Bulky bullet-proof vests like the one pictured need no longer be the only option for stylish politicians or executives who don't want to look like commandos in order to stay safe in a world at war on terror. Colombian tailor Miguel Cabellero has designed a range of clothes that are as functional in the boardroom as the front line.

On 24 June, 2003, six British

Redcaps were brutally murdered

in a ruined Iraqi police station.

It emerged later that the six

men may have lived if their

senior officers had followed

army rules and supplied them

with the correct equipment.

Pat Long’s son Paul, 24,

pleaded with his killers for mercy

 by brandishing a photograph of

his baby son Ben moments

before he was shot in the head.

Today Pat, 54, is campaigning

with the relatives of the five other

 victims for the officers who

failed their boys to be punished.

But she is also fighting an even

more personal battle for the right

to see her beloved grandson Ben

who she has seen only twice since

her son’s routine mission ended

 in tragedy.

"Scarface" Danny Roff and Jeremiah Parker are caught on the job in Newsmonster's exclusive picture holding a post office at gunpoint in south London. Both men lived the high life in Spain's Costa del Sol on the back of violent hold ups like this. But they died as they lived...in a hail of bullets.

Sex monster Anthony De Boise (left) is behind bars after disguising himself as a tramp before sexually assaulting schoolgirls. His two youngest victims, Vicki Jordan  and Carrie Milne (pictured together), who were just 13 when he robbed them of their innocence, have bravely come forward to tell their harrowing story.

Mike Wright, 62, never believed his perfect son Simon was soley responsible for a brutal murder. When he started digging into the case he discovered how Simon, who has learning difficulties, was brainwashed by Valerie Wood into a crime of passion

When Julie Burley fell for Tim Cuffy she thought she was getting a second chance at life. Her first partner and the mother of her children tore their world apart after being convicted of sexually assaulting children. Her new man restored her faith in human nature and soon she was expecting his baby. But then history began repeating itself...

When suicide bombers blew up three London tube trains and a No 30 bus killing 52 innocent people, the world found out just what off-duty train driver John Boyle, 48, was made of. But to wife Angela, 50, the heroic deeds of her “other half” on July 7, 2005, didn’t surprise her one little bit. She told Newsmonster her story.