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Dog that killed boy in Cornwall had attacked before, inquest hears
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A coroner is to write to a police force about a nine-year-old boy who was mauled to death by a dog during a Cornish holiday, after his inquest heard the animal had been involved in previous attacks. Frankie MacRitchie...
INXS lead guitarist’s loss of finger in boat incident like ‘sticking a knife in a toaster’, court hears
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The finger-severing accident that INXS’s lead guitarist says ended his career and cost him more than $1.2m has been likened to sticking a knife in a live toaster. Tim Farriss is suing a Sydney boat rental company and ...
R Kelly barred girlfriends from watching series on abuse allegations, court hears
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R Kelly barred his live-in girlfriends from watching a documentary series that portrayed him as a sexual predator and kept watch over them during an interview with Gayle King, one of the women testified Tuesday at the...
Plymouth gunman shot mother in head after row, coroner hears
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The Plymouth gunman Jake Davison shot his mother in the head and torso after an argument at their home before killing four strangers including a three-year-old girl on nearby streets and a park, a coroner has heard. M...
Streatham attack victim feared he would bleed to death, court hears
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A man wounded in an attack in Streatham in south London on 2 February 2020 overheard a paramedic say “he’s not going to make it” after he was stabbed in the side by the recently released convicted terrorist Sudesh Amm...
Police deny knowing of plan to let armed group commit crime, Victorian inquest into robber’s death hears
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Undercover police officers tailing a group of suspected armed robbers deny they knew of a plan to allow the men to commit a crime if they could not be safely arrested first, the Victorian coroner’s court has heard. Co...
High court hears opening salvos in libel case brought by Roman Abramovich
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This week, in the Victorian confines of London’s high court, massed ranks of lawyers acting for three Russian billionaires and state-controlled oil company Rosneft engaged in the first courtroom phase of a legal actio...
Abramovich was not ‘directed’ to buy Chelsea FC by Putin, court hears
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Roman Abramovich’s lawyer said it was defamatory to describe the businessman as having “a corrupt relationship” with the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, and that he had acted “covertly at his direction” in key busi...
Ryan Giggs allegedly kicked ex-girlfriend in the back, court hears
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Former Manchester United footballer Ryan Giggs allegedly kicked his ex-girlfriend in the back and threw her out of a hotel bedroom while she was naked, a court has heard. The former Wales player, 47, is accused of con...
London casino let rich patrons racially abuse staff, tribunal hears
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An exclusive London casino allowed wealthy patrons to racially abuse staff with impunity and “segregated” black employees from gamblers who insisted on white dealers, a tribunal has heard. Semhar Tesfagiorgis, 41, is ...
Dog breeder was shot dead by estranged husband, inquest hears
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A dog breeder who supplied spaniels to the rich and famous was shot dead by her estranged husband after she left him for another man, an inquest has heard. Debbie Zurick, 56, was shot twice in the back by John Zurick,...
Gracie Spinks died from stab wound to neck, inquest hears
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A 23-year-old woman thought to have been killed by her alleged stalker died from a stab wound to the neck, an inquest heard. Gracie Spinks was found fatally injured in a field in Duckmanton, Derbyshire, where she had ...
Mother killed children’s abusive father to save them, French court hears
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To their neighbours in the small village of Baudemont, in the Burgundy region north of Lyon, the Polette family seemed perfectly normal. They were discreet and did not socialise, but when they did villagers remarked t...
Woman in south Wales saw husband and son killed by buffalo, inquest hears
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A woman watched helplessly as her husband and son were killed by a water buffalo on their family farm in south Wales, an inquest heard on Thursday. Ralph Jump, 57, and his son Peter, 19, were fatally injured by the bu...
Mother and children died when car swerved into lorry on A40, inquest hears
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A mother and three of her children died when their family car collided with an oncoming lorry, an inquest has heard. Zoe Powell, 29, and Phoebe, eight, Simeon, six, and Amelia, four, were killed in the crash on the A4...
Police ‘flabbergasted’ London Bridge terrorist survived first few shots, inquest hears
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Police have told an inquest they were “flabbergasted” when the convicted terrorist Usman Khan, who was shot to death on London Bridge in 2019, survived the first few shots. Khan killed 25-year-old Jack Merritt and 23-...