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Number of people killed with a knife in 2021/22 was highest for 76 years

The number of people killed with a knife in England and Wales in 2021/22 was the highest on record for 76 years. Around four in 10 homicides were committed using a knife or sharp instrument in the year to March 2022 (282). This is a 19% rise ...

09 Feb 2023 at 14:22

World

Man charged with reckless homicide over Apple store crash

A driver is to be charged with reckless homicide after his SUV crashed through the front window of an Apple store in Massachusetts, killing one man and injuring at least 16 other people, authorities said on Tuesday. Bradley Rein, 53, will ...

22 Nov 2022 at 15:20

Four-year sentence for teenager who fatally assaulted bus driver in Elgin

A teenager who fatally assaulted a bus driver after being refused permission to travel because he was drunk has been sentenced to four years and four months in custody. Keith Rollinson, 58, died of cardiac arrest following the assault in ...

18 Nov 2024 at 12:47

Tories pledge to overhaul homicide laws, with tougher sentences for killers

Killers and domestic abusers will receive tougher sentences as a result of a proposed overhaul of homicide laws, which will be set out in the Conservative Party’s manifesto. The minimum sentence for murders that take place in the home ...

05 Jun 2024 at 22:33

‘More abusers whose victims die by suicide will be charged with manslaughter’

More domestic abusers whose victims die by suicide will be charged with manslaughter, a senior police chief has said. An annual national police report on domestic homicides published on Tuesday revealed that the most common cause of ...

25 Mar 2025 at 00:01

World

Medics who treated football legend Maradona before his death to go on trial

Seven members of the medical team that treated Argentine football great Diego Maradona before his death will go on trial for homicide starting on Tuesday in Buenos Aires. The case revolves around allegations that negligence by the ...

10 Mar 2025 at 17:10

Northern Ireland

Separate inquest proposed for man believed to have killed mother and girlfriend

A coroner has proposed that an inquest into the death of a man believed to have killed his girlfriend and mother in separate knife attacks should be held separately to those of his two victims. Coroner Anne-Louise Toal, however, ...

03 Mar 2025 at 14:57

Eight in 10 teenage homicide victims ‘killed by knife or sharp instrument’

Around eight in 10 teenage homicides in England and Wales involve a knife or sharp instrument – a far higher proportion than across the population as a whole, new figures reveal. Some 64 homicide victims aged 13 to 19 were ...

06 Feb 2025 at 16:02

Ireland

Probe into missing Kerry farmer upgraded to homicide investigation

A probe into a missing Kerry farmer has been upgraded to a homicide investigation, An Garda Siochana has said. Gardai said there is a person or people who know what happened to Michael “Mike” Gaine more than five weeks ...

29 Apr 2025 at 20:37

Teenager admits fatal assault on driver after not being allowed to board bus

A teenager has admitted causing the death of a bus driver in an assault that saw him headbutting and “raining punches” onto his victim. Keith Rollinson, 58, died of cardiac arrest following the assault in Elgin bus ...

18 Oct 2024 at 13:29

Scotland

Number of homicides in Scotland falls to lowest level since 1976

Deaths from homicide in Scotland fell last year to the lowest total since records began. Official figures showed that in 2022-23 there were 52 deaths from homicide – down from 53 the previous year. The total – ...

31 Oct 2023 at 11:36

Lockdowns saw higher rate of women victims of domestic homicide – ONS

The proportion of women homicide victims who were killed by a partner, ex-partner or relative was higher during periods of lockdown in the first year of the coronavirus pandemic, figures show. Some 49% of ...

10 Feb 2022 at 17:25

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