
Werrington to Stoke Heath: the 1995 murder that exposes the violence of child prisons
A 17-year-old tortured a vulnerable cellmate to death inside a young offender institution in 1995. The case reveals what prisons do to the children they cage.
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A 17-year-old tortured a vulnerable cellmate to death inside a young offender institution in 1995. The case reveals what prisons do to the children they cage.

The 82-year-old father of the Duchess of Sussex appeared in a Florida court after FBI agents seized 78 items from storage units in Los Angeles.

A Mombasa court sentences Paul Mackenzie for murdering 191 people, almost all children, but the real story is the state that watched for two decades.

London's Bonfire Night 2026 programme spans Alexandra Palace, Blackheath and Battersea, but free access is shrinking and the ticket prices tell their own story.

Milei is offering Big Tech a regulation-free Patagonia, with tax cuts, cheap energy and no safeguards. Residents and researchers call it extraction dressed as development.

Cost of living protests turned violent this Halloween weekend, with riots in Germany, a third week of unrest in Paris, and a dawn eviction of housing activists in Lisbon.

Greater Manchester Police's new Transport Policing and Crime Command launched on 29 October 2026, making four arrests on day one amid a rollout of facial recognition on the Bee Network.

A New York jury convicted Halima Salman of ISIS weapons training. But the trial record tells of a 17-year-old taken to Syria by her father and forced into marriage.

Simon Brocklehurst, the Sutton Santa, was told on 13 October he cannot volunteer this year. Behind the flag row lies a story of unpaid care work and commercial power.

From a Romanian sex trafficking network to a serial child abuser caught through INTERPOL forensics, Greater Manchester's courts sentenced traffickers, rapists and abusers this week.

Court documents reveal Tennessee's execution team used about 10 needles on Christa Pike, who survived two doses of pentobarbital on September 30.

Merseyside Police imposed a second consecutive weekend dispersal zone on the village of Rainhill on October 16, after reports of young people setting off fireworks in the street and launching them at vehicles.

Meta description: An aspiring Reform MP called for asylum seekers to be placed in concentration camps and said Muslims cannot be British, ITV's undercover investigation reveals.

Cheshire Police dismissed PC Anthony Spelman after a report exposed rape fantasy texts sent to 12 women while on duty, including pursuing the mother of a man he arrested.

Tesla unveils its long-delayed Roadster on 15 October. Florian Wirtz reads the spectacle as a demo of billionaire privilege, extractivism, and a media system that rewards delay.

A murder trial in Manchester heard that headteacher Michael Mullins was dragged beneath a car for more than a mile after being struck while cycling home. Simon Richardson denies murder.

An inquest reveals how police dismissed a mother's pleas for help hours before she and four children were murdered in a petrol bomb attack. The Walkden firebombing exposes systemic failures in protecting vulnerable families.

A critical look at London's pedicab crisis reveals systemic failure, racialised scapegoating, and the urgent need for worker-centred solutions.

The White House ban on Microsoft and seven other tech firms from the PERM program is a xenophobic distraction from the real issue: employer-sponsored visas that exploit all workers. An intersectional analysis of labor, migration, and state power.

A by-election in a Labour stronghold becomes a referendum on migration, party politics, and the future of the left.