The CEO of a backpack manufacturer is facing backlash following reports that he tipped authorities off to the bag used by the suspect in the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Peak Design founder and boss Peter Dering told The New York Times on December 5 that he had contacted police as soon as he … Read more
A mother of one who repeatedly groped a 15-year-old boy was spared jail by a female judge who ruled that she was “immature” and not sexually attracted to children. Julie Winnard, who was 40 at the time, slapped and squeezed the boy’s bottom as he bent down to pick up a dog bowl, Bolton Crown … Read more
Lawyers for child serial killer Lucy Letby will make a fresh bid to challenge her convictions on the grounds that the lead prosecution medical expert at her trial was “not reliable”. Her barrister, Mark McDonald, said he would immediately seek permission from the Court of Appeal to take the “exceptional, but necessary, decision” to apply … Read more
A 16-year-old is accused of shooting dead his entire family while in “an extremely intoxicated state”, according to police. Diego Leyva is facing first-degree murder charges after allegedly gunning down his family in the early hours of Sunday morning before calling the authorities. The incident took place in Belén, in Valencia County, New Mexico, at … Read more
Lucy Letby’s lawyer has announced he is seeking to reopen her appeal because the prosecution’s lead medical expert witness, Dr Dewi Evans, has changed his mind on some key evidence. At a press conference held at the Royal Society of Medicine on Monday, Mark McDonald said Evans was not a reliable expert, and that all … Read more
A hearing to decide whether Britain’s youngest knife murderers should have their sentences increased for the killing of Shawn Seesahai will be held on Thursday at the Court of Appeal. The boys, now 13, were both 12 when they attacked Mr Seesahai with a machete on playing fields in Wolverhampton on November 13 last year, … Read more
Britain’s gangsters are running out of guns and have turned to converted firearms following a crackdown on weapons, the National Crime Agency (NCA) has said. Last year, for the first time, the number of discharges of converted weapons outnumbered those by real firearms (64 compared to 42). Overall, gun crime is on the decline. The … Read more
An unidentified British Army soldier was responsible “more likely than not” for the fatal shooting of a schoolboy in the grounds of a Belfast hospital almost 50 years ago, a coroner has found. Patrick Crawford, 15, was shot dead while walking through the grounds of the Royal Victoria Hospital at around 9.40pm on August 10 … Read more
A man has been jailed for life for brutally hacking a driver to death with a machete after he stopped to offer him a ride in the middle of the night. Rodney Watson, 66, of St. Marys, Georgia, was driving to a store in Burton, South Carolina, in July 2020 when he saw Michael Eugene … Read more
An uncle of the recently ousted Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad used an adviser in Guernsey to secretly manage his wealth, which included a vast European property empire worth hundreds of millions of euros that prosecutors claim was acquired with funds looted from the wartorn state. Rifaat al-Assad, known as the “Butcher of Hama” for overseeing … Read more