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Robert Orrey is sentenced over a fatal attack on his mother Claire Orrey.

A convicted killer is on the run after escaping from a mental health facility in London.

Philip Theophilou, who admitted stabbing to death his neighbour, was being treated at the facility in east London.

Joseph Scott, 18, has been sent given a hospital order after killing his mother Ann in January 2023.

The Attorney General has referred the sentence of Valdo Calocane, the Nottingham triple killer, to the Court of Appeal for it to be reviewed as “unduly lenient.”

The British government's top lawyer has referred to the U.K.'s Court of Appeal the sentence handed to a 32-year-old man with paranoid schizophrenia who fatally stabbed two college students and a man in the central English city of Nottingham last summer, arguing that it was “unduly lenient.” Attorney General Victoria Prentis said Tuesday she had asked the court to reconsider last month's sentencing of Valdo Calocane to an indefinite hospital order after he pleaded gu...

The Nottingham killer visited a member of a drug dealing gang before he took the lives of three people in a knife rampage, The Telegraph can reveal, as the victim’s families raised concerns about the lack of toxicology tests.

Valdo Calocane may qualify for welfare payments under section 37 of the Mental Health Act.

John Rees tried to stop fellow shoppers in a Co-op store being attacked by a woman with a knife.

Nazir Afzal's comments come amid a review into how prosecutors handled the Nottingham attacks case.