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Father of boy accused of murdering Leeds' Alfie Lewis says son was left 'scared'
The 15-year-old is on trial after stabbing Alfie to death outside a primary school in Horsforth on November 7 last year, but says he did it out of fear for his own life following an altercation between the pair on Halloween. It is alleged by the young defendant that Alfie had chased him and demanded he hand over his bag of fireworks. The boy previously told Leeds Crown Court that he later rang his dad for a lift home because he was left terrified. Giving evidence today, the father told the...
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Like father, like son? The complex factors that shape a parent’s influence on their child
Scientific studies cannot agree on the relative importance of genes and environment on how we turn out as adultsThe eternal mystery of how much we are shaped by our parents – or how much we shape our children – was stirred again last week with the publication of a study that suggests that we are less like our parents than we had previously thought.Led by René Mõttus of Edinburgh University’s department of psychology, the study looked at more than 1,000 pairs of relatives to establish how likely...
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Man Calls 911 On Himself, Says 'Father-In-Law Is Going To Kill Me' After Murdering Wife: Cops
A man in Fort Worth, Texas called 9-1-1 on himself and allegedly confessed to murdering his wife -- all while exclaiming his slain partner's father was "going to kill me." Christopher Robertson has been charged with murdering wife Kristlynne Robertson, after police responded to the couple's home on April 12 in the middle of the night and found a woman, later identified as Kristlynne, "wrapped up inside a blue tarp." One of the responding officers, according to an arrest warrant...