Miscarriages of justice body to review handling of Andrew Malkinson case

Roy Keane was left unimpressed with Anthony Martial in Manchester United’s 3-1 loss to Arsenal on Sunday.

In principle, using the rainy-day, kitchen-sink post-rock of Manchester band The Smiths so prominently in a film like The Killer seems incredibly perverse, given that it’s an exotic, globe-trotting thriller about an American assassin. But in reality, it’s actually very sound choice indeed: legend has it that the band’s singer, Morrissey, had two reasons for naming his band so, the first being that “Smith” is one of the most common and thus unremarkable surnames in the world. The second, and much more subversive theory, suggests that it’s also a reference to David and Maureen Smith, brother-in-law and sister of ’60s serial killer Myra Hindley, the snappily dressed couple whose testimony blew open the Moors Murderers case and whose beatnik likenesses adorn the cover of Sonic Youth’s 1990 album “Goo”.

A police union chief has blasted government changes to misconduct proceedings for officers as a "complete contradiction to what fairness and indepedence stand for." Greater Manchester Police Federation chair, Mke Peake, said it would amount to a return to "police chiefs marking their own homework."

Paul Merson has urged Manchester United to sign Sofyan Amrabat, claiming the Morocco midfielder will "hold his shape" better than Casemiro will when the Reds are on the attack.

Outside a beautiful Greek church next to a lemon grove they were due to renew their wedding vows. Twenty years after getting married Jo and Danny Oultram planned to pledge their love again.

Cliff Twemlow is an obscure figure even by British B-movie standards, a handsome, no-nonsense former Manchester nightclub doorman who attempted to create a Hollywood of the north in the early ’80s and ’90s. Born in 1937, a fact he tried to cloud for many years, he was something of a renaissance man: He acted in soaps, he composed lucrative library music, he wrote a novel about a killer pike (“Pike can be dangerous, there’s no two ways about it”), and, after a wounding experience with a botched adaptation of his autobiographical novel Tuxedo Warrior, he decided to become a filmmaker himself.

A man and a woman have admitted moving a mum's dead body out of a flat and dumping it on a footpath. Kerry Newman, 40, died on July 17.

A man and woman have pleaded guilty to taking a woman's dead body out of a flat and dumping it on a footpath.

The Justice Secretary has ordered an independent inquiry into the circumstances and handling of Andrew Malkinson’s case after his conviction was quashed by the Court of Appeal last month.

An hour long documentary detailing the investigation into serial child killer Lucy Letby has been released by the police team who brought her to justice.

Families who lost loved ones in the Manchester Arena bombing have joined growing calls for the most serious criminals to be forced to attend sentencing hearings.

Killer nurse Lucy Letby is to be handed the victim impact statements that were read out during sentencing after refusing to appear in court on Monday (August 21).

Gary Neville has criticised the way Manchester United handled their internal Mason Greenwood investigation, saying the club lacks 'strong and authoritative leadership.'

These are all the words the judge said as Lucy Letby, the nurse who murdered babies on the neonatal unit where she worked, was sentenced today (Monday) at Manchester Crown Court.

The mum of a baby murdered by Lucy Letby has told a court how the evil nurse only had one word for the parents of the seven babies she killed.

Cowardly child killer Lucy Letby refused to appear in court at her sentencing hearing today.

Killer neonatal nurse Lucy Letby has refused to come into court for her sentencing. The 33-year-old will today learn the minimum period she will spend behind bars after being convicted of the murder of seven babies in her care in the Countess of Chester Hospital, along with the attempted murder of six others.

Lucy Letby claimed she was being victimised and received an apology after two doctors tried to warn that she could be responsible for a series of baby deaths, documents show.The 33-year-old, now deemed to be the most prolific child killer in modern history, was on Friday convicted of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder six more following a ten-month trial. She is today (Monday) due to be sentenced Manchester Crown Court by judge Mr Justice Goss.

The partner of pregnant Hollyoaks actress Frankie Jules-Hough, who was killed in a horror motorway car crash, has welcomed plans to review the prison sentence of the driver who killed her. Adil Iqbal, 22, was speeding in his father's BMW on the M66 in Bury, Greater Manchester, when his car hit Frankie's on 13 May. He was jailed for 12 years on 19 July, having pleaded guilty to killing Frankie, 38, and causing serious injury to her son Thomas, 9.

The widower of a former worker at a Manchester Post Office who was jailed for theft has lost a legal fight to clear her name. Ian O’Donnell wanted judges to overturn the conviction of his wife Joanne, who died seven years ago aged 64.