Claire was attacked on West Hoe Road, outside her home, on Wednesday 22 January 2025. She sustained multiple stabbing injuries and was pronounced dead at Derriford Hospital later that evening.
Rosemary Ainslie, Head of the Crown Prosecution Service’s Special Crime Division, said: “Following a review of the evidence provided by Cheshire Police, we have authorised a charge of common assault against Mike Amesbury MP, 55.
At a hearing today (Thursday, 6 March 2025) at Liverpool Crown Court, Joanne Sharkey pleaded guilty to one count of manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility and concealing the birth of a child.
Four Liverpool care workers - William Vasey, Valerie Marshall, Adele Mcllhatton, and Josh Ireland - were sentenced today for ill treating an 85-year-old woman with dementia.
A man who used computer technology and real photographs of children to create sexual abuse images and encouraged the rape of children via the internet has been convicted.
From today, prosecutors will have new powers to charge violent abusers with specific offences of non-fatal strangulation and non-fatal suffocation, as key measures in the Domestic Abuse Act 2021 come into force.
