A ?highly intelligent? IT worker strangled his mother and bludgeoned her partner to death before setting off on a tour of Britain, a court heard.
A man was found dead along with his two young sons after their mother discovered he had been booking prostitutes and searching for date-rape drugs online.
Five teenagers were arrested after up to 100 youths brawled as rival gangs clashed at the Vue in Birmingham?s Star City entertainment complex.
A Birmingham cinema-goer died after a freak accident when his head and neck were crushed as he rummaged under a reclining seat for his phone and keys.
A middle-aged mother ?groomed? her 17-year-old daughter into going to Pakistan to marry a cousin aged 33.
It was claimed that a ringleader in the Telford sex abuse scandal was a grandfather who ran a ?rape house? where children were sold for sex.
A Muslim convert was murdered in a knife and hammer attack by her husband after she continued to see a friend he had forbidden her from visiting.
A 41-year-old UK butcher, who also runs a beef and sheep farm, saved an abandoned lamb and adopted her as his pet.
A priceless medieval artefact, believed by some to be the Holy Grail, was the only item stolen in a raid at a remote country house.