Crime

This Morning star Holly Willoughby has announced her decision to leave the ITV daytime show after 14 years – just days after an alleged plot to kidnap and murder the star was foiled

WARNING - DISTRESSING CONTENT: A pastor named Robert L. Carter has been charged after a 22-year-old girl reported to the police that she has been a victim of sexual assault by him since she was seven, even giving birth to his baby

Toby Kelly killed Sheldon Flanighan by driving at him twice outside a Northumberland pub causing "catastrophic injuries" with his head "dislocated from his upper spinal column", a court heard

James Witham opened fire with a Skorpion sub-machine gun less than four hours later and the bullets killed Ashley Dale but, while he accepts manslaughter, he denies murder

The death of Matthew Shepard outraged America and led to sweeping law changes addressing discrimination. It was 18 hours after the initial attack he was found tied to a fence by a teenager who initially thought he was a scarecrow

In the 27 years since Rose West was sentenced for killing 10 young girls with her evil husband Fred West, the twisted serial killer is reportedly living a luxurious 'middle-class' life behind bars

Shadow Cabinet Office minister Jonathan Ashworth joked Britain will get its 'sparkle' back under a Labour government after his boss was covered in glitter by a protestor

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Sir Paul McCartney said he changes song lyrics if his late friend John Lennon - who was murdered in 1980 - would think they were too sentimental

Judges have been told to delay sentencing hearings from next week in a desperate bid to keep down the prison population, while ministers consider letting criminals out early

Sean Hogg, 22, smirked as he left court after being told he would not be subject to a retrial following his acquittal - after previously being found guilty of raping a teenager on various occasions aged 17

Ben Newman ran onto the racecourse shortly after the field for the Epsom Derby had left the starting stalls, in defiance of a High Court injunction granted to the Jockey Club before the race

The body of Melissa Davis, 33, from Texas, was discovered along a road in Austin by firefighters who were responding to a grass fire at around 5am on September 29

Ashley Dale, an environmental health worker, was killed in her home in Old Swan, Liverpool, after gunman James Witham, who admits manslaughter, kicked down her front door

Beauty worker Tami Dacre, 50, took matters into her own hands when she saw a cyclist confronted by two masked men outside her home in Birmingham last week

At least 27 Americans have been killed so far, according to officials. The Israeli defence minister has vowed to "use every measure at our disposal" in response

Martin Jolly, of Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, shared a 12-pack of beer with a friend before crashing into an elderly couple driving to see their daughter

A boy who used his birthday money to launch a foodbank from his garden shed has been left devastated after cruel thieves ransacked the charity venture

Craig Ross Jr was arrested after fingerprints allegedly left on a ransom note for Charlotte Sena were matched to him recorded when he was arrested for driving while intoxicated (a DWI) 24 years ago

Brian Jalo, 25, Juan Quinones, 24, are accused of raping a young woman in Manchester city centre back in May 2021, whilst Justice Tandoh, 21, kept lookout, a court heard

Sohail Sindho, a shop keeper from south London who was filmed with his hands around the throat of a customer during a row, claims he has been forced to go into hiding

An elderly woman stood at a platform at Wrexham Railway Station shortly after midday on Friday 25 August, when a man approached her, spoke to her before sexually assaulting her

WARNING DISTRESSING CONTENT: Disturbing video footage from Stenstrom Elementary School in Oviedo, Florida, shows a nine-year-old special needs child being handcuffed by police

'I hope this helps give you closure,' Jedidiah Murphy said to the family of the 80-year-old woman he killed in 2000 as he was put to death at the state penitentiary in Huntsville, Texas

Jedidiah Murphy was put to death in Texas for the October 2000 fatal shooting of 80-year-old Bertie Lee Cunningham of the Dallas suburb of Garland