A ten-week old baby died of severe head injuries just over a week after being discharged from hospital to go home with her parents. What happened? Lily-Mai Hurrell Saint George was born prematurely on 21 November 2017 and spent the first two months of her life in hospital. She was… You must be a paid …
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Released to Kill: Colin Hatch and the murder of Sean Williams
Seaman, Dixon, Linighan, Adams, Winterburn, Merson, Davis, Jensen, Parlour, Campbell, Wright… It was the summer of 1993, and seven year-old Sean Williams could name every player in that FA Cup winning football team. He loved the Arsenal, he loved his BMX bike, and he loved life. He was a popular… You must be a paid …
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Year of the Ripper: Alice Bowden
On 27 July 1888 a two-year-old girl was left at the Royal Free Hospital in central London. The child’s name was Alice Bowden, but she was already dead. Her body was so thin an emaciated that she weighed only 8.5lbs, when a child of that age would normally weigh at… You must be a paid …
Year of the Ripper: Frank and Bertie Aston
The suspect under arrest was Emma Aston, a 39-year-old factory worker accused of murdering her two young sons. She had suffocated them both, first twelve-month old Frank and then two year-old Bertie. It took a long time for the eldest to die, for he was old enough to put up… You must be a paid …
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Year of the Ripper: Clarence Longman Jnr
On 11 October 1889, a young soldier in the 29th Steel Battery of the Royal Artillery at Newbridge Barracks in Ireland made a sudden confession. “I wish to give myself up,” Private Edwin Shuttleworth told his sergeant-major. ‘What for?’, came the reply. Shuttleworth was in already in trouble for leaving… You must be a paid …