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  A 70-year-old child abuser has been jailed for four years after making her victims fight each other for meals and throwing them against walls. Sandra Clayton also forced three children to drink bleach diluted with juice and slashed their feet with a knife when they ran away. A judge branded her campaign of abuse between the early 70s and mid 80s as "deliberate and sadistic" as he sent her down for three counts of child cruelty. Judge Rupert Overbury...

A man who burned down an £80,000 mobile police station has been jailed for three years. A court heard drug dealers paid homeless Dwayne Curtis, 46, to destroy the vehicle. He denied arson but changed his plea after CCTV footage recorded his pet dog Charlie Boy following him during the attack. His Staffordshire Terrier was stabbed to death and Curtis was stabbed in the buttocks days before he was arrested over the incident in Southend, Essex. Basildon Crown Court was...

  Visitors to a famous National Trust spot at the weekend may have been met with a sight they weren't there to see - as a man was caught in the middle of an indecent act. The car park at the site of the famously well-endowed Cerne Abbas Giant in Dorset is known as one of the best places to see the hillside chalk figure. But the naked chalk Giant was not the only one exposing itself on Saturday, August...

A woman who fleeced a man she met on a dating website out of thousands of pounds to buy high end Jimmy Choo shoes has been jailed for two years. Parasitic Beverley Weetman, 34, spun a web of lies, including claiming to be terminally ill, after learning her victim had some money saved up as a deposit for a house. But once she spent all of his cash in 'loans' and gifts she started to distance herself from him, and...

These incredible pictures show the moment a driver came face-to-face - with an escaped WALLABY. Shocked Gina Court pulled over after spotting the wild-running animal, which is believed to have fled from a nearby farm. She initially thought she had encountered a kangaroo but after closer inspection realised it was a baby wallaby and called the RSPCA. A wallaby spotted on the road near Crediton, Devon. Other passers by saw the Australian native, a smaller cousin of the kangaroo, in...

The 40-year mystery of what happened to Lord Lucan has finally been solved - after his mugshot appeared as a serving parish councillor in a sleepy Sussex village. The whereabouts of the elusive Lord Lucan – a mystery which has captivated the world for decades - has supposedly come to an end when he was 'snapped' in a parish magazine. His mugshot was used in the Bersted Parish Council magazine in West Sussex when they mistakenly listed him as its...

A sex predator wept as his mugshot was being taken when his vile crimes were first exposed. Detectives have warned teenagers of the dangers of social media after a sexual predator was jailed for grooming vulnerable girls online. Jordan Towers, 24, set up fake online profiles on Instagram and the teen dating app Yellow to trap dozens of victims. Towers paid the victims compliments, and would persuade them to send indecent photos or take part in sexual video chats. But...

A former school friend of Theresa May, who stood next to her for a class picture, has blasted the PM over NHS cuts. "The whole situation is becoming untenable - we’re exhausted, we’re overwrought, we work over 12-hour shifts,” said Philippa Morrison, 62, who entered nursing aged 18. "We are nurturers - we want to look after people. "She should let us do that without having to rely on foodbanks to make ends meet." Philippa Morrison, 62, went to the same grammar...

A litter picker who is walking across the UK on a five-year mission to Keep Britain Tidy has collected around 42 TONNES of rubbish - in 6,000 BAGS. Wayne Dixon's remarkable quest has taken him through outlying parts of Scotland and along the coast of Wales with his dog. The 45-year-old has clocked over 2,000 miles - walking between counties carrying a 60lb kit bag and living off £50 a week, He carries a tent, sleeping bag, waterproofs, a stove...