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Gerald Wickes was found fatally injured (Leicestershire Police/PA)
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Boy, 17, in court charged with murder of pensioner

The teenager had been due to enter pleas but the hearing was adjourned for reports.
Court sketch of actor Stephen Tompkinson (Elizabeth Cook/PA)
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Stephen Tompkinson tells court it would be ‘career suicide’ to assault someone

The 57-year-old DCI Banks star is accused of punching a man to the ground who was drunkenly making noise outside his home.
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Union boss to pay damages to firefighter over ‘reckless’ tweets, court told

Paul Embery said UCU general secretary Dr Jo Grady had caused him ‘considerable distress’.
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Woman fatally stabbed in the neck by stranger, court told

Mohamed Nur appeared at the Old Bailey charged with the murder of Johanita Kossiwa Dogbey.
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Teenager to be sentenced for murder of boy, 14, in landmark TV hearing

17-year-old will be sentenced on Tuesday afternoon for the murder of fellow teenager near a train station in south London

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Man faces life sentence after admitting murder of woman, 40, found dead in flat

Joe Rankin, 34, has admitted murdering Emma Potter, 40, who was found dead at a flat in Stroud, Gloucestershire.
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Family’s anguish after boy, 16, is stabbed to death at school gates

Renell’s cousin tells Standard: ‘He was a happy boy, now he has gone. Why? His parents are devastated. He was a good person’

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Murder probe launched as boy, 17, killed in London commuter town

Another boy, also aged 17, was wounded and has been taken to hospital

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Man, 27, stabbed to death in Hackney named as murder suspect charged

Sebastian Zon died after being found with stab wounds in Mare Street

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Almost 40,000 sign petition for tougher sentence for West End killer

Paul Mason’s sister blasts ‘sickening’ sentence handed down to Steven Allan, who admitted manslaughter but was cleared of murder

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Former CPS worker jailed after passing sensitive information to criminals

Paralegal Rachel Simpson is said to have ‘betrayed’ the criminal justice system and the public.
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Two jailed after gun found in driver’s handbag in south London

Police stopped the car in West Norwood and discovered a loaded revolver inside

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High Court order preventing climate protests on M25 extended for one year

Mr Justice Cotter approved an application from National Highways to extend the order.
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Murder-accused nurse ‘stunned’ at death of first alleged victim

Lucy Letby is on trial accused of the murders of seven babies and the attempted murders of 10 others at the Countess of Chester Hospital

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Warning over rise in multimillion-pound modern slavery

.More cases of organ harvesting are under investigation.
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Powerful Nigerian couple jailed in landmark organ harvesting case

Multi-millionaire Senator Ike Ekweremadu, his wife Beatrice and medical ‘middleman’ Dr Obinna Obeta have been jailed n the landmark case

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Powerful Nigerian couple jailed in landmark organ harvesting case

Senator Ike Ekweremadu, 60, his wife Beatrice, 56, and medical “middleman” Dr Obinna Obeta, 51, were found guilty at the Old Bailey in March.
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Drink-driver who murdered student minutes after snorting cocaine jailed for life

Drug dealer Stephen McHugh will serve at least 18 years after treating pedestrians like ‘human skittles’ – killing 22-year-old Rebecca Steer
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Man charged with murdering delivery driver hit by own van

Christopher Elgafari will appear in court accused of killing 54-year-old Mark Lang.
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‘Scary’ mask attacker guilty of stab murder

Timothy Adeoye plunged a large kitchen knife into Donavan Allen at a block of flats in Enfield, north London, on February 7 last year

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Teen who seriously attacked police officer in Brighton avoids jail

The police officer was left with a broken eye socket and nose

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Alleged victim leaves courtroom as officer says he tasered him in fear of attack

Pc Imran Mahmood is accused of unlawfully inflicting grievous bodily harm on Jordan Walker-Brown in May 2020.
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Dog found dead in west London canal with weights around her neck

Sky, an English bull terrier, was found in Greenford canal