Murder

  • 5 Jan 2019

    He would have celebrated his 52 birthday today: the family of Lee Pomeroy who was killed on a train in Surrey say he’d been taking his teenage son on a trip to London when he was stabbed. Police say a suspect is being questioned.

  • 5 Aug 2018

    The family of the midwife Samantha Eastwood have thanked the public for their support during the search for her – after a body was found in the Staffordshire countryside.  Three men are still being held by police, one of them on suspicion of murdering the 28-year-old. Our North of England Correspondent Clare Fallon is near…

  • 30 May 2018

      The Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko – reportedly murdered in Kiev – turned up alive and well at a news conference in Ukraine. The Ukranian security services said the murder had been staged to expose Russian agents in their country. Mr Babchenko’s wife was not ‘in’ on the subterfuge – she’d said her husband was shot in…

  • 10 Oct 2012

    Strangers who abduct children are difficult to spot in a crowd and hard to profile. Most of the tabloid cliches about “monsters” are untrue.