Claire Button, 35, appeared at Southend Magistrates’ Court on Monday charged over the death of her five-year-old son Lincoln Button.

Mourners have laid flowers near the scene of the deadly Christmas market attack in Madgeburg as investigators puzzled over the motive of the suspect and fears swirled that the rampage could deepen ...

The two women and five men were convicted of a range of offences last year which the trial judge said plunged ‘the depths of human depravity’.