All news on the topic: Murder trial

Ex-anaesthetist Mathew Pickering, 49, is accused of strangling his girlfriend Georgina Dowey before covering her head with a black bin liner and trying to dispose of her body in Neath in May last year

Kenneth Smith is set to be executed by the state of Alabama using a controversial method of nitrogen gas, which has never been used before, after his lawyers failed to stop the "cruel" death sentence

Shinji Aoba stormed into Kyoto's No 1 studio in July 2019, setting off a monstrous blaze which claimed the lives of 36 people - many of them dying from carbon monoxide poisoning - and leaving more than 30 people badly burned or injured

Actor Alec Baldwin is still facing charges in regards to a shooting incident on the set of Rust. His legal team responded to the recent initiated proceedings by the prosecution

Shanda Vander Ark, 44, was on trial for torturing her disabled 15-year-old son Timothy Ferguson to death, subjecting him to nine-hour ice baths and forcing him to eat bread soaked in hot sauce

Kenneth Eugene Smith, who was sentenced to death for his part in the 1988 murder for hire of Elizabeth Sennet, is set to be executed again after surviving a four-hour ordeal in 2022

Valdo Calocane, 32, killed university students Barnaby Webber, Grace O'Malley-Kumar, both just 19, and a school caretaker, Ian Coates, 64, during a frenzied attack on June 13 last year

Grace and Barnaby Webber, both 19, and Ian Coates, 65, were killed by Valdo Calocane, 32, a paranoid schizophrenic in Nottingham on June 13, 2023 - he will sentenced on Wednesday

Khalid Khalid was shot six times when four men dressed in burkhas burst into the house in Ilford, east London, and shot and stabbed his two friends to death

Valdo Calocane, 32, brutally knifed Barnaby and Grace, both 19, on their way home from a night out on Ilkeston Road before killing caretaker Ian Coates, 65, in Mapperley Park on June 13 last year

Chibuike Ohanweh, 21, of Romford; Ayaanle Adan, 20, from Barking; Mahad Gouled, 22, from Enfield; and Mirza, 21, of Newham, had denied double murder, two charges of attempted murder and perverting the course of justice

CCTV released by the CPS shows the moment gunman Daniel Whelan shot at a gang in 'revenge' for a robbery in Oldham, Greater Manchester, instead hitting a car carrying a dad and his daughter

Kenneth Smith and another man were each paid $1,000 to kill Elizabeth Sennett in 1988 by her husband Reverend Charles Sennett, who was in deep debt and wanted to collect on insurance

Liren Chen, 27, a software engineer for Google-owned YouTube, has been charged with the murder of his wife Xuanyi Yu, a fellow Google Engineer, after he was found catatonic and covered in blood in their Santa Clara home

Muhammad Hassam Ali, 17, died as a result of knife injuries he sustained in Birmingham's Victoria Square on January 20, with detectives now renewing an appeal for more information to help catch the killer

Abraham Shakespeare won $30million in the Florida lottery in 2006 but by 2008, he had spent most of his fortune. He was befriended by Dorice "DeeDee" Moore who ended up murdering him

Brandon Price declared "you didn't think we'd do it, we've f*****g done it" as he 'jumped up and down with excitement' just moments after he stabbed 18 year old Jack Norton to death in Wednesbury, West Midlands

Chace Cook, 20, is facing the death penalty for the alleged murder and rape of his ex-girlfriend, 18-year-old Madeline Bills, who was found dead in her bedroom in April 2023

Daria Trepova, 26, will not be freed until she is 54 if the lawyers prosecuting her trial get their way, after she knowingly handed an explosive to one of Vladimir Putin's leading propagandists

Scott Peterson was convicted of killing his wife, Laci Peterson, and their unborn son, Connor, in 2004, and his case was the inspiration behind the 2014 film Gone Girl

The then 15-year-old Illinois girl seemed ''happy and almost jolly'' when the hitmen turned up at her house to murder both her parents in a murder-for-hire plot she masterminded

Following an Old Bailey retrial, Courtney Ellis was found guilty of murder and attempted murder after an attack on a rival gang member and musician

Shahraban Kh-B is on trial in Germany accused of killing a woman who looked so much like her that the case has been dubbed the “Doppelgängerinnenmord” – murder of the doppelgangers

A five-week-old baby tragically passed away from the delayed effects of a broken neck, sustained during a horror period in which the infant tragically suffered 23 broken ribs

Mackenzie and the other suspects did not enter pleas in the coastal town of Malindi because High Court Judge Mugure Thande granted a request from prosecutors that they undergo mental health assessments and return to court on February 6