Evidence against a man who made claims he was notorious serial killer Jack the Ripper will be re-examined in court -- almost 130 years after he was hanged. William Bury became the last man hanged in Dundee in April 1889 after he was found guilty of murdering his wife. In ...
A vet campaigning for a hard Brexit has ended up in the dog house over an anti-EU poster - which says Europe has already "raped" Britain over a deal. Trevor Dixon, 69, donned the slogan in big black lettering on the window of his veterinarian practice in Goole, East Yorks. ...
A murder inquiry has been launched after an assault victim died more than six months after being attacked outside one of London's busiest tourist attractions. Desmond O'Beirne, 51, suffered devastating head injuries when two thugs attacked him in June near the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square. Police say he never ...
Perhaps lacking the same bite as Jordan Peele’s Get Out, Wes Craven’s 1991 film, The People Under the Stairs, is still a sharp commentary on American socio-economic disparity. Disguised behind a veil of horror and comedy, Craven crafts a deeply satirical view of post-Reagan America that finds renewed potency in ...
Police launched a murder investigation after a 16-year-old boy was stabbed to death in Oxford. The boy, who was from Birmingham, was stabbed in Friars Wharf, close to the River Thames. He was attacked just before 8pm last night and died from his injuries in hospital. A woman aged 25 ...
A gang who took Vietnamese girls from care and forced them to work in nail bars have become the first in Britain to be found guilty of child slavery charges. Viet Hoang Nguyen, known as Ken, 29, and his 23-year-old wife Giang Huong Tran, known as Susan, were caught following ...
A mosque in Alabama paid court fines of almost $2,000 to help a man who vandalised their place of worship with a swastika. The Masjid Al Salam mosque in Fort Smith filled out a check for $1,700 to cover what was left of the fines picked up by Abraham Davis after he ...
West Mercia Police Superintendent Kevin Purcell said officers will try to avoid holding child suspects in custody and instead interview them at home. He said putting young offenders in police cells is "counter-productive", but admitted the new approach "may seem soft". He said: "Over the last few years a lot ...
Two teenage boys were shot from close range by a thug armed with a shotgun as they ate inside a London chicken shop. One of them fled out the back of the takeaway before collapsing in a nearby garden. The victim managed to hop over a fence - despite being ...