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Lee Torrance was attacked at the home of Aivaras Sepronas and Jurgita Makaroviene in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, in 2015. The gang has been given jail sentences totalling 50 years.

Julian Aubrey, a sexual abuse counsellor, was knifed to death in his home in Earl's Court on Monday (30 October). The 55-year-old was a former co-chairman of an LGBT liaison group.

Facebook says that it has the technology to stop revenge porn from appearing on its social networks – but only if users upload them to its Messenger service. Yes, really.

Farmers in the UK have been asked to "soil their underwear" in a drive to improve animal husbandry across the UK.

David Nwosu, a student at Keele University, began grooming the 12-year-old online, even telling her that he loved her. The 21-year-old has been jailed for 5 years.

Garry Brand, 49, from Perth, Scotland, has been jailed after he held a knife to a woman's throat while attacking her in his home in June.

The Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson spoke following the shock resignation of Secretary of State for Defence Sir Michael Fallon.

Musa Miah, 23, and Syed Ibrahim, 21, were left with life-changing injuries after a corrosive substance was thrown in their faces outside a grocery store in east London.

The two 14-year-old boys from Northallerton, North Yorkshire, were held at a police station in West Yorkshire. They will appear before Leeds Magistrates' Court on 2 November.

UK Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said he had 'overstepped the mark' 15 years ago by placing hand upon Julia Hartley-Brewer's knee.

MPs have been forced to defend themselves after a week of revelations that have brought chaos to Westminster.

First Secretary of State, Damian Green, has hit back at the allegations, claiming them to be "absolutely and completely untrue."

Sophie Faldo beat Steven Carter-Bailey and Kate Lyon to be crowned winner of the Great British Bake Off 2017, after judge Prue Leith accidentally let it slip on Twitter earlier.

Ryan Gibbons, 29, from Manchester, has been found guilty of murder after running over ex-Royal Navy officer Mike Samwell, 35, twice in the victim's Audi S3 sports car.

Natasha Wild, 23, was stabbed to death by her boyfriend, Lloyd Brackenbury, 32, on 28 November 2016. She suffered a fatal knife wound to the neck in her own home in Rochdale.

Tory International Trade Minister Mark Garnier made his secretary buy two vibrators in Soho 'for his wife and a woman who worked in his constituency office', it was reported.

A student house is on offer for the mere sum of £6,000 a month in historic Bath.

Adam Parkin, 35, stabbed wife Julie to death at their home in Sunderland, with police later finding search terms on his computer such as 'Cambodia child abuse'.

Arsonists Nicola King and Jerely Evans could be seen talking to homeless man Roy Ransom before Evans set light to his bedding as King watched in Portsmouth.

Liverpool Crown Court heard how Benjamin Jones, 32, from Moreton, Merseyside, boasted online to other paedophiles about how he 'got lucky' filming the children.

Gary Dryden, 18, raped the girl on seven occasions at sports centre in Kilwinning, North Ayrshire Scotland. Dryden had contacted her after she celebrated her 12th birthday.

Anti-Islam group The Exposing Islam - Northern Ireland 2 describes Halal meat as "incredibly cruel" and is staging a protest against the practice at a Northern Ireland abattoir.

Paul Hepplestall, 40, from Liverpool, has been jailed for 20 months for the 'aggressive and blunt' rant that was shared widely on social media in June 2017.

Alanda Pike, 34, was driving her Vauxhall Astra when she hit a van on the A354 near Blandford, Dorset, on 24 August while under influence of cocaine and alcohol.

Christopher Lythgoe, 31, from Woolston, was arrested as part of a probe into banned extreme right-wing group National Action, and charged with 'encouragement to commit murder'.

Ramzi Hamrouni was described as 'every lone female public transport passenger's nightmare' after two sexual assaults in Barry, Wales. One woman was targeted in front of her family.

James Weir is turning 21. He suffers from autism, which keeps him from making friends. His big sister Lucy is asking people to send him postcards on his special day.

A military bunker built by the German army in 1942 has gone up for sale in the Channel island of Guernsey.

An emergency call handler was told by a child that his 46-year-old father Barry Dermot 'had been sniffing white powder and drinking alcohol'. Dermot was later arrested.

Business analyst Qingqing Rao, 30, was left in persistent vegetative state after a knife attack by by Barry Peacham, 26, on Valentine's Day eve this year.