A former town mayor in Bracknell Forest, Berkshire, has been accused of helping her son conceal evidence following his arrest for the alleged rape of a 15-year-old girl, a court heard. Naheed Ejaz, 61, who recently completed her one-year term as mayor, allegedly refused police entry into her home on the morning of September 12,
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A popular West Midlands bus route has been identified as the most dangerous in the region, with the highest number of reported criminal offences in the second half of 2025. The notorious 74 service, which runs from Birmingham to Dudley via West Bromwich, recorded 62 reported crimes between July and December last year, according to
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A man who pointed a loaded crossbow at his neighbours during an 18-hour police stand-off in Norfolk has been jailed. Darren Mahoney, 53, of Potters Field, Gorleston, was sentenced to six months in prison at Norwich Magistrates’ Court on Friday after being found guilty of affray. The court also ordered that Mahoney be deprived of
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Police have launched an investigation after a woman in her 20s was allegedly raped in broad daylight near a graveyard in Telford, Shropshire, on Christmas Eve. The alleged attack took place in woodland near Castle Green Cemetery, Ironbridge, between 9.45am and 11.25am on 24 December 2025. West Mercia Police confirmed reports were received on Monday
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A 74-year-old dog walker who was stabbed to death in Sheffield “fought with everything he had”, his family have said, as an inquest has exposed serious failings in mental health and police procedures. Roger Leadbeater was discovered with 57 stab wounds and 19 incisions after the attack in Shortbrook Park on 9 August 2023. He
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The family of a Sheffield pensioner who was killed in a park stabbing have accused authorities of failing “on every level” to protect him, after an inquest found serious breaches in mental health procedures. Roger Leadbeater, 74, was walking his dog when he was stabbed multiple times by Emma Borowy, 32, in August 2023. Borowy
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Merseyside Police have offered a £20,000 reward for information to help solve the murder of Diane Sindall, whose death saw the wrong man spend nearly four decades in prison. Diane, 21, was found dead in an alley off Borough Road in Birkenhead, Merseyside, in the early hours of Saturday 2 August 1986. She had been
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A Plymouth father-of-two, Danny Cahalane, died after being attacked with sulphuric acid in his home last February, prosecutors told the court. Cahalane, 38, was rushed to hospital following the assault but succumbed to his injuries on 3 May 2025, ten weeks after the attack. Witnesses described him as “wide-eyed and terrified” during the earlier failed
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Steve Wright, the convicted Suffolk serial killer, will face trial next month for the murder of 17-year-old Victoria Hall, seven years before he killed five women in 2006, it has emerged. Victoria Hall was last seen alive in the early hours of 19 September 1999, after leaving a nightclub in Felixstowe, Suffolk, with friends. Five
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A man who claimed he could barely walk due to a brain injury after causing a fatal crash has been jailed for 12 years, with his wife also imprisoned for helping him mislead authorities. Steven Naylor, 41, was driving at speeds of up to 120mph on the M62 in Merseyside in April 2021 when he
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