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A thief stole a laptop during the funeral service of six-year-old TJ Martin at Pentecostal City Church in Kesal Green on November 2. The laptop contains precious photos of the young boy who died tragically and has caused huge upset for the entire family. The computer was left unattended as guests and family members traveled to Kensal Rise for the burial. When they got back they found the laptop had been stolen. According to the police, CCTV footage from the church shows a man taking the computer from its case after spending about 15 minutes in the church... Detective Ben Kirkham from Hammersmith and Fulham CID said: "The church hall was left open after the congregation left for the burial. We have CCTV that shows a man walk into the building. After spending about 15 minutes inside. He is then seen removing the laptop from the case and putting it into a carrier bag before leaving." The grieving parents Norris Martin and his wife, Pat have issued an emotional appeal for th...

An 8-year-old boy is being charged with beating a 1-year-old girl to death while they were left home alone as their mothers went to a nightclub, Alabama police said Tuesday. Birmingham police spokesman Sean Edwards said the boy beat and killed 1-year-old Kelci Lewis when she wouldn't stop crying. The mother of the toddler, 26-year-old Katerra Lewis, also is charged with manslaughter for her role in the death of her daughter. "This is by far one of the saddest cases that I have witnessed and been a part of since I became a police officer," Edwards said. "This type of irresponsibility on behalf of a parent is totally unacceptable," he said. Police said a murder warrant has been obtained for the boy who is now in the care of Alabama's child welfare agency, the Department of Human Resources. His case will go through the family court system. Edwards said the 8-year-old was the oldest of six children left alone as their mothers, Katerra Lewis and a friend, we...

A man is accused of shooting , dismembering and then burning a love rival after he allegedly discovered he was seeing one of his girlfriends. Richard Darling allegedly snapped when he found out about the man was sexually involved with his partner, police said. Officers in Colorado have now revealed in gruesome detail how they believe Darling carried out the alleged murder . Shortly after 10.30pm on Halloween night in Aurora, police found a 55 gallon drum burning with human remains inside, local news station reported. The body is believed to be that of Rey Pesina, a man Darling allegedly shot after several days of arguing over one of the suspect's two girlfriends. Witnesses told investigators Darling shot Pesina with a .22 calibre rifle, dismembered his body "severing the head from the torso", and burning the remains in a barrel. He is currently being held without bail at an Arapahoe County Colorado jail. He is due to appear in a Colorado court again next year as t...

A man and woman found in a Philadelphia park fatally shot in an SUV were having s.ex in the back seat and their killer sought the couple out, police said. Homicide Capt. James Clark said Monday that Shakoor Arline, 25, and Lisa Smith, 32, were together in the SUV early Friday when someone opened the rear door and fired nine times, shooting both multiple times in the head. Maintenance workers found their bodies around 2 p.m. Friday near Lemon Hill Mansion, a historic building in the city's Fairmount Park. Clark said the shootings happened between midnight and 5 a.m. Arline and Smith met at work at a previous job and had been seeing each other on and off for several years, Clark said. Both were also in relationships with other people. "So obviously that's where our investigation is going to start, because somebody knew that they were in the park at that time and obviously had an issue with that," he said. Clark said nothing was taken and the case was not a robbery...

16-year-old Christian Qualls was arrested after his mother's information to the police that he could be involved in a murder ended up being accurate. The Indianapolis teenager was charged Friday, Nov. 6, with the murder of 15-year-old Daniel Neal Burns, who was found fatally shot on Oct. 17. According to court documents obtained by the Indianapolis Star, after a maintenance man reported finding Burns’ body inside an apartment, Qualls’ mother, Carrie, asked cops if her son was a suspect. "Is my son involved? I'm just gonna put it out there and tell it. He's been out here robbing people. He's been breaking into apartments and cars and stealing things," Carrie told police. "He's been hiding in abandoned apartments up here and I've been looking for him." She also told police that her brother’s gun was stolen and that her son had access to it, the report said. The bullet casings in the living room wall of the apartment where Burns was found ...

Controversial Russian media mogul Mikhail Lesin, who helped found the RT English-language television network, has been found dead at a Washington hotel. He was 57. RT, formerly known as Russia Today, said the former minister of media affairs died of a heart attack. "Lesin died. It's impossible to believe this," tweeted Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of RT, which is state funded. ABC News, quoting a Russian and a US official, reported late Friday that Lesin had been found in Washington's Dupont Circle Hotel the day before. A controversial figure, Lesin had been accused of limiting press freedom in Russia. In a terse statement, Russian President Vladimir Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters late Friday that the "president highly values the enormous contribution Mikhail Lesin made helping establish Russian media." Washington police would not confirm his death, saying only that they were investigating the death of someone on the block w...

