Crime

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Woman dashed to hospital with serious burns after house fire as man is arrested
Staffordshire Police says its officers are treating a fire, which happened today in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, as deliberate and have arrested a man on suspicion of arson
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Jealous woman who killed her boyfriend was 'school swot' with unusual tattoo
A former friend of 23-year-old Alice Wood who mowed down her boyfriend with a car at a party says the killer was a highly intelligent school swot with three A-stars
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'We told cops of Alex Batty fears years ago' warn British owners of French B&B
B&B owners John and Margaret informed the cops of their suspicions after a family that checked into their campsite six years ago, but were told it was a 'French problem'.
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Hunt for mystery Night Watcher who terrorised wealthy homeowners over £10m haul
The shotgun-wielding robber, who has terrorised wealthy householders, continues to evade police despite being the target of a manhunt for six years
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Lack of support from bosses blamed for number of police officers wanting to quit
The National Police Wellbeing Survey canvassed some twenty thousand frontline cops in the UK revealing that more officers than ever are thinking of quitting their jobs
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Met Police officer charged with two counts of raping man and strangling offence
Metropolitan Police said PC Andrej Sagaidak allegedly raped a man and committed a non-fatal strangulation offence, and the offence appeared in court today in London
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Heartbreaking tributes to mum stabbed to death as teen found dead by railway
Maya Bracken, today described as "lovely" mother, was found in a car in Pangbourne, Berkshire with stab wounds and Thames Valley Police are investigating the death
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Police swarm mall after shoppers claim they saw '8ft alien shadow creatures'
The wild rumours of an alien invasion taking place couldn't have been further from the truth despite reports of massive shadowy figures stalking around the mall
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Body of woman, 81, found in freezer by horrified family
An 81-year-old woman found dead in a freezer in a home in San Diego has been named with authorities saying she could have been missing for up to nine years. Police say they are investigating the case as a "suspicious death".
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Prince Andrew caught on camera asking Sandringham fans why they are filming
Prince Andrew was filmed asking royal fans gathered at Sandringham on Christmas Day why they "have their cameras on" before describing the experience as a "bizarre sensation"
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Man's life 'destroyed' after being wrongly accused of filming teen in cubicle
Michal was leaving Cardiff International Swimming Pool after taking his son to play on the slides when two police officers approached him holding handcuffs
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Like a Dragon Infinite Wealth's take on Animal Crossing is brilliant
The latest wild minigame in Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth ditches the crime drama and takes you to a relaxing deserted island
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Teen charged with murder of Harry Pitman murder after New Year's Eve stabbing
Harry Pitman, 16, was stabbed to death while waiting to watch fireworks on New Year's Eve in Primrose Hill park, Camden. A suspect has been charged with murder and possessing an offensive weapon
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Boxing champion’s son ‘stabbed in heart’ and fighting for life as five charged
Talented young boxer Anthony Dodson, 21, suffered stab injuries following an incident in Liverpool city centre on December 27 - with five men charged and due to appear in court today
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Motorist caught on dashcam speeding through huge puddle and soaking binman
A binman collecting festive waste was left soaked to the bone after a car drove through a puddle, causing a wave of water to rise up and crash onto him, with the incident caught on dashcam
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Teen dies in 'drugs tragedy' at rave - becoming third to die at club in 4 months
An 18-year-old woman collapsed at SWG3 nightclub in Glasgow during a New Year's Day Teletech rave in a suspected ecstasy overdose - just months after two men, also both 18, died in August
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Video footage shows armed police 'arrest murder suspects' after shooting
Two people have been arrested over the murder of Edinburgh gangster Marc Webley after he was gunned down in an alleged targeted hit outside a pub on New Year's Eve
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Stubborn King Charles 'refuses' to ditch toxic Prince Andrew despite updates
The Duke of York has been assured he “won’t be abandoned” despite being named 69 times across hundreds of pages of legal documents containing details of sex abuse carried out by paedophile Jeffrey Epstein and his associates
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Epstein victim says 'one of them is lying' as Prince Andrew transcript emerges
The rebuttal, seen in newly unsealed New York legal papers, puts the jailed British socialite at direct odds with her royal friend, Prince Andrew, who wasfamously quizzed by BBC Newsnight in November 2019 about his Epstein connections
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Boy, 17, killed as car hits tree moments after 'failing to stop for police'
Detectives said one teenager was killed and two others injured after the vehicle struck the tree near the junction of Coombs Road and Amber Way in Halesowen, near Dudley
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Teacher 'molested boy in car, sent nudes and feared she wouldn’t take virginity'
Tatum Hatch was arrested over claims she groomed a 15 year-old and is said to have sexted him and demanded his virginity after also allegedly groping the youngster in a car while her baby was inside
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Liverpool shooting suspect was 'security guard' at cinema where he 'opened fire'
Merseyside Police arrested security worker Leslie Garrett over the spate of four shootings across Liverpool on Wednesday night after a gunman opened fire at people in a Showcase cinema
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Oscar Pistorius 'now overweight grey-haired chain smoker' after years in prison
Oscar Pistorius has served nine years for the murder of his partner Reeva Steenkamp at their home in Pretoria, South Africa on Valentine's Day in 2013
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Rape suspect who 'faked own death to avoid jail' is extradited to US
The extradition order for Nicholas Rossi followed a long-running extradition battle in which Rossi was ruled to be a man wanted by authorities in Utah for the alleged rape of a woman in 2008
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Man pushed onto tracks in brawl just as train pulls into station and kills him
A reported homeless man died after a seemingly innocuous fight with a fellow 'vagrant' in a subway station and the shocking incident was caught on camera by a bystander