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In the early hours of 18th February, 2014, a calm voice called emergency services from a flat in Grays, Essex. The young man on the line explained that there had been an altercation and that only one of them had come out alive. Within hours, officers would discover the body of 14 year old Breck Bednar lying on a bedroom floor. What had begun months earlier as online gaming between teenagers had ended in one of the most disturbing grooming and murder cases in modern Britain .

Mid century mugshots from Philadelphia reveal more than crime records. These 1950s and 1960s booking photographs capture fashion, social change and the human stories behind police archives.

On 12th February, 1993, a disappearance in a Merseyside shopping centre became one of Britain’s most consequential criminal cases. This in depth article examines the murder of Jamie Bulger and the legal and social questions that followed.