Crime

Patricia Martin, a former Cook County judge was disbarred after admitting to stealing more than $240,000 (£197,000) from her uncle, Oscar Lawton Wilkerson, Jr., a former Tuskegee Airman

Metropolitan police officers and staff committed a number of shocking crimes inside their own police stations and buildings, including violent attacks and sex offences

The British Retail Consortium said there were eight million cases of shoplifting in the year to March - but police recorded 339,206 incidents, with just 48,218 resulting in charges

The family of Carrie Slater have paid tribute after she died two days after being shot in a quiet village in Leicestershire. A man has been charged with her murder

Joran van der Sloot, a Dutch national already serving time for the murder of a Peruvian woman, is the main suspect in Natalee Holloway's 2005 disappearance. New disturbing details on the case have come to light

Fed-up locals in Essex say they can't take any more of the anti-social behaviour as police tell the motorists they're not allowed to gather for meets in a giant anywhere within 50 miles

Armed officers for the Met have reportedly been handing over their weapons with some withdrawing from duty after one officer was charged over the shooting of Chris Kaba

A paedophile who believed he had successfully groomed a 13-year-old girl into meeting him is now in prison - after it turned out to be an officer from anti-paedophile taskforce

Christopher Coulthard has been stealing money from churches since the 1970s. After finally being caught this year, he admitted to being a serial church burglar

After a growing number of burglaries in Kimbolton, Cambridgeshire, those living in the town took security matters into their own hands by all paying for a street patrol

The incident has been labelled as a 'terrorist attack' by Kosovo's Prime Minister, Albin Kurti, who blames the unrest on Serbian organised crime backed by Belgrade

New York City is set to trial a huge police robot-on-wheels at the Times Square Subway Station. Police say the robot - which has a help button - will not use facial recognition

Last year, Belgian officials ordered convicted child killer Marc Dutroux's red brick house in Charleroi to be flattened, and a memorial garden for the victims to be built in its place

Grei Mendez De Ventura allegedly duped her ex-husband Juan Ventura into a sham marriage even if she had no interest in him, his sister has claimed, and put him 'through hell'

Detectives are asking people who may have footage or witnessed something suspicious to come forward with information as they continue a murder probe into the death of a woman in Blackpool

18-year old Harvey Moore was refused a community service order despite admitting to four counts of assault by beating and could return to work on HMS Prince of Wales

A large number of armed officers from the Metropolitan Police have stepped back from firearms duties in the wake of a murder charge over the shooting death of Chris Kaba

Members of the gang have been sentenced for their links to a widespread county lines operation

Ron Youngblood said his ex-wife 'got rid' of their daughters when she could no longer use them as 'leverage' against him. She was sentenced to 78 years in prison this week

Gabe Watson whose wife died while they were scuba diving together in 2003 faced a murder trial almost a decade later. It got thrown out due to a lack of evidence - but some still have their doubts

Jack Dodd was woken by noises at 2am but assumed it was his cats playing outside his room - but when he spotted a shadowy figure move past the open door, the pub landlord knew he was in danger

A woman in Arizona was arrested and charged with animal abuse after authorities discovered that her 'shelter for special needs animals' was just a front, and instead she kept dozens of dogs in her home - many were malnourished and some missing their doggy wheelchairs when cops arrived

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: The parents of an infant who nearly bled to death after being eaten alive by rats have been charged with neglect in one of the worst child abuse cases that officials have ever seen according to local police

A prominent judge in Oklahoma was caught and arrested last week after he shot at multiple parked cars before slamming into a woman who he alleges, 'cut him off'

An auto parts store worker was officially charged with murder after he allegedly cornered a 23-year-old, accusing him of stealing, before strangling him to death on video