Eighteen years after the teenager’s brutal killing, a court hears of the spots of blood that could provide vital evidence. Within minutes of being “swallowed” up by a gang of white youths, Stephen Lawrence lay dying in the street, bleeding from two stab wounds. The racist killing of the black 18-year-old was recounted once more [...]
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Nov 2011
DNA traces ‘link accused’ to Stephen Lawrence’s death
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Nov 2011
Stalking – in person or online – to be made an offence
November 13, 2011 By 1 Comment
Stalkers are to face jail under government plans to create a new criminal offence after prosecutors admitted it was hard to bring cases to court. Lynne Featherstone, the Liberal Democrat Home Office minister, on a visit to Manchester tomorrow, will tomorrow unveil proposals to introduce a specific offence of stalking, potentially also covering cyber-stalking. A [...]
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Nov 2011
Postmistress murder husband Robin Garbutt to appeal
November 12, 2011 By Leave a Comment
A SHOPKEEPER serving a life sentence for bludgeoning his wife to death is appealing against his conviction. Robin Garbutt, 46, formerly of York and Haxby, was found guilty of murder in April. He was told he must serve a minimum of 20 years before being considered for release. But an appeal, led by his barrister Jamie [...]
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Nov 2011
Police ‘found dying man in bag’
November 9, 2011 By Leave a Comment
A dying father-of-three was found in a bag in the back of a van, face down and covered with 50kg (110lb) of sand, a court heard today. Shaleem Amar had been attacked with lump hammers and was bleeding profusely from a wound to his head when police officers discovered him after stopping the white van, [...]
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Nov 2011
A six-inch blade recently discovered could be the one used by Victorian serial killer Jack the Ripper, it has emerged. It was found among possessions belonging to Welsh surgeon Sir John Williams, a chief suspect in the Victorian murders. Sir John, known to his family at the time of the killings as “Uncle Jack” was [...]
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Nov 2011
Madeleine McCann – CrimeBlogUK View
November 8, 2011 By 3 Comments
Like many other people, I have read many articles with regards to the continuing case surrounding the abduction of Madeleine McCann. Like most people I have followed the case with great interest, hoping and praying that Madeleine would be returned safely. I have also read with interest some of the commentaries about the case both [...]
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Nov 2011
Real IRA killers made sure troops were dead, court told
November 8, 2011 By Leave a Comment
A prominent Irish republican went on trial yesterday charged with the murders of the last two soldiers to die violently in Northern Ireland. Colin Duffy appeared in court wearing a bulky overcoat and a bushy beard, grown during more than two years in custody awaiting trial. The soldiers, Sappers Patrick Azimkar, 21, from north London, [...]
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Nov 2011
‘Carlos the Jackal’ faces new trial over terrorist attacks in France
November 7, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Already serving life for murder, the Venezuelan-born ‘revolutionary’ will face court over the 1980s killings. The “celebrity terrorist” Ilich Ramirez Sanchez – known as “Carlos the Jackal” – will go on trial for terrorist activities for the first time in Paris today. The Venezuelan-born Sanchez, 62, who became a symbol of the “cruel but cool” [...]
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Nov 2011
An evil delivery driver who toured the length of the United Kingdom in search of young girls to abduct could be one of the country’s most monstrous child killers. Robert Black, who was convicted of murdering a fourth schoolgirl, has been linked with another 12 unsolved child killings in Britain, Ireland and the Continent. The [...]
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Nov 2011
Milly Dowler police ‘victims of hacking’
November 1, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Officers from Surrey Police are “likely” to have fallen victim to phone hacking as detectives investigated the disappearance of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler, a seminar heard today. The force admitted earlier this month that it had known the teenager’s phone was hacked by someone working for the News of the World (NotW) in 2002. Today [...]
