A paranoid schizophrenic allegedly killed three pensioners he wrongly believed were paedophiles. Alexander Lewis-Ranwell, 28, was under the delusion that he had uncovered a paedophile ring so killed Anthony Payne, 80, and twin brothers Roger and Dick Carter, 84, in February. He is on trial for murder after admitting to the killings but denies murder […]

A dog owner has been jailed for over five months after he was caught on camera repeatedly punching his pet. Robert Black was given the 23-week sentenced at Reading Magistrates’ Court for causing unnecessary suffering to a protected animal. A witness saw him beating his dog in Victoria Park, Newbury, Berkshire, on December 21 last […]

A teenager who choked a man to death after meeting him on dating app Plenty of Fish had Googled ways to ‘kill and get away with it’, a court heard. Jamie Lee Dolheguy, now 20, invited Maulin Rathod, 24, to her address in Victoria, Melbourne, in July 2018 after a brief text exchange. While the […]

Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday expressed her condolences to the family of Fritz von Weizsaecker, the son of a former German president after he was fatally stabbed while giving a medical lecture. “This is a terrible blow to the von Weizsaecker family, and the condolences of myself as chancellor and from the government as a […]

The son of former German President Richard von Weizsaecker was stabbed to death while he was giving a lecture at a hospital in Berlin where he worked as a head physician, police announced on Wednesday. A 57-year-old German man is in custody after he jumped up from the audience at the Schlosspark-Klinik and attacked Fritz […]