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An arsenal of weapons including a machete, knives and wooden stakes were used by Tautvydas Narbutas (inset) to kill and desecrate the body of Albertina Choules (right, her body circled, left) - after she had caught him climbing in through an upstairs window of her home early one morning. Mr Justice Stuart-Smith told Lithuanian-born Narbutas: 'What you did was deeply shocking and utterly revolting.' Moments earlier, he had heard how the then 23-year-old intruder had killed the Buddhist widow and put her naked body in a wheelbarrow before taking her into the garden of her home, in Marlow, Buckinghamshire, in 2016.

In choosing Louis for the name of his new son, Prince William is honouring the memory of his father Prince Charles's beloved great-uncle, Earl Mountbatten of Burma, who was murdered by the IRA in 1979.Prince William never knew the man whom his father referred to as ‘my honorary grandfather’ but was brought up knowing the legend of his life and of his violent death.After seeing action as a midshipman in the First World War, he rose to become Admiral of the Fleet, First Sea Lord and last Viceroy of India.

The full extent of the cover-up by car makers who failed to warn drivers of a major security flaw can be revealed today. As organised gangs use cheap devices to hack electronic entry systems and steal thousands of cars, a Daily Mail investigation has revealed that millions of drivers have been left in the dark for years about the scale of the problem. Arthur Preou (left) has vowed to never buy another keyless car after his £60,000 Range Rover Vogue was stolen from his drive overnight. While gym owner, Graham Sinclair (right), who fell victim to keyless car crime when his £53,000 BMW was stolen claims the showroom later told him he should have kept the fob in the microwave.

The teenager accused Deborah Lowe (pictured left and right), 53, of damaging his career prospects and blamed her for the fact he left school with just one GCSE. The boy's affair with the mother-of-two was alleged to have started when he was just 16 and still a pupil at school. But Lowe was able to walk free after a jury at Manchester Crown Court accepted her claims they started having sex only when he had turned 17.

Kate Hoey, the former sports minister who oversaw plans to rebuild Wembley, said it would no longer be England’s national stadium if the deal goes ahead. She added that if it is sold, the new owners should reimburse the £161million put in by taxpayers and National Lottery entrants, and pay an extra premium to take into account the stadium’s increase in value. Former England goalkeeper Peter Shilton (right), who holds the record for playing more England games than anyone else, with 125 caps, said: ‘It is irreplaceable. You cannot replace what Wembley is and what the place means to so many.'

Alfie Evans' 'Army' of supporters have abandoned protests outside Alder Hey (right) as his family said today they want to take him home in the next day or two to live, not die. The much-loved little boy is still alive inside the Liverpool hospital more than 72 hours after his life support was withdrawn. The toddler's parents Tom Evans, 21, (left) and Kate James, 20, (inset with Alfie) insist their son could survive for 'months or years' as they dramatically abandoned their fight to take him abroad for treatment and pledged to work with doctors in a bid to take him home to die. But Alfie's family have reacted with fury to claims that their attempt to 'build bridges' with Alder Hey meant they were accepting he is about to pass away.

Prince Charles still has not seen his newest grandson, four days after he was born. He is currently in Scotland on holiday and will not see the baby until today at the earliest, the Mail can reveal. There have long been rumours of tensions between Charles and William, particularly over how much he and his wife, the Duchess of Cornwall, get to see his grandchildren.

The newest member of the royal family has been named Louis Arthur Charles in a poignant tribute to his grandfather's beloved mentor. Prince Charles' great uncle and 'honorary grandfather' was Lord Louis Mountbatten, the great-grandson of Queen Victoria and uncle to Prince Philip. His full title was Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma. Mountbatten (depicted inset on the Netflix drama The Crown), encouraged the betrothal of his nephew Philip to Elizabeth, the future queen and he was particularly close to a young Prince Charles (together left and right). Uncle Dickie, as he was known in the family, was assassinated by the IRA in August 1979. On that fateful day, Mountbatten, his grandson Nicholas, and two others were killed by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), which had placed a bomb in his fishing boat, Shadow V, in Mullaghmore, County Sligo, Ireland.

A brother and sister with nut allergies were forced to spend a seven-and-a-half hour flight at the back of a plane with blankets covering their heads and nostrils. Shannen Sahota, 24, and her brother Sundeep, 33, were on an Emirates flight from Birmingham Airport to Dubai. After realising that they could be exposed to nuts, they claim that one staff member told them they might feel more comfortable if they moved into a toilet with cushions and pillows.

Zoe Ball tried in vain to help her boyfriend after two suicide attempts in the months before his death, an inquest heard. Billy Yates, 40, rammed his car into a motorway barrier and tried to commit suicide by inhaling toxic fumes before his death last May, the hearing was told. He had concerns over a large tax bill but his relationship with Zoe (pictured together, left) was going well when he was found dead at his London home (shown right), Westminster Coroner's Court heard. Zoe and Mr Yates had a 'beautiful relationship' and were the 'love of each others' life' after meeting through their TV work, the inquest was told by his family. But a coroner returned an open verdict into the death of the former Royal Marine, who had been drinking on the day he was found dead, as she couldn't be satisfied that he had intended to take his own life.

