Kathryn Knight

4 weeks ago | dailymail.co.uk | Kathryn Knight

When a five-year-old Joanne Law awoke at her home near Newcastle on a March morning in 1973, she knew instantly that something was wrong. Instead of her loving mum lying next to her – they usually shared a bed – there was her father Gilbert, a violent schizophrenic whose erratic moods and vicious temper ruled their family. ‘He was fully clothed, his eyes totally wired. I asked him, “Where’s my mummy?” and he said, “She’s gone.” I didn’t understand. I thought he meant she had gone to the shops.

1 month ago | dailymail.co.uk | Kathryn Knight

Amid the horror of being told she was under arrest, Rosalind Levine remembers a flash of another, visceral, emotion. ‘Pure relief,’ she says. ‘Because until that moment, I was convinced Sascha was dead.’ That was the only reasonable conclusion she could come to, given that six uniformed officers had arrived on the doorstep of her Hertfordshire home at midday and, before reading her rights, had not responded to her pleas for reassurance that her nine-year-old daughter – then at school – was safe.

1 month ago | dailymail.co.uk | Kathryn Knight

Pushed face first into the wall of her hallway, her hands slapped in handcuffs, Elizabeth De Zoysa could barely process what was happening. Moments earlier, still in her dressing gown, she had been clearing up the breakfast dishes left by her teenage daughters before they departed for school. Now, she and her husband – also in handcuffs – were being bombarded with questions by police officers who had just stormed through their front door. Questions about their 23-year-old son Louis.

1 month ago | dailymail.co.uk | Kathryn Knight

It is one of the most sinister and unsettling cases I have covered in 30 years of journalism. A story of calculated and devastating betrayal, unfolding in the heart of a loving family and ending in a callous double murder. In April 2023, Ellie Baxter went to visit her parents at their home in Mersea, Essex. There she made a horrifying discovery: her mother and father, Carol and Stephen Baxter, sitting bolt upright in their favourite armchairs in their conservatory – dead.

1 month ago | dailymail.co.uk | Kathryn Knight

Given the well-documented shortage of builders blighting the nation, you might imagine that Reverend Michael Hall would have been pleased to discover a tradesman at work at his modest Luton home one quiet August afternoon in 2021. There was just one small problem: Reverend Hall (Mike as he is happy to be known) hadn't actually employed anyone to undertake work at his two bedroom house, which at the time was in perfectly good condition. Or so he thought.