9-year-old Tyshawn Lee was walking on Chicago's south side when he was lured into an alley and killed, but his father, whose alleged gang ties are believed to have played a role in the boy's murder, won't talk, according to disgusted police who on Friday pleaded for the community to help identify Tyshawn's killer. Tyshawn, an elementary school student, was walking to a relative's home at approximately 4:30 p.m. Monday when the killer or killers lured him from a nearby park and into a neighborhood alley on the 8000 block of S. Damen Ave., where he was shot in the head and back. Authorities have called on the child's father, Pierre Stokes, to cooperate with them in solving the murder Monday that they described as "absolutely hateful." "Let me be clear that Mr. Stokes is a parent who lost his son," Anthony Guglielmi, chief spokesman of the Chicago Police Department, told FoxNews.com. "But he potentially knows who did this. He potentiall...

Chicago police say a man who was charged with felony child endangerment after his six-year-old son accidentally shot and killed his three-year-old brother told investigators that he got the gun illegally from a gang member. Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi says Michael Santiago told investigators that he was a former gang member and felt he needed the gun to protect his family. The shooting occurred Saturday night. Guglielmi says the older boy and his younger brother wanted to play 'cops and robbers' when one of them retrieved the loaded handgun from atop the refrigerator. The older boy shot his younger brother in the face. Family members took the younger boy, identified by the medical examiner as Eian Santiago, to Norwegian American Hospital. He was later transported in critical condition to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he died later on. The boys' father, Michael Santiago, was charged Sunday with one felony count of child endangerment/death for 'knowingly' st...

A man and his girlfriend reportedly refused to surrender to police as a SWAT team surrounded their house because they wanted to have sex "one last time". Ryan Patrick Bautista and Leanne Hunn, both 34, refused to leave their mobile home as they made love during a night-long stand-off with cops in Florida on Wednesday, the Times-Union reported. Hunn allegedly told police over the phone that she would turn herself in once she had had s3x with Bautista for the final time. The couple were finally arrested at 4am on Thursday morning after police arrived at the scene at 9.30pm the night before. Bautista was wanted for armed burglary. He and Hunn were reportedly charged with resisting arrest without violence and false imprisonment.

Lindsay Lohan has declared her desire to take charge of the United States as its Commander and Chief and run for president in 2020. She playfully made the announcement on Friday night via her Instagram account. She cited Kanye West, the Queen of England and Barack Obama for inspiring her to run for presidency. She wrote: 'In #2020 I may run for president. Through ups and downs #Yeswecan lets do this @kanyewest'.

Tenisha Fearson, 27, on Thursday, October 15, dangled her 6-month-old baby girl out a Bronx sixth-floor window, screaming "We are all going to die" Hallelujah" and Praise the Lord" before letting the child plunge to her death onto the concrete below, police said. According to Tenisha's godmother Louella Hatch, as police were taking her away, she said “the devil is in her,” Neighbors described a chaotic scene before the sickening drop, with building residents yelling at the deranged naked woman when she began throwing household items out the window. They screamed in terror and called 911 when they saw her bring the baby to the window. "She threw a baby out the window!" one witness screamed. Then, in a bizarre, ritualistic scene, Fearon lay on the floor surrounded by her other three children: two girls and a boy who were also naked and lying on their backs, according to next-door neighbor Gregorio Lopez. Lopez, 47, ran to the roof after he heard neig...

Meet the couple who sleep with their 5 children on the same bed Bloggers Elizabeth and Tom Boyce, from Texas, US, sleep with their 5 children on the same bed and they said their sex life was better than ever, despite their unconventional sleeping arrangement. They have built a bed fort that links mattresses for Zach, 11, Izzy, nine, Ben, seven, Owen, three, and baby Elijah, one, with the two parents placed in the middle. Elizabeth posted a photo of the family bed on Facebook and was suddenly inundated with questions about how it works. And most of the questions revolved around the couple's sex life. Elizabeth wrote back: "I think what it boils down to is your lack of imagination."I am sure you can figure it out. "In our house, by moving everyone into one room, we suddenly had several other rooms that were completely empty at night and we no longer had small children wandering, crying into our bed in the dark." She explained that they came up with the ide...

The three sisters identified as 13-year-old Catie Bott and twins Dara and Jana Bott, both 11, died after falling into a truck filled with grain despite frantic rescue efforts at the farm in Withrow, Alberta. Family members had rushed to free them from the truck of canola seed and administer CPR after the accident, but two of the sisters died at the scene and another died later in hospital. In a statement, the girls’ parents Roger and Bonita Bott thanked medics who had tried to save their children. "Our kids died living life on the farm," they said. “It is a family farm. We do not regret raising and involving our kids Catie, 13, Dara, 11, Jana, 11, on our farm. It was our life." The family's pastor, Brian Allan, added: "This is what they really loved to do. If there is something to be said for a family working together was the bonding." Authorities said the girls had been playing on the grain truck when they somehow suffocated in the seed.

Lol. President Obama gives Kanye West some presidential advise, Kanye West responds So we all heard about Kanye West's intention to run for President in 2020, well President Obama also heard about it. While speaking at a Democratic National Committee fundraiser in San Francisco, yesterday, Obama discussed Kanye's recently announced political ambitions by giving Peezy (The nickname he gave Kanye West) some solid advise. He said: "You may have heard about this, Kanye is thinking about running … for Speaker of the House. "But in case Kanye is serious about this whole POTUS (President of the United States) thing, or as he calls it Peezy, I do have advice for him." He said: "First of all, you've got to spend a lot of time dealing with some strange characters who behave like they're on a reality TV show. "So you've got to be cool with that." Obama had clearly done his homework on Kanye as he referenced the rapper's fifth studio albu...

