Sophie Bateman

Reporter

Based inLondon

Blade thug slashed teen girl's face with 'Glasgow smile' in string of vicious attacks

Knife Crime Malcolm Cumlin, 31, was sentenced to eight years in prison on Friday for a series of vicious knife attacks on complete strangers in 2019, two of whom were teenagers

Tesco refuses to let pregnant shopper in without face mask despite her being exempt

Tesco Kay Watkin, 29, is heavily pregnant and suffers from severe asthma so has printed off an exemption card from the Government's website, but says Tesco still wouldn't let her in

Man who filmed stepdaughter, 14, naked in bathroom claims he wanted to 'make fun of her'

Family The unnamed New Zealand business owner has expressed "great remorse" for making 59 secret recordings of his teenage stepdaughter and laughing at them with a friend

Girl, 10, dies after strangling herself in deadly TikTok 'blackout challenge'

TikTok Antonella reportedly filmed herself attempting to complete the deadly challenge, which encourages young social media users to asphyxiate themselves until they pass out

Young woman targeted in 'atrocious' sex assault while passed out unconscious in park

Crime The Metropolitan Police are appealing for the public's help in solving the horrific case, releasing CCTV images of four men they'd like to speak for their investigation

Woman stabbed neighbour to death then claimed she'd been raped as victim lay dying

Crime Kerry Taylor, 41, has been handed a life sentence for the brutal murder of Pearl Simone Hancock, who she stabbed 10 times with a large knife in her flat last summer

Loyal dog waiting faithfully outside hospital as her beloved owner is treated

Dogs Boncuk is refusing to leave the Medical Park Trabzon Karadeniz Hospital where her owner Cemal Senturk is receiving treatment in a touching display of loyalty and love

Monster cocaine haul worth £76m uncovered in banana boxes on UK ship after 'anomaly'

Drugs Border Force officers stumbled upon almost a tonne of the class A drugs concealed within a shipping container at Southampton after identifying "anomalies" with the cargo

Mutant Covid strain 'deadlier than original virus' as Boris Johnson in dire warning

Coronavirus Researchers from the government's New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group issued the warning, followed by a comment from Boris Johnson confirming the higher mortality rate

Essex lorry deaths: People smugglers who killed 39 migrants in van jailed

Courts Ronan Hughes, Gheorghe Nica, Eamonn Harrison and Maurice Robinson all received prison time at the Old Bailey on Friday over the manslaughter of 39 migrants in 2019

Double tragedy as woman, 26, collapses and dies just weeks after brother's sudden death

Family Kirsty Smith died just a few weeks after she desperately tried to resuscitate her older brother Mark, and now their family are grieving the loss of both siblings

Covid poses 'global threat' to male fertility with virus able to change shape of sperm

Coronavirus A troubling new study has identified four key ways in which coronavirus can "target" men's reproductive systems and could be devastating news for couples hoping to have a baby

Mum who gave birth to baby on the toilet thought she was 'just bloated from IBS'

Pregnancy Samantha Vallance, 32, was in bed with her husband on Monday morning when she felt a sudden pain in her side, and went to the bathroom to discover she was in labour

Lidl customer 'taken into backroom and told off for complaining about shop on Facebook'

Lidl Ana Palmer complained about having her bags searched by a supermarket worker on her local Facebook page, and claims this week she was stopped and reprimanded by another employee

Leeds hospital fire as 'man with screwdriver' arrested for trying to set ward alight

Fire Patients and staff were evacuated from Leeds General Infirmary after a fire was allegedly lit inside the building on Thursday evening, and one man has been arrested

'Screams of terror' heard as man, 22, stabbed to death with knife in 'botched robbery'

Knife Crime Colton Bryan, 22, tried to defend himself with a baseball bat against intruders who broke into his flat one evening last July and fatally stabbed him five times

Terrifying 6-foot prehistoric worm would leap from seabed and snap prey in half

Animals Named Pennichnus formosae, the terrifying toothed creature would have been strong enough to drag even large marine animals into its burrow, scientists have discovered

Worker, 52, killed at building site after mast fell on top of him as police probe horror death

Police Police raced to the building site in Annan, Scotland on Thursday morning after reports of a mast falling on a man but the 52-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene

Prince Harry making same 'toxic' mistake as mum Princess Diana, royal expert claims

Prince Harry Daniela Elser, an Australian writer who covers the Royal Family, hopes Harry and William can stop waging a war through the media as their parents did throughout the 1990s

Fears grow for three missing school kids as police issue urgent plea to find group

Missing Person Ellie May Stephens, 14, Luke Sharp, 15, and Daryll Greener, 16, haven't been seen in several hours and Cleveland Police have asked information on the youngsters' whereabouts

Bizarre desert snowfall is 'sign of Biblical end times prophecy' believers claim

Bible Snow falling in two different deserts this week, including the Sahara Desert, has some Bible fans convinced the end times could be near due to some significant quotes from Isaiah

Inside Melania and Ivanka Trump feud - with First Lady branding Donald's daughter 'snake'

Melania Trump The two most important people in Donald Trump's life (other than himself) can't stand each other, with sources revealing Melania and Ivanka have been trading insults for years

Family of Brit struck down by mystery disease in Wuhan need £90,000 to get him home

Family Former teacher Mark Poole suffered a seizure and went into a coma while teaching in China last year and is now recovering - but his family needs thousands to bring him back to the UK

Shoplifter threatens manager he'll 'spit in her face and give her Covid' when caught

Crime Claire Saunders claims theft in her London shop is worse than ever thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, with thieves knowing their masks make CCTV identification impossible

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