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Three-year old Tiffany Wright was neglected and left in what prosecutors called “filth and squalor” by her mother and stepfather in the Sheffield pub they ran. She died of bronchial pneumonia directly attributable to chronic malnutrition.
Sheffield Crown Court heard Tiffany’s decomposing body was found in an insect-infested room in the Scarbrough Arms pub in Upperthorpe, [...]

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A 17-year-old boy has been shot and killed in north London.
Sharmaake Hassan was found in Gilbeys Yard, Camden, at about 2300 BST on Saturday with a gunshot wound to the head, said the Metropolitan Police. He was taken to hospital with severe injuries and died on Wednesday night.
No-one has yet been arrested for the murder. [...]

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A drunk passenger who ran over and killed a taxi driver with his own cab has been found guilty of murder, at Maidstone Crown Court.
Luke Aujila, 21, argued with Gian Chand Bajar over the cab fare before he drove towards him as he lay hurt in the road in Gravesend, Kent, in May 2007.
Aujila, of [...]

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Four teenagers who kicked and stamped to death a cyclist in Bedfordshire have been jailed for life.
Stephen Green, 55, from Luton, was attacked in an underpass in Dunstable by a gang as he cycled home last May, and died in hospital nine days later.
They had been drinking strong beer and brandy and smoking pot before [...]