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Sara Sharif’s father told jurors he "did not intend to kill" his daughter, despite admitting he repeatedly hit Sara over the head with a mobile phone in the run-up to her death.

A Covid conspiracy theorist has been sentenced to five years behind bars after encouraging violence against Professor Sir Chris Whitty on social media.

Marius Gustavson ran ‘lucrative’ extreme body modification website sharing gruesome footage of castrations and amputations alongside six other men

Shakira Spencer was starved and battered to death by Ashana Studholme, Shaun Pendlebury and Lisa Richardson, who were all jailed for life for murder at the Old Bailey on Friday

Constance Marten, who is on trial with her partner Mark Gordon, was warned by health professionals of the risks of suffocation, overheating and positional asphyxia

The Old Bailey in London has been evacuated after reports of an explosion, and firefighters are asking people to avoid the area while defendants Constance Marten and Mark Gordon are sent back to prison

Constance Marten, 36, and her lover Mark Gordon, 49, have been accused of causing the death of their daughter Victoria through gross negligence and are currently on trial at the Old Bailey

Constance Marten and Mark Gordon deny manslaughter by gross negligence. They are also charged with perverting the course of justice, concealing the birth of a child, child cruelty, and causing or allowing the death of a child

Constance Marten and her lover Mark Gordon are accused of the manslaughter of Victoria who, the Old Bailey has heard, was found dead in a supermarket 'bag for life'

Jesmin Akter, 33, allegedly scattered aluminium phosphide around her flat in Shadwell, east London on 26 November 2021, but the chemical was activated by moisture and produced the dangerous phosphine gas, which poisoned her 11-year-old

Adrian Keise's family left the Old Bailey tearful after brothers Paul and Matthew Yusuff and their friend Moussa Traore were acquitted over his death due to a 'mistake'

An unnamed teenage mother had charges of infanticide against her dropped at the Old Bailey after her baby son was found dead in New Eltham, southeast London in winter last year

Amina Noor, 39, was found guilty of assisting a non-UK person to carry out the procedure in Kenya 17 years ago in the very first conviction of its kind under the FGM Act of 2003

Shakira Spencer, 35, was reduced to 'skin and bone' by July last year, and was fed just sachets of ketchup as she was enslaved and tortured, the Old Bailey heard

A Turkish radio DJ was tortured and killed, then dumped in nearby woodland in a horror case. According to friends, the victim had been acting strangely since he return from holiday in Turkey in summer 2022

The family of domestic violence victim Kathleen John, 39, have shared their heartbreak over her death after she was "cruelly taken" from them by her abusive partner Leonidas Georgalla

Pedestrian Melissa Burr, 32, was struck outside London's Victoria train station after a bus driver accelerated into the back of a stationary bus, pushing it forward and into her

Arizo Nour has been charged with murder after the remains of a 57-year-old woman were discovered in a canal in west London. She appeared at the Old Bailey via prison video link

David Xavier has been jailed for at least 18 years after he stabbed his partner Andreia Guilherme more than 50 times in a 'frenzied attack' at their home in Croydon, south London

Edward Little, 22, was planning a mass gun attack on Queen Elizabeth II's funeral before deciding to target a Christian preacher with an AK-47, the Old Bailey heard

Samantha Ford was sentenced to two concurrent 10-year prison terms for killing her IVF twins - but is set to walk free from hospital five years later having never served a single day inside

Three men have gone on trial at the Old Bailey accused of conspiring in a fake bomb plot 'in revenge for confiscating £1m' from the wife of a suspected money launderer

Asim Hasan stabbed wife Aaisha Hasan 36 times at a flat in east London and was found guilty of murder despite telling the Old Bailey he had not intended to seriously hurt her

A man unleashed an astonishing homophobic rant about his victim in court before he was found guilty of murdering a 50-year-old man in a darkened cemetery with a hammer