
Thornton Heath- Children's attempted murder hearing halted
An attempted murder hearing for two brothers aged 12 and 14 was halted after one of the children clutched his chest and became unwell.
Wed 16 Sep 2026 · 23:24 GMT

An attempted murder hearing for two brothers aged 12 and 14 was halted after one of the children clutched his chest and became unwell.

Detectives have released footage of a man they need to speak to in connection

Shanda McAteer, representing Clarke-Butcher, who has 14 convictions for 31 offences, said he denied releasing the gas and "genuinely expresses remorse".

A gore video fanatic bought a hunting knife online and tracked its delivery moments before he fatally stabbed a woman 18 times as she waited at a bus stop, a court has heard

When asked why he tried to run away from officers, Abdilahi said he was “on my way to meet my girl” and went on to say that he was “having issues with a female and that’s what the problem is”.

Vascular surgeon Dr Muhammad Abdelmoez Abdelmoghny Khalil has been handed a nine-month suspension for his 'virulently antisemitic' social media posts.

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Mohangopi Tadiboyina had "targeted" the intoxicated woman after seeing her walking home alone following a night out in Swansea city centre.

No arrests have been made yet, Greater Manchester Police have said

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Kayleigh Smart killed Liam Collier after stabbing him nearly a dozen times

Tyreese Johnson deliberately swerved the stolen Nissan Qashqai into the biker's path

Officers said two men have been arrested on suspicion of rape

Police called after shocking discovery at West Midlands school

Imran Uddin has been sentenced to life for murdering partner Ismail Younis at his flat in Hockley in August 2025

The 34-year-old was fatally stabbed outside his home in Hodge Hill late on August 25

Travellers Mark and Jason Joyce were told they were 'lucky' to avoid prison in 2024, one year later they attacked a house together while Jason went on crime rampage

Olagunju, who found the body, did not attempt CPR or raise the alarm. He instead went to alert the night manager Alex Obamwonyi. Witnesses described Chukwuji-Ohanachum screaming and throwing herself to the ground while a staff member performed chest compressions from 3.45am.

Met officers report violent attacks on a pregnant staff member and an elderly man outside the restaurant in recent months

A crime scene remains in place this morning

A 30-year-old man is accused of murdering Jorge Ortega, 61, at Ilford railway station

Wesley Usherwood admitted common assault - but court will now have to decide which 'version of events' took place

Mamadou Bah lied to the police and claimed he was fighting the victim in self-defence

Darren Conway was part of the vile network that shared sexual assault and domestic abuse content

A 66-year-old man has pleaded guilty to murdering a mother of seven in 1998 after telling police he disposed of her decomposed body months after killing her.

Joel Louis' hiding place didn't fool officers

The 18-year-old killer had travelled to London weeks earlier to scope out his victim's home address

The baby's grandmother has been charged with allowing the death of the 17-month-old girl

If you recognise the pictured man, contact the police via the information provided

Thomas Casey was declared dead at the scene when emergency services arrived at a property on Poynders Road.

The 38-year-old man was caught by an undercover police officer online

A Sudanese lorry migrant who stabbed a stranger to death two months after he followed a man off a bus and knifed him was jailed for at least 27 years. Rasheed Rahman, 21, murdered grandfather Mark Carroll, 55, with a 5in blade in St Martin Gardens, Camden, northwest London, on 10 April 2024. Two days earlier Rahman went on the rampage on a canal tow-path, punching and kicking members of the public, in Camden Town, but he was granted police bail

Seven people are arrested after a fight that an eyewitness says broke out near a KFC restaurant.


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The trial of Jamie Duncan, 21, is scheduled to begin at the Old Bailey on Monday, June 7 next year

The two adults and teenager will appear in court on Monday.

Khloe Simmonds was sentenced for eight counts of perverting the justice on Monday, over the allegations made against her victims between 2018 and 2026.

Afghan small boat migrant Suliaman Tajzai travelled from Leeds to London to murder Farmanullah Sherzad earlier this year.

Yousef Mansour, 20, punched hairdresser Scarlett Weekes in the stomach, controlled what she wore, and beat her face to a pulp to stop other men taking interest in her.

Hamza Iqbal, Saif Ali, Rehan Khan and Judex Atshatsh - Four vehicles run by a charity were set alight in Golders Green, north-west London, causing explosions in March.

Sadiq Farhad Azad is charged with rape, stalking and criminal damage after alleged offences in Portsmouth.

Chibueze Chukwurah, 34, and Maxwell Uguanya, 33, also pleaded not guilty to the manslaughter of Taiwo Ekerin after allegedly attacking him outside the Alpha Lounge venue in Lewisham.

Detectives have launched a murder investigation following his death.

Andrea Skopova, 20, Peter Horvath Jnr, 19, Peter Horvath Snr, 38, and Nina Horvathova, 37, appeared before the court on Wednesday morning charged with the murder of Baby S.

John Anslow, 65, and his daughter Hayley-Marie Ferguson, 42, have been found guilty for the death of Chereiss Bailey.

Steven Shevels died after hitting his head on the concrete floor of a beer garden in Willington, County Durham, on Christmas Eve last year.

