Police have identified a woman whose remains were found in the mouth of a 13ft alligator in Florida. The body of 41-year-old Sabrina Peckham was pulled from a canal in Largo, about 20 miles west of Tampa, after a witness spotted her in the alligator's mouth, the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office said. The animal was "humanely killed", the sheriff's office said, and the coroner's office will perform a post-mortem examination to determine the official cause of death, but it is suspected Ms Peckham was killed by the alligator.
SIR – Those who think that HS2 was about levelling-up are sadly deluded (“Axe looms over HS2 as costs set to soar by £8bn”, report, September 24). If this were the case, why were all the lines going to London? Most major cities already have a reasonable connection to the capital but appalling connections to each other. Consider Northallerton to London: 233 miles in two hours and 19 minutes. But Hull to Liverpool – only 144 miles – takes two hours and 36 minutes. Were passengers from Leeds to Man
The leader of Russia's Chechnya region, Ramzan Kadyrov, said on Monday he was proud of his teenage son Adam for beating up a prisoner accused of burning the Koran. Kadyrov posted the comments on Telegram, accompanied by a clip in which a young man in khaki clothing is seen punching and kicking another man cowering in a chair before wrestling him to the floor and slapping him on the head. The Chechen leader, who styles himself as a ruthless ally of President Vladimir Putin, said he was releasing the video to settle any doubts about whether the incident, first reported last month, had really taken place.
A British man has reportedly been stabbed to death in Portugal while taking part in an online challenge. The unnamed 36-year-old's body was found in the middle of a forest near the town of Pedrogao Grande, local media reported. A bladed weapon has also been recovered from the scene.
Two drivers in Northamptonshire, England, pleaded guilty to dangerous driving after dashcam footage of a “road rage” incident was submitted to the local police force.The footage, recorded by another driver’s dash-cam on May 21, showed Kevin Rowley and Michael Drage overtaking each other and “driving at excessive speed,” according to Northamptonshire Police.Both drivers were charged with driving dangerously, and subsequently pleaded guilty to the offence at Northampton Magistrates’ Court on September 4, police said.Along with being disqualified from driving for 12 months and being required to take an extended driving test to regain their licenses, the pair must complete 150 hours of unpaid community service and pay victim surcharges, police said. Credit: Northamptonshire Police via Storyful
Officers are enforcing a dispersal order in a County Durham town to deal with large gatherings of youths from outside the area who are causing anti-social behaviour.
A LABOUR MSP has demonstrated outside a resort snapped up by the Taymouth Castle developers in a bid to “highlight the weakness of the Scottish Government’s Land Reform proposals” ...
A girl aged three and two adults were shot dead during an argument over an apparent dog sale in Florida, according to police. Five people - including the toddler - had gone to the JTB luxury apartment complex at Southside, Jacksonville around 10pm on Saturday to meet with some people about the purchase of the pet. Witnesses told police two men fled in a black sedan car.
A FORMER Police Community Support Officer and her husband have been jailed for ‘a ruinous escapade’ to falsely claim that their £15,000 Range Rover had been stolen from Burnsall.