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Lee Torrance was attacked at the home of Aivaras Sepronas and Jurgita Makaroviene in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, in 2015. The gang has been given jail sentences totalling 50 years.

Defence attorneys for the former drug kingpin alleged that his restrictive prison conditions are harming his mental well-being.

Julian Aubrey, a sexual abuse counsellor, was knifed to death in his home in Earl's Court on Monday (30 October). The 55-year-old was a former co-chairman of an LGBT liaison group.

Four people, including the gang leader, were killed in the shooting at a hospital in the Mexican state of Puebla.

A court in Germany has ruled that children should not be allowed to swim with crocodiles alligators at an interactive zoo.

Italian police have seized more than 24 million opioid tablets destined for Isis militants who were planning to sell them at a profit to finance terrorism.

A Twitter employee shut down Donald Trump's account on his last day of work, but what other ways have people exited?

Ting Li Lu and Li Gao have been spared jailed after pimping out illegally trafficked women as part of a £150,000 prostitution ring in the south of England and Wales.

Six high school students were hospitalised after eating gummy bears laced with psychoactive drugs handed out on campus in Bayou La Batre, Alabama.

Kristie Love and Jamie Valeri both wrote on TripAdvisor about being sexually assaulted at the Iberostar Paraiso. Both their posts were taken down.

Police in South Carolina will not press charges against a woman who stabbed a man accused of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl.

A Washington state couple, Anthony and Mary Foxworth, are on the run after authorities found their emaciated 16-year-old son weighing just 54 pounds last year.

Andrew Corish reportedly gave a guilty plea to a voyeurism charge that was later thrown out by a court as the images were not of "a private act".

The week's best news and sports photos, from Rohingya refugee crisis and Kenya elections, to Halloween and Day of the Dead celebrations.

Troubled Amber James, 47, has been charged with second degree murder after her nine-year-old son Ryan Rosales was found dead on 31 October at their home in Washington State.

Two hunters became stuck in sinking mud in Kansas. Thankfully their one-year-old labrador Otis was there to help rescue efforts.

'Ndrangheta boss Antonio "Tony" Sergi was allegedly behind the murder of anti-drugs campaigner Donald Mackay, whose body has never been found.

The Spanish island of Tenerife has been rocked by 22 earthquakes over four days, sparking fears that volcano Mount Teide may be about to erupt.

Parents caught their daughter's alleged gang rapists after police refused to take her complaint seriously in Bhopal. Sexual assault remains pervasive issue in India.

The pair allegedly bought a "Gladius machete" and plotted to use it to kill Labour MP Rosie Cooper.

Cops charged Niyah Howard drug dealing finding what they claim is 50g of fentanyl at a Fort Wayne home in Indiana on 31 October.

Driver in his 30s fighting for life in hospital after having acid thrown in his face by two men who tried to steal his scooter.

Hours after the Syrian army liberated the city of Deir al-Zour from Isis, came the news that Iraqi forces had entered al-Qaim.

The minke whales have reportedly been captured for scientific purposes and the research results will be used for efforts to resume commercial whaling.

Hundreds of bees gather on a parked motorbike in the business district, where the queen bee had settled.

Felines were spotted in the Kenya's Masai Mara National Reserve by London-based photographer Paul Goldstein

The ashes of Moors Murderer Ian Brady were scattered in the sea after his body was cremated during a secret night time cremation in late October, it has been revealed.

"I am upset by the timing of the revolutions. We told them to slow down," bin Laden is quoted as saying

Madagascar has been hit by the worst outbreak of plague in 50 years infecting at least 1,800 people so far this year, experts say.