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Sophie Doughty

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Past articles by Sophie:

Girlfriend of alleged murder victim Trevor Bishop tells of devastation

Kimberley Office says they had got back together just days before alleged attack → Read More

Meadow Well death probe: Tributes paid to Trevor Bishop, 45, as two more suspects arrested

A murder probe has been launched after Trevor died in hospital → Read More

There are stories we wish we didn't have to tell

Chronicle crime reporter Sophie Doughty on the North East's knife crime epidemic → Read More

Nathaniel Wardle stabbing: Bid launched to get sentences increased for teens convicted over dad's knife death

A request has been made to review the sentences handed to Mohammed Rabani and Robbie Battista → Read More

Teen cyclist seriously injured in collision with bus remains in hospital

Police have described the 16-year-old boy's condition as stable → Read More

Machete seized after police plane tracks car theft suspects to hotel

Two people have been arrested after cops took to the roads and skies in dramatic pursuit, with a machete being seized from a vehicle → Read More

'To think they had him on their radar': Mum of Manchester bombing victim on agony at knowing atrocity might have been stopped

June Tron's son Philip, from Gateshead, was killed in the 2017 terror attack at an Ariana Grande concert → Read More

Pupil caught with bread knife at North Tyneside primary school is excluded

Northumbria Police is investigating the incident, which happened at Hazelwood Primary School in North Tyneside → Read More

Manchester Arena bombing inquiry: Liam Curry's mum's emotional statement in full

Four people from the North East were among the 22 killed when suicide bomber Salman Abedi struck at the end of an Ariana Grande concert in 2017 → Read More

'We will never forgive you': Mum of South Shields Manchester Arena bomb victim Liam Curry blasts MI5 for failures

Four people from the North East were among the 22 killed when suicide bomber Salman Abedi struck at the end of an Ariana Grande concert in 2017 → Read More

Manchester Arena attack might have been prevented if MI5 had not missed 'significant opportunity' to stop bomber, inquiry finds

Four people from the North East were among the 22 killed when suicide bomber Salman Abedi struck at the end of an Ariana Grande concert in 2017 → Read More

Sister of stabbed Samantha Madgin on growing up in shadow of knife tragedy

Carly Barrett was just 16 when her big sister was knifed to death in Wallsend → Read More

Brother's anger that teen killer caught with knife TWICE before stabbing dad

Mohammed Rabani has been jailed for more that 12 years for stabbing the dad-of-four in the heart outside his Wallsend home → Read More

"I can just see them smiling down": Dad of MH17 victim Liam Sweeney preparing for emotional Wembley trip

Barry Sweeney will be thinking of son Liam and John Alder, who lost their lives in plane disaster, as he travels to cup final they did not live to see → Read More

Stabbed Samantha Madgin's family on why they won't give up knife crime fight

Alison Madgin and Carly Barrett, from Wallsend, lift the lid on their emotional mission to stop young people picking up knives → Read More

Armed, dangerous and at large: The knifemen behind these terrifying blade attacks are still walking the streets

A part of our Stop Knives Taking Lives campaign we are asking the public to try and help snare these knife attackers → Read More

Murdered schoolboy Allan Graham's sister lifts lid on her lifetime of grief

It has now been more than 53 years since the 11-year-old was found dead after vanishing from a street in Newcastle's West End → Read More

Mum’s devastation as council orders removal of £1,000 railings from son’s grave

Marilyn Iley, from Cramlington, spent months saving up to pay for the specially made fencing she had installed for tragic Jimmy Ferguson who lost his life in a motorbike crash in 2020 → Read More

Dad of attempted murderer Jessica Whinham vows to stand by her

Paul Whinham says Jessica's life spiralled downwards after she became hooked on drugs and met violent criminal John Hamblin → Read More

Horror attack victim's emotional reunion with couple that saved his life

Paul Binks has turned up at the door of Harleen and Rex Werewolf's North Shields home to thank them for helping him after he was subjected to a savage ordeal by former friends → Read More