A teenager is facing years behind bars after being found guilty of hatching a plot to behead a British soldier inspired by the murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby.

A man has been jailed for at least 22 years for attacking his disabled wife with a metal table leg and then decapitating her with a kitchen knife in an act described by a UK judge as “perfect barbarity”.

A driver in Cork City has made one of the most horrendous attempts ever at parking their car.

DVD cases with titles such as 'Instant Lesbian' were among the assorted items found in bags in the car park of the London home of Rebekah and Charles Brooks, the Old Bailey hacking trial heard today.

Two men were finally jailed today for the racist murder of Stephen Lawrence nearly 19 years ago.

PJ Gibbons and Colette Sheridan ask a bunch of celebrities to reveal their plans for tonight, and to reflect on the year gone by

A British man accused of raping a university graduate at knifepoint on the night of Live Aid 26 years ago was cleared by an Old Bailey jury today.

A 16-year-old boy was hounded and killed in a UK park by a gang of schoolchildren, the Old Bailey heard today.

A Saudi prince is due to be sentenced in Britain today for beating and strangling his servant to death in the culmination of a campaign of “sadistic” abuse.

THE standard of care for residents of a Tipperary nursing home has been sharply criticised by health inspectors.

An urgent safety review of Cumbria’s 1,800 bridges was under way today with emergency services warning one bridge could collapse at any time and 50mph winds forecast.

Kieren Fallon failed to make a fairytale return from his 18-month suspension at Lingfield as he claimed the runner-up spot aboard Rare Malt in the Withyham Median Auction Maiden Stakes.

A FORMER British Airways steward who once conned more than £200,000 (€230,000) out of friends and colleagues has been jailed for life for murdering his partner.

Lawyers representing Baby P’s ’stepfather’ confirmed today they are considering an appeal against his conviction for raping a two-year-old girl.

Metropolitan Police Commissioner Ian Blair insisted he would not resign today after members of the London Assembly passed a vote of no confidence in him.

A step-by-step trail of how Kieren Fallon was allegedly involved in a plot to lose a race at Goodwood was given to jurors at his Old Bailey trial today.

The shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes by police firearms officers was caused by “fundamental failures” in planning, a court heard today.

The gunman who took six girls hostage in a high school classroom in Bailey, Colorado, killing one, had sexually assaulted at least some of them, the sheriff said today.

The gunman who took six girls hostage in a high school classroom in Bailey, Colorado, killing one of his captives and himself, began the takeover by ordering students to line up at the blackboard.

The high school in the tiny Colorado mountain town of Bailey was closed today.

A gunman took six girls hostage at the high school in the Colorado mountain town of Bailey, using them as human shields for hours before he shot and fatally wounded a girl and then killed himself as a SWAT team moved in, authorities said.

An adult gunman took at least four people hostage at the high school in the tiny mountain town of Bailey, Colorado today and several shots were reported fired, authorities said.

US authorities said an adult gunman was holding two hostages at a high school in the small mountain town of Bailey, Colorado, today.

A paedophile who cut his friend’s throat and tasted his blood was jailed for life today after begging a judge to throw away the key.

The voice of alleged preacher of hate Abu Hamza was heard for the first time by an Old Bailey jury today.

A robber was convicted today of the murder of wealthy financier John Monckton, who was stabbed to death in front of his wife and young daughter.

A suspected al-Qaida terrorist who was plotting to use the deadly poison ricin has been jailed for life for the murder of a Special Branch detective in Britain, it can be revealed today.

A British bank worker was shot dead in an apparently “motiveless attack” as she sat in her sports car, the Old Bailey in London was told today.

The jury in the Soham murder trial began a third day of deliberations this morning on Day 29 of the Old Bailey case.

The lawyer for Soham accused Maxine Carr began his closing speech at her Old Bailey trial today as the case reached its final stages.

Soham accused Ian Huntley killed Jessica Chapman, he admitted today at his Old Bailey trial.

Healthy 10-year-old girls “simply don’t die suddenly together”, the murder trial of alleged double murderer Ian Huntley heard today.

THE dramatic moment the scorched clothes of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman were discovered dumped in a bin at Soham Village College was relived at the Old Bailey murder trial yesterday.

TELEVISION interviews with Ian Huntley and Maxine Carr were shown to the jury at their Old Bailey trial yesterday.

Soham murder accused Ian Huntley told a journalist on the day after Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman went missing that police had searched his home and thought “he did it”, the Old Bailey heard today.

A hitch-hiker picked up by Soham accused Ian Huntley two days after Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman vanished was giving evidence today at the caretaker’s Old Bailey murder trial.

SOHAM-ACCUSED Ian Huntley burst into tears as he told a police officer: “You think I’ve done it”, his Old Bailey murder trial heard yesterday.

The Soham murder trial was told today of a number of mobile and land line phone calls and text messages between the defendants on the weekend that the girls disappeared.

Former royal butler Paul Burrell remained defiant today, despite a scathing attack by Princes William and Harry for the “cold and overt betrayal” of their late mother.

SHE may not be the financial controller from hell, but she’s up there in contention for the title.

Lord Archer was the victim of an ‘‘unbalanced’’ trial on charges of perjury and perverting the course of justice, the Court of Appeal heard today.

There has been a breakthrough in the 4-week-old pay dispute at the Bailey’s plant in Dublin.

Freed Samurai sword attacker Eden Strang is a "low-risk" to the public as long as he takes his medication, a panel of police and medical experts have decided.

Over 180 SIPTU members are on strike at Bailey’s bottling plant in Clondalkin.