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A “wicked and controlling” man who murdered his “fun-loving, mischievous” stepson has been ordered to serve at least 17 years in prison. Elvis Lee, 34, was found guilty yesterday of murdering Tyler Whelan, five. Lee admitted he kicked and bit Tyler on the day of his death but denied murder. The kick was so hard [...]

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When Maria Concetta Cacciola drank the bottle of acid that would kill her in August last year, one can only imagine what was going through her mind. The mother of three, 31, had effectively been imprisoned in the family home in the dreary town of Rosarno, in the southern Italian region of Calabria, and probably [...]

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A former police officer is facing up to 12 months in prison after admitting she conned cash out of her colleagues by claiming her daughter was suffering from leukaemia…when she was actually show jumping. Mother of two Rachel Hewitt falsely obtained money from fellow employees at North Yorkshire Police and neighbouring West Yorkshire force between [...]

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When I was young, I had everything I needed, but I wanted more. My head was turned by the glamour of music videos and I felt I wouldn’t be happy until I had £90 trainers. My mum and dad couldn’t afford them, so I started dealing – it was all around me on the estate in London where [...]

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A father out celebrating his daughter’s birthday was brutally knifed to death in front of his horrified family just because he asked if a crying child was alright, a court was told yesterday. Alan Smith, 63, was stabbed at least five times as he sat with his partner, daughter and son-in-law in a cafe in [...]

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With a trendy, short hair-cut, Karen Matthews is trying her best to conceal her identity from the British public. The 36-year-old no longer sports the long, greasy red hair which made her so recognisable to millions of disgusted people up and down the country. The warped mum faked the kidnap of her own daughter Shannon [...]

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A woman was jailed for one day after letting her 12-year-old son get baptized without consulting the boy’s father, her ex-husband on the decision. Stephanie and Stephen Miller’s divorce contract states that decisions, including those on religious upbringing, about their children must be made together – and the boy’s mother was dragged to court. Both [...]

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Within weeks of the meeting, Linda Clappison started locking her son and daughter, then aged 10 and six, in their rooms and assaulting them. She fed them only sandwiches and took the light bulbs, toys and all mattresses and bedding from their rooms, leaving them needing hospital treatment for frostbite. Clappison, 46, of Keyingham Marsh, [...]

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A mother who abused her two children and kept them locked in bedrooms that were so cold her son caught frostbite was jailed for 18 months yesterday. Over a five-year period they were beaten, starved, forced to do manual labour instead  of going to school, given cold baths and shut up in the dark. Both [...]

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A drink-driving footballer who killed two young boys when he sped into their family car has been let out from prison for his son’s birthday treat, it was revealed today. Shamed Luke McCormick’s temporary release from jail sparked fury from the family of Arron and Ben Peak, who died after the ex-goalkeeper ploughed his Range [...]

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Like most grandmothers, it’s clear what Linda Carty’s favourite conversation topic is. “They’re wonderful boys, my grandsons,” she says, beaming a wide smile through the thick glass that separates us. “Jhori is six and Caden is four. They look after one another and they look after their mum … I’m so proud of them.” But [...]

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A bus driver who bludgeoned a young British student to death in Poland last year has begged for leniency because he ‘had a wife and family to care for’. The battered body of Kate Zaks, 21, an art student at the University of Kent, was found lying in a mud-filled ditch close to a railway track [...]

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Cansu Ozkan is seeking damages from her mother Ceyda Ozkan, who crashed the family car into a tree following a drinking session at a party. Cansu suffered serious face, back, leg and wrist injuries while her stepsister Filiz, 21, who was heavily pregnant at the time, was killed in the accident on Jan 1, 2009.   [...]

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Daddy always provided Anysha Panesar with the very best that money could buy – including a £30,000 15th birthday party featuring an X Factor judge and a personal video message from Nicole Kidman. He also bankrolled her dream to become a beauty queen and model. But the teenager may have to make do with a less [...]

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A ‘despicable’ father was jailed for three years today for stealing £16,500 raised for his dying son – and not leaving enough to pay for his funeral. Julian Emms, 46, plundered a charity fund for his son Michael who was Britain’s youngest victim of motor neurone disease. Friends and family carried out sponsored events to raise [...]

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Mother of riot killer who cut up his clothes in bid to protect him is jailed as her son is locked up for eight years Darrell Desuze jailed for eight years over the death of pensioner Richard Mannington Bowes Mr Bowes died in the London riots as he tried to put out a fire near [...]

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A woman has been charged over the death of her four-month-old son after a television fell on top of him while he was at home. Kian McMillan was rushed hospital with severe head injuries following the incident at his home in Burnley, Lancashire, in the early hours of December 6 last year. He was taken [...]

