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Thorntons chocolate factory worker Jia Ashton may have been murdered by one of her colleagues, police fear. Officers are to release an e-fit of the man they are looking for in connection with the murder. The image is of a white male in his 30s or 40s. Police believe he may have links to the [...]
(Read More)21st Mar 11
Hong Kong police investigate death of Briton Janet Gilson
by Natasha Redman
Hong Kong police have launched a murder inquiry, following the discovery of a British woman’s body on one of its islands. The woman, named as 64-year-old Janet Gilson, was a Salvation Army worker from Essex. She had sustained injuries to her head, although it has not been confirmed whether or not these had caused her [...]
(Read More)21st Mar 11
Husband of murdered Jia Ashton checked into Travelodge
by Harry Oldfield
The husband of murdered Thorntons worker Jia Ashton was spotted checking into a Travelodge the day she died. The Travelodge is a little under half a mile from Thorntons’ Alfreton factory, where Chinese economics graduate Jia worked as a business analyst before disappearing sometime after 5pm on 10 March. Matthew Ashton, a teacher at Blidworth [...]
(Read More)16th Mar 11
Thorntons employee found murdered
by Harry Oldfield
An employee from Thorntons was found murdered in woodland after she went missing for three days on her way back home from work. The body of twenty-five-year-old business analyst Jia Ashton was discovered in Derbyshire woodland, a little over a mile from her Somercotes home, which she shared with her husband Matthew. She had been [...]
(Read More)9th Mar 11
Yorkshire ripper denied court challenge to life in prison
by Natasha Redman
The Court of Appeal has turned down a bid by Peter Sutcliffe to take his fight for early release to the Supreme Court. Peter Sutcliffe, who is known as the Yorkshire Ripper, has failed in his attempt to go to the Supreme Court with a challenge to the order saying he has to serve his [...]
(Read More)27th Feb 11
Briton receives life sentence for murder in Iraq
by Katie Naylor
A British security guard has been sentenced to life imprisonment for murder by an Iraqi court. 30 year old Danny Fitzsimons murdered his Australian colleague in the Green Zone in August 2009. The judge said that the evidence was determined and Fitzsimons committed the crimes of killing and injuring, before sentencing the Briton to life [...]
(Read More)25th Feb 11
Teacher kills herself and her two children
by Sally Davies
A devote church-going teacher and her two children have been found dead in what appears to be a murder-suicide. The bodies of Thomas, 13, his sister Eleanor, 7, and their mother Claudia Oakes-Green, 44, were found on Tuesday night at their home. Their father had been away on business. Police do not know who is [...]
(Read More)24th Feb 11
Child killer murdered in prison
by Sally Davies
An investigation has been launched into the suspected murder of child killer Colin Hatch at one of the country’s most secure prisons. Hatch, 38, died at Full Sutton jail, a maximum-security facility, on Tuesday. Post-mortem tests are due to be carried out later. Hatch was given a life sentence in 1994 after murdering a seven-year-old [...]
(Read More)22nd Feb 11
Mother cleared in fire death case
by Adam Richards
Fiona Adams has been cleared of charges she killed two of her kids in a house fire. A jury has found Fiona Adams, 24, not guilty of having murdered two of her children. The mother of three had been accused of killing her five-year-old daughter Niamh and son Cayden, who was two at the time, [...]
(Read More)21st Feb 11
Police name ten fugitives thought to be hiding in Spain
by Sally Davies
British police are hoping the public can help find ten suspects in the ‘Costa del Crime’. British police are hoping members of the public can help them track down a number of suspects thought to be hiding in Spain’s Costa del Sol region. The area, dubbed the ‘Costa del Crime’ is thought to harbour a [...]
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