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One of the boys killed was thrown 254 feet after being hit by an SUV with one expert saying it was the furthest he has known a human to be tossed in a crash - Rebecca Grossman, who was allegedly 'racing' with ex-Dodgers star Scott Erickson, is charged with murder

Climate change campaigner Chris Packham has told how they aren’t taking any chances after 'specific threats' against him and have given him a bodyguard

Mathew Pickering, 49, from Neath, south Wales, is accused of strangling his girlfriend Georgina Dowey and then going out to buy bleach and cat treats to cover his tracks, a court heard

Despite vowing to prison staff that he would fight the parole rejection, Venables 41, who killed toddler James Bulger in 1993, missed this week’s appeal deadline

Phantom of the Forest killer Barry Prudom was the most wanted man in Britain for 18 days after he shot and killed two police officers during his two-week murder spree in the summer of 1982

Grandmother Joanne McKie, 44, was "barely able to form a sentence" and was "heavily intoxicated" when police raided her home in a drug bust and found class A drugs

Incest monster Josef Fritzel, now 88 and suffering from dementia could soon be moved to a care home amid reports he talks to the television and believes he is a pop star

Aditya Verma, 20, is facing a fine and compensation bill worth at least £100,000 for what he described as a 'moment of madness' and a ‘joke’ made on holiday

Paul Mackenzie was arrested in April 2023 after 429 bodies were discovered in shallow graves in Shakahola forest, Malindi, with dozens of followers set to be charged

Samuel Warnock, 29, formerly of Devizes, Wiltshire, has pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of his three-month-old daughter Miyah Warnock in 2021 as he was due to stand trial for murder

Kandice Barber protested her innocence after being convicted of having sex with a 15-year-old pupil in Buckinghamshire. But her note to the teaching misconduct panel had a spelling error

Four children were kidnapped by their father and his friend, the ‘prophet’ of an islamophobic doomsday cult which predicted a Muslim invasion of the US. Horrifying footage shows the moment they are found

Teaching watchdogs ruled Kandice Barber who groomed a 15-year-old boy in Buckinghamshire had demonstrated a 'callous and selfish disregard for her pupil’s well-being'

Depraved father Josef Fritzl, who kept his daughter Elisabeth captive in a sex dungeon for 24 years, could be released from prison after being categorized as 'no longer' a threat to the public

Maxim Myshkin, 40, known as the "Granny Strangler" in the Russian press, was released early from an almost 25 year sentence despite twice strangling and robbing women pensioners

The neighbourhood of Digbeth in Birmingham is 'no longer a trendy place - but a bit of a dump', according to one local who doesn't feel safe going out after dark

Brothers Stewart Ahearne and Louis Ahearne were part of gang who were involved in the museum heist and admitted stealing the Ming dynasty porcelain worth millions from Fondation Baur in Geneva

Josef Fritzl is eligible for parole this year and a court psychiatrist says he is 'harmless' . The 88-year-old kept his daughter Elisabeth locked in a cellar for 24 years as his sex slave

Joseph Ritchie-Bennett, 39, was killed alongside James Furlong, 36, and David Wails, 49, in June 2020 by Khairi Saadallah. A full inquest into their deaths began at the Old Bailey on today

The male victim was shot in the chest yesterday at a shopping mall in Shikokuchuo city in Ehime prefecture on Japan’s southwestern main island of Shikoku, while sipping a Starbucks coffee

Ashley Singh, 39, and Sophie Bruyea, 20, stole from lockers at gyms across London before using their victims' credit cards to fund luxury holidays in Dubai and even bought a pedigree puppy

James Furlong's dad has told an inquest that he opened a Father's Day card from his son 'with a broken heart' the day after he was killed in the Reading terror attack

Nancy Lizeth had been due to marry fugitive Clemente Mendiola Martinez, nicknamed 'El Raton' or 'The Mouse', who is accused of being a killer for a drug cartel in Mexico

Cllr Laured Kalari said Sandwell in the West Midlands has experienced a rise in crime, coupled with a lack of investment by the local authority over recent years

Iris Iliana Rodriguez, 34, was one of the most wanted criminals in Texas after Webb County issued warrants for her arrest as it was claimed she had an inappropriate relationship with a female minor in Laredo