Online Archive

A wife who left her husband returned two months
later – two days before Christmas – to find him dead.
Builder Reginald Higson was found hanging from a rafter
at their flat in St. Luke’s Avenue

Read More

Two company directors who resorted to a one million pounds
fraud to prop up their once-thriving computer company were both
jailed today Tuesday.
Managing director Terence Harvey, 60, was senten

Read More

A granddad found counterfeiting more difficult than he
thought when he turned his garage into a money-making factory.
The fivers George Orchard turned out on a sophisticated
copier wer

Read More

Kenny Dalglish look-alike John Devlin, 27, has been jailed
for 14 years by an Old Bailey judge for a series of terrifying
armed raids.
Devlin targeted an escort agency, two clubs and a pub

Read More

The last words of an elderly lady who took an overdose of pills
were that she missed her daughter’s beloved dog ‘Pinkie,’ an
inquest heard on Monday.
Sentimental Patricia Ayres, 62, was found

Read More

A teenager was shot in the stomach, chased until
he collapsed in the street then summarily ‘executed’ with a
bullet in the brain, the Old Bailey heard today Tuesday.
Three brothers stand

Read More

A British Rail booking clerk thieved more than pnds stlg 5,000
from his Manor Park station office and gambled it all away.
In doing so he had tried to recover cash he had stolen just
days be

Read More

A thug who took part in the ‘horrifying’ knifepoint attack on
an elderly woman in her own home has been jailed.
Nigel George, 20, ransacked the frail 72-year-old pensioner’s
flat while his part

Read More

A council porter indecently assaulted his granddaughter
for more than half a decade, a court heard.
Tragically the schoolgirl, now 12, had also been sexually
abused not only by her father, b

Read More

A teenager accused of being the lookout in a two-man bank
robber team has been acquitted by an Old Bailey jury.

Kevin O’Leary, 17, always maintained he was the victim of
mistaken ide

Read More