Grace Macaskill

WHEN Jill Smythe went on her dream honeymoon to Marrakesh, she moved in a pet sitter to look after her two beloved fox red labradors, Ozzie and Flinn. She thought her animals would be in safe hands…

FOR years, Maxwell Nasmyth’s family feared he was a Walter Mitty character. His tales of wondrous adventures around the world, including a meeting with Russian dictator Joseph Stalin and a trip on …

FOR 34 years, Keith Hall has denied killing his wife Patricia – despite a honeytrap “confession” to an undercover cop. Now the past is coming back to haunt him as officials re-examine the mum of tw…

IT’S 7am on a quiet street in Gateshead and a shoplifter legs it out of a shop carrying a basket piled high with washing pods, floor cleaner and coffee. It is just the start of another day of pilfe…

IT took just seven words for a teenager to casually confess he had murdered a three-year-old girl. “I guess I must have strangled her,” the 17-year-old told cops after British girl Cheryl Grimmer v…

IT was a social media image that broke Nicola Baird’s heart – a tiny stray dog with half its back leg missing. The mum-of-four sent £50 to help Fin but quickly realised she had been scammed b…

WITH bloodied bandages wrapped around his head, the 19-year-old pleads for money from his mum and tells her: “If you refuse, they will cut off my fingers.” The chilling footage was ever…

MUM-OF-FOUR Zoe Watts and her husband had just returned from church when he tentatively put his hand on her knee and told her he had a confession to make. “I’ve been putting sleeping tablets in you…

WHEN ex-soldier Rob Homans was found dead in a back garden, his bank card missing and wearing odd women’ s socks, his family suspected foul play. Their pleas to police that a third party must…

DAD-OF-THREE Ryan Cornelius is not a killer, a drug dealer or a dangerous terrorist – yet he’s been behind bars for 18 years. The 72-year-old is locked up in a tiny cell he shares with two ot…