Crime

A headteacher used school funding to buy a car for herself to drive to France, having changed term dates to fit her holidays.

A ’potential serial killer’ who was freed from prison despite plotting the murders of women and children has now been jailed again for sickening new crimes.

Shabir Ahmed, 73, who has been stripped of his British citizenship leaving him with only Pakistani nationality, cannot be deported due to a 1971 law that forbids the removal of a small group of Commonwealth citizens who arrived in the UK more than 50 years ago.

Kwabena Kissi, 40, walked into a Santander branch in Brixton, south-west London wearing a uniform, helmet and mask with visor. He was buzzed into a back room where staff handed over cash containing £117,000 before he left with the money in a briefcase.

An international manhunt is underway for a woman with a snake tattoo who has identified as the prime suspect in the attempted assassination of a Ukrainian oligarch in Monaco.

A police staff member has admitted misconduct in public office by accessing confidential material and leaking it to third parties.

A journalist who conducted a stalking campaign against former chancellor George Osborne and his wife Thea Rogers has walked free from court.

Three men have been found not guilty of the murder of journalist Lyra McKee in Derry in 2019.

France’s crypto security problem is expanding beyond private keys to include the people whom attackers can identify, threaten, and force to authorize transfers.

Yorgen Fenech said to have spent €400,000 on fees for men convicted of car bombing that killed investigative journalist.

The eldest daughter of a garda charged with rape and child cruelty has said the family home had ‘an atmosphere of violence and threats” and it felt like living in a military barracks growing up.

An Isis-linked gang who stabbed and battered a Brit couple to death then threw their bloodied bodies to crocodiles have been jailed for life.

The suspect who allegedly detonated a bomb that blew up a Ukrainian oligarch in Monaco has been named as 39-year-old Anastasia B.

Families whose loved ones died after surgery at a specialist heart service have been contacted by health bosses amid a spike in mortality rates.

Police have launched multiple investigations into Britons suspected of drugging their wives and partners so they can be raped by others in the wake of the Gisele Pelicot case.

The disgraced pop star, real name Paul Gadd, 82, is accused of unlawful sexual intercourse with a girl under 13 and three counts of indecent assault on a girl under 14.

The ringleader of the Rochdale grooming gang – who has served 14 years in jail for multiple rapes and sexually abuse against young girls – has been released from prison as a row over his deportation deepens.

A 16-year-old boy has suffered potentially life-threatening injuries after being shot in Birmingham, police have said.

A police officer has been jailed after beating up a teenage boy asking for help while he was on duty.

The grieving son of late boxing legend Ricky Hatton has revealed his dad’s car was firebombed in a shocking targeted attack.

A federal judge has scheduled a January 2027 trial date for accused Uruguayan drug lord Sebastián Marset, rebuffing prosecutors’ attempts to further delay a logistically complex case that now includes new narcoterrorism charges.

“Jensen Robles”, aka Rene Schwarze, has been arrested in Gambia. Gambia’s Police Force arrested “Muhammed Reni”, aka Muhammed Rainey, earlier this week. Reni was detained on suspicion of counterfeiting currency.

Finland has kept its 1,340-kilometre border with Russia closed since December 2023 after about 1,000 undocumented migrants crossed into the country.