Tyrone Downing committed a number of violent offences at a tram station, mainly targeting female victims.

A Saudi man in his 40s was attacked in Berkeley Square on Thursday evening, and remains in hospital

Benito Ramirez Kones carried out a brutal murder alongside Carlos Akum Metumbe and Luiggi Perelli Santana. The trio later attempted to flee the country, but Kones was found in Swansea

An 18-year-old man was shot in the head in the targeted attack

Gregory Castillo Volquez was stabbed 22 times and beaten with a crutch and a nail-embedded plank in Haringey, north London , on January 13 last year.

Police arrested a teenage boy on suspicion of attempted murder

A security team helped prevent a rape in progress at Canary Wharf, leading to the arrest and conviction of a 30-year-old Beddington man.

The man was assaulted at Liverpool Street Station on Sunday, August 30, and died in the hospital from his injuries on Tuesday, September 1

Daniel Levy, 48, changed his plea as his trial was about to open on Wednesday

Kolawole Erunkulu (pictured) was driving along the A23 in Merstham, Surrey, when he veered off the road and struck Philip Dray.

He remains in hospital in a life-threatening condition and his attacker is still on the run

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A teenage boy has been charged with the murder of a man in Co Tyrone.

'Locals in the area are very concerned - this is causing anxiety and worry in the community'

A girl, 7, and her aunt died in the blaze in Grangetown, near Middlesbrough, on Wednesday.

The victim was just a 15-year-old schoolgirl when two older men dragged her away and attacked her outside her auntie's house in Limehouse, east London.

Three men have been arrested after a man was stabbed on the pavement at Derrys Cross Roundabout, Plymouth.

Dr Amal Bose has been erased from the medical register

Police wish to speak to the man pictured as part of their inquiries

As of 8.30pm, there had been 315 arrests on Monday - bringing the total number of arrests over the two-day operation to 560

The Met Police believe there may be more victims that have not yet spoken out

The Wethersfield site - 12 miles from Braintree and operated by Clearsprings Ready Homes on behalf of the Home Office - is the largest facility of its kind in Britain.

A group of four men approached another man and asked him why he was looking at them

The 55-year-old was handed a three year prison sentence in 2024

The attack happened in a busy area of Central London

A 54-year-old man will appear in court later today

Two people, including a teenage boy, have been arrested in connection

A murder investigation has been launched following the incident, the Metropolitan Police has announced

Trevin Campbell will be behind bars for life

A 50-year-old woman, who has been named as Anna Kowalska, died in hospital following the blaze

Harper Dennis stabbed Khaleed Oladipo through the heart near De Montfort University

A thug has been jailed after a campaign of abuse against his partner, including dragging her by the neck and throwing a shopping trolley at her.

Ibrahim Albashir, 34, launched the frenzied attack on his victim, now 32, as she walked home from a meal in March 2024.

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A murder investigation has been launched after a man died following a seafront stabbing.

The adult passenger in Bethnal Green was found to be using the 16+ Zip Oyster photocard, which gives children aged 16 and 17 free travel on Transport for London (TfL) buses.

The two police officers killed in this morning’s crash on the A66 near Middlesbrough have been named. Seven people died in the collision.

A man, 26, was arrested at the scene on suspicion of GBH and is currently in custody

Another woman who was in the property is fighting for her life in hospital

Paul Foster, 39, made several chilling threats against the couple who lived in the same block of flats, Cardiff Crown Court heard.

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The incident took place between Beckenham Junction and Shortlands railway station on July 22

Mohammed Abdullah, 19, has been sentenced to six years and nine months in prison.

The man fled after being confronted

The British Transport Police need to find the man pictured to assist with ongoing enquiries

Leah Campbell-Knechtel handed accomplice Jawad Naser a kitchen knife, which he used to repeatedly stab the 66-year-old victim

Daniel Boakye, 21, fled from prison guards taking him to West Middlesex University Hospital by slipping out of handcuffs while using the toilet.

Hekmat Omar Ali Hakim has been charged in connection with a terrorist attack at Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation synagogue last October.

Baryalai Rahimi, 25, and Mirebadurahman Sadat, 29, allegedly attacked the teenager on a service from Sturry to London Bridge on February 5.

Two illegal immigrants raped a woman at knifepoint while she was star gazing in a park during a 'harrowing attack'. Afghanis Khan Agah and Noorullah Ahmdzai were convicted today.

A fellow passenger who attempted to intervene in the attack on a Sutton-bound train was also spat at

Several missiles were hurled towards partygoers celebrating at the Royal Shalimar building on Highgate Road in Birmingham last night.

Italian national Hendrix Ekwen, 34, has won a battle against being kicked out the country despite a report finding that he poses “a high risk of serious harm” to women.
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Ahmad Hania, of Nuneaton, was detained in connection with assaults of two girls in Kenilworth.

An 18-year-old man is questioned after a two-year-old girl is struck and seriously injured.

Bugra Has, 21, Achille Keita, 23, Mustafa Merghani, 22, Ashawn Studholme, 21, Robert McKinney, 45, and Danielle Whyte, 40, appeared at Edinburgh Sheriff Court on Monday.

