A 55-year-old woman with a history of mental illness beat her neighbour to death in her own garden and left her body lying beneath a stone bird bath. Sherry Moore
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More than 500 suspected members of county lines drugs gangs have been arrested in a week. Between May 13 and 20 police forces across the UK carried out a crackdown
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An innocent father-of-four was arrested on suspicion of raping a six-year-old girl in South Africa in a case of mistaken identity, his lawyers say. Godfrey Tshuma, 61, who lives in
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An order has been published to extend the presumption against short prison sentences from three months to a year, in an attempt to break the cycle of reoffending. The Scottish
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A doctor has been jailed for 10 and a half years for sexually assaulting 15 patients over a period of more than 20 years, under the guise of medical examinations,
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A white supremacist gave a Nazi salute as he was sentenced to life in prison for plotting to “replicate” the murder of Jo Cox by killing his local MP. Neo-Nazi
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An Australian yoga teacher has won a High Court fight with his estranged English partner over the future of their three-year-old daughter. A High Court judge based in the Family
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A London-based High Court judge has explained the routes open to people living in Scotland who want to adopt children living south of the border. Mr Justice Cobb, based in
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Plans to develop multiple guidelines for the sentencing of people convicted in a range of sexual offence cases have been announced by the Scottish Sentencing Council. The body will begin
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Supervision of all offenders in England and Wales is being brought back in-house after a part-privatisation was dogged by controversy and criticism. The public National Probation Service (NPS) will take
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