Crime

Police have confirmed the body of a missing teenager, who has not been named, was recovered from Rudyard Lake, in Staffordshire. The boy's remains were found at around 5pm this afternoon.

An "unknown" device was found in the River Derwent, in Derby, today and a controlled explosion has now taken place by the bomb squad after a 100 metre cordon was put in place

A 'Willy Wonka Chocolate Experience' left attendees less than impressed and children in tears after the £35 per head event was nothing more than a few sweets, a can of limeade and a bouncy castle

Rhodri Llyr Griffiths, 28, from Neath, who raped and sexually assaulted a 13-year-old girl may have targeted more children using Snapchat fear police after he was jailed

Laura Williams has recalled the horror abuse she received at the hands of her 'prince charming' boyfriend, Jamie Thomas, who has been sentenced to three years and three months in prison

Legal loopholes are being used by criminal gangs to smuggle WiFi devices and drugs into prisons, experts have warned, allowing criminals to potentially direct hits in the outside world

The Grand Tour presenter Jeremy Clarkson has been forced to deny he filled in badger setts on his land as new videos have emerged, showing entrances to the holes covered with rocks

Brian Steven Smith was convicted of brutally murdering two Alaska Native women and recording the killings, saying 'What are my followers going to think of me? People need to know when they are being serial-killed'

Sarah’s devastated mum revealed the 31-year-old tried several times to end her relationship - before she was brutally murdered and dumped in an isolated layby

Ashes were swapped and families may have been given other people's loved ones' remains, police fear, after their harrowing raid of Miles Harford's property in Denver

The six worshippers and teacher, members of the Congregation of Brothers of Sacred Heart, were kidnapped from outside a school in the Haitian capital of Port Au Prince

Police officers responded to a bizarre report of an amputated finger found near the grocery just outside of a Walmart store in Sidney, Ohio on Sunday, February 18

Marc Sherland, president of the World Burns Federation, was forced to resign after being unmasked as convicted paedophile Douglas Stuart Hammond who had sexually assaulted two boys

Sex worker Amanda Stamper was sentenced to up to 18 years in jail after she and her failed rapper husband Travis Doss locked their children in dog cages at their apartment in Las Vegas, Nevada, in what a nurse described "worst case of abuse" she had ever seen

Nasar Mohammed Hussein, 33, who also goes by Nasser Hussein, was jailed in June 2023 but released on licence recently - and has now gone on the lam after removing an electronic tag at an address in Camberwell

Dyson Allen, now 30, was sentenced to life in jail for deliberately starting a fire which almost wiped out a whole family at their home in Freckleton, Lancashire, on January 7, 2012

Jaqueline Rutter, 53, was killed in her Merseyside home in October 2022 in what police described as a 'targeted attack'. Her family said she was 'a defenceless grandmother'

Three children were sleeping inside when the white Toyota Hilux was deliberately driven into the house in Clock Face, St Helens, with the car found torched nearby a short time later

Residents in Southport, Merseyside mounted their latest protest against Openreach over their plans to put up telegraph poles in the town - and once again stopped work from going ahead

The Carabao Cup final will take place at Wembley on Sunday afternoon at a time earlier than first announced after a request from the Metropolitan Police last month

Serial sicko and former popstar Gary Glitter has shown no remorse for the victims of his sexual abuse and may reach the age of 86 before he is ever allowed to leave prison again

Police believe Praveen Arora’s alternative medicines business was used to smuggle prescription-only painkillers hidden among legitimate herbal therapies

LAPD officials this week gunned down seemingly homeless man who was clutching a plastic fork. Police initially claimed to have shot the man in the arm, but an autopsy report revealed he was shot in the chest

Supermarkets including Tesco and Sainsbury's are making the changes to try and ward off thieves as shoplifting rates rise by 25%

Last year the courts handed out almost £500million in fines but three-quarters of it has yet to be repaid, leading to fears criminals are being given a licence to break the law