embezzlement

Southern Gothic: the horror story of Alex Murdaugh, paterfamilias and ‘family annihilator’

11 July 2026 9:00 am

James Lasdun attempts to fathom what drove an apparently respectable, caring South Carolina lawyer to slaughter his wife and youngest son

Imprisoned for years on Putin’s whim

6 July 2024 9:00 am

Vladimir Pereverzin’s ‘crime’ was to have worked for a company owned by Mikhail Khodorkovsky – and refusing to give false evidence resulted in an 11-year sentence in the camps