In an exclusive extract from her moving book, Helen Cummings talks about the terror of her abusive marriage and the realisation that she too could have ended up dead had she not left her ex-husband. It started out as an ordinary Newcastle day, one weekend early in March 1984. Something was creating a strange sense […]

When Jeanette met David, he was a tough criminal who was wanted in Australia and facing the death penalty in Thailand. So why did she marry him? William Langley investigates. Where do they end up, those shadowy super-villains and criminal geniuses whose lives seem to have been lifted from movie scripts? Usually behind bars, dead, […]

Being imprisoned for a crime you did not commit is the stuff of nightmares. Sue Williams talks to the wrongly convicted about their call for justice reforms. Alexis Keogh is curled up in a chair, looking through a big box of letters. She smiles as she re-reads some, a shadow of sadness passes over her […]

Last month, a jury found Des Campbell guilty of murdering his wife, Janet. While she paid the ultimate price, Janet was not the only woman he lied to, manipulated and cheated out of large amounts of money. June Ingham wishes that she had never met Des Campbell, the man at the centre of one of […]

Forgot your PIN? Entered a room, only to realise you have no idea what you went in there for? The scariest thing about lapses like these is that they start happening long before you’re due for senior-citizen discounts. The good news is that even if your memory is dodgy, you can strengthen it in the […]