A PENSIONER suffered a brutally violent murder more than 40 years ago and the killer or killers have never been caught. Esme Hoad, 85, was killed in 1982 after an intruder entered her home and repeatedly beat her around the head with a blunt instrument. She was also stabbed in the chest. Crimestoppers are now offering a £20,000 reward for information which leads to Esme’s killer being found and convicted, as cold case detectives investigating the unsolved murder are renewing an appeal for...

A MANHUNT is underway after a man was stabbed in a park in Southampton. Hampshire Police officers are investigating a serious assault which occurred in East Park on Sunday afternoon, December 7 2025. A force spokesperson said: "We were called just before 4.15pm to a report of a 33-year-old man who had suffered stab injuries to the rear of his leg. "He was taken to hospital, where he was found to also have a broken leg. None of his injuries are thought to be life-threatening at this time....

THIRTY years ago today the bloodied bodies of three drug dealers were found in a Range Rover on an isolated snowy farm track near Basildon. Pat Tate, 37, Tony Tucker, 38, and Craig Rolfe, 26, (below left to right) had been lured to the location in Rettendon before they were ambushed and shot dead with pump action shotguns. The grisly executions on December 6 1995 put Essex on the map again for all the wrong reasons less than three weeks after headlines about the death of 18-year-old Leah...