Crime

A British ex-pat has claimed paedophile Christian Brueckner hatched a sick plan to kidnap a child in Portugal week before Madeleine McCann went missing in Praia du Luz

Madeleine McCann went missing, aged just three-years-old, when she was on a family holiday at the Ocean Club in Praia da Luz, in Portugal, and despite the huge manhunt, she's never been found

The company said there were more than 300,000 incidents of shoplifting, abuse, violence and anti-social behaviour in Co-op stores last year

Alan Lawson, 36, died in hospital after being brutally assaulted while being held hostage - with the attack reportedly shared on Snapchat as Police Scotland have launched a murder probe

Plans unveiled by Home Secretary James Cleverly include £1,000 fines and possible jail sentences for people who wear masks, bring flares and climb on war memorials during protests

Co-op is now using AI to monitor self-checkouts at stores and installing more than 200 secure till kiosks following a massive 44 per cent hike in retail crime last year

Melvin Lebaga-Idubor will spend the rest of his life in prison for the murder of Kwabena Osei-Poku, a digital marketing student at University of Northampton, whom he stabbed near the campus

Alan Lawson was brutally assaulted and then left for dead at his home in Saltcoats, Ayrshire, on Sunday, it is believed - and died of his injuries in hospital two days later

Kasey Anderson was stabbed to death before his 25th birthday by his much older girlfriend Natalie Bennett, who had been subjecting him to a campaign of physical and mental abuse

Abdul Ezedi is alleged to have travelled from Newcastle to Clapham, south London, to douse a a mother and her two young children in an alkaline substance on Wednesday last week

Convicted child murderer Lucy Letby had her initial application for permission to appeal against all of her convictions refused by a judge without a hearing last month

Jennifer L. Bowser had been holed up for days with her son in a home attached to a assisted-living facility run by her mum. Officers eventually got to the boy but he was found unresponsive

Chemical attack fugitive Abdul Ezedi lured his alleged victim to a meeting after their relationship broke down, police have said, as the woman is still too badly injured to speak to officers

Abdul Ezedi's alleged attack on a mother in Clapham, south London, is being treated as attempted murder, Metropolitan Police said as the search for the sex fiend continues

Shanna Gardner-Fernandez is accused of plotting the murder of her ex-husband Jared after she allegedly hired a hitman with her new partner Mario to kill the father-of-four

In the year since serial rapist Metropolitan Police constable David Carrick was jailed for 30 years, more force members have been convicted, prompting one ex-officer to speak out

A mother is torn between trying to preserve the peace between her and her husband and stopping his son from living at their address when he is released from jail

Ellie Gould, 17, was murdered by her ex-boyfriend Thomas Griffiths, also 17, in 2019 - with her mum Carole, 53, marking what would have been her daughter's 22nd birthday

Cieran McNamara used fake aliases and selfies outside London mansions to fool women on dating sites in a romance scam which went on for years - as Cheshire Police detectives appeal for more victims to come forward

James Doye, 57, was three times the legal drink drive limit when he plunged his car into flood waters in Bognor, West Sussex, forcing Sussex Police officers to become creative

Dr Thomas Kwan, 52, has been charged with attempted murder of a man in his 70s who was the alleged victim of a "suspected poisoning" in Newcastle last month

Stephen Brisley lost his sister Lianne Sharabi, 48, and her daughters Noiya, 16, and Yahel, 13, in the October 7 attacks - now he's calling for a 'deal to free the hostages'

Abi's 19-year-old brother, Josh, was walking home when he was hit by a vehicle and killed - and the incident was reported to the very call centre she was working in

Dr Joel Zivot from Emory University School of Medicine spoke to The Mirror and explained what actually happens to the body during a lethal injection death including "drowning in your own blood"

Marc Webley was shot and killed outside a pub in Edinburgh during Hogmanay celebrations with four people charged over his death - now family are planning a party to give him a fancy send-off