All news on the topic: Murder trial

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Murdered security guard pictured after being battered to death in gang attack
Christopher Molloy, 55, died following an attack by a gang of three in Bootle, Merseyside, after one accused him of "touching" his girlfriend during a confrontation near a Burger King
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Son accused of battering dad to death with champagne says he was attacked first
Deekan Vig, 54, was found lying on the floor naked amongst 100 bottles of champagne next to his dead father, Arjan Singh Vig, 86, at the family home in Southgate, north London, a court heard
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Boy, 15, storms out dock as he's found guilty of beating man to death
A 15-year-old boy stormed out the dock after he was found guilty of beating a man to death during a vicious attack that took place in the early hours of the morning near a Merseyside shopping centre
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Disturbing Google searches by 'killer' husband before 'disposing of wife's body'
Footage shows Ana's husband, Brian Walshe, allegedly throwing heavy trash bags in a dumpster at a nearby Massachusetts town while blood was also found in his car, prosecutors say
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Gunman's instagram in boast after he's jailed for shooting schoolgirl, 15
Rio Jones, 19, was handed a life sentence with a minimum term of 16-and-a-half years last Tuesday (January 10) after spraying bullets on a residential street in Liverpool hitting a 15-year-old schoolgirl in the neck
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Farmer 'murdered' elderly aunt by deliberately 'running her over with a tractor'
Michael Scott has gone on trial accused of running over his elderly aunt Christine Treacy at her home in Derryhiney, Ireland, following a long-running land dispute
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Man accused googling ‘how long before a body starts to smell' after killing wife
Brian Walshe allegedly searched Google over a dozen times for information about getting rid of a body after killing his wife Ana Walshe in Massachusetts, according to prosecutors
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CCTV shows masked teens running through Asda moments before dad stabbed to death
Ian Kirwan was found critically injured after being knifed in front of horrified shoppers at the Asda store in Redditch, Worcestershire, in March last year as boy, 15, found guilty of murder
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Dad and son hired hitmen to kill family so he could start new life with mistress
Thiago Gabriel Belchior de Oliveira, 30, and his dad Marcos, 54, paid the two assassins a total of £16,000 to kill his wife, three kids, mum and his sisters, according to police in Brazil
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Daughter begs father to stay alive moments after he kills terminally ill wife
British expat David Hunter, 75, claims he killed wife-of-52-years Janice at their Cyprus home at her request due to her incurable blood cancer. His murder trial is due to last until Easter
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George Floyd's police officer killer argues he didn't have fair trial in appeal
Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, 46, pinned George Floyd to the ground with his knee on his neck for nine and a half minutes has launched an appeal against his conviction
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Boy murdered Asda shopper who confronted him for messing around in toilets
Software engineer Ian Kirwan was found critically injured after being knifed in front of horrified shoppers at the Asda store in Redditch, Worcestershire, in March last year
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Vatican to investigate unsolved mystery of teen who went missing 4 decades ago
Emanuela Orlandi, 15, was last seen going to a music lesson in central Rome before she disappeared in what has become one of Italy's most high-profile mysteries of all time
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Man charged with murdering Elle Edwards in pub shooting set to face trial
Connor William Chapman is facing nine charges relating to the incident on Christmas Eve at the Lighthouse Inn pub in Wallasey, Merseyside
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Murder-accused refugee sobs as he recalls parents being murdered by the Taliban
Lawangeen Abdulrahimzai, charged with the murder of Thomas Roberts, told a court in Salisbury today that his mother and father were killed after the Taliban planted bombs at his family home
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Life of Mafia boss who boasted he killed so many he 'filled cemetery by himself'
Messina Denaro was captured at a clinic in Palermo, Italy, where he was receiving treatment for an undisclosed medical condition, the head of the police force's special operations squad confirmed
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Idaho murders suspect could have access to 'crime lab' with CCTV around campus
Through his PhD in Criminology programme, Bryan Kohberger might have had access to a lab with tons of police footage, which would make him a "wolf in a henhouse", a source claimed
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'Psychopath' escort killer's evil text messages to old friend admitting murders
A horrifying text message sent by "psychopath with a conscience" escort killer Mark Brown to a friend revealed that he was "disposing of something"
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Man accused of butchering and burning wife's body to be released from custody
WARNING UPSETTING CONTENT: Raul Diaz is accused of killing Romina Celeste Nunez on New Year's Day 2019. But after four years in preventive custody without trial, he must be released by Monday
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Boy, 16 stabbed to death in row with teen was 'big character and natural leader'
Tragic Harley Barfield has been named and pictured after he died this week in what Suffolk Police called an 'altercation between two teenage boys'
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Timeline of horror as psycho builder murdered escorts and hid it for two years
Depraved builder Mark Brown was today sentenced to life in prison with a minimum term of 49 for the murder of Leah Ware and Alexandra Morgan. Here is a timeline of Brown's relationship and the murders of his two victims
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Playboy model jailed for murder of elderly doctor after body found in car boot
Kelsey Turner, 29, was sentenced for the 2019 murder of California psychiatrist Thomas Burchard after she reportedly directed her boyfriend Jon Kennison to "knock him out"
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Biker trio who killed 'Hells Angels' grandad who 'wore wrong colours' jailed
Chad Brading, Benjamin Parry and Thomas Pawley have all been sentenced after being found guilty of the manslaughter of 59-year-old grandfather David Crawford on the A38 in 2021
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Killer brought to justice after 50 years snared by evidence police gave him back
Dennis McGrory, 75, has been jailed at Huntingdon Crown Court for life with a minimum term of 25 years after being convicted of the rape and murder of teenager Jacqui Montgomery nearly 50 years ago
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Psychopath who killed two escorts and incinerated bodies jailed for 49 years
Perverted double murderer Mark Brown killed Leah Ware and Alexandra Morgan in 2021 and torched their bodies in an oil drum at a farm near Hastings, Sussex, as the family speak of their trauma