All news by author: Tom Pettifor

The court heard how Jacques killed girlfriend Samantha Drummonds, her mother, grandmother and grandmother's partner in a "sacrifice" while high on drugs and alcohol

Mohammed Altaher, 38, targeted his victims through the dating app Grindr. A video from Channel 4 programme 24 Hours in Police Custody shows details of his interview with officers

Narcotics kingpin Curtis Warren, who was once featured on the Sunday Times Rich List, appeared in court yesterday charged with applying for a passport without alerting the authorities

Jon Venables and Robert Thompson abducted, tortured, and murdered James Bulger, two, after leading him away in a shopping centre in Bootle, Merseyside, in February 1993

Here are three reasons why James Bulger's killer Jon Venables had his bid for freedom rejected by a Parole Board and it means that he will spend at least two more years in jail

Scotland Yard said it is treating the incident as an attempted assault causing grievous bodily harm after the reported rookie officer had a reaction to the peanuts on Monday

Counter Terrorism Command officers are investigating after a ULEZ camera was destroyed by a suspected improvised explosive device on Wednesday evening - with a bystander telling how the blast damaged a nearby van

Paul Burton and Nathan Turner held a delivery driver hostage after he also forgot their salad

This weekend marks 40 years since the infamous Brink's-Mat robbery took place at Heathrow Airport, London, where around £26million of gold, diamonds and cash was stolen

Curtis Warren, 60, from Liverpool, is due to appear in court in December charged with breaching the terms of a crime prevention order on 11 separate occasions

Italian national Danilo Restivo is serving a minimum of 40 years in the UK for the murder of his neighbour Heather Barnet in Bournemouth in 2002

Venables, 41, was freed in 2001 from a life sentence for killing James Bulger, two, but was recalled to jail in 2010 and 2017 after being found with child abuse imagery

Ray Adams was a commander at the time of the 1993 racist killing, and an earlier investigation against him was manipulated, the secret Line of Duty-style investigation said

Matt Ratana was murdered by Louis de Zoysa, who opened fire with an antique revolver at a custody suite in Croydon, south London, after he had been arrested earlier

Stuart Lubbock, was found dead in Michael Barrymore’s swimming pool 20 years ago and his brother Kevin has called on those people at the party to end their wall of silence

The Metropolitan Police is planning to deploy more than 3,000 officers to police the pro-Palestine protests over the weekend, which coincide with Armistice Day memorial events

Rishi Sunak is under intense pressure to sack Suella Braverman, who is accused of empowering the far-right ahead of protests in Central London this weekend

An inquest heard how Sgt Ratana was murdered after rookie Pc Richard Davey failed to search Louis de Zoysa properly, and Pc Samantha Still failed in her duties as 'cover officer'

Sergeant Matt Ratana was allegedly shot dead by Louis De Zoysa, a double-jointed man with a ten-inch antique revolver, after he smuggled it into a custody centre in Croydon, South London

Retired Det Supt Nick Biddiss spoke out after the Mirror revealed the Brink’s-Mat villain lives at an address which is also the headquarters of Amazon Forest People

A Mirror investigation can reveal Amazon Forest People has been involved in an ­environmental project that pledges to protect Brazilian jungles - but it was suspended last month

Standing on his smallholding in the Brazilian state of Para, a member of the country's 'river people' says scheme representatives offered him a loan that never materialised

Met deputy assistant commissioner Laurence Taylor said a 'very significant policing operation' is in place with officers patrolling vulnerable locations after Israel ordered the evacuation of Gaza

Alfie Douglas Coleman is accused of preparing an attack and having terrorist material - police said he was held as part of a probe relating to far-right terrorism

Former Scotland Yard sleuth Jim Dickie spoke after the parole board revealed the serial rapist was too dangerous to free