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A young footballer has warned others of the dangers of the contraceptive pill after she developed deadly blood clots on both lungs. Hollie Olding, 21, was diagnosed with a pulmonary embolism (PE) by shocked medics when she was rushed to hospital after coughing up blood. The communications student, who was on a football scholarship in […]

The former wife of a hate preacher jailed for terrorism offences has been sent to prison herself for sharing shocking extremist material online. Khadidja Benboukhemis, whose third husband is Abu Izzadeen, shared a so-called Islamic State video showing beheadings and mutilated children. Kingston Crown Court heard Benboukhemis, from Plymouth, admitted sending the material last year […]

A killer is facing a life sentence after disguising himself as a builder and stabbing his neighbour in “revenge” for his brother’s unsolved murder. Stephen O’Rourke, 48, stabbed 38-year-old Rocky Djelal to death in a ‘savage’ attack outside the children’s playground in Southwark Park, southeast London, on Halloween in 2018. O’Rourke blamed the victim for […]

A Hertfordshire police sergeant who sexually exploited an underage cadet has been jailed and described as ‘predatory’. Constabulary officer Michael Grigg, 34, was sentenced to six-and-a-half years’ behind bars over the offending. He was convicted at Harrow Crown Court on Friday of two counts of penetrative sexual activity with a child following a Independent Office […]

A taxi driver has been spared jail after he killed a man in front of his two grandchildren in a “momentary lapse of judgement.” Oritseweyinmi Pessu had been ferrying passengers for years when his careless driving threw grandad Narendra Dang from the back seat of the Mercedes, causing him to die instantly. The 66-year-old victim […]

A man who tried to snap his wife’s neck by hacking at it with a meat cleaver has been found guilty of trying to murder her. William Clapperton was found guilty of attempted murder today after an eight day trial. The 58-year-old attempted to break his estranged wife’s neck with his bare hands ‘like something […]

A ten-year-old boy was killed when a 110kg queue barrier in Topshop fell on him. Arcadia Group, which includes Topshop, appeared in court today accused of allowing the death of little Kaden Reddick, 10, in its Reading store on February 13, 2017. Lisa Mallett, Kaden’s mother, who had been at the store in the Oracle […]