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 forensic team,” the...
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 cousins...
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...