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The former Arsenal and Everton forward, who is being treated in hospital, has received a huge outpouring of support from across the football community after news of his illness broke

Dmitry Baksheev and Natalia Baksheeva who had been cutting up people for more than 18 years were finally stopped after he lost his mobile phone and a roadworker discovered his selfies

Convicted multiple murderer and self-confessed cannibal Dmitry Malyshev has been released from prison by Putin to fight in Ukraine on the frontline and is joined by another notorious criminal.

Police claim they arrived to find 29-year-old Colin Czech covered in 'biological matter' kneeling over the victim and later allegedly confessed to officers that he had used his teeth 'to eat [the man's] eyeballs and ears'

Ambrose Finnegan’s body went missing after a 1944 plane crash in Papua New Guinea near D-Day – and nephew Joe Biden claims that he may have been eaten by a cannibal tribe

Missionary John Allen Chau was determined to tell the Sentinelese people, who notoriously reject outsiders, about his religious beliefs and had one final wish for his loved-ones

Russian president Vladimir Putin's decision to recruit fighters from prisons resulted in a string of crimes as they were freed after going back to their home areas

As actress Taylor Russell prepares to present a BAFTA award at the Royal Festival Hall tonight, we take a look at the talented filmstar's relationship with pop supremo Harry Styles

Josef Fritzl is eligible for parole this year and a court psychiatrist says he is 'harmless' . The 88-year-old kept his daughter Elisabeth locked in a cellar for 24 years as his sex slave

The Korowai people of Papua, Indonesia, are thought to be one of the last known societies to practice cannibalism, eating the bodies of those killed by evil spirits to 'protect them from further harm'

When a Uruguayan plane carrying 45 passengers crashed into the remote Andes mountains in 1972, survivors were forced to resort to cannibalism in a desperate attempt to stay alive

Serial killer Robert Mawdsley was locked up in 1974 and separated from other prisoners after he killed three inmates in 1978 and has spent most of his sentence in solitary confinement

WARNING DISTURBING: So-called "Cannibal Kathy" was delivered Australia's first ever life sentence without parole for the grisly murder of her boyfriend John Price that shocked the nation in 2001

The father of infamous American serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer died in hospice care at the age of 87, it has been reported. Lionel Dahmer supported and defended his son until his dying day

The Black Dolphin is one of the world's most notorious prisons and is home to 700 rapists, murderers and cannibals serving life without parole and they're not even allowed out of their cells

Following the dramatic ending to the annual arts festival deep in the Nevada desert, rumours began to swirl about everything from party-goers resorting to cannibalism to an ebola outbreak

Michael Rockefeller was a member of the Rockefeller clan - one of America's most powerful and wealthy families - who went missing after being last spotted attempting a three-mile swim to the shores of Papua New Guinea

WARNING GRAPHIC DETAILS A 32-year-old "devil worshipper" who is alleged to have killed his wife before eating her brain in tacos and using her skull as an ashtray, has been arrested in Mexico

The mother, identified only as Hanaa, was arrested after the remains of her five-year-old son Youssef were found by his uncle stuffed in a bucket at the family home in Abu Shalabi, Egypt

Daria Trepova skulked away after handing pro-Vladimir Putin propagandist Vladlen Tatarsky a statue of himself just moments before an explosion ripped through the venue he was speaking at in St Petersburg, Russia

Begoleã Mendes Fernandes, 26, was arrested at Lisbon Airport and Portuguese media alleges that the meat could be the human remains of 21-year-old Alan Lopes

The suspect, named locally as Begolea Mendes Fernandes, is suspected of killing a 21-year-old called Alan Lopes in Amsterdam on Sunday before trying to return to his homeland of Brazil

Robert Mawdsley has been in solitary confinement since 1979 and is Britain's longest serving prisoner, having been caged for 47 years for the murder of four men in the 1970s

Molly discovered the tooth in shallow water as she and her sister Natalie, who are both keen fossil hunters, tested out their new waders which they received as gifts