A family friend has described outside court how Tristan and Blake Barrass were “beautiful, confident and outgoing boys who both had a bright future ahead of them”. Matthew Saunders said
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One of the surviving children of Sarah Barrass and Brandon Machin fears they will also become a murderer “because that’s what mum and Brandon did”. The two older children –
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A mother who murdered two of her sons and plotted to kill four more out of fear they would be taken into care has been jailed for at least 35
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A convicted rapist sexually assaulted a five-year-old girl on a train just hours after being released from prison, a court has heard. Darren Rothwell, 42, committed the attack shortly after
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A judge to lead the panel overseeing compensation payments for institutional abuse victims in Northern Ireland will be appointed by the end of this week, a campaigner has said. An
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The father of a seven-year-old boy who was strangled by his mother has told an inquest how he pleaded with social services staff to protect his son, but was “repeatedly
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Jurors became tearful and upset as a string of charges were read out ahead of the trial of an alleged serial rapist. Joseph McCann, 34, is accused of a catalogue
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A Scottish Labour candidate has stepped down after a controversial blog emerged in which she compared Israel to a child abuser. Kate Ramsden (pictured), who was standing in the Gordon
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A “cruel, brutal and vicious” father with a history of violence towards children has been jailed for at least 20 years for killing his baby daughter. Kevin Eves, 37, inflicted
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The most senior Catholic in England and Wales has told an inquiry into child sexual abuse that the church has been “shocked to the core” by the presence of evil
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