A paedophile has joined his father, brother and nephew in becoming the family’s fourth convicted child sex offender. Derek Smith, 50, from Darlington, has been jailed for 16 years after
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Members of the jury in the Liam Fee murder trial wept as a police video showing the toddler’s body hours after he was found dead was viewed by the court.
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A mother-of-four who murdered her toddler daughter months after being made her legal guardian has been jailed for at least 18 years. Kandyce Downer was convicted on Tuesday of killing
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A nursery manager has told a murder trial that staff recorded a number of injuries on toddler Liam Fee during the three months he attended. Kimberly Trail said the two-year-old
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A childminder has told a court she alerted a care watchdog as she feared “somebody was hurting” a toddler two women are accused of murdering. Heather Farmer, 48, broke down
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A 34-year-old woman has been convicted of murdering a toddler who suffered a catalogue of “horrific” injuries over several months. Kandyce Downer, from Birmingham, will be sentenced at the city’s
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The wife of a man who was jailed for 20 years for sexually abusing children in a care home has avoided prison for looking up social care records of his
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Record numbers of web pages containing child sexual abuse images are being detected following a dramatic spike in reports, a watchdog has revealed. Some 68,092 URLs were identified and taken
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Five men have gone on trial at the High Court in Glasgow over the historic abuse of boys at a residential school in Fife between 1967 and 1983. The men
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A mother and her partner have gone on trial accused of murdering her two-year-old son. Rachel Trelfa or Fee, 31, and Nyomi Fee, 28, deny murdering toddler Liam in Fife
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