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<p>Anita Mukhey died on May 9 </p>
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Edgware bus stop attacker 'shook grandmother like rag doll'

Anita Mukhey, 66, was allegedly slapped in her face several times before she was stabbed

14 May 2024
<p>Victim Stephanie Hansen and her killer, Sheldon Rodrigues</p>
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London man found guilty of murdering housemate who turned him down

Sheldon Rodrigues stabbed Stephanie Hansen repeatedly in the neck and battered her over the head with a hairdryer and large fan, jurors heard

24 Jan 2024
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Trial of aristocrat and partner over baby death due to open

Constance Marten, 36, and Mark Gordon, 49, face trial after baby Victoria was found dead on an allotment in Brighton, East Sussex, last March.
24 Jan 2024
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11-month retrial wait for murder-accused men cleared by 'mistake'

Three men had been acquitted over the stabbing of Adrian Keise before the judge received a note saying not all jurors agreed on the verdicts.
19 Jan 2024
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Gangster convicted after rapper gunned down outside restaurant

Craig Small, 32, who went by the nickname Smallz, was shot in north-west London.
19 Jan 2024
Saydi Abu Sheikh died in the attack in Ilford in October 2022 (Metropolitan Police/PA)
Crime

Four men guilty of gang revenge murder of two rappers

Saydi Abu Sheikh, 23, and Zakariya Jeilani Mohamed, 31, were killed in a house in Ilford, east London, during a midnight raid on October 25 2022.
17 Jan 2024
A judge has lifted an order banning the publication of a dead child’s identity (PA)
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Victory for open justice as child named in bedbug poison case

Fatiha Sabrin died in hospital on December 11 2021 after the dangerous gas phosphine seeped from a nearby flat, it is claimed.
17 Jan 2024
<p>Marius Gustavson</p>
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'Bucket list' penis cutter jailed for 'abhorrent' procedure

Damien Byrnes, 36, admitted removing Marius Gustavson’s penis with a kitchen knife on video at his home on February 18 2017

15 Jan 2024
<p>Student Sabita Thanwani was fatally stabbed in the neck (Family handout/Metropolitan Police/PA)</p>
Crime

Man locked up indefinitely for killing student, 19 in London uni halls

Maher Maaroufe stabbed his 19-year-old girlfriend Sabita Thanwani in her University of London accommodation

15 Jan 2024
Jacob Crimi-Appleby arrives at the Old Bailey (Lucy North/PA)
Crime

Removing penis from ‘eunuch maker’ was one off escort’s bucket list, court told

Damien Byrnes, of Tottenham, said ‘that’s one off the bucket list’ after cutting off another man’s penis with a knife, the Old Bailey heard.
12 Jan 2024
<p>Adrian Keise died near Cubana restaurant, close to Waterloo Station, on October 29, 2022</p>
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Three accidentally cleared over Waterloo stabbing after jury forewoman ‘mistake’

The family of 32-year-old Adrian Keise left court tearful and shaken after three men were acquitted over his death.
11 Jan 2024
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Autumn trial for mother accused over deaths of four boys

Deveca Rose is charged with manslaughter and cruelty to a child over the deaths of her two sets of twin sons in a fire in south London in 2021.
8 Jan 2024
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Victoria station bus crash driver avoids jail for killing pedestrian

Olusofa Popoola, 61, accidentally accelerated into the back of a stationary bus, shunting it forward into Melissa Burr

5 Jan 2024
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Mother accused of killing her four-year-old son sobs in court

Keziah Macharia, 41, appeared a the Old Bailey in London where she was charged with murder.
28 Dec 2023
Members of the court staff wearing silk scarves printed with artwork of the Old Bailey (Victoria Jones/PA)
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First merchandise for the Old Bailey fit for a King’s Counsel

The silk scarves are to be sold for the Sheriffs’ & Recorder’s Fund charity appeal.
27 Dec 2023
Three teenagers have been jailed for killing a stranger because he was annoying them (PA)
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Teenagers jailed for killing stranger who ‘annoyed’ them on bus

Gabriel Stoyanov, 21, died after being stabbed in the chest near a takeaway in London.
22 Dec 2023
<p>Nabeel Hussain has been jailed for 16 months </p>
Crime

Airline bomb plot 'financier' jailed over stolen cars worth £120k

London father of three Nabeel Hussain has been sent back to prison after admitting to having multiple secret financial accounts and luxury stolen cars

22 Dec 2023
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Terror scout jailed over spying on London-based TV channel

Magomed-Husejn Dovtaev, 31, carried out hostile reconnaissance at the London headquarters of Persian-language television channel Iran International

22 Dec 2023
Court sketch of Joshua Jacques appearing in the dock at Westminster Magistrates’ Court in London (Elizabeth Cook/PA)
Crime

Cannabis user who murdered four people should die in prison – victims’ families

Joshua Jacques killed his girlfriend Samantha Drummonds and her family in south London in April 2022.
21 Dec 2023
Tracey-Ann Henry, the aunt of Samantha Drummonds, sister of Tanysha Ofori-Akuffo, 45, and daughter of Dolet Hill, speaks to the media outside the Old Bailey, central London, where Joshua Jacques, 29, has been found guilty of murder (Emily Pennink/PA)
Crime

Family of four murder victims say whole life order would be ‘only fair’

Joshua Jacques was found guilty of the murders of Samantha Drummonds, Tanysha Ofori-Akuffo, Dolet Hill and Denton Burke.
21 Dec 2023