Crime

Shannelle Farrier, 19, was left in excruciating pain and needed her eyes washed out with several litres of water at hospital after David Nicholson threw the chemicals in her face

Two police officers were attacked by a man who was making threats while brandishing a weapon, with one of the officers left badly wounded and needing medical attention

A dog ran loose on Charminster Road, Bournemouth, Dorset, biting five people and two dogs before officers were eventually able to restrain it

Shocked staff in a takeaway battered a group of thugs with the tools of their trade after they were attacked, with a reason for the ugly brawl yet to be revealed

Staffordshire Police pulled over the 23-year-old on Boxing Day in Stoke-on-Trent to find he had a huge 96 points on his licence after the vehicle was flagged for being uninsured

Athos Salome, the “living Nostradamus” who predicted the death of the Queen and Elon musk buying Twitter, has warned that 2024 could usher in a terrifying new era for humanity

Francoise Bettencourt Meyers, the reclusive 70-year-old vice-chair of the cosmetics titan L'Oreal, has become the first woman ever to amass a fortune of US$100b - but how much do we know about her?

A man has been charged with murder after a father-of-two died after being hit by a car while trying to help a stranger. Chris Marriott, 46, died after he went to the aid of a woman he spotted lying unconscious in the street in Sheffield on Wednesday

Pavel Shuvalov, 55, who was branded the Tulun Maniac, was sent to fight in Ukraine instead of his 24-year jail term for two murders and raping 27 girls and women

Former NHS worker Helen Kilch was in the passenger seat when the Kia she was travelling in collided with a black BMW on December 21 in Staffordshire. She was pronounced dead at the scene

A man was filmed as he repeatedly attacked a security guard at Tesco Extra in Fratton, Portsmouth - police have since arrested him on suspicion of racially aggravated assault and shop theft

A 72-year old grandmother had thousands of pounds taken from her bank account after a pair of scammers stole her bank card after claiming to be from her bank's fraud team

Scott Daddy, 28, Leslie Forbes, 70, and Patrick Hibbins, 59, tragically died after the 4x4 they were travelling in plunged into the River Esk in North Yorkshire

A Colorado mother is on the run after she was found next to the dead bodies of two of her children in what was initially investigated as a burglary gone wrong. A third child survived

Reece Connor was stabbed in Nottingham on Christmas Day, and later died in hospital. With two people charged for murder, the victim's family have released a statement, paying tribute to the "wonderful man" whose "smile would light up a room in a blackout"

Serial killer Robert Mawdsley was locked up in 1974 and separated from other prisoners after he killed three inmates in 1978 and has spent most of his sentence in solitary confinement

EastEnders aired a shock arrest on Friday night as one character bid an emotional goodbye following the explosive Christmas Day murder

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A huge emergency response rushed to the scene at Bradley in the Moors, which is around four miles from Alton Towers theme park, after receiving reports of two buildings being blown apart

Andrew Malkinson was wrongly convicted in 2003 but his conviction was overturned by the Court of Appeal in July after new DNA evidence potentially linking another man to the crime was identified

William Brown, seven, was killed this month in Folkestone, Kent, and his family had to ask special permission for him to be buried in a closed graveyard which has been allowed by the King

Chris Marriott had been enjoying a post-Christmas walk with his wife and two sons when he spotted an unconscious woman and rushed to help her and was struck by a car

Terrified Shaun Lewin, 45, says a massacre would have taken place in the tourist resort of Agadir, Morocco, had it not been for brave beach staff who chased the knifeman into the sea as police swooped

Gypsy Rose Blanchard shared a snap of her posing in front of a mirror at her hotel room wearing the same outfit she wore the day she was released from prison — her first snap since she attained freedom

Stunned officers stopped the 23-year-old driver in the Bucknall area of Stoke-on-Trent on Boxing Day after the car flagged up as being uninsured. The driver was already banned from driving