A record-breaking election and one month that changed it all:we recap the highs and lows of the 47th parliament.
Trauma and tragedy linked these children who lost their mothers to domestic violence. They had to fight to find each other as adults.
It took 77 people working for free,and three years’ full-time work,to save a stay-at-home mother from a mountain of fraudulent business debts created by her ex-husband.
Lilie James could not have known that Paul Thijssen would react with such violence to her decision to end their relationship.
Confronting videos of Paul Thijssen preparing to kill his St Andrew’s Cathedral School colleague have been released by the inquest into both their deaths.
The latest Crime Statistics Agency data shows crimes committed by children aged 10 to 17 rose to their highest levels last year since electronic records began in 1993.
The St Andrew’s sports coach covered up his sense of inadequacy by “projecting an image of perfection”. But James challenged that facade when she rejected him,experts say.
Paul Thijssen can be seen waiting with a hammer in his hand before entering a bathroom at St Andrew’s Cathedral School and killing the popular sports coach.
CCTV recorded Paul Thijssen going to the bathrooms next to the St Andrew’s Cathedral School gym and practising lunging through the doors of two of them.
An inquest into the murder of Lilie James by her ex-boyfriend in the St Andrew’s gym is expected to explore domestic violence,coercive control and technology-facilitated abuse