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Neighbours of a man accused of murder made a grim discovery after getting suspicious when they spotted him with a suitcase, a court has heard. Thomas Nutt, 45, has admitted killing his new wife Dawn Walker but denies murdering her.

A man has been found guilty of murdering a Tameside teenager whose body was found dumped in a car off the M62.

murdering her partner's 16-month-old daughter after “months” of physical abuse.Bradford Crown Court was told that Brockhill inflicted "catastrophic" injuries on Star Hobson, before calmly calling 999 and telling the operator that the toddler had “fallen off the sofa”Prosecutor Alistair McDonald told the jury that Star had suffered a sickening catalogue of injuries including fractures to her shin, ribs and skull as well as lacerations to a vein carrying blood between her leg and organs which leaked into her abdominal cavity.Brockhill had been seen more than once treating Star with appalling cruelty - on one occasion dragging her along by her walking reins despite the fact that the little girl had a broken leg at the time.Brockhill, a former

Birmingham Live reports.Opening the case last week, Alistair MacDonald QC said the attack in October 2019 was designed to "humiliate and degrade" Huckle, who Fitzgerald described as "Britain's worst paedophile".The prosecutor said Huckle was a "predatory paedophile" who was "notorious in the press" and had been extradited and tried in the UK for a large number of child sexual assaults.Mr MacDonald said Fitzgerald told doctors he had sexually assaulted Huckle, even though he did not find him sexually attractive.The barrister said: "He felt that it was poetic justice and he wanted Richard Huckle to feel what all those children had felt."He said that Richard Huckle was a man who raped and abused children for fun and that he suspected that

A prisoner has been found guilty of the brutal murder of "Britain's worst paedophile" Richard Huckle.

Court heard Fitzgerald was found "straddling" Huckle's body at HMP Full Sutton near York, HullLive reports.The prosecution claims Fitzgerald killed Huckle for the latter's "notorious" crimes.Huckle was imprisoned for abusing around 200 vulnerable youngsters in Southeast Asia, earning himself the title 'Britain's worst paedophile'.The defendant denies murder.Prison officers went to Huckle's cell after receiving a tip-off from another two inmates that something was happening there.In a statement read out to the court by prosecutor Alistair MacDonald QC, one prison officer said he was "aware of intelligence that he (Fitzgerald) had a 'murder bag' he would carry around with him to commit assault".The officer added: "I don't know where it came

A man laid in wait for his ex-girlfriend in woodland before kidnapping and murdering her, a court heard.