Every night, without fail, children's TV animation director Gary Andrews captures a poignant moment from family life with exquisite sketches in his 'Doodle Diary'. Hand-drawn in pen, they feature charming cartoon caricatures of himself, his wife Joy and his two young children, Lily, ten, and seven-year-old Ben. When Gary first started his Doodle Diaries three years ago on his 54th birthday, he was a happily married family man whose drawings were infused with humour and delight at his good fortune. Today, they tell a very different story. For the past six months they've charted his harrowing journey as a widowed, single dad struggling to fill the gap left by his wife's sudden death.

A couple who had spiralled into £11,000 worth of credit card debt, and have never taken their children out to dinner swapped lives with a family of wealthy veterinary surgeons for a TV experiment. Part-time hairdresser Sarah Timmins, 29, and husband Ross, 28, a former Navy engineer from Redruth, Cornwall swapped with Colin and Lizzy Whiting, for Rich House Poor House, which returns next week.

Stephanie Jackson's gran Mary died 14 years ago but said she had been 'praying' to her for a baby because she wasn't sure if she and her partner Michael Davies, pictured together top right, would be able to have children. The 32-year-old said as she had the scan done, left, her mother pointed out the face of her gran, bottom right. 'I was so happy. I recognised her instantly. I've been crying since yesterday,' said Stephanie, from Knowsley.

The truck crashed on the M62 and lost its load over several lanes at Junction 28 near Tingley, West Yorkshire, forcing the closure of the road for several hours while the wreckage was cleared. Nobody was injured in the accident which caused tailbacks past the M1 junction to Lofthouse. The accident happened around 11am and the round remained closed until 2.15pm causing significant delays.

Raymond Bowen (inset left) was jailed for 19 years for the attempted murder of his Good Samaritan neighbour Kirsten Ashby, 27. The young woman has been left scarred from head to toe (right) after Bowen doused her in gasoline and set her on fire. As Bowen appeared in court to be sentenced, the monster blew a kiss to his girlfriend Lauren Russell (together left). Ms Ashby's mother has blasted Ms Russell for supporting the father of her five children while her daughter suffers a life sentence.

Tom Evans (left) gave a speech outside Alder Hey hospital today where he urged protesters to 'stand down' and give them to privacy to ensure they could give their boy the 'dignity and comfort he needs' in what may be his final few days. In a statement today, Mr Evans said he wants to 'form a relationship' and 'build a bridge' with Alder Hey Hospital after meeting with doctors to discuss plans about bringing their young boy home to spend their final days together as a family. Alfie (inset) has been deemed terminally ill and candlelit vigils have been held outside the Vatican in his honour (right).

The Football Association are on the verge of selling Wembley Stadium in an astonishing £800million deal. Shahid Khan (left), the billionaire owner of Fulham Football Club and the NFL’s Jacksonville Jaguars, has tabled a formal offer that was being discussed for the first time by the FA board on Thursday morning. Khan, who is worth an estimated £5.2billion, is prepared to pay more than £500million in cash and allow the FA to keep the Club Wembley debenture and hospitality business that is valued at a further £300million.

Kensington Palace announced William (pictured, left, yesterday with the royal couple) will act as his brother’s best man best man. A Kensington Palace said: ‘The Duke of Cambridge is honoured to have been asked, and is very much looking forward to supporting his brother at St George's Chapel, Windsor on May 19th.' Harry was best man for William at his wedding (inset). The Palace posted this picture (right) of the two as boys beneath the announcement on Twitter this morning.

Confronting footage taken during a police raid on an orgy on Saturday night show a glimpse of Pattaya's dark underbelly, where western tourists go to take advantage of the booming sex trade business. Images from the raid in Pattaya, often referred to as the sex capital of the world, show middle-aged men sweating heavily and rushing to cover themselves as police burst in on the illegal party (top and bottom right). Despite prostitution being illegal in Thailand, pictures taken from inside Pattaya's sordid red-light district two years ago show young women dancing inside bars and lining the streets advertising themselves like meat (left). The grim reality of Pattaya's sex trade appears just as frenzied in 2018.

Philippe Loret's saliva will be matched with genetic material from pieces of skull and jaw bone (bottom left) reportedly belonging to the Nazi leader (top) and held in a vault by the former KGB in Moscow. The Frenchman (left) is convinced his late father, Jean-Marie Loret, was Hitler's illegitimate son conceived long before the tyrant led Germany into the Second World War. Loret, 62, believes his grandmother Charlotte Lobjoie (right) had a fling with the Nazi leader, then a young German corporal, fighting in northern France in the summer of 1916. Russian channel NTV has now taken a DNA sample from him and brought it to be tested against genetic material from Hitler's remains reportedly retrieved by Stalin's forces which stormed the dictator's Berlin bunker in 1945.

Prosecutors in Metz, France, believe John Patterson (inset), originally from Coventry, might have taken his three-year-old twin daughters from his home in the French city back to Britain. Mr Patterson, 46, disappeared with the two children, Ava an Mia (left), after splitting from their mother, Aleksandra Pietrasiewicz (right), 32. Searches have taken places around Mr Patterson's flat in Metz, but there has been no sign of him. The professional photographer's mobile phone has been disconnected, and he has shut down all social media accounts. Ms Pietrasiewicz has set up a Facebook page showing pictures of her girls, and Mr Patterson, and is now urging people to watch out for them.