Crime

Paedophile Jimmy Savile's hideous crimes are being documented in a new BBC series, The Reckoning, which sees comedian Steve Coogan take on the role of the disgraced personality

Connor Charles Allen has also been accused of a serious assault against a two-month-old baby which doctors say suffered multiple brain bleeds and trauma to veins in the brain, indicating a severe assault

A hunt is underway for two masked men who attacked police as they tried to help a British prisoner escape in Ibiza while on a visit to a dentist and later torched their car

Ashley Dale, 28, was hit in the abdomen by a bullet when gunman James Witham, 41, kicked down the door of her home in Liverpool on August 21 last year, a trial at Liverpool Crown Court has heard

Chaos erupted at the consulate after the blue Honda sedan smashed through the front of the embassy in what the Consulate described as a "violent attack" as they called on the incident to be dealt with "seriously in accordance with the law"

Lancashire Police have said the incident on Barnoldswick is being treated as a potential hate crime and efforts are ongoing to identify the individual responsible

Mor Bayder's grandmother was murdered by a Hamas militant in her home on Sunday before the killer posted a video of her body on her Facebook profile, she claims

Former Scotland Yard sleuth Jim Dickie spoke after the parole board revealed the serial rapist was too dangerous to free

The last few days have been marked by growing violence amid the long running conflict between Israel and Palestine and the Met Police have since increased patrols in the capital

The Labour leader will end the scandal that has seen criminals escape punishment if stolen goods are worth below £200 and increase punishments for those who assault shopworkers

Jimmy Savile's chilling crimes are examined in BBC One drama, The Reckoning, starring Steve Coogan - but the disgraced presenter's Highland home still lies empty

The Reckoning starts tonight on BBC One and is a drama detailing the terrifying and twisted crimes of Jimmy Savile, with Steve Coogan taking on the lead role

Former undercover police sergeant Meg Winterburn shuts down the Yorkshire Ripper's claim he murdered prostitutes 'because little voices in his head were telling him to'

Darren Lewis knows only too well the heartbreak that comes with our knife epidemic, and he says we urgently need a better way forward and a national strategy so families don't live in fear

Irene Richardson had asked Peter Sutcliffe to pull over for a break when he horrifically beat her three times on the head with a hammer and slashed her body with a knife

A homicide investigation is underway in North Carolina after a fed-up fast food employee pulled out a gun and fatally shot a customer in the chest for causing a disturbance

New parents Itay and Hadar Berdichevsky frantically hid their 10-month-old twins after Hamas soldiers stormed their home, shooting and killing the couple

Irene Richardson, 28, was brutally beaten to death with a hammer by the Yorkshire Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe, in 1977, and took a heart-wrenching secret with her to the grave

Svetlana Mihalachi, 53, told police officers she was 'scared' Virtosu would kill her and an Old Baily judge conceded that the victim was 'poorly served' by UK authorities

Brian 'BoMac' McIntyre was arrested after coaching Eubank Jr to a win against Liam Smith last month and the trainer has now been handed a suspended prison sentence

University professor Keith Ramsell paid contractors £1,300 to chop down the "wall of vegetation" in Bushey, Herts., after falling and injuring his arm

Anthony Brown, 24, threatened to stab everyone after breaking into a Derbyshire home and then stole the family's XL Bully puppy - he has been jailed for four years

A pilot in New York is accused of using his propeller plane to stalk a woman for a period of four years. Michael Arnold is also alleged to have dropped tomatoes on her

The family of Kasey Anderson, who was brutally killed before his 25th birthday, have shared the warning signs his killer girlfriend, Natalie Bennett, displayed before she stabbed him in the heart

Owen Walker, from Worcester, has been jailed for drug dealing after his mum found a gun in his bedroom while she was tidying and called the police leading to his arrest