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A murder trial jury has been told a teen was goaded into a violent altercation before stabbing his stepdad 35 times as he tried to break free from a bear hug.

Murder accused denies owning food dehydrator and describes ‘love’ for in-laws in video shown to Victorian supreme court

Erin Patterson's version of a deadly mushroom lunch has been revealed, with a jury shown footage of the accused murderer's police interview.

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"This is a really tragic evening,” said Queensland Police Chief Inspector Grant Marcus.

TV writer was speaking at the 2025 Hay Festival of Literature and Arts

Surveillance footage shows Grant Hardin disguised in a ‘makeshift outfit’ as he fled the North Central Unit

The actor’s first novel, set on (and sometimes narrated by) a luxury boat in 1925, swerves from cosy Christie homage into something far more brutal

A father urges one of UK’s most wanted men – the main suspect in his daughter’s rape and murder – to hand himself in

Danish police have arrested two people on charges of murdering a man whose body was discovered in a sewer earlier this year

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