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Upper class adventurer Darius Guppy, 28, who was best man
to Princess Diana’s brother, Earl Spencer, turned to crime
for kicks.
The Old Etonian found his privileged existence a bore and
admi

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Antique dealer Frederick Bartman, 68, was calm and cheerful
in the hours before he allegedly beat to death the titled employee
of his failing business.
Lady Brenda Cross, 73, was savagely blun

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A defendant called ‘Dove’ was told to mend his ways and
to act like his namesake after getting into nasty scrape with a
neighbour.
Colourful Judge Eugene Cotran told him: `You should behave
like

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A pub ban on a rowdy drinker who threatened to break the
landlord’s legs with a sledge hammer has been reinforced by
the courts.
Marylebone magistrate Mr Alan Baldwin banned caretaker Terry

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A burglar notorious for making his getaways along railway
tracks was killed by a train after a tipsy night out house-
breaking, an inquest was told today Wednesday.
Carvel O’Brien was struck by

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Top IRA bomber James Canning was branded a ‘menace to the public’
and jailed for 30 years by Mr Justice John Leonard QC at the Old
Bailey today Wednesday.
The woman he so cruelly used as a cov

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The trucker’s mood in Sarajevo was confidently
fatalistic.
‘If your time is up you can’t do anything about it,’
quipped Ray Dann matter of factly.
Two days earlier a Danish aid co

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Accused railway sex killer Ian Russell told an Old
Bailey jury today Wednesday that he refused police DNA samples
because he did not want anyone ‘messing with him’.
Baby-faced Russell, 21, w

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A father of four pocketed thousands of pounds by travelling to
dozens of post offices around London cashing stolen postal orders,
a court heard.
But Anthony Byrne, 36, who played the part of a

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A bungling teenage robber who accidentally shot himself
during a raid was given five years detention today Monday.
He limped away with pnds sterling 1,500 in cash leaving
behind a terrified ca

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