Crime

A farmer described the moment poachers abandoned a decapitated sheep and fled into the night after being disturbed.

Organized crime gangs are operating "with impunity" at a high-security jail by using drones to import drugs through broken and insecure windows, the watchdog has revealed.

The police watchdog is investigating complaints made against 11 police officers over their handling of an inquiry into a road crash that killed two schoolgirls.

Vitaliy Kovalev, known in cybercriminal circles as “Bentley” or “Ben,” has been linked to large-scale banking fraud and some of the most notorious hacking groups, yet he has reportedly avoided significant legal consequences in Russia despite a previous detention.

Police were summoned to the location at approximately 7:15 am today after receiving a report of a suspected burglary. This is a Breaking News story.

An investigation has been launched by police after a woman was raped by several men outside a church after leaving a nightclub.

At least 30 people, many of them young, have died and dozens more are reported to have been injured after a crush at a mountaintop fortress in northern Haiti that is a popular tourist spot.

A man has been charged with murder after a 21-year-old was fatally stabbed in north London, police said.

Fearse are growing that cut-price “direct cremations” could encourage monsters like rogue funeral director Robert Bush.

A nine-year-old boy has been rescued after being locked inside his dad’s van for nearly 18 months.

A 78-year-old man has been arrested after the grave of James Bulger was vandalized for the second time in just six weeks.

Police have arrested a 37-year-old man from the area on suspicion of being in charge of a dog dangerously out of control, causing injury resulting in death following the incident.

The aunt of a toddler who was murdered by her mother’s new boyfriend has called on MPs to stand up and "make change happen" when they debate a new law aimed at saving other children from abusive partners.

A prominent China-born businesswoman with ties to the highest levels of government in Papua New Guinea will stand trial in Australia

Two men who ran a massive people-smuggling operation from a car wash have been sentenced to 19 years each in prison.

 An abusive husband whose wife jumped to her death from a road bridge has been jailed for causing her death in a landmark case.

A man has been jailed for killing his wife in a first-of-its-kind case after she jumped to her death from a road bridge following a campaign of domestic abuse.

A child is believed to have died due to a dog bite in North Yorkshire.

A classics professor at the University of Cambridge could be dismissed from his post after allegedly giving a female student an unwanted "slobbery kiss".

This is the shocking moment a man chases down and appears to punch a group of kids after they allegedly attacked his car.

An "obsessive and predatory" man who groomed and collected indecent images of a teenage girl he met through the online gaming platform Roblox.

A thief who stole a handbag containing a rare Faberge egg and watch set worth more than £2 million has been jailed for two years.

Video footage captures the frightening moment a drunk and high mom told her van full of children that she drives “like a bad b****” before crashing.

A British man has been charged with offenses related to an Islamist terror group based in Somalia.