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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 [...]

A father and son have been convicted of killing a 21-year-old man in a McDonald’s restaurant.
Richard Moore died after suffering a blow to the neck in the restaurant in Hay Hill, Norwich, on 21 March.
Gerard Stonehouse, 48, and his son Jonathan Stonehouse, 18, had both denied manslaughter during a trial at Norwich Crown Court. [...]