A Ukrainian man accused of the terror-related murder of an 82-year-old grandfather as he walked home from a mosque will face trial at the Old Bailey next year.

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Keith Blakelock was murdered 20 years ago

Man in court charged with murder of PC Keith Blakelock

A 44-year-old man has appeared in court charged with the murder of PC Keith Blakelock, the officer who was stabbed to death during the Broadwater Farm riots in 1985.

Mohammed Saleem was stabbed to death on his way home from a mosque

Mosque murder suspect faces terror charge in Manchester court

25-year-old also charged with three offences related to separate explosions near mosques in Walsall, Wolverhampton and Tipton

Woolwich suspect ‘targeted repeatedly’ by ‘hostile’ prison guards

Jeremiah Adebolajo lodges formal complaint following claims officers knocked brother Michael’s teeth out when they ‘smashed his head against a window’

Michael Adebolajo, taking part in an Islamist demonstration in 2007

Five members of prison staff suspended following Woolwich suspect injury

Michael Adebolajo lost two teeth in what the Prison Officer Association described as 'necessary restraint'

Prison officers defend conduct after Woolwich murder suspect Michael Adebolajo is attacked

The 28-year-old was injured at high security Belmarsh prison

Elveden: First non-News International journalist to be charged over alleged corrupt payments to public officials appears in court

The first journalist employed outside Rupert Murdoch’s media empire to be charged with illegal newsgathering appeared in court charged with alleged bribery.

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Jeremy Paxman’s diplomat brother unwittingly allowed the British Embassy in Mexico City to be used as a showroom for bogus bomb detectors, a court has heard.

Eddy Shah, cleared of raping girl

Tycoon Eddy Shah is cleared of raping girl

The former newspaper tycoon Eddy Shah was found not guilty torday of raping an underage schoolgirl at a string of London hotels.

The coffin of murdered Fusilier Lee Rigby is carried by soldiers after his funeral service at Bury Parish church in Greater Manchester

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Son Jack Rigby joins family and fusiliers in church as hundreds of people line streets for funeral

Military and public line streets to pay tribute to murdered Woolwich soldier Lee Rigby ahead of funeral

Drummmers from the 2nd Battalion Royal Regiment of Fusiliers drum the cortege as coffin is taken to Bury church for overnight vigil

Details of private military funeral to be held for murdered Woolwich soldier Lee Rigby announced

Drummer Lee Rigby, who was killed near his barracks in Woolwich, south-east London in May, will be given a private military funeral in Greater Manchester on 12 July.

Businessman's home-made bomb detectors ‘fake’, court hears

A businessman created a £3m-per-year company selling home-made bomb detectors that did not work, a court has heard.

Abu Nusaybah, friend of Woolwich suspect Michael Adebolajo who appeared on Newsnight, has trial date set

In an interview to the BBC he claimed Adebolajo was offered a job by MI5

(Top row) Akhtar Dogar, Anjum Dogar, Kamar Jamil; (Bottom row) Assad Hussain, Bassam Karrar, Mohammed Karrar and Zeeshan Ahmed

The Oxford sex abuse gang have been sentenced; the suffering of their victims is ongoing

The little girls – for that is what they were – abused by this gang are the victims of some horrific crimes. Today, hopefully, they each take a large step towards ending their ordeals for good.

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