Dad gets sent to jail for kicking his daughter in the head when she tried to stop him from beating up her mum A dad who kicked his 6 year old daughter in the head when she tried to stop him from beating up her mum in a violent attack has been jailed for six years.26 years old Christopher Potts pleaded guilty to section 18 wounding against his former partner and actual bodily harm against their daughter. According to Liverpool Echo, The attack, involving the use of an ornament and glasses, took place at a property in Newton-le-Willows on July 3 leaving the woman with multiple injuries to her head and body. Speaking after yesterday’s sentencing at Liverpool Crown Court, DC Colette Robinson said: “Potts subjected his former partner to a brutal and sustained assault, which included the use of an ornament and glasses, that left her with multiple injuries to her head, face, torso, legs and arm. Not only did the victim’s six-year-old daughter witness her mother being atta...

Nanny charged with stealing $280,000 from Boston family A Boston nanny accused of allegedly stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from the family that employed her now faces federal bank fraud charges, authorities said. Stephanie Fox, 30, worked for Grace Heintz, a partner at Bain&Co, from February 2013 until this past August. In that time, court records said, she allegedly took checks from Heintz and her husband and “wrote them payable to herself, forged signatures and cashed them.” In all, the family said it discovered Fox had forged 65 checks totaling more than $280,000. She told the FBI she used the money to buy jewelry, including a diamond pendant necklace and Movado watches, travel -- including trips to the Bahamas, Aruba, Hawaii, Newport, Cape Cod and Disney -- as well as a down payment on a new truck. When confronted, Fox confessed, authorities said. “This was done on impulse,” she wrote, “as a way to support a lifestyle that was beyond...

Mom arrested for trying to shame her 10 year old son for making anti gay remarks A mother who chose an unusual way to punish her son for making anti-gay remarks has been turned over to South Carolina social services. The Herald Online reports that the mother had tried other means of punishment with her son, but they just didn’t work “The mother said she was ‘punishing her son for fighting and making homophobic remarks in school,’ the report states. She added that he has been having behavioral issues, and “corporal punishment has been ineffective, so she was attempting to embarrass” her son as punishment.” After her son's anti-gay remarks the mother shaved her son’s head, wrote the word “bad” on his forehead, put a wig on him, dressed him in a “women’s teddy,” tutu and boots, and then paraded him around Walmart to teach him a lesson on how not to mock gays. Customers at Walmart saw what was going on and c...

Photos: 2 kids who served as ring bearer & flower girl at a wedding marry 17 years later Adrian and Brooke Franklin walked down the aisle as ring bearer and flower girl in a wedding back in 1998, when they were just kids. On Sept. 19, they walked down the aisle together again... as bride and groom this time. While their story may have ended with wedding bells, the couple says their beginning wasn't quite as romantic. "I had a crush on him from the start," Brooke Franklin told ABC News. "But he absolutely could not stand me. He said 'I got on his nerves.' I'd tried to play with him at school and at church and he just didn't want much to do with me at all" In high school, however, everything changed and Adrian and Brooke started dating. "We would draw with our finger on each other's backs and guess what the other person was writing," Adrian shared. "I wrote 'Will you be my girlfriend' and she guessed it, but didn...

Photo of a man with no scalp caught robbing truck with pockets filled with Viagra goes viral 62 year old Tommie Bennett, a man with no scalp was arrested for trying to break in to a truck with his pockets full of Viagra pills. His mugshot has been causing a stir online after it was released by police in Florida. Bennett suffers from a rare skin condition that means he has lost part of his scalp. Officers say the owner of the truck caught the 62-year-old trying to steal a tackle box, tent and fishing pole from his van as it was parked up outside an Economy Inn in Putnam County. Police say Bennett tried to escape on a bicycle after the owner of the truck heard a noise and went out to investigate. The driver allegedly caught the man, tackled him to the ground and tied him up him with wire until police arrived. When officers searched the man they found packets of Viagra in his pockets, without prescription. The mugshot has stirred up debate online with people questioning whether ...

Baby Is Born With Two TUBES On His Face Instead Of A Nose, But Doctors Says He Will Soon Be NORMAL The parents of a baby born with two tubes growing out of his face instead of a nose have been told by doctors that he is doing well and will soon look completely normal. The baby boy, who has been named Angelito meaning little angel or cherub was born at the hospital of Caleta, in the city of Chimbote, in the west Peruvian province of Santa. The boy's mother Lorena Rodriguez Zavaleta, 20, and his unnamed father, are constantly at their newborn's bedside. The baby was transferred from his home in Nuevo Chimbote to the Hospital del Nino some 300 miles away in the Peruvian capital Lima where he will need to undergo an operation to treat the growths and give him a normal nose. Paediatrician Jose Castillo said the unusual condition was the result of a very rare genetic deformity called Patau syndrome, which happens in just one in every 15,000 births. He said that the baby is c...