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Crash killer wins damages appeal

The Paddington rail crash

Kerrie Gray killed a man who hammered on his car window

A man who claimed he was driven to kill by the trauma he suffered in the Paddington rail crash in 1999 has won his appeal against a High Court ruling.

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Now never meeting this man before. My guess is that prior to the accident he had some anger management issues, and afterward had some emotional issues, but to say that the train crash caused him to lash out and kill someone is removing all responsibility off of him. That is the society today, no one tacks responsibility for their actions, likewise the trains are messed up because no one will say, I messed up and need to work on it.

Man guilty in jogger murder case

Is senseless violence, murder and other violent crimes on the upswing, I think so. When someone sexually assaults someone and murders them in broad day light. What else do we think.
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man described as a loner has been convicted of murdering a Harrods shop worker found buried in a shallow grave in a park where she went jogging.

Garath Davies, 23, was convicted of killing Egeli Rasta in Mitcham Common, south London, in July 2006.

The 27-year-old Estonian was reported missing a day after finishing work and her body lay undiscovered for 12 days.

Davies, from Mitcham, south London, and originally from Llanelli, denied murder and perverting the course of justice.

The court heard that Miss Rasta, who was "fit, athletic, and quite strong", lived near Mitcham Common and would often jog and sunbathe there.

She disappeared on 4 July - a day after working a shift at the LK Bennett concession at Harrods.

Mark Ellison, prosecuting, said Davies was "something of a loner" who spent quite a lot of time on the common alone or with his black Staffordshire terrier, Tyson.

Precisely what happened to Miss Rasta was unclear because her body was decomposed so badly a pathologist was unable to establish the cause of death.

This horror will never end for me and my family Egeli Rasta's mother Sirje

A knife stained with her blood was found in a sack in Davies' holdall, alongside two homemade sex toys.

This was coupled with the fact that the victim was found naked, "clearly suggesting a sexual motive", Mr Ellison said.

Davies told the court that at the time he was "chain smoking" cannabis and was "very stoned" on the day Miss Rasta was killed.

Davies later told police: "I'm afraid I might have done it. I can't remember."

In a victim impact statement read to the court, Miss Rasta's mother Sirje said: "This horror will never end for me and my family.

"Egeli's nine-year-old sister has asked me a million times: 'Where is she? Is she still far away? Why wouldn't she come home?'

"I have no courage nor the knowledge to explain to her what has happened."

Davies will be sentenced on 14 December.

Body in garden is missing Vicky

Murder should at least result in life incarcerated. My guess he will be out before he breathes his last breath. Assuming he is guilty, little doubt of that.


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Body in garden is missing Vicky
Human remains found in the garden of a house in Kent are those of missing 15-year-old Vicky Hamilton, police say.

The remains of Vicky - last seen in West Lothian in 1991 - were found at the Margate house by police who had been focusing on another missing girl.

Scotsman Peter Tobin, who once lived at the property, was arrested and charged in July over Vicky's disappearance.

Police in England are looking at other murders to determine if there is a link to the discovery of Vicky's remains.

Houses searched

Mr Tobin is currently in custody and is expected to appear before Linlithgow Sheriff Court on Thursday on charges related to the death of Vicky.

Detectives had been looking for missing 18-year-old Dinah McNicol at the Margate house and have said they are continuing to search for any other human remains.

Vicky, who lived in Redding near Falkirk, Stirlingshire, was last seen waiting for a bus in Bathgate on 10 February 1991.

She had been travelling from Livingston to her home and was changing buses when she disappeared.

She was last seen in Bathgate's George Square. Eyewitnesses said she was sitting on a bench eating chips.

Personal items belonging to Vicky, believed to be jewellery and clothing, were also discovered at the house in Kent.

In 1993, Vicky's mother Janette died without knowing what had happened to her daughter.

A review of the case into Vicky's disappearance was launched by Lothian and Borders Police last year.

'Deep search'

Police searched a house in Bathgate where Peter Tobin once lived and in October a house in Southsea, Hampshire, was searched.
Police have said they are still searching the Margate house for the remains of Dinah McNicol, who was from Essex but failed to return after a trip to Hampshire in 1991.

Det Supt Tim Wills, of Essex Police, said: "We came here to search for Dinah McNicol or any physical evidence which might link her disappearance to that house.

"And that's what we will continue to do. I do not intend to leave the house until I'm fully satisfied that there are not any other human remains at that site."

He added that once a ground level search has been completed, a "deep search" would get under way which could take "a number of days".

A life of abuse, rape and murder

Angus Robertson Sinclair, the man at the centre of the collapsed World's End murders case, has a string of convictions.
His first brush with the law was at the age of 13 when he stole an offertory box from a Glasgow church.
The 12 months' probation he received for that petty crime, committed in 1959, did not, however, jolt him into a life of good behaviour.
Later that year, the youngest son of Angus and Mary Sinclair appeared at Glasgow Sheriff Court on a housebreaking charge, for which he was later admonished.
However, it was in 1961 that Sinclair's life of crime took a sinister new twist when he was found guilty of lewd and libidinous practices against an eight-year-old girl.
For that offence he was given three years' probation.
It was seven months into that probationary period that he murdered for the first time.
Catherine Reehill was just eight when Sinclair sexually assaulted and strangled her in his family home.

He threw her body down a stairwell and told the little girl's mother that the death had been a terrible accident.

