What’s the verdict?

A tragedy at playtime or something far more sinister?

Todd and Linda Stermer were married for more than 13 years. They first met in 1989 when they were both 25. Stermer was a single mum going through a divorce, with two toddler daughters. The couple went

Pushed face first into the wall of her hallway, her hands slapped in handcuffs, Elizabeth De Zoysa could barely process what was happening. Moments earlier, still in her dressing gown, she had been cl

As a sentencing review proposes ways to tackle the prison population, Closer looks at what it might mean for women who have often been coerced into crime

This week’s crime story...

Seeing my little brother’s face squashed up against the glass, I burst out laughing. It was October 2000 and I’d popped to see my mum, Gaynor, then 48, after dropping my eldest daughter, then four, at