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Paedophile who killed mum and daugther, 2, to hide vile secret is denied parole
Thomas Park, then 25, stabbed the mum more than 100 times before beating her two-year-old daughter to death - he has now been denied parole due to 'a number of risk factors'
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'Will Young lookalike' went from 'quiet lad' to underworld gangster kingpin
Richard Caswell, known as "Will" due to his likeness to popstar Will Young was a fearful gangster who raided a stash-house and stole nearly £1 million worth of cocaine
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Woman bitten in the face by homeless man's dog as she tried to give him money
The woman was reportedly attacked by the Staffordshire bull terrier in Liverpool city centre as she tried to offer help to its owner with the dog leaping up and biting her in the face
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Woman realised 'Bumble Swindler tried it on' with her when she saw the papers
Sarah, whose name has been changed to protect her identity, shared how she had engaged in repeated conversations with serial romance fraudster Cieran McNamara between 2019 and 2021.
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Elle Edwards murderer Connor Chapman to appear before the Court of Appeal
"Wholly innocent" Elle, 26, was on a night out with her sister and friends when she was killed by a hail of bullets outside the Lighthouse pub, Wallasey, on Christmas Eve 2022
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Drug kingpins 'Big Man' and 'Scouse Phil' flooded entire city with Class A drugs
A gang of drug dealers who hailed from the Merseyside area worked with connections in Plymouth to deliver the Class As to the city using couriers who would travel to the Devon port
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Mum collapsed at wheel with son in car - wakes up three weeks later in hospital
Shelly Gill had no memory of the accident in December last year and woke up three weeks later in hospital after having a subarachnoid haemorrhage at the wheel
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Mystery death of mum, 31, who was 'completely normal' just before sudden death
Mum-of-three Sarah Stephens died within minutes of an ambulance arriving. Her bereaved father Paul explained he had called the ambulance only as a precaution, with "everything seeming normal"
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Moment suspects flee after arson attack when fireball erupts outside home
A house on a gated road in Liverpool was firebombed by three suspects in the early hours of Friday morning with Merseyside Police labelling the act 'totally reckless'
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Mum's surprise at total she falsely claimed in benefits when kids went into care
Mum Danielle Muirhead, 32, from Walton, Liverpool, scammed over £36,000 in Universal Credit, Child Benefit and Child Tax Credit after her two youngest children went into care in March 2018
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Woman's boyfriend 'was once friends with man who arranged her murder'
Ashley Dale, a 28-year-old council worker, was shot in the abdomen with a Skorpion sub-machine gun on August 21 last year in her Leinster Road home
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Family man's 'secret life' quickly unravelled after simply walking into a bar
Kai Birkett, a 23-year-old self-employed joiner, was arrested by a police officer shortly after trying to enter the Reef Bar in Warrington, Cheshire on March 13 last year
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Girl, 4, asks one heartbreaking question after mum collapsed at airport and died
Mum-of-three Melissa Kinsella suffered a cardiac arrest while on holiday in Turkey in May and was then pronounced dead only hours after landing back home in Merseyside
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'I turned up for Ryanair flight early and was refused due to my wheelchair'
Ian St John, who has been paralysed for seven years due to spinal cancer, said he was due to fly from Cork Airport in Ireland to Liverpool but was refused access to his flight
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Boy, 19, stabbed to death in town had 'zest for life', heartbroken family say
Matthew Daulby, 19, "gave love so generously" and "had zest for life", said his family in a tribute after he was named by Lancashire Police as the victim of a stabbing in Ormskirk
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EasyJet marches 19 off flight as passengers mutter 'I want to get home'
The easyJet flight, from Lanzarote's Arrecife Airport to John Lennon Airport, was due to take off at 9.45pm on Wednesday, July 5, but did not leave the Spanish airport until nearly 11.30pm
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Dad tries to storm ex's home before staging roof protest and demanding McDonalds
Paul Rutledge, from Widnes, Cheshire, also hurled tiles at police officers while shouting his demands for cigarettes and McDonald's in an "extraordinary" standoff with police
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Smuggler tried to sneak 14,000 cigarettes through airport in suitcase
Michael Legros was returning from a holiday in Bali with his partner Heidi Mullis and their young children when he was stopped by Border Force officers at Manchester Airport
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Terrified mum and kids sleep in living room to escape rats invading their home
Becky Flattery, from Huyton, Liverpool, has told of how she now sleeps in the living room of her flat with her two children due to the "noises in the ceiling" coming from rats
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Pregnant daughter, 26, held dad in arms after he was shot dead outside home
Nicky Ayers, 46, was shot seven times at close range in the early hours of April 29, 2010, outside his mum-in-law's house in West Derb - no one has ever been charged with his murder
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'I was sexually abused by my uncle, I don't know what it would be like to be me'
Irene Fonseca, nee Jenkins, was subjected to years of sexual abuse at the hands of her uncle when she was a child growing up in the 1960s and 70s
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Sisters horrified to find human excrement smeared on wall outside hotel room
Georgia and Savannah, from Merseyside, were disgusted to find human excrement smeared on the wall by their hotel room, with the cleaner claiming it was not the first time
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Security patrols area where Nicola Bulley vanished to warn off 'TikTokers'
Spencer Sutcliffe, who owns the security firm patrolling the area where Nicola Bulley disappeared, said visitors were trespassing on private property and entering an old house that overlooks the River Wyre
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Woman, 22, killed on Christmas Eve by a police car responding to emergency call
Police and tragic Rachael Louise Moore's family are still appealing for witnesses to come forward to help with the investigation as the Independent Office for Police Conduct release a statement