Crime

Ashling Murphy, 23, was found by a canal path in Co Offaly, Ireland, with her fitness app still running on her phone after being knifed multiple times, a murder trial heard

There were 365,164 offences in the year to June, up from 292,584 in the previous 12 months, prompting retailers and unions to urge the police to do more to tackle the menace

James Witham, 41, is accused of murdering environmental health worker Ashley Dale, 28, before telling police in an interview that he had ‘nothing to do with it mate, not a clue’

The boy was hit by a van then surrounded by armed police during a waterfight with his younger sibling. He was holding a white and blue water pistol

Mustafa Mahmoodveven filmed himself boasting about earning £1,000 a day selling drugs. One video even showed him brazenly dealing over his back wall in Sheffield

Lyn Bryant, from Cornwall, has been stabbed repeatedly in a prolonged attack - there have been multiple theories but detectives believe her killer has a link to the local area

Police in Detroit say that a pit bull, or possibly two pit bulls, attacked and savagely mauled a 4-year-old boy to death as the child played outside in the yard - even dragging him under the fence to bite him

Leonard Allan Cure, 53, was shot dead by a Camden County Sheriff's Office Deputy in Camden County, north of Jacksonville shortly after being pulled over for speeding

The woman, who is in her 40s, suffered 'serious and potentially life -hanging injuries' and has been rushed to hospital after she was trapped underneath a lorry in Leeds city centre

Vic Franklin was attacked by two suspected Rottweillers on a street in Bognor Regis, Sussex, and has been in hospital for two months undergoing amputations to his leg, arm and finger

Met Police say they are hunting for a man who purposely sits next to his victims travelling on buses in west London before touching them without staying a single word

WARNING DISTRESSING: The girl was raped by a 14-year-old she had 'met on the internet' and got pregnant - but wanted to keep it as it made her feel 'special' and meant she would miss school

Police raided the Return to Nature Funeral Home facility in rural southern Colorado on October 6 after neighbours complained of a sour, rotten stench coming from the building

Santander UK has told businesses to be on "high alert" to impersonation scams after seeing the number of its customers targeted by fraudsters double last month

Ramandeep Kaur Mann plotted with lover Gurpreet Singh to murder her husband Sukhjeet by lacing a biryani with sleeping pills on holiday in India, and was only caught when her eldest son skipped the spiked meal

Paul Smith, from Waterloo, Merseyside, was jailed last month for sending a series of offensive, obscene and indecent messages to four women including images of young girls

The suspect in the killing of American teenager Natalee Holloway has admitted to bludgeoning her to death and discarding her remains in Alabama

Armed units from the Metropolitan Police rushed to reports of a gun in Hackney, east London and knocked the suspect off his bike before realising it was just a 13-year-old having a water fight

Twelve top firms were approached for a police pilot scheme and asked to provide images of their worst offenders - and within 60 seconds, it generates a match report for an officer

WARNING DISTURBING: Richard Wynne, 48, used his neighbour's WiFi to carry out 'depraved' sex crimes online with police finding vile sex abuse of girls as young as six on his devices

The Prime Minister is embarking on a two-day diplomatic tour of the Middle East and is expected to meet other leaders as well as Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu

A teenager has been convicted of murdering Ben Moncrieff in Bath city centre in May after unleashing a knife and killing him with a single stab in an attack caught on CCTV

Ramandeep Kaur Mann, from Derby, laced her husband’s favourite dish with sleeping pills then slit his throat as he slept after plotting with her lover to escape her marriage

A Florida man who was wanted by the Polk City Police Department thought he'd avoid arrest by putting a sign on the door of his hideout specifying: "Johnny Yates does not live here" - which cops say didn't fool them, as they eventually raided the home

Newlyweds David and Celia Barlow were celebrating their recent marriage on a honeymoon to Uganda when they were shot dead, with local police blaming a terror group who then set fire to their jeep