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A drunken mum who has been dubbed 'Gypsy Star' has been jailed after biting a police officer's thumb. Susan Rigg was already serving a suspended sentence when she hurled abuse at two officers before biting one of them. The 68-year-old, from South Shields, had called the police herself and asked for their help to be "re-housed". Rigg pleaded guilty to
» Read moreAn angry disabled pensioner "mowed down" a woman on his mobility scooter in a park – after she criticised the way he was walking his dog. The woman and her friend had asked Terry Higman, 72, to slow down as he drove through the park in Plymouth while towing a terrier. But the pensioner hurled abuse at the pair and
» Read moreA mother-of-five was tragically killed while she was working at a cemetery after a 2,000-pound headstone fell on her. Elvira Navarro, from New York City, was fatally injured after a headstone she was tending to fell on her while at the Baron Hirsch Cemetery on Staten Island on October 28 in 2021. According to court documents, the 53-year-old had been
» Read moreA mum reportedly claimed that animated character SpongeBob SquarePants ordered her to kill her three-year-old daughter. Justine Johnson, 22, allegedly stabbed Sutton Mosser repeatedly on September 16, before stuffing her body into a black bag after heroin withdrawal hallucinations and lack of sleep made her believe a cartoon had instructed her to murder. In a preliminary hearing on Friday (February
» Read moreA paranoid man locked a woman and young child in a house and subjected her to a horrific two-day-ordeal because he wrongly suspected she was cheating. Dale Bennett, 30, also humiliated his ex partner by pouring food and alcohol over her head, and subjected her to verbal abuse including threatening to cut off her toes "one by one." The nasty
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