A 14-year-old boy who bragged on Facebook about stabbing his supply teacher in a racially motivated attack in England has been sentenced to 11 years detention.

A classroom assistant who carried out a five-month campaign of bullying against a seven-year-old pupil who was taped to her chair and shut in a storeroom has been spared jail in the UK.

An alcoholic mother of eight who starved her four-year-old son to death threatened to kill her other children, a British judge who sentenced her to 15 years in prison has heard.

An alcoholic mother of eight who starved her four-year-old son to death and left his body in a cot for nearly two years has been jailed for 15 years.

The mother of a four-year-old boy whose body was left in a cot for two years after she let him starve to death will be sentenced today.

A 43-year-old mother of eight has been found guilty of killing her four- year-old son by starving him to death.

Social workers and medics knew nothing of the plight of a boy found starved and mummified in his cot because his mother failed to co-operate with services, a UK court heard today.

A mother accused of killing her under-nourished four-year-old son told detectives it was not her who starved him because "he would starve himself", a British court has heard.

A UK police officer who found the mummified body of a four-year-old boy as he searched a house has told a jury today that he was so shocked that he could not stop his hand shaking.

The brother of a four-year-old boy whose body was found

The mummified corpse of a four-year-old boy was found in a cot in his mother’s bedroom almost two years after he starved to death, a jury has been told.

A PAEDOPHILE described by police as Britain’s most prolific hoarder of pictures of child abuse was given an indeterminate prison sentence.

The first eBay seller to be prosecuted for bidding in his own auctions to boost the price of his goods was ordered to do 250 hours of unpaid work today by a judge in the UK who also told him to pay £5,000 (€6,000) in fines and costs.

Human remains recovered from a river in the UK are those of missing prostitute Shelley Armitage.

REMAINS found in the river where the body of Suzanne Blamires was discovered do not belong to two other murdered prostitutes, police said yesterday.

Forensic examinations were tonight being carried out on what police believe to be human remains after an underwater search team looking for two missing prostitutes made the grim find.

Police searching for two missing prostitutes believe they have discovered more human body parts.

A criminology student appeared in court in Britain today charged with the murders of three prostitutes.

A VIOLENT paedophile was yesterday told he will probably spend the rest of his life in jail after he was found guilty of the sexually-motivated murder of 11-year-old Lesley Molseed 32 years ago.

A 54-year-old comic book dealer was today found guilty of murdering 11-year-old Lesley Molseed who was found stabbed to death on moorland 32 years ago.

A MOTHER came face to face in court yesterday with the man accused of murdering her 11-year-old daughter in a frenzied sex attack more than 30 years ago.

A 14-year-old schoolgirl stabbed her 16-year-old sister in the back with a carving knife after a fight about a boyfriend, their mother told a court today.