Princess Anne’s gun dog trainer died from a shotgun wound to the head after shooting his wife at Boris Johnson’s family estate, an inquest heard yesterday. John Frederick Zurick was taken to Plymouth’s Derriford Hospital with severe injuries after the incident on February 22. Paramedics were called to the cottage in Winsford, near Minehead, on … Read more
The High Court in London has published rulings relating to the legal battle between Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum and his former wife Princess Haya bint Al Hussain of Jordan. Here is a timeline of events in the case. July 15, 1949 – Sheikh Mohammed is born in Dubai. May 3, 1974 … Read more
Has your toddler ever pointed to the empty space next to you and told you that someone is there? Anna Moore hears the tales that really will send shivers down your spine Children, it’s popularly believed, can lead us to this other realm because they still have a foot in both our world and the spirit … Read more
A £90,000-a-year City worker accused of murdering her four-week old daughter with her Lithuanian lover told police ‘my god, I’m such a bad mother’ hours before her daughter’s death, a court heard. Financial consultant Clare Sanders, 43, and Tomas Vaitkevicius, 45, allegedly shook Eva on three separate occasions at their south London flat during the first weeks … Read more
A 15-year-old boy jumped to his death at a college after a phone call to a friend he told to ‘make sure you hug your parents’, an inquest heard. On June 3 last year George Brankov gave his girlfriend a box of chocolates on his way to classes at the UTC Media College in Salford, … Read more
Girl, 17, was found dead in her bed by her mother after suffering from sepsis that she had thought was just food poisoning, inquest hears Tina Way, 17, was found dead at her home in Cardiff, Wales on July 20 last year In the days before she died Ms Way had been on holiday at … Read more
An 81-year-old pensioner ‘tortured’ her neighbours by encouraging her parrot to sing loudly in a long running campaign of harassment against the couple. Catherine Searle, 81, began her reign of terror after a parking row with neighbours Paul and Lydia Appleton outside their home in Sevenoaks, Kent. For three years, the pensioner would throw dog poo … Read more
Streatham terrorist Sudesh Amman was fatally shot by police in the neck and abdomen, an inquest was told today. Amman, 20, was wearing a hoax suicide vest when he was shot dead by armed cops after he stabbed two people in broad daylight on Streatham High Road, south London on February 2. Moments earlier he … Read more
A vegan animal rights activist was wrongfully dismissed for blowing the whistle on an anti-hunting charity’s ‘unethical’ pension investments, a tribunal heard today. Jordi Casamitjana, 56, was sacked from his position as head of policy and research at the League Against Cruel Sports (LACS) in April 2018 after sending an email to colleagues about alternative … Read more