He told investigators the victim had “fallen down the stairs,’’ according to the police report. Shank was charged with assault and torture, which could have landed him in prison for life.

In order to reform idle convicts and combat crime that plagued the Victorian era, Sir William Cubitt invented the “everlasting staircase" in 1818. It was a large, imposing 24-spoked paddlewheel ...

A man faces a 35-year prison sentence after he pleaded guilty ... a report that a three-year-old boy had fallen down the stairs and suffered two “subdermal brain bleeds”.

He told investigators the victim had “fallen down the stairs,’’ according to the police report. Shank was charged with assault and torture, which could have landed him in prison for life.