Articles by Paul Wright

Asda worker apologised to daughter before killing mother over £24-a-week child support

Mark Morris, 39, stabbed Emma Day, 33, with a kitchen knife as she taking her kids home from school.

Nov 30, 2017

Holocaust survivors' anger at artists playing naked tag in Nazi gas chamber

Holocaust survivors have demanded Poland's president explain why artists were allowed to film a naked game of tag inside a gas chamber in the former Nazi death camp of Stutthof.

Nov 30, 2017

Britain's worst miscarriage of justice? Levi Bellfield 'confesses' to murder of Lin and Megan Russell

Lawyers for the man jailed for the 1996 Russell murders claim serial killer Levi Bellfield has confessed to the crimes for which their client was "wrongly" convicted.

Nov 29, 2017

Britain First's Jayda Fransen: 'Thank God for President Trump - he's setting the way for the world'

The deputy leader of anti-Islam party Britain First, Jayda Fransen, has praised Donald Trump for sharing controversial videos she posted on Twitter to his 43 million followers.

Nov 29, 2017

Donald Trump

Doctor removed bone from wrong leg during operation - then lied about it when patient woke up

A patient in Sweden had a piece of bone accidentally removed from the wrong leg, only for the doctor to then alter patient records to make it appear as if everything went to plan.

Nov 29, 2017

NHS

Inmates smoking £800 a day of spice are returning to crime to repay prison drug debts

Newly freed prisoners are turning back to a life of crime to repay drug debts built up in prison – with some having consumed £800 a day of substances like "zombie drug" spice.

Nov 29, 2017

Muslim convert who plotted to blow up Florida synagogue sent to psychiatric hospital

A Florida man - James Medina - who plotted to blow up a synagogue during Passover will be hospitalised for psychiatric treatment and likely serve 25 years in prison.

Nov 28, 2017

FBI Hollywood

Books in UK Islamic school say it's OK to beat women for refusing sex

Ofsted inspectors fear controversial texts making their way into mainstream schools with help of well-meaning teachers.

Nov 28, 2017

Necrophile fetishist nurse shared child porn and photos of himself having sex with three dogs

Paedophile John Page, from Kensington, London, has been jailed after having sex with dogs, sharing child porn and fantasising about child necrophilia.

Nov 28, 2017

UK crime

Tracey Connelly was jailed in 2009 for allowing her son to die (Met Police)

Baby P's mother will spend two more years in jail following failed Christmas freedom bid

Parole board had ruled that the mother of toddler tortured to death is still a danger to the public.

Nov 28, 2017

This 'Hallucination Machine' will let you experience what it's like to take magic mushrooms

A team of scientists in the UK say they have built a machine that can allow people to hallucinate without taking potentially dangerous drugs like magic mushrooms.

Nov 27, 2017

Virtual Reality

'I feel like someone's ironing me 24-7': Acid attack victim's misery continues as violent criminal faces prison

Violent criminal John Tomlin faces several years behind bars after throwing acid over an aspiring model and her cousin as she celebrated her 21st birthday.

Nov 27, 2017

London

Moped thugs threaten police motorbike rider with knife, slash his tyres and escape

A police officer was threatened with a knife and had his motorbike tyres slashed while trying to stop a pair of moped riders in north London.

Nov 27, 2017

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Bid to bar Theresa May from every pub in her constituency in row over police cuts

Theresa May faces being barred from every pub in her constituency town of Maidenhead should one furious landlord succeed in his campaign.

Nov 27, 2017

Theresa May

Man hands WW2 shell to police after using it as a doorstop for 40 years

A Devon man sparked a bomb scare in Exeter over the weekend when he strolled into a police station and handed over a Second World War artillery shell.

Nov 27, 2017

Woman 'encouraged postman to enter suicide pact then left him to die alone'

Natasha Gordon stands accused of telling people "she hardly knew" that they should take their own lives.

Nov 24, 2017

Heathrow Airport worker 'found with £700,000 of cocaine in Terminal 5 toilets'

An airport security worker is among four people arrested after police seized £700,000 worth of cocaine from a toilet at Heathrow.

Nov 24, 2017

Chinese police bust $3bn underground bank used by 10,000 people

Chinese police say they have busted an underground bank used to smuggle a staggering 20 billion yuan ($3 billion) out of the country.

Nov 24, 2017

High school football players 'lured girl, 14, from fairground and raped her at gunpoint'

Three teenage high school football players have been charged with raping a 14-year-old girl at gunpoint after leaving a fair.

Nov 24, 2017

Frenchman survives 95% burns after full-body skin graft from 'hero' twin brother

A 33-year-old burn victim at death's door was saved by skin transplants from his "hero" identical twin brother in what French doctors hailed as a world-first operation.

Nov 24, 2017

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