After being questioned by detectives the then 16-year-old Sinclair confessed to culpable homicide and was sentenced to 10 years in jail.
Pointedly, the judge Lord Mackintosh described Sinclair as "callous, cunning and wicked" and said that the perpetrator was so obsessed with sex that he was capable of taking a life to satisfy his lust.
There was nothing in Sinclair's unremarkable upbringing which might have hinted at what he would become.
He was brought up in the St George's Cross area of Glasgow and attended Lovell Street Primary, followed by St George's Junior Secondary School.
While in Edinburgh's Saughton Prison serving his sentence for Catherine's murder, he trained as a painter and decorator.
In 1970 he married trainee nurse Sarah McCulloch in Edinburgh and two years later they had a son Gary whom they brought up in Glasgow.

Throat cut
To all who knew him, Sinclair was apparently living a stable family life between 1970 and 1979.
However, the convicted killer was never too far from being on the wrong side of the law. In 1980 he had a short spell in prison for illegally possessing a .22 calibre revolver and ammunition.
Further police investigations found he had committed a string of indecent assaults and rapes against boys and girls aged between eight and 11.
His method was predatory - waiting in flats and closes before grabbing his victims at knifepoint.
In 1982 he pleaded guilty to 11 of 13 charges and was sentenced to life in prison.

SINCLAIR'S CONVICTIONS
1959 - stole an offertory box from a Glasgow church
1959 - housebreaking charge
1961 - committed lewd and libidinous practices on an eight-year-old girl
1961 - convicted of murdering Catherine Reehill, aged eight
1980 - illegal possession of a .22 calibre revolver
1982 - pleaded guilty to 11 charges of rape and assault on children aged eight to 11
2001 - convicted of the 1978 murder of Mary Gallagher, aged 17

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You have to wonder how many lives were effected by letting a person out who raped and murdered a little girl after athe judge described him as

Pointedly, the judge Lord Mackintosh described Sinclair as "callous, cunning and
wicked" and said that the perpetrator was so obsessed with sex that he was
capable of taking a life to satisfy his lust.

While he might be a model prisoner, he should stay as a resident, and not have any possibility of builiding on his record.

Bullets soldier given three years

A British soldier who agreed to sell army ammunition to an undercover police officer for £50 has been jailed for three years.

Man killed during park shooting

A man was shot dead in a London park in the early hours of Saturday, Scotland Yard has said.

Girl, 17, held after man's murder

A 17-year-old girl has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a man was stabbed to death.

Man died from stab wound to leg

A 36-year-old man who died following an attack at his home died as a result of a stab wound to his leg, a Home Office pathologist has confirmed.

Shot girl's mother owned pistol

A mother of a schoolgirl shot dead in her own home has admitted possessing the gun that killed her daughter.

Four in court over fatal stabbing

Four men have appeared in court charged with the murder of a 44-year-old man found stabbed to death at his home.

Weapons seized after army tip-off

Police seized a haul of military weapons, including grenade launchers and an SA 80 rifle, in a raid on a house in County Durham.

Addict jailed over mother murder

Wright had a £400 a day crack cocaine habit, the court heardA crack cocaine addict who admitted killing his mother and using her money to buy drugs has been jailed for life

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How long is that?

Woman arrested in care home death

A woman has been arrested on suspicion of killing a disabled teenager who died of burns in a care home

Boys on litter row murder charge

Two boys have been charged with the murder of a man who died after being attacked in an alleged row over litter

Evren Anil fell into a coma after hitting his head on the pavement in Crystal Palace, south London, when he confronted a gang of youths.
The 23-year-old from Upper Norwood, south London, died eight days later.
A 17-year-old boy from Tottenham, north London, and a 16-year-old boy from Croydon, south London

Couple jailed over baby torture

A couple have been jailed for nine years for abusing a 17-month-old boy who was sliced with a knife and burned with cigarettes.


Sumairia Parveen abused stepson Tahla Ikram before his death in September 2006, Southwark Crown Court heard

Wrestler jailed for choke murder

A self-styled wrestling expert has been jailed for life for choking a disabled man to death.

Man admits fatal college stabbing

Odwayne Barnes was stabbed outside Matthew Boulton college. A teenager has admitted murdering a 16-year-old boy in Birmingham city centre.

Jail term for rape claim murderer

A murderer who stabbed a young man to death in Aberdeen then claimed his victim had tried to rape him has been jailed for life.

Deryck Kerr, 20, was ordered to serve a minimum of 15 years in prison after the judge Lord Menzies said he had shown "particular cruelty and ghastliness".
Kerr was convicted of murdering Grant Williamson, 27, in an Aberdeen flat in January this year.
Relatives said the victim was the nicest man anyone could ever meet.
Kerr was convicted after a six-day trial at the High Court in Dundee last month.

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Man charged with Aberdeen murder

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What does life in Prison mean when incuded must serve minimum 15 years.

Girl, 14, admits killing sister

A 14-year-old schoolgirl stabbed her 16-year-old sister in the back with a carving knife after a row about a boyfriend, a court has heard.

Youths charged with street death

Two 17-year-old are due before magistrates in Haverfordwest charged with killing a man who died after an attack in Pembroke last month.

Mr Roberts, 41, a keen amateur footballer, was assaulted outside a petrol station on the Green just after midnight on 12 August.