1.   A woman accused of hiring a hitman to murder her former boyfriend has denied that she wanted him killed.

2.   Her former boyfriend David Odey from Penhill pleaded not guilty to the same charge and will be tried at a later date.

3.   For months before the shooting, Mrs Smith had complained of being harrassed by her former boyfriend Jobson, who wanted her to return to him.

4.   Her jailed former boyfriend, Mohammed Niazy, has recanted a letter he wrote more than a year ago, exonerating the former Middlesbrough pub landlady of all guilt.

5.   A YOUNG mother claimed yesterday that justice has been done after her former boyfriend was convicted of assaulting her three times in one night.

6.   And in Norwalk, Calif., an estranged former boyfriend walked into a high school and shot his former girlfriend in late October.

7.   Another woman, clutching her baby girl, recalled the time her former boyfriend pulled a gun on her.

8.   At the time of the confession, the police had two other suspects, including a former boyfriend.

9.   Benitez, former boyfriend and collaborator of Madonna, has also helped mix hits for such artists as Paul McCartney, Michael Jackson, David Bowie and Whitney Houston.