United Kingdom

Britain's undercover police units infiltrated about 1,000 activist groups, stole dead children's identities, and fathered children with women they targeted. The public inquiry is still sitting. Tranche 3 hearings began…

Sarah Sands fatally stabbed convicted pedophile Michael Pleasted in Canning Town after he abused her son and other local boys. She was convicted of manslaughter. The Court of Appeal raised…

Corinna Smith, also known as Corinna Baines, poured boiling water mixed with sugar over her husband Michael Baines as he slept in Neston, Cheshire. He died five weeks later. Chester…

Former boarding-school maths teacher John McKno, 74, was serving 14 years for sexually abusing five boys. He choked to death on breakfast at HMP Norwich. An inquest recorded cardiac failure…

Jared Perry, serving 17 years for assaults on infants, was found dead at HMP Parc in Wales. Prison-death investigators treated it as a suicide in custody.

Richard Huckle, one of Britain's worst child-sex offenders, was stabbed to death in his Full Sutton cell. An inquest later examined how a high-risk prisoner was left that exposed.