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A horrific video has captured the moment a man casually loaded a gun and executed a homeless man from less than a metre away. The video appears to show the shooter, who has been named as Deshawn Thomas, struggling to load his gun for about 30 seconds while standing behind the man who is sitting on the pavement outside the
» Read moreA prisoner who killed body-in-a-barrel murderer Zlato Sikorsky has asked the court how he will be able to watch Judge Judy so he can "prepare". Isaac James Martin, representing himself in court over the murder of Sikorsky, is alleged to have struck his fellow inmate in the head which led to fatal injuries. Sikorsky, 37, died in hospital days after
» Read moreA mum has been left devastated after heartless car thieves made stole her teenage son’s ashes, left inside the vehicle. Student Jamie Rees died days after suffering a cardiac arrest in the early hours of New Year’s Day 2022. Since the loss, Jamie’s elder brother has kept a photograph and some of his ashes in his Volkswagen Golf GTD –
» Read moreBookmark Don’t miss a thing! Sign up to the Daily Star’s newsletter We have more newsletters The boy who starred in a famous milk advert and asked “Accrington Stanley, who are they?” has been jailed for murder. Kevin Spaine has been caged for a minimum term of 18 years for the killing of Learoy Venner who was repeatedly punched and
» Read moreAn ex-cop claims the bench where Nicola Bulley's phone was found could have been splattered with blood. Police searching for the missing mum have come under criticism from a number of former officers, who say it was wrong to assume that she accidentally fell into the River Wyre. Martyn Underhill, a former Sussex Police Force detective who was a senior
» Read moreIt was the heist of the century that saw a gang make off with £26million – but many of those linked to the notorious Brink’s-Mat robbery have since perished – often in mysterious circumstances. Sunday night saw the first episode of TV’s The Gold, telling the story behind the notorious crime where six men broke into a warehouse near Heathrow.
» Read moreA man who was jailed for murdering his girlfriend and her sister, a Miss World contestant, has been killed in prison. Plutarco Ruiz was handed a 45-year jail sentence in September 2017 following the slaying of Miss Honduras Maria Jose Alvarado and her sister Sofia, who was his girlfriend at the time. Now Ruiz, 40, has been killed at El
» Read moreThe US man accused of strangling his girlfriend in Colombia packed her corpse into a suitcase and tried to pick up drugs just after fleeing the scene. Dad-of-three John Poulos is facing charges of femicide and concealment of evidence after his 21-year-old girlfriend Valentina Trespalacios was found dead. A court document showed that Poulos asked an Uber driver if he
» Read moreThe half-sister of a rapist, who is on the run with his partner and their newborn baby, claims he was ‘wrongly convicted’. At age 14, Mark Gordon was convicted on four counts of sexual offences in the United States after holding his neighbour hostage at knifepoint for several hours. The now 49-year-old served 20 years behind bars – but says
» Read moreA pair of brothers donning man-buns who were armed with shotguns and fired one of them inside a Spar store have been jailed. Matthew, 41 and Christopher Reece, 36, raided the store in Telford, Shropshire, on October 21, 2021. Shrewsbury Crown Court heard that one of the shotguns were fired during the robbery as threats to kill were made towards
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