An engineering graduate suffering from paranoid schizophrenia has been sentenced to a hospital order with restrictions (Thursday 25 January 2024) for the unlawful killings of three people and attempts to kill three others in June 2023.

A man has been given a life sentence today for murdering a homeless man in a Canterbury car park, who had trained as a barrister and was attacked with a wooden gavel type hammer and laptop.

A mother and her boyfriend have both been given life sentences today for the murder of her 18-month-old son, who died after multiple injuries were deliberately inflicted on him.

On the night of his death, Alfie Philips was with his mother Sian Hedges and her boyfriend Jack Benham, staying in a caravan belonging to him. Alfie was seen by a number of Jack’s family on the evening of 27 November 2020 and was well with no visible injuries, but by the next morning, he was unresponsive and not breathing and his face was bruised.