Month: February 2026

Twelve-year-old was stabbed to death by stranger when walking home from school in BirminghamA 15-year-old boy has been sentenced to at least 13 years in custody for the murder of Leo Ross, 12, in Birmingham last year.Leo was stabbed in the stomach as he made his way home from his school in Yardley Wood on 21 January 2025 and later died in hospital. Continue reading...Source: www.theguardian.comRead full article

This blog is now closed, you can read our full report on this story hereJustice Choudhury KC is back from his deliberation and will make a decision about whether or not he will lift the reporting restriction shortly.Leo Ross’s foster family is in court this morning to hear the judge pass his sentence, due this afternoon. Continue reading...Source: www.theguardian.comRead full article

Pupils, aged 12 and 13, at Kingsbury high school are receiving medical care, with one at a major trauma centreTwo boys, aged 12 and 13, have been stabbed at a school in north-west London, and police are searching for a teenage suspect.The Metropolitan police were called to the scene at Kingsbury high school in Bacon Lane, Brent at 12.40pm on Tuesday to reports that a 13-year-old boy was stabbed. When […]

Case is shrouded in fevered speculation as prosecutors say autopsies show two of the deceased were “probably” murderedIt has been dubbed Bulgaria’s “Twin Peaks”: a grim saga involving the mysterious deaths of six people in the middle of the mountains that has gripped the eastern European country.Zahari Vaskov, the director of the national police general directorate, told a press conference on Monday that the deaths were “a case without comparison […]

Exclusive: Norway’s chief of defence Eirik Kristoffersen, who served in Afghanistan, was critical of Trump’s claim Nato troops stayed off frontlinesNorway’s army chief has said Oslo cannot exclude the possibility of a future Russian invasion of the country, suggesting Moscow could move on Norway to protect its nuclear assets stationed in the far north.“We don’t exclude a land grab from Russia as part of their plan to protect their own […]