A second person has been arrested on suspicion of murder following the stabbing of a 17-year-old girl in an east London park. Jodie Chesney was attacked while playing music with friends in Harold Hill, Romford, on 1 March. On Thursday, hundreds of people marched through the town centre to protest against her killing. A 20-year-old man arrested in Leicester on 5 March on suspicion of murder also...
A 19-year-old man has been jailed for life for the murder of a 14-year-old boy he met online. Described by investigators as “quite unique in terms of how horrific it was”, the case involved the manipulation of a schoolboy who was turned against his family and ultimately lured to his death. The voice at the end of the phone was calm, collected, measured. “I need police and a...
Former soldier and dog-handler Nordahl Lelandais has been found guilty of kidnapping an eight-year-old girl at a wedding and then murdering her. Maëlys de Araujo’s murder in August 2017 shocked France and the case has been a high-profile one ever since. The court in eastern France jailed Lelandais for life with a minimum term of 22 years. He was also convicted of sexually assaulting two...
Mind Over Murder, a new six-part documentary series on HBO, has all the elements one would expect from a true crime show: a shocking and grotesque murder, a dubious and protracted police investigation and divergent theories as to what happened. There are first-person interviews and archival footage, criminal records and old newspaper headlines – but Mind Over Murder, from One Child Nation...