When her husband was arrested on suspicion of shoplifting at an ASDA supermarket, policeman's wife Zoe Wilkinson was only too keen to help clear his name. But her attempts to provide what she called a ''true defence'' for Sgt Richard Pendlebury backfired when she began reeling off a string of bogus sob stories about the family's plight to her hair stylist. During a hair .....Read More
When she publicised a sponsored 18 mile walk for disadvantaged children on the internet, family court judge Sarah Singleton hoped it would get the right attention needed for donations towards her cause. But instead, her plea on the website Just Giving attracted the wrong kind of attention - from an embittered surrogate mother who had appeared before her in court just mont.....Read More
For many parents, end of school term usually means taking their children away on a family holiday - but for a moment place yourself in Michelle Smith's shoes. The 34-year old wanted to go to Ibiza for Easter with her partner, four children and stepson - but discovered new school rules meant her four children broke up on different weeks. A Government ''free for all'' allo.....Read More
When police investigated an assault and burglary at the home of RAF war veteran Christopher Fields, they assumed the incident was caused by drink and called a joiner to fix his broken window. But a decision by two officers to leave 37-year old Mr Fields alone and injured with a ''friend'' known only as ''Owen'' had tragic consequences for the former serviceman who won two.....Read More
When retired pharmacist Steven Freedman, 76 and his 72-year old wife Hedy were given restricted access to their grandchildren, they, like many old folk decided to put their thoughts down on paper. But what followed condemned the elderly pair to a criminal record and a stern rebuke from a judge after they sent their estranged daughter a birthday card addressed ''Abuser of .....Read More
She was known as ''GI Jane'' due to her devotion to duty on the Afghanistan frontline. But when solider Rachel Dorrian returned to the UK on home leave, she got herself caught up in a vicious brawl in which she felled a man and a woman with the SAME PUNCH - and left her drummed out of the British Army. The Corporal, 24 - a former British judo champion and fanatical weigh.....Read More
Pedestrian Craig Rodger paid a terrible price for his chivalry when he stopped to let a woman walk in front of him. In the split second that he halted momentarily in the road, the 28-year old was mown down at 80mph by a hit-and run driver taking a mobile phone call at the wheel of his luxury Porsche. Maintenance worker Craig was thrown 114 feet into the air by the force .....Read More
Posing in identical red and white hooped sweaters and showing off their flowing long blonde hair 11-year old twin sisters Morgan and Ellie Cairns seemed like butter wouldn't melt in these heartwarming family snaps. But fast forward three years, the ominous signs of childhood innocence being swapped for teenage attitude were already clear as the pair who called themselves .....Read More
Taxi driver Dennis Street thought he was doing the right thing when he stopped his car in pouring rain to give two men a lift after they pleaded for him to take them to a party a mile up the road. The 53-year old father of three took pity on the two dripping wet pedestrians - neither of whom were wearing overcoats - after one of them flagged down his private hire cab duri.....Read More
For many parents, there maybe bouts of nervousness going through their minds whenever they go out fo.....Read More
With his fleet of boats, luxury cars and a hot tub in his garden, Michael Welsh was assumed by neigh.....Read More