Dave Higgens

Driver who mowed down ‘purely innocent boy’ jailed for at least 30 years

Zulkernain Ahmed, 21, was found guilty of murdering 16-year-old Abdullah Yaser Abdullah Taleb after driving into him in the Darnall area of Sheffield.

By Dave Higgens

4 Jun 2026

Crime

Driver said ‘I’ve killed my best friend’ after crashing a day after passing test

Corey Cooper, 19, has been jailed for five years after he crashed his car in Sheffield, leaving one teenager dead and another seriously injured.

By Dave Higgens

7 Nov 2025

Crime

Driver jailed for ‘senseless’ murder of Good Samaritan run over by car

Hassan Jhangur killed father-of-two Chris Marriott when he drove his car into a wedding brawl in a Sheffield street.

By Dave Higgens

6 Nov 2025

Crime

Man who killed ‘Good Samaritan’ when he ploughed into crowd jailed for 26 years

Hassan Jhangur murdered father-of-two Chris Marriott, who had gone to help a woman lying injured on a street in Sheffield.

By Dave Higgens

6 Nov 2025

Crime

Wife of man killed while helping woman tells court of his ‘compassionate heart’

Chris Marriott, 46, was murdered by Hassan Jhangur, who drove into a crowd of people in the Burgreave area of Sheffield.

By Dave Higgens

6 Nov 2025

Crime

Driver who murdered ‘Good Samaritan’ when he ploughed into crowd to be sentenced

Hassan Jhangur was found guilty earlier this year of murdering father-of-two Chris Marriott, 46, and a number of other offences.

By Dave Higgens

6 Nov 2025

Health

Family of rugby league star Rob Burrow opens state-of-the-art MND centre

The Rob Burrow Centre for Motor Neurone Disease has been built at Seacroft Hospital, in Leeds.

By Dave Higgens

3 Nov 2025

Health

Rob Burrow’s dream MND centre opened 17 months after his death

The Rob Burrow Centre for Motor Neurone Disease has been built at Seacroft Hospital, in Leeds.

By Dave Higgens

3 Nov 2025

Crime

Christian who had job offer withdrawn over views on homosexuality begins appeal

A 2024 tribunal heard that a charity withdrew the offer of a social worker job for Felix Ngole when it discovered online reports about his beliefs.

By Dave Higgens

29 Oct 2025

Charles lays flowers at first national LGBT armed forces memorial

The King talked to a number of those who had their military careers cut short before the ban was lifted in 2000.

By Dave Higgens

27 Oct 2025

Emotional veterans say LGBT memorial ‘means everything to us’

Soldiers, sailors and airmen and women thrown out of the military because of their sexuality welcomed the King’s endorsement of the new sculpture.

By Dave Higgens

27 Oct 2025

Crime

Woman who tried to kill her mother on hospital ward jailed for three years

Susan Hardwick, 65, was found by staff forcing pillows on the face of her 89-year-old mother, Joan, at Doncaster Royal Infirmary.

By Dave Higgens

24 Oct 2025

Crime

Man rigged up house ‘like Home Alone’ to protect drugs business, jury told

Prosecutors said police found weapons including a home-made flamethrower and a series of traps at the home in Grimethorpe, near Barnsley.

By Dave Higgens

23 Oct 2025

Crime

Harvey Willgoose’s mother says ‘weight has been lifted’ after killer detained

Mohammed Umar Khan stabbed Harvey to death at their Sheffield school when they were both 15 years old.

By Dave Higgens

22 Oct 2025

Crime

Boy who murdered Harvey Willgoose detained for minimum of 16 years

Mohammed Umar Khan can now be named following a judge’s ruling on Wednesday.

By Dave Higgens

22 Oct 2025

Crime

Boy who murdered Harvey Willgoose at school can be named, judge rules

Harvey was stabbed to death by Mohammed Umar Khan, 15, at All Saints Catholic High School, in Sheffield, in February.

By Dave Higgens

22 Oct 2025

Crime

Boy who stabbed Harvey Willgoose to death in school lunch break to be sentenced

Harvey was murdered by another 15-year-old boy at All Saints Catholic High School, in Sheffield, in February.

By Dave Higgens

22 Oct 2025

Crime

Man jailed after disorder faced discipline charge before he died, inquest hears

Peter Lynch, 61, died in HMP Moorland, near Doncaster, after he was jailed following the disorder outside a hotel housing asylum seekers in Rotherham.

By Dave Higgens

16 Oct 2025