Crime

Writing in the Mirror, Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper vows that Labour will end the Conservative chaos that is allowing criminals to get off as victims are let down

Connor Chapman, 23, was jailed for a minimum of 48 years last month for the murder of Elle Edwards, 26 - who he shot dead outside the Lighthouse pub in Merseyside on Christmas Eve

A man has been taken to hospital after he is believed to have been hit by a van leaving the Stradey Park Hotel in Llanelli, which is at the centre of a row over plans to house asylum seekers

The UK's wonkiest pub, the Crooked House, in Himley, Staffordshire, burnt down and then was totally demolished a week after experts applied for it to be given listed status

A woman, 33, has been arrested after the body of a 57-year-old female was found in a London canal. Police had been called to a house and found signs of a "disturbance"

Justice Secretary Alex Chalk has commissioned polling that critics warned could lay the ground for the early release of prisoners as jails struggle with overcrowding

Dairo Antonio Úsuga, known as Otoniel, was the boss of Colombia’s notorious Gulf Clan group which he ran in a 'reign of terror' for over ten years before law enforcement brought him down. He was sentenced Tuesday after he pleaded guilty in January to a number of charges

'Energetic' and 'much loved' Layton Harrison died after he was hit by a black Transit van in Penwortham, Lancashire, last week while he was playing outside his home

Three arrests have been made after a massive viral brawl erupted in which a riverboat co-captain was attacked at the Montgomery Riverfront in Alabama over the weekend

The son of Spanish actor Rodolfo Sancho Aguirre has been formally charged over the murder and later dismembering of the body of his now-deceased lover in Thailand

A Fiat 500 car struck six people in Malvern, Worcestershire, on Tuesday afternoon leaving one person in a critical condition as West Mercia Police appeal for witnesses

A woman who saw the massive boat brawl unfold before her eyes said she felt 'all hell was gonna break loose' once the larger boat involved reached the dock at Riverfront Park in Montgomery, Alabama

20-year-old Evan Miller reportedly drove at high speed and veered off the road at an elevation, before crashing into a home in Decatur Township of Mifflin County, Pennsylvania

Detectives from Greater Manchester Police have no idea who a woman found dead on the M56 near Manchester Airport last month is after appeals failed to provide any information

Matt Lane is balancing his work as a plumber and fight officer with campaigning to help save lives - he is successfully installing bleed kits around communities following a personal tragedy

A masked knifeman broke into the home of Nicholas McHale, who previously gave evidence in support of Thomas Cashman prior to him being convicted of the murder of nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel

Neighbours heard Erin Patterson wailing after a lunch held at her home in Victoria, Australia, last week which has seen all four guests fall ill and three of them die so far

Marcus Maddison, who began his career at Newcastle and starred for Charlton and Peterborough, also threw cheesy chips at the woman following a night out

Footage captured on the phones and cameras of dozens of spectators shows the fight in full in Montgomery riverfront, Alabama, which unfolded into a massive brawl including one fighter armed with a chair

Russell Cook, 26, said he was kidnapped on day 102 out of his 240-day fundraiser run through Africa - he said the men were armed with machetes but he eventually 'made it out'

Police are treating the tragic death of an 11-year-old boy as 'unexplained' after emergency services descended on a Burton street

The sprawling fight broke out on Saturday evening at Riverfront Park in Montgomery, Alabama, when a worker tried to get another boat to move so the historic three-story Harriott II could moor up

Kelli Bothwell, 53, was found at her home in Sprotbrough in Doncaster on Saturday night, with police arresting a 52-year-old man at the scene on suspicion of murder

A man has been arrested after a stabbing outside the British Museum with a victim taken to hospital and three knives recovered with one witness reportedly saying they were "huge and silver"

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT Jamie Starrs, 20, pounced on vulnerable Amber Gibson, aged 16, at his home in Bothwell, Lanarkshire, months before her death at the hands of her brother