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A husband who treated his diabetic wife as ‘a slave’
during years of violence and sexual abuse, the Old Bailey
heard.
The 44-year-old man would drag the mother to their
garage, beat and

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A deranged man who showered his terrified wife with petrol
then taunted her with a cigarette lighter has been sent to a
mental hospital.
Duke Preddie, 53, made his wife Naomi certain she was a

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A store detective who tried to rob a post office when he
was given the sack has been jailed for five and a half years by
an Old Bailey judge.
Andrew Bush, 28, moved to London from his B

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A schoolboy rapist faces almost certain jail after he
was convicted at the Old Bailey of attacking a girl at knifepoint
in a rubbish-filled yard.
Joseph Smith, 15, was remanded for re

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A leading French Impressionist painting was stolen
from an art collector’s luxury Kensington apartment by a
part-time security guard at the buildings, a court heard
today Monday.
Edouard Vuil

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Lonely and partially deaf Paul Smith started a fire outside
his neighbour’s bedsit after a row over playing his stereo
too loud.
The court was told victim Ken Willison, 37, was lying in his

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A young plasterer, upset when his relationship with a girlfriend
soured, died in a fume-filled car, Southwark Coroners Court heard
on Tuesday.
The inquest into his tragic death was told that

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A man was brutally stabbed to death for the sake of the few
pounds in his electricity meter, the Old Bailey heard.
Roy Lungley, 45, was knifed through the heart when he caught David
Donnell

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A schoolboy playing games on the fourth floor balconies of a
Kennington towerblock discovered a decomposing corpse, an inquest
was told Monday.
The body was too decayed for pathologists to d

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A robber was presented with a ‘golden oppurtunity’ when his
elderly victim walked out of a post office with a large wad of cash,
a court heard today (Mon).
Sixty-three-year-old John William h

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