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Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS) is launching a national online survey of recent graduates who are struggling to find work. The move comes after its advisers across Scotland reported a rise in graduates facing financial problems because they could not get jobs. CAS wants to investigate the extent of the problem and to give those affected [...]

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Every year, many thousands of children experience separation from a mother who is sent to prison, a trauma which in many cases can also mean losing their home. When Cheyenne was 13, her mum was caught trying to smuggle drugs into prison and earned herself a four-year sentence. As a result she has been moved [...]

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The 33-year-old, who was jailed for eight-years in 2009, after orchestrating a “truly despicable plot”, left Foston Hall prison near Derby yesterday after serving half of her sentence. According to relatives the mother of seven, who staged the kidnap of her nine-year-old daughter Shannon, now wants to appear on the popular television programme, The Jeremy [...]

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On the eve of her release from jail, lying mother Karen Matthews says ‘several others’ were involved in the abduction of her child four years ago, it was claimed today. Matthews, who pretended daughter Shannon, nine, was missing for a month but drugged and hid her under a bed, alleges she would be murdered if [...]

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Two Chicago parents left their two children alone for the weekend while they flew to Las Vegas for the weekend with some friends. Shanpreta Howard and Antowain Johnson were charged with child endangerment after they left their 9-year-old daughter and the-12-year-old son alone to fend for themselves. The couple left Chicago on the evening of [...]

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Lucy Wright admits she tried to smuggle almost 14lb (6.32kg) of cocaine out of Buenos Aires, and later skipped bail to avoid being put on trial in South America. After she returned to England she was arrested and the Home Secretary, Theresa May, approved her extradition to Argentina, where she faced up to 16 years [...]

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A mother who recruited women outside her children’s school to take part in one of Britain’s biggest ever sham marriage plots was jailed with her partner yesterday. Andzelina Surmaj befriended the Eastern European women at the school gate before Milan Cina matched them with Nigerian illegal immigrants who paid thousands for a marriage certificate enabling [...]

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A Detroit father who told police his two-year-old daughter was abducted during a carjacking was charged with her murder yesterday, more than three months after the child disappeared. D’Andre Lane had begged the public to help find his daughter, Bianca Jones – a plea that inspired dozens of volunteers to comb some of the city’s [...]

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The paedophiles volunteered for a course of drugs designed to reduce their testosterone levels to that of a prepubescent boy in order to curb their libido. The treatment is being piloted by psychiatrists at HMP Whatton, Nottingham, a specialist category C prison which holds male sex offenders. The drug, leuprorelin, which is marketed as Prostap, [...]

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A paedophile who abducted four young girls from the street in the 1980s and 1990s and sexually abused them has appeared in court after cold-case detectives linked his DNA to the crimes. David Bryant, a 65-year-old grandfather from Ulverston, Cumbria, was due to be sentenced at Newcastle crown court on Friday but the case was [...]

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A woman and her partner have appeared in court charged with murdering the woman’s four-year-old son in Coventry. The boy died of a head injury after he was found unconscious at his home in the Holbrooks area of the city on 3 March. The woman, 26, and the boy’s 32-year-old stepfather appeared at Coventry Magistrates’ [...]

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The stepmother of a benefits cheat who swindled £37,000 to pay for his wife’s breast implants has branded him a “right wotsit”. Stephen Kellaway was yesterday sentenced to 32 months for fraud and identity theft after he was caught sleeping rough in Thailand following two years on the run. His stepmother Jenny Kellaway said that [...]

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Two Romanian gypsies face jail after smuggling a child dubbed ‘Cinderella’ into the UK and forcing her to work as a servant. The seven-year-old girl was sent to Britain by her penniless mother in the hope of a better life. But in the UK she was beaten, humiliated, and forced to sleep on the floor [...]

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A young mother and her partner have been arrested on suspicion of murdering her four-year-old son. The child died of a head wound after being found unconscious at his home in the Holbrooks area of Coventry on Saturday, police said. A West Midlands force spokesman said the man, 32, and woman, 26, remain in custody [...]

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The head of a local body responsible for protecting the young from harm says agencies have helped to avoid a tragedy involving a three-year-old boy. The boy’s mother, Lisa Brooks, and her partner, Tomas Lewis, have been jailed after he suffered “horrific neglect”. Sue Evans, chair of Torfaen Local Safeguarding Children Board, said it was [...]

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A three-year-old girl from America’s northernmost community has died after being locked in a freezing bedroom as punishment for wetting the bed. Her younger sister suffered hypothermia after their mother and the mother’s boyfriend left them in the room with a window open to a temperature of minus 30 degrees to air out the area. [...]

