All news on the topic: Murder trial

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CCTV shows killer buying cable ties hours before he strangled woman to death
Shannon Grant, 27, was caught on CCTV buying cable ties that he would later use to strangle Natasha Morais, 40 to death in her own home, before making off with her card and phone
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Pensioner accused of murdering cop was 'mastermind' behind fatal robbery
Leeds Crown Court heard Piran Ditta Khan had a "pivotal" role in planning the robbery which lead to the death of PC Sharon Beshenivsky in 2005
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Dad's final two words after being stabbed in plot to steal 'fake designer watch'
Music industry boss Emmanuel Odunlami, 32, was with pals at a £1,400-per-table event at Haz restaurant near St Paul’s Cathedral in central London in May 2022 the night he was killed
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Man, 75, in court accused of murdering policewoman after being extradited
Piran Ditta Khan appeared at Leeds crown court on Monday for the start of jury selection after being extradited from Pakistan last April over the murder of PC Sharon Beshenivsky
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Inside Sarah Payne's tragic final moments as twisted killer is attacked in jail
The despicable murder of eight-year-old Sarah Payne horrified people up and down the country, and her vile killer Roy Whiting has repeatedly been attacked behind bars
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Body in the pond murder accused confessed to friend, court hears
Body parts belonging to "Scottish Phil" Lewis were discovered in Oakwood Pond in Essex on New Year's Eve. Lee Clarke has gone on trial accused of the 59-year-old's murder
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Yoga teacher spent $6k on plastic surgery after shooting cyclist ‘love rival’
Attempting to escape justice, Kaitlin Armstrong, the murderer of pro-rider Moriah Wilson, spent $6,000 on plastic surgery
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Judge 'sent 500 texts during murder trial and mocked prosecutor’s genitals'
An Oklahoma judge has been told to step down after sharing hundreds of 'crass' texts with her bailiff which included personal comments about the prosecuting attorney
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Wife who 'fatally shot husband got pregnant by an inmate's semen-filled glove'
Daisy Link this week requested to be released on house arrest pending her murder trial due to her pregnancy, which she allegedly told her mother was caused by another inmate's semen-filled glove that made its way to her
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Moment OAP lured to flat before being beaten to death by woman and teenage boy
The "bizarre team" of Antoinette Sheppard, 44, and Kieron Spicer, 16, battered 'kind and gentle' Michael Brady to death before hiding his remains in a TV box in a garden shed in Coventry
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Eight bombshells from Putin's Tucker Carlson interview from WW3 to Elon Musk
Over the indulgent two hour interview the Russian despot shared his thoughts on a range of topics from the possibility of nuclear armageddon, to his opinion of tech mogul Elon Musk
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Dad 'beat daughter to death before eating meal with her body in the car'
Prosecutors in the murder trial of Adam Montgomery, who faces multiple charges including second-degree murder over the death of his five-year-old daughter Harmony Montgomery, divulged the gruesome details of the day leading up to the child's death
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Drug dealer jailed after making crucial CCTV error when he killed fellow student
Melvin Lebaga-Idubor will spend the rest of his life in prison for the murder of Kwabena Osei-Poku, a digital marketing student at University of Northampton, whom he stabbed near the campus
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Lucy Letby bids to overturn her baby murder convictions again using 14-day rule
Convicted child murderer Lucy Letby had her initial application for permission to appeal against all of her convictions refused by a judge without a hearing last month
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Woman live streams herself killing cat before murdering man, court hears
A court heard how the woman had a 'fixation with violence' and filmed herself slaughtering the stolen pet - before allegedly murdering a man and dumping his body in a river
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Socialite 'had valium and alcohol in system' when brothers died in 'hit-and-run'
Rebecca Grossman had reportedly consumed a cocktail with her then-lover Scott Erickson, former pitcher for the LA Dodgers baseball team, prior to an accident which left two young brothers dead
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Killer Alex Murdaugh ordered to hand half his cash to boat crash victims
The disgraced ex-lawyer will pay his remaining small fortune to 16 victims of his late sons drunken boat crash five years after the fatal accident.
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'I was convicted of a murder I didn't see happen - the law needs to change'
Joseph Appiah, known as Cleeshay, called for new laws on joint enterprise cases, which MPs heard is a 'miscarriage of justice on the same scale as the Post Office Horizon scandal'
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Thug who strangled partner with dressing gown jailed for life
Georgina Dowey was besotted with her killer Mathew Pickering who she had known since school and said was the love of her life. He killed her in "jealous rage" at his South Wales home
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Wife accused of trying to kill husband and urinating on him over ex's postcard
Bertha Yalter is facing attempted murder charges for allegedly assaulting her husband of 52 years after he received a postcard from an ex-girlfriend from the 1960s
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Brianna Ghey's killer talked like serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer says psychiatrist
Scarlett Jenkinson admitted being the one who stabbed Brianna Ghey in meetings with psychiatrist Dr Richard Church and used similar language to serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, he has revealed
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Inside real life 'We Need To Talk About Kevin' mum trial for son's school murder
A Michigan mum on trial after her 15-year-old son Ethan Crumbley shot dead four students at a school has been uncovered as disconnected from her son and missing vital signs
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Brianna Ghey murderer sent to same secure unit where James Bulger's killer held
After being sent down for a minimum of twenty years for the brutal slaying of teen Brianna Ghey, sick killer Eddie Ratcliffe has been staying at the facility that once guarded Robert Thompson
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Three ways teenage killers showed no 'rituals of innocence' in interviews
Murderers Scarlett Jenkinson and Eddie Ratcliffe failed to present themselves as innocent while being grilled by cops over the murder of transgender teen Brianna Ghey
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'Brianna must have been so terrified - I should have been there to protect her'
Slain girl Brianna Ghey's mother Esther delivered a harrowing victim impact statement to the court yesterday as her child's sick murderers were sent down for life for the frenzied park attack