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NewsYahoo News UKProperty developer 'drowned wife on holiday to gain insurance millions from her death'
Donald McPherson, 47, murdered Paula Leeson in Denmark after taking out secret life insurance policies on her and forging her will, jurors have been told.
NewsYahoo News UKEmployee spent stolen £1.7m on horses 'as it was more addictive than drugs'
Lisa Crawshaw, 45, 'destroyed' a successful North Lincolnshire business to fund her habit.
NewsYahoo News UKMan who murdered single mum because she 'didn't love him back' jailed for life
David Bestwick, 60, told police he had strangled Maria Howarth, 44, after feeling "red mist" and was found guilty of murdering her in Sheffield.
NewsYahoo News UKFour puppies stolen at knifepoint by masked raiders in Sheffield
The puppies' owner was threatened with a knife when he intervened.
NewsYahoo News UKUpskirting student, 20, secretly filmed women more than 20 times
University of Manchester student Doyun Kim, 20, filmed women on the bus, in shops and in university buildings.
NewsYahoo News UKTeen stabbed in London was cousin of 17-year-old murdered in 2019
Ahmed Beker, 19, was stabbed to death on Paddington Green in Westminster, London, close to where his cousin Yousef Beker, 17, was stabbed in 2019.
NewsYahoo News UKPolice set up COVID checkpoints to catch lockdown flouters looking to bask in sun
Crowds have been pictured enjoying the sunshine despite warnings from the deputy chief medical officer the pandemic isn’t over.
NewsYahoo News UKEx-charity boss stripped of MBE after swindling more than £250k from pension scheme
Patrick McLarry, 72, the former CEO and chairman of Yateley Industries for the Disabled, admitted to defrauding cash from the charity last year.
NewsYahoo News UKPolice hand out £70k fines at two Mayfair parties
Scotland Yard caught a total of 70 guests partying at two illegal gatherings in the expensive London neighbourhood early on Sunday morning.
NewsYahoo News UKNHS consultant spared jail after stealing £50k from dementia-stricken mum to cover gambling debts
Gary Evans, 57, persuaded his mother Eileen to give him power of attorney in 2016 so he could look after her assets but instead took more than £47,000 to pay his gambling debts.
NewsYahoo News UKFootball coach tortured, set on fire and beaten with sledgehammers in revenge attack
Jordan Storey, 28, was tortured and subjected to a violent attack by a gang of four people at a flat in Newcastle, in February last year.
NewsYahoo News UKPolice seize 80 alligator heads waiting to be sold on eBay from Birmingham house
Police in Birmingham found 80 illegally imported alligator heads after being tipped off that they were being sold on eBay.
NewsYahoo News UKMan and woman charged over murder of six-month-old baby boy
Gabriela Ion, 35, and Mihai-Catalin Gulie, 28, have been arrested and charged with murder after the boy died in Widnes.
NewsYahoo News UK'Quiet father' stabbed family to death as first COVID lockdown began
Gary Walker killed his wife Caroline and 24-year-old daughter Katie Walker before setting himself and the family home on fire last March.
NewsYahoo News UK'Fright of their lives': Moment drug dealers accidentally open front door to armed police
Wesley Carter, 39, and Keelan Simpson, 24, were surprised to find armed police ready to raid a flat they were leaving in Birmingham.
NewsYahoo News UKPolice rescue 18 people from refrigerated lorry at Cambridgeshire motorway services
Cambridgeshire Police were called to Hadden Services on the A1M to reports of people inside a refrigerated lorry.
NewsYahoo News UKPensioner looses appeal over assaulting woman by soaking her with watering can
Peter Churcher, 65, appealed his conviction, claiming he was watering his hanging baskets at his home in the village of Bere Alston, Devon.
NewsYahoo News UKInfatuated man 'strangled single mum to death because she didn't love him back'
David Bestwick, 60, had been "in love" with Maria Howarth, 44, for three years and told 999 he had strangled her, a court has heard.
NewsYahoo News UKQueen's relative jailed for sexually assaulting woman at Scottish castle
Simon Bowes-Lyon, 34, was sentenced to 10 months in jail for assaulting the woman at Glamis Castle, near Dundee.
NewsYahoo News UKPC who went to lockdown party then crashed while drink-driving admits gross misconduct
PC Tasia Stephens could be barred from the police if a gross misconduct charge is upheld.
NewsYahoo News UKMortgage broker faked having terminal breast cancer to avoid trial over £18,000 con
Jean Adshead, 57, claimed she had terminal breast cancer to avoid standing trial for fraud after conning a man out of £18,000.
NewsYahoo News UK'Cold and dangerous' predator jailed for life after police use facial recognition to catch him
South Wales Police used facial recognition software to catch Craig Walters within 48 hours of him attacking a young woman that he followed off a bus in Cardiff.
NewsYahoo News UKChurch group organiser handed £10,000 fine for holding car park service despite police warning
Nottinghamshire Police said it had told the church group they couldn't meet at a car park but found 30 people at the site on Saturday.
NewsYahoo News UKGang of five jailed for life for brutal murder of 26-year-old after drug-fuelled party
Stefan Selvage, Dawid Goral, Callon Brass, Kieran Watkinson and Stevie Low murdered Solomon Robinson, 26 in Scarborough in October 2019.
NewsYahoo News UKFootage shows woman, 77, trying to fight off mugger with crutches as he grabbed handbag
Jason Sheldon, 31, rode up to the 77-year-old victim on his bike in Newark, Nottinghamshire on February 28 just after 5.40 pm, police said.
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