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Pub boss banned from being director after running companies with 12 barred names
Christopher Hannon faces bankruptcy after two of his businesses went into liquidation
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Brother found baby his teen sister 'murdered' inside 'unusually heavy' bin bag
A court heard Paris Mayo asked her brother George to take out a black bin bag left on the front doorstep, which he noticed was "unusually heavy" and left streaks of blood once lifted
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Twisted predator banned from standing near any women he doesn't know in public
Abdulrizak Ali Hersi, 32, from Limehouse London, was banned from "intentionally standing behind or next to any female he doesn't know in a public place" for 10 years
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Five dads killed by collapsing wall 'had no escape' as company bosses jailed
Wayne Hawkeswood and Graham Woodhouse have both been jailed after five men were killed at the Nechells metal recycling site in Birmingham when a wall collapsed on them
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Hitler fan jailed for airing vile racist, homophobic and anti-Semitic podcasts
James Allchurch, from Pembrokeshire in Wales, used a "vile" podcast show to "spread his propaganda about racial conflict" and repeatedly used extreme racial slurs to spread racist ideology
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Pub landlord shouts cancer patient neighbour, 70, will 'die anyway' in bin row
A pub landlord from Morecambe attacked his 70-year-old neighbour who had cancer, following a dispute over their dustbins
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Police officer and boyfriend jailed after selling dying kittens in £280,000 scam
Police officer Amy Byrne and her partner Harry Angell were jailed after selling kittens that were malnourished and unwell
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Holly Willoughby pushing for new contract and ITV decision on Phillip Schofield
Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby are rumoured to have grown apart in recent weeks, with the former releasing a stunning statement on an alleged "rift"
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Son stabs own mum to death in pub car park brawl with drug dealer
Jamie Dempsey stabbed his mother by accident in retaliation to an attack by Brian Flynn, a convicted drug dealer, over an unpaid drug debt
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Killer roamed free as police built case around wrong man in girl's murder probe
Although George Heron was a "weirdo and a loner" to neighbours, he did not kill Nikki Allan and was eventually cleared of murder around one year after the girl's death in Sunderland
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Paedophile who killed girl, 7, used seven false IDs to evade police for 25 years
David Boyd was this week found guilty of murdering Nikki Allan whose body was found in a derelict warehouse in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, more than 30 years ago
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Mum turned detective to catch daughter's killer after keeping dress for 31 years
Sharon Henderson became suspicious of David Boyd, nicknamed "Dave the Beast" in the 1990s when he would watch young children playing in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear
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Killer reported girlfriend missing to police two days after beating her to death
Smita Mistry was beaten to death by her partner. He walked into a police station and told officers she had gone missing two days after he beat her to death in her own home
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Teen mum 'hated' the sound of baby crying before 'killing son with cotton wool'
Paris Mayo, who was 15 at the time of the incident, is accused of killing her newborn baby just hours after birth before putting him in a bin bag at her parents' home
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Teen mum 'murdered baby with cotton wool' after secret birth at parents' home
WARNING DISTRESSING DETAILS Paris Mayo, now 19 but 15 at the time of the incident, has gone on trial accused of killing Stanley Mayo at her parents' home in Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, on March 23 2019
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Mum feels like Barbie doll 'clicking into place' after ex mows her down in car
Amy Boardman was left with life-threatening injuries after evil ex Christopher Greer drove at her outside her Bolton home while their six-year-old daughter was in the car
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DCI Banks' Stephen Tompkinson speaks out after trial as accuser slams verdict
DCI Banks actor Stephen Tompkinson has shared his reaction outside Newcastle Crown Court as he was found not guilty of inflicting grievous bodily harm on Karl Poole i
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Dad who dealt drugs to finance daughter's eye surgery in tears as he faces judge
Callum Edwards-Pritchard returned to crime to fund private treatment for his daughter's eye surgery, but admitted in an emotional letter that he had made a massive mistake
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Middle-aged couple caught running £70k 'Deliveroo-style' cocaine service
Stephen Jennings and Sarah Hunt helped drugs kingpins in Derby pocket nearly £70k dropping off cocaine at houses in the city which a judge likened to the delivery app
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Man made partner 'feel like a dog' by forcing her to eat garlic bread off floor
Thomas Barton, 43, made his "humiliated" former partner eat scraps of garlic bread off the floor and left her terrified that he would use violence against her, a court heard
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Newborn baby died after being thrown by mother off flat's balcony
A 34-year-old woman whose newborn baby was discovered dead in a garden after being thrown from a balcony as she 'recovered from the effects of giving birth' has admitted to infanticide
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Teacher who killed her boyfriend describes burying him in the garden
Year Six schoolteacher Fiona Beal denies murdering her partner in November 2021, believing she is guilty of manslaughter due to her mental state at the time of the incident
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Man accused of killing schoolgirl had 'sexual fantasies about children'
WARNING - DISTRESSING CONTENT: Seven-year-old Nikki Allan died in 1992 after being hit with a brick and stabbed in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, as David Boyd stands trial for her murder
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Family gasps as dad found not guilty of shaking 2-week-old daughter to death
Darin Harvey, 26, denied murdering his two-week-old baby daughter Felicity-May Harvey, who died three days after being found "blue" at home in Greater Manchester
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Man murdered 'music loving' woman whose body lay undiscovered in flat for weeks
Joe Rankin, 33, from Gloucestershire, is facing life in prison after admitting the murder of Emma Potter, 40, whose body was found in her flat several weeks later
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