted before hand

Daniel Harris, 19, from Derbyshire, UK, posted videos far-right extremist videos which were shared by Payton Gendron, who has admitted a supermarket shooting in Buffalo, New York

Oliver Mailey shared a fundraising page for his son, Abel-Jax's, funeral and even got his name tattooed on his neck just a matter of weeks after he killed him

Lori Vallow Daybell's attorneys have claimed that she is prejudiced for the time she has spent in prison awaiting trial for allegedly murdering her own children

Beauty students have been left feeling "physically sick" and "violated" after learning during their course they stripped almost entirely naked in front of convicted rapist Isla Bryson

Miriam Berlow-Jackson welcomed Valerie Hayes and Jennifer Amnott into her family but was sickened to find out their alleged involvement in a plot to kidnap children and murder their parents

Five police officers have been charged with second-degree murder after the death of dad and FedEx driver Tyre Nichols, who died three days after a he was pulled over in a traffic stop on January 7

Dean Barnes, 16 — who died in a motorbike crash earlier this week — had previously been convicted for his role in a car theft that saw a takeaway owner killed, it has been revealed

A man has been charged with a series of terrorism, explosives and firearm offences in connection with an incident that saw the evacuation of St James’s Hospital in Leeds last week

Midwife Lindsay Clancy survived the fall and was taken to hospital but authorities have said they will charge her with the murder of her two dead children

Alexander Tyutin, who took a "hit" out on a family-of-four, is now relaxing on a Turkish beach after serving just 18 months of a 23-year sentence - because he fought for Russian warlord Vladimir Putin in Ukraine

West Midlands Police have said a man has been arrested after they responded to a distress call on Wednesday in which one of their officers was stabbed in the shoulder. The incident occurred in the Kings Heath area of Birmingham

Bantamweight brawler Felipe Colares, who most famously competed in the Ultimate Fighting Championship, said he and some pals rescued a woman in distress after she was robbed by a thief in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul

Defendant Alex Murdaugh cried in court as lawyers detailed how the force of the shots caused such bad damage to his son's head that his brain was blasted right out of his skull in Islandton, South Carolina, US

Rhian Hughes will wear an electronic 'sobriety tag' as a 'punishment' after she was tested three times the drink-driving limit as she drove herself and children home

Professor Nigel Wilson and his wife Dr Hanneke Wilson sent £77,000 to rogue builders for roof repairs at their home which usually cost around £1,000, Oxford Crown Court heard