A rapist who threatened a woman with a gun before sexually assaulting her in a park has been jailed for 14 years.

'There are days when we don't go into some rooms.'

Layla Allen was declared dead at the scene of the blaze in Prescot,Merseyside,late on April 2 last year (Picture: Family Handout/PA)

Technical issues at St Albans City means trains running between the major London station and Luton are all severely delayed by up to 45 minutes (Picture: TOLGA AKMEN/EPA/Shutterstock)

Statistics from the Met suggest fewer homicides were recorded last year compared to any other year since 2014 (Picture: EPA)

'There is no contact at all,' a source said.

'It's an epidemic no one wants to address because it's too awkward.'

He said he was considering possible military action before the tensions appeared to ease,with no major protests reported in Tehran or other cities in the last couple of days.

Jake Fahri killed 16-year-old Jimmy Mizen in 2008 by throwing a glass dish at him which shattered and severed blood vessels in his neck (Picture: PA)

A man in his 60s was arrested on suspicion of murder.