Sam Corbishley

Sam Corbishley | Senior News Reporter

Sam is a senior news reporter covering crime. He has covered the biggest trials of the past decade both for Metro and in his previous role based at the Old Bailey, working for the UK's only specialist courts and tribunals agency.

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Bonfire Night weather forecast confirmed and you 'might need an umbrella'

UK 20 hours ago

A baby was threatened with broken glass during a vehicle hijacking in Belfast city centre. A PSNI spokesperson: ?It was reported that a delivery driver had exited his vehicle, a white Vauxhall Agila, in the Donegall Place area at around 3.50am, leaving his partner and her young baby in the rear.

Baby threatened with broken glass during 'absolutely shocking' carjacking

UK October 25, 2025

FILE PHOTO: Britain's Prince Andrew, Duke of York attends the Royal Family's Christmas Day service at St. Mary Magdalene's church, as the Royals take residence at the Sandringham estate in eastern England, Britain December 25, 2022. REUTERS/Toby Melville/File Photo

Prince Andrew's 'past catching up with him' amid Palace pressure over Royal Lodge

UK October 25, 2025

Police and forensics at the scene in Middle Street, Islip, Oxfordshire. October 23, 2025. // Neighbours of a girl that died sparking a police homicide investigation today (Thurs) said she lived with her mother and a sibling - a 'busy young family'. A police cordon remained in place this morning outside the house at Islip in Oxfordshire and officers have still not released her age or any details. One villager who???s been here for 25 years today said the family were renting the property. She said they were a ???busy young family??? - a mother and two children. Photo released 23/10/2025

Woman fights for life under police watch after girl, 9, killed in ‘unimaginable tragedy’

UK October 25, 2025

Rear view image of a woman sitting alone on a bed in bedroom

Tougher sentences for murderers who kill at end of a relationship take effect

UK October 24, 2025

Asylum seeker who celebrated after stabbing hotel worker guilty of murder

Asylum seeker who celebrated after stabbing hotel worker guilty of murder

UK October 24, 2025

A daughter found her parents both shot in the head alongside their beloved dog after her dad was struggling with mounting debts, an inquest heard today(thur). Daughter Martine Stecker travelled to the house of parents Stephen Jefferies, 74, and Christine, 72, after a worried neighbour called her to say the curtains were still drawn. The hearing was told former rugby referee Mr Jefferies was "very caring" and that his wife had been suffering with chronic pain. An inquest heard Martine went inside the home to find jars placed behind the front door before she walked upstairs and found their pet dog May on the floor in the bedroom doorway. Martine said: "I made my way upstairs. I thought how tidy everything was and that's when I saw the dog laying there. "The dog is normally all over me when I walked into the house. I saw my mam and thought she looked quite grey. I thought she is not well again. "My next thought was where is my dad then. I don't even know if I did see him. I just knew. I think it was more when I looked at the dog again and I saw the blood. "It sounds strange but I dreamt it. It's really odd. Maybe it was on my mind. "I knew there was nothing I could do. I knew my mother wasn't with us anymore. I was quite calm. I can't believe how calm I was. There was no hysteria or screams." The inquest heard Martine went to the neighbour's home in Trowbridge, Cardiff, to say: "You need to phone the police now." Martine said she believes her father placed the dog May, who was treated like a "spoilt child," in the doorway to warn anyone entering. She said: "The dog was by the bedroom door. I think my father placed the dog there purposely so we would have to step over the dog. My father was a very caring man in that way." The inquest heard the horrific discovery was made at around 2.50pm on October 5, last year before armed police swooped the scene to find a rifle with a sound moderator inside. Martine said her father had owned guns for over ten years and had initially bought five firearms to go clay or pheasant shooting on weekends. But she believed he had sold his collection after her mum told her he no longer went shooting and didn't need them anymore. The inquest heard Mrs Jefferies lived with chronic pain for a series of ailments while Mr Jefferies had been treated for depression between 2012 and 2017 - but his daughter described him as "fit as a fiddle." Mr Jefferies had spoken about changing his will in the months leading up to the deaths to add his son Gethin and daughter alongside his grandchildren. The inquest heard Mr Jeffries had retired three years earlier than he planned after he was asked to travel more to do rugby assessments and felt "relief" when he was able to give up work. Daughter Martine said she believed her parents were mortgage free until they asked to borrow ??3,000 from her before their deaths. She later discovered they were up to ??35,000 in debt including an outstanding mortgage along with credit cards. Martine said: "They owed about ??35,000 including the mortgage which is really strange because we were brought up to never have a loan, never have a credit card. They told us if you want something you save up for it." The inquest heard Mr Jefferies struggled after losing his mum and sister while also previously dealing with bullying at work and his daughter battling leukaemia. Martine said she noticed her father was "extremely quiet" the week before the incident when she visited her parents to invite them to go to a garden centre. Martine said: "I think it was not just the debt. I don't know. I think something must have triggered him that week. That's all I can say." She added: "I don't think my mother was involved in any of this. I found a cake she had made. She was going to write Christmas cards with a neighbour." The inquest in Pontypridd, South Wales, continues. WALES NEWS SERVICE