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A three-year-old boy kept in a ‘cell’ by his cruel parents was so hungry he ripped out and ate his own hair. Mother Lisa Brooks, 25, and stepfather Tomas Lewis, 22, were jailed today for locking their child in a tiny bare room with no lights or heating. A court heard that the boy was [...]

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A grandmother who worked for the Land Registry helped a gang make millions by stealing the homes of the elderly and vulnerable. Surjeet Chana, 64, was a key figure in a plot that involved a solicitor, a bank manager and drugs traffickers seeking a second source of income. The gang targeted empty houses – some [...]

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A father who beat a 16-year-old boy in a YouTube video, smashing his face until his teeth broke through, is facing years in jail. Gary Johnson of Palm Bay, Florida fainted moments after his verdict was read in court Friday, finding him guilty of battery, child abuse, contributing to the delinquency of a minor and [...]

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A woman accused of running her 9-year-old granddaughter to death as punishment for eating chocolate was captured on a school bus videotape saying she planned to run the child ”til she can’t run no more,’ a prosecutor told a judge Thursday in announcing capital murder charges. Joyce Hardin Garrard, who faces a potential death penalty [...]

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A man and woman who tortured and killed a 15-year-old boy because they believed he was a witch have been found guilty of murder. Eric Bikubi and Magalie Bamu, both 28, killed Kristy Bamu in their east London flat after violently abusing him for several days because they believed he was possessed by evil spirits. [...]

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A mother who made her 10-year-old daughter pose nude for a stranger over a webcam has been jailed for up to two and a half years. The 41-year-old, from Attleboro, Massachusetts, is likely to serve just three months after pleading guilty to a charge of misdemeanour assault and battery under a plea deal. Her name [...]

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Lily Arthur gave birth to her son, Tim, while shackled to a hospital bed in Brisbane. She was allowed to cradle him in her arms for five minutes – but only after signing an adoption consent form. It was 1967, and Ms Arthur was 17 years old. It took her three decades to track down [...]

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Samina Bashir, 28, admitted making a fake declaration for more than £5000 in damages after lodging a claim that she was in involved in a three-car pile-up, the High Court was told. Her husband, Faisal Rauf, 27, was also jailed after he supported the family’s false claim that they were involved in an accident in [...]

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A mother accused of stabbing a fellow parent in the head with a pair of scissors in a school classroom has appeared in court. Unemployed Serfina Elliot faces charges of actual bodily harm after the incident at Fenstanton Primary School in Tulse Hill, south London, last Wednesday. The 39-year-old, from Brixton, south London, allegedly attacked [...]

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Sometime this week, in a case which promises to make legal history, a mother may be sent to prison, apparently because her teenage children – two of whom are in foster care for reasons which, I am told, had nothing to do with her treatment of them – have been chatting to each other on [...]

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The natural father of Baby Peter is suing the publishers of a Sunday newspaper for £130,000 for printing “one of the gravest libels imaginable”. A High Court judge was told the father, who cannot be named, was wrongly accused in The People of being a sex offender convicted of raping a 14-year-old girl. Newspaper publishers [...]

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A reformed robber is using a mock prison cell to educate children about the harsh reality of life in prison. The 8ft by 12ft collapsible room features an overflowing lavatory, rickety bunkbed and graffiti on the walls ­- a scene familiar to Charles Young, who spent some two decades behind bars for crimes including, robbery, [...]

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When burglar Wayne Bishop argued last year that prison was breaching his human right to be with his five children, he was controversially awarded his freedom. However, in a move that will be applauded as a victory for common sense, the thug’s astonishing attempt to use the same excuse to beat a new jail term [...]

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A father who embezzled thousands of pounds from a bank account intended to pay for his dying son’s medical treatment has been told to expect jail. On Thursday a jury found Julian Andrews Emms guilty of fraudulently taking £16,500 from the Michael Emms Fund. Cardiff crown court heard the 46-year-old had asked two of its [...]

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Lawyers for Eileen Clark, 54, claimed she had been living openly in the UK since December 1998 and that the first she knew that she was being sought in America was when she was named by the FBI on a “most wanted” list. Judges at the High Court were told it would be “oppressive” to [...]

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A teenager who became Britain’s youngest mother is to stand trial for dishonesty after denying a catalogue of offences. Tressa Middleton – who fell pregnant when she was just 11 years old – pleaded not guilty to two charges of theft by shoplifting at an Argos store in Bathgate, West Lothian, on February 9 and [...]

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A mother will stand trial on charges of killing her seven-week-old daughter by placing her in a microwave oven and letting her burn to death for two minutes. As well as the murder accusation against Ka Yang, 30, from California, Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Eugene Balanon also found enough evidence to support a special [...]

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