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Mum Stacey Hall, 31, needed 10 stitches and surgery following a series of blows by violent now-ex Phillip McGlinchey, 31, after she came back from dinner with her friends

Rosie Frankish, 26, from Warrington, feared for her life after she was subjected to a six hour attack when Daniel Little forced his way into her home

Lucy Letby, 33, is alleged to have murdered five boys and two girls, and attempted to murder another five boys and five girls, between June 2015 and June 2016 at the neonatal unit of the Countess of Chester Hospital

The staff member at HMP Belmarsh - Britain's most secure prison - is reportedly being investigated over allegations of a romantic relationship with murderer Jordan McSweeney

Jagtar Singh Johal from Dumbarton, Scotland, was locked up amid accusations he was involved in a political murder plot in Punjab, northern India, which he and his family have always strongly denied

Kevin Cornwell, 53, has been held by the Taliban's intelligence agency since January 11. His family are worried for his health as he suffers from chronic kidney issues and requires hospital treatment

Ministers have announced the new rules after a prisoner was found to have amassed more than 200 books in an apparent bid to thwart staff searching for extremist material

Trevor Marquis Rowe stuffed a 10-month-old baby into a backpack and left her in a vehicle for hours. He has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole

The Prison Officers Association union said the job was one of the most 'dangerous workplaces in Western Europe' with 1,000 officers hospitalised in 2021 alone

Police began their investigation in 2019 after discovering that mental health nurse Amy Hatfield was smuggling items such as cannabis, tobacco, phones and chargers into HMP Lindholme in Doncaster

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

When police pulled over the BMW in Barrow, Cumbria, cops discovered 79 wraps of heroin and one of crack cocaine hidden in bags in the footwell, along with cannabis, a knife and £1,500 cash stashed away in the driver's door pocket

The lag was 37 when he was handed three life sentences for bludgeoning Dr Lin Russell and her six-year-old daughter Megan to death with a hammer

Serial killer and rapist Levi Bellfield - whose victims include Miller Dowler, Amelie Delagrange and Marsha McDonnell - has now confessed to killing Lin and Megan Russell, his solicitor says

Mayweather will return to the ring on June 11 in Florida for his first American exhibition since facing Logan Paul when he takes on John Gotti III

Olivier Yolo, 27, of Monsall, Greater Manchester, is facing prison after agreeing to fraudulently take learner drivers' theory tests for cash at a series of DVSA centres

Jaime Brugada Valdez, 22, of Huntington Park, was found in the shower area of the Correctional Training Facility in Soledad shortly before 10 p.m. Tuesday

The four inmates were found to be missing during a routine headcount at the Raymond Detention Center, Mississippi, on Sunday. One of the four is believed to have been killed shooting at police from a burning building

Ted Bundy confessed to the murders of 36 women but police believe the total number of people he killed was much higher

A mob was videoed in Notre Dame square in Grenoble on Monday, mocking the head of state on the first anniversary of him winning a second term.

Stephen Gillen was a bonafide gangster and earned a living on the wrong side of the law, until his life came crashing down when he was sentenced to 17 years in a category A prison.

Sean Harding was found in the loft of his partner's home after he absconded from a Category D prison in Lancashire on December 22 last year, and he managed to evade police for about five weeks before he was caught

The pair tortured the 10-year-old victim, spraying him with hot sauce, forcing them to fight one another and made the youngsters kneel for lengthy periods on concrete floors, nails or uncooked rice at the home in Lancaster, Los Angeles

A person dressed as a clown came to Marlene Warren's door in Wellington, Florida, on a May morning in 1990, handed her carnations and balloons and then shot her dead in front of her son

The pensioner, who was jailed for killing Fred Barras, 16, and seriously injuring Brendon Fearon when they broke into his isolated farm in 1999, may have to abandon his plan to appeal