Claire Duffin

1 week ago | dailymail.co.uk | Claire Duffin

An Albanian national who drove at and killed a pedestrian and a cyclist in a 'killing spree' was in the country illegally, a court heard. Emiljano Kasaj, 34, ploughed into Leo Moran as he crossed the road before hitting Joel Carriedo as he rode home from a night shift in Coventry in September 2023.   Kasaj then crashed into a house and fled the scene before being arrested in a garden - later telling a cell mate he would have killed more if it wasn't for a burst tyre.

1 week ago | dailymail.co.uk | Claire Duffin

A convicted rapist was identified as the killer of an elderly widow 58 years after her death after his DNA was found on her skirt, a court heard. Ryland Headley, now 92, went on trial today accused of raping and murdering Louisa Dunne, 75, on the night of 27 June 1967. Mrs Dunne was found dead on a pile of clothes in her house in the Easton area of Bristol. She suffered multiple bruising and a major haemorrhage, consistent with having her mouth forcibly covered to stop her breathing.

1 week ago | dailymail.co.uk | Claire Duffin

It's a common word and seen by many as a slightly more polite way of saying they were popping to the toilet. But using the term 'gents' is 'old fashioned' and 'not inclusive' making it 'unacceptable' in today's corporate world, a tribunal has ruled. The term - a common shortening of 'gentlemen' and often used to describe men's toilets - is not suitable in a modern workplace, a judge has suggested in a ruling involving a claim against one of the Britain's biggest insurance companies.

2 weeks ago | dailymail.co.uk | Claire Duffin |John Siddle

The youngest girl in Britain to be charged with terror offences killed herself at children's home after being groomed and radicalised by two convicted American neo-Nazis, a coroner ruled. Autistic Rhianan Rudd, 16, plotted to blow up a synagogue and scratched a swastika into her forehead after coming into contact with the two men, one of whom was dating her mother and moved into their Derbyshire home.

2 weeks ago | dailymail.co.uk | Claire Duffin

A thug who killed two of his then girlfriend's cats and brutally attacked a third sobbed as he was spared prison. James Higginson, 20, walked out of court with his mother before collapsing against a bollard after being handed a suspended sentence. The court heard Higginson had taken an irrational dislike to ex-girlfriend Caitlin Morley's pets Tiggy, Sushi and Chase while living together and viciously attacked them when she was at work.