South African police are searching for the killer of national football team captain Senzo Meyiwa, who was shot dead by burglars on Sunday night.
The wife of the British man found murdered on the Indonesian island of Bali has admitted to ordering his murder, the police have said.
Oscar Pistorius has finally been sentenced, to what his judge described as “a sentence that is fair and just, both to society and to the accused” for the culpable homicide of Reeva Steenkamp.
A Spanish woman accused of murdering her baby was released last week after judges found that she was suffering from a mental disorder known as ‘pregnancy denial’.
A mother who admitted killing her three young disabled children has had the murder charges against her dropped.