Mystery surrounds the whereabouts of a Saudi Arabian woman who was found guilty in her absence of poisoning a young girl with insulin at a London children’s hospital. Amal Asiri,
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A toddler who was sharing an overcrowded home with two dogs must go into council care, a family court judge has decided. The house where the little boy, who is
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A legal challenge by a terminally ill motor neurone disease sufferer over the law on assisted dying will reach the High Court on Tuesday. Phil Newby, 49, from Rutland, East
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Abortion has been decriminalised in Northern Ireland after a landmark law change came into force at midnight. The legal reforms voted in at Westminster have also paved the way for
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A group of paedophile hunters “overstepped the mark” when they falsely imprisoned and used violence against men they suspected of being child sex offenders, a court has heard. The group,
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The first sitting of the Stormont Assembly in two-and-a-half years has ended in acrimony after a last-minute bid to thwart the decriminalisation of abortion was blocked. Despite the ongoing absence
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A woman has lost a fight over the care of her 12-year-old son after a High Court judge concluded that she had alienated the youngster from his father. The boy,
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Specialists have been given the go-ahead to swab the mouth of an elderly dementia sufferer so DNA tests can be carried out in a bid to establish whether he fathered
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A teenager has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 19 years after being found guilty of murdering a youth mentor in a knife attack. Hamed Hussein, 19,
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A father who had at least six children with his own daughter has been given a 40-year extended life sentence. The man, who cannot be named to protect the identity
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