Man shot wife and their dog before killing himself in murder-suicide

UK October 24, 2025

BEST QUALITY AVAILABLE BLACK AND WHITE ONLY Undated family handout photo issued by New South Wales Police (NSW) in Australia of Cheryl Grimmer, aged three, who was kidnapped from a changing area after spending a morning at the seaside with her mother and three brothers in 1970, near the city of Wollongong in NSW. PA Photo. Issue date: Sunday January 12, 2020. Police have offered one million Australian dollars for information about the abduction and suspected murder of a British toddler who vanished from an Australian beach 50 years ago. See PA story MISSING Toddler. Photo credit should read: Family Handout/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.

Suspect in abduction of British toddler 50 years ago named by MP

World October 23, 2025

Teenager who stabbed Harvey Willgoose took an axe to school weeks before murder

Teenager who stabbed Harvey Willgoose took an axe to school weeks before murder

UK October 23, 2025

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British surfer dies after board snaps in half during 80mph winds in Australia

World October 23, 2025

Baby P's mum speaks about toddler's death for the first time at parole hearing

Baby P's mum speaks about toddler's death for the first time at parole hearing

UK October 22, 2025

Boy, 15, who murdered teenager Harvey Willgoose at school unmasked by judge

Boy, 15, who murdered teenager Harvey Willgoose at school unmasked by judge

UK October 22, 2025

Night club manageress Ruth Ellis (1926 - 1955) poses for one Captain Ritchie, 1954. The setting is probably the flat above her club on the Brompton Road in Knightsbridge, London. In 1955, Ellis was convicted of the murder of her lover, David Blakely, and hanged at Holloway Prison, becoming the last woman to receive the death penalty in Britain. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Family of last woman hanged in UK in fight to have her pardoned 70 years on

UK October 22, 2025

WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 21: A bomb detection robot inspects a vehicle that rammed a security barricade at the White House complex on October 21, 2025 in Washington, DC. The Secret Service reported that one individual was arrested and that the vehicle is now deemed safe. (Photo by Andrew Leyden/Getty Images)

Bomb squad called to the White House after car smashes into security gates

US October 22, 2025

Simon Jones arrives at Uxbridge Magistrates' Court, London, where he is due to be sentenced after he threatened crew members on board British Airways flight BA282 from Los Angeles International Airport to Heathrow Airport between March 22 and March 24 this year. Picture date: Monday October 20, 2025. PA Photo. Photo credit should read: Ben Whitley/PA Wire

British Airways passenger flew into such a rage he had to be cuffed to his seat

UK October 21, 2025

The defendant arriving at Edinburgh Sheriff And Justice Of The Peace Court, for a preliminary hearing on the extradition of Nicholas Rossi to the US, where he is wanted after allegedly fleeing the country in 2017 to evade charges involving identity theft and fraud, and a 2008 sexual assault charge in Utah. The man, who goes by at least ten other aliases, including Nicholas Alahverdian and Arthur Knight, denies he is Rossi. Picture date: Thursday April 21, 2022. Rossi is accused of faking his own death before hiding in Scotland to escape the sex charges, where he was arrested twice after almost dying of Covid, and missing his extradition hearing. PA Photo. See PA story COURTS Rossi. Photo credit should read: Andrew Milligan/PA Wire

Fugitive who faked cancer death and fled to UK to avoid rape charges is jailed

US October 21, 2025