Foster mom accused of killing baby tells court how infant 'slipped from arms'

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A foster mother sobbed as she told how the baby she is accused of killing slipped from her arms to the floor during a bedtime cuddle.

Mom who threw baby at policewoman spared jail sentence

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An angry mother from Hull in the UK, who threw her baby son at a woman police officer, has avoided jail.

Family tried to 'cleanse' mummified remains of daughter with surgical spirits

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Police who found the decomposing body of artist Rina Yasutake in a bedroom inside her family's home believe she may have been dead for six weeks.

Woman fights for her life after boyfriend performs exorcism on her

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A nurse is fighting for her life after her doctor boyfriend allegedly performed an exorcism on her, a court heard.

Married warden had affairs with child killer and former inmate, court hears

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A prison officer cheated on his wife by having sex with a child killer behind bars while conducting another affair with a former prisoner, a court heard.

R94K plastic surgery ends in death for UK mom

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A British mother who was self-conscious about her figure after having three children died during cosmetic surgery on her bottom in Turkey.

Teen who killed man with one punch sentenced to three years behind bars

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A teenage thug who killed a father with a single punch and mocked him on Facebook was jailed for just three and a half years.

UK businessman charged for forcing homeless men into modern slavery

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A businessman faces jail for keeping vulnerable homeless men as slaves and making them work 13-hour days while feeding them on chip shop leftovers.

How a 34 000-piece jigsaw almost wrecked a marriage

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A 74-year-old man shut himself away for hours a day as he painstakingly put together the pieces to finish a complicated jungle puzzle.

Son says patient's assault on elderly cancer sufferer hastened his death

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Alfred Sanderson, 86, died weeks after attacked by a man with apparent mental problems who was the only other patient on his hospital ward.

‘Half of donor lungs from smokers’

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One in five lung transplant patients are given organs from 20-a-day smokers, research reveals.