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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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Two teenage boys have been jailed for life for the murder of a woman who was killed for dressing as a Goth.
A terrible and utterly senseless act of violence against two totally innocent people who were attacked, one of whom died, simply because they looked different.
I am only sorry that the death penalty is not [...]

I’ve always believed that while national pride is good, and quite natural, when it borders on racism, it’s going to far. I very much try to treat everyone, wherever they are from, equally.

I do, however, feel that when you visit, live or work in another country, you should try your best to follow the customs [...]