Police Scotland say Paul Lafferty, 50, and Gary Beaton, 54, were both found with fatal stab injuries in a flat in the west end of the city

Rhys Copas' voice box was exposed and his nerves damaged, a court was told

The young man was taken to hospital with multiple knife injuries

David Niblett, 42, pleaded guilty to two counts of rape of a girl under 13 at Portsmouth Crown Court after being extradited from Spain

A number of people were inside the property at the time

Two men charged with raping a woman in the car park of Ceannt Railway Station in Galway last week have been further remanded in custody.

Bruke Desalagne, 33, hauled the man off the bench where he had been sitting down before taking him behind a hoarding at St John's church in Harrow and raping him on a grass verge.

The suspects, who were all wearing black balaclavas, made off from the scene in a grey SUV.

A man has been arrested after a woman was fatally stabbed and another has been left hospitalised.

Alaba has said he took out two taxpayer-funded loans during the pandemic but insisted he had not tried to avoid paying the money back.

The 21-year-old is sentenced after admitting eight offences including assault and attempted rape.

A convicted drug dealer and drill music artist has been returned to prison after bringing a firearm to a probation appointment.

A murder investigation is under way after a man in his 40s was found shot dead in the early hours, say police.

Eugeniu Neamtu, 59, stabbed Gheorghe Trica, 63, to death at their shared flat in Walthamstow, east London, three years after being released from prison in Romania.

Joey Carthy, Alex McCarthy, Jeremy O'Brien, Jack Kennedy and Kamil Pustkowski all died in the collision on the M9, in Kildare, on Sunday.

Getaway drivers Agandy Anderson, 30, and Kayne Stewart, 27, worked with two other gang members armed with the lethal blades.

A man was taken to hospital after a stabbing in Islington late on August 13.

Police remain at the scene after one person was pronounced dead following an attack in West London on Tuesday morning (August 18)

The men had broken the legs and an arm of a construction worker after beating him with metal poles

A man has been arrested, with another man fighting for his life in hospital

Courtney Gartshore, 28, had been drinking on the day she killed her three-month-old daughter at an address in Peterhead in September 2023.

The Metropolitan Police and London Ambulanace Service were called following reports an assault

Adina Mihai and Madalin Dumitru were found guilty of drugging men in a plot to steal cash and jewellery

An 81-year-old man was also taken to hospital

A bus passenger was molested by Kafle in Uxbridge, north London on 21 December 2024 and later that day he groped a woman on the platform at Wembley Park Station.

Simon Levy brutally murdered two women, 53-year-old Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo and 39-year-old Sheryl Wilkins, and raped and near-fatally suffocated a third woman.

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Abubakr Ben Yusaf and Umar Ben Yusaf were racing near Welshpool, Powys, in November 2024.

Abdul Nabizada, who worked with the British army in Afghanistan, attacked the woman while driving her home from a night out.

A forensics tent has been pictured in Clapham North

Emergency services were called to the scene in the early hours of Sunday

Alvin Gitahi, 43, will be sentenced at Southwark Crown Court in October

Police have made multiple arrests in connection

Simon Levy’s second murder victim, Sheryl Wilkins, could have been saved, senior Met officer admits.

Police have identified the victim and are trying to track them down

Police have charged the England striker following an 'assault' at a club in Soho

He offered the woman a tissue outside St Pancras only to make off with her bag containing £175,000 worth of her belongings


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Deacon Hart has been sentenced to two years in prison

Police want to speak to the man pictured to help with their investigation

The victim had been working at the equestrian show when the offence took place

A man is set to face a trial after being accused of a wide range of child sex offences

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Osarenkhoe Atutie, 26, followed his estranged partner up to Edinburgh from London and brutally attacked her in the middle of a busy street

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Beaut Pimpaporn, 33, was returning home from a trip to Milan, Italy , when she caught a connecting flight in Dubai for the onward six-hour journey to Bangkok yesterday.

Amran Hussain has been jailed after his trail of deception finally came to a halt when he was arrested at a remote cottage he was renting from his aristocratic landlords.

Police said they 'urgently wish to trace' Jordan Asije following the killing of a student in Primrose Hill

Five men were convicted after two French crypto millionaires were abducted, restrained and tortured for 52 hours in an east London flat.

He was stabbed to in Ashburton Park, Croydon at about 7pm last night (December 30) and was later pronounced dead at 7.36pm.

The murder came against a backdrop of violence arising from a rivalry between two Enfield gangs: the Get Money Gang (GMG) and the 3x3 gang.

Police are appealing for witnesses to come forward

Abdul Khan, 28, used the messaging platform to groom the teenager by telling her he was a 14-year-old boy, jurors at Nottingham Crown Court were told.

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Gabrielle Carrington denies killing Klaudia Zakrzewska outside Inca nightclub in Soho on 19 April.

Dr Jawad Ahmad, who is currently believed to be in Pakistan, faces multiple misconduct allegations.

Matthew Somerfield, 39, is jailed for assisting an offender after the incident in Grimsby last year.