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Five workers killed by ‘unsafe’ wall holding 263 tonnes of scrap, court told

Birmingham Crown Court was told the wall was ‘decidedly unsafe’ and no one should have been working anywhere near it.

The Independent UK

Police officer cleared of assaulting retired footballer Dalian Atkinson before he died

Mary Ellen Bettley-Smith struck Dalian Atkinson three times with a baton after he was tasered to the ground by another officer

The Independent UK

Dalian Atkinson: PC cleared of assaulting retired Aston Villa player prior to his death

Pc Mary Ellen Bettley-Smith was acquitted after jurors rejected prosecution claims that she ‘lashed out’ in anger at Mr Atkinson before his death in Telford

Evening Standard

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Moment Colin Gunn told jury who convicted him 'thank you, you scumbags'

Journalist's account of the events which brought him to justice

Nottingham Post

Punter launched wine glass at woman's face after her 'distinctive accent' led to violent row

Marie-Christine Fleurie told her victim, "Watch it, I'm a police officer" before flicking a cigarette at her and claiming she acted in self defence

Daily Mirror

'Obsessed' killer jailed after teen who 'saw him as a brother' brutally stabbed to death

Halefom Weldeyohannes, 26, repeatedly knifed 19-year-old Yordanos Brhane at her home in Birmingham, on July 31 last year, before strangling her and attempting to burn her body

Daily Mirror

Binge-drinking mum tried to frame 2 men for horrific abuse of her three-month-old

Julia Priadina, 32, tried to blame two complete strangers for abuse after she was caught inflicting more than 30 injuries on her three-month-old baby leaving the vulnerable child cut and bruised

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'Binge-drinking' mum walks away from pram outside Asda leading to discovery of baby's tragic abuse

Julija Priadina, 32, abandoned her child for over a minute after going to Asda, where she was clocked swigging from a bottle of wine.

Daily Record

Baby's tragic abuse exposed after 'binge-drinking' mum walks away from pram outside ASDA

Julija Priadina, 32, left her child unattended for more than a minute after going to Asda, where security staff noticed that the mum had been swigging from a bottle of wine

Daily Mirror

Merseyside's most devious fraudsters, con artists and scammers

The list includes Netflix fraudsters, a cancer con woman and a tax cheat

Liverpool Echo

Lego loving £1.3m fraudster spent thousands on trips to Disneyland

Lee Hickinbottom worked with his former partner Tabatha Knott to steal £1.3m of taxpayers cash

Liverpool Echo

Drug smuggler told 'remain tension free…God will be generous' before boarding flight with heroin worth £900k - he's now in jail

Mohammed Uzair Rashid claimed the bags were not his, then that packages had been planted inside

Manchester Evening News

Dramatic moment violent man's nine-day criminal rampage came to a sudden end

Lee Martin, 42, sparked a police manhunt after kidnapping his former girlfriend before going on to commit a series of terrifying car-jackings after targeting lone female drivers

Daily Mirror

Killer thug arrested while working at JD Sports after stabbing man to death with brother

Ridhwaan Farouk, 19, and his older brother Mohammed, 21, were found guilty of the murder of Amin Talea at Birmingham Crown Court today and will be sentenced on Friday

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Daily Record

Child murder locked toddler in filthy flat as he screamed to be let out before horror death

Kermani Watson Darby was murdered by his mother’s then partner Nathaniel Pope, who will be sentenced next month.

The Independent UK

Kemarni Watson Darby murder: Toddler holds mother’s hand in McDonald’s hours before he’s beaten to death

Drug dealer Nathaniel Pope, 32, found unanimously guilty of murdering his ex-girlfriend’s son

Daily Mirror

Kemarni Watson Darby: Chilling 999 call mum made after boyfriend murdered son in flat

West Midlands Police have released audio footage from Alicia Watson's 999 call after she found son Kemarni Watson Darby, three, "lifeless" in her flat in West Bromwich, after he was attack by her ex-boyfriend Nathaniel Pope

The Independent UK

Kemarni Watson Darby: Man convicted of murdering partner’s son, 3, after weeks of ‘horrendous cruelty’

Youngster died after being found lifeless at home in West Bromwich in June 2018

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Police seize Ferrari from fraudster - sparking £200k court case

'The conduct of the Defendant, by its officers... constituted misconduct in public office and wrongful interference with the claimant's property by means of trespass to goods'

The Independent UK

Teenager convicted of killing boy stabbed in Birmingham

Jurors at Birmingham Crown Court deliberated over three days before acquitting four other defendants of murdering 14-year-old Dea-John Reid.

Daily Record

Drunk Jet2 passenger sick down himself and 'couldn't open his bag' jailed

Ali Ozdemir was too intoxicated to open his bag for his passport on the Jet2 flight from Turkey in October last year.

Daily Mirror

Jet2 passenger who got so drunk he vomited on himself on plane is jailed

Andrew Wallace, prosecuting at Birmingham Crown Court, said police had been called to Birmingham airport on October 19 last year following a report of an intoxicated passenger on a Jet2 plane from Turkey

Daily Mirror

Man and ex-partner stole £1.3million from taxpayers and splurged on Lego and Disneyland

Lee Hickinbottom and Tabatha Knott spent hundreds of thousands of pounds on their family home, luxury cars including two Jaguars, as well as £1,500 on Batman and Avengers Lego sets

Liverpool Echo

Fraudster spent thousands on Lego and trips to Disneyland

Lee Hickinbottom worked with his former partner Tabatha Knott to steal £1.3m of taxpayers cash

The Independent UK

Men and youths ‘hunted down’ and murdered boy with kitchen knife, court told

Birmingham Crown Court heard Dea-John Reid was fatally stabbed on May 31 last year.

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